Chapter 60: EPISODE 60 — “HEARTBEAT BLADE”
"You want to erase me? Then try touching my pulse."
Previously:
Red Claw, a rogue Weapon X hunter, began hunting the Tokyo Avengers, aiming to absorb and erase them through bio-data imprinting.
After testing Kuro and Xylo, he now targets Starwave, hoping to silence her rhythm. But this time, he's walking into a trap... and a duet of fury.
🎬 [ACT I — Tuning the Trap]
Scene: Rooftop Studio — Midnight, Rainlight Glow
Starwave calibrates her resonance boots beside a glowing wall of speakers and spell-tech emitters. Each stomp of her heel sends out a perfect ripple of controlled frequency.
Heartlight leans against the balcony rail, pink wings folded behind him, arms crossed.
HEARTLIGHT:
"You sure about this?"
STARWAVE:
"I've been hunted before. But this time, he's the one walking into my tempo."
HEARTLIGHT (grins):
"Just don't make him fall in love."
She winks, checking her mic-headset. In the distance, Scarlet Onna's charms begin to activate around the Tokyo Dome.
🎬 [ACT II — The Beat Begins]
Scene: Tokyo Dome – Empty Arena, Spell-Sealed
Scarlet Onna, Nekoburst, Onmyo Flare, and Kuro Ōkami monitor hidden perimeter seals. It's a fake concert — no crowd, only illusions and war-grade sound emitters.
Xylo kneels behind the stage curtain, fingers brushing the floor. He stares at his palms — calloused, tense, lethal.
XYLO (quietly):
"He copies with vision. Then he kills with understanding."
KURO (to him):
"Then we blur what he sees."
🎬 [ACT III — Red Claw Descends]
Scene: Center Stage – Lights Flicker On
Starwave emerges under blinding pink and white spotlights, battle heels pulsing with sound.
Her first stomp — BOOM. A sonic ring bursts across the stage.
STARWAVE (into mic):
"Tonight's song is called: 'Don't Touch Me.'"
Red Claw drops into the arena like a falling star — cloaked in red armor, claws twitching like antennae.
RED CLAW (scanning):
"Vocal resonance. Boot structure. Neural sync: captured."
She dashes in and spins into a triple tempo kick. Her heels fire off sharp sonic bursts — they cut air like knives. Red Claw blocks the third with his armored forearm.
RED CLAW:
"Frequency decoded. Speed indexed."
STARWAVE:
"Cool. Try dancing to it."
🎬 [ACT IV — Hand-Cut Heaven]
Red Claw charges. Just as he swings, a streak of white blurs behind him —
Xylo enters the fight — no weapons, just bare slicing hands.
He slides low and slashes upward with his open palm, carving through Red Claw's armor like paper. A visible arc of glowing pressure trails behind the cut.
XYLO:
"That armor's fake. You're soft underneath."
Red Claw turns fast — claws outstretched — but Xylo vanishes into a flip and slices down again with both hands, creating an X-shaped wound across the air, slamming Red Claw back.
RED CLAW (system glitching):
"Hands… weaponless… pressure type… untraceable!"
STARWAVE (airborne):
"Now you're out of sync!"
She lands beside Xylo. They lock eyes. Then—
XYLO:
"Tempo slash pattern: five-step echo."
STARWAVE:
"Rhythm: double burst wave."
They move.
Starwave heel-kicks the air, sending twin sonic circles that distort gravity.
Xylo bounces between them, using the sound rings as springboards — his hands tearing through air, cutting afterimages into the stage floor.
Red Claw tries to analyze — but the data corrupts.
RED CLAW:
"UNREADABLE—UNTRACKABLE—"
STARWAVE (spinning midair):
"Here's your final drop!"
She heel-strikes the ground with a charged stomp. A massive pulse explodes outward, amplified by the entire arena's seal system.
Xylo lands beside her, slicing both palms downward — the air itself cracks.
The shockwave and pressure slash shatter Red Claw's suit, flinging him through five barrier walls.
🎬 [ACT V — Silence Falls, Then Applause]
As the dust settles, Red Claw is gone. Self-teleported. His data extraction systems fried.
Starwave lands, panting.
STARWAVE:
"Told you. You can't cut the beat."
Heartlight rushes in, catching her by the wrist.
HEARTLIGHT:
"That was… ridiculously hot."
STARWAVE:
"You're ridiculously late."
They both laugh, glowing pink and gold.
Nearby, Xylo walks alone, flexing his fingers as his gloves crumble.
Kuro approaches him.
KURO:
"You didn't hold back."
XYLO:
"I never do."
🌀 ENDING SCENE – Red Claw's New Plan
In a dark base, Red Claw kneels before a screen filled with corrupted battle data.
A shadowy voice speaks:
???:
"You failed to copy them?"
RED CLAW:
"No. I failed to understand them."
???:
"Then perhaps… we'll corrupt them instead."
[An X-Men logo flashes in red.]
💠 END CARD – TOKYO AVENGERS
EPISODE 60: "HEARTBEAT BLADE" — END
💥 Next: Episode 61 — "Love Is a Battlefield"
A strange new romance throws the team off balance… just as their next enemies arrive from a very corrupted timeline.