Chap 143: out of option
'It hurt! My whole body... It's burning!' Takumi's thoughts were unfocused as his body came crashing down.
He hit the water and bounced off the water's surface like a stone skipping. Stopping when his face crashed into the beach of a small uninhabited island.
Focusing his thoughts together, Takumi's hand grabbed a ball of sand, which was burning so hot it melted into glass. He crawled out of the hole with all the energy he had left.
"Damn it *grunt* why is my healing not *cough* working?" Working his body with gritted teeth, even if he was burned alive, the demon blood in him should be able to heal such an injury easily.
But this fire is causing him so much pain is a big problem, it is able to stop his healing and not even quench the fire.
*clink* another turn was made to her wheel, Mahoraga landed down. Seeing Takumi's current body, she merged back into his shadow.
The pain he felt was lifted somewhat as the adapting wheel of Mahoraga appeared on top of his head.
At the same time, portals open just next to him. Two other Takumi fell right through; one came to his side and poured a bottle over his still flaming body.
*sssssszzzzz* A sharp, steamy hiss sound came from the fire dying from the liquid.
"Late...." He breathed out, the words trembling through his hoarse voice that was almost burnt to a crisp.
"Too bad, me." He said before draping Takumi's arm over his shoulder and standing up. "Better late than never."
"Hey, you too!" The third body speaks up, "Here he comes."
As he finished, they all felt it. A cold, disturbingly so, a cold so deep it froze even the bones. The sea around the island was slowly frozen over as the clouds darkened, a snowy blizzard began to fall on them.
*crack* *crack* *crack*
Heavy footsteps that crack the frozen water with each step he takes. They saw a dark figure slowly moving towards them. Ichika has changed form again.
Ultimate Kuuga’s entire body is encased in jet-black armor, smooth and organic in texture. His shoulder, elbows, and legs all share spiky and aggressive-looking points. The armor glimmers subtly with gold linings that trace his chest, shoulders, and limbs.
His helmet has a horned design but with sharper, more pronounced curves. Golden horns that extend upward, now even bigger like a crown. There's an intense glare behind his big red eyes of his, they can all feel it staring directly at them despite the distance.
The two clone bodies look back at the main one. Now that they see him like this, Takumi realizes that this isn't the same as the one who invaded him.
"Can you heal faster ?"
"....no."
"We'll buy you some time. Try and use all of the summons you have."
"Ok." Takumi sat down, his shaky hand came up to make a hand sign. Shadow pool out from beneath him, it spread wide. Covering all of the island range.
And from it, an army of chimeric beasts came out, all in shadow. The current Takumi is low on curse energy plus he isn't sure that his real Shikigami can take that guy on. So he only calls out the cannon fodder.
The second clone received the main body, beta capsule. The third body stands proudly, he poses dramatically before shouting.
"HENSHIN!"
A grass hopper armor covers his whole body, while it very well may be just an inferior suit, but he still wants to test out the limits of this body.
"Hearrgh!" Yelling loudly, both of the clone bodies charged forward. They were in the middle of the shadow army as they came to face Ichika.
Both of Ichika's hands came up, aiming his open palms at them; he simply set them on fire.
Just like that, a simple fire, with the intense degree of the surface of the sun, sweeps over the entire island and wherever Takumi's shadow is.
Once again, they all fall to their knees. The shadow did their best to protect Takumi and his clone.
It burned for almost half an hour, and Takumi kept using his army as a shield for them. It was until he can kept it up anymore that when he was depleted of curse energy that the two clones.
Struggling through the flames to get closer to Ichika. The third clone is the first to get close; he came running at him.
His body was still on fire when he ran up and punched. To be blocked by Ichika's palm,
Hook punch, below horizontal kick, in the middle alternating an elbow strike, a straight punch again. Expectedly, all were completely avoided by Ichika, clearly standing in front of him, no matter how he tried to make contact.
"It's my turn!" Immediately seeing the end of his courtesy, Ichika shouted loudly.
A direct straight punch, Takumi intended to defend, clearly, from his point of view. It was a normal punch that didn't look so fast.
*Bam*
Takumi directly let him pour this punch on his body, forgoing trying to avoid this attack and honing in on his defense. A move he'll regret as a loud crunch vibrates throughout his body, and he loses balance, flying into the sky.
That is for the second clone to get close, and with the last bit of curse energy, he shouted.
"U̴̧̝̺̤͓̼̖̤̝̲̼̲͉̗̯̍̓̀̀̉̈́̆́̉̋̉̓̚n̵̗͕̘̙̞̘͊̀̍̈́̅t̸̡̨͍͚̝̝͙̤̺̝͚̘͈͙̎̿̎̎͐͠r̷̘͓̠̓̽͒̈́̈́͒̔͒̿̈́̄͘͠a̵̢̛̳̦͕̤͈̭̓̾̏́̍̈̆͐͗̊͑̾̎͘͜n̷̰̩̥͙̥͕̣͇̰͓͎͒͑̽͋̔s̶̨̓̋f̷͔̰̺̜̟̐̃̓͂̽̊̍̅o̸̧͖̻̬̦͓̗̥̝̼̼̙͈̼̤̽̕ȑ̷̠̫̳͕̪̩̻̱̽͑̚͠m̷̥̜̮̮͐̈́̉̈́̂͌́̽̓̆́̎͘̚ͅ ̷̧̣͉̮͎̼̇̌̾̾̋́̈́y̶̖̳̓̓̐̊̇̐͗͘͠ö̷̡͉̯̮̣̲̩̝̼̞͍̖̯̣̑̈́̊ù̶̡͎͖̞̬̤̮̮̔͑̒́̓̒͌͒͗̊͐̚r̸̡̡̧̧̩̫̉̓̅͐̿̀̀̇͠s̵̡̢̞͉͚͍͓̗̗̥͎̝͊̃̎͋͌̈́̈́̆͂͛́̓̕ȩ̶̠̲̼̫͓̳̻͊͌͌͆̽̅̀̀̒̔̆̕͠l̶̨̨̳̙̣͚͇̥͔̝̰̙̑̊̐̒̾̑͋́̅̃͒͒̀͘͝ͅf̷̜̟̳̮̫͚͇͚͎̘͖̋̂̓̇̿!"
The sound of his curse echoes in all directions.
Ichika's hands moved to his belt against his will. Seeing this, the clone smirked. No matter how strong he struggles, it won't matter. And when he untransforms, it'll be Takumi's chance.
*click* A hand rests on each side of his belt and pulls. Ichika's form vanishes as he reverts to being a human.
But Takumi’s expression shifted, from smug confidence to startled confusion. His grin freezes mid-laugh, eyes narrowing slightly as uncertainty flickers in them.
"Hmth." Ichika just let out a snicker at them, "this is your big plan ? Well, sorry, but even so." He pulls out a new transforming item, this one looking completely different from the decade belt earlier.
"Noooo!" Pulling out his beta capsule, the clone transforms into the Ultraman form.
*Shuwatch!* his body appeared through a bright red light, already a fist coming down at Ichika.
*SWHING* A new bright light interrupts
Accompanying it is a fist that slammed into Takumi's Ultraman form. Concussing him and also knocking him back to the ocean. Now, without the power to keep it frozen, his body shattered the ice.
"What the-!" Takumi's resting body stared in shock at the giant that interrupted them.
Silver metallic armor covers his body, red and black lines mixed with the silver of the armor. His head was like that of a statue with its unchanging expression. The eyes were like horizontal oval domes glowed with a warm white light.
There was no nose, but a ridge from the middle of the beak-like upper lip went all the way to the top of the head, forming a crest. Behind him, there are fin-like or hair coming down from the back of his head.
On the chest was a large "Y" energy core that almost covered the entire upper torso. There was a blue gemstone core that glowed just above the energy core.
His shoulder armor had ridges growing out, and each forearm protector had a sharp blade growing from the wrist outwards along the outer edge.
Ultraman Nexus.
"I feel like a giant should fight a giant, no?"
Standing up, the two ultras stare at each other. Nexus gathers both hands to one side, then, in a throwing motion, launches arrows made of light at Takumi's Ultraman.
Three arrows, one hit him on the face, the second hit him in the neck and a third one hit him in the chest. Exploding in a massive burst, his Ultraman can barely block the first and second.
The first move showed him how much power gap there was. He charges forward and locks in a hand grapple with Nexus.
Ichika down belowed have already henshin into another rider. Kamen Rider Diend. Walking to where the main body is still recovering.
"Don't you ignore ME!" Falling from the extreme height, the Kamen Rider form of Takumi came down like a meteor. His fist extended to punch Ichika, but he rolled out of the way as the fist crashed into the water, making a huge wave.
"I'm seeing the main guy, in the meantime," he took out a card and slid it into his gun.
[Kamen ride: Dragonfly]
[Kamen ride: Aqua]
Firing his gun, instead of bullets, three beams of light were emitted, red, green, and blue. Combining the lights, two new riders were summoned.
Diving down together, Takumi's rider clone got dragged deeper into the water. The two riders were like sharks in water, punches sent a burst of bubbles each time he was hit.
Unlike them, Takumi's body was slow and heavy, and so he could only block as they came at him. Energy attacks ripple through the water as glowing trails, distorting the surface above and shaking the currents around them.
Turning to Takumi again, Ichika confidently heads to him.