An ESPer in Remnant
Chapter 3
All right, here's the next chapter of my crossover. I hope all of you enjoy it. I'm also debating whether to have the pairing be a two-girl harem or not. I'd like some input.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
As the students made their decent into the thick Emerald Forest, the lone ESPer, Z, was smiling as he streaked through the air. Thousands of calculations went through his head as he used his brainpower that allowed him to become the 6th strongest Level 5 in Academy City. His eyes darted around as he sped through the air and twisted to avoid branches, while adjusting his decent to minimize the damage to his body. Suddenly he saw something in his peripheral vision and twisted to catch a red and gold spear that had been thrown his way. Quickly calculating the angle, he realized that the spear was aimed to pin him safely to a tree. Deciding to make use of it, he stabbed the tip into a tree and used his momentum to spin around the shaft until he slowed down enough to drop to the ground.
"I'm sorry," called Pyrrha's voice, letting Z know who had tried to save him.
With a smile, Z used a low powered laser to blast the spear out of the tree and ran off to meet up with its wielder. As he ran through the forest, Z thought about all that he'd seen in this world. The troubles of the Faunus, the White Fang, and the creatures called Grimm that infested the lands and preyed on the people.
Speaking of the Grimm, Z had to roll out of the way as a large boar-like Grimm charged at him. With a smirk, he stabbed the spear into the ground and turned a dial on his gauntlets, causing the Dust Crystals in them to shift until a specific crystal was set in place. Aiming Star Prisma at he beast, he fired an arc of yellow energy that struck the Grimm and seared its side shocking it with electricity upon impact.
The beast roared in pain and charged at Z again, but the ESPer dodged out of the way and switched his Dust settings again before firing a blue beam that struck the Grimm, freezing one of it's legs in ice. Z then finished off the beast with a normal laser from his fingertip that peirced through a gap in the bony armor that covered its body, causing the grim to slump to the ground and dissolve.
"That's that," said Z.
"That was impressive," said a voice, causing Z to turn and see Pyrrha walking up to her spear and pull it out of the ground.
"Coming from you, that's quite the complement," said Z with a smirk, "so does this make us partners?"
"I believe so," said Pyrrha.
"Then let's find that relic," said Z.
"All right," said Pyrrha.
Pyrrha swung her spear and shield onto her back and the two of them began to walk through the Emerald Forest. As they walked, Z decided to get to know the person who would be his partner for the rest of his time attending Beacon, in the world of Remnant.
"So Pyrrha," said Z as he ducked under a branch, "what can you tell me about yourself?"
"Well," said Pyrrha, a bit caught off guard, "there's not much to tell that you probably haven't heard already."
Z shrugged as he jumped over a root on the ground, "I don't know anything about you. I'm still learning things about the kingdoms. Heck, all I know about you is what that Weiss girl told me when we met."
"Oh," said Pyrrha in a surprised tone, "well, there's not much more to tell. Due to winning the tournament, I became a bit of a celebrity, but I don't really care for all the attention. So where are you from?"
Z smiled softly, "I'm from a place far from here where technology has advanced to the point that it has become a natural part of everyday lives. The entire city was created to groom the talents of those that are able to gain powers and become ESPers."
"ESPers?" asked Pyrrha, "What is that?"
"ESPers," explained Z, "are people that have gone through procedures that allow them to emit an AIM (An Involuntary Movement) field that allow them to create and control a Personal Reality that grants them power."
"I take it that you're one of these ESPers?" asked Pyrrha.
Z smirked, "Actually, I was ranked the sixth strongest ESPer. I was called Prisma and I can absorb light particles and can release them in various forms."
"That is an interesting ability," said Pyrrha, "is that how you killed that Boarbatusk?"
"In the end," explained Z, "I also used my weapons to do some damage, as I wanted to test their capabilities against an actual enemy."
"Wait," said Pyrrha in surprise, "you mean you never used them in combat before?"
"Nope," shrugged Z as he pushed through a thick bush, "it took a while to get the mechanism working so that the dust crystals wouldn't jam and I had to figure out a safe laser frequency to ensure that the weapon wouldn't blow up in my face when used. In fact, it blew up in my face a few times during the production stage."
"If your weapon is so dangerous, why didn't you make something safer?" asked Pyrrha.
"What's life without risk?" asked Z rhetorically, "It's an effective tool and it's only usable by me."
"I see," said Pyrrha.
"There's a cave over there," said Z, "perhaps the relic was hidden in there. Though that would be a cliché."
"True," chuckled Pyrrha, "but we should check anyway. We should make a torch or something."
Z smirked and held up a hand, causing it to glow and emit a beam of light that illuminated some of the darkness, "No need. I can be a torch if needed."
Pyrrha chuckled, "I'm lucky to have you here then."
Z said nothing and smiled as he led the way into the cavern. Using the light his hand was giving out, he guided them through the dark tunnel.
"So," said Z, "any idea what this relic is supposed to look like?"
"Unfortunately no," sighed Pyrrha, "apparently, we all were caught a bit by surprise regarding this test's objective."
Before Z could respond, they saw a glowing object in the distance that seemed to be floating in the air.
"What do you think?" Z asked Pyrrha, "Do you think that could be the relic we're looking for?"
"It's a possibility," admitted Pyrrha, "but something feels off."
"Let's see then," said Z as he directed the light from his hand to shine at the supposed relic.
What they saw was not encouraging.
"Th-that's," gasped Pyrrha as she stepped back and reached for her weapon.
"We should run," said Z in matter-of-fact tone.
"Yeah," agreed Pyrrha.
The two partners then made a mad dash for the entrance of the cave with the gigantic Death Stalker Grimm that was most definitely NOT the relic they had been looking for hot on their tails.
"I guess we know what felt off then," said Pyrrha.
"Less talking, more running!" Z yelled back, "It's gaining."
"I don't think we can outrun it," said Pyrrha as they neared the entrance, "it's too fast."
"Then we'll slow it down," said Z, "if you can buy me about ten seconds, I think I can slow this thing down enough for us to escape."
"Got it," nodded Pyrrha as she pulled her spear and shield off her back.
First she threw her shield like a discus, bouncing it off of one of the Grimm's eyes, causing it to stagger a bit from the pain. As the shield was bouncing back, Pyrrha switched her spear to rifle mode and fired off several shots at the beast before catching her shield and firing one more shot.
"Ready," yelled Z from the mouth of the cave, "Pyrrha, get out of the cave NOW!"
Trusting her partner, Pyrrha made a mad dash for the entrance where her partner was waiting. Z pointed his gauntlets at the ceiling of the tunnel from outside and used the earth element Dust crystals in his weapon to fire bolts of energy that exploded in blasts of concussive force upon impact with the cave ceiling, causing the tunnel to collapse and bury the Death Stalker under several tons of earth and stone.
"That should hold it for a while," began Z, "lets…"
Z was interrupted by the dirt and stones that were burying the Scorpion Grimm beginning to rumble and shake as if the beast was trying to dig its way out.
"…get the hell out of here while we can," finished Z.
Pyrrha didn't argue and the two of them dashed off, putting as much distance between them and the angry Grimm as they could before the thing managed to dig itself out. From the sound of the rocks being shoved aside, it sounded like the Grimm was almost free. This gave them the strength to run even faster.
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After about an hour of running, during the first half of which, the Death Stalker managed to dig free and resumed chasing them with a vengeance, the two partners were getting a bit tired.
"Damnit!" groaned Z as he blasted through a tree with a laser so he wouldn't have to slow down, "I think it's even angrier this time!"
"Well you did try to bury it under a mountain," pointed out Pyrrha as she cut through an low hanging branch with her sword.
"It was trying to kill us!" Z protested as he ducked under some vines.
"That still might have been a bit excessive," Pyrrha sighed.
"Whatever," grumbled Z, "just keep running!"
The Hunter and Huntress in training continued to run until they reached a clearing where several old ruins were located at the base of a sheer rock face. Standing on several pedestals, were chess pieces that were either colored Black, White, or Gold. Several pieces seemed to be missing, indicating that others had probably taken them. Z noticed that Blake and Yang were among the people gathered in the clearing.
"Z?" said Blake in surprise, "Why were you running?"
"Oh, you know," said Z casually as he caught his breath, "we might have found a giant scorpion Grimm and I might have buried it in a cave in, ticking it off to the point that it wanted to kill us even more."
"Wait, what?" exclaimed Yang, "Setting aside the fact that you know Blake here, how can you be so blasé about being chased by a Death Stalker."
Z shrugged, "This doesn't even rank among the top ten of my weirdest days. Those ones include meeting about 10 clones of a girl that is somewhat of a rival, getting into a fight with a different girl that can manipulate blasts of energy resulting in the destruction of a mall, and having to face down an army of killer cleaning robots when the main system malfunctioned. Now that was a weird day."
The rest of the people gathered sweatdropped at his story as he walked over to one of the stands and picked up a white rook piece, placing it in a pocket in his outfit.
"So," he said casually, "what now?"
Before anyone could respond, a loud voice interrupts them from above.
"HEADS UP!"
Everyone looked up and saw a certain red themed teen falling, having obviously jumped off of a large avian Grimm.
"Did she actually jump from a Nevermore?" asked Blake in disbelief.
Z was busy tracing Ruby's trajectory and calculating several variables in his head when a giant bear-like Grimm charged through the underbrush.
"Perfect," said Z as he ran at it, "Pyrrha, throw your shield at a 52.097 degree angle at the pillar over there."
The valedictorian of Sanctum Academy responded promptly and hurled her shield at the pillar while Z channeled aura to his legs, causing his body to glow with white energy, and ran at the bear Grimm. Z jumped and kicked off the Grimm to get airborne, catching Ruby as she fell before kicking off Pyrrha's shield as it bounced off the pillar and flew at him, allowing him to change direction and land safely as the shield returned to its master's arm. As he did this, he noticed two new arrivals riding on the Grimm, a boy in green and a girl in white and pink
"Are you alright, red?" asked Z as he put Ruby down.
"That was amazing!" squealed Ruby, "How did you do that? You were all, woosh and bang!"
"Let's save it for another time," said Z as the girl in white grabbed a chess piece and began to dance around, "so who's your partner?"
At this Ruby's face paled and she looked up at the Grimm flying overhead, causing Z to look up as well and notice a white speck on the giant black creature.
"HOW COULD YOU LEAVE ME?" a familiar girl's voice cried out from the large creature.
"Please tell me you didn't just leave her there," sighed Z.
"I told her to jump," muttered Ruby defensively.
"She's gonna fall," stated Blake.
"She fell," Yang added as Weiss lost her grip and began to fall.
Z sighed and he and Pyrrha repeated the technique they used to catch Ruby. Once he landed and put Weiss down, the Death Stalker finally caught up with them and burst through the trees with a roar.
"Well," said Z casually, "we have the relics and we're cornered on all sides."
"It doesn't look good," said Blake.
"We can take'em!" said the bubbly pink girl.
Z laughed at that, "I like your attitude. What's your name?"
"Nora Valkyrie," said the girl with a smile.
"I'm her partner, Li Ren," said the boy in green.
"Nice to meetcha," said Z, "I'm Z, this is Pyrrha, Ruby, Yang, Wiess, and Blake. I would go into more detail, but lets save that till after we survive this."
"Sounds good," said Ren as he drew two sickle/guns.
Nora smirked and pulled a war hammer from her back while Ruby unsheathed Crescent Rose. Yang transformed her bracelets into gauntlets while Weiss, Pyrrha and Blake drew their blades.
"So," smirked Z as he locked a Dust crystal into place on Star Prisma, "let's make this wild."