Shifting Waters

[Dawnika Snow]

In the pitch black night, the full moon hangs high surrounded by stars and a few patches of clouds. In the dense forest underneath a cliff lies Night Raid's secret base, embedded into the cliff-side. Although the word secret could be null now as one of the newly recruited Jaegar's approached with his 'Stylish Army' of super-humans. Hiding on the cliff range with his scouts, Dr. Stylish commands the battle from the shadows. His scouts, each trained in a single sense observe the upcoming battle. The odd man with a giant nose helped find the base. The woman with extremely huge ears listened in, reporting any causalities. And lastly, the extremely buff man with in-human sight watched over the battle. "The Stylish Offensive has begun!" Yelled the doctor as his sub-ordinates rushed in to take over the base.

Leone awakes after a party for Tatsumi's return from Esdeath's grasp. She steps outside to get some fresh air, walking out towards the hot spring. A heavy sigh falls from her mouth, as she looks into the water. Her ears perk as she hears a rather unsettling noise, but it's too late. A rouge attacks her from the back with a knife, stabbing her in the spine before she has time to react. She falls face first into the hot spring and the rouge takes off after screaming about how he had completed his mission. The scout with the big ears hears this and reports it to Dr. Stylish who is rather pleased with the results.

Meanwhile inside the base corridors, Akame has awoke to glass breaking and ceilings caving in. Still in her pajamas and no time to waste, she quickly grabs Murasame and runs into the corridor to be surrounded by Dr. Stylish's fodder foot soldiers. "Hm. They got through rather easily without Lubbock's usual traps set up. He's been missing too long." Akame drew her sword and readied herself for a fight. The army of twenty so men charged Akame, who reacted quickly, slicing through her enemies with superb ease. Another enemy approaches her. "My name is Toby, and I am here to challenge you one-on-one, Akame." Akame blankly stares at her new opponent, observing his rather formal-like appearance, which is set off by the dark blue cape on his back and the odd blue cap he is wearing.

Without hesitation, Toby rushed in relentlessly, jumping off walls to catch momentum as he swung his foot at Akame's head, in which the instant a blade comes out of the sole in his shoe, kind of like a sharpened ice skate. Her quick reflexes helped her easily clash blades with him; he rode down her blade until he flew past her. She quickly turned around to him and sliced him in the back. Toby slid on his bladed skates to a stop and Akame observed as the curse did not take effect. I felt it when I attacked, she thought to herself, his entire body is mechanical. Murasame is useless with a single cut. Toby quickly returns with another strike, which Akame dodges and cuts off his entire left arm. Surprised by having his arm cut off, he backs off for a moment. "If I cannot kill you in one cut, I will have to cut you into pieces, and it's going to hurt!" Yells Akame from the distance between them. "Well then, it is rather nice that I can no longer feel pain!"

He rushes in again with a front flip kick, which Akame easily side steps, followed by a quick slice from a sword that projects out of his left arm wound. She stops the blade with hers. Toby returns fire by firing a pistol that protrudes from his mouth. Nearly being hit, Akame leans her head out of the shot and cuts of his other arm. A rifle comes out of his right arm wound and fires at her again, but it's too late. Akame has already gotten in close enough and cut off his left leg. Toby is persistent, however, and continues to fight. He starts to fire full-auto rounds at Akame who side steps left to right quickly to dodge and charges her immobile target. He blade meets his chest before he is able to land a hit on her. Blood pours from Toby's wounds. "Hm...it seems I have lost this battle. To be expected from the infamous Akame. Please, tell me why I lost this fight, Akame." She withdrew her blade from his chest, and stood with her opponent on his knee. "Your fighting style was too aggressive and you left me too many openings." She rose her blade ready to land the final blow. Toby chuckled under his breath, "Heh, right. I should've focused more on defense. Perhaps a sense of pain is quite the luxury after all." He speech was cut off, along with his head, as Murasame met his neck. Toby's head and body hit the floor and Akame was alone. "Hm," she thought out loud, "I should find the others, quickly. This is too organized to be a random attack. We need everyone together if we plan to fend them off." She rushed off through the hallway and out into the courtyard in front of the base.

"They all got through extremely easily without Lubbock's traps up, I still wish to know what happened to him." Finally making outside, Akame met up with her friends, just in time to watch Leone kill a rather odd man with a massive choke slam to the hard ground. "Uh...whoops, I think I killed him." She said slightly upset. Tatsumi asked if Leone was alright, but she responded perky and sporadically as usual, exclaiming how she can regenerate her wounds extremely quickly in her beast form. Akame joins her friends finally, "good, everyone is here."

More of Dr. Stylish's men jump from the bushes and surround the four. "Then we can take the rest out all together!" yelled Tatsumi as he was about to charge in, when suddenly everyone but him fell over randomly. "Guys?! What's wrong with you?!"

"I can't move my body," said Mine weakly as she fell over along with Akame and Leone. Tatsumi thought to himself, 'weird, this is like the sensation I felt on the boat with bro.'

"The poison seems to be working great on everyone but the one wearing Incursio." Said the scout with good sight. Stylish laughed and went on, "Of course, I designed this poison to be especially potent.

"I seem to be holding up better than anyone else, so" Tatsumi readied himself, "looks like it's all up to me!" That is until a blue haired man with a rod like weapon had jumped down from the danger beast Airmanta that the boss was riding on. "Susano, obliterate every enemy you see." She yelled down to him. "Understood," he responded.

With no delay, the Stylish army jumped at Susano, believing thier numbers gave them strength. This was not the case. Blades extended from Susano's rod and began to spin both clockwise for some and counter-clockwise for others. He began swinging through the crowd of enemies, mists of blood floated through the air. When the mist cleared all that was left was Susano, covered in their blood.

Relaying this information to their leader, the scouts of Dr. Stylish reported on Susano. Dr. Stylish had a trick up his sleeve, however. He revealed a detonator that would allow him to self-destruct his abominations of super soldiers, which he used not so hesitantly. Susano was standing right on top of the explosion, but when the smoke cleared he stood missing an arm.

With his arm missing, and oddly no blood falling from his wounds, Susano stood with no sense of the pain. Tatsumi and the others watched as his arm grew back nearly instantaneously. Mine was speechless, until she said "n-no way, he's an organic!" Tatsumi could only wonder what this was.

Meanwhile, the boss was attempting to locate the leader of this full-scale assault. "Hm, the man in charge would most like pick a spot where he could easily spy on the battle." She pulled out her binoculars and scanned the area of the cliffs, locating Dr. Stylish and his scouts. "Susano, their on the cliff-range to the south-east, do not allow them to escape."

"Understood," responded Susano.

"Doctor! We've been spotted!" Yelled his sound scout. "How disappointing," said Stylish unhappily, "then the only thing left to do is run!" The Doctor took off without a second thought. "Poison doesn't affect organic types! You must either destroy the core, or immobilize the wielder!" He was halted by a gust from airmanta, where Susano jumped up on the cliff and stood before the doctor, silently. "Alright! It's time to take matters into my own hands and play my second trump card, Danger Beast Shot!" Stylish revealed a syringe in which he used to inject himself with an odd liquid. He began to grow largely in size, and quite volatile as well. He ends up forcefully merging the scouts with his body by devouring them through a mouth that opens up in his stomach, and grows larger than a skyscraper.

Tatsumi watches from a distance, "this doesn't look good. I need to go help-" He begin to walk off but is halted by Akame, who grabs him by Incursio's cape. "Tatsumi, I can't walk, but I need you to take you with me." She stared at him seriously. "Akame?" He thought for a second, wondering how she could help in her condition, the had a recollection. With a smirk, he said, "alright." He picked up Akame on his back and told her to hold on tight. With this they rush off into battle with Susano.

The Doctor's skin had grown rock hard, so Susano couldn't do too much to him. "Ha! You can't kill what you can't hurt!" Said Stylish gleefully as he tried to smash Susano with his hand. He noticed Tatsumi and Akame. "And, you two, playing piggyback? Sorry, but that's just tactic!" He attempts to smash them, until a major blast is fires from Pumpkin, Mine's death blaster sniper canon.This causes him to fall over on his back from the sheer force. Tatsumi took his chance hand began running up the doctors body. "You know it's almost over right?!" Susano stops another attack from Stylish's giant hand with his rod as Tatsumi and Akame approach the one vulnerable spot on the Doctor: his head. Panicking now the Doctor released wire type attack where the wires tried to spear Akame. "I'm not done yet!"

"I bet you can reach his flesh from here! Go Akame!" Tatsumi jumped high in the air to dodge the wire attack and threw Akame straight towards the Doctor. "Hokiru!" Akame screamed, before she suddenly passed out in mid-air. Her sword flew through the air and stabbed Stylish in the face, while she faded through the air.

Akame awoke in front of Omni, as everyone does. She reached for Murasame instantly, only to find Murasame was missing. She is read the rules of the Omniverse and receives the orb like item that is called "Omnilium". Next thing she knew, she was in a bright area in front of a fountain. She stood silently observing her surroundings. "This isn't home, nor is it a joke." She began to walk off in a direction. "The best thing I can do right now is scout the area and see what I can find."