Outcasts and Outlaws Volume 3

by Halogod97

Team Kalos returns from their lengthy mission with news that Damien is headed for Beacon, but what they don't know is that his intentions might no be what they think. There is a worse evil at play, a merciless mastermind who must he stopped at any cost and Connor and his allies are the ones for the job. How will they fare against the most powerful enemies they've faced yet?

14. Chapter 14- Commendation Match

Outcasts and Outlaws

Volume 3, Chapter 14

Commendation Match

Sorry for no chapters for a few days, flu hit me hard. Should be able to get back on track now though. Enjoy this one!

Opening Music: http/youtu.be/qBB-R7lBspc

[Fairy Tail OP 4]

(Shows the runic symbols of the Ancient Remnant Tomes)

(Shows Kane)

(Shows Mars)

(Shows Jim)

(Shows Ruby)

(Shows Connor)

(Shows Team KALOS)

(OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS) (Shows Beacon)

YO HO kaji o kire tori kaji ippai de! YO HO uosao

(Shows Team JNPR inside the Beacon sparring arena cheering) ikina jinsei!

(Shows Team RWBY and Ozpin cheering)

(Shows Team KALOS cheering) (Shows Team KALOS standing on the cliff of Beacon)

Hi ga ochiru

(Zooms in Connor's eye) koro ni wa (Pans over Team KALOS)

shukko no utage!

(Shows Damien on top of a tree, wearing a cloth make over his face) Sabishiku nanka nai iki

(An apparition of Daryl appears behind Damien)

terya mata

(Damien jumps down from the tree and runs towards Beacon)

dokka de aeru!

(Shows Kane pull out his scythes and summon up dark clouds) Mukaikaze buchi nuki

(Shows Jim next to Yang, Yang blushes and looks away)

tabidate!

(Shows Connor and Kane go back to back as Mars' shield surrounds them)

Namida namida kareru made (Shows Mars standing on a telekinetic platform above them) otokonara tsuyogatte!

(Shows Irileth flip in the air and summon up her purple crows) Tomo yo tomo yo

(Stephane takes out all the purple crows with his blade)

itsu no hi ka

(Shows Connor punch at Mars) warette!

(Mars blocks the punch and hits back, sending Connor flying)

Katai katai

(Kane fires a dark cloud arrow at Mars)

kizuna

(Mars dodges back then jumps up) o sa tashikame

(Mars fires balls of green energy at them)

aeru

(Kane fires black clouds from his hands)

yo ni

(Connor jumps over Kane's head and fires light from his hands)

Ima

(Shows Yang)

kagayaki dasu

(Yang activates her semblance and fire appears)

mirai no chizu o sa tsukami tore!

(Shows Ozpin signalling the start of a sparring match)

(Shows Irileth attacking with her whips)

(Shows Jim running with his boomerangs in his hands)

(Shows Damien walking into the Beacon entrance hall)

(Shows Mars go into Mystic State)

(Connor and Kane throw punches at him)

END

Connor swivelled his newly healed arm at the joint, having eagerly ripped off the bandage after being told to do so by Doctor Brian. He stood in his room with Ruby, looking in the mirror as he grinned and waved his arm about, ecstatically happy to be able to use it again. It had taken a week to heal, his aura slowly fixing the broken parts of the bones all that time, but he was finally ready for action again.

"All right!" He cheered, punching the air in front of him in excitement. "I can't wait to get back into battle! That fight between Irileth and Stephane got me revved up!"

"You're just in time for the tournament too!" Ruby informed him. After weeks of the student body training and sparring against each other, the day of the tournament had finally arrived and Connor was luckily fit for a fight. "I wonder who'll be in the commendation match." Ruby then said.

"Commendation match?" Connor asked, not having heard of it before. He stopped punching air and looked at Ruby confusedly, waiting for he explanation.

"The Commendation Match is an old tradition with the tournaments." Ruby answered, giving Connor that ever innocent smile. "In celebration of the start of the new tournament, and in praise to all the winners in the years before, there will be one match before the tournament starts in the same arena. It won't have any impact on the tournament itself, it's more so to get the crowd excited for the future battles."

"Oh, I see." Connor said, intrigued by the idea of it, then going back to boxing with his reflection. "I wonder who'll be in it... it'd be a pretty cool thing to be a part of."

"Yeah but if you were a part of that fight, you wouldn't have time to recover before the main tournament." Ruby pointed out, bursting Connors hopes.

"That's true, I suppose..." Connor then responded, sighing and relaxing for a moment. "Oh well, I'll kick some ass in the main battles...and you'll be there to support me right?" He then said, turning to Ruby for her answer.

Ruby saw the determination in his eyes, the fiery will of his aura all around him, and cutely smiled back, "Yeah!"

The door of the room then swung open, as if pushed by incredible force, the hinges almost snapping under the pressure that had been exerted on them. In the doorway stood Mars, looking much more serious and menacing than usual, in his green cloak and battle clothing. "I heard that your arm has healed...just in time." He said to Connor, before walking into the room and putting his hand on the confused man's shoulder. "Come, let's go find Kane."

At that time, Kane was sat in the lunch hall next to Irileth, celebrating her victory over Stephane. Even though it had been a week since the fight, Kane had made a point of not celebrating it, he wasn't one for that kind of thing. On that day however, Irileth had dragged him into the lunch to get a special meal and talk about the fight. She sat there chowing into her chocolate brownie sundae, Kane having insisted he didn't want anything and was now sitting next to her grumpily and in silence.

"So what did you think of my victory, Kane?" Irileth questioned after finishing a mouthful of chocolate and cream. "You still haven't told me how you think I did. Were you impressed by my skills?"

"It was nothing compared to what I can do, I would've beaten him in seconds." Kane grumpily replied, turning his head away from Irileth's disappointed look. "But, I suppose...you're skills were...sort of impressive..." Kane then calmly admitted, feeling embarrassed to admit he had been surprised by his childhood friends skills.

The next thing he knew Irileth had wrapped her arms around him, reaching across to his seat and saying, "Kane! Thank you! It means so much to have impressed you!"

Struggling to get out of her grip before anyone else saw, Kane argued, "Get off of me! It wasn't that impressive! Don't hug me!"

"I see even you've softened up, Kane."

He and Irileth both stopped squirming and looked up at the sound of the voice, Irielth still with her arms around Kane. The voice had come from Mars, who was standing there with Connor and Ruby waiting behind him. "Softened up?" Kane repeated, scoffing. "Not me, I'm still as terrifying and powerful as ever."

"Care to put that to the test?" Mars suggested sternly, putting Kane off guard. "You and Connor are gonna go up against me in the Commendation Match today!"

There was then a moment of confused silence, then both Connor and Kane blurted out, "What?!" In surprise.

While he would have normally laughed at the looks on their faces, this time Mars stayed serious and replied, "I talked to Ozpin about it, said I wanted to fight against my two former students at the same time. He told me the only way to do that within the confines of the tournament is to battle you in the commendation match."

Both Kane and Connor were left speechless by this proposal. They remembered how strong he'd seemed back in the day, before they'd come to Beacon, and they never even saw him fight at full strength. All the times they'd fought against him before, when the two of them were sharing a body, they weren't permitted to use their semblance because of the destruction it could bring to the surrounding area. They had believed that it was because of this rule they'd never been able to beat Mars in practice, but he had never had to try very hard to win.

"The rules will be the same as when Connor fought Yang." Mars continued, ignoring the shocked state of his two future opponents. "No weapons, but semblances are fine. If anyone goes down and doesn't get back up, they're out." He then turned his head and looked and Connor, "I won't be holding anything back this time." Then looking at Kane, "I expect to see you both at your full strengths."

Finishing what he wanted to say, Mars then turned and promptly left, his cloak as he walked, leaving Connor and Kane to gather their thoughts. They both stared at him as he strolled away, Connor failing to hide the fact that he was frightened and Kane gritting his teeth angrily, but still shaking like Connor.

"Kane...?" Connor muttered nervously, still watching Mars leave.

"Yeah?" Kane replied, doing the same, with his fist curled up on the table.

There was then a few seconds of silence as Connor steadied his breathing and calmed down, then confidently declared, "Let's show him much we've grown!"

Three hours later the crowds of Beacon and beyond had gathered in the new arena. It was built atop the mountain facing Beacon, where mysterious construction had been taking place for many months. The arena itself was enormous, much larger than the sparring area. The battlefield was covered in sand and spread out across an squared acre of land, making for a massive battle zone. The stands around the arena were many floors high, the entire seating arena open to the cold wind and warm sun of the mountain. High up on one end there was a glass box, in which sat the judges, Oobleck, a professor at Beacon, and General Ironwood of the Vale Military. There were screens in the air around the arena too, held up by aura, for the ones in the crowd who couldn't see onto the battlefield or just for a close up.

In the middle of the stands on the west side were Jim, Yang, Stephane Irileth and Ruby. All five of them were sat on one row next to each other, having been given the best seats by Ozpin, who himself was sat a couple of rows up to the right, next to a mysterious man. The man wore a long brown cloak and had messy brown hair. A brown cloth covered the majority of his face, hiding his identity and strapped to each of his legs, a flintlock pistol with a katana as a bayonet.

"This is a waste of time." The man grumbled to Ozpin. "I came here for a reason and it wasn't to watch a fight."

"Don't worry, we'll get to that." Ozpin replied calmly, holding a cup of coffee even in this situation. "I don't want to interrupt this match, I've a feeling it's going to be quite splendid."

"You really think they'll listen to me?" The man asked, ignoring Ozpin's comments on the match.

"Maybe not at first, but give them time." Ozpin answered. "They'll want justice for it just as much as you do I'm sure."

The man grumbled at Ozpin's answer and hunched over, not intending to watch the match. It was that the crowd roared with cheers as Mars stepped out of the tunnel on his side of the arena and stood ready to fight. "Here is Mars, our first competitor!" Oobleck declared from the announcer's booth. "He's a former member of the satellite seven, and the master of the Telekinetic Creation semblance!"

"Idiot...he practically announced I used to be an Outlaw." Mars muttered to himself, then looked at Ozpin. "I got a good idea where he got the information...damn you old man, gossiping about my past."

"And now here comes his opponents!" Oobleck then announced, as he was informed of the other two being ready to go.

Music: https/youtu.be/m6kb96YWXMA [Fairy Tail OST- Main Theme]

A black coat. A white coat.

"You two! Good luck!" Jim cheered, all of the others cheering with him.

A black, fingerless glove. A metal hand.

"Here it is...our battle." Mars said to himself, laying his eyes upon his opponents.

Jet black hair. Messy brown hair.

The mysterious man raised his head, sensing the tension in the air.

A pitch black gaze. An eyepatch.

"These three really might be the strongest Beacon has." Ozpin commented, noticing the mysterious mans sudden interest.

Four boots hit the ground and come to a standstill.

"There's no way they'll lose!" Ruby said to herself in reassurance.

"IT'S CONNOR AND KANE!" Came the unbelievably loud announcement.

As the crowd went wild for Beacon's favourite pair, Kane and Connor stood next to each other dramatically staring at Mars. They determination in their eyes was fierce, even Mars could see that they were dead serious.

"Now that they're on the battlefield..." Oobleck said into his microphone. "Start the match!"

Volume 3, Ending 2

Ending Music: https/youtu.be/QIG4_FLvRb0 [Naruto S ED 33]

Hitori janai yo! Osoreru mono nante nai kara!

(Shows Damien at night)

Ikou

(Damien smiles)

saa aa

(Damien raises his hand) me o akete!

(Rocks float in the air behind him) Butsukatte ita hontou wa

(Shows Damien and Daryl reaching out for each other)

oitsukitakute!

(Damien and Daryl clash swords then Murlough stabs Damien in the back)

Kizu

(Shows Damien's sword in the ground)

tsukeatte

(Shows Damien on many battlefields standing over dead bodies)

tsunagitomeru kizuna hoshikute! (Shows the Outlaws fighting people)

Gomen wasure

(Shows Damien meeting Brook and then meeting Murlough)

naide

(Shows members of the Outlaws dying in front of Damien)

Shinjite

(Shows Damien getting the Kalos Crystal)

mattete

(Shows Kane and then Connor as kids)

Mukae ni

(Shows Damien taking off his jacket and then dropping it)

ikunda!

(Damien goes into a battle pose and is surrounded by soldiers) Yuuki no tomoshibi terashidase yowasa o! Kizu datte itami

(Damien pulls out his flintlock pistols swords and starts fighting the soldiers)

datte wakeaeba

(Damien runs along a cliff edge) heiki da!

(He jumps off the cliff)

Kimi no senaka osu

(Shows Brook sharpening his hooks against each other) musunda yakusoku!

(Shows Murlough and zooms in on his eye)

Itsudatte

(Damien activated the Kalos Crystal)

haretatte!

(Kalos appears behind him sitting on the massive rune wall) Shinjiirareru

(Shows Damien as a kid)

kizuna

(Shows Daryl as a kid)

wa muni ni

(Shows Damien grown up sucking in the purple Kalos Crystal energy) nemutteru!

(Shows his eye go purple)

END