Me: Nice to see we got a few reviews for the previous chapter, am I right, Neo?
Neo: *Nods enthusiastically*
Me: Anyway, each chapter where a key character comes into play in this story, I'll post the card stats of their signature creature at the end of the chapter.
Neo: *Holds up a sign* {And their stats will be those from cards that he has a copy of, like Lord Van Bloot or his recently obtained Chaor card.}
Me: Thank you for sharing that, Neo. Now, if you'll excuse us, we're off to Dranakis Threshold for a Scan Quest!
Neo: *Holds up new sign* {We are?}
Me: Yes, we are. I promised Kiru I'd help repair Kiru Village. But before we go, I'd like to ask… is anyone out there interested in writing a spin-off story of this one featuring Team RWBY? Private message me if you're interested, and I'll help you get started.
***I still don't own Chaotic or RWBY!***
/Previously on Team JNPR's Adventures in Chaotic…\
"COME ON! STOP BEING SO LAME, AND FIGHT!" Takinom demanded.
"Time out! TIME OUT!" Heptadd cried in panic.
"Game over, Jaune!" Takinom gloated as she floated closer to Heptadd. "Welcome to Chaotic!"
With that said, Takinom opened her mouth and exhaled an intense fire attack. Heptadd had no choice but to jump off the cliff in order to escape Takinom's Torrent of Flame attack. But he started screaming as he realized that he had just made a huge mistake in doing this.
/Now\
Heptadd was screaming as he plummeted to his doom in Glacier Plains. And out in the Chaotic snack port, Pyrrha was cursing herself for not forewarning Jaune about the transformations. Now it was biting her in the butt since her team leader was losing hard.
"Excuse me," she said to a service drone. "Can I please get a chocolate milkshake? Make it a double."
But at a table away from the group, a shady looking man in a bowler hat known as Roman Torchwick was watching with mild amusement.
"Looks like that wimpy blonde is about to bite the dust. (HA! "Dust"!) Too bad, he looked like he had potential." Roman said to himself.
He took a sip of his root beer float before turning his attention back to the match.
Meanwhile, back in the Drome, Mercury as Takinom was laughing at her opponent's misfortune.
"Come on, dude, at least lose with some dignity!" she taunted.
But as he was falling, Jaune as Heptadd gasped. He had a vision of something in the cliff a little further down. Narrowing his eyes in determination, Heptadd righted himself in mid-air and reached out towards something.
BAM! He grabbed a bone white branch that was his saving grace! As he calmed down a bit and caught his breath, Heptadd knew that something was off about what had just happened. However, at the Chaotic Snack Port, the crowd that had gathered began cheering as the tides began to turn.
"THAT'S THE WAY, JAUNE! Take control! Get in touch with your inner Heptadd!" Pyrrha cheered
But she and the crowd were completely unaware that Roman had moved closer to watch the match. Of course, he had no intention of causing trouble. He just wanted to see if this was actual skill, or just beginner's luck.
Meanwhile, in the Crellan Drome, Jaune as Heptadd was having his own mental debate.
"That was so weird. Just for a moment there, it was like I knew that Heptadd knew about this branch. Just like he knows that it's… NOT A BRANCH!"
Indeed, it isn't. What Jaune as Heptadd saw when he looked at what the "branch" was connected to, he freaked as he saw that it was a skeleton of a prehistoric creature of some kind frozen in the ice. Heptadd yelped as a fireball suddenly sailed right past him, and Takinom came flying into view.
"So, you're finally getting into character. Good! I'd hate it if I won the match too easily!" Takinom taunted.
As she threw more fire at Heptadd, the Guardian of the Overworld began to swing himself back and forth on the frozen bone. After a few swings, he managed to launch himself into the air in Takinom's direction. She failed to notice this until she stopped her fire attack. Heptadd grabbed onto her leg adding his own weight to hers, and causing her to drop a few feet. Hey, while he's not that tall, it don't mean he's not heavy.
Of course, Takinom began to struggle as they fell. Especially since Heptadd grabbed one of her wings, preventing her from staying airborne.
"LET GO, YOU DOOFUS! I CAN'T FLY LIKE THIS!" Takinom demanded.
But Heptadd just smirked at the demoness warrior's dilemma.
"I know. How about letting ME fly for awhile!" quipped Heptadd.
It wasn't a question. It was Heptadd's plan, as he made perfectly clear when he grabbed her other wing and made her fall even more. From within Takinom's mind, Mercury could see that they were heading straight for a wall made out of thin ice, and gasped as he realized that they were gonna crash.
And crash they did. Both creatures ended up breaking through the wall, causing it to shatter like glass. Fortunately for Heptadd, he let go at the last second and landed on his feet, gliding across the ice like he was wearing a pair of skates. Takinom wasn't so lucky. She hit the icy ground hard, but managed to flip and get back to her feet.
She gasped in surprise as electrical currents began to gather between Heptadd's hands as he powered up an attack. Takinom's eyes widened as she realized that she was in big trouble now.
"Pebble Storm!" Heptadd yelled.
From his abdominal area, Heptadd launched a hail storm of sharp rocks at his enemy. Takinom barely managed to jump out of the way just as the attack missed. She landed with a satisfied smirk on her face.
"Finally, you're fighting back!" Takinom said before asking "Can't you do better than pebbles?"
"How's THIS?" Heptadd asked.
He jumped into the air to gain the force needed to launch the greatest and most powerful Earth based attack in all of Perim.
"Rock Wave!"
The force of Heptadd's fists landing on the ground was enough for him to launch a wave of icy rock at the demoness warrior. Takinom was too stunned to dodge, and ended up getting hit by that devastating attack and losing a good chunk of energy.
"Best. Game. Ever!" Heptadd said to himself.
As Takinom flew back into the air, Jaune as Heptadd felt his confidence returning in full.
"How's that for an attack? Too hot for ya?" Heptadd taunted.
Takinom flew higher into the air, and began to gather fire all around her body in order to use her strongest attack. An attack that was well known throughout the Underworld.
"I'm more than hot. I'm on fire! No one's ever survived my Torrent of Flame attack!" Takinom declared, sure that victory was hers.
"Uh oh, now she's REALLY mad! And there's nowhere to hide!" Jaune thought in panic. "I've still got my Battlegear, but... No! If I'm gonna beat Takinom, I'll have to use Mugic to beat her!"
Using Heptadd's only Mugic Counter, Jaune was able to activate the Mugic that he'd chosen specifically for this battle.
"I just hope I chose the right one!"
Seven musical notes began to play as the melody of Jaune's Mugic sang to help its caster.
"SONG OF RESURGENCE, RESTORE MY LOST ENERGY!" intoned Heptadd.
As the Mugic played, Heptadd was bathed in a bright pillar of blue light. This light restored Heptadd's energy from the fifteen points it was currently at, all the way up to thirty-five. Once that was done, it proved to be just enough as Takinom launched her attack and dealt ten damage to Heptadd, bringing his energy down to twenty-five.
"Okay, that was a pretty good move. But what's say we start fighting fire with fire, hmm?" Heptadd asked.
He thrusts his arms forward and unleashed an indescribably powerful fire and earth based attack.
"Lavalanche!" yelled Heptadd.
He shot a concentrated stream of lava at Takinom with the concussive force of a grenade from Nora's hammer. It scored a direct hit, dealing twenty damage to Takinom, but it felt like more due to the Elemental powers it felt like a lot more. But the Lavalanche attack isn't what dealt the finishing blow to Takinom. Not on its own, at least.
Takinom screamed in rage and disbelief as she hit an ice wall that did her in. In a burst of code, she was defeated and the players were sent back to the Crellan Drome. And those who were watching were cheering something fierce from seeing such an awesome ending to what started as a goofball trying to fight. Pyrrha was so proud of her White Knight that she hugged a passing service drone.
"The winner: JauneOfArc."
"MARK MY WORDS, DUDE, YOU AIN'T SEEN THE LAST OF ME!" Mercury declared as he stomped out of the Drome.
"I did it…! I really did it!" Heptadd said in shock and awe.
With a cheer he leapt up and punched the air in victory before turning back into Jaune in a swirl of code. He could honestly say only one word to sum this up.
"Major!"
Meanwhile, outside of the Drome, Pyrrha was waiting patiently for Jaune to arrive. The door opened and the blonde huntsman-in-training came rushing out. And boy, does he look excited!
"DID YOU SEE THAT, PYRRHA? I was Heptadd! And I used Mugic, and attacks, and Battlegear! I was…"
"Whoa-ho, calm down there, tiger. I saw it all on the viewing screen. You were awesome for your first fight!" Pyrrha complimented.
Jaune walked over to the railing to get a better look at the area and smiled.
"All this time, I've wanted to know if Chaotic was a real place. And now, I see that it's true." Jaune said. "I sure with the professors were here to see this."
Suddenly, Jaune remembered something very important.
"THE PROFESSORS! Oh man, they're gonna kill us for cutting classes like this!" Jaune freaked.
But Pyrrha didn't seem worried.
"Don't worry, Jaune, neither of us are skipping any classes. In fact, we're probably back at the dorm getting ready for the day as we speak." Pyrrha assured.
Upon seeing her leader's confused face, the redhead spartan decided to explain the inner workings of Chaotic to him.
"You see, before you enter the code that brings you to Chaotic, there's just one of you. But once you input the code into your Scanner, it creates and sends a mental avatar of yourself to Chaotic. In summary, there's the you in Remnant, but there's also the you that's in Chaotic." explained Pyrrha.
"How's that even possible?" asked a very confused Jaune.
"How'd they learn that pancakes taste better with syrup? WHO CARES!" shouted a girl that made Jaune leap into… Ren's arms? "All that matters is it happens!"
Yup, you guessed it. Nora's here. And in Ren's arms, Jaune was shaking like a chihuahua.
"NORA, YOU KNOW I HATE THAT!" shouted Jaune.
That's when the young Arc realized what had happened, and who was currently carrying him.
"Oh, hello Ren." Jaune said.
After putting the poor boy back on his feet, Ren decided to take over the explanation, pointing at a button on Jaune's Scanner.
"When you are ready to go back, all you have to do is push that button there. It will activate the Command Code that will transport you back to Remnant, where your physical self will receive the memories of everything you did here in Chaotic." Ren explained.
Trusting his friend, Jaune pushed the button on his Scanner… only for nothing to happen. He began to grow frustrated as he repeatedly pushed the button, only for Nora to snatch it from him. She fiddled around with it, grinning the whole time.
"Don't worry, Jaune-Jaune, your Scanner's fine. It's just that the you on the other end isn't picking up." Nora said.
She gave her fearless leader back his Scanner before they all made their way back to the Transport Center.
"When you enter the code and transport, your Scanner seems to go dead and you can't access your online deck. That's because the you that's here in Chaotic is using them to play." Nora further explained. "A lot of new players freak out when they think their Scanner's dead. I know I did. I was so mad, I almost smashed it with my hammer!"
"But then couldn't you just get a new Scanner?" Jaune asked.
Pyrrha decided to field this one.
"Well, um… it's a little more complicated than that. If your Scanner is destroyed in the real world… then you're stuck here: forever!"
"But let's not dwell on that, let's trade! I've got a scan of Gharnet with your name on it, Jauney!" Nora said in her usual bubbly self.
It amazes me how one can be so carefree.
***To Be Continued…***
