Sooo, now that Summer vacation is around the corner I should have more time to wright, right? WRONG! Not only am I going to have to take time to bond with family, I also have to deal with my first job! But that's me just me taking an opportunity to whine like a baby so just ignore me and read. Btw though, I may have done something in this that may make Zilla and Kiryu look more than a little harsh, but it's covering something that was, in my opinion, outright ignored in the show and fandom, due to me never seeing anything addressing it. Whether or not you agree with what I say isn't the point though, but do make sure to put your thoughts about it in the reviews and enjoy the read.

White Fang Hideout

Blake was frozen in fear and shock at the man who was still pointing that very sharp and clearly deadly trident at her, part of the reason she was currently afraid, the other part being from the very angry group of Faunas that surrounded her and Sun, who was just confused at the question but ready to tear them apart. "From your look of shock instead of one of confusion like your friend, I'll assume, yes you do know that name." the golden armored man said with a smirk of triumph as he got the answer he wanted, pulling the trident back and letting it rest upon his shoulder as a contemplative look donned him instead of the one of triumph, "The scent is too weak for you to have been near him too long, but neither does it smell like it was just you two just simply walked past each other. That and you know his name, that means either you at least talked to him or were told about him by a third party." he thought aloud, not caring who heard him. While he was thinking Blake was looking around still trying to find an escape, the junction box was out the question, they would be expecting it, and that golden dome could appear again since the man responsible for it was right in front of her. "Uh, Ghidorah? Don't mean to interrupt you or anything, but do you mind, I don't know, KILLING THEM?!" Roman asked irritatedly from his position on the stage, causing the newly named Ghidorah to send a glare his way, which made Torchwick to laugh fearfully and back up slowly "Okay, do what you want, you are the guy who's in charge here.".

Ghidorah looked away from him as he set his sights back on the Faunas pair, Sun finally getting out his bo staff as Blake held the sheath's handle for Gambol Shroud in her free hand like a cleaver, neither seeing an escape so they both figured their only chance of escaping was to fight their way out. "Hm, I want the girl relatively unharmed, the boy, do what you want, preferably alive to see what he knows, but I don't really care." Ghidorah ordered the crowd of White Fang Faunas as they all donned evil grins while looking at the Huntsman and Huntress in training. They didn't like taking orders from this complete stranger that seemed to have no affiliation with their faction, but Roman followed him and they liked Roman, the fact that it seemed to be out of fear was a little off putting though. Besides, they did like what he was telling them to do, so they just went with it.

"Blake, if you have any last minute plans, it would be really nice to know." Sun said with some fear in his voice, the last part of Ghidorah's orders echoing in his mind, "I'm still thinking on it!" Blake yelled back irritated as the area of space that separated them from the crowd got smaller each second. Fortunately, despite both being prepared for it, neither of the duo would have to face the Faunas horde, because before any of them could get close, the windows of the building shattered as rifle fire echoed outside. Panic broke out on the inside among the Faunas, as they began to take cover from the barrage of rapid fired dust bullets that were fired through the broken windows, survival instinct forcing them to find cover rather than trying to capture Sun and Blake. "It's Neptune!" Sun yelled as he saw his friend through the window, still firing around them to allow them to escape, "Time to go!" Blake told Sun as she activated her aura to protect herself from any stray bullets as she ran through the hail of fire to escape, "Don't have to tell me twice!" Sun yelled back as he followed her lead, doing the same.

"Get them!" Ghidorah's angry voice yelled out in the chaos as he ignored the bullets, which just simply bounced off his armor, doing nothing, and chased after them. He let loose an angry growl that would put a feral Grimm's to shame upon seeing what little options he had at the moment. He need that girl alive, she had to know Godzilla in some way or another, even if it was just a little, she had information that would be very helpful later on, but he need to capture her first. That was the problem, none of the powers he had could be used without the risk of killing her, he could try hitting her with a Gravity Beam, but seeing as that has the capability of destroying this whole building if shot in the right place, bad idea to hit her directly. Maybe use one of his domes, as he had earlier to defend the junction box, to trap her in place? Once more, a terrible idea, she was moving too fast for it be able to fully form before she could escape if he wanted to make a dome large enough to catch her. Plus the simple fact that anything alive inside the dome, except for him of course, would lose their life force at a rate proportional to their species, and seeing as she was merely a Faunas, Ghidorah doubted she would live long enough for him to get anything from her.

So, he was left with the old fashioned way of running her down. And while he was incredibly fast in his Kaiju form, flying at mach 3 on Earth's gravity, and wasn't a slouch in his current human form either, there was two clear disadvantages on his side. One, while the bullets didn't hurt him, they did annoy him and cause numerous Faunas to run in front of him, slowing him down. Two, she was a Cat Faunas, a species that was known to be naturally faster and more agile than humans, and to top it off, she was a huntress in training, which only served to increase her movement advantage in comparison to him. So he could only watch in anger and frustration as he reached out and barely missed by a hair when she as well the monkey Faunas did a high jump both out of his reach and through the window, "NO!" Ghidorah roared out.

Blake had felt a cold chill of fear when she looked down momentarily and saw how close Ghidorah was to grabbing her, and suddenly was very glad she had jumped when she had. She and Sun landed on the window frame, before leaping to the next building, which they were greeted by Neptune yelling at them, "Come on!" as he stopped shooting his rifle, putting it on his back as he turned and ran, to which Blake and Sun quickly followed after. Upon catching up to Neptune, Sun asked "Dude what took so long!?" as he leapt across another gap between buildings, he got an awkward chuckle as a response from Neptune before the bluenette answered "Well, thanks to the fact I'm human not faunas, I don't exactly have night vision, so I struggled to see in the first place, let alone through that REALLY dark window. I kind of took a guess what was happening when I saw two smudged dark out lines be completely surrounded by a lot of others." Neptune explained, which made sense, humans didn't exactly have the best eyesight in comparison to Faunas to begin with, let alone when it was dark. Before either of the Faunas could speak in reply a loud crashing sound was heard from behind them, each of them turned momentarily to see what was the cause, only to see the giant mech that Roman had showed off to the White Fang recruits, charging straight toward them, with Roman inside from what they could see.

"Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!" Sun screamed as he suddenly ran away as fast as he could away from Roman, Blake and Neptune following close after as the mech gained distance, proving that despite its size, it was very fast. On the inside of the mech, Roman was enjoying the power that it gave him, though that was overshadowed by how much frustration these kids were causing him. As he chased them through part of the city, his scroll activated with a ring tone playing, Roman looked over to see it said he was getting a call from a very specific person, he groaned slightly as he pressed the answer button, "Oh hey Ghidorah! You seem to have caught me at a bad time, just, you know, killing the brats that you didn't!" Roman said to the phone, before he began to regret his choice of words when Ghidorah spoke, "Roman, if you dare to think this a joking matter, I will kill you myself. Now listen closely, I don't care what you do with the boys, kill them if you wish, just bring me that girl!" Ghidorah ordered, roaring it into his scroll at the end, making Roman flinch. "Uh, if you don't mind me asking, but why do you want her?" Roman asked, fear slightly in his voice at the threat upon his life from Ghidorah, someone he had seen kill an entire battalion of huntsmen without much effort, "She's been in contact with someone I know, and we need to know everything we can get from her. If we don't, we're going to have a massive problem from him later on." Ghidorah explained over the phone, trying to get Roman how serious this matter is. "So can you put into perspective on just how bad this guy is?" Roman asked one more question, still not getting the direness of his mission, "If he's anything like what I've heard he's become… we're going to need Destroyah.". That had sealed the deal, Roman had seen first hand what that thing was like in combat, and he'd rather deal with Ghidorah at his worst than do anything related to Destroyah.

"There is the possibility they're heading toward him for protection, if that's the case and you can't catch them before they get to him, try to stay alive before the help I'm sending arrives." Ghidorah said hanging up before Roman could ask anything else, he was currently gliding over the rooftops, his two capes expanded outward from him, and his trident held in his hand that wasn't holding the scroll. Ghidorah's thoughts briefly went to his history with the rival king of the monsters, a history that usually did not end well with for the Golden King of Terror. After such a history, Godzilla had become a massive sore spot for Ghidorah whenever he had been mentioned, however, when Ghidorah had heard that Godzilla had been claimed to have been killed across the universe, Ghidorah had of course been suspicious. So, in an attempt to investigate such rumors, Ghidorah had went to Earth with his loyal second in command-

Ghidorah shook his head before his thoughts could even have a chance to drag him further into the past, especially not wanting to relive the humiliation of the humans defeating him by sending him to this world in a weakened state by that accursed black hole gun. If Godzilla really was on Remnant, then his focus needed to be on the here and now. He put his scroll away, pulling out a similar device, but wasn't quite, a scroll wouldn't work to contact who he had in mind. He put it to his ear as it activated, once it was on and he got a response from the other end, Ghidorah said "Get to my location fast, we have a problem, I'll explain once you're here." a muffled response came from the other end before the line was cut. Ghidorah knew he could get here in time, but what he could only hope was that Roman could catch her before she could get to him, because fighting Godzilla without any sort of advantage was just a bad idea.

Meanwhile, farther ahead, Blake, Sun, and Neptune were still running from the Atlas killing machine that ran in the streets, the only thing keeping Roman from catching them was the fact that they were running on the buildings to the side of the road, rather than being on ground level. "You wouldn't have anyway for back up to arrive, would you?" Sun asked as he jumped to and fro buildings, "Yeah! That would be kind of helpful!" Neptune agreed with his teammate as he struggle to keep of with the naturally more athletic Faunas, but was doing alright for the most part. Blake, who was currently in the lead, said "Yeah, I do.", taking out her scroll and contacting her team, "Everyone! If you can hear me, we need-" she began before Sun leapt over and grabbed the scroll straight out of her hands screaming into it "HEEEELLLLLP!".

Back in the Alleyway

The alley way that held Ruby, Zilla, and Kiryu was now silent, except for Sun's voice screaming at through Ruby's scroll. When Blake had contacted Ruby, she had answered, but what Ruby wasn't expecting was for Sun to scream at max volume through the call while it was on speaker, just so Kiryu and Zilla could hear the call perfectly. So now here they were, each experiencing some sort of shock, Ruby from having Sun being so loud, and Kiryu and Zilla from what they could only guess was happening on the other end of the call. "Sooo, wanna go fight a giant robot?" Ruby finally said, squeaking out the awkward question, to which both Kaiju stared at her instead of the scroll for a few seconds before they both shrugged, saying "Why not?". With that Ruby ran off with her two new companions following after her.

Junior's club

Unlike Ruby, Yang had turned her scroll to normal mode instead of speaker, so when Blake called, she had answered it like a normal phone instead if blaring the news of what was going on to everyone within her immediate area, she only lost half the hearing in her right ear when Sun took over the call. At least Godzilla didn't hear what was going on, well she thought so, but with the volume of Sun's yelling as well as the club music, there was no telling. "Uh, I have to go help a friend out with a project of ours, can you find your way back to Beacon without me?" Yang asked as some of the hearing returned, putting a little urgency into her tone without meaning to, Godzilla looked back at her, his eyes seemed to study her for a minute's time, but surprisingly, Yang didn't really feel unnerved as she would've a second ago. Godzilla let out a sigh before saying "I'll be fine, just go help your friend.", with that said, Yang quickly said a bye and ran out of the club. She was a little hesitant to leave Godzilla alone like that, as he could still be emotionally raw after what they had just talked about, but her friends were in mortal danger, no way she could just not go save them.

Running out of the club, doing her best to clear her thoughts and focusing on helping Sun, Blake, and Neptune from whatever Yang switched to speaker so that she had an easier time getting on her bike and putting her helmet on as she yelled into her phone's mic "Where are you guys?". She didn't get a verbal reply, instead, all she got in the form of an answer was the giant robot that ran in the street behind her making a lot of noise as she turned around to see it for a split second to see it barrel by her. Choosing to ignore the timing, Yang quickly swerved her bike around and gunned it after them. Yang kept up as best she could, however, the chase had gone through some pretty tight spaces, probably Blake, Sun, and Neptune doing their best to lose the maniac piloted mech that chased them, which was failing. All the while, they had kept in contact in order to make a plan on how to take out Roman's mech

The plan they had come up with had led them to all leap onto a lower level highway bridge, with Roman, of course, not hesitating to follow them. Yang, however, wasn't able to make the jump with her bike, the only thing allowing her to keep up in the chase, Yang had to veer her bike around to find the entrance to the same road they were on, which luckily was nearby, so it allowed her to get back to them without them getting too far ahead of her. Up ahead, the faunas pair and the bluenette human jumped from car roof to car roof, as staying on one was failing to work, because the cars were not going fast enough to prevent the mech from gaining large distances on them, barreling through any and all cars that was in its way, heedless and uncaring of the lives inside them. "Is this guy a maniac or something!?" Neptune yelled out as he jumped from car roof to car roof in order to get away from the giant mech of death that was chasing them, "Dude, do you even need to ask!?" Sun yelled back from a car that was slightly farther ahead with Blake to his left, who was looking wide eyed at the sight of the cars going flying momentarily before her survival instinct kicked in as she continued jumping to and from cars to get away from the rampaging Atlesian Paladin that was gaining distance on them.

Suddenly, a massive burst of wind blew by them forcing the trio to pause in their escape as they braced themselves against the movement of the air, which was strong enough to cause the cars they were standing on to swerve a bit, "What was that?" Sun asked when the car he was on straightened out, he hadn't ever heard of a current of wind that strong within a city before, "I don't know, just keep moving!" Blake yelled back, hearing the crashes and stomps caused by Roman's mech getting closer to them, spurring the other two back into motion. Farther back Yang bobbed and weaved in between the falling cars that Roman had thrown about. She had a rather close call when the wind had blasted by all of a sudden, but she had managed to correct herself before a van had fallen on top of her and her bike. What was interesting to her, however, was that when the wind had kicked up, all of the doors on the vehicles that were in the air had spontaneously opened. She didn't have time to give it much thought, between the dodging of the fallen cars and the focus she had on the ongoing chase. Then there was the sudden feeling of an object being slammed down on top of her head hard, which hurt, a lot.

"OW!" Yang cried out in pain, as the bike shook a little from the sudden shift in balance as Yang's hand went to her head in pain. "What happened?" was the question Yang asked herself, avoided everything that Roman had been throwing around, so what hit her? "Consider that punishment for not doing your damn job." someone said behind her, making Yang jump in surprise before turning around somewhat to see an angry Zilla crouched on the balls of his feet on the tailend of Bumblebee with his claws equipped. "Wha-?" before Yang could fully process that he was even there, Zilla's eyes focused on something else ahead of them and he wordlessly jumping off the bike, as soon as his feet made contact with the ground, he disappeared, with another burst of wind appearing, this time going in the opposite direction of the first.

Numerous questions began to swarm inside of Yang's head, such as: How was he there? Where did he go? Why did he hit her on the head? What did he mean by her not doing her job? The last one particularly stuck with her for some reason, what was she doing wrong? For a moment Yang thought Zilla had meant showing Godzilla around, but the way he sounded gave off a different vibe. Meaning, there was something important that she was supposed to be doing that she didn't even know about, that seemed so obvious and staring her in the face, it made her feel uneasy. She shook the thought out of her head, now wasn't the time for that, she had to focus on saving her friends, she could think about this nonsense later.

Up ahead, Roman had charged through another group of cars, sending them all up into the air as he continued running down Blake, Sun, and Neptune, with at least one of the each cars' doors flying open before they came back in contact with the ground, things were about to get worse though. Out of frustration of being unable to catch the "brats", and wanting to prevent running into the guy that Ghidorah was afraid of, Roman activated one of the Paladin's weapon systems, watching from his cockpit with a maniacal grin and satisfaction as the right hand of the robot transformed itself into a gun before firing. The shot held true, more or less, as the massive dust bullet launched forward, impacting itself dead in front of the car that Neptune had just leapt on. The explosion caused by the new and sudden ranged attack from the mech had caused the unfortunate car to leap up into the air, the car doors flying open again, but no one noticed as they were preoccupied by something else. Neptune had just jumped onto the roof of the car and had no time to steady himself for another jump, let alone brace himself from an explosion, so when the shot had hit and sent the car into the air, he was thrown off.

Neptune landed hard on the asphalt of the highway, disoriented from both the blast and the rough landing as he tried to reaffirm himself with with what was going on with a loud ringing in his ears. Once the ringing went away, he got to his knees, mentally thanking his aura for protecting him from any serious damage that could've threatened him. "Neptune, Look out!" Sun yelled out, his voice filled with fear for his friend, causing Neptune to remember just what was going on, Neptune head twisted around to see where the Paladin was, only to its giant mechanical foot about to come down on him. Neptune's face contorted into terror as he realized he was going to die, his aura had already been damaged, and he doubted it would've holded against the full weight of the Paladin slamming itself on top of him. All he could do was instinctively hold his arms over his head in order to protect himself somehow, and hope it would be quick.

Fortunately, what was quick was Zilla. The world was frozen for the human Kaiju as he slid under the Mech's foot and grabbed Neptune in a rough tackle before moving forward, pretty much dragging Neptune with him as he came to a stop on top of the car Sun was on as on. Time moved forward again, the Paladin's slammed down onto the pavement of the road, Sun let out a terrified scream for his friend, Blake's eyes widened with the same terror as Sun's, both their friend had just been killed. However, that thought had came to an end once the realization of Zilla dropping Neptune on the roof of the car when let out an "Oof!". Sun twisted around, with only a slight case of hesitation due to confusion as to how his friend got there, let alone was alive, before he rushed to his side, "Dude, are you alright?" Sun asked a very confused Neptune, who replied "I-I don't know, am I dead? How am I here?". Zilla, who was in an agitated mood and didn't have the patience for this, butted in "Who's the one in charge between you three?", gaining Sun's attention to see an angry Zilla glaring down at him, "Uh, that would be Blake, more or less?", Zilla, ignoring the last part of Sun's answer, shifted his glare toward Blake, who was still staring at Neptune in shock, before he practically growled "So she's the idiot who's mess I've been cleaning up.".

Before either Sun or Neptune could question what he meant, or Sun could jump up to defend Blake, probably going to say something along the lines of "She's not an idiot, she's much smarter than me after all.", the sound of the mech preparing to fire again caught their attention. It had resumed the chase after them, the shock of Zilla's sudden appearance and rescue of Neptune wearing off on Torchwick, though it could be seen that he was keeping a good distance away, not rapidly gaining on them like it was just a few minutes before. The reason for that being Zilla himself. Torchwick had never seen him before, and for him, the probability of him being this "Godzilla" that Ghidorah was nervous about was pretty high. So he decided to play it safe, until the "help" that Ghidorah had promised arrived, by chasing after them from a distance and using the mechs combat systems to see if he could get any of them from here.

What he wasn't expecting was for errors and warnings to pop up right as he was about to fire the gun. Quickly checking what was wrong, Roman saw that Zilla was now on the mech's arm with his claws now covered in a green fire right in front of where the barrel of the gun was just a moment ago, replaced with a searing clean cut. Acting out of panic at the sudden loss of one of the mech's primary weapons and the now apparent fact that a very big threat was within 10 feet of him, Roman made the left arm of the Paladin bend backward in preparation to punch Zilla off of it. That plan backfired as once the mechanized fist launched forward, it's target jumped over it before one of the flaming claws was slammed into the arm as he slid down it to the elbow, where he jumped off, causing heavy damage to the left arm. But Zilla wasn't done just yet, once he was near the ground, Zilla twisted his body in the air in order to bring both claws down in a downward "X" shaped slash right on the Paladin's equivalent of an Achilles tendon.

Now, the metal that made up the body of the Atlesian Paladin was very durable, with very few things on Remnant able to outfight break it without targeting weak points. Even Zilla's claws were not sharp enough on their own to allow a normal person to cut through the metal, but Zilla was not a normal person, he was a Kaiju, with two advantages. Number one was the green fire that was emitted from his claws, were much hotter than normal flame. He didn't know the exact temperature, but due to Kiryu running an experiment one time when he had gotten bored, Zilla did know that the flames were comparable to the temperature of Godzilla's atomic attacks. With the flames at full throttle, it heated the metal to the point where it's structure weakened, not enough to make it melt in the quick time frame that was transpiring, but enough. The second advantage that Zilla was in the possession of was his raw physical strength. He didn't have the technically infinite strength that Godzilla had with his nuclear energy, or the mechanical brute force Kiryu possessed, nor could he match the telekinetic trickery that Xenilla used in this regard either, but being a kaiju had one rule of thumb, no matter what type you are, when you hit something, you hit it hard.

With the overwhelming advantage in Zilla's favor, the Atlas weapon's artificial joint didn't stand a chance, as the combined brute force and blistering heat made the claws cut right through the metal as if it were cloth. The results of the critically aimed strike did not show themselves instantly, because Zilla had struck the leg that was currently in the air as it was running. The reason for this had showed itself once Zilla had landed in a crouch at the same time the now ruined limb had slammed down to the ground, the intent being to kick itself forward again and continue running after the original targets, only for the joint that was struck to fall apart. With the support of its left leg suddenly gone, the mech crashed down into the road way as the momentum from its running caused it to barrel down the road in a tumbling roll with nothing to stop it, Zilla disappearing once more.

On the inside of his mechanical weapon, Roman was being thrown around like a rag doll with in the right cockpit, he had no clue as to what happened to put him in this less than ideal position. The only thing that he saw was Zilla slicing up his Paladin's arm as he slid down it, and then a millisecond later, he suddenly lost control and falled forward, the momentum from it running at over 60 mph held used to propel it forward everytime it bounded up against the pavement of the road. A turn came up on the road ahead as the robot kept tumbling forward with no way to stop it or change it's direction, the mech slammed into the road's barriers, which fell apart as they weren't built with the idea of surviving a several ton warmachine slamming into them full force, sending Roman and his destructive mechanized suit down in a fall to the ground underneath the highway he had just rampaged upon.

Shock was clear amongst all of the Huntsmen and Huntresses in training at the sight of Zilla single handedly defeating the war machine with ease. Sun, Blake, and Neptune had jumped off the cars they were on in order to assist Zilla when he had suddenly attacked the Paladin, only for them to have to duck in order to avoid being trampled by the tumbling mech when it barreled by. "Uh, What just happened?" Sun asked, being the first one to recover his barings, "I wish I could tell you, dude." Neptune said in reply, being in a similar state of shock as his friend, as all three of them could only stare at the newly made hole in the roadway barrier. "Blake! Sun!" a familiar voice came from behind all of them as mechanical rev, catching their attention. They all knew it was Yang before they had even begun to turn around in time to see her come to a stop, "Yang did you see what happened?" Blake asked her partner, to which Yang tilted her head slightly after taking off her bike helmet, "If you're talking about that Zilla guy take down the big robot, yeah I saw it, but it happened too fast for me to get a proper look at it.".

Before Blake could make a reply to the Blonde Brawler, her scroll went off with Weiss' voice yelling through "Blake I'm in position-AHH!", it had just occurred to Blake and Yang that Weiss would be unaware of what had happened, but the thought was gone when Weiss had suddenly screamed. Blake grabbed the scroll from her pocket, raising it up to in the air as she yelled into it as Sun, Neptune, and Yang crowded her to see the scroll's screen, "Weiss! Are you okay! What happened?". "I brought her here is what happened." Zilla's voice said off to the side, gaining their attention as they jumped from surprise at the unexpected appearance, they quickly saw a Weiss on her knees looking like she was trying to hold in her stomach's contents with her rapier, Myrtenaster, on the ground next to her as Zilla was walking to the hole where the Paladin controlled by Roman had disappeared. They quickly rushed to Weiss to check up on her as Zilla crouched at the edge of the crater, looking down where the Paladin had fell, "Are you alright?" Yang asked worriedly to the Schnee heiress, who looked up from nearly vomiting in shock and confusion, "Yang? Blake? Neptune? What happened? How'd I get here? What happened to the Paladin?". "Er, well you see, that guy over there", Sun began pointing at Zilla still looking over the edge, "Showed up, then according to him brought you in the blink of an eye somehow, after totally destroying that big robot thi-","It's not destroyed... yet." Zilla interrupted, catching their attention of the hunters and huntresses present again..

Neptune quickly helped Weiss to her feet as everyone else rushed over to look down at what Zilla saw, which was the Atlesian Paladin of Roman Torchwick, heavily damaged and crippled, but still in one relative piece desperately trying to move. "Holy crap! That thing's still working!?" Sun yelled out in surprise, as no one was expecting it to still be functioning after the damage that was inflicted to it from both Zilla and the fall. "Come on guys! Let's get down there so we can-" Yang said as she moved forward to jump down to finish off the mecha before she was stopped by Zilla's arm stretching out in ger path before he practically snarled at, not just Yang, but all of them, "Do what? Make another mess like you did up here? No, the only reason you should be going down there is to meet up with Ruby, Kiryu wants a word with Roman by himself.". Zilla's words stunned the Huntresses and Huntsman in training, not just at his words but at his tone and the way he said them. He was angry with them, but none of them could see why, which only caused confusion as they each decided to do what the Kaiju said by staying put and reluctantly resigning themselves to watching what was about to happen.

On the lower level, Kiryu was walking toward the heavily damaged Paladin, which had managed to get its broken form on to its knees, and he was not happy. Earlier, while he and Zilla were calling in their weapons, he had hacked into their scrolls to see what their plan was, and what he had found, had made him absolutely livid with team RWBY. Right now, however, was not the time to take his anger out in them, right now, he'll just take it out on Roman Torchwick and the stolen Atlesian Paladin prototype.

He had kept up with Ruby after obtaining his weapons, and had told her, in a more than a little harsh tone to stay back, which she had done, partially because she was stunned from the tone he had told her in. He gripped his shield tightly as Roman seemed to notice him approaching, indicated by the Paladin make a subtle rotation to his direction. Kiryu looked over the info he got on the Atlesian Paladin prototype, he was mildly impressed with Atlas' ability to have made such a mech, but even the newer models were crude and much weaker than any mecha Earth had even made. Then again, those were the size of and were designed to fight Kaiju and this was the first type of mech Remnant had ever made, it wasn't even close to a fair comparison. After a quick look through at the blueprint and the combat test records, Kiryu found nothing on the Paladin that stood out to him as a credible threat, so his focus returned to Roman, who had reared the least damaged robotic fist up for a right hook. Kiryu didn't so much as flinch as he simply raised his left arm up so that his shield would block the punch without any trouble.

The sight of Kiryu lazily blocking the robotic fist with his shield was more than a little stunning to all of the humans and faunas in the area, not expecting such a level of strength from him. Roman didn't take any time to process how easily his first attack, instead, out of a combination of fear and survival instincts, he raised the Paladin's other, more damaged arm for another attack. He also kept his right arm continuing to put pressure onto the shield to prevent him from blocking his attack with the shield again. When the second attack on him came though, Kiryu quickly flicked his sword, activating the sword's maser emitter, before side stepping, putting him out of the way of both attacks. However, when the left fist of the Paladin flew by him, Kiryu thrusted his sword forward, driving it deep into the metal of the hand. The metal offered little resistance under the strength of Kiryu as he then slashed the blade all the way through the already heavily damaged mechanized arm, now rendering it useless.

Although that was a massive benefit, it wasn't the main point of the attack, which was to cause damage to Roman himself, not just his armor. Due to the maser emitter being on, when the sword was driven into what was now just a massive hanging piece of scrap metal in the general shape of an arm, the electrical like energy from the sword was spread throughout the metal that made out the body of the Paladin, including to the cockpit. Kiryu could even hear the screams of shock and pain when he suddenly found himself being electrocuted in what was supposed to keep him safe from such attacks. Using this to his advantage, Kiryu took his sword out of the completely broken arm before surging forward, bringing his sword forward in a sideways swipe that made contact with the inside of the elbow on the other arm, before it was completely severed in a clean cut. The hand fell uselessly to the ground with a loud metallic clanging noise, and another yell from Roman as he was hit with another wave of electricity that originated from Kiryu's sword.

With the mech now essentially neutered with the loss of its arms, Kiryu slammed the blade of the still active blade into knee of the undamaged leg, making it completely crippled with no chance of escape, while sending waves of energy through the Paladin to further hurt Roman, preventing him from pulling any tricks. Kiryu waited for a moment, letting Roman feeling a small bit of the pain he deserved, before then slamming his hand through the glass that made up the "windshield" of the cockpit, breaking seemingly without any resistance from the dust proof glass. Roman barely had any time to realize that suddenly, a very tight grip had appeared on his throat between him being very painfully electrocuted, being pulled out of the Paladin, and the thrown to the ground onto his stomach hard. Kiryu kept him down by pressing his knee forcefully into his back and pulling Roman's left arm back in a very uncomfortable position.

"Yeah! We got him!" Sun called out excitedly as he and Neptune did a one arm hug with each other as everyone else did their own celebrations, ignoring or just not hearing the annoyed grumble from Zilla, "Last I checked, it was me and Kiryu that 'got him'".Their little celebrations came to a stop when Zilla had suddenly stood up, they had expected him to say something to them along the lines "good job everyone". All he did was jump over the edge of the roadway, dropping down to meet up with Kiryu. "Uh, should we follow him?" Neptune asked, who got a quick response from the Blonde Brawler, "I mean, it's not like he told us we couldn't follow him, and we have to go down there any way to get back to Ruby, so what's the harm?". Most of them were somewhat surprised at Yang's response, as she was a total airhead most of the time, she did have her moments where she was perceptive and careful, however. Granted that was mostly when she was in combat or when she was getting into mischief, but still.

With no one making a response in the negative to her, Yang bravely went forward and jumped off the edge of the roadway, landing hard in a crouched position that was done in order to brace her fall as best she could. Her arrival did not elicit much of a response from Zilla or Kiryu, who were busy talking to each other, and, most likely, interrogating Roman, evidenced by how Kiryu kept applying pressure to Roman's bent arm, though Yang couldn't make out the words. Given the lack of response from either Zilla or Kiryu, the rest of the Huntresses and Huntsman in training leaped down to join Yang at the bottom,which Zilla and Kiryu didn't respond to as well.

"Yang!" was the only warning before the Blonde Brawler was suddenly tackled full force by a blur of red, causing Yang to lose her balance and fall to the ground and making everyone else jump back in surprise. Yang let out a groan after getting the air knocked out of her, she looked down to see what had hit her, to see known other than her little sister, "Ruby?". Ruby, who had tackle hugged her sister, suddenly realized what she had she had done, quickly got off her sister and helped her up while apologizing, pretty embarrassed about the whole thing, "Sorry, sorry, sorry! Are you are alright Yang?". Still slightly dazed, Yang shook her head a bit to get it to clear it before making a reply "Have a bit more faith in your big sister Rubes, you know it takes more than that to hurt me!". The sight of the sisterly affection between the two had been met with a set of mixed reactions from their compatriots that varied between smiles and rolling of the eyes.

"Before you two can get too caught up in your "moment", I have a question for you Ruby." Weiss said, both interrupting the two sisters before they could continue and drawing everyone's attention to her. "Uh, sure Weiss, what is it?" Ruby responded, slightly confused at what her partner had in mind in terms of "a question". "Well, last time I had seen you, you had ran off in pursuit of that weird Penny girl, leaving me by myself at the tower and, what I can only assume, Zilla and Kiryu to follow you. The same two that seemed to have magically appear just now in helping us take down that mech. So I have to ask, do you know how or why they had come?" Weiss explained before asking, causing everyone else to begin to wonder the same thing, which in turn led them to turn their heads in the direction of Ruby in a curious glance. Under all the looks of her sister, teammates, and friends, Ruby began to get increasingly nervous and embarrassed as she thought back to the later incident in the alleyway, "A-About that, you see, when Blake, Sun, and Neptune had called for help earlier, I may or may not have had my Scroll on speaker. So they overheard it, and I asked "Hey wanna go fight a giant robot?" and they said in their deep voices "Sure, why not?" Ruby rambled on for a minute, mimicking to the best of her ability of Zilla and Kiryu speaking at once. At her the end of her rambling, she gave off a nervous chuckle as everyone else began to stare at her wide eyed in shock at the answer for a moment. Then another. Then another. Then "RUBY!".

As most of team RWBY began to scold their team leader, said team leader beginning to defend herself, and Sun and Neptune deciding to stay in the background of it and watch, none of them had heard over themselves Zilla letting out an agitated growl. "Are you serious!? They seriously planned to lead him," Zilla paused for a moment to gesture at Roman Torchwick, who was currently being pressed face down into the the asphalt so that he couldn't talk, as Kiryu had gotten sick of him before they could even ask more than 5 interrogation questions, ", in that mech, onto the highway, and then freeze the road to get him down here?!". Kiryu gave a stoick nod, though Zilla could easily tell he was as upset at the news as he was, "Unfortunately, and while most of the plan had come from the Cat Faunus Blake, there were no objections to the plan… I do not even believe they knew what they were doing wrong." the ending of the statement had elicited another growl from Zilla. Zilla sat their in silence for a moment, straining his ears to try and hear what the mixed group of human and faunas huntresses and huntsman in training were talking about… only for him to hear them criticizing Ruby for letting him and Kiryu find out about what they were doing! That was the last straw, "Do you think Xenilla will mind if I punched Blake in the face?".

Kiryu, not being the least bit surprised, didn't even look at Zilla before stickly replying "If you don't use your gauntlets and under the current circumstances… no, I don't think he would." he had barely finished speaking when he had suddenly felt the wind had kicked up, knowing full well what was about to happen. Ruby, had, at this point, resigned herself to just take the scolding she was being given. She didn't have much of a place to stand, if at all, to defend herself, and Yang, luckily, had already finished with what she had to say so now all she had to deal with was Blake and Weiss giving her a piece of their minds while Sun and Neptune remained neutral in the background, just watching awkwardly. "... we had agreed this was going mission of ours to be secret Ruby! Why was your scroll even on speaker to beg-" Blake said as she took her turn to scold Ruby, before she was sent flying back a good couple of feet, suddenly stunning all of those present at the sight of Zilla with his fist stuck out where Blake was, making them quickly put two and two together. "Dude, what the he-", apparently, Zilla had decided to make a habit of interrupting angry faunases, as he silenced Sun who had quickly moved to defend Blake before he had been silenced by an angry glare from Zilla. If Sun had looked closer into the eye of the angry Kaiju, he would've notice that Zilla's eye were giving a ominous orange, almost yellow, glow from behind his pupils at a low level of light.

To make sure no one else would make an attempt like Sun had, Zilla looked at each of the others one at a time, causing them all to back down under the intimidating gaze of Zilla. When he was satisfied they wouldn't try anything, the angry Kaiju turned his attention back to Blake, who was looking back up at him in fear, shock, and betrayal as she had a hand to her cheek to nurse a bruise that was forming where Zilla had punched her. The cause of said bruise narrowed his eyes at the sight of it, "Odd, I was sure I didn't punch her hard enough to break through her aura", normally, he would analyze the bruise and her aura further, but currently, he decided just to say that her aura was probably damaged enough for him to break it in a fight that he hadn't seen. "Honestly, I don't know what the hell your "mission" was or what its goal was,neither do I care, but I can tell you that you are in no position to criticize Ruby on what she did where, as far as I'm concerned, she's the only one of you who did anything right in this entire fucking night!" Zilla said, yelling out the last part in anger at all of them, but once more directed mostly at Blake. Each of them were left stunned just by the sheer amount of anger that was within his voice, and it left them confused, what exactly had they done to anger him so much when he was relatively friendly not even an hour ago.

"Hey! Just where do you get off on telling us we fucked up? You even said you didn't know what we were trying to do, so can't you say we were in the wrong!" Yang recovered quicker than the others, her eyes changing from Iliac to red from her anger and drive to defend her friends, momentarily forgetting that Zilla had already proven to be able to beat her easily. He didn't seem to have the intention to do so to any of them however, if you don't count him punching Blake in the face, as he simply looked her back in the eye, causing her raging red eyes to clash against his ominous orange glowing eyes. Surprising both herself and everyone else around her, Yang managed to stand her ground under Zilla's glare, but it was clear she was losing ground in the battle of wills fast, mostly due to red being inferior to orange in combat, as the latter was a combination of both the former and another color. After several tense seconds of the fierce stare off, at which point everyone was worried a fight between Zilla and Yang was going to break out, Zilla finally spoke, slightly calmer than before, but not breaking eye contact with Yang, "Ruby, can you tell me what is the foremost important job of a Huntsman?".

Ruby blinked, caught off guard by the unexpected question, but was able to recover fast enough to answer it before anyone had noticed, "Uh, It's to protect innocent people while keeping the bad guys away from them?". Suddenly, Zilla's harsh gaze intensified nearly ten times as much, which forced Yang to bend under the force of it as he spoke once more, in a voice just as giving off just as much as the anger carried in his eyes, "Then explain to me why you all thought it was a good idea to lead a war machine piloted by one of said "bad guys" to a fucking public highway and put the very people you are supposed to protect in mortal danger!". With that, the young Huntsman and Huntresses finally understood the reason behind Zilla's anger, how couldn't they when he had literally just screamed it at all of them? But they were no longer concerned with that, as most of them had just gone numb as shock and the realization of what they had just done set in.

Yang, no longer having any sort of will to continue the stare off, finally broke away from the furious gaze that Zilla had now began to direct at all of them, and looked at her now shaking hands. She failed to see them, however, as images of the cars that Roman had thrown around into the air that each had at least one living person within them, had begun to appear in her vision. "Consider that punishment for not doing your damn job." Zilla's earlier words from when he had appeared on Bumblebee made sense now, he wasn't talking about her watching his teammate, he was talking about her sworn duty as a Huntress, which, as of tonight, she had just completely failed, all of them had. Suddenly that mere hit on the head didn't seem nearly as much of a punishment. Everyone else weren't handling it much better.

Sun and Neptune were handling it similarly, they were mentally kicking themselves hard as they looked down to the ground with their arms limped. They arguably had the least to do with this disaster of a night out of all of them, as they were just wanting to help out their friends in a mission that was dangerous for them. However, they were closest to Blake during that moment when she was making the decision on where to go, so if they had spoken up, they could've prevented Roman from ever putting those people in danger. If Blake was the murder, they had been a pair of both willing and unwilling accomplices that had been in a prime position to stop the crime before it had happened, but they didn't and now they were just as guilty as the primary culprit.

For Ruby and Weiss, it was much worse. Ruby couldn't help, but feel the guiltiest of all of them, as she had to cradle her head somewhat in an attempt to stay standing. Her immense guilt had come from two sources, her innocent nature, which made her have to think it was her fault, and the fact she was the leader of the team, so, in turn, she had to follow the number one rule of being a leader, everything was your fault. Weiss, unlike her leader, didn't have much to feel guilty about, however, her thoughts lingered on what could've happened. If the plan had continued without the interference from Zilla and Kiryu, she would've frozen over the road with at least several inch thick ice in an attempt to cause the Paladin to crash down here. Now looking back in hindsight, causing ice to spontaneously appear on a road where everyone was going at least 50 mph was going to cause numerous crashes, and since normal people usually do not have access to aura, she could have been very well responsible for other lives to have been lost, depending on how bad the crashes had been.

Blake had to deal with the worst of it. She was the foremost reason why this had happened, if she had been more careful at the White Fang Rally, Roman wouldn't have noticed her, avoiding all of this all together. If she hadn't had jump onto the highway, something she had directed the plan to end up how it was, those people wouldn't have ended up in such danger as they had. Tears had welled up in her eyes as she came to realize that even after leaving the White Fang in its current state, she had resorted to using a very common tactic to get away from pursuers, jumping into a crowd of civilians and hoping who ever chased you wouldn't shoot in the crowd, a tactic that didn't work well against maniacs apparently. She had ended up no better than the very people she wanted to take down, and put innocent people in danger for her own benefit.

"Are you all just now realizing what you all have done!?" Zilla said not losing any of the ferocity from before, kicking them while they were down "Do you even know how many people may have died if I hadn't been here to save them?". He did this because he had to make sure they learned their lesson, and also because he was incredibly angry right now, as an image of a mother throwing herself over a child less than a year old in an attempt to protect her child before Zilla had managed to save them. Normally, Zilla honestly wouldn't have cared about if a couple dozen or so humans had died. However, due to the fact that several young children would of died and it had been brought on by several humans, that not only were supposed to be protecting them, but also that he had begrudgingly began to like, though it was mostly just Ruby that he had liked, just an hour before, he was now furious because of it. "I rescued a total of 62 people just now from those cars while they were in the air or just before they were destroyed, with 13 of those being under 15 years old. If I'm being generous with their odds of survival without aura, I'd say you would've been behind at least 23 deaths.", the number of the estimated deaths sunk into each of their heads, it became apparent to them just how much would of been wasted all because they were in such a hurry to take down the White Fang and prove themselves.

"B-but he was chasing us, and there was noth-" Blake began, her eyes now clouded with tears at realizing just how little she had learned after leaving the White Fang, before a furious roar came from behind Zilla, "NO!". The yell, in it's intense fury, momentarily forced all of those present to look at the source, which was Kiryu, who was now fully glaring at them from his position on top of Roman with his eyes glowing yellow a terrifying lumination that had consumed all of his eyes, whites and all, acting in complement to the ominous orange of Zilla's ever present glare that hadn't been broken once. "Don't you dare make the excuse that you couldn't of done anything!" Kiryu practically snarled at them, terrifying them as he just threw aside the stoic act to show just how angry he was, which turned out to be much more than Zilla, due to him actually caring about human life outside of children."You are training to be the ultimate guardians of humanity in this world! So don't you dare make any excuses for yourselves and take responsibility for what you have done!" Kiryu continued his scolding of them with such intense anger and fury that they didn't realize his small slip up with his wording as he had gotten to caught up in his emotions to carefully watch what he had said as he usually did. Kiryu wasn't done yet however, "Nothing you could do? Let me tell you something, he was chasing you, so you were the one who, not only had the advantage, but you were also in control of where you went, including straight to the school where there is literally an army of armed train warriors!".

"If you had wanted to keep what you were doing a secret, you could've lied and said something like, you were walking around town and suddenly the White Fang attacked you! Then no one would doubt you were doing anything suspicious, no one would get seriously hurt, and you would be able to catch the idiot Kiryu is sitting on top of without a bullshit explanation!" Zilla added to Kiryu's example, not wanting stand on his heels and to better hammer home to RWBY along with Sun and Neptune. "Or you could've lead him to a secluded area like a closed off park, dealt with him there in a similar fashion that you were planning on doing down here, if you absolutely wanted to make sure it stays a secret." Kiryu continued, giving yet another example of what they could've easily could've done if they had only thought for several seconds longer. Zilla finally then threw his arms up in frustration before, and unlike last one where he only elaborated on previous example provided by Kiryu, this time, he gave his own, "Hell, you could've still gone here if you really wanted, all you had to do was instead of jumping on the road, you could've just jumped straight done here!".

At this point, none of team RWBY, Sun, or Neptune could say anything in an attempt to defend themselves and their actions. What could they say? They had already accepted that it was their fault, and Zilla and Kiryu had already given several examples of what they could've done that was just, better, what was there to say? Each of them had chosen to deal with the situation in their own way. Ruby and Blake had begun crying somewhat at the harsh words from Kiryu and Zilla, but they knew they mostly deserved it after such a colossal mistake that could've been avoided if they had only thought a bit more on picking their battles more. Yang meanwhile had chosen to take a stoic approach as she did her best to comfort her little sister, anger was still within her, especially so since the two Kaiju had made her sensitive sister cry, but it was now more directed at herself then anyone else due to failing so hard. Weiss had decided to take the more than legit scolding that was directed at her and her team like a proper Schnee, by keeping her emotions under control and forcing whatever reactions she had under her skin as much as possible.

Sun, being the emotional teenager that he was, wore his emotions on his face for all to see, which was clearly anger. After dealing with being put down almost all his life due to being a Faunas, Sun had quickly developed a hatred for those who did put him, and anyone he cares about, down, which was now clearly showing. However, this wasn't about being a faunas, it was criticism over a very clear and obvious mistake that he was only just now realizing somehow in hindsight, so he took it without saying anything, that didn't mean he had to like it though. Neptune, treated it much like Sun did, something he deserved so he should just stick with it until he blew over, plus he dealt with such talks before, due to him being somewhat of a flirt, so he had an easier time dealing with it. What he was more concerned over, was his more volatile friend, who he kept a close eye on to make sure he didn't do or say anything he would regret.

"And if you th-" Kiryu had began, still intent on making sure they learned their lesson from this no matter what, before he was suddenly stopped himself all of a sudden as his eyes stopped their yellow glow and seemed to widened in pain from something. His suddenly interruption did not go by unnoticed by Zilla, RWBY, along with Sun and Neptune, as Zilla finally tore his glare away from the young Huntresses and Huntsman, as the rest hesitantly looked up from their various positions just in time to see that Kiryu had been launched into the air by some seemingly invisible force. Zilla's eyes widened as his own orange glow disappeared before he narrowed his eyes and he let out a noise that sounded like an animalistic snarl before he disappeared in a gust of wind, signalling that he had seen something that the others hadn't and had already gone to engage it.

No one else noticed this however, as they watched Kiryu land hard onto the ground and his clang loudly against the concrete floor. Then, the strangest looking girl they had ever seen, looking she had colored herself and her dress in the style of a certain flavor of ice cream, suddenly had jumped down from nowhere and helped Roman up. Roman, looking much messier than usual due to having his face pressed against the solid and flat concrete for several minutes straight, simply dusted himself off, "Ah Neo good to see that your here." he said to the girl giving her a smile. Most of those present were still trying process what was currently happening, they had just gone from being scolded for a major mistake to suddenly being attacked and Roman about to escape. Before anything else could happen, Yang suddenly got to her feet and charged after Roman and "Neo", not intent on leading an already bad night get any worse due to him getting away and all of their efforts being wasted.

Something felt off to Yang as she continued her charge. For whatever reason, she felt slower and weaker than usual while also feeling naked and unprotected. She tried to force it out of her mind as she got closer to her targets, but Yang couldn't shake the feeling. Suddenly she fell to the ground after what felt like someone had pushed her, and she let out a small grunt of pain as she landed somewhat in a faceplant if it wasn't for her instinctively catching herself, which caused her hand to feel a lot more hurt than usual after she caught herself after a fall. Pushing that out of her mind as well, Yang looked up to see what had pushed her before her eyes opened widely in shock and horror.

Standing in front of her was Zilla, but instead of looking like he had been several seconds ago, he looked like he had recently gone through a tough fight since she had last seen him. There were numerous cuts all over his clothes, some just barely cutting the fabric, others breaking the skin, it was those that caught Yangs attention immediate. "What happened to his aura? Shouldn't it be hearing him or at least hear them." Yang thought at the sight of him bleeding, and she had only just now realized that he had been standing over her defensively with his back turned to her as he stuck an arm out to his right that hovered over her. She shook her head hoping to get her mind back to being focused on task, and as she made to pick herself off the floor and ask Zilla what the big deal was, she had moved just enough for her to see what Zilla was facing and why he was in such a stance.

Zilla's face was contorted in what looked like a snarl and he was grinding his teeth in what seemed to be both pain and frustration, that did not seem to surprise Yang, given he was covered in various scratches. What did surprise the Blonde Brawler, and somewhat horrify her was the sight of what looked like a grey hooked blade digging deep into his arm. Yang stared at the blade for a few seconds, the question of why his aura hadn't defended him once more coming to her mind, had it been damaged. Suddenly Yang had felt something like hot liquid on her cheek, on reflex, she had put a hand to her cheek only to pull it back in surprise as she felt a stinging sensation. She didn't have time to think about that though as yet another shock that night had hit her as she stared at her hand. That being a slightly bruised hand with a small amount of blood on a few of the fingers, her blood.

Zilla's aura wasn't the only one not working, Yang's wasn't either. Not only was minor injuries like small bruises on her hand from landing to hard or what she could now clearly feel as a small cut on her cheek not healing, but her aura hadn't activated to prevent them in the first place. Her aura wasn't working even now as she attempted to will it to work, the manifestation of her soul was being kept away from protecting her somehow. No wonder as she had charged she had felt vulnerable, her main form of protection was now suddenly gone. Then something else had occurred to her was anyone else doing this, if she didn't have access to her aura, that meant her semblance would also out of reach as a semblance was a manifestation of aura. So not only was essentially her only form defense gone, but also her main form of offense, as if it wasn't bad enough.

A hiss of what sounded like pain from Zilla had broken Yang out of her thoughts, and when she looked to see what had happened she saw that the hooked blade was currently wiggling to dig deeper into his arm. Wanting to see what was happening better, Yang had moved once more, putting the thoughts of her aura being gone out of her head for the moment. Now at her new angle, Yang could now clearly see the owner of the blade. He looked like he was the same height as Zilla, maybe half an inch of difference in height, though she couldn't tell who was taller at her angle, had short, flat grey hair that barely reached a pair of red-orange, almost glowing, curved smooth sunglasses. He wore a smooth grey aviator jacket that was unzipped that had a t-shirt of a similar shade of grey, with a matching pair of grey running pants and running shoes, and had another hooked blade that matched the one was currently digging into Zilla's arm.

Roman had stopped dusting himself off after spotting both Zilla and whoever he was apparently fighting in their current stand off, before giving what seemed to be a nervous grin. "Hokmuto, so nice to see you join the party! You know when-" Roman had begun his somewhat nervous friendly meeting to the newly named Hokmuto before he was cut off, by him "Shut it Torchwick! It's your fault we're even here and lost a Paladin Prototype! The only reason I'm saving you is because you're currently valuable to the plan, don't make me consider getting a replacement!". Not expecting such ferocity from an ally of his, Roman took a step back, Hokmuto was usually much calmer and much more tolerant of Roman's behaviors, making him Roman's prefered enforcer of who ever Cinder worked for. Something must've put him in a really bad mood. Still, knowing when best to keep quiet to survive, Roman did what he said and kept quiet.

Hokmuto's attention was driven back to Zilla as the Kaiju spoke, keeping the pain of a sword being in his arm mostly out of his voice, "So your name is Hokmuto?". Yang couldn't be completely sure that Hokmuto had narrowed his eyes, but she could make a guess that he did, due to to several wrinkles appearing on his face, "No, but that's what everyone calls me for some reason. I'm guessing it means something to you?". For a second, Zilla's snarl disappeared replaced with a knowing grin, "No, but it does help me realize who you are.", this time there was no doubt that Hokmuto narrowed his eyes. He didn't respond though, as he ripped his blade out of Zilla's arm, eliciting a gasp of pain from him, before jumping back and disappearing in the same way that Zilla usually does.

Yang didn't have time to process much of what was happening before her surroundings became a blur for less than a second and she suddenly felt like she was going to throw up. "Yang!" the familiar voice of her younger sister quickly brought her out of her nauseated state for the moment as she was suddenly hugged tightly by said sister and being surrounded by her friends. "Are you alright? You're bleeding! Why isn't your aura healing it!?" Ruby asked, scared for her older sister's well being. Blake, looking over the shoulder of her team leader to see the cut on her partner's face narrowed her eyes as her hand instinctively rubbed her cheek where the bruise that had formed after Zilla had punched her earlier. "That's because he's here." the currently slow and pain filled voice of Kiryu announced just behind them all, making them jump in surprise and causing them to turn. There he was, on the ground, sitting on his knees with his arms at his head, gripping it in pain as if he was dealing with a splitting headache. Next to him lied his sword and shield though they were scattered a bit as if someone had dropped them in a hurry.

"Who's here?" Sun asked before anyone else could even open their mouth, though he had practically spat it out, memories of his and Zilla's scolding fresh in his mind, where everyone else had pushed it out of theirs in order to focus what was going on. Kiryu face was contorted somewhat in pain, which was an ominous sight, seeing someone who they had just seen block a giant metal fist with one arm like it was the easiest thing ever in pain, but he still managed to speak, "His name is Hokmuto, he has the ability to emit something similar to an electromagnetic pulse that interferes with machines, and apparently, he's learned how to use it to cancel out aura and semblances as well.". It took a second for the implications of what Kiryu said to sink in for the humans and faunases, but when they did, they were horrified. They couldn't fight him, most them relied way too heavily on their semblances to make them formidable warriors with their aura to back them up if something went wrong. And how did he interfere with machines? Most of them had mentally asked except for Weiss, who, being the heiress of the world's leading dust provider, knew that EMPs could cause the energy produced by dust to dissipate.

"Wait that doesn't make any sense! If he has that power, then how can Zilla still move so fast?" Weiss questioned after she thought of it, causing several of the others to also question it. Kiryu had muttered a swear, which many of them had contributed to being in pain due to Hokmuto's semblance causing havoc with his head due to Kiryu's own "semblance" being mind based, as far as they knew. The real reason he swore though, was the fact that now he had to come up with a reason why Zilla could still fight Hokmuto when, by logic, he shouldn't be able to, besides, of course, "No it's cool, because Zilla's actually a giant god like monster called a Kaiju after he was originally an iguana mutated by nuclear bomb testing,by the way, do you know what a nuke is?", all while his mind was in such a haze he could barely think straight. "E-Earlier, while you all were in the infirmary, to pass the time, Zilla and Godzilla had a spar. It's possible that some radiation from said spar is still on Zilla, which is interfering with the EMP wave enough to where he can still use his aura enough to activate his semblance, but nothing else." Kiryu lied, hoping they wouldn't question exactly when Zilla had that spar, or realize that wasn't how radiation worked, even if they had only just heard of it yesterday. To his luck, they all bought it with a nod of the head.

"Okay so that explains that small mystery, but that doesn't answer where Zilla and "Hokmuto" is, or where Torchwick and that ice cream girl went!" Yang said, pushing Ruby away slightly to break the hug her sister had still wrapped her in. Once more, luck had kicked in for Kiryu, who was quickly getting tired of all the questions while he was dealing with what felt like a massive hangover, Blake had answered for him. "Well, Zilla must've brought you and Kiryu over to us so we could be more easily defendable, while he did so, Hokmuto must've done something similar with Roman and his partner. He could've dragged them to a pick up point for some get away vehicle that was outside of his semblances range to get them out of here. As for where they are now." Blake paused a second as she bit her lip, thinking, "There's two options. One where Zilla chased after Hokmuto after dropping you and Kiryu with us. Or, they're still here in the general are, only they're moving to fast for us to see.".

As if on cue, a loud cracking noise had gone off behind them, causing them all to practically break their necks as the turned around to see what was happening. To their shock, they saw one of the support pillars holding one of the bridges above the crack near the middle of it, with what looked like the disappearing embers of Zilla's green fire. As Kiryu and the members of RWBY, along with Sun and Neptune had talked for what was one or two minutes, what felt like hours had passed for Zilla and Hokmuto. Zilla, who was currently leaning against/hanging from the pillar above the newly made crack in the concrete, was covered in of what looked liked well over a hundred different scratches and what looked like stab wounds, despite this however he was grinning victoriously as he stared dead a head at his opponent. Hokmuto was somewhat below him floating in the air, his unzipped jacket was flared out, which Zilla had learned means that he was using his Kaiju power to fly/glide, Zilla still hadn't figured out which it was yet. Something new had happened, because now Hokmuto had an intense looking burn mark on his chest, the first wound Zilla had managed to inflict in his fight with a clearly much faster foe. Both were currently taking a break from the fight, panting hard from exhaustion.

"Huh, I'll admit you're pretty tough. I don't know how you're still moving so fast with all those wounds." Hokmuto said, letting out some respect go into his words, causing Zilla to simply grunt, "Eh, this isn't much compared to what I'm used to in my usual training spars.". A scowl took over Hokmuto's face after Zilla's response, "Do you mean your training sessions with Godzilla?" Hokmuto asked, spitting the name out with distaste, which Zilla nodded his head not surprised with Hokmuto's feelings over Godzilla "Yeah, I figured you would be like that after Kiryu had told me what had happened in San Francisco, and I can't really blame you on feeling that way or I would be a hypocrite.". "Kiryu? I'm guessing he was the one who also told you about me in the first place." Hokmuto asked as his scowl had disappeared as his eyebrow was raised in curioustity, "Yeah, he was the one who put together the list of Kaiju that were likely to come here to Remnant, including you after your body was never found. Though you were pretty low on the list due to the high possibility that you had died from your wounds." Zilla answered with a shrug.

"Regardless, I still have to get through you and whoever Kiryu is to get to Godzilla, and I'm guessing you're not just going to let me pass?" Hokmuto asked as he tensed, figuring it was time to end the momentary break, Zilla narrowed his eyes as his own body tensed, ready for battle, "Although I empathise with you, no, don't think I'm just going to let you pass without a fight.". No more words were spoken before Hokmuto had leaped forward, bring down both of his dual hooked blades for an overhead slash, which Zilla had barely dodged by quickly pulling himself higher on the pillar with his one hand that had been buried into the pillar with the claw. Once Zilla had been safe from the attack, he had flipped over onto his feet and set his claws on fire in order to retaliate against Hokmuto with a horizontal slash from his right claw, which was blocked by Hokmuto's left blade. Hokmuto then had the hook of his blade go around the middle claw of Zilla's gauntlet in order to redirect it to move just to the right of him. Zilla, who had been unprepared for such a move, had been carried forward under his own momentum and gravity a full step forward, right into Hokmuto's hooked blade that lied in his right hand that had been slashed forward, earning Zilla another cut on his face.

Hokmuto, however, had been unprepared for Zilla to bring his right claw back around to slam the gauntlet part into the back of Hokmuto's head. Stunned from the unexpected move, Hokmuto didn't have any chance to defend himself for when Zilla, allowing the small momentum of his attack to carry him somewhat, spun on his for slashing Hokmuto in the chest with his left claw and on the shoulder with the right claw had come back around. A gush of blood had come from each of the slashes when the claws had cut through the skin of their target, before the heat of Zilla's flames had then cauterized the wounds, preventing any bleeding to continue, but causing third and second degree burns in and around the slashes. Hokmuto had let out a sharp cry of pain before he quickly jumped into the air and kicked Zilla in the face, causing Zilla to stumble backwards from the force and having to slam his claws back into the pillar to prevent him from falling off. Hokmuto had used the kick more of a jumping off point and had used the reactionary force of it and his Kaiju power to once more stay in the air, away from the pillar and out of Zilla's reach.

Zilla's eyes quickly locked onto Hokmuto and his wounds, letting some momentary pride to flow throughout his psyche before forcing it out in order to focus more on the fight. Throughout the fight, Zilla had been keeping track of who seemed to have the advantage over who. Hokmuto was clearly much faster than Zilla and was more maneuverable, which was only obvious due to him being a flying Kaiju which was able to cross the globe in under a week. Zilla was, for once, stronger and more durable than his opponent, having been training with some of the strongest Kaiju of all time for four years, he also was in possession of the ability to attack from long distance with his he could now say for certain was that Hokmuto did not possess the advantage of pain tolerance. It did not escape Zilla that Hokmuto was moving noticeably slower than he was before Zilla had landed his first strike, meaning the pain from it had slowed him down.

He still wasn't certain that he could move as fast as Hokmuto, even with the newly added wounds, but Zilla was certain that this fight had just gotten a hell of a lot easier. Hoping to catch Hokmuto off guard, Zilla sent out a wave of his green flames in the hope of getting another wound to further slow him down. Hokmuto, quickly reacted to the green flames and had swerved around the ranged attack, only to be completely caught off guard when Zilla, who had used the flames as a distraction for him to leap off of the pillar in an attempt to close the distance between him and Hokmuto. Due to Hokmuto's superior speed and ability to fly, Zilla knew he was taking a risk with this attack, because he would not be able to defend himself in the air in case this failed, however, the benefit of a high chance of ending the fight before taking anymore damage to himself or anything else could happen made it worth it. His plan worked, Hokmuto had barely managed to see Zilla a moment before was about to make contact with him, and even with his speed, did not have enough time to move out of the way.

Zilla crashed into Hokmuto, knocking the wind out of the flying Kaiju's lungs before gravity began to take control of them and they began to fall to the ground. They crashed into the ground, Hokmuto taking the brunt of the damage as he let out another screech of pain, feeling his back slam against the solid concrete. Zilla didn't waste a second before he re-positioned himself, now pressing his knee against Hokmuto's stomach and one of his claws against his throat with the other in a position to strike Hokmuto's face. Hokmuto, upon realizing that he had been beaten by Zilla, simply glared up at the victor of their fight, not having anything else that he could do.

Now that they were staying put instead of moving at the speed they were when they were fighting, they suddenly became visible to everybody that was present. "Hey look! They're over there!" Neptune yelled out at everyone, being the first one to notice them out of the corner of his eye, causing everyone to rush over to Zilla except for Kiryu, who was still dealing with the mental and physical pain of Hokmuto's presence, no way in hell he was getting closer to make it worse. "Zilla! Are you alright? You look don't look alright!" Ruby asked, being the first one to make it to him even without using her semblance, "I'm fine." Zilla growled out in response while sending a glare back at them that, while not as bad as the one from earlier, still stopped them in their tracks. Evidently, he still wasn't happy with them for their performance from earlier. Kiryu wasn't happy either, given the "Fuck all of you!" he yelled at them when Ruby had immediately asked Zilla was alright when he could clearly tolerate the pain while he was clearly in absolute agony and no one bothered to see if he was alright.

"Don't forget, we still need to finish our conversation from earlier. But for now, I need one of you to quickly get out of here out of Hokmuto's EMP range and see if you can contact someone who can properly take care of him!" Zilla said, breaking eye contact with them and putting his focus back on Hokmuto, who quickly returned the glare through hiscraked glasses. Ruby hesitantly nodded as she began to ran off, doing as Zilla said, while everyone awkwardly stood there, not sure what to do. After a second, Blake stepped forward and spoke, "Uh, Zilla, I-" Blake said before flinching when Zilla's gaze snapped back to her when she spoke, but continued none the less, albeit nervously, "I couldn't have told you or Kiryu earlier due to, you know, but before Roman attacked us, a weird man said he "smelled" Godzilla on me. Do you happen to know him?".

Zilla snapped his head at her before she had even finished, before speaking in a urgent, but not angry tone, as if he was afraid of something, "What did he look like? Did you happen to hear his name?". Zilla's tone threw them for a loop for a second, what was he afraid of that could shake him so much after taking down a guy that easily had one of the most powerful semblances they had heard of. "He, uh, had gold armor with shoulder guards that looked like dragon heads, and I think Roman said his name was 'Ghidorah'?" Blake answered after gulping, Zilla's sudden anxiety was apparently infectious. Zilla's eyes widened in terror, the moment Blake had told him that he "smelled Godzilla" he knew it was a Kaiju, but there was only one Kaiju that possibly could fit that description alone, getting the name had only made it worse. "Oh fuck." Zilla said, he planned to say more along the lines of "run the fuck away now!", but he was suddenly struck with what looked like golden lightning hitting his back with enough force to send him flying at least a couple yards.

The blow hadn't just effected Zilla, it had enough force that everyone around him had been suddenly blown back a few feet except for Hokmuto, who had inadvertently been protected by Zilla. Before anyone could react, Hokmuto quickly got to his feet and disappeared from sight after grabbing his hooked blades. Both Kiryu and Ruby had snapped their heads towards the sound of the blast, seeing their friends sprawled out. Fear plain on her face, Ruby quickly turned around and prepared to run back to check on her friends who could've been seriously hurt without the aura, but something caught her eye. Up above everyone, several yards into the air, was none other than Ghidorah, with his capes flared out like wings as he sunk slowly to the ground, trident, crackling with the same energy that had just struck Zilla and pointed where he had just been.

Nobody could move from both fear and pain as Ghidorah slowly landed on the ground, his golden metal boots making a small clicking sound when making contact with ground just a second before Hokmuto reappeared next to him, holding his chest somewhat to cover his wounds. "I see Godzilla is not here." Ghidorah said stoically as he idly looked around with an expression that looked like he had just been told he was getting his favorite food for lunch but got his least favorite instead. "No, but they did have the sense to run to at least one Kaiju." Hokmuto said, poorly hidden pain in his voice, causing Ghidorah's eyes to snap to the injured Kaiju clearly seeing the wounds. At this point everyone had begun to slowly get to there feet, panting somewhat in pain, not used to taking a blow like that without aura, as their bodies tensed, preparing either to fight, run, or both. Ghidorah paid them no mind as his eyes locked onto Zilla who was slowly doing the same as everyone else, the back part of his jacket was gone and a giant scar took its place, that clearly came from Ghidorah's surprise attack, that still caused a great deal of pain, evidenced by Zilla's face being etched in pain, something he managed to prevent even when receiving all of the stabs and cuts from Hokmuto.

Hokmuto blinked in surprise, "How is he even able to stand after getting hit by your Gravity Beam and after withstanding all of my cuts!?", Ghidorah rolled his eyes at his apparent partner. "He's a Kaiju that's been training with Godzilla for who knows how long, give him some credit. After all, he actually trained enough to receive a high pain tolerance, despite you even after I directly ordered you to multiple times!" Ghidorah snarled out giving a glare at Hokmuto that he shrunk under, not having any excuse. "This is bad." Kiryu thought as he grinded his teeth in pain and frustration, analysing the situation. Ghidorah himself was here, the very Kaiju that pushed Godzilla to his limit countless times, someone that Kiryu highly doubted either him or Zilla could beat, even if they fought him two on one. But they weren't fighting him two on one, there was six human warriors that were still essentially children here in danger, he was essentially crippled, Zilla was very clearly heavily hurt, and Ghidorah had back up. He didn't see one way they were getting out of this alive short of returning to their true forms out of nowhere.

Ghidorah broke his glare and returned to a stoic expression, letting Hokmuto breath a sigh of relief before he said "We'll talk about this later, we have other business.". Ghidorah raised his trident again directing it at Zilla, letting the electricity like energy begin to crackle around the three heads once more. "Despite the credit I give you being able to beat Hokmuto, you're still clearly the biggest threat here at the moment. So you have to go." Ghidorah said just before he launched his attack, causing time to slow to a crawl for everyone as they watched with wide eyes as the lightning-like Gravity Beam was leapt off of the trident towards Zilla. The Monster King's Imitator knew in his injured state, he was not going to dodge fast enough to get out of the way of the dangerous attack, so, he quickly brought his claw gauntlets to bear in front of him, letting his green flames giving off a powerful blaze of intense heat that even Ghidorah felt from where he was.

Zilla had made a desperate bid in an attempt to survive this attack. Without any aura, a thick Kaiju hide of scales, or enough speed to dodge the attack, if the attack hit him full force, he would, at best, be critically wounded, or, at worst, die. Given no other choice, he was forced to block it. His hope being that if his claws were still as sturdy as when they all made their weapons, and if he used his flames to create something similar to a heat shield that could, at least disrupt the energy based attack, he could block most of it and receive minimum damage. That was the hope he had betted on, but it was still a massive gamble with a huge risk. He didn't have a choice though as the Gravity Beam raced toward him with the intent to kill.

With Godzilla

After Yang had left, Godzilla had lingered in the club for a few minutes, looking down at the damaged counter, before he left. He wandered down a barren street, not even sure if he was even going back to Beacon. Godzilla was thinking, thoughts mostly on Yang, as she confused him just now. Somehow, she had managed not only gotten to him to laugh, but also reminded him of one of his family members through actions alone and calming him down with a hug! It was difficult for Xenilla, Zilla, or Kiryu to anything similar to the three, so he was potently confused human doing all three. So potently in fact, he couldn't help but try to mentally solve the mystery of how she had done all three.

The first to come to mind was the reminding him of Rodan part, which was fairly easy to solve, they had similar personalities, but it was HOW similar they were that bothered him. At surface level, they were both carefree, Rodan the trickster was always in the sky or lazing around Monster Island to both bemuse and annoy Godzilla and Junior with dumb jokes and various tricks, acting like the only thing he cared about was having a good time. He didn't know enough about Yang to what she did with her free time, but he could tell she was the same, from the way she carried herself and how she talked. However, It didn't take long to see the cracks in the facade in either one's act if one were to look closely in the right places. When one of his family members were harmed, Rodan was dead serious, and was always the most sensitive when one was hurt, his species couldn't bear being alone forever, Godzilla had remembered how broken he had looked each time one of his fellow "Rodans" had died and when Junior had been killed, he also remembered missing the suddenly absent dumb and annoying jokes he made during the grieving period.

Yang also had something similar, her mother, or rather, mothers, whom she didn't even mention until Godzilla pointed them out. One had left her before she was old enough to even remember her, and the other had died when she was very young. Godzilla found himself empathizing, not sympathizing with, empathizing with Yang, as he had been through the same set of emotions when he was younger. That being said, it was clear that they had handled the similar scenarios in different ways, where he had decided to dwell on it and let the grief and the rage of losing his son, and latter his whole family, consume him, she had clearly chosen a different method to help her at least somewhat move on from both, what that was, he didn't know.

It wouldn't surprise him if she had chosen the same coping method that Rodan had, that being hiding it behind a smile and some jokes so that no one would think anything was wrong, but that didn't seem quite right. He didn't know enough about Yang, however, Godzilla could tell from her tone of voice and the way her body posture had changed that she didn't take it like that. He could tell the subject of her two mothers lay heavily on her mind, indicating that she didn't just leave it lying. He couldn't deny that he was slightly curious as to how she had taken the news, or what she was doing to at least somewhat make peace with the news.

Then his thoughts had turned to the hug she had given him, there was something that was behind the hug, something that she might not even realize. He could feel it, but couldn't quite placed it. It wasn't a hug of some desperate, forced, reaction to calm him, otherwise she would be a great deal more tense from fear. Rather it was seemed to be more of an instinctual effort to make sure he was alright, one that had clearly had practice, otherwise, it wouldn't of had the calming effect that Godzilla had been subject to in his mind numbing rage. He continued to ponder it, Yang didn't seem like the person to do that to just everyone from what he had seen of her, so what had triggered her to had hug him? Then something clicked and Godzilla's eyes widened in realization.

"You saw my sister Ruby...he had married Ruby's mom..." Yang words from earlier had echoed within his mind, and the answer to Godzilla's question had suddenly materialized before him. Ruby was that answer. Losing a parent is hard on children, no matter the species or how old they are, so Ruby, at the news of her mother's sudden death, must of been heavily distraught. He didn't have a clue as to how long ago the death of Summer Rose was, but it must of been at at a point where Ruby was quite young. So with the sudden absence of a motherly figure, Yang must of took it upon herself to take care of her younger sister to make sure she was alright. Thus developing a strong sense of protection and affection of her younger sister, which probably had been somewhat activated when Godzilla had his "moment", which must of made her want to comfort him via a hug, something that must of been quite common when she was taking care of her sister.

Godzilla shook his head of those thoughts, it wasn't his business to think on such things that didn't concern him and that were very personal to others, so he should move on. He briefly looked around to see where he was, only to find he had gone in a big circle and had was outside of Junior's club again. He let out a slightly agitated sigh, being less frustrated about his lack of direction, and more frustrated the the direction that his thoughts had been going in, he needed to think about something else. His attention turned to the surrounding area, inspecting it for anything that could distract him for a few moments. He found it nearly immediately when his eyes fell on some crater like holes in the road that was in front of him. Those weren't there when he arrived, he wasn't sure if they were when he had left the club, since he was really deep in thought and wouldn't have noticed walking through a wall, but he noticed them now and moved to investigate.

He didn't have anytime though, because then he smelled something that immediately caught Godzilla's attention. It was faint, he must of only stayed here for less than a second, Godzilla didn't even recognize it immediately, but it didn't take long for him to remember the scent of Ghidorah. With craters forgotten, Godzilla's face contorted into a fierce snarl, hand subconsciously flying to Reactor's hilt as his now reptilian eyes searched for any hint of gold around him that would be the telltale sign of Ghidorah. He knew he wouldn't of found anything because of how faint the scent was, but he couldn't help it, something was on Ghidorah's scent, something he could distinguish but couldn't make out properly, had sent him on edge. His eyes launched upward as he realized that the scent had come up from the roofs of the buildings, falling down to ground level as the air settled. Godzilla crouched momentarily, feeling the nuclear energy flow slightly stronger in his legs before he launched from the ground onto the roof of the building across from Junior's club.

Once landing on the roof and seeing no one else, Godzilla sniffed the air again, and found the direction the scent turned more recent, being thankful that the wind hadn't blown it away. Ghidorah was here, and recently, with an hour or so, many thoughts ran through Godzilla's mind, how had he missed him? Was he really that deep in thought? What was on his scent that was making him feel like this? When did he get on Remnant? He knew it was only a matter of time before his old rival had came to Earth to destroy everything before being fired at by the Dimension Tide, as Ghidorah would be unstoppable by normal means without Kiryu or any of the Earth's defending Kaiju.

Such thoughts were violently forced from Godzilla's conscious thoughts as he started running after the scent, he need to get to Ghidorah fast. Reactor began to glow ominously in its sheath as its master bounded across rooftops after his draconic prey, preparing for battle . The thought of calling for help from the other Kaiju never occurring, not that he could, he didn't have his scroll with him. The only thoughts he had was removing Ghidorah from the equation before he became a threat, and finding out what was on the scent that had made him react so violently to it.