“Alright, it’s about time we headed out,” Kenta finally decred. Barely ten minutes had passed since their tryst. His head was still buzzing and he just wanted to y down, but there wasn’t the time. Fuck it. If he got moving for a bit he was sure he’d feel better. “Hey, wait a minute!” squeaked a little voice. Kenta turned and looked over at Cozy, who was standing with her hand on her hip, waggling a finger at him. “Isn’t this kinda weird? You all got cool upgrades, but I haven’t gotten jack! What’s da deal, huh?” Kenta thought it over. Yeah, she had a point. He and the other two girls had all powered up, but Cozy still had nothing to defend herself with. It hardly seemed fair with all the gear just ying around, did it? Maybe she could get some sort of bonus too. So, without thinking and before she could so much as protest, Kenta retrieved the goth nipple piercings they’d found and locked them into pce on her bountiful pink nubs... and while Cozy was gasping from that, slipped the bullet vibe up her pussy, clicking the strap to her thigh. "What're you - !? Y - you fffffwucking morwonnnnnnnnhhhghgh~" Cozy's words finally caught up with the sensations storming her senses and she cried out as the pulsing vibrator, still slick with Fluttershy's juices, buzzed in her tight little pussy all the way to her core. Her knees buckled from the sensation, and she leaned back against a bench, legs spread wide and thrusting her hips as she squirted a sticky mess all down her trembling thighs. That alone would have been more than enough to validate it all to Kenta... but he didn’t have to wait long for the magic to start working. “It’s... Yeah, it’s definitely doing something.” Fluttershy and Sunset crowded around excitedly. Cozy’s body reacted to the nipple piercings first, cotton candy curls darkening and the bow in her hair becoming a deep purple. Her lips plumped up, painted a shiny shade to match her bow, with dusky eyeshadow completing the look. With a deep moan, her already absurd tits expanded, wobbling with impossible liveliness. They looked so much more heavy and soft now, but still remained almost weightless despite coming down almost to her knees. Both nipples suddenly loosened like spigots, and she moaned as twin streams of milk began to pour, adding to the mess of semen and milk they’d already sloshed everywhere~ “Ouuuuhhh fuck.” In-between her oversexed panting, Cozy shot Kenta with a smoldering, annoyed gre - but she didn't make a single move to take off her new accessories. Suddenly seeming to not care they were at all, she put her hands on her rack... grabbing two handfuls of full, soft tits, sinking her fingers in and pying with the chain connecting the skull ornaments now dangling from them. But she didn’t get a chance to go much further: Sunset was feeling the mood for adventure. The feiry redhead raised her fists, fingers creaking in her tex gloves as she squeezed them tightly. She had a triumphant, serious look on her face, even as fresh semen was still slopping out of her. "Alright, girls! ... And Gentleman." "That's enough slutting around! Let's find our lost student, beat up whatever baddy is still hanging around, and then go back to Kenta's pce for a celebratory orgy!" Fluttershy and Cozy both thrust a fist in the air too at her decration, cheering in agreement. She came over, helping Kenta and Cozy get to their feet. --- The four of them started making their way back to the cafeteria area. Cozy seemed naturally attuned to whatever kind of signals the Geodemons were putting out, and had long since locked on to the st remaining blip on her mental radar. "These things kinda creep me out... Like I said, they're not like us Generals, they're just... mindwess, wampant gwowth... We gotta put a stop to it before they consume the whole school!" Sunset thumped a hand on her bicep, thrusting her other fist up in a flourish straight out of a fighting game. "No sweat! We've collected enough loot around the school to take down any dumb ass boss battle!" Cozy and Sunset looked eager to fight, rushing ahead through the cafeteria. Which left Kenta at the back, and... He suddenly felt a hand timidly gripping his from behind. All the fire previously possessing Fluttershy seemed to have been completely sucked out. How she was now reminded him of how she'd been the very first day they'd met, dark eyes peering up at him out from under sheets of thick pink hair. "Ummm... Err..." She gulped. "Sir... I'm... I..." "I just wanted to say... I’ve calmed down now. And... And I'm really sorry for all the trouble I caused you." She trembled, but forced herself to keep going. "I know I've been... umm... a real pain in the ass for you to deal with tely... but I really meant what I said earlier. I promise I'll be a good girl from now on." She squeezed his hand, just a little bit fiercely. "So... U - Um... The way you fucked me before earlier was good, but..." She let go of his hand, finally hiding her face behind both of hers. She looked helpless to finish what she was saying. “Oh my god, I can’t say it!” Kenta looked baffled. He wanted to put his hand on her arm, but settled for sympathetically rubbing one of those absurd melons protruding far, far past the rest of her and filling up the space between them. “It’s okay. Whatever you wanna say is fine.” Fluttershy finally screwed herself up and blurted out: "The way you made love to Sunset Shimmer looked really nice too! And I might want that sometimes!" She clutched her heart, breathing heavily, eyes wide, as if she'd just run a mile. It was a good look with the cheerleader uniform. But wasn't this starting to sound a bit like a...? "I... I think... Umm... I think I'm in love. With you, sir. As well as Sunset. I mean... Even when I was being a... a bitch... you were nothing but n - n - nice to me, so... Can I also sometimes - only sometimes! - be... more than your, um, toy? Please?" "... If... If that's okay?" It was a love confession only a hyper-breasted fucksow like Fluttershy could deliver. A girl who seemed very, very aware of what would happen to her if she ended up in the clutches of a guy who didn't care about her as much as Kenta did, a guy who would use her until he was satisfied and then ruthlessly toss her aside. Wanting to be used like a masturbation toy, but then loved afterwards... It sounded like a walking contradiction. Or it did until you realized just how fragile this girl's heart really was. Fluttershy had been winging it up till now, but she’d suddenly realized a guy like Kenta wasn't just going to wander by randomly every day. Or possibly ever again. In turn, he responded by wrapping his arms around the fragile girl, hugging her tightly. Despite everything that had happened, or maybe even moreso because of it, he wanted to protect her as well. At the end of the day, she was just a lonely girl who wanted more than anything to find her pce in the world and feel loved and appreciated. There was no way at all that he could ever deny someone like that. "Hey. Hey, it's okay. You're gonna be okay." Kenta gently spoke to Fluttershy, stroking her hair with a hand while keeping the other around her to hold her close. He still didn't particurly understand what she saw in him, but if just being himself was helping her, then he would keep being himself. This was no time for indecision or introspection, she needed him to be resolute. To be fair, it was a little hard to do so with his cock pressing up into her gigantic, warm cleavage... but he tried his best to ignore that he was leaving a small, clear trail running down her front. There were more important things going on. "You're way stronger than you think you are. There's no way I'd ever ignore determination like that. I'll do my best." With a warm smile, Kenta pced a hand on her chin. He tilted Fluttershy’s face upwards, and brushed her hair away. Resolving him, he leaned in, kissing the suddenly small-looking girl on the lips, tenderly but firm. Not a ravenous, lustful kiss, but reaffirming. At least he hoped it came off that way. This was a bit of a complicated situation. But regardless of complications, he wasn't about to let down someone who trusted in him. After a bit, he broke the kiss off, looking at her with a determined smile. "Now let's go save your cssmate." Fluttershy opened her mouth to say something, but didn’t get to finish: both of them were startled by surprised excmations from the far end of the room. Cozy and Sunset had found something. The cafeteria was exactly how Kenta remembered it. Rather than walling off the divide between this facility and the school's courtyard with the same brick comprising the rest of the foundation, an entire wall of segmented gss windows provided a lovely scenic view. One of Celestia's many artistic flourishes about the pce, yet perhaps the first not involving exposing the lovely bodies of teenage sexbombs. Cozy and Sunset were now pressed against this wall of gss, peering outside into the courtyard, and Fluttershy and Kenta wordlessly took their pces beside them, just as bereft of means to describe the intimidating sight that y before them. The centre of the school's courtyard, with its rosebeds and great marble fountain, had been dragged apart by a great whirling vortex of bckness ced with cycling grays, reds and whites. A tornado that would never be found anywhere on earth, that spiraled high into the sky, following an untamed pattern that looped around on itself countless times. This was the source of the enemies that had troubled them so much, that much was clear. And in the rubble of those rosebeds, stood a small figure three of them immediately recognized, with only Cozy left in the dark: a short, well-developed girl in a bck raincoat, her bob wild and unkempt in the whipping winds ravaging the schoolyard. Of course Kenta would recognize that somber-looking student with the bright purple eyes immediately. He still thought about how she’d fallen into Rakuraizer’s cockpit that day. How he’d saved her from the mantis back then, and how she had been the first to cheer for him during that fight. Now that same girl was here, in danger again? Like hell he was going to stand around and let that happen. At first, she stared up at the thing, seemingly captivated by it or studying it... but when she finally became aware of their presence, she turned slightly enough to look back at them over her shoulder. Violet eyes opened, glowing. A moment ter, and tears welled at their corners. "I'm sorry... I'm sorry for doing this, sir... but it's too te now. This is for the best." "Please... Just get out of here." Rose Lalonde moved to turn away, looking back towards the malevolent specter. For a moment, it seemed like something stirred in that wild tornado's depths, three fshes of red in the shape of narrowed eyes and a sneering smile. Raising her arms, Rose took a step towards it. "Rose!" Without stopping to think, Kenta ran forward, driving his boot through the rge gss window with a crashing sound. A shower of glittering light rained outward, reflecting bck and red hues off the shards tumbling down around him. He bolted through the opening towards his student. Kenta came hurtling out of the school building, dashing full-speed for Rose and leaving a trail of broken gss in his wake. Running, practically leaping, he dashed for Rose, looking to sweep her up as he did on that day and carry her away from harm. He didn't care what was going on. The rge and foreboding tornado meant little to him. Once Rose was safe, he would deal with the presence haunting this school and teach whatever force was causing it so that no one messed with his students. The girls hurried along behind him, spurred on by the sound of his voice. Fluttershy and Sunset were just as resolved to save Rose as he was. Mere feet away from her, the winds suddenly whipped up, lifting Kenta into the air and hurling him backwards. He nded with a heavy thud on the grass. Meanwhile, Rose took a deep sigh, and turned to face him fully. Their eyes met. ... Everything went bck. --- When Kenta came to, he stood in an endless void, a short distance across from Rose. Wherever they were, it seemed safe to assume it was a pce even less real than the school they'd been fighting their way through. This was a ‘constructed’ pce, artificially created by Rose, where they could talk without interruption. She smiled forlornly, looking simultaneously impressed with him and struggling with a sense of defeat. "I should have expected something like this to happen. I know how bad this must look, really." "But you really don't need to worry about me... This is for the good of everyone, really. That thing... It's our ally. Really.” “What?” “It’s true, Mr. Tadashii. Semiramis hates the aliens as much as we do. Once we’re joined together... it will help you defeat them." Even as she put on a brave face, a note of hesitation still lingered in the youthful girl's soft, sweet voice. "I want to do this. For you. For everyone.” "Whoa, slow down a second, here... Join with it...?" True, he wasn't exactly very bright and she was smart as hell, practically top of the css, but regardless of that, 'joining' with something that looked like a big, evil tornado seemed like a pretty bad idea. Kenta thought back to his talk with ATHENA and how the AI had told him that he would have to give his life to save the world. He was instantly ready to do it, too, if Swan hadn't talked sense into him. As he looked at this situation, with one of his students ready to just throw away her life for his sake, his anger almost boiled to the surface. No. That wasn't how things should be. Kenta painfully picked himself up off the ground as he tried to get his bearings. He marveled at the strange, endless void for just the briefest of moments, before fixing his full attention back on Rose. "Like hell I'm gonna let you throw your life away like that!" Kenta's excmation rang out in the vast abyss, echoing. He stormed up to Rose, pcing his strong hands on her shoulders. He fixed her with a stern gaze, resolute in his words. "You're way more important than that. So the thing hates the aliens too? That makes it a good idea to just give up?! It's just a dumb space tornado! You're my student! You're smart, so maybe you think that one life for the whole world is a good trade, but..." "Who cares what that thing thinks it can do? I care about what you can do.” Kenta jabbed a finger into Rose's chest, the digit sinking into the soft skin of her breast. "...What's in here, your soul contains an infinite number of futures. You're gonna do so much more, be so much more! You're my student, so that means you’re bright enough to be anything! So who cares about the rest when you already got INFINITE worlds?!”“Wh - What are you saying...” she said, shaking her head. A tear formed at the corner of her eye and she backed away slightly. But Kenta wouldn’t be dissuaded so easily. “You’re amazing. Infinite possibility doesn’t even begin to describe you... There’s no way some big scary whirlwind can measure up to that!" Kenta had never felt like he was good at speeches, but he tried anyway. The words spilled out of him. He just couldn't sit by and let one of his students go through with something like that. "Plus, I still haven't given you your physical yet!" Rose looked frustrated, at Kenta, or at herself. "Don't you think... I know that...? Of course I don’t need to do this...” She balled her fists by her sides, shaking. "But this just isn’t fair! On you!" It was his turn to be lost for words. “Rose...?” "When I realized you were the one piloting that robot... when I realized you were fighting alone for all our sakes... that's not fair! It's too much of a burden for one person to carry." "Look, Mr. Tadashii, I know you're prepared to die for us. And that’s what scares me.” She put her hand on her breast. “If you could give your life to make things better, you would... That's what makes you a hero. Why won't you let me take on that risk, too?" “You think I’m a hero?” he shot back. “What the hell makes me a hero?” Why should Rose sacrifice herself for something like that? He couldn't help but think of Director Swan wrapping her arms around him, ordering him not to die. "Enough! So yeah, I'm the one who brought the demon here! Everything I've done has been for this moment. A moment that I've chosen! Right now, that thing is in pain. It told me... that if it doesn't find a... host... to fuse with, it's going to continue this endless, painful growth. But if I become a part of it, it can fight alongside you!" "I've decided to do what I can to keep you safe... But there's only so much I can do as one of your students. What the hell is the life of one girl compared to the fate of everyone else at the academy? That's why I want you to understand... this is just the best use of the resources avaible to us.” She took a deep breath, and said perhaps the st thing he wanted to hear: "If you die, we lose the one person who can save the world. And you're just too stubborn to see that. I’m just a student... Me dying is a hundred times less serious than a pilot like you dying.” “That’s why... if I can do something to maybe save your life, I will.” Then Rose thrust him away, raising her hands, beginning to dissipate this void around them. In the real world, she was being lifted up towards the vortex, those whipping bck winds closing around her body. "Now go, before I change my mind." Kenta fought against the winds. He pushed forwards, trying to force himself against the winds and into the vortex to try to grab at Rose. "If sacrificing yourself and making everyone around you sad makes you a hero, then screw being a hero!" Kenta yelled. "Screw all of this junk! To hell with those choices of the world dying or one person dying! This world is gonna be fine, and you are, too!" Rose looked down at him with tears in her eyes. “... Do you really think... you can save everyone...?” “Yes! Of course we can!” "We can all make it through this together...?" And then fear started creeping into the edge of her expression, regret at what she'd done staining her beautiful features. "Wait! Kenta, I made a mistake! Kenta, please get me out - " She reached out for him, hoping to catch his hand to be pulled back to the world of the living, even as the darkness drew her deeper down. More and more of Rose was vanishing, being pulled below the surface of whatever this thing was. Soon, all that remained was her fear-filled face and the arm stretched out towards him... but even that slipped through his fingers and vanished. Kenta hung in the void, alone. Then everything went white. --- Kenta was back in the school's courtyard, the roar of the wind filling his ears again. Fluttershy and Sunset stood on either side of him, weapons raised. The tornado began to take a more solid form. Two huge arms burst out of its body to either side, moving to defend the unconscious figure of Rose floating inside. It shed out with sharp cws, raking through the flower beds and tearing stone and dirt apart in its wake, even as that malevolent face within fixed him with its red eyes. With a human partner within itself, it had gained significant strength and no longer struggled to maintain a physical form like before. It was very clear this thing wasn't going to be giving Rose up without a fight. "Hey! Kenta! I'm sick of looking at this fucking thing... Let's take it apart," muttered Sunset, lifting her pole. Fluttershy raised her hands as well, beginning to charge up the magical energies she'd been gifted with. "Right! Until Rose is free, we won't stop fighting!" Cozy sneered, doing the same. "This thing's just a wild dog that needs to be put down... I'll gwadly volunteer." But before Kenta can give the call to charge, the fiend before them raises its cws defensively. It looked at Kenta with narrowed, baleful eyes. "Wait!" Its voice is like the roar of fire and the sound of shifting shadows all in one. Powerful and alluring in equal measures. "Wait. The one you call Rose speaks the truth. We have no quarrel with you." "You have been attacked by our shadows... and for that, we apologize. Without the stability added by the presence of another's mind, our growth was wild, unchecked and dangerous. With the addition of the Rose Consciousness, we now have total control." "It is a control we wish to share with you.” It makes a surprisingly gentrified gesture, sweeping its hands in a formal bow. "We are Semiramis... the one that Geomorph there calls 'Geodemon'. 'Rose' has already bestowed her lifeforce to us in pact, and our part of the bargain is yet to be done. Lower your weapons... and let us join our forces together to defeat the universal evil... The Condesce." Kenta was left reeling. Geodemon? Semiramis? True, the fact that the thing suddenly began to talk to them was surprising, and the words it was saying was tripping Kenta up. "Simply wish it, and we will return you all to your world, where we will level an almighty assault against your enemies, and burn them all down to ashes." This creature, Semiramis, was obviously immeasurably powerful. Its strength would be an incredible asset in defeating their enemies, and battling against it would make their struggle even more difficult than ever before. But the implication behind its words was obvious: in doing so, they would never see Rose again. “Cozy? Is this thing telling the truth?” asked Kenta ftly. Cozy curled a finger in her hair. “Haaah... Well, he’s as strong as the other Geomorphs you fought, sure. Maybe even stronger... He was fractured, but with Rose repairing him... He could help you, yeah... And a lot of Geodemons do have beef with the boss dy.” Semiramis seemed pleased. “Then you will - “ “It’s still not a bargain I can take,” said Kenta. “Maybe you do have the power to take down the Condesce, sure. But even so, I meant what I said to Rose.” “It’s not a win... unless all of us make it through. All of my students, you hear me?” Stepping forward, Kenta pointed his finger upwards at the rge creature. "Yeah, if you wanna apologize for trashing the pce and being all mean, then sure. If you wanna help out and take out the enemy, then fine... but there's nothing you can offer that would be equal to her life! I don't care how strong you are. If you're asking me to give up her life in order to win... then I'll keep her alive, and still win!" Kenta fixed the huge demon several times his size with a gre, not backing down for an instant. "If you wanna know what I wish for, it's that. I'm done with weighing the values of life against the world... No one has the right to do that!” “Kenta...” whispered Sunset. “So if you're telling me I have to choose between them... then I'll choose both. And if you tell me there's no option to choose both, then I'll make that option! With these hands, and my blood, sweat and tears!!" "Rose!" Kenta yelled out to the dark silhouette inside the wind. "Are you just gonna sit around there like that? You're stronger than this thing!" He could faintly see Rose's outline inside the demon, but her previous struggles had stopped altogether. Unfortunately, his cries had lost their power to reach his student as she hung in its evil guts, forming the heart that pumped the blood that was this thing’s consciousness. "Yeah... You can talk till you’re blue in the face,” said Cozy firmly, “But if you really want her out of there, then the only thing this guy’s gonna understand is getting his ass kicked.” Kenta looked at Cozy briefly, not saying anything before turning back to Semiramis and stepping forward. "Is she right? Am I gonna have to kick your ass to get you to give back my student?" Semiramis raised his cws again. “... We agree with the General’s assessment.” "To give her up is to give up our own consciousness. To return to the painful, mindless, infinite bleeding all over again. The devastation of our psyche would lead to untold destruction all over your human city of Tokyo." "No compassionate being would wish that on another." "We will not give her up." And with that, the creature hurled itself forwards. Previously having appeared rooted to the centre of the garden, this was deeply unsettling to say the least, and immediately provoked a fight or flight response in the schoolteacher and his three battle-ready students.