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Chapter 41 - Chapter 41: Imposter among us

[Battleworld]

Satoshi and Aizen stand 10 meters away from one another. Satoshi stands in his organic iced form with his left foot a half a meter infront of the other, both legs bent slightly, he has his right arm slightly extended forward with his index and middle fingers up and his eft arm raised to his torso side area with the palm open. Aizen stands having his right leg infront of his left that bends down with the right leg straight, he wields his katana with his right hand and has the blade placed directly over his left biceps as the tip faces the direction of his opponent.

Aizen carefully looks at Satoshi's fighting stance and quickly recognises it as the same stance he had taken since their last fight.

Aizen thoughts: Despite the stance being being ALMOST the same as last time... you not him, you lack the piercing cold stare in your eyes and the flaming aura of determination.. [He realises something about this imposter] Could he be... no, why would he take his name if he was and have ice powers instead of fire.

Satoshi thoughts: Sword form-three, used for defenses. I guess he doesn't work well with going on the offense. Pathetic... no wait..! [His eyes widen in realisation that's too late as he remembers that he and Aizen are not the only fighters currently, there is another which is Zeke who has recovered and stabbed his back with one of the energy imbued kukris.

Satoshi: (flinches) Tch... You little—

A bright white colored energy with light blue outlines appears from the energy fused kukri outwards coating Satoshi's body like a aura before he warps against his will to the air crashing into a mountain 10 kilometers away from them.

Zeke: Aizen Lung... Right?

Aizen: hm yeah...

Zeke: Wow! I-I'm a BIIIG fan of your work! Read and listened to All your tales.

"HEY, FOCUS!!" Odiz orders them as Zyr walks up to Hyperman and places his left palm on hyperman's chest with his right hands tip og pinky finger and thumb on the latter's face, having the thumb on the forehead and pinky finger on the chin he then chants "enable" freeing Hyperman from his immobilizated state. Once freed Hyperman pants and fixes his suit as he along with Zyr, Zeke and Aizen gathering where Odiz stands, which is with Rina.

Odiz: Hyperman what are the likely odds of... 'Satoshi' being able to use the shard?

Hyperman: hmmm... Its a 25 percent chance he could.

Zeke: Hm. That's not a bad number... Right?

Zyr: No. It is Zeke. If who he claims to be Is true... a percentage Is all he needs to use that shard.

Odiz: Right... Hyperman take Rina back to our earth. We'll get the shard.

Rina: What?! N-No! I can help!

Odiz: Sorry Rina, you've helped us enough.

Rina: Ah. Screw you dude. (Walks up to Odiz but gets stopped by Zeke standing in her way.) Tch?

Zeke: Rina, look... We know you can help out or at least try to but you can't right now because We still need you to open the portal again. Satoshi Needs you, the real one. Not that fake ass wannabe. So please... go with Hyperman and be safe alright?

Rina: (sighs sadly) Okay. (Walks to Hyperman's side before taking one last look at Zeke.) I guess, I was wrong about you Zeke. You do have a heart, faint but it's there.

Zeke quietly gives Rina a side glance before He looks at Zyr chuckling at him.

Zyr: Awww, little baby Zeke finally matured up.

Zeke: Tch! (He crosses his arms and looks away from everyone to hide his flustered face expressions) Shut it.

On the mountain, Satoshi grunts furiously, as he builds up energy with that rage. "Good luck... All of you." Hyperman says before opening up a portal where he and Rina walk into, closing the portal on their way in.

A loud echoing scream is heard along with a short explosion coming directly from Satoshi on the mountain.

Zeke: W-wait... Is he..?

Aizen: He's powering up.

Zyr: Everyone get ready...

Odiz: Tch, Zyr do you think the shard's giving him power?

Zyr: I... I don't know.

Satoshi (thoughts): (Pulls the kukri out of his back and looks down on it seeing the residue of Zeke's energy.) This is... spiritual energy? No... its more vivid and flows in a rippling fiery pattern and unlike Curse energy... its completely stable and less destructive then regular curse energy. Awakenings of the deprime are so interesting and annoying as hell. (Grips onto the kukri tightly.)

Zeke: TCH?!

Zeke looks forwards in surprise as he and the rest witness Satoshi teleporting speed, reaching Zeke for the kill with one right straight punch that ends up striking into the chest of Odiz after jumping in the water of the punch blood immediately splashes from Odiz's torn open back onto Zeke's shirt.

Zeke: Odiz!!

Satoshi grins widely as he pulls his arm back with his fist still in Odiz's chest, he thrusts his arm forward pushing Odiz's body back onto Zeke who catches him, and aswell getting his blooded fist out the chest immediately afterwards Satoshi delivers a spinning hook kick to Zyr who catches his foot with a blank stare before Aizen conjures a green solid transparent snake from the palm of his hand.

"Tch?" Satoshi turns his head to see the snake wraps itself around each of his limbs restraining his movement.

Zeke: W-why'd you... why'd you do that?! (he asks with anger in his tone as he sits on the ground looking down at Odiz with blood pouring out his back onto Zeke's pants and completely unresponsive, Zeke looks at Odiz with confusion and anger on his face.)

Satoshi unleashes a rageful shout as his body emits a aura so cold it creates frost on the ground he stands on, freezes the hissing snake giving him the chance to easily shatter the snake off each limb.

Satoshi: Now! The real battle... (he crosses two of his extended arms down with his teeth clenched and visible as he looks down. The color of his eyes change in a fading inwards motion from purple to a pair of yellow iris eyes with black small spirals in them, he uncrosses his arms as he screams out the word "BEGIIIINS!!!" with a vast amount of his curse energy growing further and further and being very visible in a red fiery flames shaped aura edited from his icey body.)

They'd all look speechless except for zyr, at the display as they feel the high winds blow ever so coldly onto them with the only thing they see is a bright purple pillar of light beaming through the clouds from where Satoshi stands.

Zyr quickly makes the handsign od the deprime following its thumb snap to the ring finger. He stares seriously at the now fully ready combatant with an aura of absolute zero.

Zyr: Deprimestate Elemental summoning; scorched steel of surtr

After the chant, Zyr clenches his left fist to his side as a flaming aura appears around his hand beforming changing its entire form into a sharp black crooked sword with orange flames coating the entire blade except for the handle.

Satoshi and Zyr both dash at high speeds to each other; Zyr being faster than Satoshi, their clash; Zyr's sword swung downwards with a single hand with enough force to slice off the latter's right icey forearm used to protect himself against the attack, Satoshi gets flung back 10 meters after losing the clash with not only his forearm cut off but he has a large open vertical wound on the right collarbone moving down to the right hypochondriac region of his abdomen.

"That... sword... where in the hell did it come from? I've never seen nor heard of this summoning before." Words said in thought by Zeke in amaze and wonder, as he looks at the black flaming sword for the first time.

Zyr: This... This guy... (Satoshi stands up) has control over ice. There's no telling to how much control he has... worst case he might have nigh absolute control so be extremely cautious with how you breathe around him, best cases... he has a limit to how long he can keep up against us united.

Hearing this both Zeke and Aizen nod before Zeke gets up from the ground leaving the fatally injured Odiz on the ground seemingly unconscious.

"Tch... My healing property! What have you done!?" Satoshi asks Zyr furiously as he's body is unable to regenerate from his injuries, Zyr just stares at Satoshi along with his Allies as they all act at once seeing how Satoshi is at an disadvantage; Zyr dashes in for a lunging downward slash with both hands on the handle while Aizen appears sliding infront of the latter with his hands on his katana pulled back for one powerful thrust forward towards Satoshi's throat and Zeke appears warping to the left side with one of his kukris in hand as he swings horizontally with the kukri editing a bright blueish energy on it, as they act at once, unaware to anyone the shard in Satoshi's pants pocket begins to glow. Satoshi boldly grins at seeing his adversaries in close range...

"GLACIAL ARCTIC TYPE: ICE AGE..."

After Satoshi chants his attack boosting its effects, his eyes turn completely bright white as a mist forms around them signalling that his attack is about to happen, as it happens frost begins to form on both Zeke and Aizen, the ground below Satoshi freezes up in front with small icicles emerging, before the attack could fully manifest both Zyr and Satoshi look down at where the shard of the nexus glows even more brightly; "what the hell?" Said by the utterly confused Satoshi as the shard shines even more brightly blinding everyones eyes as it engulfs the entire area.

[Earth 23.C/universe 20023]

Inside a dark unground facility, with a filed docment with the title 'Project Hope' writtenon the cover, Sora Saiki walks down the quiet and empty hallway with only his footsteps and words being heard as he talks to himself.

Sora: Always remember Sora, The Zx are the bad guys he said. We do not side with criminals he said... (sighs) Damn liar... You all are. Which is why you all fail this country.

@Talks about his boss Ajex.

Sora walks into a dark room and sees a stasis pod mounted to the wall with that with something seemingly inside with liquid as bubbles can be heard coming from the pod, there are wires on the pod disconnected from other plugs on the wall and a control panel for the pod thats 15 meters away from the pod. He smiles as he walks over to the pod, reconnects the wires to the plugs before walking to the control panel where he uses to turn on the lights of the pod.

Sora: (He smiles even more proudly with determination as he sees a man inside the pod with a sienna skin compared to most Caucasians. He has black hair. has a muscular physique, doesnt have any clothes on only black underwear. His eyes are closed and seen floating inside the pod.) Made for wars but that will change NOW, you will be the one that gives America Hope. You... are going to be one that changes the world forever... (He shreds a tear) Johnathan.

[Chicago]

20:00pm

In a quiet and abandoned streets of Chicago with a few empty cars and trash lying around and blown by the wind. A man appears running out from a corner of the streets with dread in very breath he takes as he sweats coldly, he tries to get inside one of the closed vehicles. To no prevail on opening each door the man pants heavily in fear as he looks around before his attention gets drawn onto a drop of spit that has fallen onto his left shoulder. "H-Huh...?" The man watches another drop falls onto his shoulder, his body begins to shake in place unable to move his legs, the man takes his last breathes before looking up and getting pulled up into the air with loud screams that echo into the streets.