Intro Song: Rosemary by Deftones
The pellets all rain down from the heavens...
It's chill sending the message...
Flashing lights of the Tokyo skyline...
Fill the eyes of everyone amongst the crowds...
Unaware...
Of such conflicts...
Sure...
It's been on the news...
But all the events leading to this very crucial and...
Devastating moment...
Are of no awareness to the general public...
A peaceful and very busy city...
One of the most packed business centers in the entire world...
Full of technological prowess... global importance...
Tourist attractions...
But today...
It is susceptible...
To the inevitable...
What is the such?
...
...
...
WAR...
THE FINAL WAR...
...
...
...
Lightning struck!
A gigantic cloud forms from the very center of the city...
The surges of intense and...
Malice aura...
Fill the air...
Every single person can feel it...
The impact is like an earthquake...
In the very hands of mankind...
Its destruction potential...
Is like...
An atom bomb...
Incarnate...
Living and breathing...
Surging through the fingertips...
Of those...
Who seek to rule...
Oppress...
Take their rightful place...
As humanity's top race...
More worthy than even the Germans thought they were...
In the previous world war...
"AND SCATTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The booming voice spread, and multiple figures all instantly flashed causing enormous damage...
Their abilities, destroying entire buildings, slaughtering all that stand in their way...
The scene...
Was like a real warzone...
Blood filled the streets...
Smoke and fire ravaged all those night lights...
Replacing what was...
Destroying the peace...
From within...
The man in the demon mask crouched dramatically...
Marks and evidence of the impact all around him...
Surging through him...
Like...
Lightning...
It coursed through his veins...
It appears...
They are at the very famous...
Crossing of...
Shinjuku itself...
All those people that were once there...
All pulverized and turned into ashes...
Just like ants to a flame...
He lifts his head to find...
He's surrounded by most of the ICA forces situated naturally...
At Japan's capital...
Like running into the lion's den...
Except...
He was...
LIKE A DRAGON...
"Your highness... don't sully yourself with these-"
One of his royal guard spoke...
The famed (only in The Great Empire's ranks) New Guard...
Whose descendants were...
Those that fought in the Ishiin Civil War...
An entire century and more ago...
During the war to end all wars...
Or so they thought...
Prince Yoku raises his hand, just like his father...
His every action dictates weight and obedience...
To those who serve The Great Empire...
"I can handle this..."
"Deal with the rest of the entire city..."
"Cause great disturbance and show them..."
"What we have been preparing for..."
"FOR NEARLY 30 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!" he screamed from the top of his lungs, his words echoing and amplified by his flashing aura...
White lightning...
He...
Is left alone...
A dragon amongst insects...
Naturally...
Death was spread...
The center of Tokyo...
Fell tonight...
He waved his hand, and the action followed...
Just his finger alone, can kill most of the forces here...
Buildings quaked and cracked under his heel...
Under his presence...
"Father..."
"You are right..."
He laughs with dignity, a madness controlled...
The sight is sickening, almost too comical to comprehend...
"YOUR WILL BE DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
All those...
Who thought they even stood a chance...
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Crushed...
Without even effort exerted...
All gone...
In just seconds...
.
.
The sudden awakening...
Hidden in their wrists and necks...
All over their body...
Yellow marks of aura...
The same...
As...
That day...
The attack...
On Kaizen Academy...
"WHAT IS HAPPENING?"
"WHY ARE ALL OUR BARRIERS SLOWLY BEING LOWERED?"
"ONE BY ONE?!?!?!?"
"AND WHY..."
"ARE MOST OF THE BUNKERS ALSO LOSING CONTACT?!?!?!?"
Screamed by one...
After another...
"NUMEROUS REPORTS OF HEAVY CASUALTIES ON SHINJUKU!!!!!!"
"ALL OF OUR STATIONED ISHIINS THERE WERE..."
"OBLITERATED WITH ONE BLOW!!!!!!!!"
"MORE AND MORE CASUALTIES... AND COUNTING!!!!!!!!!!"
Each and every person in the control room was such in a hectic state...
The floors covered to the brim...
With trampled papers, broken shards of mugs and glasses and whatmore...
The man with the rustled suit...
Stood there observing...
"Assume all of our security measures as null..."
"Our Brace for Impact Protocol might be pretty much useless..."
"At this rate..."
He bit his fingernail so bad...
Its crimson liquids...
Already numbed...
The stress of the situation...
Was more than some mere finger...
"Fortifying each and every ward with most of our force..."
"It ain't enough..."
"Evacuating our citizens..."
"They even knew about our codes on how to reveal them..."
"This is..."
"Worse than my worst nightmare..."
The shadow of his failures loomed over him...
The weight...
It crushed him...
Still crushes him...
"I will..."
"Deal with them myself..."
His assistant grabbed him by the collar...
Grasping it tight...
"Yotsu..."
"You can't..."
"We can't lose you t-"
He shut her mouth...
Her words muffled...
Her eyes screaming what they really meant...
Underneath...
"This is all my fault..."
"Who knew..."
"One small mistake..."
"In letting Atsushi fall to the enemy's hands..."
"Could lead us here..."
"And now..."
"So many are dead..."
"Thanks to me..."
He hung his head so low...
It could snap in any second...
"This is..."
"My fight..."
"Tell everyone..."
"To only help evacuate what is left of our citizens..."
"And to let them gather around here..."
"In HQ..."
"But how could we even fit that many-"
He shook his head...
Words...
Aren't enough anymore...
Actions...
Are what will determine...
Success...
Survival...
And lastly...
What little compassion...
He had left...
He thought...
"Just do it..."
Ino's face stared blankly...
In the face of...
Certain death...
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
A rogue-
No multiple rogue agents went about killing everyone in the room...
Blood sprayed and with consoles malfunctioning-
With one grab of her back-
She felt it...
The release of...
She blinked her eyes...
Looking at her hands...
Her feet...
Her chest...
Her body...
"H-huh?"
She's not dead yet...?
A crackling sound filled the room...
The hand above her...
Just crushed the windpipes of their former colleagues...
"It can't be..."
"W-why...?"
"WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!?!?!?!?!?" She screamed a bloody curl, falling to her knees...
Closing her eyes in disbelief...
Rustles and noises...
Of blades clashing-
No...
Of a blade slashing...
Screams...
And glass breaking...
And in opening her eyes...
There he stood...
With the shadow all curled up on his wrists...
Materialized into...
Become weapons...
Blood spilled and dripped from it...
A surreal sight to behold...
Blood covered in the shadows itself...
His opposite...
The light...
Was with him...
The enemy...
...
Emperor Ishigami...
Of The Great Empire...
"It's alright now..."
"Ino..."
He carried and embraced her...
Whispering sweet nothings into her ear...
They exited the room...
"Take care of things here..."
"I will gather our best of the best..."
She nodded and sobbed into his chest...
The wet marks of her tears...
He didn't mind...
Her whimpers filled the empty hallways...
Illuminated by the orange hue...
Of HQ itself...
A whole other...
Dimension...
Hidden in the ground...
Hidden in the sky...
There was no discernable location of such a place...
It kept on moving in between...
The ideal hiding place...
A transitionary plane of existence...
"I will get him..."
"Ishigami..."
He set her down...
Readying his portal...
In frustration...
He punched the walls so hard-
They just came right off...
Like scissors right through paper...
It stood no chance...
Why would it?
"You will pay..."
...
"Brother..."
He stepped forth in the blinding white light...
With Ino praying...
"You'll make it out alive..."
"And come back to me..."
"I know it..."
Her eyes closed ever so slightly...
Right in between the edge of living in reality...
And spacing out in...
Fantasy...
.
.
Explosions filled the sky...
One by one...
They were set off...
Gusts of smoke paint the very atmosphere...
Riots filled the streets...
Of insane mayhem...
Those awakened by...
Her...
Went on rampages-
Fanning the flames...
Everyone was considered to be a worthy...
Pawn for her...
From women to children to seniors...
They made sure nobody...
Came back alive...
If ever...
She licked her lips knowing what's currently happening...
"By the time I get there..."
"There'd better be some left..."
"OR ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"AHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Her wildest dreams...
Came to fruition...
Chaos so disturbing...
It wasn't passe...
As she thought all things...
"Get to work boys!"
"If you do..."
"You might even a reward from me..."
"YOUR GODDESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA"
She laughed maniacally, her walking human carriage of broken bones and spirits-
Roamed the path...
Nearing what she craved most...
...
That surge of feeling...
Of taking another life...
Just for her amusement...
"HOW EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Of getting...
...
WHAT SHE WANTED MOST IN THIS LIFE
And that's more and more pleasure...
That she can wring out...
From any other pathetic toy...
Who wishes to be hers...
"Typical!"
"Tch!"
And in rolling her eyes...
She watched the distant skyline of Tokyo...
Being bombarded still-
What a...
TREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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A lone horn plays...
As the rain pelts and joins the blood spilled...
Of those seperated...
From this earthly realm...
Tear drops of the aching and bleeding hearts...
The smog and vapor of the air gets thicker and gets hard to breathe in...
The only thing that could be perceived...
Are the flickering city lights of the night sky...
With flashes of orange and likewise later-
The smouldering...
Of those so misfortunate...
It is chaos incarnate...
Loud booms and thumps of the air filled the soundwaves...
An oppressive atmosphere of death and hate...
The flashes of white light filled the sky-
And those eyes that stared unto it...
Blinded instantly...
If they weren't already lucky enough to not be striked upon impact...
If you weren't already a puppet...
Of hers...
Or struck by vast explosions that terrorised the entire capital...
You were barely just holding on, just by the breadth of a thin thread...
From certain deliverance...
This was...
As far as those taking such lives were...
Divine retribution, divine seperation...
And judgement...
From the heavens...
This is what you get for believing in such weak leaders...
In those who can't even protect you...
Save you...
For such belittling of the Great Empire of Japan...
This is what you get...
...
CRASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE WINDOWS COVERING THE FLOOR WERE TAKEN RIGHT OFF
With just the blink of the eye-
Air rushed in, the extremely crushing scent of smoke contrasted with the sweet and numbing allure of the rain itself...
The wind was blowing...
And despite this...
Despite everything...
It was still snowing...
Calmly...
In the middle of the storm...
His mind was fixated on this...
H-he...
Felt...
So cold...
So numb...
There...
Wasn't really anything he could do now...
What could he...
Barely even a real Ishiin...
Possibly do?
When he couldn't even save his own father?
Slanted eyes, glanced over at the beautiful mess that ransaked the outside world...
It almost doesn't feel real...
As if it was just another lucid dream...
Or...
This was it...
The visions...
Of his near death experience...
Blood will fill the oceans...
Bodies will litter the beaches...
...
And yet...
He felt so still...
Like he was barely just keeping it together...
Barely just holding on...
"Jisei..."
"Jisei..."
"JISEI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The sudden realization hit him...
He didn't perceive it...
But it felt like he was falling...
His senses were almost shut off...
Spreading his arms and legs-
Flapping madly...
The tall drop of the skyscraper met his eyes-
The panoramic and sweeping view of everything that was before him...
The city that he grew up in and loved so dearly...
Crumbling and withering right before his sights...
Maybe...
This was it...?
Maybe...
It was time to give up?
To...
Shortly meet...
His father...
...
...
...
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A blood curdling scream escaped his lips, his body erratically moved about-
Destroying all it could see...
Desperately grabbing unto the glassy form of the structure before him
Multiple bodies came rushing at him, scratching his arms and face...
His crimson insides filled their sharp fingernails...
But this...
Was almost nothing...
Such adrenaline coursed in his veins...
His body twisted and contorted, such aura...
Was so thick...
It was transparent...
Invisible like it wasn't even there...
At all...
It manipulated the air around them, causing it to crush their insides in return...
Like a miniaturized black hole...?
SUCH RAGE FILLED HIS PSYCHE
IT WAS UNFOUNDED
ALMOST ALL CONSUMING
And with the twist of his wrist-
He sent so many falling and crashing-
Dying...
The curling of his fingertips, he created so many abilities, his potential unleashed...
An aura that gathered physical elements to create a sphere that caused enormous and certain...
ANNIHILATION
SO MUCH SNOW AND SHATTERED GLASS FORMED AROUND HIS HAND-
IT LOOKED LIKE A GIGANTIC BOULDER BY THE TIME IT WAS FINISHED ACCUMULATING
IN JUST A FEW SECONDS
"DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????????????????"
HE SCREAMED AND BROKE HIS VOICE
SENDING THE GLOBE CRASHING
DEMOLISHING THE ENTIRE BUILDING IN AN INSTANT
HIS WEEPING FILLED THE AIR
SUCH SORROW ENOUGH TO DESTROY...
AN ENTIRE CITY BLOCK...
HIS PSYCHE AND UNSTABLE STATE
ALMOST LIKE A WEAPON...
...
He loses consciousness...
...
"Jisei..."
"What have you done?"
A sudden gasp, air returning to him...
He...
Blacked out...
W-what happened?
He...
Is down in the ground now...
Wasn't he falling just earlier...?
A hand rubbed his back...
But something felt off...
His sight took a while to return to him...
But whatever he saw...
Was...
Was...
Something he couldn't comprehend...
Nor understand...
That is because...
"You did this..."
"Jisei..."
Her face...
He hasn't seen her so shook up...
Since...
That fateful day...
Of their clash...
But this time...
It was different...
Her look said it all...
She was honestly...
Terrified of him...
He didn't notice it immediately...
But...
His hands...
They were filled to the brim...
Leaking...
Of crimson blood...
It wasn't his...
He didn't even know whose it was...
His- No...
Their surroundings...
It was like hell on earth...
Bodies littered the streets...
Disfigured body limbs and parts...
Crushed and smushed people underneath the debris of falling buildings...
And crashing cars...
The white and bulky ground they were on...
Snow...
Most of it...
Was bloodied...
His eyes widen and instantly looks away...
Such sights...
Were too much for the feeble mind...
Especially when they weren't raised to be so close to such conflicts...
Until now...
"Jisei..."
Despite this...
Being so scared for her own life...
She still clings on to Jisei...
No matter what...
Embracing him, her warmth only on his back...
He falls to the ground...
Everything nauseated him...
He couldn't take it anymore...
...
He puked immensely...
Drooping eyes...
He...
Felt so low...
None of this could be happening...
Right?
H-he...
He couldn't be...
H-he...
Isn't a murderer...
Right?
He...
Didn't do this...
Willfully...
Right?
He...
Broke down crying...
Grovelling...
Even with his lover at his side...
Even she couldn't calm him down...
He didn't want to believe it...
This...
This wasn't real...
This isn't real...
Surely?
Right?
...
RIGHT?
…
“D-dad…”
“I’m…”
“S-sorry…”
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-End of Aftermath II Arc-
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-To Be Continued-
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Ending Song: Digital Bath by Deftones
