Back Breaking Labor [Escaping H.I.F.L.]

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After a failed attempt trying to escape the the lands where H.F.I.L. were located Souka's system began to reboot as he found himself and Katashi being dragged along the grassy lawn where they had apparently been knocked out. The reason Souka knew this was that his eye sensors, which had opened locked onto a giant purple, muscular arm of a demon pulling him along like a rag doll. It did not make him panic. Souka did not know this emotion and he was not about to let himself do this nor the unconscious Katashi Masanori, who he could see across the way.

He noticed as he looked own at his legs that his feet were not bound by any sort of binding material or restraint. The only thing he could see that was holding him as he were was the arm of the demon, however, it clenched down on the sleeve of his white shirt and the metallic arm underneath like a crab and did not let go for a second. If Souka was going to be in this situation he thought he might enjoy it, so he decided to talk to his captor as he blew some of his black strands of hair out of his face.

"What is going on here?" He asked the owner of the purple demon arm who in fact was a tall purple demons covered in muscles.

The demon looked back at him and had a small squint eyes, a pair of square rimmed glasses, and a toothy grin. "I's going to take you pushin' de rock. De rock in me garden."

The demon wanted him to push a rock for having wanted to escape? Souka could live with that as he thought his punishment would not be harsh. What he did not realize was just how big this rock would be and the properties it contained.

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Souka felt himself get dragged for what seemed like hours. It did not hurt him too much since he was a robot and did not have pain receptors. Yet it was annoying. Souka noticed Katashi open his eyes as the giant demon holding them stopped walking and let them go in a small forest covered in peach trees.

"Dis my garden. Travelin' three miles an ya can see de rock I's speak of. It's a nice place. But de rock is an annoyance. It's blockin' off some weird lighting an' I can't sleep at dis time of hour." the demon told them.

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Souka stood up and Katashi did too. He rubbed his head and looked at his android friend and asked, "What's going on here?"

Souka smiled at him for once in like forever and stated as he looked at his allied red head. "It seems that the big purple muscular demon in front of us wants to move a rock in his garden." Souka pointed up to said demon who square rimmed glasses and short black horns on his head that were a foot long. Sure, they could skewer a person if he rammed them in the gut with his head, but most demons had these as a fashion statement.

Katashi gave the demon a small wave and a weak smile before muttering to the giant who looked a good nine feet tall or more, "Yeah, I suppose we could do that..."

Souka walked over and grabbed Katashi's neck before dragging him back to where he had been standing before five feet away and whispered, "There's an odd light behind the rock that he says bothers him. I don't know what it is but it may be something helpful to us."

Katashi leaned in to his "friend" and asked, "Why are you being so kind and telling me things like this when you would rather have me thrashed about like a rag?"

Souka answered before looking at the demon again who had properly turned to face them now, "I'm bored of this place... Really bored... Death has not really sent out some tough enemies for me."

Katashi punched Souka in the gut yet his boss did not feel it. "ARE YOU STUPID!" Katashi whispered very loudly, almost to the point he was about to start yelling.

"No... You are. I have a polymer frame body you probably just broke your fist against my stomach." Souka chided him as he grabbed his wrist and crushed the bones of Katashi's fist in his hand. He then proceeded to set straight every single finger in the young man's hand straight with robotic precision. He was not an expert doctor, but his memory banks had a good number of books on anatomy stored in them. His spirit remembered this so he used these skills to repair Katashi's hand while using H.I.F.L's strange abilities to self-repair dead people.

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Eventually, Souka got to getting the demon to know that he would indeed take out the rock for him with Katashi's help. The one thing he would promise not to do though in doing this though was to blow up any part of the peach garden while he did this. They shook on the deal and the tall humanoid demon followed them to the spot, all enjoying a pleasant uneventful walk through said garden. They arrived an hour later at the spot they were going to need to be at and the demon introduced them to the rock he wanted moved.

"The rock's really weird... You can't easily shove it with any amount of physical force I know of and there's some other odd things too." the demon told them he pointed what was not a rock, but an entire cliff face that was so tall it actually reached beyond the normal cloud limits up into the sky.

"What the heck are we looking at here..." Katashi moaned as tears came to his eyes. If there was something behind the rock it was impossible to tell nothing poked out from behind it's granite face. It was so big and ominous Katashi stepped back and hid behind a tree telling Souka, "You go first... I broke my arm against your body earlier so I'll be very little help against this thing."

Souka growled and yet again thought of Katashi as a weird chicken with his head cut off. The boy had not helped him much in the fight before he had died yet now that he was stronger he was still unwilling to help? Souka realized he had found himself the most useless peon ever. So then why had he picked him? Souka had no clue he had picked him up from Mt. Paozu, paid for his services at a tour guide station, and had never returned the wanna' be martial artist to his rightful home where his uncle was. Or at least he thought the guy was his uncle. He could not remember since it had been five years since that day. The guy probably did not care though since he had not looked for the boy at all, otherwise, his name would have been all over the news at this point.

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Souka approached the rock and whistled at it before saying, "This is going to take a while, but I'll have a small amount of it moved in a while." Souka then proceeded to begin punching the rock with his super slow mirage punch. In a single punch he would release one hundred punches at once and make many cracks in the rock's surface. For the next ten to twelve hours he would continue trying to do this until he created a hole through which he and Katashi and the demon could walk through. By this point the demon had fallen asleep and so had Katashi nearly, but the tired Souka dragged Katashi over to the large hole he had made, which was about ten feet high and three feet across and said, "I think we've found our way out..."

He pointed down the tunnel and at the end one could see about 700 feet away a strange set of stairs leading up and out of H.I.F.L. "I think if we don't hurry the hole will close behind us. I found while punching the rock it would end up regenerating as I worked. At most we have thirty minutes." Katashi nodded and the two would catch a quick five minute breather before rushing through the tunneled hole.

(Power Level Please.)

[Rensou Hiruen]

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