Mutant Musume!!

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 64-

"All ships power up your defensive weapons!." said Miyabi into her helmet mike.

And Mai Hagiwara, who was Miyabis' weapons officer, quickly punched in a series of
buttons. Just then, on the outside of Miyabis' aircraft, missiles and gun turrets began to
pop out of hidden compartments. Her Aircraft was armed with 2 large laser cannons on
each side of her aircraft's nose cone. 2 large forward turrets, one on the top of her aircraft
and one on the bottom. A large, double barreled rotating turret near the back, and 4 large
missile racks underneath each wing.

"Do we really have to do this?" asked Yurina.

"You think I want to?." said Miyabi, "But we won't fire first."

The formation of enemy fighters then passed high overhead of both Miyabi and Risakos'
aircraft, that were still in hover mode.

Meanwhile, back in Tokyo, General Hasagawa was inside his military commander center.
Talking with the fighter pilots.

"We have two confirmed enemy aircraft in the area. No sign of the 3rd." said the lead
fighter pilot.

"We can't have them escape on us again." said Hasagawa, "Do whatever it takes to bring
them down."

"Yes sir, engaging enemy aircraft." said the lead fighter pilot.

All 4 of the Japanese Airforce fighters then did a wide U turn and began to fly back
towards Risakos' and Miyabis' stationary aircraft.

As Miyabi continued looking out the left side of her cockpit, towards the fighters, alarms
began to beep on her control panel.

"Missile lock!." said Miyabi, "They're gonna fire on us any minute."

"What's going on up there?." asked Momoko.

"We've got four Japanese fighters coming towards us, they have a missile lock on us."
reported Miyabi.

"Alright, accelerate to attack speed and begin evasive maneuvers!." ordered Momoko,
"I'll be with you guys shortly."

"Roger that." said Miyabi, she then slammed the main engine throttle to maximum her
afterburners burned brightly and her aircraft shot forward from it's stationary position.
The enemy aircraft began to chase after them.

"Missile locked on target, Fox one!." said the lead fighter pilot, he then pushed the thumb
trigger on his joystick and fired off a missile, that locked onto Miyabis' aircraft and began
to speed towards her.

Miyabi began to do a series of evasive maneuvers, flying left and right, up and down, and
despite her aircraft being well over 3 times the size of the Japanese fighters her aircraft
was still as nimble as they were. But the missile was still following her every move,
slowly getting closer.

Just then, the rear gun turret came to life and automatically began to track the missiles
movements, then began to rapidly fire at it as it weave back and forth. Bullets hit the
missile and it exploded, shaking Miyabis aircraft from the concussion.

Inside the passenger compartment, the girls began to get sick.

"I think I'm gonna throw up!, then I'm gonna die!!." screamed Yaguchi.

Yasuda Kei who was the eldest member, pressed a button on the arm of her seat.

"Slow down, remember this isn't a fighter!." ordered Yasuda.

"I know, but if I slow down anymore they're blow us out of the sky." replied Miyabi.

"Ugh...don't know how much more of this I can take." said Miuna.

Meanwhile, Momokos' aircraft was now in position over the summit opening.

"Alright, I'm clear for launch." said Momoko, she then pushed her vertical thrusters
throttle to the max, her vertical thrusters burning brightly, as she began to rise up towards
the opening.

Back outside, the bombers continued to fly high overhead, acting as the high seeing eyes
for the smaller fighters down below. One pilot saw another S.M.A.T aircraft that had just
started to leave the opening on the summit.

"We've got another enemy aircraft in sight, take it out before it gets into the sky!." said
the lead bomber pilot.

And two of the Japanese fighters did a large 180 loop and began to fly back towards
Mount Nantai. They switched their weapons to missile mode and waited.

Just then Momokos aircraft exited the summit opening, but the moment she was out,
alarms on her cockpit began beep wildly, red lights flashing as well.

"Missile lock..." thought Momoko, her heart beat deep and hard in her chest.

"We have lock, FIRE!." said one of the fighter pilots. He and his wingman each fired
multiple missiles from their missile racks, 4 missiles leaving each of the fighters and
heading towards Momokos' still rising aircraft.

The two auto-turrets and two laser cannons began to track the incoming missiles and
began to open fire, and as Momoko looked her cockpit window she could see dozens of
little glowing bullets and 2 large green laser beams firing at the incoming missiles.

But her Auto-defenses only managed to shoot down 6 of the incoming missiles and 2
managed to get through her intense defense fire screen. One passed overhead of
Momokos' aircraft then exploded, violently shaking Momokos' aircraft, the other
slammed into the rear top section of her aircraft, right infront of the engines.

Sparks began to shoot out of Momokos' instrument panel, the tiny lights that lit up her
control panel began to flash on and off, her joystick shook wildly in her hands.

"We're hit we're hit!!." screamed Momoko into her helmet mike.

"No...Momo!!." cried Risako as she looked out the window of her aircraft and saw
Momokos' aircraft spewing out black smoke from the engines, her aircraft dipping up and
down uncontrollably.

"I can't hold it anymore." cried Momoko, using both of her hands to try and steady her
aircraft痴 joystick.

Suddenly, Momoko could no longer hear the humming of the vertical thrusters, the lights
on her control panel shut off completely as well. Her aircraft then began to plummet
towards the ground.

"Hang on back there we're going down!." yelled Momoko.

Momokos' passengers and crew all got into brace position, while Momoko continued to
try and start the aircraft once again.

But it was too late, her aircraft slammed hard into steep embankment of the mountain and
it started to slide down the embankment towards the trees. Momoko held her breath and
braced herself as she watched the trees getting closer and closer.

Her aircraft continued to slide towards the trees, then slammed into the forest below,
disappearing into the trees, only a column of black smoke was visible from above the tops
of the trees.

"Momo..." said Miyabi softly, looking down at the forest from her cockpit, seeing the
column of black rising smoke where her aircraft crashed.

"NO~...MOMO~!" shrieked Risako, tears streaming down her eyes.

Risako lowered her head and sob softly, alarms and beeping continued inside her cockpit
as the fighters continued to attack them.

She then wrapped her right palm around her joystick and began to growl angrily, and
slowly she raised her tear filled eyes upwards, her eyebrows furled in an angry
expression. A Fighter passed by the front of her aircraft.

"AAAHHH~...DAMN YOU!!." screamed Risako, slamming her throttle forward and
chasing after the fighter. She remained on his tail as he took evasive maneuvers,
completely forgetting about her passengers and crew members she was carrying, she was
lost in her own rage.

Miyabi finally snapped out of her own shock and sadness. But when she looked out the
side of her cockpit, she saw Risako chasing one of the fighters. "Risako don't!!." cried
Miyiba.

Miyabis' voice repeated in Risakos' headset, "Risako don't!!.", But Risako squeezed the
main trigger on her joystick and two long green lasers shot out of her nose cone and
slammed into the rear of the Japanese fighter, completely obliterating the engines and
destroying the right wing.

The destroyed fighter then began to fall out of the sky, the rear section of the fighter was
on fire, trailing a tail of black smoke as it spiraled towards the ground. But the cockpit
was still intact and the canopy suddenly blew off, ejecting the pilot.

Risako then pulled back on her joystick and brought her aircraft back around, and had all
3 fighters in her sights. The remaining 3 fighters all ganged up on Risako and were flying
straight towards her, both forces were now charging towards each other.

But Risakos aircraft was much more advanced and she got an early lock on all 3 fighters.
So she switched her joystick to all missiles mode, then squeezed the main trigger with her
index finger and both of her missile racks completely emptied, sending 16 missiles
spiraling and weaving towards the Japanese fighters.

And just as the missiles were closing in on their targets, Miyabis' tear filled eyes began to
glow red, she then shut her eyes tight and cried out "No!, Stop it!"

And suddenly, all 16 missiles exploded before reaching their targets, filling a large
portion of the sky with smoke, fire and debris from the missiles.

The fighters flew through the wall of smoke, fire and debris. Small chunks of metal
shrapnel from the missiles slammed into the fighters, damaging their engines, and other
systems and all 3 of them began to fall towards the ground. But all of the pilots ejected
before their planes hit the ground.

Miyabi then quickly rejoined Risako in formation. As she pulled up next to her and
looked over, she saw the Risako had head lowered down and was sobbing.

"Risako...are you alright?" asked Miyabi.

Risako slowly lifted her head and looked over at Miyabi and shook her head no.

Miyabi looked back over her left shoulder, and out her cockpit window, she saw the 2
Chinook helicopters were circling Momokos' downed aircraft.

"Come on, we'd better get out of here." said Miyabi, "The fighters are gone and there's no
way the helicopters will be able to keep up with us."

"What about the others?." asked Risako.

"It's too late to save them now." said Miyabi, "Our Commander will think of a plan to
rescue them. But we have to go now, before more reinforcements arrive."

"Right...let's go." said Risako.

Miyabi and Risakos afterburners then fired up and both of them headed north at
incredible speed, leaving Momoko and the others behind.

Back on the ground, Soldiers began to repeal from the Chinook Helicopters to the ground,
where Momokos' aircraft was located.

As the 25 soldiers began to approach the down aircraft, black smoke was still rising from
the engines, the right wing had been tore off when he slammed through the trees and the
left wing was barely still attached to the frame.

So soldiers began to circle around the aircraft, keeping their weapons trained on the
aircraft, ready for any surprises.

Just then the passenger compartment door let out a hissing sound, then slowly began to
open. The soldiers aiming their modified assault rifles towards the doors.

Once the door opened, Reina Tanaka, Goto Maki, Aya Matsuura and the now healed
Otani, Murata, Asami, and Nozomi Tsuji came stumbling out, coughing and moaning.

"Mutants!, get down on the ground now!!." ordered the soldiers.

"Alright, we give up." said the girls, and all of them held their hands up and knelt down
on their knees.

Meanwhile, 2 other soldiers began to circle around where the cockpit was. Once then
climbed up towards the cockpits window, they looked inside and saw Momoko,
unconsious.

Their scouter alarms began to beep, "Mutant DNA detected!." said the female
computerized voice, it then began to scan the unconscious Momoko, numbers began to
appear underneath on the bottom of the soldiers eye piece, starting off at 0 and rapidly
rising.

The soldiers mouths dropped open as the numbers reached 5,000 and kept on going.

One of the soldiers reached down to this radio, "We've got another mutant here...and she's
a powerful one." said the soldier.

"Well, what's her power level?." asked the leader, who was still with the other H!P girls
at the back of the aircraft.

The numbers finally stopped at 9,500.

"I don't believe it...her power level...It's OVER NINE THOUSAND!!." yelled the soldier,
impressed that a young female teen, at rest could have a power level that high already.

Momokos' eye then opened up and she looked up at the soldier from her broken cockpit
windows.

The soldiers quickly aimed their rifles at Momoko, "FREEZE!." ordered one of the
officers.

Momoko shut her eyes tight and screamed "AAAHHH~!" at the top of her lungs.

But suddenly, extremely powerful sound waves began to escape her mouth, blowing out
the windows of her cockpit, destroying the instrument panels even more. The soldiers
cried out in pain and covered their eyes as Momoko continued to scream at the top of her
lungs.

The shriek of terror was so loud and so powerful, that the other H!P girls and the soldiers
began to cover their eyes and cry out in pain. Even the bomber pilots in the sky could hear
it, as each of the scouters acted as communicators between the soldiers on the ground and
the bombers in the sky. The scouters on the side of their ears began to vibrate, first slowly
then began to vibrate faster and faster, the eye pieces shattered, then the rest of the scouter
on each of the soldiers head on the ground and in the air exploded.

One of the soldiers at the front of the cockpit quickly raised his rifle and shot Momoko
with one of the rifles tranquilizer darts, and her screaming stopped.

Once the screaming stopped, Aya Matsuura quickly looked up and saw that the soldiers
were still covering their ears, some dropped to their knees in pain.

"NOW!" screamed Matsuura, and she and the others began to fight the soldiers.

Murata Megumi fired her optic blasts at the soldiers, blowing them away with the
powerful beams and slamming them into trees in the forest. While Matsuura was
throwing small, balls of energy at some of the soldiers on the ground. Goto Maki was
doing acrobatic flips, twists and spins through the air as she was slicing soldiers with her
purple energy katana. Nozomi Tsuji was freezing soldiers into ice blocks with her ice
blasts.

But as the continued to fight, some of the girls were getting hit by the tranquilizer darts.
Goto Maki was hit multiple times, but went down fighting till she couldn't stand
anymore. Nozomi Tsuji was also shot with the darts, then fell to the ground.

"Let's get out of here!." screamed Matsuura and she quickly ran over, grabbed Reina
Tanaka, and Asami, then used her powers of flight to take to the sky, holding onto the
hands of the girls and taking them along with her. While Otani grabbed ahold of Murata
Megumi, she then changed her hair to it's long black flowing mane with a green strip in it.
She grabbed ahold of the green strip and a long whip of hair was now in her hand, the
green strip quickly regrew.

Otani then cracked the whip and latched it onto a nearby tree and she began to swing
from tree to tree using her whip as Murata Megumi held onto her.

"What'll we do now?." asked one of the soldiers.

"We have no way to track them now...our scouters were destroyed." said another.

"Let them run for now, they won't have anywhere to go once all of Japans' Military have
scouters of their own." said the leader, "Besides, we've gotten a pretty good haul for
now.".

They had managed to capture Goto Maki, Nozomi Tsuji, Momoko and all of her crew
members and now had one of the S.M.A.Ts aircraft to study.

[niigaki_risa]

Yay~! First reading since I got back from school! (yes we start on a Friday xD)

"AAAHHH~...DAMN YOU!!." screamed Risako, slamming her throttle forward and
chasing after the fighter. She remained on his tail as he took evasive maneuvers,
completely forgetting about her passengers and crew members she was carrying, she was
lost in her own rage.

O_O Woah Risako-chan. That is the first time i heard or at least read her cursing.....Dang.

"Well, what's her power level?." asked the leader, who was still with the other H!P girls
at the back of the aircraft.

The numbers finally stopped at 9,500.

"I don't believe it...her power level...It's OVER NINE THOUSAND!!." yelled the soldier,
impressed that a young female teen, at rest could have a power level that high already.

AH! I KNEW IT! And I'm guessing Momoko's power is yelling so loud that it might make people deaf?

[JFC]

Mai Hagiwara, who was Miyabis' weapons officer, quickly punched in a series of buttons.

Maimai's the one controlling the guns? How cute!

"Do we really have to do this?" asked Yurina.

"You think I want to?." said Miyabi, "But we won't fire first."

That likely won't matter to Hasegawa. He's so stubborn and set in his way of thinking that if they don't fire on the troops, he'll think that they're baiting them for some bigger attack, and if they do fire then it just gives him an excuse to fire back.

With any luck, some of the military pilots will see and make note of the fact that the girls didn't fire first (and that hopefully that they're not firing to destroy them and/or are giving them chances to get away alive).

"What's going on up there?." asked Momoko.

"We've got four Japanese fighters coming towards us, they have a missile lock on us." reported Miyabi.

"Alright, accelerate to attack speed and begin evasive maneuvers!." ordered Momoko, "I'll be with you guys shortly."

The girls are going to put their piloting skills to a real test here. With luck they won't have to fire that much (if at all).

"Missile locked on target, Fox one!." said the lead fighter pilot, he then pushed the thumb trigger on his joystick and fired off a missile, that locked onto Miyabis' aircraft and began
to speed towards her.

...

Just then, the rear gun turret came to life and automatically began to track the missiles movements, then began to rapidly fire at it as it weave back and forth. Bullets hit the missile and it exploded, shaking Miyabis aircraft from the concussion.

Let's hope that that's the only firing that the girls have to do, and let's hope that the military pilots notice that.

Inside the passenger compartment, the girls began to get sick.

"I think I'm gonna throw up!, then I'm gonna die!!." screamed Yaguchi.

Yasuda Kei who was the eldest member, pressed a button on the arm of her seat.

"Slow down, remember this isn't a fighter!." ordered Yasuda.

"I know, but if I slow down anymore they're blow us out of the sky." replied Miyabi.

Yeah, it's not like they've got much choice here. Hopefully Ayaka remembered to equip these things with barf-bags.

Just then Momokos aircraft exited the summit opening, but the moment she was out,alarms on her cockpit began beep wildly, red lights flashing as well.

"Missile lock..." thought Momoko, her heart beat deep and hard in her chest.

...

The two auto-turrets and two laser cannons began to track the incoming missiles and began to open fire, and as Momoko looked her cockpit window she could see dozens of little glowing bullets and 2 large green laser beams firing at the incoming missiles.

But her Auto-defenses only managed to shoot down 6 of the incoming missiles and 2 managed to get through her intense defense fire screen. One passed overhead of Momokos' aircraft then exploded, violently shaking Momokos' aircraft, the other slammed into the rear top section of her aircraft, right infront of the engines.

Oh shit, Momo-chan!

"AAAHHH~...DAMN YOU!!." screamed Risako, slamming her throttle forward and chasing after the fighter. She remained on his tail as he took evasive maneuvers, completely forgetting about her passengers and crew members she was carrying, she was lost in her own rage.

Oh crud, this isn't going to end well. She's going to intentionally take out that fighter, thus giving Hasegawa the chance to order the others to shoot to kill.

Risako then pulled back on her joystick and brought her aircraft back around, and had all 3 fighters in her sights.

...

So she switched her joystick to all missiles mode, then squeezed the main trigger with her index finger and both of her missile racks completely emptied, sending 16 missiles spiraling and weaving towards the Japanese fighters.

Dammit Socko, don't do something out of rage that you'll regret later!

...

And suddenly, all 16 missiles exploded before reaching their targets, filling a large portion of the sky with smoke, fire and debris from the missiles.

The fighters flew through the wall of smoke, fire and debris. Small chunks of metal shrapnel from the missiles slammed into the fighters, damaging their engines, and other systems and all 3 of them began to fall towards the ground. But all of the pilots ejected before their planes hit the ground.

At first I thought maybe one of the girls used their powers to detonate the missiles before they could hit their targets. But reading on...were these missiles specifically designed to work in this way? Instead of directly striking their targets, they're meant to explode just prior to impact? I guess it sort of makes sense. At least this way they don't run as much of a risk of completely blowing the pilots out of the sky, giving them more time to escape.

Miyabi looked back over her left shoulder, and out her cockpit window, she saw the 2 Chinook helicopters were circling Momokos' downed aircraft.

"Come on, we'd better get out of here." said Miyabi, "The fighters are gone and there's no way the helicopters will be able to keep up with us."

"What about the others?." asked Risako.

"It's too late to save them now." said Miyabi, "Our Commander will think of a plan to rescue them. But we have to go now, before more reinforcements arrive."

Indeed, better to retreat now to have a chance to rescue the others at a future time. They still have the scouter Yuko got from that one soldier, and the military don't know that yet.

Back on the ground, Soldiers began to repeal from the Chinook Helicopters to the ground, where Momokos' aircraft was located.

...

Meanwhile, 2 other soldiers began to circle around where the cockpit was. Once then climbed up towards the cockpits window, they looked inside and saw Momoko, unconsious.

Their scouter alarms began to beep, "Mutant DNA detected!." said the female computerized voice, it then began to scan the unconscious Momoko,

Wait, I thought none of the Berryz and C-ute girls were mutants. Has Momo-chan been a mutant all along without anyone realizing it???

One of the soldiers reached down to this radio, "We've got another mutant here...and she's a powerful one." said the soldier.

"Well, what's her power level?." asked the leader, who was still with the other H!P girls at the back of the aircraft.

The numbers finally stopped at 9,500.

"I don't believe it...her power level...It's OVER NINE THOUSAND!!." yelled the soldier, impressed that a young female teen, at rest could have a power level that high already.

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!

I was sort of asking for that one, wasn't I?

The soldiers quickly aimed their rifles at Momoko, "FREEZE!." ordered one of the officers.

Momoko shut her eyes tight and screamed "AAAHHH~!" at the top of her lungs.

...

The shriek of terror was so loud and so powerful, that the other H!P girls and the soldiers began to cover their eyes and cry out in pain.

Ah, just like a banshee or Kira from Power Rangers Dino Thunder (how the fuck did I know that?  ).

The shriek of terror was so loud and so powerful, that the other H!P girls and the soldiers began to cover their eyes and cry out in pain. Even the bomber pilots in the sky could hear it, as each of the scouters acted as communicators between the soldiers on the ground and the bombers in the sky. The scouters on the side of their ears began to vibrate, first slowly then began to vibrate faster and faster, the eye pieces shattered, then the rest of the scouter on each of the soldiers head on the ground and in the air exploded.

Well, that's one method of defense that the girls have against the scouters.  Unfortunately this means the military will likely be making a point of keeping Momo-chan either quiet or unconscious so that a similar incident doesn't happen.

Once the screaming stopped, Aya Matsuura quickly looked up and saw that the soldiers were still covering their ears, some dropped to their knees in pain.

"NOW!" screamed Matsuura, and she and the others began to fight the soldiers.

...

But as the continued to fight, some of the girls were getting hit by the tranquilizer darts. Goto Maki was hit multiple times, but went down fighting till she couldn't stand anymore. Nozomi Tsuji was also shot with the darts, then fell to the ground.

"Let's get out of here!." screamed Matsuura

...

"What'll we do now?." asked one of the soldiers.

"We have no way to track them now...our scouters were destroyed." said another.

Well, some of them got away. Unfortunately, they're going to be stranded on their own if they can't get in contact with the others.

"Let them run for now, they won't have anywhere to go once all of Japans' Military have scouters of their own." said the leader, "Besides, we've gotten a pretty good haul for now.".

They had managed to capture Goto Maki, Nozomi Tsuji, Momoko and all of her crew members and now had one of the S.M.A.Ts aircraft to study.

Study, eh? Hasegawa's looking to harness the girls' powers for his own purposes maybe? Or maybe he has a relative/someone he cares about deeply that is a mutant that he wants to "cure" and he erroneously thinks that by studying the girls, he can find a way to remove the mutant abilities?

Either way, I can't help but picture a "mad scientist" type scene is forthcoming.

[glcorps2002]

I think he means study the plane, not the girls.

[JFC]

I think he means study the plane, not the girls.

Damn you, shooting down my crazy theories with your logic. 

* JFC shakes fist at GL.

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

I never really said 100% that the Berryz and H!P kids never had powers.

Heck, the Morning Musume and other older H!P girls were in the 18-25 age range when they first discovered they had powers.

Momokos' powers and Miyabis' *you guessed right when you thought that Miyabi made the missiles explode early, the rush of adrenaline she must of been feeling and the panic, anxiety and all of her emotions unlocked her hidden mutant powers of telekenisis, so it was her who made the missiles explode early...if she didn't, all of Risakos missiles woulda blown the fighters up, along with their pilots.*

As a famous Anime Character once said "Your power comes in respones to a need...not a desire.*, Miyabis couldn't take seeing her friend shooting down the fighters, so she knew she needed to try and stop her in one way or another.

So maybe...more of the Berryz, C-ute members and H!P kids have hidden, dormant powers they do not know about just yet. The time just hasn't come when they need to become stronger, faster, or more powerful then they are.

And me and Sakura had a fun time deciding Momokos power.

"Hhhmm, Momoko...her nickname is squeak...what rhymes with squeak...sneak...speak...Shriek...THAT'S IT!!."
So it only seemed natural that Momoko a.k.a Squeak should have mutant vocal powers.

[JFC]

I never really said 100% that the Berryz and H!P kids never had powers.

Heck, the Morning Musume and other older H!P girls were in the 18-25 age range when they first discovered they had powers.

Ah, so it isn't that they don't have powers per se, it's just that IF they do, they haven't emerged just yet.

*you guessed right when you thought that Miyabi made the missiles explode early, the rush of adrenaline she must of been feeling and the panic, anxiety and all of her emotions unlocked her hidden mutant powers of telekenisis, so it was her who made the missiles explode early...if she didn't, all of Risakos missiles woulda blown the fighters up, along with their pilots.*

Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of Socko's weapons officer (can't remember if you had stated who it was before) using the "self-destruct" command on her control panel in the plane. Remember at this point I didn't think any of the H!P Kids had powers.

And me and Sakura had a fun time deciding Momokos power.

"Hhhmm, Momoko...her nickname is squeak...what rhymes with squeak...sneak...speak...Shriek...THAT'S IT!!."
So it only seemed natural that Momoko a.k.a Squeak should have mutant vocal powers.

Makes sense when you put it that way.


So Tyler, dude, out of curiosity, you aiming for 100 chapters or something? The way you're keeping this going it seems like it just might make it (we haven't heard from Miki and the Brotherhood in a while, and there are STILL issues to resolve with them, between them and SMAT, between SMAT and Hasegawa, and probably between Hasegawa and the Brotherhood if he ever finds out that THEY were the ones responsible for the previous attacks). 

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

100 Chapters....no not intentionally, I just try to keep my chapters to alittle less then 9 pages on Microsoft word.

but it seems once I start writing I can't stop, I just want to make the chapters detail, with lots of action. I end up making each chapter longer then it should be. But even though it's long, it doesn't go very far, story length wise.

That whole *H!P girls retreat back to TV Tokyo, fight the police, then escape.
-If this were a movie, that scene probably would of only been 20 minutes long in a 3 hour movie. But it took me like 4 or 5 chapters to write, describe and put up.

***And I'm trying to get this story done before I head to school this fall...which is in like 2 weeks.***

cuz one I start school, I wanna concentrate fully on my studies and not have anything else on my mind.
But I generally only write 1 chapter/day and each chapter takes me like 2 hours to write, edit and put up. And I'm busy doing other things during the day as well.

So I only have like 14 or so days left to write...

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 65-

Fujimotos' mutant brotherhood encampment was in the middle of a large strategic meeting. They
were planning to liberate a mutant prison Overlord knew of during his time of service as a Tokyo
police officer. Overlord was walking amongst a small, super elite group, made up of 30 his
followers. Fujimotos' group among them. All of them were staring up at an overhead projection
screen, which showed an above view of Tokyos' mutant prison.

"Even though it brought me great pain to be amongst so many of our kind who were imprisoned."
said Overlord to his mutant followers, "It allowed me to map out all of the important structures
and other objects of importance for this Mutant prison."

Overlord clicked on his laser pointer and pointed it at the overhead screen, at a building in the
upper left hand corner of the prison courtyard.

"This building here..." said Overlord, circling it with his laser pointer, "Is the prisoners cells."

Overlord them moved to 4 large guard houses located on each corner of the high prison walls.
"These, are the guard houses, and I want 'The Darkness Squad' to eliminate these structures first."
said Overlord, "If we take out the guard towers, they will not know which direction we are
attacking from. And they will not be able to remain safe above the ground on their high walls."

"HAI!" shouted 6 male brotherhood members of The Darkness Squad, all of them were very
gothic looking.

"Next, we'll hit the guards barracks." said overlord, "Eliminating their stockpiles of rifles and
other weapons. As well as eliminating many of the humans guarding the prison. And I assign this
task to Typhoons' unit."

All of the brotherhood members looked over at Fujimoto, "Do you feel up to this task?" asked
Overlord, Fujimoto thought carefully for a moment, then nodded her head.

"You can count on us sir." said Fujimoto.

"And I don't think you assigned a name to your Super Elite unit." said Overlord.

Fujimotos teammates looked over at her, "We'd like to be called, Storm unit." said Fujimoto.

"Very well, Storm unit will eliminate the prison guards barracks." said Overlord.

Overlord then continued to hand out assignments to other Elite brotherhood groups as Fujimotos
mind wandered.

"We're doing this to save more of our kind from the cruel humans." thought Fujimoto, "So, I
don't have much a problem carrying out this rescue operation."

Overlord then finished the mission briefing, "That's all, we launch the raid in 2 days, when we'll
be joined by other elite units from Osaka and Kobe. So get some rest for the time being,
Dismissed!"

All of the Elite brotherhood members stood up, then saluted Overlord and filed out of the tent.

As Fujimoto and her group were leaving, they were stopped by Overlord.

"I wish you good luck on the upcoming raid." said Overlord, "But seeing how your leader,
Fujimoto preformed in the past I'm sure this raid will go smoothly."

Fujimoto smiled, "Thank you sir." said Fujimoto.

Overlord put his arm around Fujimotos' shoulders and began to walk with her, away from the
others.

"I see your still at only 5 members for your team." said Overlord.

Fujimoto looked back at the others, "Yes sir, I'm having a little trouble picking out a 6th." said
Fujimoto, "These people I have on my team now. I trust them with my life and know they're
worthy of being on my super elite team."

"I see, but it's tough choosing another member right?" asked Overlord. "Especially when there's
so many other mutants to choose from now."

Fujimoto nodded her head, "Yes sir, I have not yet seen enough other mutant brotherhood
members in action to choose another member." said Fujimoto.

"Well then, how about you choose after this raid." said Overlord.

"We'll be assisted by 2 other brotherhood compounds during this raid. One brotherhood
compound from Osaka and one brotherhood compound from Kobe." said Overlord, 鉄o there
will be plenty of members to choose from after the raid."

"Yes sir!" said Fujimoto, saluting him.

Meanwhile, back at Tokyos' Mutant brotherhood prison. The inmates were being led back to
their cells, the guards finally finished getting the dead mutants out of the courtyard after the last
prison riot. The bodies of those who were killed were inside body bags, sitting by the large front
gates, waiting to be loaded into the back of a large green military van.

As Michishige walked with her head lowered, she slowly looked over at the bodies, knowing one
of them was Fujiyama, the girl who sacrificed herself to save her and her friends.

Fujiyamas' younger sister, was walking a short distance behind Sayumi, her eyes locked on her as
she slowly walked with the other mutant prisoners back towards the prison cells. She continued
to struggle with her plasticuffs that were behind her back, and she managed to squeeze one of her
small hands out of one of the cuffs plastic rings that was around her wrist. But she kept her hands
close to together to make it seem like she still had her hands cuffed behind her back.

She then slowly reached into the back of her pants pocket and pulled out a small, round rock she
picked up and slipped into her pocket while she was sitting on the ground in the stone warehouse.

She quickened her pace as she wrapped her right hand tightly around the rock. Once she was
right behind Sayumi, she jumped on her back and began to smash the rock that was in her hand
against Sayumis' head, and both girls fell to the ground. Sayumi unable to defend herself as her
hands were still handcuffed behind her back.

The rock fell out of Fujiyamas' sister's hand, but she climbed on top of her and began to punch
her in the face repeatedly as she screamed in rage.

"YOU TOOK EVERYTHING AWAY FROM ME!!" she screamed as she continued to punch
Michishige in the face.

The other H!P girls looked back as the brutal beating continued.

"Michishige!" screamed Ayaka.

She and the rest of the girls began to rush back to help her, slamming their way past the guards
with their shoulders. Otani and Kago each slammed their bodies into two guards in front of them,
clearing a path for Ayaka to rush past and ram her shoulder into Fujiyamas' younger sister,
knocking her off of Michishige.

"That's enough!, That's enough!!." roared the head prison guard, leading more of his men towards
the fight.

The guards, then rushed in and grabbed the other H!P girls, then Ayaka and Fujiyamas' young
sister. Her young sister kicked and screamed in rage as the guards tried to hold her back, it taking
3 of them to hold the little girl away from the motionless Michishige, whose face was covered in
dark purple bruises, 2 black eyes, a broken nose and a large gash to the back of the head that bled
horribly.

"Michishige!." cried Ayaka, trying to break free from the prison guard who was holding her by
the waist, dragging her back towards the prison cells. But Ayaka, kicked him hard in the groin
with the back of her heel, then rushed back towards Michishiges' side and knelt beside her.

She lowered her head close to her face and listened. She heard breathing but it was slow and
labored, Ayaka then placed her head against her chest and she could still hear her heart beating.

"She's alive..." thought Ayaka, "But only just barely..."

"Get back into line!." roared the head prison guard, grabbing Ayaka by the shoulders and lifting
her back onto her feet.

"Wait!." cried Ayaka, "You have to help her, she needs medical attention. GET HER TO A
HOSPITAL!!"

The guard looked into Ayakas' eyes, then looked down at Michishige, "Hmmm...alright, it'll
make one less that we have to transport anyways."

"Transport?" asked Ayaka.

"Yes, it seems the Military has captured more of your teammates who were hiding out at Mount
Nantai." said the guard, "But, Head General Hasagawa suggested we split you girls up, you work
too well when you together. Even without your powers you still managed to inflict serious chaos
in our prison."

"Where are you going to take us?" asked Ayaka.

"You'll all go somewhere different, to different Mutant Prisons, somewhere you all can't be
together anymore." said the guard.

Ayaka looked back over the guards shoulder and saw 2 medics from the prison, placing
Michishiges' body onto a stretcher and carrying her over to the front gates, where a small van was
waiting.

Ayaka then stopped struggling, "I won't resist anymore, so long as you help my friend." said
Ayaka.

The guard nodded his head and he let go of Ayaka and she continued on her own to prison cells.

Meanwhile, a small pigeon sat on the railing of one of the guard towers, looking down into the
courtyard and cooing softly. It then flapped it's wings and took to the sky, flying away from the
mutant prison.

A short distance away, Ai Takahashi was hiding in one of the forests just outside of the Mutant
Prisons' walls, she was taking pictures of the building. And as she looked up, she saw a small
pigeon land on one of the branches in the tree she was hiding behind. The pigeon looked down at
Takahashi then swooped towards her, and at the same time turning into a human form.

Eri Kamei then landed on the ground next to Ai Takahashi.

"Well, what did you see?" asked Takahashi.

"It looked like some sort of prison, with many inmates, as well as a heck of alot of guards." said
Eri, "But..."

"But what?" asked Takahashi.

"I just witnessed something horrible..." said Kamei, looking down at the ground.

"What?!?" asked Takahashi.

"Michishige...she was horribly beaten by another girl." replied Kamei, as she trembled.

"No way..." said Ai Takahashi, "Is she ok?"

"I don't know, I saw some guards taking her to a van just now." said Kamei.

"A van...hmm." said Takahashi, "If the van makes its way out of the prison, maybe we should try
and rescue her."

"No no...we shouldn't do that." said Kamei.

"Why not?" asked Takahashi, "She's our friend...we have to help her."

"Ai-chan, think about our other friends." said Kamei, "If we rescue Michishige now, they might
hurt our other friends in retaliation for rescuing her."

"ah...never thought of that." said Takahashi, "And you and I would be no match for that many
guards."

"Right...did you take your pictures?" asked Kamei.

"Yep, did you scout out the entire prison?" asked Takahashi.

"Yes, I think we've gotten all of the Intel we need, so let's get back to Mount Nantai
immediately." said Kamei.

"Alright, grab my hand and we'll head back." said Takahashi, extending her hand out to Kamei.

Kamei took Takahashis' hand, and the two of the girls disappeared as Takahashi teleported away,
back towards Mount Nantai.

Back inside the Prison, all of the inmates were placed inside their small prison cells. Ayaka's cell
happened to be right next to Fujiyamas' younger sisters'.

Ayaka rubbed her sore wrists, having been handcuffed for hours. As she sat on her small bed, she
pulled her knees up to her chest and placed her head against her knees and wrapped her arms
around her legs.

She looked over at Fujiyamas' young sister through the bars that separated their two cells. She
was staring down at a picture, tears in her eyes. As Ayaka looked closer at the back of the picture
she saw two names and a date written on the back of the picture. It read "Fujiyama+Moriko/June
7th, 2001."

"Why did you do that..." said Ayaka slowly, glaring over at her. "Why did you attack my friend?"

"You people are responsible for taking the only person who cared for and protected me." said
Moriko, "My big sister was the only thing I had left in this world that I cared for. Not even our
parents gave me the same amount of love and protection she did...it was them who turned us over
to the police when they found out we were both mutants."

Ayaka suddenly broke her gaze, feeling a little sorry for the young girl, who lost so much at such
a young age. "I'm sorry to hear that." said Ayaka.

"That's the last thing I need." said Moriko, "Someone else feeling sorry for me...I don't need your
pity.", she then laid down on her bed and turned her back to Ayaka.

"And I'm sorry about your sister." said Ayaka, she then rested her forehead against her knees
once again and held herself, shivering inside her cold prison cell.

[JFC]

Fujimotos' mutant brotherhood encampment was in the middle of a large strategic meeting.

Ah, a Miki chapter! 

They were planning to liberate a mutant prison Overlord knew of during his time of service as a Tokyo police officer. Overlord was walking amongst a small, super elite group, made up of 30 his followers. Fujimotos' group among them. All of them were staring up at an overhead projection screen, which showed an above view of Tokyos' mutant prison.

Wait, Overlord used to be a cop?   I wonder if he personally knew the Chief?

So their planning to strike at the mutant prison, huh? Overlord is probably planning on using the suffering that the prisoners have had to go through as a way to convince them to fight against humanity with him.  And if Overlord's past tactics are any indication, anyone who sides with him will likely be just used as front-line grunts (which are meant to take the brunt of the enemy assault and suffer the most losses), unless he senses that they have great potential in their mutant abilities.  I wonder though, if he knows of the SMAT members that have been captured and that are being held there?  They might complicate matters a bit for him.

More importantly, how will Miki react when she sees her former H!P colleagues being held there? How will THEY react when they see her fighting with The Brotherhood?

"Even though it brought me great pain to be amongst so many of our kind who were imprisoned." said Overlord to his mutant followers, "It allowed me to map out all of the important structures and other objects of importance for this Mutant prison."

Oh shit he was a guard at the prison???    This MUST have been before the military had developed the scouters, which makes one wonder, does Overlord know of their existence, and does he care? My guess is that he probably doesn't.

Overlord them moved to 4 large guard houses located on each corner of the high prison walls. "These, are the guard houses, and I want 'The Darkness Squad' to eliminate these structures first."

...

"HAI!" shouted 6 male brotherhood members of The Darkness Squad, all of them were very gothic looking.

These guys sound like bad news. They're probably amongst the supreme elite of  The Brotherhood's members.

"Next, we'll hit the guards barracks." said overlord, "Eliminating their stockpiles of rifles and other weapons. As well as eliminating many of the humans guarding the prison. And I assign this task to Typhoons' unit."

All of the brotherhood members looked over at Fujimoto, "Do you feel up to this task?" asked Overlord, Fujimoto thought carefully for a moment, then nodded her head.

"You can count on us sir." said Fujimoto.

Taking out the stockpile of weapons is sound strategy, and is a necessary move to help ensure victory.  I only hope that Miki hasn't been around Overlord so much that she starts adopting his cavalier attitude about killing (even if the guards ARE trying to get them first).

"And I don't think you assigned a name to your Super Elite unit." said Overlord.

Fujimotos teammates looked over at her, "We'd like to be called, Storm unit." said Fujimoto.

Since Miki's the commander of the unit, it fits, even if it's a little blah.

Overlord then continued to hand out assignments to other Elite brotherhood groups as Fujimoto's mind wandered.

"We're doing this to save more of our kind from the cruel humans." thought Fujimoto, "So, I don't have much a problem carrying out this rescue operation."

Geez, Miki still doesn't see that Overlord is being just as bad as the humans (i.e. the military that have been holding and torturing these mutant prisoners) that they're fighting against.   The fact though, that she's having to tell herself this to seemingly justify the mission to herself is somewhat reassuring. It shows that she hasn't fully embraced Overlord's way of thinking.

Meanwhile, back at Tokyos' Mutant brotherhood prison. The inmates were being led back to their cells, the guards finally finished getting the dead mutants out of the courtyard after the last prison riot. The bodies of those who were killed were inside body bags, sitting by the large front gates, waiting to be loaded into the back of a large green military van.

God, I don't even want to know what they do with the bodies. Whatever it is, given their hatred for mutants it's probably not dignified. Wouldn't be surprised if they just dump them into mass graves or something.

Fujiyamas' younger sister, was walking a short distance behind Sayumi, her eyes locked on her as she slowly walked with the other mutant prisoners back towards the prison cells.

...

she managed to squeeze one of her small hands out of one of the cuffs plastic rings that was around her wrist. But she kept her hands close to together to make it seem like she still had her hands cuffed behind her back.

She then slowly reached into the back of her pants pocket and pulled out a small, round rock she picked up and slipped into her pocket while she was sitting on the ground in the stone warehouse.

She quickened her pace as she wrapped her right hand tightly around the rock. Once she was right behind Sayumi, she jumped on her back and began to smash the rock that was in her hand
against Sayumis' head, and both girls fell to the ground. Sayumi unable to defend herself as her hands were still handcuffed behind her back.

...

"YOU TOOK EVERYTHING AWAY FROM ME!!" she screamed as she continued to punch Michishige in the face.

Shit, poor little sister's still unable to understand that Fujiyama intentionally took the shot that would have it Sayu. She's not trying to look at why she did it, she's just looking for a person to blame that she can take revenge on. She can't take out her anger on the guard that fired the shot, so she'll take it out on the person Fujiyama was trying to protect.  The fact that Sayu can't defend herself just makes it easier for her to do it.

Somehow I doubt that Overlord will have a hard time convincing THIS one to join up with him.  If she does, it'll make for an interesting scene if The Brotherhood and SMAT have one big, final battle.

Head General Hasagawa suggested we split you girls up, you work too well when you together. Even without your powers you still managed to inflict serious chaos in our prison."

"Where are you going to take us?" asked Ayaka.

"You'll all go somewhere different, to different Mutant Prisons, somewhere you all can't be together anymore." said the guard.

Again from a strategy standpoint this is a smart move. They always say there's strength in numbers. It's particularly true when those numbers include people of influence and/or strength who can work together. Split them up, and you lessen their ability to hurt you because you're isolating them from each other and from the rest of the prison population in general.

Meanwhile, a small pigeon sat on the railing of one of the guard towers, looking down into the courtyard and cooing softly. It then flapped it's wings and took to the sky, flying away from the mutant prison.

Hi Eri!   Be sure to get back safely so that you can tell Yuko that you have to hurry up and rescue the others before they get transported to the other prisons!

"Why did you do that..." said Ayaka slowly, glaring over at her. "Why did you attack my friend?"

"You people are responsible for taking the only person who cared for and protected me."

"You people"? The girl's acting like she's not a mutant herself. Newsflash girl, you're a mutant too. When you say "you people", you're talking about your own kind here.

"My big sister was the only thing I had left in this world that I cared for. Not even our parents gave me the same amount of love and protection she did...it was them who turned us over to the police when they found out we were both mutants."

Your parents are the 2 people in the world a child trusts implicity. To be betrayed like this by her own parents... no wonder she (Moriko) is so bitter and angry at everyone. 

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 66- New Recruits

Momoko slowly began to wake up, she had a pounding headache and felt weak. As she
began to wake she noticed she was sitting inside of a large, black bus, with bars on the
windows, a metal gate that separated the bus driver from the passengers. And as she
looked down she saw that there were handcuffs on her wrists.

She looked over and saw Goto Maki sitting next to her, but as she tried to say something
to her, nothing came out. Her mouth was covered with large, black duct tape, she could
barely move her mouth at all. So she began to struggle, the chains on her cuffs jangling
together loudly.

"What's going on back here!." said a soldier, who was walking up and down the aisle with
a large assault rifle. He quickly approached Momoko and aimed his rifle down at her. "Sit
still and keep quiet NOW!."

Momoko trembled in fear, "How can you talk to her like that, she's only a kid!." said Goto
Maki.

"Yeah, a powerful mutant kid." said the guard, "Does she even remember what happened
back in the forest of Mount Nantai?"

Goto Maki looked over at Momoko, but she shook her head, not knowing what they were
talking about. "No, I don't think she does."

"Well, that tape around her mouth is for our own protection...she's got quite a loud shriek
for someone so small." said the guard, he then lowered his rifle and continued to walk up
and down the aisle.

Momoko looked over at Goto Maki once more, and looked into her eyes. "No, I don't
know where we're going." said Goto Maki, somehow knowing what Momoko was asking
just by looking at her.

"oers." said Momoko in a muffled voice.

"Others?" asked Goto Maki, Momoko nodded her head, "I don't know, I hope they got
away. But they're not on the same bus as we are, so I'm assuming they got away safely."

Momoko breathed a sigh of relief through her nose, and Goto Maki nodded. "So long as
they're safe...we have a chance." whispered Momoko.

The bus then pulled into a smaller town and came to a stop.

"What's going on?" said Goto Maki.

10 armed guards then boarded the buses, each of them stopping beside one of the seats
down the aisle.

"Take the younger kids off the bus and load them into the van." said the head guard.

All of the guards each grabbed one of the Berryz or H!P kids and began to drag them off
of the bus.
One of the guards then reached over Goto Maki and grabbed Momoko by the arm and
quickly pulled her over Goto Makis body as Momo struggled to break free.

"Stop!" cried Goto Maki, "Where are you taking them!!."

"They're going to a different mutant prison then you are." said the head guard, "So this is
where they get off."

"You can't do this!, they're only children!." yelled Goto Maki, she growled then tried to
power up her mutant powers, but the metal collar around her neck gave her a powerful
shock, then began to beep loudly.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." said the guard, "Otherwise if you keep this up, you'll
get your head blown off right in front of your teammates...and we wouldn't want kids this
young to witness that."

Momoko, Saki Shimizu, Chisato Okai, Saki Nakajima and Megumi Murakami were then
taken off of the bus and loaded into a green military van. And Goto Maki could do
nothing but looked out the window as the van began to drive off, heading west with the
young H!P girls.

Meanwhile, Miyoshi, Rika and Yui were beginning to wake up as well. One they woke
up, they saw they were inside a bus as well. But the bus had other mutant prisoners on it
as well.

"Not bad for a days work." said one of the soldiers guarding the prisoners., "These
scouters make our job of hunting down powerful mutants that much easier.

"What's going on...where are we?." asked Yui to Miyoshi.

"I don't know, but I don't like the looks of this." said Miyoshi, "From the looks of it, we're
heading north. We just passed a sign that said 80 miles to Sendai City. That's WAY north
of Tokyo."

"So they aren't taking us back to Tokyo again...why?." asked Yui.

"I don't know, but I know that is where most of our friends are...it's like we're purposely
being split up from them." said Miyoshi.

Yui sighed sadly, "Where ever we are going...I'm glad your with me." said Yui, leaning
over and placing her head against Miyoshis' shoulder.

But their tender moment was suddenly and violently interrupted as an explosion went off
right beside the bus, throwing the bus sideways, as it then went up onto two wheels and
nearly tipped over. But the driver managed to get the bus back onto it's 4 wheels and
slammed on the breaks.

"We're under attack!." said the bus driver, "All troops prepare for battle!."

And all of the soldiers inside the bus quickly ran to the front, then exited the bus.

"What the heck's going on?" cried Rika Ishikawa.

Outside of the bus more explosions, screaming and gunfire could be heard, with bright
multicolored flashes of light flashing against the window. Suddenly one of the soldiers
bodies was thrown hard against the window and it shattered, the bars bending from the
impact.

"Maybe it's our friends?." suggested Miyoshi.

Another large explosion went off and a military jeep went flying past the window,
engulfed in flames.

"I don't think so...our friend's wouldn't be this violent, even to save us." said Rika.

Rika Ishikawa, who had a window seat, looked out of the black tinted windows. There were soldiers running around and firing their rifles widly towards the forest. Just then a young girl emerged from the forest, doing backwards somersaulting flips towards the soldiers.  She then flipped high into the air and landed just a short distance from 2 soldiers.

The soldiers looked at her and began to shoot at her, but the girl was very agile and flipped, ducked and dodged the incoming fire as she ran towards them. She then slashed them with some kind of sword, Rika was extremely surprised to see that the sword the girl had in her hand was made out of water.

Another soldier turned towards the girl and began to shoot at her, but the strange girl formed a large bubble of water infront of her, which stopped the bullets. Once the soldiers gun clicked empty, the girl dropped the bubble of water to the ground, then formed a long spear, made out of water in her hand. She threw the spear at the soldier, killing him as he flew back and slammed into an overturned jeep.

Three more large explosions went off, then all was silent. The gunfire stopped, the
screaming stopped and the night was calm once again.

The girl then held her hand out, with her palm facing upwards and all of the water on the ground, as well as the spear that killed the soldier quickly flew towards her hand and sphere of water in her hand, which she put into metal canteen attached to her belt.

The strange girl then turned her gaze towards the prison bus and she began to walk towards it, more teenage boys joined her as they continue towards the bus.

The silence was getting to Yui, "I don't like the sounds of this..." said Yui.

All of the other prisoners began to chatter to one another nervously, but then the sounds
of footsteps could be heard once again. This time, they were approaching the bus. And
everyone inside grew quiet once again.

"Uh oh..." said Miyoshi, her heart beating hard and deep inside her chest.

Just then a young teenage girl slowly climbed up the metal steps leading into the bus, she
then looked over at all of the silent prisoners. She then began to walk down the aisle, she
was wearing one of the devices the soldiers were wearing earlier. She looking at each
prisoner as she slowly walked past them.

The girl was only 5'4" tall, and was dressed all in black clothing and black military style
boots. She also wore a long black cape that went down past her knees and flapped behind
her as she walked. Once she had walked down the whole middle aisle of the bus, she
turned around and began to walk back towards the front.

As she walked past Miyoshi and Yui, the girls kept their eyes on her. And on the back of
her cape was what looked like a large blue rain drop sown on the back of her cape.

Just then, 5 more teenage boys entered the bus as the girl approached them.

"It's confirmed, they're all mutants." said the girl, taking the device off her head and
tossing it to the ground. She then twisted the cap off of a canteen she was wearing and
opened her palm. The water inside the canteen quickly came out, and formed into what
looked like a samurai Katana made of water. The girl then stabbed the scouter with her
katana and it exploded in a small puff of smoke and fire.

"Great job...Azumi." said one of the boys, patting her on the shoulder as he stepped
forward and stood infront of the group.

Everyone remained quiet, and the boy began to speak.

"We're with the Brotherhood of Mutants, and we have a proposition for you all." said the
boy, "If you join us, we'll set you free and you can join in the fight against the evil human
oppressors. Or you can remain here and await to be captured by the humans once
again...make your choice."

All of the prisoners inside the bus remained quiet for a few seconds, then all of them
erupted into loud, joyous cheering and everyone held up their hands that were still
handcuffs, eagerly waiting to be released.

The brotherhood mutants then began to walk down the aisles, setting the prisoners free,
one by one.

"Brotherhood...I know I've heard that name before." whispered Miyoshi to Yui.

"Yes...it sounds familiar in a way." said Yui.

Rika then gasped loudly, "I know who they are...the brotherhood is the same group of
mutants who attacked Takayama city." said Rika.

"Uh oh..." said Yui.

One of the brotherhood mutants was getting closer to Rika and her team mates.

"What should we do?." asked Miyoshi.

Rika thought long and hard for a moment, "Let's go with them." said Rika, Miyoshi and
Yui shot her a look of extreme confusion. "If we join them, we can find out what they're
up to and what they're planning."

"It may help to save more lives...so I agree." said Yui.

"I sure hope your right." said Miyoshi.

The brotherhood teenager known as Azumi stopped in front of Miyoshi and Yui who
were sitting together and looked down at them. The girls had never seen a Japanese girl
with such blue eyes, like water.

"You in or out?." she asked.

Yui and Miyoshi each held their hands up at the same time and the Azumi raised her
katana made of water, then sliced downwards 4 times at near blinding speed and the
chains joining their handcuffs to their seats and to the wrists were sliced off. She then
changed the katana made of water in her hand into a smaller dagger of water and picked
the locks on their handcuffs, causing them to fall to the ground in a pile of chains and
metal.

Yui and Miyoshi stood up and looked over at her, "Thanks..." said the girls, but Azumi
didn't respond and kept on walking down the aisles, freeing more mutant prisoners.

Rika then joined the girls a few moments later, and all three of them began to walk
towards the front. The trio then exited the bus, but the devastation they saw was terrible.

The 4 military jeeps and humvees escorting the prison bus were completely destroyed, all
of the human soldiers were killed and the ground was filled with blast craters, flaming
wreckage and blood.

The large group of freed mutant prisoners then joined the group of brotherhood mutants
as they lead them into a nearby forest.

"We're here." said Azumi, the mutant prisoners began to look around.

"Where?" asked Rika.

"Where our ride is waiting." said Azumi.

She then raised a walkie talkie to her mouth, "You can turn off the stealth mode now."
said Azumi, "We're ready to leave."

Just then, an aircraft suddenly appeared, almost as if out of thin air.

"Whoa..." said Miyoshi, "What is that?"

"One of the brotherhood's newest inventions...we call it the Switchblade. It's the most
perfect stealth craft ever built. It's invisible to radar, and even to the human eye when in
stealth mode."

The aircraft was a large black helicopter and jet hybrid aircraft, with the crimson red
mutant brotherhood symbol on the vertical stabilizer at the back of the aircraft. The
aircraft had a large helicopter style rotor, but had the bodyframe of a jet.

The Brotherhood mutants boarded the aircraft, with the freed mutant brotherhood
prisoners joining them. The inside of the aircraft was spacious, with lot's of seats,
computer terminals and other high tech looking gadgets.

Once everyone took their seats and buckled up the aircraft began to take off. The top rotor
spinning, with two smaller vertical thrusters on the bottom of the jet, helping to keep it
stable as it rose into the air.

When they were above the treetops, the rear jet engine came to life and threw the jet
forward as the after burner was engaged.

"Stealth mode on." said Azumi as she pressed a short series of buttons, and the aircraft
completely disappeared, only the sound of it's engine could be heard as it flew north with
Rika, Miyoshi, and Yui. The Mutant Brotherhoods newest recruits.

[meowz]

Hmm...Strange that Kamei would call Michishige by her last name and not Sayu/Sayumi?

[JFC]

Momoko slowly began to wake up, she had a pounding headache and felt weak.

...

She looked over and saw Goto Maki sitting next to her, but as she tried to say something to her, nothing came out. Her mouth was covered with large, black duct tape, she could barely move her mouth at all.

Hmmmm...does Momo even know/realize that she has mutant powers?

The bus then pulled into a smaller town and came to a stop.

"What's going on?" said Goto Maki.

10 armed guards then boarded the buses, each of them stopping beside one of the seats down the aisle.

"Take the younger kids off the bus and load them into the van." said the head guard.

Shit, they don't know that they're splitting them up and sending them to different prisons.

Meanwhile, Miyoshi, Rika and Yui were beginning to wake up as well. One they woke up, they saw they were inside a bus as well. But the bus had other mutant prisoners on it as well.

...

"What's going on...where are we?." asked Yui to Miyoshi.

"I don't know, but I don't like the looks of this." said Miyoshi, "From the looks of it, we're heading north. We just passed a sign that said 80 miles to Sendai City. That's WAY north of Tokyo."

...

it's like we're purposely being split up from them." said Miyoshi.

Yui sighed sadly, "Where ever we are going...I'm glad your with me." said Yui, leaning over and placing her head against Miyoshis' shoulder.

But their tender moment was suddenly and violently interrupted as an explosion went off right beside the bus, throwing the bus sideways, as it then went up onto two wheels and nearly tipped over. But the driver managed to get the bus back onto it's 4 wheels and slammed on the breaks.

"We're under attack!." said the bus driver, "All troops prepare for battle!."

Oh crap, here comes The Brotherhood. Worst thing about it is, Hasegawa will likely just use this as an excuse to restrict the mutants that have already been captured even more, since to him they're all the same, even though in reality they're not.

Just then a young teenage girl slowly climbed up the metal steps leading into the bus, she then looked over at all of the silent prisoners. She then began to walk down the aisle, she was wearing one of the devices the soldiers were wearing earlier. She looking at each prisoner as she slowly walked past them.

Whoa, so The Brotherhood knows about the scouters?  She must have taken one off of one of the soldiers, and is now using it to identify the mutants on the bus that have the strongest power levels (probably to recruit them). But then, what about the "weaker" ones?

"It's confirmed, they're all mutants." said the girl, taking the device off her head and tossing it to the ground. She then twisted the cap off of a canteen she was wearing and opened her palm. The water inside the canteen quickly came out, and formed into what looked like a samurai Katana made of water. The girl then stabbed the scouter with her katana and it exploded in a small puff of smoke and fire.

Sort of strange that they wouldn't keep the scouter. If there are engineers amongst their ranks they might have been able to reverse-engineer it and come up with a countermeasure or something.  At the very least it would make their own job of finding mutants to join them easier.

"We're with the Brotherhood of Mutants, and we have a proposition for you all." said the boy, "If you join us, we'll set you free and you can join in the fight against the evil human oppressors. Or you can remain here and await to be captured by the humans once again...make your choice."

All of the prisoners inside the bus remained quiet for a few seconds, then all of them erupted into loud, joyous cheering and everyone held up their hands that were still handcuffs, eagerly waiting to be released.

Interesting spin that they put on themselves. They claim to fight for mutant freedom (and some of them actually may have joined with that intention), but they don't realize that in the end, they're just being used by Overlord to further his own goals/ambitions.

"Brotherhood...I know I've heard that name before." whispered Miyoshi to Yui.

"Yes...it sounds familiar in a way." said Yui.

Rika then gasped loudly, "I know who they are...the brotherhood is the same group of mutants who attacked Takayama city." said Rika.

"Uh oh..." said Yui.

...

"Let's go with them." said Rika, Miyoshi and Yui shot her a look of extreme confusion. "If we join them, we can find out what they're up to and what they're planning."

Nice thinking Rika. The only potential hitch is if Miki sees them, and the others (particularly Overlord) find out that they're really with S.M.A.T. If that happen, the 3 of them are probably as good as dead.

Speaking of Miki, it's going to be interesting to see what happens when she DOES realize that the three of them have been "recruited" by The Brotherhood. When they tell her what has REALLY been going on, what will Miki do?

The large group of freed mutant prisoners then joined the group of brotherhood mutants as they lead them into a nearby forest.

...

 "You can turn off the stealth mode now." said Azumi, "We're ready to leave."

Just then, an aircraft suddenly appeared, almost as if out of thin air.

"Whoa..." said Miyoshi, "What is that?"

"One of the brotherhood's newest inventions...we call it the Switchblade. It's the most perfect stealth craft ever built. It's invisible to radar, and even to the human eye when in stealth mode."

The aircraft was a large black helicopter and jet hybrid aircraft, with the crimson red mutant brotherhood symbol on the vertical stabilizer at the back of the aircraft. The aircraft had a large helicopter style rotor, but had the bodyframe of a jet.

Damn...that sounds hella cool. 

Once everyone took their seats and buckled up the aircraft began to take off. The top rotor spinning, with two smaller vertical thrusters on the bottom of the jet, helping to keep it stable as it rose into the air.

When they were above the treetops, the rear jet engine came to life and threw the jet forward as the after burner was engaged.

"Stealth mode on." said Azumi as she pressed a short series of buttons, and the aircraft completely disappeared, only the sound of it's engine could be heard as it flew north with Rika, Miyoshi, and Yui. The Mutant Brotherhoods newest recruits.

Yeah...gotta admit...that IS hella cool.

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 67- Family Secrets

Azumi and her group of freed mutants were nearing the main brotherhood encampment. Rika
looked out the window and could see nothing but mountains and forests for as far as the eye
could see.

"After living in the city for most of my life...I forgot that this much nature still existed in Japan."
said Rika.

The switchblade then began to slow down, with the main engine shutting off a few moments later
and the helicopter style rotor starting up once again.

Azumi then turned around and looked back at the passengers, "We're here." she said. She then
turned off stealth mode and the switchblade aircraft reappeared.

The switchblade then began to descend towards the ground. Inside all of the new brotherhood
recruits flocked towards the windows, eager to see their new home.

Down on the ground, a brotherhood plane director was waving glowing red flight sticks down
towards the ground, signaling Azumi to land the aircraft on top of a designated landing area.

Azumi obeyed and soon, her aircraft set down on top of a large square concrete landing pad. The
Switchblades main door opened up and a small metal stair case descended towards the ground.
With Azumi and the other brotherhood mutants following close behind her.

As Rika and her teammates exited the switchblades door, they stopped and looked out at the
encampment.

"Oh my..." was all Rika managed to say, the sight was beyond other words.

Azumis' switchblade was not the only one, parked beside Azumis・were at least 15 other
switchblades, with many other empty landing pads, which obviously ment there were many more.

There were also tents of various sizes stretched out along the forest floor for as far as she could
see, with futuristic looking land vehicles and tanks parked around the area.

"Now there's an eye opener..." said Miyoshi, Rika and Yui nodded and slowly began to walk
down the metal steps to the ground.

Once Rikas' foot touched the ground, 3 female brotherhood mutants approached her and her team
mates. And without saying a word, one moved in close to Rika, surprising her as she began to
attach something around her neck that resembled a locket and chain necklace.

The girls then bowed to Rika and her team mates, then moved on.

Rika looked down at the strange device around her neck and then held it in her hand.

"What is this?." she asked aloud.

"This device, scrambles the humans mutant locator devices, making them unable to locate us."
said Azumis' voice behind her.

Rika turned around, "The humans what?." asked Rika.

Azumi moved her black cape away from her body with a swoop of her hand, and took out a
scouter and handed it to Rika.

"With this device, humans are able to locate us." said Azumi, "But our Master, Overlord, created
these devices we wear now. With them we are able to block our mutant energy signatures. So we
are safe, so long as we wear these the humans will never be able to locate us."

Rika looked at the scouter in her hands, "So why do you have one?." she asked

Azumis' lips curled up in an almost evil looking smile, "A souvenir I got from the first group of
human soldiers who located me and tried to take me prisoner, but they under estimated my power
and I easily destroyed them." she said, "Besides...", she then took the device out of Rikas' hand
and placed it on her head, "I think it makes me look cooler."

Just then the sounds an approaching jet could be heard, and Azumi and the other brotherhood
mutants looked to the sky.

"Here comes Overlord's private jet, he has returned!." announced a brotherhood mutant.

Another older brotherhood mutant quickly blew a whistle 3 times, "Form up!!." he yelled. And
all of the brotherhood mutants and soldier's began to form up in parade ranks. While Rika, Yui
and Miyoshi stood still, not knowing what to do.

"Well don't just stand there, get into line. Overlord is our headmaster you know." said Azumi,
and she ran to get formed up with everyone else.

"Better wait till we can form up at the back, better not risk getting too close to their leader."
whispered Rika. Yui and Miyoshi nodded and began to walk towards the other brotherhood
mutants who were busy forming up.

Once everyone was at attention, there were many groups of formed up mutants, each group was 5
ranks deep and 15 ranks long, and stretched for a great distance on both side of a gravel walkway
from where Overlords' private Switchblade was setting down on a landing pad.

Once the switchblade had landed and the main door began to open, one of the senior brotherhood
officers yelled "Salute!" and at once, all of the brotherhood mutants saluted to the front. Rika,
Yui and Miyoshi joining in as well at the back of one of the brotherhood groups nearest to the
landing pad.

The Brotherhood's Supreme leader and headmaster then began to descend a slanted metal
walkway from the Switchblade's main door. But, following behind him we're the brotherhood's 5
most elite fighting units, 30 brotherhood mutants escorting Overlord.

And just by looking, Rika could tell they were some of the highest ranking, most powerful
mutants in the brotherhood.

But, suddenly, Rika saw something that caused her mouth drop open in shock and for her heart to
skip a beat.

"Fujimoto!" thought Rika, seeing her walking beside Overlord with 5 other brotherhood mutants
following behind her.

She blink hard and shook her head, hoping she had just imagined seeing Miki Fujimoto and
mistook her for someone else. But it really was Fujimoto, One of Overlord's elite brotherhood
members.

Once Overlord and his group disappeared into Overlord's main tent in the center of the
encampment, all of the brotherhood members were dismissed and went onto their normal
business.

Rika turned to Yui and Miyoshi, "Did you see what I just saw..." said Rika, her heart beating
quickly.

"Yes...that was Fujimoto, she's already a member of the brotherhood. So it was true, she was at
Takayama city...so she did participate in that attack on Takayama city." said Yui, Miyoshi
nodded.

"Which one?." said a quiet voice, Rika and her friends turned around and saw Azumi standing
behind them. "I said, Which one was Fujimoto."

"Uh...she was the long brown haired girl with the red arm band on her right arm, who was also
standing beside our headmaster to his right." said Rika, "Why?."

Azumi pulled up a large black hood, that covered half of her face in shadow, "She has something
that belongs to me...and I'm going to get it back." said Azumi, she then turned around and began
to walk towards the tent.

"Strange girl..." said Yui, Rika and Miyoshi nodded.

Azumi then stopped infront of Overlord's tent entrance, lowered her head and took a deep,
nervous breath. She then went into the tent, and saw Overlord standing infront of a large square
table, with the leaders of the elite fighting groups standing around it as well.

"Can we help you?." asked Overlord.

Azumi then slowly raised her right hand, then pointed at Fujimoto.

"You there." said Azumi.

"Me?" said Fujimoto, a little surprised and kind of creeped out by the hooded girl.

"You have something that belongs to me...and I want it back." said Azumi.

"Have something...what are you talking about?." said Fujimoto, still confused.

Azumi then turned her hand over and opened up her palm. Fujimoto could then feel Deluges' D
shaped ornamental vial of water that was attached to a chain around her neck begin to rise up. It
then quickly detached from her neck and flew towards the girl and landed in her palm. Azumi
then closed her palm around the necklace, turned around and began to leave the tent.

"HEY!" screamed Fujimoto, "That's mine!!.", she then climbed onto the table and quickly
jumped down and began to run towards the girl.

But as she got near to her, the girl suddenly turned around once more, but this time she was
pointing a Katana made out of water at Fujimoto and Fujimoto stopped in her tracks.

"No it is not!" challenged Azumi, "This necklace, rightfully belongs to me!."

"Rightfully?" said Scyther

Something about her voice and the way she spoke sounded familiar to Fujimoto and her friends.

"Who are you..." said Fujimoto.

Azumi didn't respond, but she collected the katana made of water and turned it back into a sphere
of water, then brought her hand back down to her side, her cape once again covering her body,
with her hood covering the top half of her face with shadow.

She turned around and hurriedly left tent, but Fujimoto and her friends quickly followed her.

"Wait!" called out Fujimoto and Azumi stopped, but did not turn around.

With the moon lighting up the night, they could see a large, blue raindrop sown onto the back of
her black cape. Their hearts were beating hard, more and more things seemed familiar about this
strange, hooded girl.

"Show yourself!" said Angel.

Azumis' hands began to tremble, so she balled up her fists, which soon began to sweat. Her
heartbeat began to quicken, so she lowered her eyes to the ground and took a deep nervous
breath.

She then turned around, with her eyes still looking down at the ground, she raised her hands up
and grabbed the sides of her hood and began to slowly pull down her hood, then raised her eyes
up and looked at Fujimoto and her friends.

"Oh my god..." said Angel.

"It can't be..." said Fujimoto.

The girl staring back at them was Deluge, or so they thought. She resembled her in so many ways
it was hard to believe that it wasn't actually her they were staring at.

"Deluge!" said Fujimoto, tears beginning to well up in her eyes.

"I thought you were killed in the attack on our compound." said Scyther.

Azumi looked down at the ground once more and slowly shook her head. "She was..." said
Azumi.

"What?!?" said Fujimoto.

Azumi raised her eyes up once again, tears welling up in her eyes as well "The girl the humans
killed was my big Sister." said Azumi, two tears drops falling from her eyes, "I am Deluges' little
sister."

And as Fujimoto looked closer at Deluges' little sister, they could see that she did have a younger
appearance to her face, but everything else was pretty much the same. She had shoulder length
straight black hair, bright blue eyes that were like water, and her facial features were almost dead
on to her sisters. Only thing she was missing was a tiny birthmark that Deluge had underneath
her right eye.

"So that necklace really does belong to you..." said Fujimoto, "I'm sorry, I didn't know."

Azumi nodded, "It's alright, that part of her life, she liked to keep secret." said Azumi.

"So...you got a name?." asked Angel.

Azumi nodded, "My name is Mizuko, but I'd like you to call me Azumi." said Azumi.

"Alright...Azumi." said Fujimoto, smiling this time.

"Ah...I was hoping you guys would meet up sometime soon." said Overlord's voice behind them,
and everyone turned around and faced him.

"You know her?." asked Fujimoto.

Overlord nodded, "Yes, Deluge asked me if she could keep in contact with her every few months
by mail." said Overlord, "So I authorized it."

"And you didn't tell us?." asked Quake.

Overlord shook his head, "No, she asked me to keep it a secret as well, so I kept my mouth shut."
said Overlord.

Azumi then stepped towards Overlord, "I have something I need to ask." said Azumi.

"Alright, go ahead." said Overlord.

"My sister's grave...I'd like to go and see her." said Azumi.

Overlord nodded, "Alright, if you feel up to it I will let you go." said Overlord, "But I only ask
that you go with Fujimoto and her friends. They'll show you where to go and escort you."

"Don't worry sir!." said Fujimoto, saluting Overlord, "We'll keep her safe."

"Alright, take a Switchblade and head off to our old compound." said Overlord.

"Yes sir!." said everyone in unison, they then headed off to one of the many switchblade
aircraft痴.

[JFC]

As Rika and her teammates exited the switchblades door, they stopped and looked out at the encampment.

"Oh my..." was all Rika managed to say, the sight was beyond other words.

Azumis' switchblade was not the only one, parked beside Azumis・were at least 15 other switchblades, with many other empty landing pads, which obviously ment there were many more.

Wow, Overlord has obviously been making serious preparations for quite a while now. If the switchblades can fire their weapons while in stealth mode, unless something unexpected happens the military will have a really hard time defeating them.

Once Rikas' foot touched the ground, 3 female brotherhood mutants approached her and her team mates. And without saying a word, one moved in close to Rika, surprising her as she began to attach something around her neck that resembled a locket and chain necklace.

...

"What is this?." she asked aloud.

"This device, scrambles the humans mutant locator devices, making them unable to locate us." said Azumis' voice behind her.

Whoa, guess there's no need for them to bring back a scouter for analysis. Overlord must have stolen the plans for the scouter (or a working prototype) while he was still undercover at the mutant prison, and thus they've been able to come up with a countermeasure.

"Here comes Overlord's private jet, he has returned!." announced a brotherhood mutant.

Another older brotherhood mutant quickly blew a whistle 3 times, "Form up!!." he yelled.

...

"Better wait till we can form up at the back, better not risk getting too close to their leader." whispered Rika. Yui and Miyoshi nodded and began to walk towards the other brotherhood mutants who were busy forming up.

...

The Brotherhood's Supreme leader and headmaster then began to descend a slanted metal walkway from the Switchblade's main door.

* JFC hears "The Imperial March" playing in the background.

But, following behind him we're the brotherhood's 5 most elite fighting units, 30 brotherhood mutants escorting Overlord.

Oh boy, that means Miki's gonna be there! Hopefully Rika, Erika and Yui can maintain their composure and not draw attention to themselves when they see her (likewise for Miki).

"Did you see what I just saw..." said Rika, her heart beating quickly.

"Yes...that was Fujimoto, she's already a member of the brotherhood. So it was true, she was at Takayama city...so she did participate in that attack on Takayama city." said Yui, Miyoshi nodded.

"Which one?." said a quiet voice, Rika and her friends turned around and saw Azumi standing behind them. "I said, Which one was Fujimoto."

...

Azumi pulled up a large black hood, that covered half of her face in shadow, "She has something that belongs to me...and I'm going to get it back." said Azumi, she then turned around and began to walk towards the tent.

Uh oh...Azumi has some grudge against Miki? Was Miki promoted over her when she became one of Overlord's "elite"? Or maybe she's referring to the personal relationship Miki has with Angel? Either way, Azumi sounds like she's actually nuts enough to try and do something about it.

"You there." said Azumi.

"Me?" said Fujimoto, a little surprised and kind of creeped out by the hooded girl.

"You have something that belongs to me...and I want it back." said Azumi.

"Have something...what are you talking about?." said Fujimoto, still confused.

Azumi then turned her hand over and opened up her palm. Fujimoto could then feel Deluges' D shaped ornamental vial of water that was attached to a chain around her neck begin to rise up. It then quickly detached from her neck and flew towards the girl and landed in her palm. Azumi then closed her palm around the necklace, turned around and began to leave the tent.

Oh man, Azumi and Deluge must have been close friends (which would give her and Miki something in common). Miki took that vial to honour and remember her friend, perhaps Azumi feels that she should be the one to have it, since she had likely known Deluge longer.

She turned around and hurriedly left tent, but Fujimoto and her friends quickly followed her.

"Wait!" called out Fujimoto and Azumi stopped, but did not turn around.

...

"Show yourself!" said Angel.

...

She then turned around, with her eyes still looking down at the ground, she raised her hands up and grabbed the sides of her hood and began to slowly pull down her hood, then raised her eyes up and looked at Fujimoto and her friends.

"Oh my god..." said Angel.

"It can't be..." said Fujimoto.

The girl staring back at them was Deluge, or so they thought. She resembled her in so many ways it was hard to believe that it wasn't actually her they were staring at.

"Deluge!" said Fujimoto, tears beginning to well up in her eyes.

EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH?!??!?

SHE'S ALIVE?????

Azumi raised her eyes up once again, tears welling up in her eyes as well "The girl the humans killed was my big Sister." said Azumi, two tears drops falling from her eyes, "I am Deluges' little sister."

Geez that freaked me out.  That explains why she wanted the vial, as well as why she seemed to enjoy fighting those soldiers. She's looking for payback.

But wait, wasn't it Overlord who actually secretly killed Deluge in that previous attack because he wanted to get the students "fired up" by thinking that she was killed by the human military? Man, if Azumi ever finds out...

"Ah...I was hoping you guys would meet up sometime soon." said Overlord's voice behind them, and everyone turned around and faced him.

"You know her?." asked Fujimoto.

Overlord nodded, "Yes, Deluge asked me if she could keep in contact with her every few months by mail." said Overlord, "So I authorized it."

Well, as long as they took precautions, there was probably no reason why they couldn't.  Deluge must have told Azumi about meeting Miki and about how close they had gotten. Thus, if anything were to happen to her, it makes sense that Miki would probably be the one to have Deluge's vial.

"My sister's grave...I'd like to go and see her." said Azumi.

Overlord nodded, "Alright, if you feel up to it I will let you go." said Overlord, "But I only ask that you go with Fujimoto and her friends. They'll show you where to go and escort you."

"Don't worry sir!." said Fujimoto, saluting Overlord, "We'll keep her safe."

Hmmmm... the sixth member of Storm Unit maybe?

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

I'd hate to say it, but due to an extremely busy school and Social life Schedule I may not be able to continue this fanfic

Life's only getting more and more busy eachday, with decreased free time everyday as well.

Independent life is SO busy

[JFC]

^ Don't worry dude. Even if you can't update for a few months, it's okay. You have more important things to take care of for the time being (i.e. classes and "life") so it's natural that you'd be focused on them more. So long as you don't completely scrap this story (especially when you said you were probably close to finishing it), it's okay if it takes a while for you to write and post up the next chapter.  Who knows, you might be able to use it as a type of "escape" from your studies from time to time.

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 68- Reunion

Fujimoto and her group were nearing their old compound, just on the outskirts of Tokyo City. Even after how much time had passed since the attack on their compound, it was still very hard for Fujimoto and the others to see their old home in such a ruined state.

"I think it's safe to take stealth mode off now." said Angel.

Azumi nodded and pressed a short series of buttons on the control panel and the ship began to give off a humming sound as it reappeared.

"Alright, I'm going to set us down in the center courtyard." said Azumi.

The Switchblade then went into hover mode and began to slowly descend towards the ground. And in just a few minutes was carefully set down in the center of the compound.

Back inside the cockpit, no one said a word, or moved a muscle. The feeling that swept over them was undescribable, like a mixture of sadness, dread and anger. To be back at their once great mutant haven, that was now completely destroyed was heartbreaking for all of them. But the amount of heartache they were feeling right now, was probably not even close to what Deluges' little sister was feeling, or about to feel.

Not liking the uncomfortable silence, Fujimoto stood up and slowly walked over to Azumi's side. And placed her hand on her shoulder.

"Are you ready?" Fujimoto asked, awaiting Azumi's answer.

Azumi closed her eyes, took a deep breath and nodded. "Yeah, I'm ready." she said, "Let's go."

And at that moment, everyone else in the switchblade stood up and headed for the doors.

Outside, the weather was filled with black storm clouds, and a blowing wind that blew dirt and dust across the body of the brotherhoods switchblade.

The switchblade's main compartment door then lowered and Azumi exited the aircraft, followed closely by Fujimoto and her friends. Azumi's cape flapped in the wind, as did Fujimoto and her friends black brotherhood trench coats. The wind started to pick up and Azumi put her hood on and began to walk forward, Fujimoto and the others following her.

"Fujimoto." said Azumi as she continued walking.

Fujimoto broke away from the group and quickened her steps until she was walking side by side with Azumi.

"Yes?" she asked.

"How did you get to know my sister?." she asked.

"She was the very first person to welcome me to the brotherhood when Overlord brought me here." said Fujimoto, "And your sister was a very kind person, one of the kindest I've ever had the honour of meeting. I only wish there were more people out there like her."

"I see." said Azumi, "She's always been that way, and since she seemed to trust you, I guess I can as well."

"Oh, well thank you." said Fujimoto, the way Azumi spoke showed almost no emotion, it was so plain and almost cold in a way. But Fujimoto could sort of understand how she must of been feeling. If it hurt Fujimoto as much as it did to lose Deluge as a friend, she couldn't even begin to imagine how much it must of hurt her sister to lost her big sister.

Fujimoto then looked up and saw the cemetery the brotherhood had created for their fallen brother and sister mutants. She swallowed hard as she saw Deluge's gravestone in front of all the others.

"We're here." said Fujimoto, but when she looked beside her she saw that Azumi wasn't there. So she looked back and saw her standing still just a few feet behind her. Fujimoto didn't even notice that she was stopped walking with her. So she quickly rushed back to her side.

"Are you ok?" asked Fujimoto.

Azumi didn't answer, but Fujimoto could see her lips quivering. And without saying a word, she slowly began to walk forward. Fujimoto chose not to follow this time and remained where she was as Azumi continued on her own. Fujimoto's friends then joined her and remained beside her as well, letting Azumi go and see her sister.

As Azumi neared her sister's grave, her legs began to shake with each step. She then stopped just in front of her sisters grave and dropped to her knees and lowered her head.

Fujimoto and the other's noticed and began to rush towards her, but as they got close, Azumi raised her hand up and gestured them to stop, so they did.

Azumi raised her head back up and began to cry and sob loudly as she looked at her sister's still, silent gravestone. She then stopped crying momentarily and pulled down her hood and placed her hand over her chest, feeling Deluge's D shape ornamental vial of water under her shirt.

So she carefully pulled it out and held it in her hand. And as she looked down at it, she began to speak.

"I thought you promised me...that you would come to my highschool graduation." said Azumi.

"So...why are you here?" she asked, her voice cracking with sadness.

More and more tears began to stream down Azumi's cheeks as she held on tightly to her sister's D shaped vial of water.

"Sis...I've waited so long to see you!" cried Azumi, "For 5 long years I waited, hoping to see you again."

Fujimoto wanted to rush over and comfort Azumi, but knew she should leave her to have her grieving time. But hearing the sad words of her sister, caused Fujimoto to begin to cry as well. So she reached over and grabbed a hold of Angel, he too wrapped his arms around Fujimoto as she began to cry.

"In your last letter, you promised that you would come to my highschool graduation." said Azumi, "It was only 2 weeks away..."

Quake, flea and Syther lowered their heads in sadness, feeling a great pain for their best friend's little sister.

"I know that you went off to the brotherhood in my place, so it shouldn't of been you who died...it should of been me." said Azumi, "I know that you only did it to protect me, but I should of tried harder to convince you not to go. It's my fault...it's all my fault."

"Maiko...MAIKO~!!" wailed Azumi, she leaned forward, crying softly and wrapped her arms around her sisters gravestone and began to sob uncontrollably as she placed her head against her sister's gravestone.

Meanwhile, back at Tokyo's mutant prison. Kago, Konno, Ogawa and Otani were being loaded into a green military truck. They were being sent to a different mutant prison elsewhere in Japan. Leaving Ayaka on her own, while Sayumi was being loaded into a red and white ambulance. The military truck was the first to exit the prison, followed closely by the ambulance carrying Sayumi. Both vehicles were approaching a fork in the road, on road lead north, while another headed east, back to Tokyo city.

The truck took the northern road, while the ambulance headed back to Tokyo city.

"I don't like this." said Kago, "Our friends are being spread out all over Japan...will we ever see the others again?."

"I don't know." said Konno, "But it's going to be very very difficult for us to find each other again."

But as the Military truck continued on north, another green military truck passed them, carrying Goto Maki and Nozomi Tsuji.

This military truck then pulled up to the same mutant prison that Kago, Konno, Otani and Ogawa had just left. It then entered the mutant prison, and the girls were let out.

"Where are we?" asked Tsuji.

"I don't know, but I have a very bad feeling about this place." said Goto Maki.

"Alright, that's enough talk, get moving!" said one of the prison guards, giving Tsuji a hard shove with his baton.

Tsuji shot him an angry glare, but Goto Maki grabbed Tsuji by the shoulder.

"Not now, save your strength for later." whispered Goto Maki, and Tsuji quickly calmed down.

The girls were then taken into the main Prison hall, were processed, changed into prison clothing and escorted to the prison courtyard. Where many other prisoners were wandering around.

Goto Maki began to tremble, but then she saw something that made her heart jump for joy.

"Taka-san!" cried Goto Maki, spotting Ishibashi sitting by himself at one of the courtyards wooden tables.

Ishibashis' quickly looked up and saw Goto Maki, who was running towards him.

"Gottsuan!" he cried, and he too quickly stood up and ran towards her.

The two then met up and gave eachother a warm hug, Ishibashi then placed both of her hands against her cheeks and looked into her eyes. Something he always did when he and Goto Maki met up, and after looking into her eyes he got that same heartwarming feeling, and he knew that he was not dreaming, and that his Gottsuan was once again in his arms.

"So good to see a friendly face." said Goto Maki.

"Yes, Gottsuan, I missed you." he said.

He then suddenly let her go and turned his back to her. "What's wrong?" she asked.

"If your here...then that means I failed, I failed to protect you and help you escape." said Ishibashi.

"No, you did help me escape, and I know you would of once again if you were with us when we last got attacked by the Japanese military." said Goto Maki, "But I remembered how hard you fought for me, so I fought just as hard for my friends and thankfully, most of them got away. You gave me the courage to fight just as hard as you did for us."

Ishibashi nodded and then turned around once again and faced Goto Maki, "And so long as you have me beside you, I will always protect you." said Ishibashi.

"Thank you so much!" said Goto Maki, wrapping her arms around Ishibashi once more, "I no longer feel afraid."

[JFC]

Fujimoto and her group were nearing their old compound, just on the outskirts of Tokyo City. Even after how much time had passed since the attack on their compound, it was still very hard for Fujimoto and the others to see their old home in such a ruined state.

"I think it's safe to take stealth mode off now." said Angel.

Azumi nodded and pressed a short series of buttons on the control panel and the ship began to give off a humming sound as it reappeared.

They should still be careful. There could be a few men hidden, acting like watchdogs for Hasegawa just in case anyone came back for some reason.

"We're here." said Fujimoto, but when she looked beside her she saw that Azumi wasn't there. So she looked back and saw her standing still just a few feet behind her. Fujimoto didn't even notice that she was stopped walking with her. So she quickly rushed back to her side.

"Are you ok?" asked Fujimoto.

Azumi didn't answer, but Fujimoto could see her lips quivering. And without saying a word, she slowly began to walk forward. Fujimoto chose not to follow this time and remained where she was as Azumi continued on her own. Fujimoto's friends then joined her and remained beside her as well, letting Azumi go and see her sister.

Yeah...this is something Azumi needs to do on her own. Miki and the others can and will be there if she needs them, but Azumi needs this time to grieve and deal with Deluge's death.  She won't be able to move on with her life if she doesn't get and use this opportunity to do that.

"I don't like this." said Kago, "Our friends are being spread out all over Japan...will we ever see the others again?."

"I don't know." said Konno, "But it's going to be very very difficult for us to find each other again."

Without each other there for emotional support, it'll definitely be harder for the girls as they're separated and sent to different prisons.  But...if they try really hard, they might be able to establish smaller "resistance" groups within each new prison that they're sent to. If that happens, and they're able to get some organization going between the different groups in the different prisons, they could be one hell of a force to reckon with.

But as the Military truck continued on north, another green military truck passed them, carrying Goto Maki and Nozomi Tsuji.

This military truck then pulled up to the same mutant prison that Kago, Konno, Otani and Ogawa had just left.

Hmmmm...if the purpose of spreading the SMAT girls amongst the different prisons was to lessen their numbers within each, then shouldn't Maki and Nono have been sent elsewhere or transferrred to other trucks?

It then entered the mutant prison, and the girls were let out.

"Where are we?" asked Tsuji.

...

Goto Maki began to tremble, but then she saw something that made her heart jump for joy.

"Taka-san!" cried Goto Maki, spotting Ishibashi sitting by himself at one of the courtyards wooden tables.

Ishibashis' quickly looked up and saw Goto Maki, who was running towards him.

"Gottsuan!" he cried, and he too quickly stood up and ran towards her.

The two then met up and gave eachother a warm hug, Ishibashi then placed both of her hands against her cheeks and looked into her eyes. Something he always did when he and Goto Maki met up, and after looking into her eyes he got that same heartwarming feeling, and he knew that he was not dreaming, and that his Gottsuan was once again in his arms.

Running towards each other? Meeting up and giving each other a hug? GAWDAYUM THAT'S CHEESY!!!



Keep up the good work dude, but don't feel the need to complete this at the expense of your studies!  University classes have a schedule that you should stick to. This fic you can come back to anytime you want, so yeah, when in doubt, don't worry if it's a while before you are able to post another chapter.

[Tyler_Wood_2005]

Chapter 69-

Mai Satoda was in the middle of a meeting between all of the Wota leaders of each of Tokyo's main districts, some of which included Shinjuku, Shibuya, Shinagawa, Harajuku and Ueno. But the meeting was suddenly interrupted as one of the Wota soldiers burst into the room.

"We just intercepted a radio transmission stating that a girl by the name of Michishige Sayumi is currently in route to Tokyo hospital." said the Wota, huffing and puffing, trying to catch his breath.

"What!?!" said Mai Satoda, sliding her chair back as she stood up. "Are you certain it's our Michishige?"

"We're almost certain it is." said the wota soldier.

Mai rubbed her hand against her chin, "Alright then, I think we should act on this new information right away." said Mai, "If we rescue her, we'll be that much closer to reuniting our S.M.A.T forces once again."

"We'll said Ma’Am." said the Wota soldier.

Mai and the other leaders quickly got to work on making a plan to intercept the ambulance and rescue Michishige Sayumi.

Meanwhile, Ai Takahashi and Eri Kamei were nearing Mount Nantai, where they were going to meet up with the rest of their team and tell them all about the Mutant Prison they scouted out earlier.

"Almost there Kamei-chan." said Ai Takahashi between teleports.

"Mind if we stop for a second, that teleporting business kind of makes me sick to my stomach." said Kamei.

"Sure thing." said Takahashi, and she teleported one last time, just a few miles away from Mount Nantai and let go of Eri Kamei, who took a few shaky steps across a small mountain top.

"How do you do it?" asked Kamei.

"Do what?" asked Takahashi.

"Teleport without becoming sick." said Kamei, "It makes me feel nauseated and dizzy after a while, like airplane turbulence."

"Well, you get used to it." said Takahashi, "But it all depends how far I teleport. short distances don't bother me at all, but longer distances, like miles or even right to the end of the horizon, then it's a little harder on mine or the person I'm teleporting body."

"I'll say." said Kamei, "Ok...think I'm almost ready to continue."

"Wait..." said Ai Takahashi, who was looking in the direction of Mount Nantai.

"What is it?" asked Kamei.

Ai Takahashi quickly took her pair of binoculars out of her backpack and looked towards Mount Nantai. And what she saw shocked her.

There was an extremely large hole punched right through the side of the mountain, also there were numerous black military helicopters circling over the area. A Sky crane helicopter was hovering over the mountain forest, with a long cable descending into the treetops and disappearing.

"What!?!" said Kamei, who was still waiting for Ai Takahashi to respond to her.

"I think we've been found." said Takahashi, as she handed the binoculars over to Eri Kamei.

Kamei quickly took the binoculars from Takahashi and looked towards Mount Nantai. Kameis' mouth dropped open as she looked around the area of Mount Nantai, but as she focused on the Sky crane helicopter, she saw that the Sky crane helicopter was raising its cargo cable upwards. And what she saw shocked her more then anything. She saw one of the S.M.A.T's aircraft being hoisted out of the mountain forest, nearly destroyed.

"Kamei...Kamei-chan!." Said Ai Takahashi. ”Hey! Snap out of it!”

Kamei quickly shook her head and looked back over at Takahashi, fear visible in her eyes.

“This is bad...” said Takahashi, “But how did they find us?”

“I don’t know…but what should we do?” asked Kamei.

“Well, we should check to see if the others were caught, or if they were able to escape.” Suggested Takahashi.

Kamei nodded her head, “Right!” She said, and closed her eyes and began to change into a small pigeon. But after she finished transforming she looked back up at Takahashi, who had a plain stare on her face. And Kamei pigeon tilted her small pigeon head to the side.

“You know, I think changing into a pigeon is alright if you are in the city, but how about changing into a type of bird you would see in the mountain forests?” Said Takahashi.

Pigeon Kamei bobbed her head up and down, and then began to change into a large White-tailed Eagle, the kind found in Hokkaido.

“Ok, good luck!” Said Takahashi.

Eagle Kamei nodded then took to the skies and began to fly towards the mountain. A short while later she reached the summit of Mount Nantai. Soldiers were walking around near the entrance of the S.M.A.T girl’s secret hide out. Kamei needed to get into the interior, where she last saw her friends.

So she quickly changed into a tiny sized mouse and quickly scurried towards the summit entrance, past the boots of soldiers guarding the entrance and then into the cave entrance. Once there she quickly changed into a bonin flying fox bat, and began to fly towards the main cavern, where her teammates had settled.

Once inside, she quickly attached her small bat feet to the roof of the cavern, folded her wings and began to take a look around the area.

She saw that all three of the S.M.A.T’s jets were gone, but a lot of the cargo containers, tables, sleeping bags and chairs they had brought were still there. But there was no sign of the girls, and only a few soldiers and officers were walking around the area.

“Looks like the girls left in quite a hurry.” Thought Bat Kamei. “But how did they know we were here?”

Just then a soldier approached one of the officers in the cavern, “No sign of any other Mutants in the area.” Said the soldier.

“I see well no matter.” Said the officer, “We now have 2 more mutant prisoners and one of their jets, and they can run all they’d like. We’ll find them again soon enough.”

“Two others?” Thought Kamei, “So they did catch some of our members…but who? Oh right, Takahashi is still waiting for me, I’d better go.”

And with that, Bat Kamei let go of the ceiling and flew back out of the cave, out of the summit entrance and back to Takahashi.

“Well what’s the news?” asked Takahashi.

“Well I have some good news and some bad news…” said Kamei.

Takahashi sighed loudly, “Ok, good news first please.” She said.

“Well, good news is that not all of our team mates were captured and most got away.” Said Kamei, “The bad news is that two of our team mates were captured.”

“Any idea who got caught?” asked Takahashi, and Kamei shook her head.

“So what should we do?” asked Kamei.

“Well, I have a feeling we should head back to the mutant prison in Tokyo and wait. Nakazawa did say that she was going to attempt to rescue our team mates, and I think she’ll continue with the original plan.” Said Takahashi.

“Right!” said Kamei, and she quickly ran next to Takahashi and both of the girls disappeared as Takahashi teleported back towards Tokyo.