Even in death... (Concluded)

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Souka watched as the fireball made from ki attempted to crush C.haos. To his surprise, he found C.haos was anchoring himself into the ground with his tail and his muscles had expanded. Steam erupted from the holes in his body as a massive amount of black ki surged around his body. Souka could only frown as his attack was suddenly pushed back through C.haos's efforts towards him. His systems warned him of the impending attack coming back in his direction and he pulled out his sword. It glowed with a an orange red hue before turning completely red as he used his special technique "Plasma Slash" to chop his first attack in two.

The two sets of flames flew past him and erupted behind him, causing many of the nearby demons to jump to attention. Clearly, two people were fighting and not in the best of areas. Souka did not mind as many demons began to look at him and C.haos and he thought, "If I cannot fight him with that one technique then-"

Before he could finish said thought though a number of the demons around them began to hurl fruit from the trees around him at him, "Go fight somewhere else! Haven't you heard of a hotel lobby you nitwits! You can't fight here!"

It really hurt Souka's concentration to know that demons would go so far to stop him from enjoying a fight. C.haos was definitely not going to like this, but if Souka had anyone to blame for this fight, logically, it would be C.haos. He was the one who had insisted on it and seemed to be the kind of guy who would fight anywhere, however, their new audience was not liking this one bit.

"SHUT UP!" Souka cried at the top of his lungs as a pear splattered on the back of his artificial hair. He wiped the back of his head with his hand and could only feel great rage in his heart as he felt a new desire to actually go with C.haos's original plan and attack demons.

Perhaps that was the demons' plan. Anger their new guests until they could beat them into the ground. Souka did not like it one bit though as he clenched his fists and re-sheathed his sword. "C.haos, we should leave this place, I don't like it; it's too pleasant for our match." He said as he focused on his brother.

He then looked around and wondered where Katashi could be. If they were to leave they would need to drag the dumb teenage kid with him. He was not much help, but he at least was possibly good at gathering information here. Souka hoped for this anyway.

[C.haos]

C.haos hadn't aimed the attack back at Souka, but it headed in his direction. Quick thinking allowed the boy to quickly slash it, sending to semi-spheres rocketing past him. It was then the fruit throwing began. As a huge amount of pears, apples, and even pineapples was thrown towards them, some striking either android, it was easy to see Souka getting angry.

He roared at them to shut up, but their yelling and throwing did not stop. Souka looked to C.haos, explaining they should move. With a nod, C.haos rose into the sky, and flew opposite of the fruit throwers, after catching a few of the fruit flung at him. As he eat a few apples, his eyes scanned the ground below for Katashi. Once he was spotted, C.haos was throw a few pieces of fruit at him, just because.

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Katashi was busy talking with a demon at the point C.haos threw a piece of fruit at his back. When this fruit, some of the apples he had been eating, hit him he turned around and cried out, "Man! That hurt! I know that was either you or Souka C.haos!" amidst the obvious chaos of the fruit throwing around him.

"I just learned so damn good information and someone here had the knack to try and kill me with..." The apple pieces slid down the back of his shirt and he realized he had been hit by... Red delicious apples? What a devilish fruit to throw at someone at a time like this.

Meanwhile, Souka had taken the pear off his back while C.haos was floating up into the air and had thrown it at one of the demons nearest to him. He gave the demon a scowl and stuck his tongue out at him before floating over to Katashi and saying, "I know I just heard something about information. What was it?"

Katashi shrugged and said, "You two are idiots, why would I tell you that hear when we've got demons egging us on to fight us probably? I've kind of been hearing your battles directly behind me and you two aren't using any sorts of conventional weapons I take it. As such," he said with authority, "you've probably pissed off the people here."

Souka grabbed Katashi by the throat and threatened him with the words, "I'm about to fire you. I'd kill you, but I can't kill you again here. No, you'd come back more annoying than ever you piece of dog meat."

"Oy," Katashi spoke in a raspy voice as his legs and arms dangled in front of him. "The guy who knows you best ain't gonna' be happy he's got some dumb piece of scrap metal spouting emotions. Neither is the guy in front of..."

Souka looked up and saw that there was indeed a demon looking down at him with bulging muscles and two big horns. "Put the shrimp down, he wants to tell you what I told him, which was um..." the demon stated as he scratched his head, "Oh, yeah, there was a crazy guy admitted here a couple days ago. He kept asking around if anyone here had seen his labratory, robots, stuff like that. The guy couldn't believe he was dead and then after that kept asking, "If I'm dead where's my robots... He kept asking around for one called Aosuke Aokinni, or something like that. Mad man I tell you and so we were happy to take him in and show him a good time."

Souka tossed Katashi up to C.haos and cried, "Hold on to the little worm and start scouring the fields of Hell C.haos! We're gonna' find my god damn creator if this demon here has two brain cells in his head left to spare!"

He looked back at the demon and the monster gave him a rather stupid grin. Trying to blast this guy off the face of the earth wasn't what he wanted to do right now, but it was a shame he had to learn vital information about himself from such a nincompoop. He would probably regret those thoughts later, but if the demon was telling the truth the weird name he had given him translated into his own name which meant his creator Dr. Genjou was dead somewhere around here. What his current state though was a mystery. It sounded like he had been shown around he place but Souka did not know to where they had taken him. The doctor deserved this kind of place though after trying to make him and another couple hundred robots like him to patrol the Earth like he was some dictator.

Souka had only a few memories of what he had done years and years ago. Yet he was sure he had been ordered to shoot up a lot of people without discretion. It wasn't pretty for someone who clearly deserved Hell like he did.

[C.haos]

C.haos fruit struck his target and as Katashi cried out, C.haos landed near him. He said something about information, attempting to guilt C.haos, but it failed. Souka landed beside him, repeating the bit about information. Katashi got an attitude, which caused C.haos to sneer, "Who are you calling idiots? You are the one that confused an apple for a deathwish."

Souka seemed more angry as he grabbed Katashi by the throat, threatening him. What an attitude the mechanical boy had lately.

As the demon spoke, Katashi was thrusted to C.haos, whom side stepped, letting him fall to the ground, as if avoiding a person with a disease. Katashi was an idiot. C.haos might not wanted to catch his stupidity.

Souka looked to C.haos. Apparently the man the demon spoke about might have been Souka's creator. If Souka found the creator, chances were he would be told the truth about C.haos; who was not actually Souka's brother at all. The idea caused a lack of response to C.haos, who stood there in deep though.

"If he finds out I am not his brother will he still travel with me? Without him chances are I will never become perfect... But I am in no state to try absorbing him now. He doesn't even have a body... This Doctor could pose some big problems..."[/color]

With a hefty gulp, he nodded. C.haos would have no choice but to help the android. Perhaps he actions would help negate the reaction he expected to get from Souka. And if all else failed, he would have Katashi to use as a meat shield.

He quickly pried Katashi off the ground by the colar of his shirt and rose into the air, "Lead the way, Brother."

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Souka sighed as he turned away from the demon for a moment only to watch Katashi hit the dirt. While he was deep in conversation with the dumb demon all he could note was that C.haos was quite silent during this talk. That was good since the slow demon was rather hard pressed in getting out the information to him on important matters concerning him.

The android boy looked at C.haos as he pried Katashi off the ground and lifted him into the air saying, "Yeah, I suppose it's time to go. Problem is... I don't think we can track Dr. Genjou through conventional means. He'll be quite happy to know he's got two loyal robots to his name though."

Souka then floated up into the air and hovered next to C.haos he looked around for quite a while with his eyes, only spotting demon after demon in the park like area they were in until a strange humanoid figure with a shining silver surface caught his attention at the far end of the park. Souka pointed at it and asked, "Does that look odd to you? My sensors indicate that is definitely not a demon but possibly a human or android. It is very hard to tell."

[C.haos]

No matter what way C.haos tried to reason with himself, the feeling in the pit of his stomach would not ease. He found himself in deep thought as he flew, often not even looking for anyone. He had to ready himself. He needed Souka; not only was the boy a vital part of C.haos' perfection, but over the years of traveling together C.haos had actually come to think of him as a brother.

No matter how much trouble C.haos was in, Souka was beside him. The two took on multiple planets, conquiring them together. They'd been through so much. It had actually come to the point C.haos didn't want to absorb him. He was far more vaulable than a way of ascending...

It was Souka's voice that brought C.haos back out of his train of thought. As the boy android pointed at something, he spoke, "Does that look odd to you? My sensors indicate that is definitely not a demon but possibly a human or android. It is very hard to tell."

C.haos carefully eyed the object as he came to a stop, "I can't make it out from here, but we can find out." With a light toss, C.haos threw Katashi towards the object. When he landed, he would not die, but chances were he wiuld be quite sore. With a smile, he let out a light chuckle. Abusing Katashi always put the bio-android in a much better mood.

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C.haos had been floating behind Souka at a lax pace. When he was about to continue to ask why Ch.aos was doing this he heard the brown robot say, "I can't make it out from here, but we can find out."

A moment later he tossed Katashi like rock a rock and watched the teenager scream in terror as he fell through the air. Less than three seconds later he hit the ground with a painful crunch. Ch.aos had definitely thrown him in a light manner but even so there was still a good amount of gravity in H.F.I.L causing anything that was thrown to be like it was thrown on Earth. That said, Katashi's fate was to only feel pain as he stood up.

Souka could hear Ch.aos chuckle a little and started laughing himself before saying, "Serves you right you human scum."

Far below them Katashi was trying to wipe the blood off his nose with his sleeve, but before he could the silver being that he had landed near turned around and growled at Katashi. "Did those highly advanced robots hurt you?"

Katashi's blue eyes swiveled around and he found himself face to face with a silver humanoid robot. He gasped for air as he thought, "Crap, three robots in a day..."

"Did those highly "advanced" robots hurt you?" the silver robot repeated.

Katashi got a good look at the robot and noted something was odd about it. It had a metal body frame like other normal robots, but a strange glass bubble on the top its head containing a human brain. The robot looked up at the sky towards Souka and C.haos and raised its arm. In an instant a a slot in its arm opened up and a rocket rose launching device appeared on top of its arm with a prepped rocket.

"I may be dead due to some big shot hero named Toshio Katsuo blasting me and my lab, but I can recognize robot as basic as you two are due to your limited thinking capacities." the silver android threatened. "I will not hesitate to use this nitrogen rocket on you if you two don't come down here and speak properly with the robot world's greatest authority Dr. Aoi Genjo."

Souka could only wonder what a nitrogen rocket could do, but his robotic brain quickly began to cycle through to a programmed answer.

Nitrogen: A highly volatile and dangerous chemical. It can reach temperatures of -300 degrees Celsius. Warning: If used in combat or experimental conditions take extra precautions to wear the proper protective gear or keep away from it.

He had no idea what said rocket would do, but he looked at C.haos and said, "Blast that missle would you C.haos? I am as lazy as hell right now and do not feel like being "killed" by a nitrogen missile if you know what I mean." Both he and C.haos and come to an understanding that missiles and such fired at them would not kill them where they were, so why this robot was trying to test them was highly questionable if they knew the same thing as C.haos and Souka did.

[C.haos]

C.haos could not hear the exchange between Katashi and the robot, but as it pointed a rocket towards them, C.haos could only laugh. As the robot then proceeded to call the two "stupid", this only furthered his laughing. "You are calling us stupid?" He shouted down, shaking his head, "Have you looked in the mirror lately, you oversized calculator! Take your best shot!"

As the rocket would barrel toward the two, he would shout for Katashi to get down, the. With a simple ki blast, detonate the rocket in mid air. It would be a simple task, and only take firing a blast from C.haos' index finger. He had tangoed with missiles before, and knew they were no threats. C.haos could destory whole planets, this rocket would have trouble leveling a tree.

At the missile bursted in a colorful display before them, C.haos decended to the ground. Landing with the small squeak if his feet against the floor of Hell, he laughed, "My power level is over one hundred times your own. Even little Katashi here could overwhelm you. I would think before you speak. Any more disrespect, and Katashi over there will taste your brains. Is that clear?"

C.haos was becoming quite cocky. He had envisioned something much different than a steel power ranger. Souka was built with such dedication and perfection, which only served to make this man look an overly expensive tea kettle. If he started any problems, C.haos could simply destroy him before he could even blink. So worked up for nothing...

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"Hey," Dr. Genjo began to protest. He stopped though when he felt Souka's cold, orange eyes fall upon him as he landed next to C.haos.

Katashi looked at the behooved scientist and with a frown on his face said, "I don't think I could really kill you, but if C.haos ever wanted me to I'd probably-"

"Shut it," the doctor stated as he pushed the boy aside, "I have to see what kind of troubles my creation has gotten into." He stepped towards C.haos and pointed a slim index finger at him, demanding, "X-89, open the control panel on the side of your head and let me see what the last 625 years have done to you."

Souka looked at his creator and thought for a moment, he clearly remembered him as someone who sent him on mission to mission without end destroying people who believed aliens were good and killing aliens who managed to live on Earth. After having done this for a while in his past, he had come to find humans weren't all so bad, but neither were aliens. In fact, most aliens had done more to help him out than humans had, unfortunately, there were a few that needed teaching as well. So he had justified himself by following C.haos and destroying non-human worlds because creatures on the fringe of human and non-human society had a chaotic tendency and this chaotic tendency needed to be kept in check. Thus, Souka or X-89 had been made to destroy this. Not all of the non-humans as his programming tried to say in a conflicting decision of his own will versus given information.

He could only scowl at the robotic man and say, "Dr. Genjo, you will most certainly try to place me back under my factory setting."

"But of course," the doctor retorted, "You're supposed to destroy the kinds of monsters like the terrible brown creature next to you."

The doctor scratched his head for a momen with a metal hand and added, "However, if that is some kind of robotic specimen you have brought me it is quite marvelous. But I can't have you or it having a free will of your own." It was funny that he had only because he should not have been able to feel anything anymore. He had told that to a warrior who had killed him not too long ago. And he did not feel anything, except that he had a bad personal habit.

Souka took a step towards his and voiced, "I do not want to kill C.haos or other people like him. He is my brother and not a fringe element of the chaotic universe we live in."

Dr. Genjo put his hand on X-89's shoulder and told him, "Well, I hate to tell you this, but I'm interested in his parts because he's not something I've made. he needs to be disassembled and destroyed cause he's already been a threat to you, my work it seems."

Souka did not know how to process the words that exited from Dr. Genjo's mouth next. Long ago, C.haos had told him he was his brother. He had believed this without a doubt because C.haos had revived him from a dangerous unprecedented attack that had changed his life five years ago. To hear that C.haos may be lying to him about being his brother from his own creator's mouth seemed wrong. C.haos had been around more frequently than his own master had been but now his master was here trying to tell him what was wrong? This would probably not sit well for Souka or C.haos maybe. It certainly did not for Souka as he took the doctor's hand and pried it from his shoulder.

[C.haos]

The exchange between Souka and the doctor was an intense one. As the doctor spoke, he referred to C.haos as an object. This did not sit well with the green bio-android. He snarled, but stayed quite, allowing Souka to speak with freedom. However, about half way through the conversation, it seemed to go south.

"Dr. Genjo, you will most certainly try to place me back under my factory setting," Souka protested.

"But of course. You're supposed to destroy the kinds of monsters like the terrible brown creature next to you," the doctor told him, looking at C.haos as if here were an alien. While this was mostly true, it angered him, causing his energy to raise a little, fists balling, ki sparking lightly around him.

"However, if that is some kind of robotic specimen you have brought me it is quite marvelous. But I can't have you or it having a free will of your own," the doctor added. Perhaps he was smarter than he seemed, even though scratching his own metalic head was a contradiction of that.

Souka told the doctor he would not kill C.haos. That he was no threat and his brother. Pride swelled up inside C.haos as his anger died down a little. It seemed Souka truly though of C.haos as his own family, as C.haos though of him. This was good. But again, things went downhill once more as the doctor opened his mouth and spoke.

"Well, I hate to tell you this, but I'm interested in his parts because he's not something I've made. he needs to be disassembled and destroyed cause he's already been a threat to you, my work it seems," the doctor told him, placing a hand on Souka's shoulder. Though the boy seemed conflicted, he pried the hand off.

C.haos had had enough. His ki exploded outward with a violent black and purple fire. His hand shot out, grabbing the metal man's throat and lifting him off the ground, one handed. As his fingers tightly curled around it's metallic throat, there were hearable cracking noises, "I am not some object for you to play with. I will not be treated with disrespect," though C.haos' voice stayed level, it wasn't hard to see he was pissed.

Without releasing the man his left hand opened, palm facing him. He was ready to blast him into oblivion. Even though he would not die, his body might be destroyed, leaving him to simple be a brain with no vessel. He looked to Souka, and waited to see what he would say first.

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Dr. Genjo dangled with his limbs static as his throat was slowly being cracked by C.haos's hand. He smiled at C.haos and said in a gasping mechanical voice, "You're a pretty good robot to be able to crush this specially designed robot body I have. Yet you have no idea what Souka's capable of. I was actually going to go out and find him one of these days to upgrade my favorite weapon. Sadly, some martial artist fool got in the way while I testing said upgrades on another creation. Blew up my lab that time, and actually killed me."

Souka listened to the doctor's words and thought back on the day he thought he had actually killed him. He remembered having thrown his sword into the doctor's stomach and then having watched the entire lab he was built in explode at the press of a button. It had not been a good memory for him, but then, he supposed that was why when he was alive on Earth he had tried to do some searching for another lab the doctor might have owned.

"Had Toshio been successful?" he wondered as he stepped towards C.haos to try and make a decision.

"I met a guy... A Mr. Katsuo, the newest member and master of a terrible fighting school called "Victory", and he killed me and released my robot." Dr. Genjo stated, "That robot, she calls herself "Niu Ya" you must kill her because Y15 can be more dangerous than X89."

Souka remembered he had been looking for a girl robot of Genjo's by that name. He grabbed C.haos's shoulder and told him firmly, "Please, put this geezer down. He and I have plans to discuss. She's a robot I wish to recruit if not kill using our little ragtag group."

[C.haos]

He listened, once again to the exchange between the two. The doctor's words only increased C.haos' rage, but as Souka told him to release him, he did. Droppin the doctor, he half-looked to Souka, keeping a close eye on the doctor, "Instead of killing this female android, I would like to absorb her," his tone was hushed, as if not completely sure he should continue.

Souka knew he had intent to join with him in the beginning, and he was never shy about revealing his abilities. But allowing this doctor to gain the knowledge of this scared him.

"I ask that you do not share this with the likes of such a pathedic man, Souka." Saying this would most likely confirm what the doctor had said for Souka, but that is what needed to be done, "I will also ask that you wait to discuss any questions you may have about me at a later time. In private." His tone was serious, and Souka would know there would be no room cor arguing.

After 6 years, C.haos would have to tell Souka the truth. This was inevitable, but C.haos had not seen it happening so soon. If Souka would continue to stand beside him, he would strike a deal. He would not absorb him. As he told himself this, a weight was lifted from his shoulders and most of the feeling in his stomach faded. Perhaps this was what a conscience did. Perhaps C.haos was changing in ways he could never have foresaw. Perhaps there was something more than a power-hungry feind within his green alienoid shell. Perhaps...

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Dr. Genjo and Katashi both backed away from the powerful androids as Souka turned an ear towards his green comrade. "I just intend to possibly turn her into scrap metal cause she's a failed creation of the doctor. You heard how he may have other laboratories if he easily rebuilt one and used it to make what we see him as now. So please go ahead and absorb her unless she wants to join us."

Souka spoke in a more hushed voice and said, "Anyway, if he created me and this other Y15 robot, and if my memory banks are really correct then there are a ton of robots we can train on if we make it back to Earth. There are 2600 classified robots in the doctor's notes that I have programmed into my memories, but Y15 and I are the only two who I remember being active. We can go one by one to each spot that we can find one at and destroy it if you choose, and I promise not to speak to him about your powers."

Souka raised his hand as if he were about to take an oath and then lowered it crossing his heart as he did. "If you see any reason to blast me to kingdom come for revealing this and the stuff you will talk to me about."

[C.haos]

C.haos was more than glad to hear his Brother speak. Relieved, really. For so long he'd worried about the young android leaving, or trying to destroy him. Instead, he crossed his hand over his heart and said: Dr. Genjo put his hand on X-89's shoulder and told him, "Well, I hate to tell you this, but I'm interested in his parts because he's not something I've made. he needs to be disassembled and destroyed cause he's already been a threat to you, my work it seems."

"Thank you, Brother," he replied, stepping away from the cyborg in front of him. "Now, then... You said something about upgrading Souka. I would like you to do that."

He looked over to his shoulder at Katashi and grinned, "And Katashi here will hell to make sure you pull no funny business. As you can probably tell, I have made my own modifications to my Brother, and we would like to keep those intact. That is not a request."

(Sorry about the small post...)

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Dr. Genjou was surprised that someone had made modifications to Souka, or rather X89, he was even more surprised that said being, an unknown robot, was telling him not to make any changes to these modifications, even though this was his creation. It baffled him for a moment, but Dr. Genjou extended his hand to C.haos and said, "I promise to make sure not to change anything you have changed."

Secretly, Dr. Gejou wanted to trash the tin can before him. He was destroying nearly seventy years of hard work. Now counting as... He wondered how many years it had been since he hadd last seen Souka. He counted this in his head and thought, "Over 700 by now... It's got to be that long." He only hoped that this C.haos android had not messed too much with Souka's main chip, which was stored in the top of his head right above his left ear. It was important he had not because this had all the programmed advancements in it that the doctor felt he could give his little robot. It only required hitting the right switch at the right time.