Post by Kairai Masuna on Jan 1, 2014 22:23:03 GMT -5
Kaze no Kuni
Project IZANAGI Facility
Project IZANAGI Facility
The Kazekage has gone missing.
Subject 0 awoke to the sounds of people rushing around and general panic. As he sat up on the bunk of the cell he had been living in since his reconstruction, 0 allowed some chakra to flow into the depleted storage units of his arms and legs. He was likely to need it soon. As his cells recharged, the door opened and one of the lead puppeteers of the facility entered, obviously in a panic. Behind him flowed his puppet, hanging obviously from his chakra strings.
"The Kazekage has gone missing. We're mobilizing all units for a search and rescue and you're going to be leading a squad of Oinin."
As the shinobi spoke, 0 nodded and glanced out into the hallway. As he did so, he caught a glimpse of the puppet's face and froze. That face...
The sunlight revealed the face of his attacker, stoic and staring intently at Masuna - a stare the ANBU would never forget.
The unrelenting stare of the attacker so long ago was there, on the face of the puppet infront of him. It took moments for Subject 0 to put together the picture. The man before him was a proven loyal retainer of the Kage, as were all the others in charge of Project IZANAGI. He had been a hero, critically injured 'defending' his Kage from an attack only now revealed to be a ruse. He had been the intended target, orchestrated by the Kage. The Shinobi infront of him was still talking.
The scum that had turned him into a living weapon was ordering him around.
Moments later, the shinobi's decapitated head flew from the room, his puppet collapsing to the ground. Subject 0 stepped out of his room, his armblades dripping with blood. His eyes covered by the lenses built into his forehead, Subject 0 scanned the area. As far as he was concerned, this entire compound could burn.
One of the lead medical shinobi appeared before him.
Moments later, he walked over her corpse and headed towards the main labs.
As he moved through the corridors of the IZANAGI facility, Subject 0 placed explosive tags in key locations, anywhere with combustible fluids nearby and places of key intelligence. Whenever he came across another member of the project, he put them down quickly using his arm blades. At first, they didn't put up any resistance - expecting him to be an ally. Once he got to the main lab where they had performed the majority of his modifications, word had spread.
As he entered the room, covered in blood from a dozen or so former allies, he was presented with Subject 1, 2, and 3. Subject 1 was a large male with similar implants to his own - arms and legs, each equipped with a large variety of ranged weapons. Subject 2 was a lithe female with two fake eyes, one fake arm which from what he had been told was extendable like a whip. And finally, Subject 3 was a scrawny puppeteer, flanked by four or five war puppets. He had some of the most extensive modifications of the four of them, almost more machine than man.
"Subject 0. Why are--"
Subject 1, the one who had been speaking, was suddenly cut short by an electrified arm ripping through his chest cavity, destroying his heart.
"RAITON: AMENONUHOKO..." 0 murmered, his entire body engulfed in electricity. He had used the stored up chakra he'd generated earlier to activate the technique. While they were still stunned from his sudden attack, 0 finished off Subjects 2 and 3 with the same technique, each one destroying their heart. As the electricity faded from around his body, 0 formed a handseal that detonated the dozens of explosive tags throughout the facility.
The explosives ripping through the compound brought fresh screams and a slight smile to 0's face. All the lies were being wiped clean. A second series of explosions prompted a wall to collapse nearby, drawing 0's attention. Behind the wall was a secret chamber, wherein stood Subject 4 - a medical shinobi who still had all of his original limbs, but who had been given additional - He had two prosthetic arms attached below his real ones, and al four were clutching a large scroll - the scroll that contained the information on the JUSSAKU technique.
"S-subject 0..."
"Sorry, 4 - 0 doesn't exist anymore. It's Masuna."
Subject 0 - Masuna - vanished from where he'd been standing, reappearing behind 4 and embedding his arm blade into the other shinobi's body. "Kairai Masuna. Since I was just a puppet, I've decided we're going to cut all of these strings." He smiled, retracting his arm blade and shoving the shinobi's corpse to the ground. Masuna knelt down and retrieved the scroll, placing it into one of his leg's hidden compartments. As he stepped away, he heard 4 groaning in pain on the floor.
A quick stomp put an end to that.
Several minutes, and many more explosions later, and Masuna was standing outside the burning remnants of the IZANAGI facility. He stretched his arms in a circular motion, noting the amount of blood crusted on his limbs. "I need a shower." Masuna muttered to himself, turning to walk away from the collapsing building. "Here's to seeing you soon, Kazekage-dono..." He muttered.
Moments later, Kairai Masuna was gone from the scene.
