This was my entry in the Guyvers Net Guyver fanfic competition, enjoy ^^
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Intro
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It has been many years since X day was initiated and Chronos took over, and many people have died in the years that followed their take over. Decades later and the inhabitants of Earth have come to accept life under the rule of Chronos as normal, and nearly every human are now processed into Zoanoids as soon as they can be as per the laws that Chronos have set down. Despite this one little draw back, no one can complain, for the world has been unified and wars between countries are now a thing of the past.
To this day however, one still opposes them.
Out powered.
Out numbered.
As Guyver 1, Sho Fukamachi fights alone, Guyver 3 having disappeared years earlier with the gigantic armor. Griselda is dead. Zeus Thunderbolts has been disbanded and Aptom destroyed by none other then Alkanphel himself. With no one to fight beside him, Sho carries the burden of a one man war, that he seems to have no chance of winning by himself. What's more, he is considered an enemy to the people, a demon who threatens their way of life……….
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A Chronos hover transport cruised through the city, the pilot was trying to ignore her noisy passengers as they passed drinks around to each other and celebrated their promotions. The pilot was tired and longed for the softness of the bed that was awaiting her at home, where she should have been hours ago, but then she had been called into transport the morons she transporting now to a processing facility, where they would all be reprocessed into stronger zoanoids.
Suddenly one of the men climbed into the empty co-pilot chair in the cock pit with bottles of booze in his hands.
“Why dun yah join us?” the man asked with a slurred tone, his breath reeking of the smell of alcohol and his eyes unable to focus properly.
“I’ll pass thank you. Someone needs to fly this transport” she replied dismissively, though she couldn’t contain the disgust in her tone. She expected better from Chronos troops, none that she had transported before had been this bad.
“Dun be like that babe, come on, have some fun!” the man said and lurched forward, bumping into the controls and nearly sending the transport out of control. She pulled it back on to course and back handed the solider back into his seat.
“YOU STUPID IDIOT! ARE YOU TRYING TO GET US KILLED!!” she screeched at him, half tempted to transform and rip him to shreds.
With a sigh of exasperation she turned back to windshield, trying to calm down, only to see a dark shadow suddenly coming at them. She let out a scream of surprised and horror as the thing crashed through the windshield and rolled between the seats into the transport bay where the others were. Within seconds shouts of surprise could be heard, followed closely by a series of blood curdling screams. Blood exploded out from the transport bay into the cock pit, causing the pilot to jump in alarm.
Then everything was silent, and trembling and pale, the pilot turned around in her seat and looked into the transport bay. Blood covered the floor, the walls and the ceiling from which big globs of blood dripped down from and formed large puddles. The men were in pieces, laying everywhere, never even having the chance to transform. Then her eyes settled on the creature standing in a dark corner, its eyes glowing, and the orb on its waist and forehead flashed in synchronization.
Realization dawned on her as she realized what she was staring at, and screamed in terror, as the guyver fired a pressure cannon straight into the cockpit……..
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Retribution Denied
By
Riven K. Daniel
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Some days had passed since the mysterious explosion of the Chronos transport vessel, the deaths of the twenty soldiers and the female pilot had rocked Edge City, and immediately the corporation had linked the explosion to the Guyver 1 and placed the blame on his shoulders. Sho didn’t care though, he could accept responsibility for this one, unlike some of the mysterious mishaps that he had been blamed for in the past. As he walked down the busy street, he wondered why he still continued to fight for his species when they considered him to be some kind of demon, or the devil himself It had troubled him at first, but in the years since Chronos took full, he had learnt to live with it, making freeing the human race from the corporations control his top priority..
He didn’t care about the advancements that Chronos had made since X day. He didn’t care that they had helped the human race colonize the moon, and he didn’t even care that they had effectively cleaned the earth of all the pollution that human’s had infected it with. These were the last things he cared about. Nothing that Chronos had done now, made what they did in the past right and he was going to make sure they got what they deserved for all the countless people they killed in their ambition for world domination.
As he usually did, he started to wonder what had happened to Agito. Or more importantly, what had happened to the gigantic armor. Both had disappeared without a trace so many years ago, he knew Agito had to be alive as he hadn’t felt the death cry of a guyver. If he was still alive though, it scared Sho to think about the kind of will power Agito had gained to have kept control of the gigantic armor for nearly seventy three years. Sho shook his head with a weary sigh, wondering why he had never learnt to become more of a fighter when it had counted, why he never learnt to focus like Makashima had.
It was too late now to start beating himself up for it, he realized, the only thing he could do now was focus on what was most important.
It was late afternoon when he walked in the front door of the small apartment. He removed his jacket and hung it on the wall beside the door, and started for the kitchen, as always he couldn’t help but feel a small loathing for the lonely apartment. The walls were cracked and bared, the wiring was shoddy at best never knowing when it would finally give out on him. He had been living in the apartment for nearly twenty years, alone.
After making a sandwich and pouring himself a drink he walked out onto the rickety old balcony outside the lounge room window and stared out at the expanse of the city, silently eating his sandwich as he tried to quell the endless mass of thoughts, but nothing he did gave him any peace.
Memories came unbidden to his mind, memories of the sounds of explosions, shouts and screams of horror and anguish.
The battle had been long and hard. Sho and Aptom had ambushed one of Chronos’ major processing facilities, but Tetsuro, Mizuki and Natsuki had followed, with thoughts that they may have been of use to their friend and zoanoid ally. Sho had wanted to retreat, to get them as far from the processing facility as possible, but there was simply too many zoanoids forcing them to fight, they couldn’t retreat, not without being killed.
Sho spun to avoid the bladed arm of a Thancrus, and slashed his own blades across the back of its knee’s before finishing it off with his laser. He cupped his hand and summoned a gravity ball into existence, and fired it into a crowd of on coming zoanoids, but it seemed that for every one zoanoid killed, a dozen more took its place and kept on coming. The thought of using his mega smasher’s crossed his mind, but he knew that it would take too much energy out of him, and he wouldn’t be able to kill enough of them.
And then, all at once the zoanoids stopped, seemingly frozen in place. Sho’s head sensors twitched as new arrivals appeared on the battle ground, and slowly he turned to see the beings floating in the air above the facility, the sky becoming a sea of golden light which emanated from the being that floated in the middle of the rest. Under the armor, Sho narrowed his eyes at the zoalord of zoalords, Alkanphel, Lord of Chronos.
“Why do you fight us, Sho Fukamachi?!” Alkanphel demanded, his voice booming for miles around.
“Because I must! Because Chronos has given me no other path to follow! I will not stand back and watch as you destroy the human race for whatever selfish reason you have!” Sho shouted back angrily.
“You are only a boy, you know nothing of what I am trying to do. So do not presume to think you have the right to claim that my reasons are selfish, especially when you know nothing of what those reasons are!” the golden zoalord hissed.
“It doesn’t matter what your reasons are when you would kill countless lives to see your reasons realized. You’re nothing but a cold hearted murderer!” Sho retorted.
“Silence!” Alkanphel ordered.
With a wave of his hand, a golden wave of energy exploded forth towards the ground at which Sho stood, ripping a great scar into the earth and blasting Sho backwards through the air before crashing back into the ground again. He sprang to his feet as quickly as he hit the ground and fired a pressure cannon at the Zoalord in a display of defiance. Alkanphel waved his hand and the ball of compressed gravitational energy wrapped around him and dissipated into nothing, as if it had never been.
Around the zoalord, a mass of energy appeared in the shape of a circle, charging ominously with power. Suddenly the circle shot from the air around the zoalord and raced towards Sho, transforming into a small ball as it sailed through the air. Sho stood there and watched it come at him, when, without warning, Aptom slid in front of him and took the full blast of the attack in the stomach. Under his armor, Sho’s eye flew open in shook and staggered backward as Aptom stood there, shaking and struggling to stand, a ball of energy still burning brightly embedded in his body.
“Aptom!” Sho gasped.
“I’ve said before……… Fukamachi…….. that it will be me……… that kills you!” Aptom snarled in a strained voice full of pain.
As he fell to one knee, the golden ball of energy embedded in his body exploded outwards in a spiral pattern of force and form a huge globe of energy that blasted Sho backwards once again, melting his armor and destroying the mega smasher cells until the unit could regenerate the powerful weapon. Sho struggled to his feet as the energy disappeared, and gasped at what he saw. Where Aptom once stood, there was nothing but large crater. Aptom was gone, completely destroyed by the might that was Alkanphel. Sho was on his knee’s, he slammed his fists into the ground in frustration and anger.
“If you surrender now Fukamachi, you will no longer have to suffer the pain that you have brought upon yourself” Alkanphel said convincingly, and honestly. “You must know that you can never beat us, not by yourself. You are strong, but you aren't that strong. Please, end this senseless fighting and stand by my side.”
Sho clenched his fist and his face contorted with all the anguish and hopelessness he was feeling. All at once those feelings transformed into a rage that was unfamiliar to him, something that was alien to him. Under the armor, his face showed defiance, and he only wished Alkanphel could see it as he snapped his head up to look at him.
“I’ll never join you! I’ll never stand at the side of a monster like you!!” Sho declared.
“Then you will die” Alkanphel announced, his hand pointed at the Guyver as it charged up a ball of energy, and then he pointed his hand where Mizuki, Tetsuro and Natsuki were. “But first you will watch those you care for perish for you foolishness!”
“NO!!” Sho screamed.
Alkanphel fired the energy, the ball spiraling wildly through the air towards it targets. Sho started running as fast as he could, closing the distance between them quickly, but the deadly attack was moving faster then he, but still he saw Tetsuro grab his sister and Natsuki and push them down the slope in front of them, seconds before the ball of energy slammed into the ground at his feet. Sho heard his life long friend scream out in pain as he was swallowed by the immense and powerful energy, his shadowy figure within the energy warping and then disintegrating before his eyes, until he was gone for good.
In mid run, Sho’s legs buckled beneath him and he fell to his knee’s. Mizuki’s wails of anguish cutting through him. Tears fell from his eyes and were absorbed by the armor. First Aptom, now Tetsuro. He wasn’t going to let anyone else die, not unless it was him.
“You son of a bitch! If you’re going to fight anyone, fight me!!” Sho shouted.
With a snarl of rage, he climbed to his feet and blasted into the sky with the aid of his gravity orb. His fist was drawn back as he sped towards his target. Alkanphel didn’t flinch and the other zoalords showed no signs of fear as Sho got closer and closer. Sho screamed out all his rage as he rushed towards the Lord of Chronos, but when he was within a meter of the zoalord, he stopped and ripped open his Mega Smashers, the damaged healed enough so that he could use them. They had charged on his way up and when he ripped the chest plates open, they were ready to fire. Sho smiled at the look of shock that appeared on Alkanphel’s face seconds before he was engulfed by the brilliant white energy.
All the other Zoalord’s gasped in shock, truly expecting their leader to have been defeated by the point blank mega smasher attack. Then the energy dissipated and before Sho could react, Alkanphel had reached out and grabbed him by the throat and pulled him close, a dangerous growl escaping his lips.
“Your existence, is becoming most taxing” the zoalords voice was cold and ominous as he started to crush his opponents neck under the force of his powerful grip. “I’ll give you credit though, I wasn’t expecting that, I almost didn’t erect my shield in time. Now you’ll die!”
Alkanphel spun around, Sho still caught in his grip, and then he let go, throwing the guyver straight down at the ground below, smashing him against the earth with shattering force. Even with his armor on, Sho felt like every bone in his body had been broken by the impact, he could barely move without invoking a fiery pain that shot through his body. Mizuki and Natsuki came running over to him and grabbed him by the shoulders, trying to move him, but he was far to heavy for them to even budge.
“Sho get up, you have to get up!” Mizuki cried, tears streaming from her face and splashing against his armor…………
Sho jerked out of his thoughts suddenly as he felt something wet splash against his hand. Gingerly he brought his other hand to his face and felt tears rolling down his cheek. He closed his eyes and force the tears away. That day had been painful for him, and for Mizuki. The both of them, and Natsuki would have surely perished as well that day, had it not been for Agito showing up at the last minute and teleporting them to safety. Although it would be a couple of weeks later that Agito would disappear.
His ears twitched and he turned around as he heard the phone ringing. Sighing he turned and walked back inside and went to the phone, wondering who could possibly be that was calling him..
“Who is this?” he asked tiredly as he picked up the phone.
“Hello, we’re calling from Edge City Care Institute” replied a pleasant sounding woman on the other end.
Sho’s heart seemed to stop for a minute or two in mid beat as his blood felt like ice had been poured straight into his veins. He took a large swallow and forced his heart to start beating again. Before replying.
“Yes?” he asked slowly.
“We’re calling about your grandmother………”
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His threw open the doors to the institute and rushed into the lobby with the haste of a man on a mission and stopped only as long as he had too at the front desk to log in his name and grab his name tag, and then he was off again. He didn’t worry about the elevators, instead he took the stairs, climbing them two and three at a time as fast as he could before arriving at the floor he wanted and racing down a long corridor. He stopped at the room numbered six hundred and ninety eight, and hesitated as his hand was about to touch the door handle, before taking a deep breath and walking into the room.
The sight before him ripped his heart into a million pieces.
His ‘grandmother’ of course was not his grandmother. No, it was Mizuki Segawa, whom to this day he still loved unconditionally. Even at the age of ninety nine years old he loved her, she had been with him every step of the way, but then the day had come that he had feared. The day that she had become too sick for him to care for alone, but it had been Mizuki who made Sho put her in this place. He hadn’t wanted to, and had refused to for many weeks, stubbornly caring for her as best he could, but eventually, she had won and reluctantly, Sho had placed her in the Edge City Care Institute, with him posing as her grandson to divert suspicion, and had come to visit daily ever since.
Though she was nearly a hundred years old, when Sho looked at her, he saw only the sixteen year old schoolgirl that had once been full of life. Still, he was aware that she did not look well, no matter how hard he tried to deny it. She laid there, hooked up to dozen’s of bio tubes that kept her alive as best they could. They could have kept her alive another fifty or sixty years if she had got processed into a zoanoid, but of course she would have none of it, and Sho, despite the urging’s of the nursing staff to have it done to her, he would not have such a thing done against her will. Now he feared, it was too late anyway.
As he approached her, he heard how labored her breathing was, even with the help of the respirator. Silently he took her hand in his and squeezed it gently. She looked up at him with her brown eyes, which he thought had never aged a year since he knew her. She smiled warmly, but sadly at the same time.
Sho looked over at the nurse that was in the room.
“Could we be alone please?” he asked her.
She looked at the two of them, and gave a sad smile before nodding and then leaving them alone. For a while, only the sound of the machinery could be heard above Mizuki’s breathing. Mizuki then motioned for him to remove the breathing mask from her mouth so she could speak properly.
“I haven’t got much time left I’m afraid Sho” Mizuki told him calmly. “I’ll be joining my brother Tetsuro soon…….”
“You don’t know that Mizuki” he replied, not ready to accept the reality of what was facing him.
“We’ve both known this day was coming for a long time Sho” she said again, pausing as she started to cough badly.
“Mizuki you should be resting, don’t strain yourself” he said as he went to get a cup of water for her, but she squeezed his hand tightly, causing him to stop.
“No. Sho, you have to listen to me” she said, coughing a little. “You knew this day was unavoidable. I’ve tried to prepare you best as I could, but you’ve refused to accept it, and now your going to have to. So please, listen to what I have to say, while I still can, please.”
He stood there silent for what felt like forever, fighting a battle inside of himself as the pain of what was happening started to become more and more real with each passing second. He turned and looked at her, and reluctantly, he nodded.
“We’ve been together for a long time Sho. I’ve seen you suffer so much, and I know you still blame yourself for Tetsuro and Aptom’s deaths. But they weren’t your fault, Aptom knew the reality of his situation, that one day he would be killed by someone more powerful then him, and Tetsuro knew the risks of following you into battle. Neither of them died blaming you for what happened. So please, let go of that pain you’ve been holding on to for so long now, it wont do you any good” she explained gently, he simply looked away, blinking back tears, nothing she could say could stop him from feeling responsible for that day. She knew this though but said nothing, instead she hoped that one day he would realize it himself. So she continued. “And now, this is the most important of what I have to say Sho, and you have to promise me that you’ll listen to what I have to say. Promise me.”
“………….I promise” he said after a long time.
“Sho, you know better then I do, that the world loves Chronos. They have given the world peace, even if it was by force, it doesn’t matter to the people. I’m not asking you to forgive them and join them like they’ve wanted you to in the past, but I am asking you to stop fighting them. Please don’t say anything yet Sho…….. I say this because, you don’t have the power to fight and beat them, and even if you do, you’ll be doing the world more harm then good, it will be as it was before. Countries fighting each other, and countless innocents being killed in the crossfire. Chronos, for all their faults, prevent that from happening, and you don’t have the right to take that away from the people of the world, and if you did, you’d be hated forever by everyo….. “ she stopped as another coughing fit took hold.
“I’m sorry Mizuki, but that is something I cannot do. Chronos are evil and they have to be stopped before its too late. They are taking away everyone’s humanity. They don’t care about us, they just want to rule the world. I don’t care if everyone hates me, I don’t, I’m gonna do what I have to” he told her quietly.
“Please Sho!” she pleaded.
“No!” he snapped, suddenly angry, shocking both of them. He had never snapped her once in his whole life. He looked away from her. “Don’t ask this of me. Especially when you know what they have done to us. Done to our friends and family. Remember what they did to my father? Remember what they did to Natsuki when they captured her. No, I will never stop fighting them!”
Mizuki was silent, her expression sad as a tear escaped either eye. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
“Then you are not my Sho” she replied, her voice strained with sadness.
Sho squeezed his eyes shut, hurting as those words cut through him and tore his heart to shreds. Then he heard a long continuous noise that he had only ever heard in the movies, his eyes went wide, knowing what it was. He spun around and saw on her heart monitor the red line.
“No! No! Mizuki NO!!!” he cried, grabbing her by the shoulders and trying to wake her. “No, not like this! Don’t you dare leave like this!! MIZUKI!!!”
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The city was cold and dark, more so then usual as Sho sat in a back alley with rain pelting down from the black clouds above. His blank and nearly lifeless eyes staring off into nothingness. He couldn’t believe what had happened. It was not how he had wanted it to end. He had wanted her to die happy, and now it was too late, he had screwed it up and the one he loved had died disappointed in him. No, he thought darkly, it wasn’t his fault, it was Chronos, they had driven them to this point, it was them that was to blame, not him, he reasoned. They had ruined both their lives, forced them to live in secret, always on the run.
He slammed one of his clenched fist into the ground and howled in anger and frustration. This was not how things were meant to be.
Slowly and awkwardly he got up and left the alley way, looking some what like a zombie walking the street. He brooded inwardly as thoughts assaulted his mind. The streets were crowded and he bumped into more then he could count, the only thing drawing him out of his thoughts, was an advertisement on the giant tv’s on the buildings, one showing some of the projects Chronos had going and ending with a happy little message on the end.
Sho’s eyes hardened, a snarl rolling slowly out of his mouth as something deep inside that had been held in check for countless years, suddenly broke free….
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The Ark floated silently in Earth’s orbit, like a great sleeping beast. Transport pods buzzed busily around it, docking and taking off.. On board Chronos personnel hurried about their everyday tasks, it was just another day to them. Alkanphel stood on a raised platform, watching his ‘children’ at work. He had not long woken from one of his lengthy sleeps, but he felt better then he ever had, with each wakening he felt stronger and stronger, he felt old powers returning, powers he thought the Advents had destroyed when they had crippled him so long ago. He smirked, his ‘parents’ had made a big mistake, a very big mistake indeed.
“My Lord, I have some very important news to report” said a young woman that appeared on a holo screen in front of him.
“Well, what is it?” he asked her patiently.
“Mizuki Segawa has died. She passed away a couple of hours ago at the Edge City Care Institute, she was ninety nine years old” reported the young woman.
“And Fukamachi?” Alkanphel asked again, he didn’t care about the girl, but he did about how the Guyver 1 would react to the passing of his love.
“He was there when she died. However, soon after the nurse on hand declared the time of death, he disappeared, we have been unable to track him down my Lord, its like he disappeared off the face of the earth” she replied.
“Find him” he told her and dismissed the holo screen.
Almost immediately after the screen disappeared, one of the docking bay doors exploded open, blasting back a mass of people that were walking past it. The ball of fire rolled forward and fanned out, covering a wide area as people ran away screaming. Alkanphel just stood there with a slight look of shock on his face, but his lips quickly twisted into a smirk.
His guyver armor activated and air shooting out of his rebreathers, Sho stepped out through the flames, looking every part like the demon he had been branded for so long. With a howl of rage he fired a pressure cannon into a crowd soldiers that had arrived and transformed, sending body parts flying every where. Lasers fired out from his crystal, blasting away at anything and everything that he could see, machinery exploding and zoanoids falling before they could even get a single scratch on him. Alkanphel watched the guyver fight, the berserk madness of the slaughter before him brought back memories of when Guyver 0 had destroyed zoanoids and Advents alike before being killed.
Sho’s swords extended to their full length as he shot into a group of zoanoids, dancing around their futile attempts to stop him and slicing through them like a hot knife through butter. As the zoanoids fell apart into multiple pieces, Sho lunged forward and rolled across the floor as a the bio laser from a Zektole flew over him, and stopped in front of the hyper zoanoid’s legs, cutting them out from under him and slamming his fist straight into the bio crystal in the beetle like zoanoid’s head, crushing it before dashing off after other prey.
He looked around, his head sensors working over time as he defended against zoanoids and then attacked them just as viciously. Finally his eyes came to rest on Alkanphel standing on the platform, who stared down at him with a smirk. Sho launched himself with a powerful jump, sailing through the air and swinging his fists at the zoalord as he landed in front of the elf-like man, but Alkanphel was quicker and caught both of Guyver 1’s fist in the palms of his hands and stopped him in his tracks. Sho growled, pushing desperately against his foe’s superior strength, but the golden lord stood his ground easily against the guyver.
“Don’t be a fool Fukamachi! You can still join us!” Alkanphel told him calmly.
“Chronos ruined my life, I will never join you!” Sho replied coldly.
“Then you’ll die for nothing! Is that what you want!” The Supreme lord demanded angrily.
With little effort, Alkanphel picked Sho up off the ground and started swinging him around by his arms, crushing the guyvers fists as he increased speed and then sent him flying through the air and into a wall and embedding him in it. Pitching forward a few seconds later, Sho peeled himself from the wall and fell to the ground, landing in a crouch, his head sensors twitching the second Alkanphel appeared in front of him. Before Sho could rise his head to look the zoalord fully in the eyes, the side of his face suddenly exploded in pain and he found himself bouncing across the floor like a pebble on a calm lake.
Shoving the pain aside, Sho planted a hand against the ground and sprang up into a somersault before landing and ripping his chest plates open and firing them at Alkanphel. The white blast of energy raced towards the zoalord and smashed into an invisible shield as Alkanphel held out his hand at the blast. Energy crackled and sparked around the zoalord as he stood there calmly, waiting until finally the Mega Smasher ran out of power and deactivated. Sho closed his chest plates and breathed heavily as his enemy started to walk towards him with deliberate slowness.
“And just think, Fukamachi” Alkanphel told him, coming to a stop a few feet from the tiring guyver. “I haven’t even shifted into my battle form yet.”
Undaunted by his enemy’s transparent attempts to psyche him out, Sho charge at him with all the speed and force that he could muster, slamming into the zoanoid as hard as he could and barely managing to budge him an inch. Quickly Sho cupped his hands together, charging a pressure cannon and firing it against Alkanphel’s abdomen at point blank range, and even the Lord of Chronos couldn’t stop the destructive gravitational energy from blasting a clean through him. Alkanphel howled in agony as his body reacted on reflex and started to transform, the energy exploding from him and blasting Sho backwards. As he transformed the zoalord’s regenerative systems kicked in and started to rapidly heal the damage the guyver had just done. With a snarl Alkanphel turned his attention back on Sho and stalked towards him in three large steps and back handed him across the room again.
“You did very good to hurt me like that Fukamachi, but it’ll be the last time you get a lucky shot in” the golden being promised.
Sho groaned as he picked himself up, he was weak, mentally and physically, even emotionally he was exhausted. He wasn’t sure he could go much longer against the zoalord, but he wasn’t going to give up. He was going to fight until either one of them was dead.
Alkanphel snapped his arm up and fired a bolt of golden energy, Sho jumped to the side as the bolt of energy blasted the ground where he stood and as he rolled into crouch he fired of off a volley of laser blasts only to have them swallowed up by a black hole that appeared in front of the zoalord. Immediately Sho felt the powerful vacuum of the gravity anomaly, causing anyone that was standing around watching the fight to quickly evacuate the area. Sho braced himself against the ground and activated his gravity controller, trying to stay in place but he could still feel himself being pulled towards the black hole. In a last ditch effort, Sho launched himself straight up, the pull of the black hole, causing him to fly faster then he ever had before. He was higher then the black hole and could see Alkanphel following his movements.
Sho cut his gravity controller at the right time and poured the remaining strength he had left into a single pressure cannon, charging it beyond what he normally would. He screamed out all his frustration and anger and sent the gravity weapon racing towards the golden zoalord, smashing it into the shields and causing a thunderous explosion that broke Alkanphel’s concentration and collapsed the black hole.
Without stopping, Sho landed in front of his opponent and slammed his fist forward with as much as force e could muster, his armored fist connecting with the field, but he kept pushing forward, determined not to stop until he had pierced the shield. Electricity appeared around the shield and attacked Sho directly, shooting up his arm and wrapping around his body. Sho snapped his head back and screamed in pain, but he didn’t back down, even when white hot flashes of agony exploded through his head when the electricity attacked his Control Medal. He could feel the unit trying to retract, but he would let it.
“I WILL NOT GIVE UP!!” he shouted.
“Then is game is over” Alkanphel hissed coldly, raising his hand as he did.
In a blinding flash of light, Sho’s back exploded in a shower of blood and bio material, his eyes going wide beneath the armor as he stared into Alkanphel’s cold, cat like eyes. Sho stumbled backwards, his body feeling like it was on fire and the sensation of a void in his chest and back filling his mind. His knee’s buckled and he fell backwards, his energy drained and exhaustion quickly conquering the rest of his determination. He stared quietly as Alkanphel walked closer and looked down at him.
“You fought more bravely then any before you Fukamachi, be proud” Alkanphel told him with untainted sincerity and respect, which he had a lot of for this warrior who had defied and challenged him without fear for so long. “You have caused us a lot of trouble over the years, but strangely, I can hold no malice against you for that. In your situation, I would have done the same thing.”
Sho snorted nastily. “One day, someone like me is going to come along and kill you.”
“Then I hope they are just as brave and worthy as you” Alkanphel replied simply, he held out his hand and a large object appeared in it. Quickly he slipped his hand into one end and pointed the other at Sho. A unit remover. “You will be with your friends soon enough, I truly hope you find peace where ever you’re going.”
Sho snarled and before Alkanphel could blink, he lunged up for one final attack. Just as quickly, Alkanphel activated the device, and filling the Ark with a blinding light……..
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In the days that followed, word spread quickly about the events that took place on the Ark. About the final battle between Sho Fukamachi and the Lord Alkanphel. People around the world rejoiced that the demon that they had feared for so many years had finally been slayed by their beloved savior.
Yet by Alkanphel’s own command, Sho Fukamachi was buried with the same honor as one of their own.
No longer plagued by the demons called the guyvers, the world had finally found a true feeling of peace under the command of Chronos, and though stories would be told for generations to come, the terror that the guyvers had caused, quickly became a distant memory, remembered only by a few and recorded in even less history books.
Not all would forget the person that was the guyver though.
Not all…
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Valcus didn’t look up from his work as he heard the door to his lap whoosh, he didn’t even look up when he sensed that it was Alkanphel. They had know each other and been friends long enough to have surpass the formalities that Alkanphel demanded of his other Zoalords, he knew at least that Valcus wouldn’t betray him.
Alkanphel came to a stop next to the ancient looking man stared at ahead calmly.
It hadn’t gone unnoticed by Valcus that Alkanphel had been surprisingly quiet since the battle with Guyver 1. It had affected him in a way that the scientist could understand, of course as far as he was concern it had been a great victory. They had finally defeated Guyver 1 and retrieved the unit that had been lost so long ago, and it was there’s to experiment on and figure out how it worked, and to figure out if it was even possible for them to make their own guyvers. Valcus had never felt as excited as he did now.
“How is it proceeding?” Alkanphel asked finally, the silence broken.
Valcus looked up. “Growth rate is at seventy five percent, much better then we first expected. At this rate, the procedure shouldn’t take long at all to complete, I’d even hazard to say that the completion rate will be close to that of a standard one.”
“Very good” Alkanphel smiled.
Both of them looked at the bio tube in front of them, at the young man inside floating lifelessly it seemed. Brown hair floated about around his head as his body was altered and enhanced, the crystal in his forehead reflecting the lights in the lab.
“Soon” the Lord of Chronos spoke quietly. “…..Sho Fukamachi…..”
THE END