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Originally Posted by Nanya01

I'd rather not say, people will go looking for it then.

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Spoiler for Blood That Flows - SSX 13:

Subaru raced along her Wing Road and shuddered as she saw the Mariage walking under her. She wanted to be down there, using her fists to pound on them, flatten them, stop them from harming any more people.

"Subaru, I swear, if you do anything but go straight for the site..." Teana had warned her over ten minutes ago, but it still rankled that she wasn't fighting against the Mariage directly. As she got to the edge of the crowd of Mariage, her eyes widened as she saw something she never thought she'd see.

"Voltz!" Subaru yelled as she got closer to the group.

Turning, the older, scarred man nodded to her. "I'd love to chat, but we've got to get ready to make our move."

Subaru looked at the large group of Ground and Rescue forces and had to stare in shock. "Wow, I didn't know that there was..."

"So much coordination?" Voltz asked, getting a nod from Subaru. "You can thank her for that." He pointed off to a woman who was walking towards them.

Subaru looked at where he was pointing and blinked. "Hey, you're..."

"Auris Gaiz," she adjusted her glasses as she looked the two over, "Voltz, are your troops ready?" He nodded to her and she turned her attention to Subaru. "Subaru Nakajima, are you here to assist us?"

Subaru shook her head. "I'd love to, but I'm under orders to investigate sector K267. There's a chance that the person behind this whole mess is operating from there."

Auris nodded and looked at the troops. "Alright people, from our eyes in the sky, other than those fighting against these things, there should be no civilians or non-combatants left. Only attack those that look completely identical and don't hold back, from what we've seen, none of these people will either."

Voltz looked at Subaru and rubbed his hand on her head, getting a soft blush from her. "I know you'll probably tell me to be careful, but I'm no magic user, the best I can do is pull people out if they're hurt right now. As for you, you be careful, okay? If I find out that one of these things did you in, I'll have to find out which one and kill it in revenge, won't I?"

Subaru chuckled and nodded. "Thanks, see ya." She turned and rushed off on her Wing Road, hoping that she wasn't on a wild goose chase.

As they watched Subaru go, both Voltz and Auris had similar thoughts. They would have preferred her to be there, guarding everyone's backs and taking the enemy head on.

(---)

It took Subaru over ten minutes at full speed to reach the scrap yard. "Nove probably could have been here in less than eight." She grumbled to herself, thinking that it wasn't fair that her little sister was faster on her Airliner than she was on her Wing Road. Taking a few breaths, Subaru narrowed her eyes as an explosion suddenly rocked a half-cannibalized, half-sunken ship. She wasn't sure why that ship hadn't been destroyed, but then again, things always seemed to have some use to them, even if it was just for scrap metal to be melted down for cars and other stuff.

Zipping in through the flaming wreckage, Subaru gasped as she saw one of the Mariages there. It turned to look at her before morphing its arm into a cannon and firing at her.

"ACK!" Subaru flailed her arms and she leaned back and fell off her Wing Road. Looking up, she grimaced as she saw the ceiling she entered start to groan, before creaking and falling apart. "Well then," Subaru turned to the Mariage, which was adjusting its arm to fire at her again, "I can't let you hurt anyone! Divine..." Her Wing Road reformed under her feet and she rocketed towards the Mariage, even as it primed another shot at her. "MAGNUM!"

(---)

Looking over her shoulder, the Mariage would have narrowed her eyes if she could have, at the explosion she heard some distance off. Turning, she walked down the makeshift hallway, ignoring the debris around her until she came across the very thing that she was looking for. "Your majesty, Ix," the Mariage got to one knee and bowed to her ruler. "It is an honor serving you, yet again, oh great and powerful king. Allow us, your personal army, to turn this world into a wasteland to signify your glorious return."

"I wish you wouldn't." A young voice spoke up and the Mariage looked up to see a girl who was physically about eleven years old, look at her with sad eyes. "Must my awakening be nothing more than the harbinger of destruction?" The girl stepped forward, sighing as she looked at her silk dress. "It is nice to be awake, but I do not like how every time I am, everyone I know is gone."

The Mariage stood up and bowed to her. "Lord Ix, we should not tarry long. I shall show you the glorious army that we have prepared for your return."

"I wouldn't go that far." A new voice spoke up and Ix gasped as she saw someone in the doorway to the room. Turning, the Mariage saw a girl in shorts, a short jacket with some sort of black shirt under it, wheeled shoes, a heavily gloved right hand, short purple hair, her arms, stomach and head all had some blood running down them. "I had to beat up another one of your buddies as I came in, now..." She looked at Ix and her eyes widened. "Wait, there was someone here?"

The Mariage stood in front of Ix and morphed its arm into a blade. "You will not touch our king."

Subaru grinned at the Mariage and shifted to a defensive stance. "Funny, because I think that your king is coming with me." When the Mariage in front of her disappeared, Subaru simply dropped to her knees and slammed a fist into the ground, a storm of magical energy spun around her before rushing up in a massive torrential storm. When Subaru heard the Mariage let out a cry of surprise before being blasted away, she moved to a standing position and slowly turned around to see the Mariage slumping to the ground. "Now then... You can let me take your king, or we can continue fighting."

The Mariage said nothing and pointed its arm, which morphed into a cannon, at Subaru.

"Figures," Subaru sighed as she saw that. "Too bad my partner's about to get you." Subaru looked to her left, grinning.

The Mariage turned its head for only a moment, before snapping attention back to Subaru. By that time Subaru had managed to cross the gap, grab the Mariage by her head and lift her up.

"Just so you know," Subaru narrowed her eyes as she squeezed her hand around the Mariage's head, "I don't like people who hurt others pointlessly."

"For our king, Ix!" The Mariage said as she put her cannon arm on Subaru's stomach. "Die."

"You first." Subaru said as she spun and threw the Mariage against the wall. "Divine... MAGNUM!" A sphere formed in her hand before she punched forward, slamming into the wall behind the Mariage as she disappeared from view. "Damn."

"You will make for a powerful Mariage." Subaru's eyes widened as she heard that voice speak from behind her, "now die."

Ix watched, sadly, as her Mariage thrust its arm forward to pierce the girl through her neck. It never got easy to deal with watching people die, even if she had seen it countless times over her endless life.

What happened next wasn't something that she saw too often as several chains snapped around the Mariage, holding her still.

"Should have done this sooner." Subaru said as she turned around and raised her hand upwards until it was eye level, her fingers twitching as a Belkan triangle formed under her feet. "I can't stand people who abuse their power," her hand was glowing as energy seemed to erupt from her fingers, "no matter your reasons, there's never a good reason for using your power to harm those who can't fight back."

"You can," the Mariage pointed out to Subaru, who narrowed her eyes at it.

"I wasn't talking about me! I was talking about that man who killed himself, and it's all your fault!" Subaru screamed as she punched forward, striking the Mariage in the head so hard that the head went flying off and bounced along the floor for several feet. Subaru glared at the body as it fell, panting hard before her anger left her. "I don't..." She trembled and fell to her knees, "I don't like harming people, I don't like it when people use their power to harm others." Squeezing her eyes shut, Subaru could still see that man's look of utter terror as he slashed himself before falling over the balcony. "I'm sorry, I wish I could have saved you."

Ix just watched, curious about the girl who killed her Mariage.

Me: Is it me or those Mariages' logic reminds me of those extremist...

Odin: Like Muruta Azrael And Patrick Zala?

Reia: Vindel Mauser?

Val: Juno, Sera, before she realize her course of action is a mistake, and Sigma?

Iris: Gilbert Durandal and Djibril?

Mariemeia: Those dummies who think IP/CR can innovate the world?

Me: *sweatdrops* Nevermind...

Odin: Anyways... *pulls out the Mariage's head that got punt by Subaru's punch.* How it feels to get you noggin shaken beyond it's normal limit and don't bother self-destructing. Your pretty little head got treated with some nanites that will cancel that special protocol of yours.

Mariage's head: You shall fall before our might, Human.

Odin: *Raised Eyebrow.* To play soccer, *Drops the Mariage's head before kicking it with a Beowulf empowered kick away.* or not to play. That is the question for today. And who said that I'm completely human in the first place?

Mariemeia: Lame joke, Odin.

Reia: I really hope Ixy will have some control over those mariages at the end, together that she will not sleep for another set of eons...

Char: No one mention my actions During the 2nd Neo-Zeon revolt?

Ribbon: Nor mine?

Odin: We kinda forgot back there....*sarcasm mode.*

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