The Undying Mecha Emperor

BOOOM!!! B-B-BOOOOM!!!

A barrage of what seemed like rockets and missiles hit us and caused the mecha to be flung this way and that way as Princess Louisa stared at me with a strange dumbfounded look which looked like a mix between disbelief, excitement and… more disbelief.

"Hello? I know I look good, but we're in a battle right here? Focus, girl!" I shouted at her.

"It's been a long time since I was a human, but even with my blurry memory, I know that you DON'T look good." Arabella chuckled.

"You have a lot of things to explain to me later. But now is not the time for that. What is wrong with this girl?" I frowned and stretched out my hand to shake her.

"Hey, Princess! Wak-"

Bzzzt.

A current of strange electricity ran through my body as the tip of my fingers touched her bare skin.

"The Black Dragon will reign as Lord of Lightning, High Necromancer of the Undead and Emperor of Mechas. All three will bow before his will. Beware the Black Dragon. Beware the Black Dragon. Beware the Black Dragon."

BOOOM!!!!

Another massive explosion rocked us.

"Right! Good prophecy! Now wake up and kill those bastards before I do it myself!" I yelled at her crossly.

But Princess Louisa seemed to be in some sort of a trance, and refused to wake up.

"She's prophesying." Arabella suddenly said.

"She's WHAT?" I shouted at her in my mind.

"I will shift the control of this mecha to you. You kill those flies and don't disturb her." Arabella said and caused the controls to disappear from in front of Princess Louisa and appear all around me.

"Prophecies are extremely rare and extremely valuable. Real prophesies, that is. And judging by the strange power surrounding her, this one might be real. Go kill those bugs! From a distance, and don't shake the mecha too much."

"Fine." I sighed and took over the mecha.

I cast out my resonance and realized that having Arabella awake and conscious makes things really convenient for me.

I was able to very rapidly master the intricacies of the alien mecha and within a split second, I was like an old hand with it.

Without hesitation, I drew the mecha's strange rifle and pumped in a huge amount of power into it.

KABOOOOOM!!!!!!!

A massive beam of high density destructive energies exploded out of the rifle and instantly cut through the skies like the breath of a mega dragon.

Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom.

All along its path, explosions sounded as one mecha after another were vaporized.

"Fake ass black dragon cronies. You dare to attack me with your puny little weapons? Let me teach you how a real Black Dragon's attack should be like!" I shouted through the mic and allowed my modified voice to thunder out like the roar of a pissed off monster.

KABOOOOOM!!! KABOOOOOOMM!!! KABOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!

I was not stingy with my teachings and strove to educate them to the best of my abilities.

One destructive energy beam after the other streaked across the skies and turned blue mecha after blue mecha into nothing more than dust particles.

"Hey Arabella. Didn't I say not to make the mecha too powerful?" I complained lightly. "This is too easy!"

"Stop playing with those toys and start looking for the two whites. THEY aren't going to be easy at all. In fact, if you can locate and defeat them in five minutes, I will give you a reward." Arabella said with a light scoff.

"HA! You got yourself a deal. I like rewards, you better don't be stingy and prepare a good one for me!" I grinned and immediately cast out my resonance outwards to look for the two whites.

I found the first one easily enough.

It was a fully armored heavy white mecha that was so sturdy that it looked completely capable of surviving a full blown nuclear blast.

He was standing at the rear of all the blues, slowly but steadily charging up his massive spear.

I took one look at his weapon, and immediately burst out laughing.

"Wonderful. This is going to be a freebie." I chuckled.

Of all the weapon types and energy types he could be using, he had to use the lightning spear!

Massive arcs of fearsome white lightning were crackling all around the tip of his spear and its power level rose at an alarming rate.

If left to finish charging, he would be wielding a Platinum Grade Lightning Spear! It was a faux Platinum Grade Weapon, of course.

The time it took to fully charge was in the minutes, and in battles, he might as well be a sitting duck.

And judging by the fact that he was only charging it after I started massacring his soldiers simply meant that he was not able to hold the spear at Platinum Grade for an extended period of time.

He must have thought that he was being sneaky, charging his weapon up while I cleaned up his men.

But he wasn't the sneakiest in that battlefield.

"I will let him finish charging up, before I absorb all of his lightning energy in one clean swoop." I thought with a self satisfied grin. "Now, let's see where the other one is."

However, the other one turned out to be the real sneaky bastard of the battlefield.

My resonance couldn't locate him at all!

"If my resonance can't locate him, then he must be hiding behind some sort of shield. And the best way to flush out an enemy hiding behind his shield is… by destroying his shield!" I thought to myself.

I switched the rifle to magnetized rapid fire mode and began firing it in every single direction at high speed.

PRA TA TA TA TA TA TA!!!!

Each projectile shot through the skies like a cannon ball and swerved to the nearest magnetic object in its vicinity

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!

The first wave of my barrage destroyed the remaining blue mechas and caused the white mecha still charging up his lightning spear to engage in evasive maneuvers.

PRA TA TA TA TA TA TA TA!!!!!

My second barrage shot out like a peacock's tail and covered most of the major directions.

Strangely, they all shot out in straight lines. That meant that there were nothing near their paths that were in the least magnetic.

I did not give up and quickly launched my third, fourth and fifth barrages in slightly different directions.

However, all of the projectiles ran straight and true.

"Anti magnetic barrier huh? If I can't flush you out that way, then I have no choice but to make this entire place burn. The only spot not burning up is your hiding place." I thought to myself grimly.

I stored my rifle and spread both my arms horizontally to my sides.

A blinding yellow sphere appeared on each of my hands for a brief second before they exploded in a fiery cataclysm that bathed the entire area surrounding me in fire!

"Gotcha." I whispered as I noticed a particular spot that resisted the fire perfectly. I cast out my resonance in that particular spot, and just as I expected, there was a tiny feedback that allowed me to finally latch on to its position.

I grinned in satisfaction.

"Good job. Your skill in wielding resonance is rather pathetic. But you are quite creative, so I guess you still have potential." Arabella remarked lightly.

"I shall be benevolent and consider that as a compliment." I beamed at her mentally as I drew out my rifle once more.

KABLAM! KABLAM! KABLAM!!

A series of high powered blasts on its location was enough to shatter whatever shield it was hiding under, and cause it to appear.

It was a sleek white mecha with a pair of blades as hands, and it looked as dangerous as hell.

"High level stealth and bladed hands? You must be an assassin type bastard." I called out with a chuckle.

"You think you did well in ignoring my partner and focused on locating me instead?" The assassin replied in an amused tone. "You are powerful, but also very dumb. You're definitely not the Princess."

"Hooo. So you guys ARE hunting her down. Bastards. I will represent the Emperor and pass judgment on your actions. And let me see what you guys deserve… Ah right. Air burial sounds good. Die!" I shouted and started shooting at the sleek white mecha.

However, he merely laughed at me and started to fade away from view once more even as he evaded all of my rifle fire.

"Judgement… is reserved for the strong. And you… You're not worthy!" He said ominously.

I merely chuckled and tracked him with my resonance.

There was no way I could lose "sight" of him now that my resonance had locked on to him.

He slowly and counter intuitively moved straight at me instead of circling around to my rear as most newbie assassins were prone to doing.

"Hohoho. He is good." I chuckled to Arabella.

"Yeah. He is. His partner is done charging his lightning spear and he is within striking distance of wherever you intend to dodge. Let's see how you plan to get out of this one." Arabella chuckled back at me.