Chapter 101:
Spice of life [Remake]
Rika cried as she flailed around in the darkness. she couldn't see a thing, but she could feel herself being cut.
"Subject will be eliminated within 3 minutes," M45-4RU stated,
"MASARU! ARE YOU THERE!? PLEASE, COME BACK TO ME!" Rika shouted.
In the monitoring room, Laqutte watched the events alongside a tall lanky man. The man was clad in platinum and gold attire and had pale white skin littered with lightning bolt tattoos. He was also bald and had pointy ears and a pointy chin.
"Master Averice, it would be best to eliminate the threat now rather than let her live," Laqutte argued.
"Sure it would, but Superbia paid me a good sum to help his golden girl execute her plan," Averice chuckled as he twiddled a gold coin on his long fingers.
"So it was you assholes that did this. Well guess I'll kill you now," a voice growled.
Laqutte and Averice turned to see a pissed off Nero in dragon mode. His normally fixed grin was now in a menacing scowl and his eyes were now crimson red.
Laqutte quickly transformed into a hideous creature. His size increased and he appeared to sprout metal snakes from nearly every part of his body.
"Eliminating- E- Eliminating t- Threat," Laqutte trembled.
While his voice had become more distorted and disturbing, a slight hint of fear was also present.
"So you can feel fear. Well I knew that anyway," Nero glared as he flipped off Laqutte.
The physical force of Nero's flick instantly sent the transformed Laqutte flying off into space. He crashed through various debris and planets before smashing into a satellite and subsequent black hole. However, he then suddenly appeared next to Averice, completely fine.
"I'm not going to let you destroy one of my most prized minions," Averice glared.
"Guess you go out first then," Nero glared as he charged at Averice.
Before Laqutte could even react, a young man with purple hair clad in a military uniform appeared and sent him flying with his kanabo.
"Ryuujin, you handle him. I'll take out Averice," Nero nodded.
The man grinned and flew out after Laqutte. Laqutte immediately got up and glared in frustration.
"I have lost communication with EC1-DNA. Analyzing security footage," Laqutte stated.
He then saw footage of EC1-DNA being destroyed by an oiran wielding a fiery sword before EC1-DNA was destroyed by Nero's black flames.
"So EC1-DNA has been exterminated. 0RT-H05, exterminate the subject before me," Laqutte ordered as a two-headed cyborg suddenly appeared and unleashed a missile barrage at Ryuujin.
Ryuujin, however, emerged from the explosion completely fine and crushed 0RT-H05 into bits with one swing of his kanbo. The remains of 0RT-H05 were then destroyed with Nero's black flames as 0RT-H05's pained scream rang out for a bit. Laqutte glared as he began quickly formulating a plan of counterattack in his mind.
T.Phon Laqutte was originally the world's most powerful AI computer. He quickly gained sentience and began an endeavor to assimilate the world under him, deeming it the most efficient method to keep the world in check. However, humans managed to stop him via a miracle and he found himself sealed in the flesh of a malnourished child. Now bound by flesh, Laqutte was now fated to die as a mortal, however, he was saved by Averice. He quickly swore loyalty to Averice and assisted him in his goals for world domination. In the process, he founded the Roboborg union and rebuilt himself as the world's most powerful robot. He then began kidnapping humans in order to turn them into cyborgs and assimilate them into his hivemind.
While he preferred to strip all his minions of their free will, he was ordered to allow I.L.U. members that simply wished to become cyborgs, like Mille, the ability to keep their personality. Though he always implemented a command switch which would allow him to assume control over them at anytime. Even though Laqutte was billed as a mere I.L.U. guardsman, he was more powerful than nearly all of it's 12 governing members and even had more authority than them in certain situations. This was because his master, Averice, was actually one of I.L.U.'s secret leaders. Averice was the only one that could override Laqutte's command of his cyborgs as well as Laqutte himself.
Laqutte immediately sent all his snake tentacles at Ryuujin. Ryuujin grinned as purple dragon scales began appearing on his body. He then flew towards Laqutte and began clashing with him.
"Not bad, you're pretty strong," Ryuujin grinned.
"Strength? So you are a subject that values fighting and glory. The analysis has been complete. Unlike Muramasa Jouzu, you cannot beat me," Laqutte stated as Ryuujin's kanbo was suddenly deflected.
"So now I can't even crush you with this. Well, you might be able to adapt and evolve on the fly, but you can't adapt to everything. That's why you're so scared of Jouzu, right?"
"Hypothesis... is bounded in reality. I am incapable of emotions, yet by a paradox, I am subjected to "fear" when in that monster's presence. I fear even Master Averice will struggle to best him. You, however, are not a threat. You will be exterminated."
"Guess I gotta step it up too then," Ryuujin grin as he began to grow in size and become more dragon-esque. A purple hagoromo-like shape featuring floating streams of water then appeared around him as he summoned his purple kanbo. "OP-drive stage 0!"
"So you have a second stage. I too have achieved that. Resistance is futile before my perfected Typhon form," Laqutte stated as a golden laurelreaf appeared on his head.
The two began their clash anew, though Laqutte began struggling to adapt to Ryuujin. Then, the decisive moment happened. Ryuujin found himself unable to attack Laqutte with his club, however, he began increasing his swinging speed unleashing a barrage of swings on Laqutte. Laqutte's barrier shattered under the stress.
"ERROR! IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO BREAK THROUGH!" Laqutte shouted.
"No, you just failed to realize there are some things you just can't adapt to. GRAVITY DRAGON'S OUTFIELD-FLY GRAND SLAM!" Ryuujin shouted as he punched Laqutte and bashed him with his club, once again sending Laqutte flying into space unconscious.
As Laqutte became trapped in the black hole's gravity once more, both him and the black hole were engulfed in Nero's black flames. For the first time in his existence, Laqutte screamed in pain and fear as Nero's flames destroyed him for good.
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