I've made a LOT of changes.. I decided to weaken him a LOT to start..
Any comments are welcome.. especially from the peanut gallery, err..
hardcase.. err.. hardSUIT crew over at Bubblegum Zone..
<grin>
Enjoy!
Airtight fitting and latches on the dark blue hardsuit hissed as they
opened. Arms reached up and took the helmet off, placing it off to the side.
The suit then de-rezzed, fading into vector lines then nothingness. John
sighed, looking down at the bruises covering 90% of his body, and thought
aloud, "You know, I really SHOULDN'T do hand-to-hand with a boomer..".
Sighing, he realized he didn't have any place to sleep for the night..
Looking around the darkened alley, nothing seemed out of the ordinary, so he
sat down, too tired to think straight and too tired to care. He drifted off
quckily to visions of different dimensions he'd visited.
----
The man stood over him, laughing mercilessly. "Now you will know better than
to interfere in my revenge, Firehawke... or should I call you John?" he spat
down at the helpless Firehawke.
John was kneeling and shaking uncontrollably with rage. "You bastard.."
The man just laughed. "You have quite a temper for a fallen warrior! To make
sure you don't interfere
in my plans any further, I'm going to kill you here... Eh?!"
John gathered the last remaining KI in his body-- all of his soul was in
this do or die attempt-- and threw a KI-assisted uppercut. For a short
instant, which seemed an eternity to him, his hand glowed white with pure
power. The uppercut connected, and . . .
Everything in his world went black.
The dream faded, only to be replaced with another...
----
John rode the final lift upwards. He was almost there.. only hoping he had
enough time left before...
A robot jumped onto the lift with a metallic clang, shaking him out of his
thoughts.
"You AGAIN?! Didn't I destroy you once already?!", John moaned, "And I
thought my day couldn't get worse!". The robot smiled, at least it seemed
to-- perhaps it was a trick of the light?
The robot was about the same height as John, and was colored metallic blue.
On his forehead was a blade of some sort, a decoration perhaps. The robot spoke.
"You're not going to make it in time.. I'm here to make sure of that. Even
if you DO destroy me, I'll have slowed you just long enough.. and if I
destroy you, which I really would like to do, then it doesn't really matter
if you make it to the top!", the shadowed robot grinned and said.
Grinned?! Since when did robots grin???!
John was in deep trouble...
The dream faded, only to be replaced with another...
----
John cautiously took a bite of the meal, knowing well the effects her
cooking would have on him. He was resigned to a painful existance, since no
escape seemed available.
His vision blurred, and the room spun in directions that made Skyknight's
flying look tame. John jumped up out of his seat.
"What are you doing?", asked the woman sitting to his left.
The man sitting to the right shook his head. "Heh, we all know how dangerous
your cooking is to people, Akane! I think we'd better call the paramedics!"
"Ranma no baka!", Akane yelled, and with a muffled bang, ahe pulled a mallet
out of malletspace. John's last thought for a while was.. "Why me?"..
Everything in his world went black.
3 seconds later, Ranma's world went black as well. Mallets tend to do that
to people.
The dream faded, only to be replaced by reality...
---
John awoke with a start, gasping. These were some of his most horrifying
moments, a few of his brushes with death. Every day he lived, he tried to
put these memories behind him, to find a way home.. but every night they
would haunt him. He asked himself, "How many more times can I cheat death?
My past will catch up to me eventually..", but found no answer waiting.
John looked down at the watch on his arm.. 4:30 blinked on the readout. He
was too nervous to sleep, and was in territory not of his choosing.
"Bubblegum Zone, from the looks of it.. Skyknight's here, I would assume.. I
remember some of this from the fanfics that his existance created back in my
home universe..", he thought.
Oddly enough, when a person left the universe he was from and entered a new
one, a ripple effect occured, creating fanfics of that person back at the
home dimension. Skyknight had been well known at the time John had been
thrown from his home dimension. From his many wanderings, he'd managed to
piece together a decent hardsuit with weak weapons-- he was currently
stranded here in BGZ, and would need it to survive. Of course, he was VERY
careful to not show any signs of his existance-- his fighting boomers was a
bad idea, but he DID need something to pass the time.
The thought of contacting the Sabers had occured to him, but he shrugged it
off, believing it to be a bad idea. "One added member is enough," he
thought, "besides.. I don't have the skill to join, and they probably
wouldn't trust me anyway."
John rose painfully from the rubble-strewn alley and picked his way
carefully among the dangerous piles of junk, stopping only to grab his
helmet along the way.
His mind was everywhere and nowhere. "I wonder how Skyknight, Twister, and
the others can deal with being so far from home and homesickness so well..
It's depressing to stand here realizing your family may be dead before you
can ever return.", he said aloud, "I need some PURPOSE to my existance..
there HAS to be a reason I'm here!"
"I'm too stressed out.. maybe I should go find someplace to relax.."
John's mind swept through several possible locations before deciding on Hot
Legs nightclub. It would be dangerous for him to be there-- Skyknight and
the Knight Sabers knew not of his existance yet --he was certain of that--
but his need for relaxation was too important at the time.. "Besides," he
mused, "Priss has some of the best singing in ANY universe.."
The city of Mega-Tokyo.. a place where you can find just about anything...
if you have the cash.
Firehawke presents...
.....a Fanfic in ASCII..
..encoded for quality..
He was once a normal otaku from his world.. but his life was shattered, and
now he is..
FIREHAWKE in...... Project Firehawke X
CHAPTER 1.. "Dreams of Past and Present"
...more to come...
John "Firehawke" Peasley /|
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