Chapter 4
“So this is Mike huh
“There is something more to this so just wait for him to
wake up for him to explain everything.
He should be okay after that healing gamma I did about three hours ago”
told
About thirty minutes later Mike started to stir a little
and finally opened his eyes. “Okay I
feel like I just got hit by a sixteen ton weight right in my head. Hey
“No. We’re at your
house though since you were the one who collapsed flat on his face. Don’t worry no one’s home so I do not think
your mom will worry any” explained
“I suppose this is Paula then, huh
“Yeah.”
“Nice to meet you Mike, but can you explain what is going
on here and why you put a ten inch gash in my boyfriends arm!” screamed Paula
in utter confusion.
“Has
“No he told me you would explain everything.”
“Oh great, why did
“Then why did you wait this long to come and tell us
about this. We could have defeated them
before they started to grow stronger. So
then why wait so long Mike, why?” screamed Paula at the top of her lungs.
“Hey, I guess I forgot to mention the last part. I was in a coma for three weeks after using
that infinity end technique. So even if
I wanted to teleport over here immediately after learning of the curse I
wouldn’t have been able to for at least that long. After that, I spent 10 days at the hospital
because when I woke up I almost went completely insane because of the stress
put on my mind. I’ve only been able to
keep calm over the last few days here.
And about moving to the old house over there, let’s just say I have
friends in very high places that pulled some strings to get me over there after
I was discharged only four days ago.”
“Then why did you want me to fight you, especially after
you came out of such critical state.”
“
“Almost four hours” stated both
“I’m surprised it wasn’t longer, but then again maybe I
shouldn’t be since I only used five percent of my power in that technique.”
“Five percent! Is
that even possible that was only five percent of that thing’s power!” screamed
a shocked
“Mike besides that time speeder, REM attack, and dragon
technique what other techniques do you have” said Paula.
“Quite a few actually, one is my galatical which throws
my energy at anything I target. Delta is
my holy energy based technique. My
teleportation technique is called light warp, it’s a variation to the shadow
technique ‘shadow movement’ which allows anyone move near the speed of light
when in a serene state of mind. Since I
can’t achieve that state of mind it developed differently. My other is that I’m infused with the spirit
of the ancient Mana Beast called ‘The Phoenix’ where I take the form of that
body making me extremely powerful. I
know a few fates also but you’ll need to fine out what those are yourselves”
explained Mike.
“No recovery abilities huh” said
“I don’t need them anyway with my ability to absorb
energy so easily. None of my friends
have them either so it was a pain at first since our minds couldn’t help us
recover.”
“You mentioned you could transform into a Mana Beast,
Mike, do you know anyone else who can do that.”
“No, my friend Casie can summon them with her forbidden
fate ‘Unity’ which allows her to synchronize her energy with the earth allowing
her to control those behemoths but only for maybe a minute tops.”
“Darn, looks like you guys have some serious power
though” said Paula.
“Yeah but using all of those techniques can really drain
a person, so we try to use restraint in using those.”
“You guys seemed to have picked up your fates pretty
early on so what in the heck they are since we didn’t even realize we could do
them until after we defeated Giygas” explained
“They’re nothing more than the influence of the
significant forms of life, spirits, objects, and other random things have on
our abilities allowing us to tap into greater forces like your Saint.”
“Then why did we learn them so late?” questioned a
confused Paula.
“There are two ways to obtain Fates, one is to train
until you can realize it. The other is
to be put in a life threatening situation so dire that your body has no choice
but to use it. That’s why we learned
ours so quickly, without the ability to recover our body we were forced into
using them because we had no choice. You
guys probably just realized them after so much training and fighting that your
bodies became compatible with them. That
can actually raise the potency of a Fate making much stronger.”
“What about that sword of yours? You said it was one of the scared weapons
that was created ten millennia ago. What
was that all about?”
“This one I picked up from Godan. About ten thousand years ago just when we had
discovered fire a sword crashed into the earth from the Heavens after Lucifer’s
unholy war with God. It was sent here
because of the fear that we humans might end up a savage race of monsters. This sword, the sword of law, was sent down
to give mankind the ability to expand upon it’s current thought of what law was
after our expulsion from Eden. After
this blade had finished its job, the sword split into seven different swords,
sixteen locations of immense power, and the ultimate Mana Beast to make sure
that one person could ever wield such a power.
This meteo sword which I keep with me is one of those seven blades. My friend Nolan has five more which include: the Christ Blade, which gained great power
after being bathed by the Holy Grail and the four element sabers of thunder,
fire, water, and self-energy. We tried
to find the seventh, but rumor has it that someone destroyed it many years ago
so no one could ever wield such a power ever again. Even if we tried to fuse the blade it would
be powerless unless we could also fuse the proper Mana Beast with it but Casie
can’t even summon that thing” explained Mike in extreme detail.
“What about the sixteen power locations, Mike? Wouldn’t you also need those?” asked Paula.
“Not at all. We
couldn’t use them now even if we tried to anyways.
“Okay how do you have a sound item Mike?” asked a shocked
“Well that one I’ll explain another time because I’m just
plain ol’ tired right now and I need my rest right now anyway. So you guys better get to bed because we
start tomorrow” said Mike.
“No argument there Mike, Paula I’ll walk you home.”
“See ya Mike!”
Later, hen
“Yeah, I do actually.
After everything I saw him do while fighting against him, it’s the only
explanation for his abilities. Even
though he seemed to be bragging a slight bit in there he at least was able to
backup all of it up though” explained
“Still, it’s just hard to believe that Giygas is back
though. Maybe it’s my own denial that
doesn’t want him to come back. I just
don’t want to fight anymore. I thought
the nightmare was over!” cried Paula.
“Thank you
“I’ll go in with you to explain everything to your
parents so they both don’t die of a heart attack okay.”
Chapter 5
*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*
*Knock!* *Knock!* *Knock!*
*Knock!!* *Knock!!* *Knock!!* “Hey who in the hell is
knocking on this door at seven in the morning!” screamed Mike’s mom as she
flung the front door open. “Oh, it’s you
“We came to get Mike, we need to talk” said
“Well, unfortunately you missed him by about two
hours. I know why you’re here though. I guessed Mike gave you all the information
you needed to be convinced by him huh.
Well don’t worry if it’s true or not because I can guarantee you it is
since I went through five months of worrying if my son was going to live
through all of that. But he woke up
extremely agitated this morning saying something about how needed to get to
Belle Vernon, the town we moved from, immediately because something horrible
was happening there. The one thing I
remember him telling was that ‘Tell Ness I already went ahead and that I had no
other choice. I didn’t think THEY would
come out of hiding so quickly. Tell him
this though, tell him to see Star Master about finding the Horseman of Power
the second you see him. Tell him that he
knows where the person is because Star Master figured out the energy signatures
of the Horseman of Light years ago from his Mu training. I need to go know and worry so much about me
this time. I’ll be fine.’ Then he just
teleported out of here” explained Mike’s mom.
“Thanks for the briefing.
I’m guessing you can’t remember anything else” said Jeff.
“Unfortunately I can’t.
If I had anything else, I would have said it already. Now I’m going back to bed” yawned Mike’s mom
as she shut the door.
“Just fantastic, all we have to go on now is that Master
knows where this guy is at. If this is
true, why didn’t he tell me earlier” said a slightly ticked off Poo.
“Poo, don’t worry about, we’ll get our answer once we get
to Dalaam and fine Star Master. But what
I don’t understand is why Mike left so urgently. What was so important that he had to go back
to where he moved from so quickly though” said
“Don’t know, but whatever it was it had to be an
emergency” said Paula.
About one hour before that conversation happened Mike had
already arrived in Belle Vernon and had gotten the shock of his life. “What in God’s name happened here? Am I too late to do anything here? And where is everybody?” screamed an
extremely angry and ticked off Mike. The
town Mike had grown up in had been completely leveled somehow. Everything he knew was completely
destroyed. The houses, trees, his
memories all leveled straight to the ground.
He couldn’t believe he was too late.
Not to mention that everyone was gone.
Mike knew if something happened here there should be bodies lying around
everywhere but not a single soul. It was
like someone either vaporized them or took all of them hostage. “Tom!
He has to be here, there is no way on Earth he could be beaten that
easily or taken hostage.”
For three hours Mike was running at just below mach one
trying to find Tom. When he had just
given up hope of finding Tom, he heard something breathing in some rubble
behind him. “Oh God let this be him”
said Mike with tears rolling down his cheeks, upset over all of the
destruction. At that moment, Mike went
flying back about one hundred feet into the nearest standing house.
“Hey, it’s me y’know.
You know how much those punches hurt me God man” screamed Mike.
“Sorry Mike, I couldn’t exactly see it was you so I just
clocked you, nice way of saying hello though right?” said Tom.
“Yeah but you didn’t need to send me flying though, all
you need to do is stun me not knock me into the nearest standing structure
left.”
“Sorry, I though it might have been Gorin.”
“Okay, there’s reason enough there then, but what
happened here anyway. I came I soon as I
sensed something around five this morning but by the time I got here the town
was leveled to the ground.”
“Well it seems you were right about the Mani Mani Statue
being used to cloak their bodies into human forms and use it to control their
powers. Gorin marched right in here with
only about ten starmen and started attacking the town. Everyone tried to fight and protect their
homes and the town but they were getting hammered left and right. Once I saw people grabbing their guns to help
out with something I grabbed my equipment and ran off with them. What I saw was horrific. He was destroying everything in sight just
trying to find you. I wasn’t going to
let them destroy the town because you weren’t here so I started to attack with
everyone else. Mostly everyone was
knocked out in one hit by the starmen except me and a few others. I managed to
take everyone of the starmen out but then I made the stupid mistake of charging
Godan with pure rage. I couldn’t even
touch him with my sword and got blown away with an energy blast and ended up in
that pile of rubble over there. After
that, I don’t know what happened.”
“So they’re already starting to hunt us down huh.”
“Yeah they are Mr. Obvious. If your still here though, that means that he
is after…”
“Casie!” shouted both Mike and Tom at the same time.
Chapter 6
“Hey, Poo, how can we reach your Master anyway? I mean we here at his home and all and he’s
not he right now” said Jeff.
“Well…I don’t know exactly how to reach him. We’ve tried meditation but he doesn’t seem to
be meditating at the moment and he’s not home so where could he be.” Poo was completely mystified by this
one. The one time he couldn’t contact
Star Master is the one time he needed him the most. “Let me see the only place left to try is the
palace. Maybe he’s advising my father so
let’s try there.” The second they left
the house a strange whirlwind appear out of nowhere. “Okay master I get the point. You’re here, now what do you want. We don’t
have time for any training. I need to
ask you something…it concerns the horseman of power.”
“Unfortunately, your right, you don’t have time to
train. The one you seek is in
“Enough!
“Sorry Star Master, I’ve just read the legends of Avalon
so I found that hard to believe.”
“
“Thanks master.
I’ll use it wisely. Guys, we’re
off then. Master since none of use can
teleport to
“Yes Poo, I will.
Remember though, if you need any guidance at all, you know how to reach
me. Good luck, everyone!”
Meanwhile, Mike and Tom were racing off to reach Casie as
fast as possible. Unfortunately, this
meant Mike had to run as fast as he could with Tom on his back, taking Mike’s
running speed down to about two hundred miles per hour. “Hey Mike, can’t you run any faster!”
screamed Tom.
“Can’t, you heavier than I am remember so I’m just a
little weighted down right now. Anyways
it will only take another minute to reach her.
“Nope, she probably couldn’t with these numbers
here. Darn how many are there here?!”
“At least three hundred starmen alone in this small area
of varying types, I say it will take us about three hours to defeat all of them
by hand since some have psychic power shields if we split the difference half
and half.”
“Good, I’m in a bad mood right now anyway so let kick
some a…” before Tom could even finish the last word in that sentence a bright
light appear out of nowhere.
“Quantum Flash!”
In just one technique all of the starmen in the small area near the
river were vaporized in an instant.
“Sorry to spoil your fun boys but you know how long it takes me to
charge up that technique.”
With their jaws literally on the ground, Mike and Tom
were stunned. Casie had just taken out
three hundred starmen in a single blast of energy. Let alone her quantum flash Fate which takes
fifteen minutes to charge up. “Okay
before I even ask how you were able even to fire that technique with such
intensity, since you never could take out more than ten at a time with it, how
were you able to have enough time to charge that thing up to full bl…” at that
moment Mike saw Casie hit the ground hard almost knocking herself out.
“First, I hid long enough by some trees to be able to
charge that thing while everyone else fought then before I fired it I told
everyone to run far away as they could so I didn’t kill them. Two, I used everything I had in that assault
with the exception of my vital energies to fire the blast. So I’m slightly worn out at the moment.” Casie was breathing heavily while saying that
so took her a minute just to say all of that.
“Mike…got…any…br”
“Yeah I have one left on me right now. Just give that brain food lunch chip a minute
to set in and recover your power. Casie,
are there any forces left?”
“There are a ton of them on the hill up there and it
might take a while to take all of them out.
So you two get to have your fun now.”
“Good, time to slice them up” said Tom pulling out a
funky looking katana blade. “I should be
able to pick them off one by one for a while if everyone in the town helps me
out here. You sure you’re going to be
alright Casie?”
“Yeah I’ll be fine.”
“Good, Casie the second you can stand get all of your
equipment and help Tom eliminate all of those starmen. I going off alone, I suspect Gorin is here to
so I have a bone to pick with him right now.
I’ll stop him so these invasions stop right now!”
“Mike, you’re crazy.
You know you can’t kill him and you know you shouldn’t kill him right
now. Let alone his power is much greater
than yours.”
“Tom, I know what I’m doing right now. His power doesn’t even compare to me right
about now. He hasn’t fully regained his
powers yet and he is in a human form.
Trust me, he won’t even land one finger on me.”
“Mike, just don’t getting yourself killed.”
“Casie, I won’t” with that the three split up. Mike was making a beeline towards Gorin’s
energy signature. Tom was helping
everyone else in the town defend themselves, and Casie was going to get her
equipment and also help out.
Once Mike got to the top of the hill where the majority
of the town was he shocked. If there was
a monster or robot you could imagine, it was there, about five hundred some
monsters and flunkies to be precise. “Crap, how am I going to get through
this? I could take out maybe a hundred,
maybe two with infinity end. But how am
I going to do this without maxing out” at that moment Mike got an
idea. “I sure hope this works, if one thing goes wrong, I’m dead. Hey!
All you morons, give me everything you got! That’s right you heard me, a free shot on the
horseman of time, I’m sure one of you would get promoted if you killed me! Come on!
I’ll even put up a bulls eye for ya if ya want.” That was Mike brilliant plan it seemed. Get them all so mad that they would fire
everything they had at him. But Mike
seemed to have an extraordinary look of confidence on his face. “Good,
not much in the way of starstorm attacks.
Maybe this will work after all.
This will just take a while. Psi
Counter Omega!” At that moment all the
energy gathered itself at one spot right next to Mike. “Good,
enough to take out at least fifty of them.
If I can keep this up and if they limit the starstorm and thunder
techniques, I should be fine. Counter
blast fire!” For about ten minutes Mike
kept up his assault. All he did was
dodge the starstorm and thunder attack which he could not absorb and collected
every spec of energy he could otherwise and fire it right back.
Once that was all over, Mike was breathing heavily,
exhausted from the constant onslaught and countering. He then spotted a human with Final starmen
guarding him. “Okay, that must be him, I need to figure out how to get around that
wall of starmen. All they fire is
starstorm attacks and nothing but that, and that’s one of the twelve I can’t
absorb. Think Mike think. How are you gonna yourself out of this
one? It’s worth a shot but it’s power
will be extremely limited but I need it to do the Fate anyway. I’m just not emotional enough to get at full
power but it will do for now. I’ll need
the power boost for Gorin anyhow. Ragin’
Finale!” Mike, as usual, felt his heart
rate skyrocket as his mind put a massive demand on his body. The ragin’ finale takes of Mike’s pure
emotion and makes it a source for power, allowing him to gain a quick boost in
very dire situations. Unfortunately,
like his emotions, Mike cannot control this technique fully yet. If done when he is actually calm, it only
reaches minimum power, but that is all Mike’s felt he needed at the moment.
While Gorin and his Final Starmen were destroying the surround
area, Gorin in his human form blinked and everything seemed to stop. The starmen for some reason had stopped
attacking all of a sudden like they had malfunctioned in someway. Suddenly everything around him exploded,
nothing was left of his starmen but parts of their bionic bodies were strewn
everything with people running in absolute terror thinking some new evil force
had come and destroyed those starmen.
“Gorin, if you still want to live, I suggest you run”
said a mysterious deep voice.
“Who is this, are you the one that has been destroying my
troops! Do you not know who your
opponent will be next!”
“That’s the point, I do.
Don’t forget though, I just defeated all of your troops to get up
here. To be honest too, I haven’t even
gotten started yet. Sure I’m just a
little tired but I’m not worried since you’re not even close to full power yet,
especially in that human form you have to hide in.”
“You’re the speedy human Godan was talking about
then. I see that you live up to what he
has said, extremely destructive with any type of weaponry but extremely weak to
a punch. Michael, the horseman of time!”
“Unfortunately, you are right on that one. I can’t usually take more than one hit from
most people near my caliber, but that depends can you even keep up with
me.” With that, Mike disappeared into
thin air. Gorin knew that Mike was just
running extremely fast but he couldn’t tell where to.
“Come on, can’t you even keep up with me. I’m slightly shocked, I thought a horseman of
Apocalypse could easily follow my every move.”
“I don’t necessarily need to see to follow,
horseman!” Gorin at that moment struck
Mike with a devastating punch that sent Mike flying backwards.
Mike was stunned and slightly dazed. He was shocked to have a punch come at him so
fast with such power at that moment. He
completely miscalculated the strength of Gorin and paid big time with most his
strength being knocked out in one punch.
If Mike got hit like that again, he knew Gorin could easily kill him
then. “Looks like I can’t keep my promise to Casie then. Oh well, I can’t afford to hold back
now. One false move and I’m done
for. I guess I have to use them then. Gorin!
Prepare to get your butt kicked!
Titan’s armor!” Mike had summoned
his one and only defensive item to help him take another punch if need be. Mike did something odd afterwards though, he
sheathed his sword back into his quiver quickly and took a martial arts stance. “You see Gorin I have a few tricks too, as
you can easily see. This armor slows me
down slightly but it’s all I have to protect myself, since you seem to be to
fast for me to use REM Attack in a clutch; not to mention I contain a few more
surprises in this thing anyhow.”
Gorin then charged Mike at full speed ready to hit Mike
as hard as he could but Mike blocked it with a medium sized sword he had hidden
behind his right arm. Then Mike slashed
with another one that he kept behind his left arm then pummeled Gorin with
every punch and kick he could follow up with but with no avail. Gorin then at point blank struck Mike with
four thunder Omega strikes making Mike scream in pain. Mike was starting to see double at this point
and saw choice but to use one of his psychic techniques.
“That’s it! I’m
tired of playing games. If you want to
go all out, then so will I! I have only
used this level of this technique three times because it’s so powerful! This won’t kill you but you’ll be in
tremendous pain when this connects! This
is my one heavenly technique, Delta Omega!”
screamed an enraged Mike at the top of his lungs. With the ragin’ finale ability still active,
Mike’s energy all of a sudden shot way up, and Gorin could feel it because Mike
was just that ticked. Mike then started
to point straight outward making a point of light that could be said that was
on the same line as his adam’s apple when a line was drawn through it from
behind Mike’s neck. Mike then created
two more similar points of light at the same level of his knee caps, about five
feet apart. Mike then created a
ferocious looking energy ball that was no bigger than a softball. Mike then launched the energy into the
triangular area of the points of light then a triangular shape energy beam hit
Gorin with tremendous force. The beam
just kept expanding at that point until it was bigger than a house.
Gorin couldn’t believe then force a single human could
throw in one blast. It seemed that Mike
just kept expanding the beam and then stopped once he thought it was big enough
to crush Gorin. Even though Gorin hadn’t
moved much, no one had ever been able to do this to him with just their
mind. He started to think that the
horsemen of light might just be a threat after all with their leader having
this much power.
“Time to end this now, Delta Omega disengage in all of
your fury, Final End!” Mike formed a
triangular shape with his hands and then split off very quickly. The beam of white light then ended in a
massive explosion destroying anything within fifty feet; except for Gorin, Mike
knew better. “Have we had enough of this
yet, or should I do another one of those.”
“I’ll get my revenge…”
Gorin then quickly vanished from sight running away with injuries all
over his body.
“Good thing he didn’t want more, I don’t have enough
power to run anymore even.”
Meanwhile, Tom was fighting the remaining of what was
left of Gorin’s forces. “Crud, I wish Casie would hurry up, I’m
starting to wear out here.” Tom
thought to himself as he looked at what seemed like the last starman he had to
finish off and he was done. He had never
seen this type before, but he just brushed it off as a weaker model. Tom then charged the last one and went for
the kill. Tom made a fatal error though,
this model was strong enough to throw a starstorm Omega at point blank range
and knock Tom out cold. Mike stumbled
into the area at the time to see if Tom had finished yet. After seeing what had happened, Mike tried to
fight but got slammed into the pavement since he was so weaken from his battle
with Gorin.
“Hmph *whirl* I’m surprised that you two were foolish
enough to take me, a Deluxe model, on head on*blurl*.”
A starman Deluxe had easily finished both a weaken Mike
and Tom off with one blow each. “I’ll
definitely get some upgrades for this one.
Both the horseman of time and the g…” before it could even finish, Casie
grabbed one of Mike’s kodachi blade from behind and sliced it’s head right off
finishing it off.
“You two are such fools you know, running head on into an
unknown opponent after being worn down like you two are. Looks like I have to wait a short while until
two idiots wake up, I’ll just keep my eyes open until you do.” said Casie.