Reminder: All errors in Excel's and Sumiyoshi's quotes intentional for in-character purposes. Anime/manga hybrid warning since both Roppponmatsus are operational at once and Elgala is present.
The streets of Fukuoka were dark and heavy with the twilight mist, seeming to hang particularly oppressively around the high-rise City Hall in which the Department of City Environmental Security was housed. Unbeknownst to the few citizens ambling about their business in this corrupt world, multiple separate parties were about to have a collision which, though not titanic in and of itself, would reverberate so in the very near future.
The first party, however, was utterly dependent on the mist for stealth since its communications discipline left a great deal indeed to be desired. "I don't understand it, but it's just me! Prowling around F-City just kidnapping Misaki!" Excel's song mostly served to send the crowd running as quickly home as possible to forget this bizarre, scimitar-wielding cosplayer girl they'd just seen as soon as possible. Thus, it was only partially compromising on her part.
Even that was enough for the second party, though. "Hey Misaki! DO YOU HEAR THAT?" Daiten S-Mart, the reanimated cyborg now officially named "Mr. Mitsukoshi" after a failed applicant for the red power suit, and unofficially still Norikuni Iwata to his colleagues in the Special Municipal Force Daitenzin, bellowed to his comrade-in-arms as they continued patrolling the back alleys in search of the ACROSS operative that had just brutally assassinated the Mayor via multiple gunshot and stab wounds all over his body.
"YES idiot, I hear that! And you, unfortunately..." Daiten Fredericks, or Misaki Matsuya as she still insisted on calling herself to spite their madman of a boss Doctor Kabapu, retorted to her cyborg suitor/stalker of many years. "So ACROSS wants me, eh? Well, let them come and get me then... They'll just learn my combined power with the Ropponmatsus and our DOUBLE GIGALOT!"
In perhaps the most ambiguous feature of the Daiten powersuits, Misaki was subconsciously compelled to join hands on that invocation with her two android companions, Daiten Twin Cinemas 1 & 2 or (equally) Ropponmatsu 1 & 2, in a very ecchi pose as they together gave off an aura of lightning that singed the unfortunate Iwata/Daiten S-Mart to a red-suited crisp.
Toru Watanabe, or Daiten Macy's as was his most unfortunate codename, simply hung his head in despair as Iwata moaned in agony/ecstasy despite the world's indifference. He thought, just barely aloud alas like a certain member of ACROSS, "Why oh WHY am I still involved with these people after all these years? Nothing gets done; no progress get's made AT ALL in anything and I'm STILL not in my rightful place at the divine Miss Ayasugi's side..." He started sobbing as the remembered glimpses of his fantasy woman crawling away from the scene of the assassination in a trail of her own coughed-up blood still haunted him into inaction.
"Ah don' think yer' lass is tha' divine an' aall, Watanabe." Daimaru Sumiyoshi, or Daiten Cafeteria rather, corrected his comrade and roommate in typically brusque, accented and nigh-subliminal fashion. "Especially wi' her addin' a count o' capital murdah' to 'er terr'ism rap, like."
"Yeah!" Iwata recovered from his latest Misaki-inflicted paingasm just in time to rub it in, as always. "She'll be lucky just to hang after our country's anal-retentive legal system get's done with her; assuming ol' Kaba-poop doesn't just have us summarily off her, ha ha!" Iwata only had two milliseconds to regret his words before Watanabe's 'Giga Smash' attack pounded him 1.5 meters into the pavement, leaving him dazed yet again.
"SH-SHUT UP! Just SHUT UP you retarded bastard! The only one here deserving summary execution is a certain DAITEN S-MART I happen to know!" Watanabe's reflexive defense of Hyatt prompted him to pour out his mind's latest (feeble) rationalizations to keep her an image of purity in its eyes. "Surely the killer was an evil clone! Or an android! Or some murderous magical illusion thingy designed by the evil ACROSS to frame poor Miss Ayasugi for their dastardly terrorism!"
"Aye... Fellas?" Sumiyoshi began gesticulating for them to notice what was going on behind their argument.
"NO WAY, MAN!" Iwata hauled himself from the hole as he readied his twin beam pistols for the 'Best Electron' special attack. "Face it! Your girlfriend is a wanted terrorist and capital murderess. You're in denial, and I for one am calling an intervention. Who's with me?" The answer he got was hardly the one he wanted.
"AYE FELLAS!" Sumiyoshi subliminally screamed as he whapped them both with his trademark 'Scot Bomber' special attack. "Ah've been tryin' to tell ye an' aall 'at MISAKI AN' SECOND-CHAN ARE GAAN-LIKE!"
"Indeed, senior Sumiyoshi." Ropponmatsu 1 replied with typical blandness as she lay splayed out on the pavement in a pool of morbidly aromatic blood, her head partially popped off and bouncing on its neck spring from an unspecified attack. "During the altercation between Seniors Iwata and Watanabe, Senior Matsuya was bled upon and pinned by a collapsing ACROSS operative who matched Miss Ayasugi's description and stumbled out the back door immediately behind Senior Matsuya. Following this, a blonde terrorist wielding a giant scimitar and screaming indecipherable ACROSS slogans nearly decapitated me in a fortuitiously-timed surprise assault from a nearby alley; then proceeded to drag Senior Matsuya and her apparently-deceased cohort away while Second skipped after them in pursuit. Unfortunately, a katana-wielding terrorist emerged from another side door to City Hall and rendered Second in similar condition to this one shortly thereafter, claiming something along the lines of 'I won't let you touch MY Senior that way, you stinking android filth!'"
None of the remaining Daitenzin wanted to even think about why Ropponmatsu 2 might've pusued Excel in that... particular way. Or about the perfect recording of Elgala's bizarrely opportune counterattack Ropponmatsu 1 had just replayed. With Misaki captured and two of their number down, it seemed that yet again the foibles of Municipal Force Daitenzin had given the Secret Ideological Organization of ACROSS a victory it certainly could not have attained otherwise...
