CH#1-Red Heart
A back alley in a collapsing slum, where some kids are playing, an unknown glowing blue object falls from the sky and lands in the bag of candy that some girl is eating some mint candy along her way to school, it is the year 36 of the After Colony- [sorry Gundam wing on the mind], it is the year 37 of the After Commision calendar, where a girl with black hair now is waking up form a nightmare with a flash of red in her eyes with the bright light if the sun leaking through to her via the windows...
...where she has woken up after being blinded by the minute by the sun leaking through the window curtain, where she wakes up wearing clothes that are a size too small, and yes she is wearing boys’ clothes for pajamas, not that she want to change out of them or cared that she is wearing them... and about her dream that turned into a nightmare, that’s very much confidential and isn’t anyone’s business learning about on what that meant...
rouxxe: Hey, what’s that? It looks... weird... phew~! No oversized bust!
...where held over to her chest, where she had some nightmare, where she swore that nothing is piercing her right through the heart, it is now morning, with her suffering from a dream...
...she is a popular tomboy who was a part of the sports team, average grades, where she looked at it, and admittedly, it does look tasty with a cute little engraving molded in the insides of the crystal, where she made a cute little hum, and she packed them all up to snack upon them later ...
Rouxxe: ...alright! rouxxe! After school, you’re not going to fail on the first day on the job!...
...She then got herself dressed for school, where she is enrolled after moving out of her parents’ home, as she just woke up on her bed, she is one of the most popular girls in school, the other students are looking at her where she is one of those rare strong tomboy-types who rarely pop up die to the current state of the world where heroes are all over the place in the planet ever since the “Zero incident” and now the world’s calendars reset to the one important moment; the implementation of the Hero Comission...
...and she dared to even have to eat it, where she went into the school, where the other girls her age all hang out in the entrance, as she went inside, where she looked up to where she could see the latest concert tickets to an idol that is about to have in the city a month from now on the weekend...
classmate: Hey! over here!
...Legend always has it that heroes always have to get all sorts of humble backstories, and noble backgrounds, but this is the story of a century-long legend passing down his power down to a young maiden to free a dying world of lescatie...as the pages of the tome of history show it’s pages...As it shows a girl living her everyday life in her home, being in there the popular tomboy who cuts her hair short and sleeps in class...
Teacher: Hey! Rouxxe!...pay attention in class!
...and so is the side effect of being so popular since day one for being a tomboy, but that isn’t what she wants to do, it is to keep her head down low, and probably try to beat some bullies after school ends, and now what could she do she’s popular and she doesn’t give a damn... She pops it into her mouth like a joke after snaking in the candy that has been found in her bag of treats that she has bought in the convenience store... There’s a flash... A ripple of violet energy... For a split second, the air hums like the turning of gears in the heavens...
rouxxe: ...Ow.... Brainfreeze... Wait, why do I feel... heavy? No, not heavy, is that even legal!?...w-wait! What I mean is that it’s supposed to be finger-licking good, i didn’t mean that you can eat it!?
... And legend has it that heroes always have to get all sorts of humble backstories, and noble backgrounds...where there is always meaning to every story sealed away into the cards, some cards that tell a story, where silhouettes now show themselves to her...
classmate: So...Are you gonna come to the Lucky Cyan concert or not?
...someone that she does not recognize, only for it to come off to an abrupt end as she can hear her speak out to her as if she wants something to say, where two girls are sitting there i their apartment buildings and talking like, as a girl is now looking over her twin sister...
...as she is typing into a forum to sign up for some kind of event, to which
classmate: So hey ...have you started to become curious about us all, about what we have all gone through?
Rouxxe: yeah?... so what?
...as she is looking down at her sister, who lives with her, who is being as lazy as she can be, with her not moving unless she has something fun to do in the meantime... as she ignored her during her classmate’s tyrading rant to her about what to do now that they are
rouxxe: huh?... Wait, I don’t know what you are- kyah!
...She didn’t know what to think of it as she is way too distracted from looking at all of the myriad figures from her many sides staring right at her, to the surrounding shadows that are distracting her from answering the unknown figure’s initial question to involve her in some way...
rouxxe: So I ask you...Will you or will you not choose to get into this underground fight club... to carry your wish, to thousands...and to make us rich or what!?
...She doesn’t know what to do at the time, as there are so many things, but this seems to look like that, as if it is part of a long-lost story of a century-long legend passing down their power down to a young buddy fight to battle in an, glamorous as it is fortress-like in construction...as the pages of the tome of history shows it’s pages...As it shows a girl living her everyday life in the place that the two girls have grown up in... where the wind blows away cards that are yet to tell their stories...
Classmate: Hey! Hey!...pay attention, we’re going to lose again!
rouxxe: I got you, sis...
...as the girl who just never seemed to fit in anywhere, always dozing off into a dream-like state in her mind as she woke back up from reality, as the other young students were laughing at her as the teacher now sighed, as ironic as it may seem... It is not the first time she has been one of the better students in her class...
...she looked up at the other kids, playing the popular game on the streets known to most people as heroes, becoming more popular, as she could hear them voice their moves and counters each time it was their turn, as she showed her the video of a fight between a low-ranking hero and a villain most likely a nemesis of sorts based on how strong they are...
classmate: Look! It’s Queen!
Rouxxe: oh Please... tell me it’s the other queen or else I’m zooming outta here!
...As the school’s bell rings, marking the time for recess, now she has headed off to the school’s card fighting club... After all this, the whole academy’s most popular pastime that is favored is the worldwide popular fandom culture of students admiring powered people known to everyone as Heroes as a part of branch to obtain many more potential soldiers to recruit to fight against the top crome to worlvaving fighting champions and up in the front lines, risking their lives, as she was told in the official stories form the few times she was able eavesdrop on the latest rumor ...
???: Have you heard that this strange woman is appearing and challenging people on the streets?
???; yeah... heard that your game loosely resembles the popular game of HERO work somehow...
???: and if you lose a game, you’ll go to hell or something like that!
..., she rolled her eyes, ignoring the part that had her believing in some fantasy or something of the sort, hoping to get her closer to the bottom of her wayward details inside of her dream, to eventually and hopefully, get her to be transferred to the rumors of what is going on...
rouxxe; you were dozing off in class, so what were you dreaming about?...did you go somewhere sketchy?
Classmate: ...not at all, i just couldn’t sleep well... It all started when i had some strange dream...
classmate; dreams!?...what are you talking about!?...were you attacked when you made those dreams!? i really wanna be one of the greatest heroes out there, once I have a trust value!
...This is just so odd... She never slept late or did anything illegal aside from picking fights with a couple of students who are already known to be troublesome, but she is as good-natured as they come...
Rouxxe: Well...if you really wanna know so badly... I guess it wouldn’t hurt if i just told you right now anyway...
...She stood up straight and then explained what she saw, she had heard in the rumors, which is a whole ton of garbage, and she gave talking to some of her classmates a little bit of a go ...
Classmate: Well...it has this, an armored hero with a horned helmet like this...
Classmate; nope! It was white and it’s more cat-like...like a Nako-Charm~!!
...She uses her fingers to gesture a V-shape to her friend, and the other classmate puts her hands up over her head, hoping to help her get the idea...
Classmate: huh?...so you’re thinking about a new deck in the Onsen shop, huh?
Rouxxe: Well, if you put it that way...
...She paused deep in thought, thinking about the time her brother had first gone missing
Rouxxe: so it is more like an amateur...
classmate: yeah!...and it was very scary!... they were wielding a sword sheathed in a shield, and a lance on the arm!
Rouxxe: And then what happened next?!
Claxxe: and then what happened next, huh?...well, she’s white and armored all over...
classmate: i guess that you have read way too many chivalry isekai fantasy light novels...and i know that you really wanna be a fashion model for a magazine someday!!
Rouxxe; hey! don’t go there!...
...and she shows her status as a tomboy and tops it all off as one of the possibly candidates for the student council president, and is a strong one at that, as she takes an interest in fighting the urge to use her student council president persona to put them both in line, only able to sigh...
Rouxxe: Why you two...
...she still wanted to be like the one whom she looked up to for so long in her life...
: Well...i think it’s pretty cool that i wanted to become a knight in the future... i don’t know if a kid at class is messing with my mind, ...so this is what they meant about the side of me that’s hiding?
...there she is looking at her friends from school as she has already been on her way home after a day of school...
classmate: don’t worry...you’ll find it someday...
...and this is now the time where all times of slacking off must flee form her mind where she is now back to where she has started where all she must got to work on her magic, and after all she is a witch in hiding, who is forced to hide the fact that she is just another everyday person with tomboyish tendencies, even though the place that she lives is a neutral territory...as a witch who seem to not have anything else to do, and is quite proficient in making sure that she isn’t turned on by anyone male until she found the right one, and posing as just another human girl who practices playing that one card game on the side as a hobby now that she has her life turned upside down thanks to what her little brother has shown to her...
Rouxxe: just my luck... another day, trying to figure out what that means...
...so far she is starting to get really
TIMESKIP WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY A CONFUSED LUO LI BEING MADE FUN OF BY NEPTUNE ...
Still intending to go home from another boring day in school after the sun has set, taking the usual route home that she takes along the streets when the sun is setting, but some things haven’t been feeling right since she has been familiar with it since being enrolled in the academy ...
Rouxxe: huh?... i guess it’s time for work...
...she stopped, feeling that something isn’t right as of now something is about to change, the sound of metal clashing against concrete, and then the voices of grown men being stomped on the side in a fight across the street’s shopping district, being the strong responsible type, she ran up to see what is going on...
Rouxxe:...boss...yeah, it’s me, I’m ready for the next shift...so you want me to instigate another gang war again?
...she looked all over to see if there were any of the usually gullible gangsters around the place she could manipulate, and all because she is... A villain, whose job is to wreak havoc...
Rouxxe: alright... found one!
...where she sees, is now about to begin her work, as she is too fast for them to even fight off, as their screams echoes off into the night... where the murderous girl soon turned around to seeing where yuki ichidoji is hiding at, after kicking one of the delinquents by the boxes that she is using to hide behind of some bar where she tries to make herself to look “Available”...
rouxxe:...!?
???: hah?...eh, you again huh?...
...she scoffs as she sees the man standing up after being spotted in the middle of the fight in an alley around some bullies, where she just cracked her knuckles and prepares for battle, as usual, where she has been caught, her fear-based situational powers, where once she can make and break things if she understands what she is using where she can instigate a fight by using her power to make a little dart, albeit with that fact that she has no powers at the moment right now, where she is not being feared at the moment...
???: You expect me to forget that I would forget about you!...
...she is then kneed to the chest and now she is being kicked, unable to do anything as she cannot do anything, nothing but helplessly pinned to the ground, the pain of being kicked and the pain of being used as a trigger for mass-violence...Now running away from the sights of what could be a violent individual who could be responsible for instigating a fight with what looks to her to be some gang, and there haven’t been any problem in the public with local gangs in the area but this is different, it is almost like a scene that a friend has shown to her a movie during the weekend, but she couldn’t keep that promise since she has been finally caught by these hoodlums down here on the streets...
???: hey! i just wanna talk with ya!
...she ignored what she had said, as that had been traumatizing to see, but she has
Rouxxe: This is so fake... It’s not even designer violence...
???:...What did you say!?
...then a pink explosion with several nearby gangsters are on the scene, all fighting, all because of her, and she is caught in the middle of what she has caused from the beginning, where the gangsters have been caught flying mid-air by a pair of giant robotic arms that juggled them...
Rouxxe; huh?... who is that?
...she is now using what is left of her strength to look up, she is now looking up, and who she expected to see isn’t what she was expecting at the moment, but she can see a good look at her face...
Rouxxe:...to...lo-...li...Luo...Li... Lou Li...what’s that girl with that stupid pedo-magnet-named chick here!?
...she is scared not for her own life, but for the reason behind why a friend of hers from school has become involved with these gangsters that she has been provoking to serve as throwable and expendable mooks and grunts to throw at the nearest hero, and that means that she is Loli’s nemesis...
...A march of unholy beasts in the form of gangster from both sides casted away their animosities and treaded their way with their way to now trekked across to the tunnel, following a woman with an brightening aura trailing straight behind her as she is leading the march as she has sensed something with so much power form deep within her domain that is so well-hidden for this long under her nose, where she have been all suited up and ready for action, some really heavy metal action, all as if she is ready for this kind of combat...
...where she is now finding herself in a cavern full to the brim with dead and empty husks that decorated the room with small fighting robots like the one that she is using right now standing behind of her, resembling the like of cute little animals, she scoffed, she has seen that she has been called cute, but why is she fighting...
Loli: ...I’m the hero, Loli! I’ll fight for justice and bring down evil!... So who says a cute girl can’t be a warrior?!...
...grim gangsters did all the tricks in the book to try and stop her, and in the center is her giant fighting robot that she is using to fight, she looked at the lone figure gazing upon the cracked peark with it’s face being shown by the reflection that it is casting, as she stood her ground, just looking at the creature that is standing there...
Rouxxe: I guess you seem to be doing just fine... So you do you!...
...she calmly closed her eyes and then prayed that she could get out of this and maybe not get caught in the process that is an abandoned warehouse in the neon-lit industrial sector. Echoes of drone surveillance, flickering lights, broken crates... And Rouxxe has been caught by underground operatives after she tried to sabotage a staged gang event. She’s done... No more fake street fights... No more playing the puppet...
Loli: You got it through your thick skulls! i am not some run-of-the-mill lil’ cutey you meet every day, got it~?...
...she is punching and kicking through the armed thugs left and right so that she can take on their boss who might be heading into the fray of the fight... The Heroine Luo Li enters moments just right on time following a hacked GPS signal... Proto-armor humming, her fists crackle. She’s been chasing leads on who’s been behind the gang setups, and all paths led here... She’s been beaten to the floor... ribs and some bones cracked.... Designer Villain’s coat torn, she’s coughing blood, curled up, her phone shattered, she finds the thugs regrouping from a distance... And now Rouxxe collapsed in the center, off to the side... Bloody... Barely breathing...
Loli: ...Rouxxe?
...For a moment, she’s frozen, not out of pity, but confusion... Her old neighbor from back in school is here in the same place as her, where she has no time, where there are gangsters out here, and her attention is now divided, where she had to go fight off the gangsters... And as for Rouxxe, all while loli was beating up the gangsters as she passed out thanks to her feeling those wounds in her body of being so beaten up... And now suddenly, a red glow starts pulsing from Rouxxe’s body, and it gets ...
Luo Li: What the hell...?
The CPU Crystal, buried deep in Rouxxe’s chest since that stupid day she ate it, finally activates.Her vitals spike. A heartbeat echoes like thunder... Her body lifts off the floor... Torn fabric is blasted away by a swirling storm of divine code, fashion overlays, and goddess energy... A holographic transformation sequence explodes around her: Diamond heels form first, slamming into the ground....Flowing red energy coils into a high-contrast cape...Her blood is replaced with glowing Share Energy...Her eyes opened no longer scared, but divine in a way...
???: ...I am Red Heart... And I’m done being anyone’s pawn...
...the figure exclaimed out loud, as she emerged from where Rouxxe was at, to where she now looked down at everyone, Loli included...
Luo Li: What the hell...?
...where she looked at the other side of the room with the other feral creatures that are under her absolute control, then one thug charges her... She crushes him without flinching by throwing him across the room like a dead ragdoll that the scum he is... very much Feral...
...with her getting in on as she is now donning a pair of claws connected to a pair of gauntlets that emphasize elongating the fingers of the gauntlets into claws, where her body has grown ever so slightly, with her clothes now being replaced with a leotard that mostly resembles that of a Lingerie...
Loli: Wha-...!? Didn’t know that they’ve been raising such a fear-mongering villain down in here?
...The heroine towers over the newly emerged “Red Heart”, powered by something similar but not even the same as those trust metrics that she has been accustomed to... With Loli, she is still up with her cutsey, confident style...
Loli: What are you, some unranked zero? You’re glowing, but there’s no value to you...
...she is using scanners and her genius-level intellect in her petite frame, or is the scanners failing to tell her about something...
Red Heart: Value isn’t the same as belief... Faith is what kept me going...
...Her friends, kids, neighbors, and many others are all shouting from the sides, calling her name in her mind... Those memories feed her as she remembers her daily life from time to time prior to her eating that strange crystal that is shaped just like a piece of candy... Her form flares with radiant Share energies...
Red Heart: ... I am the Console Patron Unit...Red Heart... I didn’t want to be your enemy... I wanted to be someone real... I just didn’t know how...
...she spoke yet calmly as if she were passionate but holding back someone’s anger from all that she is seeing all around her, that stinging pain inflicted by Rouxxe, where she raised her gauntlets, where she
Loli: No... this can’t be... You’re not even in the system!
Red heart: I don’t need their numbers. I have them...
...She points to her people. Share energy swirls from their hearts like ribbons of light, wrapping around her, and going into her CPU core. She steps forward and punches straight through the gangster’s chest...
Loli: No...just what are you!?... i gotta say, are you the villain that they’re cooking up in their basement?
Red heart: NO... I am red heart... and I am going to be what this world needs, to be free from this cancer...
...she slashed ontothe forklift that was used to try to get her killed by ramming into her , but whatever strength that she has under there was too great for it to handle...
Loli: ...what...
...her clothes are different, but she is most certainly certain that it’s her friend from her old school since becoming a hero, but the battle has just started, and now she has moved onto a offenssive and defensive stance at a time as shown when she used her should to tackle one of them and clawed into him, and that is their boss, the same one that heroine Loli was looking for ...
Loli:...what...
...after the heated battle with Rouxxe- now Red heart’s fiery sense of justice up against them, as the night is now still fresh as the sun now setting, and she is now flying off into the night with the gangsters mostly on the ground defeated, leaving Loli with almost nothing at all to fight off...
...TIMESKIP WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY, RED HEART BEING PATTEN ON THE HEAD BY LOLI...
Now returning back to work with the fact that she has been treated to her wound by her boss who she is sitting on whose lap it is that she is working for in the process, and she told her boss everything, and omitted some things in her report...
...where she is almost told everything, as it didn’t matter to her as all she bothered to care about is nothing but the results along the way, as she can see the name of the boss that she is working under the guidance of, Ghottionna ...
[A/N: Phishing Woman, you know the crime on the internet?]
Ghotionna: so Roux?... what is it do you want me to know?
Rouxxe: um... i did what I was told... and I provoked a local gang, and was caught...
...the room was full of certificates and pictures and plans and schemes in a villain agency, and form what has happened that night and what she has remembered along the way in that warehouse where she was meant to provoke the local underworld to start fighting... and that concludes her report for tonight
meanwhile,??? POV:
...it is so late at night with scientists and government officials on a room looking over the warehouse district where there has been a pair of rival gangs where the hero Loli was there to fight off gangsters that are about to fight in the area.....where there are people crunching the numbers into calculations and there they all are, looking for answer that they cannot reach at the time...
Analyst: ...We’re picking up a massive unidentified energy surge... localized to Slum Block C...
Minister: ...From which hero?
Analyst:...Sir, it’s... not a hero.... it’s something new...
...They tap a screen... The technical Data floods on the screens as the information floods the screens, and they sent the data to the minister of the Hero Affairs Commission [H.A.C.] about this anomalous incident...
Minister:...0.0!? But she’s glowing like all the other heroes! That’s not possible, but- ...Trust governs power! That’s how the system works!
...with burry images from the nearby CCTV camera footage to tell a scattered story, with gangsters taken out, with the heroine Loli there to see it take place, and she disappeared as mysteriously as she came in...
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