Guyver Chapter 202 (fan made) *spoilers*
Guyver 1 vs Guyver 2-F
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As the dawn light began to peek over the emerald covered mountain tops surrounding the small town rattled by the chaos that occurred as a result of Guyot's treachery, Guyver 1 soars across the sky to regroup with Aptom and convey the information he obtained from Apollon about Mizuki and Tetsuro.
Without being able to follow after Apollon he was back to square one, but his mind felt a sense of relief knowing his friends were at least safe. All Sho knew was that if Apollon really was after Guyot then his best chance of encountering him again would depend on capturing him first.
"Guyot couldn't have made it that far, he must still be hiding in this town somewhere. Once I get to Aptom we'll conduct a search on foot."
Sho thought to himself.
Suddenly Guyver 1's hyper sensors react to something, sliding towards the base of his skull.
"Hmm? Whats this? Somebody's following me?"
It was Guyver 2-F, she was leaping across the roofs of residential buildings struggling to keep up with Guyver 1.
"That's....!"
Sho realized the identity of his pursuer and quickly surveyed his surroundings before changing course towards a deserted parking lot on the edge of town.
The area was littered with a few abandoned rusting cars eroded by years of harsh sun and rain, a few light poles scattered the area, no longer functional as it had been many years since electricity powered them. He turned to face his chaser.
Guyver 2-F made no attempt to hide her presence and landed in the empty lot a few meters away from her prey.
"I've finally found you, Sho Fukamachi."
She said with bravado.
"Why are you chasing me, Valkyria Forsberg Lisker!"
"So you know who I am. Good, saves me the trouble of introducing myself. I've come to challenge you to a fight to the death, Guyver 1!"
Sho clenched his fists and secured his footing prepared to defend himself.
"This is about Oswald isn't it?! So you want revenge."
"Heh, revenge? No, my brother and I weren't so close that I'd try to avenge him. My mother married into the Lisker family but he never accepted us, to him we were nothing but low born commoners that threatened his precious status! I've dedicated my entire life to proving myself his better. To humiliate him by achieving a higher status in the company despite my 'inferior pedigree', that is... until YOU killed him and robbed me of my life's ambition!"
Sho stood there quietly listening.
"Since the day I learned of his death I couldn't think of anything other than finding the man who killed him. But when I learned that both he and you had activated the Guyver units I felt powerless to do anything, after all, even if I was processed into a hyper zoanoid how could I measure up to the power of a Guyver?! It would be impossible! Even in death Oswald was beyond my reach.
Then one day I found my answer. Cronos had successfully cultivated cells from Oswald's Guyver 2 and even manufactured an artificial control metal. Though it was locked away beyond reach, as an inspector it wasn't beyond my reach.
So I made up my mind, I would sacrifice everything, my status, even my life if need be to achieve my ambition! And now that ambition is standing in front of me. Within my reach. Do you understand Sho Fukamachi? Only by killing you, the man who defeated Oswald can I prove myself his better!"
Sho calmly responded:
"That's it? You want to kill me just to prove you're better than Oswald?"
In a fit of anger Valkyria charged forward and yelled:
"Don't you dare trivialize my resolve! What would you know!"
The high frequency blades on her forearms begin to extend as she swings them horizontally attempting to bisect Guyver 1. Sho reacts by jumping back evading her attack while creating more distance between them. Valkyria continued her rant:
"Spend most of your life alone in the shadow of someone else with nothing but a dream and then tell me what could matter more than your own strength!!"
Valkyria fires the head beam at Sho but again he side steps it with relative ease.
Sho shouts:
"I don't want to fight you. What ever your history with Oswald it has nothing to do with me! If you're not here for revenge then we have no reason to be enemies!"
"If you don't want to fight then fine! Just stand there as I cut you to ribbons!"
She charges at Guyver 1 again this time leaping into the air, she attempts to bring down her high frequency sword vertically!
Guyver 1 side steps her attack again.
"If you insist on attacking me than I have no choice but to stop you Guyver 2-F!"
Sho fires his sonic buster at Valkyria's feet. Destroying her footing. She stumbles before catching herself and standing up right but it's too late, Guyver 1's punch finds it's target as he strikes her in the face. Guyver 2-F is sent flying back and lands with a thud.
"Ugh!!!" She stands and reaffirms
"I'm not going to lose!"
She focuses her hands by her waist and begins to gather energy, as she fires her pressure canon Guyver 1 again leaps into the air dodging the energy blast and flies towards her with a kick. Valkyria only just barely manages to raise her forearms and block the strike but it's weight and force causes her to be pushed back her feet digging into the asphalt.
She pushes forward as Guyver 1 uses her arms as a footing to somersault before grabbing her by the head and landing behind her lifting her off the ground and throwing her over his shoulder.
Valkria crashes into an abandoned car sending it skidding back several meters. She rises again and screams:
"Stop insulting me Fukamachi! Why don't you use that gigantic form of yours to end this!"
This remark catches Sho off guard but he quickly recovers his faculties and response:
"That... isn't necessary!"
Valkyria hated to admit it but he was right, there was a clear difference between their combat experience. Years of fighting against hyper zoanoids, not to mention Guyvers 2 and 3, had shaped Sho into a more than capable fighter. The Guyver was now as easy and natural for him to use as breathing. She retorted.
"Is that right?"
Valkyria then grabs at her chest plates and opens them to reveal her mega smasher. Sho, realizes the town is directly behind him. He yells:
"No! You can't fire the mega smasher here innocent people will get caught in it's wake!"
"Heh, then I guess you have no choice but to take it head on don't you!"
She fires the mega smasher, Sho with no time to summon the gigantic can only use his gravity orb to split the beam, one is deflected into the mountains tearing down trees for a mile. The other is heading in the direction of a dilapidated factory building located a few miles away also on the edge of town. Sho notices that there are still lights on in the windows.
"Oh no it's still in use!"
Sho thought to himself.
Fortunately a barrier forms that blocks the beam, naturalizing it. Sho, shocked, realizes who saved the people as he decloaks himself.
"Aptom! Thank goodness!"
Aptom then lands in the parking lot, panting, still visibly exhausted from firing the mega freezer earlier.
"I was wondering what all the commotion was. So it was you Guyver 2-F!"
Valkyria responds:
"You again..."
Aptom then speaks to her.
"I saved you once because I thought we could be allies, I don't know why you chose to spare me back there, but if this is the path you're choosing... then I have no choice but to correct that mistake!"
"She spared him?"
Sho thought to himself.
"Wait Aptom! This is still my fight, I'll be the one to finish it! Besides that you're still exhausted from earlier."
"Sho you can't afford to be soft anymore, innocent people almost got caught up in this, what would have happened if I hadn't come looking for you?"
"I know Aptom, I intend to finish this now."
Valkyria chuckles and says while panting, also beginning to fatigue
"So you think you can just kill me when ever you want huh! Fine! Let's see you try it Fukamachi!"
She begins to leap into the air onto an old light pole attempting to gain higher ground to fire her sonic buster but Guyver 1 quickly predicts her movements and uses his head beam to destroy the light fixture she was aiming for, Guyver 2-F finds no footing and begins to fall as Guyver 1 then leaps into the air and drop kicks her from behind sending her crashing down.
Valkyria screams as she falls.
"Ahhhhh" *crash*
Guyver 2-F leaves a small crater in the asphalt, she slowly stands up, her legs beginning to tremble, panting even harder. Valkyria begins to get dizzy, the artificial control metal was at it's limit. Guyver 1 stood in front of her, she hadn't even realized he closed the distance.
"I learned that move from your brother Oswald."
"?!"
"Valkyria, when I fought your brother he completely outmatched me. The only reason I defeated him was because his control metal had somehow been damaged. I wouldn't have stood a chance against him otherwise. Do you see? Even if you somehow managed to beat me here it would be meaningless. I was never stronger than him, I just got lucky."
In frustration Valkyria screams:
"DAMN YOU SHO FUKAMACHI!!! Why don't you just kill me?! Let me die like he did already!!"
Those words halt Sho in his tracts. Valkyria's control metal starts to spark. She unequips her Guyver, and collapses to her knees.
"Just kill me... I can't... I can't do this anymore..."
Sho then unequips his Guyver.
She looks at him, his face baring no sign of anger or hatred, only a look of sadness that made Valkyria herself begin to cry.
Tears streaming down her face she says:
"Why... why did Oswald have to die. He was the only person in my life that ever showed me affection. He was my only reason for living!
...My mother was too caught up with the corporate politics, after my real father died she only thought of how to raise our status within Cronos, I know she loved me but she was always busy entertaining higher ups with Oswald's father.
Oswald was the only person that paid any attention to me, played with me, read books to me, made sure I wasn't alone.
When I overheard him one night speaking to our father and call me and my mother low status... that we made the Lisker name a laughing stock... it broke my heart... but no matter how devastated or angry I was, I could never... I could never bring myself to hate him. Even now. I wanted to surpass him so badly so that he wouldn't think of me as a burden to the Lisker family so that he would be proud to have me as a sister. I loved him.
And then one day I got a call that he was dead. I couldn't take it!"
She continued while wiping away her tears.
"I know you're not to blame Fukamachi... you were just a kid that got caught up in something bigger than yourself. I know full well what Cronos is like and what they're willing to do to achieve their goals. Which is why I wanted to fight you myself. To see what kind of man killed my brother, and to die by the hands of that same man so I could be with him again."
Aptom stood there quietly while Sho began to kneel down to console her.
"I'm sorry Valkyria. Your brother... he was so frighteningly strong I thought that I didn't have a choice, it was either kill or be killed. But thinking back, he tried to persuade me to come with him without violence. He could have killed my friend Tetsuro but choose to ignore him and pursued me instead. Maybe if I had gone with him at that time... things could have turned out differently. Please forgive me."
Valkyria continued to cry.
"This wasn't supposed to happen. You weren't supposed to be like this. Speaking with you... hearing you say these things... how can I bring myself to hate you."
Aptom interjects while assuming his human form.
"Sho is a very special person. I'm just like you Valkyria."
Valkyria raised her head to meet Aptoms gaze.
"Sho was forced to kill my comrades, my only friends, and I couldn't see past my own grief and anger; But despite everything I had done to him, I never felt hate or anger from him. He fought only to protect others. It challenged me... forced me to confront the monster I had become. He saved me from my pain and gave me a new purpose in life."
"Aptom..." Sho softly said.
Aptom continued.
"You can find a new purpose too. Join forces with us. Help us free the world from Cronos' rule. Make up for the sins you've committed by saving people. That, in a way, can also allow you to surpass your brother."
Valkyria stops crying but still emotionally vulnerable says.
"It's too late now. This artificial control metal... I'm dying. I can feel myself slipping each day. It will eventually kill me. Sooner rather than later."
"?!"
Sho and Aptom both recoil at her words.
Sho desperately replies: "We have friends who can help you! Makishima, he has one of Cronos' top scientists working for him! I'm sure he'd help you if I begged him!"
"You'd go so far for me? Someone who just tried to kill you? What a foolish thing to do Sho Fukamachi... but... thank you."
She raises her head and kisses Sho on the cheek before standing up.
"I'm sorry Sho, Aptom, but i can't accept your request. If we ever meet again, then ask me again."
A look of dejection appears across Sho's face as Aptom placed his hand on Sho's shoulder.
As she turns to leave. Sho shouts:
"Wait Valkyria, before you go, please answer one question. Do you know where Richard Guyot is hiding? I need to find him to get my friends back!"
Aptom looking surprised says:
"Guyot? Why would we need to find him, he-?"
Valkyria interrupts him saying:
"I don't know exactly where he is, but if I managed to come across him again, I'll find a way to relay the information. Goodbye Guyver 1, goodbye Aptom."
She then turns and walks away as Sho and Aptom stand in silence watching her vanish into the darkness.
END.
