Terror Infinity - Side B

Chapter 10, Btooom

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Shin's flying kick hit the Btooom Commander squarely in the head.

The kick even in his Unlocked State did little to no damage against the enemy's tough armor, but the force of the kick still blew the enemy away and even knocked the BIM Launcher out of his hands. This was more then enough to secure Hikari's safty for the moment.

The Btooom Commander quickly recovered from Shin's attack and faced him. He wasn't going to let Shin get another surprise attack on him. Not just in equipment, the Btooom Commander was a much higher level adversary than the Btooom Soldiers Shin had just defeated. He focused all of his attention on to Shin, yet that is what he wanted all along.

Shin: ( Great. His sights are only on me now and has forgotten about Hikari. Long as I don't have to worry about protecting her, I can easily win this! ).

Shin said so with confidence, yet the odds weren't with him. He had exhausted almost all of his Ki and worn himself out in the Instant Movement sprinting to make up for the lost time due to the fight with the three Btooom Soldiers. Now, against the Btooom Commander Shin had less then 10% of his Ki remaining and was worn out.

With his broken right hand, which broke to get the last Btooom Soldier off him, Shin only had enough Ki for one last Soul Crushing Strike to kill the Btooom Commander and hardly any Ki to strengthen his body. If he failed he would have to fight with two almost unusable hands and no Ki.

Shin: Just one shot. That's all I need!

Shin began his attack. He ran circles around the enemy and fired off shoots from his handgun looking for an opening to exploit. The Btooom Commander just tightned up his guard and stood with his back against a tree. It looked like Shin was pushing him back, but he wasn't going to be fooled.

Shin: ( This was just supposed to be a small distraction and your acting like you are on the ropes. That armor obviously looks not just cooler, but thicker than the Btooom Soldier's armor and guns did little to no damage them. I won't be fooled to charge in twice! ).

Shin observation was correct. If he were to attack now, the enemy Btooom Commander would have detonated any number of BIMs at close range even if it meant taking damaged as well. Like Shin suspected, an Btooom Commander's armor had 238% more defensive capabilities the an Btooom Soldier's armor and that wasn't all.

The armor of the Btooom Commander raised the wearers battle potential to an extent that he could match Shin's stats if not for his Ki. Rushing in carelessly would only spell doom for Shin, yet because he could only display his full power in CQC, Close Quarters Combat, he had to move in closer at some point. Sooner rather than later, before he runs out of Ki and couldn't use his final attack.

It was as the Btooom Commander gave up pretending to be helpless and began throw countless number of different types of BIM at him when Shin figured out a plan of attack.

Shin: ( Damm! What can I do? What can I do... That's it! If guns don't work then use something bigger and harder to attack!)

Shin put away his handgun and placed his full focus into running away and dodging attacks. Just as the enemy Btooom Commander began thinking Shin had given up or gone mad, something impacted his shoulder hard and threw him off balance, falling to his knees. The attack came from none other then Shin, and what he just thrown at the enemy and was picking up from the ground when he found them were rocks. It was an idea that Shin came up with early on after killing his first NPC.

Shin had noticed that his ability to throw rocks were comparable to cannon fire with how high he could throw them in the air and their accuracy wasn't bad either. He had considered there use as weapons as an substitute to handguns, but forgot about it ( Hikari threw a grenade at me immediately after I had the idea ).

Now that Shin had remembered and knew that small bullets couldn't do the job, he switch to large rocks that had more surface impact against the bullet proof armor of the enemy. Even if not a bullet, the throwing speed of the rocks were almost comparable to bullets and because they were larger, the Btooom Commander was forced back with every hit and had no choice but to stop attacking and genuinely protect himself.

Shin: ( This is working. I'll attack! )

Just as Shin was about to go in for the attack, the enemy Btooom Commander made his moved first. Reaching into his BIM attachment while protecting himself from rocks, he pulled out a single BIM and without throwing it he turned it on.

The BIM was the Barrier BIM and its shield was now protecting him from all sides.

Shin: ( Shit! What a useless struggle. Once the Barrier BIM loses power I'll swift move in with one last Instant Movement and attack. For now, I'll just keep throwing... ).

Shin made a mistake. He didn't think deep enough into the meaning of the Barrier BIM. He just thought that the enemy would take this time to recover and prepare to throw a BIM for the counter attack. The enemy Btooom Commander went beyond Shin's expectations and charged at him while the Barrier BIM was still up.

Shin wouldn't be able to hurt the enemy now, so he was going to escape, but without Instant Movement he couldn't avoid being caught up in the enemy Commanders second attack that he launched. The Btooom Commander threw 1300°C Flammable Oil Splashing Flame BIM all around Shin. Large walls of flames surrounded him from the left, right and behind him, and in front of him charging like a mad bull was the enemy.

Shin: ( Do you want to push me into the flames and burn me alive? And shit, did you have your own sixth type of BIM? You might as well be allowed to use all eight along with Homing and Implosion BIMs, half assed author/God! ).

Now just seeing that the enemy had a sixth type of BIM, Shin saw the enemy Btooom Commander's intention and knew he was trapped. Running through flames only work when in reality when there is a body of water to dive immediately into afterwards and jumping would make him too much of a target to be shot down with another BIM.

Shin: Fuck!

Just the same as the enemy, Shin charged at the Btooom Commander at full speed. Just as they were about to ram into each Shin extended his clenched hand for an attack.

Shin: Soul Crushing Strike!

Shin's Soul Crushing Strike hit head on against the enemy Btooom Commander's barrier and he was blown away, the enemy's shields cracked, yet still held, but the the Btooom Commander was still blown backwards by the monstrous force of Shin's Ki attack.

Shin: Serves you right! Baka!

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Shin: Fuck! I'm screwed!

Despite Shin provocation he didn't stay to fight any longer. With no Ki left or a powerful weapon ( Only had a few Timer BIM, some grenades left over and a handguns in him/Na Ring ) he had no means of defeating the enemy Btooom Commander while he wore that armor. Right now, Shin was just running aimlessly while trying to think of a plan of action, yet he wasn't given the peace of mind he needed to come up with a good plan.

- *EXPLOSION*!!!

The enemy Btooom Commander who must have recovered his BIM Launcher, began barraging Shin from a distance as he followed after Shin. Cracker, Timer, Blazing Gas and 1300°C Flammable Oil Splashing Flame BIM ( Mouth full ). The attacks were incredibly fierce, but loud as well. Shin was even worried the noise had woken up Hikari who was knocked out.

Shin did a quick scan with his radar. He saw that Btooom Commander was not too far behind him and from the direction that he remembered leaving Hikari she was moving about.

Shin: That girl! Coming here to help now wouldn't do any good for either of us. Please just stay hidden and... Wait! What was that?

After a scan to see the positions of the enemy and Hikari, Shin felt a reaction on the very edge of his radar scan.

Shin: This... This is it! If my luck is good then I can make a comeback!

By accident, Shin had found what he believed to be the key to victory. It only had a 1/8 chance of succeeding, but if it did work out then he was 100% sure of his victory.

Shin continued to run away from enemy Btooom Commander chasing him and endured the rain of BIM from above, as he made his way to the small reaction he had. Shin then activated a second scan and found what he was looking for 50 meters ahead of him in the jungle.

Before Shin now was a random NPC. The NPC knew he was found with an enemy's radar, but was surprise by how fast Shin arrived. Thanks to Unlocked Mode Shin was incredibly fast even without using Instant Movement or relying on Ki.

And before the NPC could take out a single BIM to attack, Shin threw all of his remaining Timer BIM set to immediately go off and grenades at the NPC. The NPC was killed without being able to do anything under the large blast of explosions

- SIDE QUEST REWARD 2, NPC CHIP×3 - 30 POINTS ACQUIRED!

Shin: Great, but I can't rejoice now.

Shin was glad for the windfall of chips, but he was definitely not in the mood to rejoice.

What he did care far more about right now and was more delighted to find that the NPC had three Bim bandolier cases on him. Shin quickly found and looked through them. Shin discarded two near full cases of BIM, and with a smile found the type of BIM he was looking for and left with them.

Shin: These are the only BIM that can kill the Btooom Commander. If this doesn't work then I can only greet the god of death ( Soul Eater, Bleach, or Death Note? ) with a smile knowing I'd did my best.

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The enemy Btooom Commander was surprised to see Shin run back to him to fight. The Btooom Commander knew of the injuries to his hands ( Right hanging motionlessly ) and could see the exhaustion on the youth's face. He had no idea where his superhuman strength emerged from, but it was obvious with one look that it was fading and fast, yet it was Shin who knew this better then anyone else.

Shin had a plan that could win against the Btooom Commander, but it wasn't like he had the energy for some grand plan. Only Shin's left hand barely functioned and more importantly his Unlocked Mode or whatever it was was coming to and end, and fearing the recoil he went through before he had to, no neeeded to end the battle quickly.

The Btooom Commander didn't know what Shin was up to, but he wasn't going to take any chances with him. Despite appearing like any other high school age kid, Shin who possessed strength comparable or if not greater then he, who wore the armor that strengthened himself many times over, was responsible for the destruction of his Unit 1. He could only rely on himself now, so he wasn't going to wait and see what trick Shin had up his sleeves.

The Btooom Commander opened fire with the BIM Launcher on Shin who was just ran a straight line at him. In response, Shin ran forward with the very last of the strength that he had and dodged the attacks any way he could while not stopping as he made his way forward.

One mistake would cost him his life, yet it seemed like all story protagonist, Shin possessed the luck of the devil to survive as he was now within reach of the enemy Btooom Commander. He tightened his left fist with much difficulty amd raised it as if he was going to strike down the enemy. Seeing this the enemy Btooom Soldier stiffened up.

He had no idea how, but he saw how much power Shin's attacks held first hand. He had earlier charged forward and was shielded with a Barrier BIM to push Shin into a sea of flames, but with just one punch he blew him away and put a large dent in his shield. He also imagined that it was this one attack that killed his comrades despite them being equipped in their armor.

Once the enemy began fearing what would happen if that attack came into contact with him a second time... he reacted instinctively to save his life. The Btooom Commander stopped firing at Shin and took out and activated a Barrier BIM to defend. Shin's special attack was scary, too scary, yet he knew from experience that the worst it could do to the barrier was put a dent in it.

The enmey was right. Shin's Soul Crushing Strike couldn't hope to break through the shield at its current level, but...

Shin: Baka! Like I have the Ki for such a thing. Die!!!

- *SLAP*!

The enemy Btooom Commander was confused.

Anyone would be if they saw what happened. The moment that Shin's fist was about to impacted the energy shield of the Barrier BIM, his fist opened up and *Pa*, he slapped the shield with his palm. It was only after Shin immediately escape to the side did the enemy Btooom Commander see what Shin had done and what was placed against the his shield.

Implosion BIM.

An Implosion BIM was activated and sucked in it's surroundings, effectively sticking to the the enmemy shield. It was one of the three types of BIM that Shin acquired by killing that last NPC, and he had gained a total of three such BIM. A Implosion BIM wasn't like a normal BIMs that explode like a Cracker and Timer BIMs, but causes an implosion that anything caught in its detonation would collapse/erased from existence. The Implosion BIM unfortunately has a limited range, yet as far as he knew there was no BIM with as much destructive power and could potentially break through the Barrier BIM.

That was Shin's plan. Taking a lesson from Gon from HxH, Shin had bet on the fact that after seeing and experiencing the power of his Soul Crushing Strike, any enemy would fear it and automatically protected themselves the best way they could. For some they might pointlessly raise their arms to guard, but what the Btooom Commander did was activated the Barrier BIM. It was the better choice, yet still a big mistake. As Shin had hoped his foe had used the Barrier BIM. Shin had bet his life on this prediction and won as his purpose was to attached the Implosion BIM to the shield of the Barrier BIM.

Shin: But I am not done yet!

- *SLAP*!

- *SLAP*!

Then for good measure as he was running around the enemy, Shin stuck two more Implosion BIMs on the rest of the sides of the triangle shaped barrier for good measure. When Shin was done he escaped and watched as he saw his own handy work.

The enemy Btooom Commander was trapped in a cage of his own making with three Implosion BIM about to activate. The Btooom Commander tried to escape or throw away his Barrier BIM, but it was too late as the three Implosion BIMs had gone off. Shin then just watched as the enemy was devoured alive by the implosions of the three BIMs.

- SIDE QUEST REWARD 4, BTOOOM COMMANDER CHIP - 500 POINTS AND C RANK REWARD ACQUIRED!

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Shin: ...I...I, I did it!!! Hahahahahahahaha! Take that! I won against you asshole! Look, the protagonist wins in the end so don't feel too-

Hikari: Shin!

Interrupting shin's embarrassing victory cry was the girl who feel unconscious and just woke up due to all the bombs going off, Hikari. Shin was a little upset that his long awaited victory speech was interrupted as he hadn't even gone through half of it, but he was soon overcome with happiness and accomplishment after seeing her.

Shin: I won. I really defeated the enemy and saved Hikari.

Shin was happy for two reasons. The first was that he had overcome his first trial as a battle manga ( or anime, novel and game ) protagonist, but what he was even more happy about was seeing Hikari. She was a little injured, blood running down the side of her head, but she was fine and even moving around. As a comrade and friend, Shin was happy that Hikari was alive and well, but this signified something more to him.

In real life, Shin had not accomplished anything worthwhile. He failed everything he had ever attempted and later stopped trying all together, and could only console himself in the world fiction. Now... He had finally accomplished something. Shin ran, fell, was burned, poisoned and was almost killed by god who knows how many BIM explosions, but he picked himself up time and time again and overcame his limits and... he kept his promise to Hikari to protect her and defeat the enemy.

It was Shin's first real, his first true victory in ever sence of the word. Once he realized this the joy he felt was so great that he couldn't even stand up and fell over. Hikari who saw this thought something was wrong and ran over to Shin... And before Shin did, she saw something right next to him.

Hikari: Shin! Get away!

Shin looked over confused to where Hikari was looking and panicked as well, losing all color in his face. What Shin didn't notice was that right before the Btooom Soldier was killed by the three Implosion BIM, he threw a Timer BIM that landed right under Shin's feet.

It didn't matter how did he Shin missed it all this time as he was basking in his victory, so all he needed to know was one thing. That this was a parting gift from from the Btooom Commander, no, for all those Shin had killed so far, even if they were evil or not. It was a message from all of his victims telling him to join them in hell.

The Timer BIM was set for 10 seconds and Hikari and Shin only realized its existence till it was at 1... and then it hit 0.

- *BEEP*!

Shin didn't have the time or strength to escape and was caught up in a fiery explosion. The last thing Shin saw was Hikari's face which expressed her despair, powerlessness and longing. Then... The world turned to white nothingness.

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Tyrannos Japan: Game Planner Gemu Shusaisha's Report 18.

Real World Btooom Game, Hard Mode - Day 2.

6:27 PM

Players Alive: 8/15.

NPCs Alive: 66/150.

Btooom Soldiers Active: 20/25.

Btooom Commanders Active: 4/5.

Ryota Sakamoto, Btooom Lord Inactive: 1/1.

Daily Minutes -

1. ...Unit 1 has been wiped out. A single player who for some reason we have no information about, defeated them singlehandedly. Caution will be given to future Units 2, 3, 4 and 5 when they are deployed. Also, further reports will be stopped temporarily... The higher ups have said that this is too tedious to read.

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