AnimeNation Adventures: Alpha Female Wars (Part 10, collab. w/ Nutmeg)

"You've got to be kidding me..." Midget groaned, watching Plough and Melion try to no avail to break through one of the black walls. AG, meanwhile, simply sat down and grabbed herself a packet of chips from her coat pocket; already she could tell they would be trapped for awhile.

"Don't worry," Haruhi assured them. "It'll take us awhile, but we should be able to counteract. Grab on, everyone; we're teleporting out of here and into Shiroiyuki's lair."

"But Spy and Vaikyuko are outside," Plough informed. "Are we just going to leave them behind?"

"We don't have much of a choice," Melion sighed, already feeling sick over Haruhi's apparent chanting. "We have to stop Shiroiyuki at all cost, remember? Besides, for all we know, they could be dead already."

"I'm sure they'll be fine, anyway," AG assured optimistically. "It's only our Princess Celestia against the world, you know."

"But I thought Desslock-"

"Oh, can it," Desslock interrupted Melion. "I was joking that time."

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"Oh? You two escaped?"

Nutmeg looked rather disappointed to see only ADS and Vaikyuko stand before her rather than Haruhi, but nonetheless remained calm as she unleashed a couple scythes from her choker.

"Vai, you take Nutmeg," ADS ordered. "I'm going after the other one."

"But Spy, do you even know where she is?"

"I have a pretty good idea..." ADS replied, already having run off opposite Vaikyuko, leaving her alone with Nutmeg.

"Hmph," Vaikyuko scoffed before turning to face Nutmeg. "And Spy was so eager to work with me before... but no matter. Nutmeg, would you care to dance with me, The Grand King Knight Lord Her Majesty The Emperor Vega Vaikyuko vi Vitannia, Glorious Commandant Princess of All Realms?"

"Heh," Nutmeg laughed. "You talk too much, Princess. Let's go, Shuuhei! Time to clobber this joker!"

At her command, scythes fell around Vaikyuko but AN's princess was not harmed. She deflected Nutmeg's attack with a swipe of her own blade.

"It's long just like my pe-"

"Shut up Vai!"

Vaikyuko swung her blade in circles above her head. Nutmeg ran around Vaikyuko dodging her swing and trying to figure out how she had stopped the attack. No one had been able to deflect Kazeshini before.

"Really Nutmeg? You're just running around. Are you afraid to fight? Did you learn that move from Shuuhei?"

Nutmeg stopped and turned to face Vaikyuko.

"Shuuhei isn't afraid to fight and neither am I!" She snapped and scythes rose out of the ground. "Besides, Princess, I wasn't running around. I was planting these."

Nutmeg leapt into the air as black lasers shot around Vaikyuko. One grazed her arm, tearing the sleeve of her dress.

"I just bought this dress! How dare you! You'll pay for that!" Vaikyuko scoffed, swinging her blade in Nutmeg's direction. "And come on! Shuuhei doesn't use lasers."

Nutmeg grabbed one of the scythes near her and lunged at Vaikyuko.

"Duh, Princess. My Kazeshini isn't exactly like his." She grinned. "The lasers are kind of cool though. I can make them come out of either end. Would you like to see again?"

"No!" Vaikyuko screamed as she attacked Nutmeg again.

The sound of metal on metal rang as neither Vaikyuko nor Nutmeg hit her target. Taunts were exchanged as the two circled each other.

"Why couldn't I compete? I'm AN's Princess!" Vaikyuko whined.

Nutmeg laughed. "You weren't born a woman, Princess."

"But Nutmeg-nee-san, I wanted to compete. I want to be the Alpha Female! You let Spy..."

"ADS isn't competing for Alpha. He can't. He's not a female! You have to be born a female to be Alpha Female!" Nutmeg dodged another attack.

"But Melion won for AN's best looking female!"

"He's not competing," Nutmeg retorted, dodging another attack. "Is that the best you have?"

"Exacta!" Vaikyuko said as her blade hit Nutmeg's gloved arm cutting through the material and drawing blood. Ripping off both gloves, Nutmeg looked at her arm.

"That's barely a scratch. Geez Vai with all the games you play, I thought you'd be better at this." Nutmeg swung her scythe. "I'd say you fight like a girl but that would be an insult to me."

"Exacta!" Vaikyuko cried again.

"You aren't Findor. This isn't his battle with Shuuhei. This is between you and me."

"Why are you fighting me?"

"You're in the way. I have to help GOA win if I ever want to be with Shuuhei. She'll set him free for me."

"Nutmeg, Shuuhei's not real," Vaikyuko sighed, squeaking out the last word.

"He has to be," Nutmeg said quietly as she put a hand over her heart. "I have to believe he is. Otherwise, what am I fighting for?"

Vaikyuko looked down and Nutmeg took advantage of the moment to strike her. One of the blades on her scythe cut down Vai's side.

Nutmeg grinned. "I can't believe you fell for that."

"Dammit Nutmeg! Quit trying to rip off my clothes."

"You wish, Princess."

"You don't believe GOA's going to give you Shuuhei when this is over?"

Nutmeg sighed. Holding her scythe in front of her to defend herself, she looked at Vaikyuko.

"I want to believe her but there's a tiny part of me that thinks she might be lying to me. Like she wants me to lose so she can win." Nutmeg shook her head. "Regardless, I must get rid of you."

Vaikyuko swung her blade, dislodging Kazeshini from Nutmeg's grasp. Throwing down her own sword, she walked over to Nutmeg and slapped her.

"That's for leading me on." The Princess hrmphed and preened for a moment before Nutmeg lashed out and hit her. Blades lay forgotten as they used their fists on each other.

Vaikyuko's hand came around Nutmeg's choker. Nutmeg fell to the ground, hitting her head hard. The choker broke spilling the rectangular beads on the ground around Nutmeg.

"I'm sorry it had to come to this, Nutmeg," Vaikyuko said with a sigh as she bowed her head before her friend.

"She'll be ok," said a man's voice as he knelt down beside Nutmeg.

Vaikyuko's eyes shot open and she looked at the man. "You're...You're..."

The man smirked, his grin lopsided due to the three scars that ran down the right side of his face.

"Your GOA told Nutmeg what Nutmeg wanted to hear. She said what she had to in order for Nutmeg to join her. She didn't know how right she was." With that said, the man known as Shuuhei lifted Nutmeg into his arms and carried Nutmeg away from the battlefield. "I'll take care of her. Don't worry."

Vaikyuko sighed. "When she wakes up..."

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"So she was defeated after all?"

Goddessofanime spoke to the other man over the phone, hiding her disappointment carefully as she stood by in wait for Haruhi.

"She's fine, GOA," the man assured her. "I promise you, she won't be in any further danger while I'm around."

"Thanks for the help, Mister..." GOA replied, only to be interrupted on the other line.

"Please, call me Shuuhei from now on. Any other identity of mine no longer has any meaning. That's what we agreed upon, isn't it?"

"... Indeed. Thanks for reminding me."

As soon as GOA hung up, she found herself already face-to-face with an unexpected, yet familiar presence. Stifling her disappointment over the figure not being Haruhi, she nonetheless drew her banhammer in preparation.

"Hello, Goddess," A Dead Spy welcomed with a contempt tone of voice. "Prepared to suffer by my hand already?"