Love Bug

I formed up with the other two and kicked down the door. Anh, exhausted but hardening clutched her firearm tight. Subaru steeled himself with grim resolve, flashlight in hand and Haiku dolls huddle around him like children.
 

Anh opened her mouth. Probably to ask why this room. The smell of rancid bleach and stale urine replaced those words with a gag.

"My sensors show that they have an MH Navy here. At least 3 were stolen last month."

Anh shot back, “No one told me this! Those are our most secure item.”

“They hacked the system. Purchasing orders. Invoices. Shell companies.”

“They know our inner workings?”

“That's or someone helped. No one investigated further.”

"HAIIIIIII."

A warped mechanical moan emerged. A chorus of "Haiis" followed. I nudged Anh, who prepared herself to fire. I found the lightswitch. Or at least I did before a manic Subaru stopped me with a sharp hiss.

"You idiot! Do you know what they could have laced those lights with?!"

I cursed myself for my carelessness and resorted to my flash light. All three flashlights looked around the room looking for an android.

We found three.

"Haii," said Mitsuki Haiku in a bathing suit with her arms replaced with legs. The words "Mitsy Footsie" over her booth.

"Haii," sait said the second, waddling on hands and arms, her body crawling belly side up with a tanktop saying "Maxxi Freaku."

In the middle ontop a filthy canopy bed lit up like christmas. Atop lay an imobile Haiku with its limbs removed. "The Marital Experience" written over the canopy. I watched for movement, nine did. 

Anh double turned out of the room to vomit.

"Take the limbless one."

Subaru raced over to pacify the android before strapping it to his satchel. Their artificial skin falling off in parts and held together with duct tape. Like abandoned dolls they still smiled amidst the cracks.
 

"Succubus of The Demon Lord, your days of terrorizing the princess have ended."

A rhaspy voice echoing through autotoon and reverb boomed from out behind the door.

"Anh."

Several shots came from her gun. But the whirring outside did not stop.

Anh had dodged the tail of the serpentine dragon. She fired three shots at the ceiling, causing part of it to collapse. The Debris bisected the daisy chain of players and wires, cutting the tail off, which screamed babbles and numbers as the tail constricted tighter and tighter on itself.

Subaru placed the remaining dolls on the floor as they danced around him, and attached his laser pointer to his shotgun.

"Kente distract him. I get one shot at this."

The dragon spoke with the voice of the ten players that still made it.

"I will save princess you have held captive. I summon forth the Winds oif Great Mu."

Wire and mesh wings grew out of the standing serpant and began to beat furiously.

"HAI HAI HAIII HAII HAII."

The pacified Haiku strapped to Subaru began to cackle.
 

I tried to ignore the theatrics and focus at the problem at hand. We had about 3 seconds before that blast sent me and subaru about 30 feet behind us. Best case scenerio then is we die.

I look around and find a shelf of various branded merchandise, including several mugs and glass cups.

The dragon was about 3 NEETs tall with hits head curving out under the ceiling. The wire and LED mouth wrapped around the face of a local man, face obscured by the large headset.
 

I gave the dragon my best fastball. My shoulder popped from the sudden strain, but the target hit its mark. The Headset sputtered and sparked as the dragon's head writhed. Whatever momentum it was building was stopped.

"Subaru he's blind, Make your shot."

Anh picked out shots of its joints as the multi-man dragon covered itself in flames. She decided to call out to them.

"This isn't real! Snap out of it!"

"Whores, mages, and monsters. You do not see that my love for the princess is true."

"HaiiHaiHai Haiiiii," called out the Haiku on subaru's back.

With what remained of its tail, it took a swipe at Subaru, who fired at the creature. The middle of the dragon was eviscerated.

"Princess, forgive me, I failed you, don't leave me."

The head whimpered as the wires around him falied wildly. Anh ran to pull him out of the wires, her face a clothes cut by the whips of the wires. 

“Anh leave him, you cant help him!” Subaru called out sending his dolls to pacify the wires.
 

I pulled Subaru up and saw the backend of the dragon reform around the remaining member. Its tail arch behind the man like a scorpion's tail.

"Amla, let me be the poisoned dagger that destroys your enemies."

The voice wheezed as he raced towards me. I tried to get out of the way, but it was too late. The tail picked me up off the ground and slammed me into the ceiling. Every injury i ever suffered from my short lived baseball career took its time to reintroduce itself.

I wasn't grateful at the time, but it was fortunate the world uses so many drop ceilings and fiberglass to cushion the impact.

"Demon Lord, you will pay for what you have done. To the world, to my friends."

Below me I could hear gunshots as Anh and Subaru tried to fight the creature.

"Anh your gun, its overheating!"

I heard Subaru call out as a faint green light filled the room.

"Toss it, get out of the way!"

The green light got brighter, and I could feel the wires around me unravel like threads.

"Scorpion form, attack 356 Damage, approval of the princes +15 base damage, coalition of the harem +5 base damage, additional 10 DPS when within 10 meters of party members."

From the carpet, I could hear the voice of my attacker frantically rattling off meaningless statistics.
 

I was about to open my eyes when Anh's voice called to me.

"Kente, don't look. Crawl towards my voice."

I obeyed and crawled towards her voice and following through her other directions. I feel two hands pull me up, and instinctively fought back against them.

"Its ok, its us!"

I looked at Anh and Dr Subaru. The crowns had burst leaving a burn mark around their heads. Anh was covered again in cuts and clothing tore apart. She put her hands on her knees only just noticing the rips and tears.
 

"I owe you a new suit," I remarked to her. She looked like she was about to cry.

None dare look behind us but we could see our outlines in the flickering green light that got brighter. The voice behind us became more frantic as he rattled off numbers and terms known only to him. An electric hum whirred behind us as we saw the wires and lights stretch out in in all directions.

We made a hasty retreat towards the stairs.

Subaru pointed to me as we raced towards the stairs.

"Get your Haiku out and call that extraction now!"

Behind me, I heard Anh call.

"Let me do it, I brought mine."

Subaru's eyes went wide as he looked at Anh. I stopped the fight before it started.

"Get to the roof, you can kill her later."

I fought against my own body, which screamed at me, as I raced up the stairs.

At the top of the stairs was a poster to a popular American film which gave way to two wings. To my right was just more cafe rooms.

So I turned around.

Where I was greeted by a horned caucasian  woman in a festive aoye.

"Xin Chao, you piece of shit!"

The woman laughed.

"Hate to butt in on your escape plan. Well, not really."

She locked her horns on me and tossed me back down the stairs. I colided into Anh and Subaru as I tumbled down.

Both with chrome pistols gleaming in the faint light.

"Impressive Light show, Dr Subaru."

A man said in a thick accent.

"But I vouldn't try anything. Boot times being what they are, you will taste old fashioned german engineering before you can run a line."

"Dr Ludvig Krammer."

Subaru muttered, half contempt, half awe.
"What Dark Force brought you to The Saz?"

The woman stripped Subaru of his effects and tied him up. The limbless Haiku laughed. I tried to get up, only to get a hooved kick to the chest.

Ludvg cackled.

"Vy your friend hear did. My vife and I ver on vacation, do you recognize us Mista Kente?"

I looked at the hulking figure and his wife, and tried to figure out where I had seen them before.

"Its ok, I'm sure you don't, Mista Busy Saito Man."

His wife forced me up, while Ludvig reached for Missy. I tried to fight back, before his wife yanked my arm back.

"But I think I know who does."

Missy booted herself online.

"Welcome back, Watanabe-sama, were we able to get the ..Uh - Oh."

The avatar looked at the wicked grin of the two figures holding me captive. Ludvig punched my chest, not enough to break my ribs, but enough to show he could. 

"Now, how about we show you three around the local scene."

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