Chapter 8
Hoshi looked at her terminal and pushed herself off the wall she was leaning on lightly. The girl stretched and pulled her hair back after closing her transer.
"Thanks for offering me to come, Subaru-kun. I should be going now," Hoshi told the boy, a smile plastered on her face.
"Hm? Oh, alright. Bye, Hoshi! See you later! I'm leaving in a bit as well," Subaru said, waving at the girl.
The girl waved back at him and left the building to head over to Sonia's studio.
"I feel something strange about her.." the boy told Omega-Xis before he took a step before himself.
'Eh? Really? I didn't feel anything,' the alien shrugged.
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'Was that your boyfriend?' Vul asked curiously.
"No, I barely even know him, Vul," Hoshi replied calmly.
'Eh? So he's just a friend like that Misora girl?' Hoshi nodded at her transer as she continued down the hall of the lab.
"I met him on the same day I met you just at totally different times."
The fox hummed a little and forcefully closed the terminal.
'I see. We're near the exit right now, so don't talk to me. People are out there,' the fox said lazily.
"You just want to sleep don't you..."
The girl scratched her head tiredly and let out a sigh as she neared the streets in front of AMAKEN lab, suddenly hearing an explosion behind her, causing her to wobble a little.
".....?!"
The girl turned around swiftly to see a violet beam of light shoot out of the building where the main computer room was located. Subaru, Luna, Kizamaru, and Gonta fell from the violent shake the explosion created, wincing at the impact with the hard ground.
"Vul... What was that?" Hoshi asked, a frighten tone creeping up her voice.
".... An FMian.."
"FMian?" the girl asked her wizard.
"Yes, one of those FMians that's chasing Omega-Xis, Cygnus. He's the one that can't lay his trust on anyone," Vul told the girl.
"Distrusting... It sounds like a certain person I know..." the girl pondered.
"Hey! No time to think, but you need to act now! There he is!" the fox exclaimed as a blue beam shot out of the building and land on top of the rocket being built.
A man with a light blue complexion dressed in a mainly blue and white swan suit appeared from the beam, his arms crossed together as he stood at the tip of the rocket's nose gracefully.
'What the heck.... Who's that?' Luna asked from a distance.
Hoshi pulled back her bangs nervously and allowed it to drop to the side instead to get a clearer view, the center lock always slightly blocking her view of things.
"Did he perform an EM wave change with another person?" Hoshi asked, backing away a little.
"Utagai. Utagai Shinsuke," Vul said.
"Utagai... -san..?" Hoshi asked.
"His waves match perfectly with Cygnus' despite being very distrustful and I guess sort of greedy..." Vul pointed out.
"Greedy? I don't think so," Hoshi said, hiding behind a bush.
"AMACHI-SAN, YOU SHALL RECEIVE PUNISH MEANT FROM ME!" the man exclaimed out loud. "YOU SHALL PERISH! DISSAPPEAR WITH YOUR LAB AND EVERYONE ELSE!"
The fused human shot a ton of sharp stiff blue and yellow feathers at the laboratory from the air, creating more explosions and violent shakes on the surface of the Earth.
"This is going way too far.. What the heck is he even after?!" the girl exclaimed angrily.
"... The Andromeda Key.. Explain later, but your choice now. Fight or leave them be?" Vul offered.
Hoshi looked back at the building where evacuating workers were frantically running away from the face of danger.
".... I'll.. I'll fight, I guess."
Vul sighed and closed the transer herself as she waited for the saying to be called out.
'No such thing as guessing, alright?'
"EM wave change! Fukushima Hoshi, on air!"
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"AMACHI-SAN!" Subaru called to the injured man.
"Subaru!" the man called back, more projectile feathers being shot at the building.
"Utagai-san transformed?!" the boy asked quickly.
"It was right before my eyes, there's not a doubt about it.." he said as calm as possible.
Another violent shake shook the ground hard and caused everyone to go off balance for a little bit.
"I have to stop him!" the boy exclaimed, running off.
"S-SUBARU!" Amachi called frantically.
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"Hey there, Cygnus. How's work treating you?" Vul asked casually.
The man turned to look at the fox and glowered, returning to attack everything in sight.
"It's Cygnus Wing now. I'm busy, what do you need?" Cygnus asked bluntly.
"Hmmm... What do I need...."
The fox pondered for a while and knocked back some of the feathers being shot at the lab.
"Cygnus, stop this at once!" Megaman exclaimed, finally making an appearance.
'Took long enough..' Vul thought.
Everyone stopped and looked at the boy curiously.
"Ah! Megaman!" Luna exclaimed excitedly.
"Y-you're... Omega-Xis! Vulpecula... You set this up didn't you!?" Cygnus Wing exclaimed, swinging an arm behind him.
The girl lept away from the man before getting hit head on in the stomach and rested her hands behind her head uninterested.
"No, I didn't expect him to be here really," she lied.
"To think we'd meet here, at such a place, Cygnus!" Omega-Xis said.
'Heh, can this get any cheesier,' Vul chuckled.
"You will now refer me as Cygnus Wing! I am 'honored' to meet you, Omega. Now, hand over the key! The key to Andromeda!" the man commanded.
'How come I knew this was coming?' Vul asked.
Kyuubi sighed and waited for the two to finish exchanging greetings, wanting to just knock Cygnus off the rocket's nose.
"I'll have to turn the order down! I won't forgive you, the one who backstabbed me!" the alien on Megaman's arm exclaimed.
"Backstabbed, eh? I wonder what happened," Kyuubi said.
"Then I'll have to annihilate you, traitor, along with this laboratory that's filled with traitors!"
Kyuubi picked up her dual lance that hung in her tails and let out a long tired sigh.
'Finally...' Vul muttered.
"Cygnus feather!"
The man shot a barrage of feathers at the boy, Megaman dodging the shots swiftly and running off. The boy jumped into the air and aimed his own projectile at the man and shot it straight ahead, Cygnus flying off before it landed on him. Kyuubi leaped up to where the man flew off to and swung her blade at the man, only to block her multiple attacks with his sharp rock-hard wings. The man knocked the girl away as Megaman began leaping at buildings and objects to get up as high as the EM being. Kyuubi immediately stopped her heavy fall with her legs pushing back against an object Cygnus hit her towards, watching patiently as the other two collide in the air. The entire group watched carefully with shock written on their face, Kyuubi frowning intently at the scene. The two landed a blow on each other, Megaman landing back onto the ground and Cygnus stopping in midair. Megaman's left shoulder guard cracked at Cygnus' impact with his sharp feathers while Cygnus' right wing broke off a few feathers by Omega.
"Megaman is..." Luna began.
"They both are equally as powerful..." Gonta said.
"That Cygnus Wing guy is powerful!" Kizamaru said.
Hoshi gripped at her lance tightly and teleported behind Cygnus Wing, being noticed a second too late as she gave her dual lance a heavy strong swing, knocking the man towards the middle between Megaman and herself.
"So it looks like you are a dirty traitor as well, Vulpecula," he pointed out to Vul, earning a shrug from the girl.
"I prefer Lunar Kyuubi."
"Why are you holding back, Subaru!? You're going way too easy on him!" Omega-xis exclaimed.
"If I do any heavier damage than this, Utagai-san will-" The boy got cut off by his partner.
"It's the opposite, kid! The only way to rescue a fused human is to actually BEAT him!" the alien yelled.
"... Beat me? How impulsive..!" Cygus exclaimed disgustedly, shooting barrages of feathers at both Megaman and Lunar Kyuubi.
"This attack is getting boring you know," Vul stated, her human partner dodging the feathers quickly.
"Battle card, predation!" Megaman suddenly announced. "Gatling!"
The arm that had Omega-Xis' head connected to suddenly changed into a Gatling gun, catching Hoshi off guard a bit.
'Trouble! Trouble, trouble!' Vul shrieked quietly.
"Hide behind your tails!" Vul exclaimed.
The girl obeyed and pulled all nine tails to the front, four on each side and one above her head as she held on her lance for stray bullets. The boy was able to shoot at both of Cygnus' wings successfully; unaware of what's going to happen next.
"Megaman, you're so cool~!" Luna exclaimed, blushing at the sight.
"Keep at it! Keep shooting!" Gonta cheered.
The Satella Police Force finally came to the area of the fight and came to an abrupt stop, crashing into each other in the process.
"GOYODA, GOYODA, GOYODA! MEGAMAN AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS, SURRENDER PEACEFULLY, NOW!" the detective ordered, wearing a vaccum backpack on his back.
Backup came running behind him with shields in hand as Cygnus closed up his wings to project the bullets back. The being flew in front of the Satella Polices and allowed the projectiles to bounce back at the officers, causing them to dance and run off. The girl unraveled her tails and ran over to protect the police force from the bullets being shot at them, twirling her lance quickly to project it back and knocking some away with regular blocks and swings. The being finally forcefully opened up his wings and stopped the bullets from coming.
"It's my turn now!" he exclaimed, twirling quickly in place.
"Are you alright?" Hoshi asked awkwardly earning a small nod from the detective.
"Wataridori!" she heard the man exclaim as substitutes appeared.
Megaman shot a mega buster at the three birds, missing them completely.
"Th-they're too fast!" he stuttered.
"My minions will keep you BOTH company and for the time being, I'll... " he trailed off, flying off to the wave road.
Megaman watched the man fly off to space, unaware of the upcoming attack.
"Cygnus Wing just..."
"LOOK OUT!" Kyuubi exclaimed.
The boy looked back at the subs and took several hits from the summoned viruses, getting knocked back each time. The girl shot out fire towards the substitutes from her tail, also missing badly with the fast reaction they had. The detective came up to the viruses and began sucking them in to his vacuum, unable to get any in as Subaru shot his projectiles at them and getting rid of them for good. The man fell back and began to pant heavily from the fight the viruses put up with.
"Omega... Cygnus, no, Utaigai-san just abandoned the fight and flew to space!" the boy said worriedly.
Kyuubi walked over to the boy and stared at him calmly, looking over to where Cygnus Wings took off to.
"There's a way for you to get up there as well."
Inside the lab, the workers of AMAKEN were frantically working, searching on the system for errors that might've been encoded by Utagai himself.
"This is... that's strange..." a worker muttered, staring at the screen before him.
"What is it? What's wrong?" Amachi asked the man, concern filling in his voice.
The worker turned around to face Amachi and took a deep breath in.
"There's an old abandoned satellite falling back down to earth! It's heading this way!" he exclaimed.
Amachi frowned at the news. "WHAT?!"
A low chuckle came from Cygnus as he watched the satellite fall from the sky quickly. "Hehe, Utagai originally created a plan for revenge... Using it now wouldn't be such a bad idea, hahaha!" the alien laughed to himself.
The crowd around the laboratory on Earth looked up into the sky when a person pointed out the falling satellite.
"What..? A satellite... it's.. falling?!" Subaru asked in panic.
"Is it really falling down at us? That's impossible!" Detective Goyoda exclaimed, catching the two fused human's attention.
'It's probably HIS doing...' Hoshi muttered emphasizing the word 'his'.
"There are only seven minutes and thirty second before it lands! Evacuate the area immediately!" Amachi announced.
Everyone began to scream running off the campus from the lab as Kyuubi stood at her spot and watched the object fall. The detective failed to remain calm and ordered every one to get out as quickly as possible, staying at the same spot he's been at.
"Evacuate now! Quickly!"
'Cygnus is controlling that falling satellite, so we have to get up there as well,' Omega-xis told the boy, Hoshi overhearing it.
"Are you going?" Vul asked.
Hoshi thought for a bit and shook her head.
"No, I believe they can handle this one," Kyuubi told her partner.
"Go? But how?" Subaru asked.
"We're going to use the same method he used!"
Kyuubi walked up next to the boy and pointed at the route leading to space.
"That's the one he used I believe," she said, dropping her hand back down.
"I see...! Thanks," the boy said, leaping up to the wave road and traveling up to space.
"Megaman.. is going to space?" the detective asked, looking at his transer curiously.
"Sir, please evacuate in case anything goes wrong," Kyuubi asked, smiling at the man.
Detective Goyoda frowned a little and stubbornly remained at his spot as Kyuubi walked off behind him returning back to her original form once she passed by some equipment.
Megaman successfully made on board of the falling satellite and began to look around to the FMian.
"I WON'T LET YOU INTERFERE, MEGAMAN!" the fused human exclaimed as the boy spot Cygnus Wing standing on the opposite side of him, his arms crossed at his chest.
'This is only the beginning of the act.... I WILL destroy this filthy planet filled with traitors!' Utagai spat harshly.
In the laboratory below the falling object, Amachi remained inside to find a way to stop the satellite from coming any closer, failing to do so.
"It's no use.. I can't take control over that satellite!" he said to himself angrily. "There's only six more minutes left until impact.."
"U-Utagai-san... Why is it that you can't trust anyone?" Megaman asked.
'I've finally realized it.. Disloyalty is a natural instinct in mankind and that THEY SHOULD BE WIPED OFF THE SURFACE OF THE UNIVERSE CLEAN!' he exclaimed.
Omega-Xis couldn't take the man's reasons to heart and decided to scold Utagai.
"Oh, SHUT UP!" the alien yelled. "Disloyalty? Treachery? Those qualities are mankind's only instinct?? Then what about Subaru and his action towards you!? Don't tell me you forgot that this idiot shared with you half of his food even though he was famished."
"Omega?" Subaru called curiously.
Utagai reacted to the statement the alien gave him and began remembering what happened the day before. The man suddenly screamed as the wave change began to cancel out, Cygnus panicking at the results.
"W-what?! My... body...! My... freedom!!" he grunted.
"He's starting to lose control!" Subaru pointed out.
"Subaru! Shoot at him, NOW!" Omega-Xis told the boy as he took in a battle card.
Hoshi checked her terminal constantly and looked back up at the sky a little worried if the results would fail.
'ONLY TWO MINUTES AND THIRTY SECONDS LEFT!' Amachi warned, desperation filling in his voice.
"How long do you think this will take him?" the girl asked Vul.
'Well, if he's lucky then maybe an hour,' the alien said.
Her partner frowned at the statement and shook her head, replying to the fox.
"We'd be dead by then..."
Hoshi waited for a little longer nervously before looking up, noticing red streaks in the sky falling away from the lab and into the ocean.
'It looks like he successfully did it..' Hoshi muttered, smiling a little.
The workers cheered happily and sobbed in relief as they saw pieces of the broken satellite redirecting it's target.
"W-WE'RE SAVED!" they exclaimed.
"Is he a friend...? Or a foe...?" the detective said out loud to himself.
'Close call, I must say,' Vul said as Hoshi walked away from the group. 'I was expecting him to fail.'
Hoshi shook her head and closed her transer carefully.
"I trust that he can handle these situations himself if he even wanted too," Hoshi chuckled.
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