A/N: So just a heads up, for all the swimsuits being used in this chapter, just presume them to be the defaults for the SK girls, Investigation Team, Blazblue girls, and Team RWBY if you've ever read/seen the cover of RWBY: The Session (which I've still not read yet since it's not in English! Darn it! Y-you can't keep that from me!). You can see the UNIB girls in swimsuits in some promotional images and such. Also, big shout-out for Will DeGrave for the weapons suggestions! They made my job a lot easier man, you're a legend! With that said, please enjoy what has made out to be another one of the longest chapters I've ever done! ^^
Teddie has one massive goal in life; to hunt down the hottest girls that he could possibly find and court them hard. He was, as he would classify himself, a "hopeless romantic." But such as it was, he got shot down by any and all women that he ever got near.
You couldn't help but give him points for persistence, if not idiocy. So, he did not give up and vowed that he would get himself some hotties in his pocket. And with all the girls he knew now, he was determined to find somebody to be with him.
"Yang-chan's curves! Chie-chan's legs! Noel-chan's lips! Yumi-chan's chest! Ruby-chan's backside!"
"Ted!" Naoto K. yelled.
"Wha-? Huh?" Teddie wondered.
"You blanked out on us," Jaune observed. "What happened there?"
"O-oh, nothing!" Teddie said. "I was only daydreaming about the prospects to come!"
"And what would that be exactly?" Kanji asked.
Teddie curled his fingers, as he lead the group around the bend on the road they had been walking on. Naturally, for whatever plan that Teddie had in mind, he had gathered all the regular boys to follow him, including Jaune and Ren from Team JNPR, Hyde Kido, the other boys from the Investigation Team, Sun and Neptune from Team SSSN, and Naoto Kurogane. The only one they were missing, for some reason, was Yosuke, who hadn't been seen since the New Year's Eve party.
They were in the Investigation Team's world, with Teddie leading them up a familiar road that stretched around the hillsides, curving along the coast. Eventually, they rounded the bend, where they saw a massive, golden beach stretching out before them!
"Gentlemen!" Teddie said proudly. "Welcome to the first day of the rest of your lives!"
"The... beach?" Naoto asked.
"What's the deal Teddie?" Hyde asked. "We didn't bring any swimwear. Did we?" he asked the others, with the others shaking their heads.
"Oh don't worry," Teddie said. "For this, we aren't the ones who're gonna need their swimwear."
"What're you...?" Sun began, before gaining a surprised expression. "Hang on a minute," he said, "is this where...?"
"Yup~" Teddie said. "According to my sources, all of our lovely lady friends are taking a day to themselves at the beach. And we're gonna enjoy the show gentle-grizzlies."
"Wait a minute!" Kanji said. "None of us knew the girls were going to the beach! How did you of all people know!"
"As I said," Teddie said, "I have a source~"
"It was Katsuragi," the group of boys collectively said, causing Teddie to topple comically over!
"Besides the point!" Teddie said. "We are gonna enjoy a show by witnessing our girls be one with the sea!"
"This is bull," Naoto said. "We shouldn't be spying on the girls like this. They probably didn't ask us to joing them so we don't go ogling at them."
"Fine!" Teddie said. "If you don't want to join, then the bears of culture can go along instead!"
"I'm a bear of culture," Neptune said, raising his hand.
"Here, here!" Sun said.
"You are all dipshits," Kanji said.
"Kanji my friend," Sun said, throwing an arm over the taller blonde's shoulder. "If there is one thing that I have learnt about you in the days that I have known you, you are a man deserving of more life experience! You need to know the pleasures of the femme fatale! Let us teach you."
"Why would I want that?" Kanji asked. "I think I appreciate them enough already. In fact, I think that the girls would say I appreciate them more than you."
Teddie bounced over and looked at Kanji right in the eye (which required Neptune holding him up to be eye level). "Katsu-chan's breasts," he said. "Blake-chan's hips. Mai-chan's hair."
"W-what the hell're you doing!?" Kanji said.
"Ruby-chan's body," Teddie went on. "Orie-chan's eyes. Noel-cha-"
"Alright! I give up, dammit!" Kanji yelled.
"We got one," Sun said, giving the bear a thumbs up. Their eyes turned towards Hyde, Naoto, Jaune, and Ren, who all crumpled under their gaze!
"N-now see here-!" Jaune said, only for Teddie to look him in the eye (Neptune still holding him up).
"Pyrrha-chan," Teddie said. "Have you ever seen Pyrrha-chan in a swimsuit before? You ever go to the beach or a pool with her, in such a state? One that some may claim as scantily clad, with so much skin on show~?"
"W-well," Jaune said. "I-I mean we did at one poin-"
"And how did it feel?" Teddie asked. "To see her like that?"
"W-well I mean," Jaune said, face increasingly flushing red. "W-well I can't lie she is fairly pretty-"
"You're lucky," Teddie said. "You live with two strong, pretty women. And yet how many times have you been able to... appreciate it~" He said this last part as he leaned close to Jaune's ear.
"Okay! Okay! Okay!" Jaune yelled. "F-fine! Ju-just stop it already!"
Teddie turned to Ren, ready to fire off the same comments but in reference to Nora this time. However, the green clad ninja held a hand up.
"Say no more," he said. "I won't bother defending myself."
"Nice to see you have sense," Teddie said.
Next, he looked to the only two left that hadn't been 'convinced' as of yet, Hyde and Naoto. Hyde would be easy, he would just have to remind Hyde over Ruby in a swimsuit, like he had for the Beauty Pageant. Naoto would be a tough cookie, since he at least didn't believe there was any girl that he was interested in.
But if Teddie did something somewhat like what they had done with Kanji, it might convince him to think different. After all, there was already a bright pink tinge on his cheeks. Teddie licked his lips as he looked at the Bloodedge Kindred.
"N-no!" Naoto said. "D-don't do this!"
"Come on Naoto," Teddie said. "Don't you long to be a normal teenage boy again? It's completely natural. All the guys are doing it."
"Okay!" Naoto said. "Just... stop talking so flirtatiously!"
"One to go," Teddie said, looking to Hyde!
"I-I know what you're gonna pull!" Hyde said, pointing at the bear. "You're gonna try tricking me with Ruby, right? Well I'm not falling for it! No matter what ship you got in your head or whatever, I'm not doing it! Hell no!"
"Fine," Teddie shrugged. "But aren't you close with all of Team RWBY?"
"...What?" Hyde asked.
"Yeah," Teddie said. "You and Weiss-chan are pretty good friends, yeah? And Blake-chan seems to trust you. Yang-chan likes you like a brother. Does the prospects of seeing them and Ruby-chan in the sea seem appealing to you?"
"W-well..." Hyde said.
"Come on Hyde," Teddie said. "You can act as polite as you want, but you can't deny, you're as interested in girls as the rest of us. I've even seen your magazines under the mattress in your bedroom when we were playing Fire Emblem: Three Houses."
"Hey!" Hyde said. "What the hell were you doing going through the stuff in my room!?"
"I know your type," Teddie said.
"Okay! Enough! I give up!" Hyde said.
"And we got em' all!" Teddie said proudly. "Huzzah!" he added, punching a fist in the air!
"Huzzah!" Sun and Neptune cheered. Unfortunately, by throwing his own fist in the air, Neptune dropped Teddie to the ground hard!
Hyde gave a sigh, before his gaze turned to Yu Narukami, who'd been silent this entire time save for going "Huzzah!" with Sun and Neptune! "You've been quiet," Hyde observed.
"Well," Yu said, "I was just waiting to see how that all went."
"I suppose you were going to go along with this," Naoto said.
"Of course," Yu said proudly. "Don't worry guys, we're just gonna watch from afar. We're not gonna be doing anything objectively wrong. It'll be as if we were never really there. And none of the girls will be any the wiser."
With that said, he pointed ahead, leading the gentlemen along behind him.
"Sensei knows how to witness art at work," Teddie said proudly. With reluctant sighs, the other boys followed along to see just how what was initially intended to be "a retreat" for the girls would pan out.
"Dun-nuh! Dun-nuh! Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-!"
Katsuragi was initially aiming to pounce on Blake from the waves like a shark, only for the faunus girl to deliver a solid backhand right into Katsu's face! "Nope," Blake said, as Katsu comically slipped back into the water.
"Wow Blake," Asuka said, observing as her fellow Hanzo student drifted past comically. "I don't know how you could be able to spot her like that, considering how I'm a ninja and yet she somehow manages to always sneak up on me."
"Faunus hearing," Blake said, gesturing at her ears beneath her bow. "Comes in handy."
Just then, Akane, a friend of Heart's from the Inuwaka Clan, popped up from beneath the water! "I understand how that is!" she said, her own canine ears wiggling on top of her head. "But, do tell Blake, why are you still wearing your bow? It's not like anybody else is here to see you, and we all know your that fauna-whatever it is you say."
"It's a habit really," Blake said, shrugging it off. "Every morning I wake up and first thing I do is take off my old bow and swap it with a new one."
"Well you should loosen up!" Akane said, getting in Blake's face. "Just take it off and let everything hang out!"
"You do realize how that sounds, right?" Blake asked.
"Of course she does," Asuka said. "But you know she's got a point."
Blake could merely sigh.
Back on shore, Yumi had just finished putting on her sunblock, sitting beneath an umbrella that was propped up on the sand. Next to her, Scharlachrot was reclined on a towel in a vain attempt to take a nap. She, along with Kamui and Konoha were the only ones that were not going into the water it seemed, so much to the point they were still dressed in their regular clothes.
Konoha was enlisted to help keep an eye on Koromaru and Zwei, as the dogs were allowed to hang out on the beach with them. Kamui on the other hand seemed to find more enjoyment out of merely watching the group all have fun, her legs crossed as she watched with her eyes just shaded underneath the umbrella propped up next to her.
"You sure you don't want to join us, Scharlachrot?" Yumi asked the Valkyria. "I'm sure it would make Weiß very happy."
"No thanks," Scharlachrot said. "None of your games or anything click with me. If you need me, I'll be right here."
"If you say so," Yumi sighed.
"And just be aware," Scharlachrot added, holding up a finger. "If anything happens to Sophie, I will disembowel every last one of you. Got me?"
"Y-yes," Yumi said, giving a nervous laugh."I think everyone here is well aware of this."
Further down the shore, closer to the water, Ruby and Noel were in a heated volleyball game against Yang and Mai. So far, the Rose Red and Calamity Trigger had been in a fight for their lives against the Pure Grimoire and Sunny Little Dragon, rushing back and forth along the perimeter of their game as it seemed Yang and Mai were merely just playing around! Finally, it got to a point where Yang popped right in the air and spiked the ball, nailing her little sister square in the forehead with enough force to throw her from her feet, the ball sailing right over to the water!
"Uh... woops," Yang said. "Sorry sis! You okay?" Ruby merely held up a thumb in response, still laying flat on her back.
"Oh my," Penny said, but unable to keep herself from laughing. "Ruby was knocked out!" Penny was wearing a white, one-piece swimsuit with a frilly top and bottom, in addition to her default pink bow on her head.
Next to her, Makoto, Rise, and Hibari had been watching the game.
"Oh wow," Makoto said, snickering over Ruby's KO. "Yang! Go easy on her!"
"Totally!" Hibari said. "Ruby was, like, totally wrecked!"
Makoto and even Penny both looked at Hibari, with baffled looks on their faces. "What?" Makoto asked.
"I was unfamiliar Hibari spoke that way," Penny said.
"Oh," Rise said. "I've been teaching her lessons from my world."
"I've learned a lot!" Hibari said. "Rise's such a good friend!" She gave Rise a backwards hug, Rise laughing in delight.
"Rise," Makoto said. "I think you shouldn't be 'teaching' her the way you clearly have been."
"What?" Rise asked. "She likes it."
"Well not only will she mimic your behavior," Makoto said, "but there's somebody else who will take this as a threat."
From nearby, Yagyu let out a sneeze.
"Uh..." Noel said, her eyes glued upwards as she watched the ball still flying through the air. "We should get that."
As the ball reached the water, Labrys's head emerged at the same moment, the ball bouncing right off of her as she rose up. She marched up the shore, spitting water out of her mouth. She was the only one present that went in the water who was not wearing a swimsuit, considering that, well, she was one of the most obviously robotic... uh, robots that the group knew. Henceforth, she had merely removed the Yasogami High uniform she typically wore and was just in her naturally robotic body.
"Are you okay, Labrys?" Ruby asked, recognizing the stoic look the ASSW had as she walked out of the sea.
"I have discovered the hard way," Labrys replied, "that I cannot float. So, swimming is a big no-no for me."
Just behind her, Es walked up the water as well with the volleyball in hand. "That is rather unfortunate," she observed. "From my studies, I would have presumed that most robotically, artificial lifeforms would follow a similar construction."
"Well," Labrys observed, "not all of us robots/androids/cyborgs/etc. can have built-in floaties like you." Despite pointing directly at Es's ample chest, the Guardian of the Azure could merely tilt her head to the side curiously.
"Es!" Mai said. "You think you can throw that back?"
Es looked at the mismatched girl and threw the ball back with a massive shove! Mai was the next one blown from her feet, as the ball connected right with her gut and threw her back! Yang cringed at the sight, but did give Es an impressed whistle.
"Okay ladies," Haruka said, sneaking up on the group with the rest of the Crimson Squad, in addition to the Hebijo girls. "We have all conferred, and thought of a new game for us to play."
Yang and Ruby blinked, looking down at the gasping Mai. "Probably for the best," Yang said. "What do you suggest?"
The next minute, all girls present pulled out water guns or other assorted weapons of some kind! "Peach Beach Splash," they collectively said.
All girls were gathered up in the next minute or two. They were all moved into groups of five, with each of the shinobi schools gathering up into their own groups, including;
Hanzo - Asuka, Katsu, Ikaruga, Yagyu, and Hibari. Hebijo - Miyabi, Imu, Murasaki, Ryobi, and Ryona. Gessen - Yumi, Murakumo, Yozakura, Shiki, and Minori. And Homura's Crimson Squad - Homura herself, Haruka, Yomi, Mirai, and Hikage.
There was also all four girls from the Investigation Team, plus Labrys. And then from their respective worlds in their own teams was Heart, Weiß, Saki, Akane, and Lilica, versus Orie, Mika, Yuzuriha, Linne, and Vatista, and finally Noel, Es, Mai, Tsubaki, and Makoto. The only one an odd number was Team RWBY, who also had Pyrrha, Nora, and Penny on their side.
"Hm..." Yumi observed. "That's gonna be problematic."
"Perhaps one of us should step out?" Pyrrha observed.
"It ain't gonna be me!" Nora said. "I want to taste blood today!"
"What game is this?" Scharlachrot asked, suddenly sitting straight up. "You showed me weapons. So I want in. If we get one more person, we can have at least a team of four."
"Konoha," Kamui asked. "Did you want to take part in this game as well?"
"Uh... s-sure!" Konoha said, nodding happily. "You two sit here and wait for me, okay?" she then told Zwei and Koromaru. "Stay and watch." The dogs dutifully sat and waited, tails wagging happily.
"Very well," Kamui observed. "We now have a makeshift team of Pyrrha, Nora, Scharlachrot, Konoha, and myself."
"Okay!" Ruby said, pumping a fist, before delivering a high five to Nora. "And we can keep Penny on our team! But, uh... we still don't know what this game is."
"Allow me to elucidate," Yumi replied. "This game is an old ritual of the shinobi in our world. The goals are simple. Merely knock out your opponent with your water guns. Your goal is to stay as dry as you can. Get soaked, and you're eliminated. Simple."
"An old fashioned ninja ritual... using water guns?" Chie asked.
"Yes," the shinobi all said, as if it were obvious.
"The more we hear about your world," Tsubaki added, hand on her hip, "the more odd it sounds."
"Yeah," Ruby said. "I don't want to go to any world where my clothes can disintegrate. I wouldn't ever live down the shame."
"Very inconvenient," Penny nodded despondently.
"Well we've survived," Homura said. "So are you guys in or out?"
"Oh we're in!" Rise said confidently. "There is no way we're gonna turn this down!"
"Same here!" Yang said. "Team RWBY ain't going down without a fight!"
"We will compete as well," Es added. "This battle seems... intriguing."
"I suppose it wouldn't be right if we turned down," Orie replied, "when everyone else has already agreed."
"Awesome," Asuka said. "But there are a few additional rules that have to be noted. First off, we can use physical weapons as well, but only for a few occasions. They won't count towards winning the game, as you still have to soak your enemy. But if you get too close to an opponent, you can at least use them to get them away from you."
"Fair enough," Blake said. "I think we all have some extra tricks up our sleeves. Don't we?"
"Oh yeah!" Ruby, Weiss, and Yang agreed.
"We'll have some additional tricks as well," Ikaruga said. "But as for the other rule, no Shinobi Arts can be used. And to keep fairness in check, the rules should also be the same for all of your special abilities as well. Meaning no EXS, no Persona, no Semblance, and no Arcana."
"Really?" Chie asked. "Dang. That sucks."
"Agreed," Akane said. "But, it's not like I use my Arcana unless I have to. So that doesn't hurt me by any means."
"Right," Yukiko nodded. "And we've been trying to train without using our Personas as often as we normally do, so we should try something like this out!"
"I concur," Weiss said. "Fighting without the dependency on Semblance will do us well just as much."
"So we're all in agreeance?" Haruka asked. "Good. So line up laides, and grab your weapons."
The group began dispensing different water gun weapons to each other that suited their fighting styles the best. In order, the weapons dispersed were:
Linne, Noel, Asuka, and Heart with dual handguns, while Hikage, Shirogane, Blake, Kamui, and Miyabi opted to single handguns.
Ruby, Ikaruga, Ryobi, Saki, and Tsubaki with sniper rifles.
Yumi, Pyrrha, Weiss, and Mai with assault rifles.
Es, Katsuragi, Yuzuriha, Yomi, Scharlachrot, and Murasaki with gatling guns.
Murakumo, Makoto, Nora, and Vatista with grenade launchers.
Yang, Yozakura, Lilica, Chie, and Yagyu with shotguns.
Imu, Mirai, Yukiko, Weiß, Konoha, Shiki, and Orie with spray guns.
Homura, Minori, Labrys, Akane, and Mika with (bottle) rocket launchers.
Hibari, Ryona, Rise, Penny, and Haruka with shower guns.
As this happened, further up the hill, the boys were all staring at the scene unfolding, practically hyperventilating at the prospects to come!
"Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!" Neptune, Sun, and Teddie were all chanting eagerly. Next to them, even Kanji and Jaune found themselves staring intently at the crowd, noses fit to start bleeding merely at the mental imagery that began plaguing their minds. Even Narukami was chanting, "yes," a little more determined than the others. That is, until he caught Kurogane, Hyde, and Ren all staring at him with bemused expressions.
"Sorry," he said.
Eventually, the girls all gathered up their weapons, and spread out across the beach! They were all lined up, five in a row, as they conferred their strategies with one another. Weapons were primed and ready.
"There's just one more addition that I wanted to note," Haruka said, before pulling out a pink vial from... somewhere. Did she have pockets in that swimsuit?
"What is that?" Penny asked curiously.
"This little baby," Haruka said, "is something I whipped up that can turn clothes transparent. Shall we make this game a bit more challenging and have that added?"
"YES!" Ryona shouted.
"NO!" practically everyone else yelled.
"Get that crap outta here!" Chie yelled. "Jeez, why do you even have something like that!?"
"Why else?" Haruka asked, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"Well we are not using it!" Weiss added. "So get it away!"
"Aw," Katsu said, rather disappointed.
"No!" Asuka said, pointing at her fellow ninja. "Bad Katsuragi!"
"We are not allowing that," Yagyu agreed. "So keep your wet dreams to yourself."
"Fine," Katsu shrugged.
"And you are not grabbing that vial from Haruka when we leave!" Ikaruga added.
"Ah, you're no fun!" Katsu said, lolling her head back.
"So... we're not using it?" Haruka asked, shaking the vial lightly.
"NO! We are not!" everyone yelled again.
"I swear Haruka," Nora said, prepping her grenade launcher! "You use it, I make you eat that adorable bow on your head!" She cocked her gun for dramatic effect.
"Okay! Sheesh!" Haruka said, putting the vial away.
Back up the hill, Kurogane, Hyde, Kanji, Ren, and even Yu all looked to the other boys blinking slowly. The others jumped at the sight of the other boys staring at them with rater cold expressions.
"Hold up," Sun said, "we didn't say anything!"
"But you thought it," Hyde said.
"We did no such thing!" Neptune said.
"Then you're lying," Kurogane added.
"We are not!" Sun and Neptune said together.
"I deny nothing," Teddie replied, causing the others to comically pass out!
With the girls again, everyone had their weapons primed and ready, all ready to get bolting across the sand as soon as the signal was thrown!
"Ten!" Heart said.
"Nine!" Orie said.
"Eight!" Yukiko said.
"Seven!" Noel and the others declared as one.
"Six!" Team RWBY plus Penny yelled.
"Five!" Asuka shouted!
"Four!" Homura said.
"Three!" Yumi said.
"Two!" Miyabi said.
"One!" Scharlachrot and Pyrrha's team yelled.
"Go!" everyone yelled.
The groups all split off in dozens of directions! Water, balloons, and rockets were flying through the air at terminal velocity but nobody had gotten hit yet!
Saki and Chie naturally closed in on each other first! The two were affectionate "rivals" whenever they trained with Akihiko to get physically stronger, due to using very similar fighting styles! The two shot at one another numerous times, both ducking and sliding around each blast of water, Chie with her shotgun and Saki with her sniper, before they got within a few feet of one another!
They instinctively delivered kicks towards each other, legs connecting in midair, before dropping back to the sand! The problem was, neither of them acknowledged an oncoming blonde racing towards them! "Hey ladies!" she shouted. "I'mma make you wet! And not in the fun way!"
"Oh hell!" both Chie and Saki said, as they saw Katsuragi barreling towards them!
While Chie and Saki had a friendly rivalry between each other, they both had a deep seated resentment towards Katsuragi. While they respected her skills, and would readily admit that she would more than likely win in a one on one battle between either of them, they were obviously not privy to her letcherous habits, which certainly made it grievously annoying each time she showed up to "train." Which naturally translated to attempting to grope and fondel anyone within range, which in itself also caused Akihiko to start splitting hairs. They knew she may target them eventually during this Peach Beach Splash, but they were still surprised with all the other rivaling shinobi nearby, she would make a beeling straight for them!
Katsu leapt up in the air, gatling gun barrel trained towards the two girls! With her superior speed thanks to her ninja training, she was primed and ready to shoot down both the Persona user and Arcana user before they could even blink! That is, until she was blown from the air in numerous rockets that came from behind both Saki and Chie!
"Ha! Eat it!" Akane yelled, leaping over the two girls' heads and landing next to the downed Katsuragi. "That makes one out of us four feetsy fighters down!"
"Aw man!" Katsu said sadly. "I didn't even get to have any fun yet!" She was nailed with another rocket in the nose, as Akane booked it, but not before sending a wink toward Saki!
Saki sent a happy nod of her own at Akane, before returning to her duel with Chie! The carnivore was momentarily stunned by Saki's continued attacks, before recovering and keeping up the fight!
Across the bay, Imu had surprisingly targetted Ruby of all people as soon as the Peach Beach Splash began. She was focused on Ruby because she knew her as the leader of Team RWBY. As such, Imu had the mentality of targetting any opposing leader, all for the glory of Miyabi!
You're mine, Ruby Rose, Imu giggled mentally to herself, as she held her guns aloft, ready to strike down Ruby the moment she had the chance! How can you honestyly pride yourself as a leader when you're so disfunctional and childish!?
Take Miyabi. She's so strong, and orderly, and stoic, and handsome! You're nothing like her, and yet you make yourself out to be the leader of your team! How uncouth! You don't deserve the same title as the great Miyabi!
Imu continued pursuing Ruby across the beach, several pegs behind her. But even without using her Petal Burst Semblance, Ruby proved to be impressively fast, even for a shinobi in training like Imu. Ruby hopped up on top of a rock, bouncing for only a moment at the heat that was radiating off of it from the sunlight, before training her sniper gun out across the sand!
From nearby, Mika and Minori were in a bit of a watery hissy fight! Neither one of them were nailing a single hit with their rockets on the other, which left them easy pickings for the Huntress in training. With a few dallops, both the Licht Kries member and Gessen Academy student were knocked out!
"Gotcha both!" Ruby said happily.
"How could you!?" Mika said, sitting back up. "I thought we were cool!" Minori on the other hand was just laying in the sand pouting.
"Sorry you two," Ruby said, pumping her gun, "but Team RWBY's gonna steal this victory!"
"Good luck with that," Imu said, landing behind Ruby, spray gun trained on the hooded girl. "Because look who's got you!"
Next thing she knew, however, Imu was blown off her feet by dozens of blasts of water, knocking her from the rock that Ruby was still crouched on. Through soaked glasses, Imu saw Weiss strut past, sending the fallen ninja a confident smirk, leaning her rifle on her shoulder.
"And as always," Ruby said proudly, "my BFF has my back!"
"No," Weiss said firmly, before rushing away again.
"Yes!" Ruby said to herself in a fist pump, before running away herself!
"Miyabi," Imu said, head hung in defeat, "forgive me. I have failed you!" she declared dramatically, dropping on her back in the sand.
"Boy," Mika said. "She sucks."
"Yeah," Minori nodded. "Wanna get ice cream?"
"Do I!?" Mika said.
Suffice to say, the early shots fired, with how many fighters there were, had a total blitzkrieg of combatants knocked out within the first minute or so! Not only were Mika, Minori, and Katsuragi among the first to drop, but a few others soon fell victim to one attack or another.
"Oh shit!" Yuzu screamed, ducking behind a rock, crouching next to a startled Blake as they both kept down from the shower of water that was coming down! You'd think that these number of shots were coming from numerous individuals, but it wasn't. It was all from one individual: Es.
The Guardian of the Azure had busted out a gosh, darn, hecking gatling gun water weapon and was spraying the sand enough to make Coco Adel cry tears of joy. From the shots of water, several individuals quickly fell victim to her. Yomi, Rise, Shiki, and Hibari all fell victim to her in six seconds flat!
"Oh man!" Rise said. "I didn't even get anybody!"
"Same here," Shiki agreed. "This is, like, such a bummer!"
Yuzu and Blake turned to one another as they felt a silent understanding emerge. "Okay," Yuzu said, "temporary truce to take her out?"
"Agreed," Blake said.
"Let's show these shinobi girls what a real ninja is made out of," Yuzu grinned wickedly. With a mighty war cry from Yuzu, Blake followed behind with a good natured roll of her eyes, before they charged at Es! Water chased them in waves, before Blake was the one who got the brunt of the offense directed towards her!
Blake was able to leap over Es's head, as Yuzu planted her feet, sliding across the sand to get a clear shot with her own gatling gun! However, Es was still primed in her general direction, unleashing a volley of water that prompted Yuzu to keep running the second she had stopped! She silently cursed herself for being unable to use her EXS, in addition to being weighted down by the gatling gun she was lugging! Both Yuzu and Blake charged behind a different rock, both taking a breath as they had come mere centimeters away from death!
"Okay," Yuzu said. "That didn't work."
"No it did not," Blake said. "Thank you very much for stating the obvious."
"You're very welcome," Yuzu replied.
They both stopped, however, as they saw Vatista crouched down next to them. She was wearing a solid black, one-piece swimsuit. But in addition, for whatever reason, she was also wearing the bow she wore with her usual dress.
She made eye contact with Yuzu and Blake, before giving a nod. "Excuse me," she said. She jumped from the cover and appeared right next to Es, training her grenade launcher on the Guardian of the Azure. "Observation. I have you at my mercy."
"Correction," Es replied. "you will not have me at your mercy for long."
"Declaration," Vatista said. "as soon as I pull this trigger, you will be bested."
"Counterpoint," Es said. "I will avoid the shot and best you with my own weapon."
"Argument," Vatista said. "I will avoid your own onslaught, and fire at you as I have an opening."
"Contradiction," Es said. "You won't be able to avoid my onslaught."
Both Yuzu and Blake had the most befuddled looks on their faces as they watched the artificial figures cut from the same cloth having their "argument." They both looked to one another, before giving a collective shrug. They both took fire on the two vulnerable not-quite-robots, with Blake taking down Vatista with her handgun and Yuzu eliminating Es with a shower of water from her gun.
"There!" Yuzu said. "You're both down! Now can we not with that!?"
Both Vatista and Es sat back up, looking to one another and giving a monotonous, "Oh."
"And with these two out," Yuzu said, before turning to Blake, "mano e' mano?"
Before she could even get a proper answer, Blake had shot her in the head, gut, and hips with her gun! Yuzu collapsed, her gatling gun crumpling beside her, as Blake merely smirked down at her fallen quarry.
"Uncool man," Yuzu said. "Uncool."
Further down, Heart had clear targets in mind! Her "heroic" and "chivalrous" mindset had taken the wheel, and gave her a clear direction in moving towards the evil shinobi! Whether they be students of Hebijo or current renegades, Heart was huting them down like a predator!
She'd been taking stock of the eliminated individuals so far, and knew that the ones that had been eliminated from the evil shinobi were Imu from Hebijo and Yomi from the Crimson Squad, leaving the remainders of each team!
"Hey there!" Heart said happily, sneaking right up to Ryobi!
"What the he-!?" Ryobi was going to say, before getting nailed right in the gut by an inflatable knuckle from Heart! She was blown right from her feet, and was pushed all the way into the ocean by a stream of water from one of Heart's guns!
"Ouch..." Orie said, cringing at the sight. "That looked like it hurt!"
"Well," Heart said. "She was an evil shinobi?"
Orie shrugged it off. "Sorry to do this Heart," she said, the barrel of her spray gun at the Rare Maiden, "but you know we're on opposing sides for this battle."
"Not so fast," Kamui intersected, dropping down in front of Orie with an inflatable sword strike! She had since dispatched her skirt and opened up her vest to reveal a dark, one-piece swimsuit that she must have had on for just the occasion. Orie was clipped, staggering on her feet, before getting knocked further back by the Millenial Guardian. "While we may be on opposing sides, Heart remains a trusted confidant for me. So you'll forgive me for having to keep you from eliminating her."
Orie snagged her gun back, before pulling out her own inflatable sword. "As you wish," she said. "Then let us take each other on."
The next thing that Heart knew, both Orie and Kamui became a solid blur of motion, as they dualed each other with inflatable pool swords. Merely blinking at the sight, Heart smiled and delivered a thumbs up to Kamui! "Thanks a million Kamu-Kamu!" she said.
She turned, just in time for a splash of water to nearly hit her straight in the head, ducking enough for it to just about snag her cowlick! "Aw man..." Heart said. "I really liked my heart-shaped hair."
She stood back upright, seeing Hikage running towards her! Blasts of water came at her, Heart jumping right over the attack, and shooting Hikage with her own retaliating blasts!
"You know Hikage," Heart said, "typically you look really relaxed, but I feel like you need to emote more! The whole 'no emotions' thing is just depressing! I mean, you can't even feel love if you act like that all the time!"
"Do you have a trigger?" she asked, as Hikage kept up the assault, Heart expertly running backwards and ducking/dodging around all of the snake-like girls attacks, whilst firing off a few of her own! "Like, is there something that you do that gives up emotions?"
"Fighting?" Hikage said.
"...Anything other than that?" Heart added. She stopped in place, throwing one of her pistols up in the air, before attempting to deliver another punch! Hikage side-stepped around this one, before attempting to shoot Heart, who merely backhanded the gun away! She proceeded to nail Hikage with a punch from her free hand square in the face with the inflatable fist! She caught her gun in midair, and shot the renegade shinobi down with blasts from both weapons!
"Two down!" Heart said.
"Darn," Hikage said monotonously.
"Uh... s-sorry I hit you like that," Heart said.
"It's okay," Hikage said. "I mean, I don't really care."
"So we're still friends?" Heart asked happily.
"I never recall calling us friends," Hikage said. "But sure. Whatever makes you happy."
"Yay!" Heart cheered, before nearly getting nailed with a second blast of water! She spun around, weapons trained, which spooked Murasaki, who was the one who shot at her!
"S-sorry," she said. "But I think I have to beat you."
"While I accept your apology," Heart said. "I won't let you beat me!" She charged forward, Murasaki barely even looking as she desperately backed up, blasts from her gatling gun trained at Heart!
The Rare Maiden leapt up over Murasaki's head, showering the evil shinobi from above! Heart landed beside Murasaki, who was practically in a feetle position.
"Uh... sorry," Heart said.
"It's okay," Murasaki said. "I was a bit too nervous."
"Oh don't worry about it!" Heart said. "You can't expect to be brave all the time! Just work at getting braver!"
"I'm brave!" Ryona cheered, leaping over with her shower gun! Heart ducked around Ryona's attacks, running in a straight line towards Heart, who fired off a few blasts from her own gun, knocking Ryona off her feet and she slid across the ground, laughing like mad!
"Oh man," she said. "I guess I got all wet."
"Uh..." Heart said. "Did you do that on purpose?"
"Hit me a bit more!" Ryona said. "You haven't knocked my swimsuit off!"
"H-hey! Hey!" Heart said. "T-that's not part of the rules!"
"Aw!" Ryona said.
"And with that," Heart added to herself, turning on her heel and walking away, "that makes four evil shinobi down for me!"
"And that'll be the last!" Homura shouted, landing in front of Heart, weapon primed ahead! Heart yelped, before leaping over Homura's head, blasts of water splashing back and forth as the two tried to get a direct hit on either or the other!
Yang was biting her tongue in a cheeky grin, as she easily stepped around each attack that came her way. It appeared that Yukiko, Konoha, and Murakumo all ganged up on her!
"Sorry Yang!" Yukiko said. "Nothing personal!"
Yang dodged around a hit from her spray gun, before squinting to focus a shot, and nailed Yukiko in the chest with a blow from her shotgun! "The feeling's mutual!" Yang said, as Yukiko dropped in defeat!
"You won't get me so easily," Murakumo said, "you stunning example of the female body!" She took a few shots at Yang, water balloons coming down on the blonde!
Yang merely raised a brow, dipping around the balloons, before casually raising her gun and shooting Murakumo right in the face, which naturally blew her mask away! "AH!" Murakumo screamed, hiding her face and dropping her gun! "Anything but that!"
"Your weakness is way too obvious," Yang said, shooting Murakumo a few more times just to confirm her defeat. The dragon turned her sights on Konoha, who had dropped her gun and hid her head, whimpering like a sad puppy. Yang raised a brow once again, before merely delivering a small drop to the dog-like girl's head.
"Three for me," Yang said proudly.
"Pardon me," Akane declared, jumping over quickly towards Yang! "But I do believe you just took out a member from my clan! And for that, prepare to get soaked!"
She jumped towards Yang, who was backing up to brace for Akane to attack! But the Inuwaka member never got a chance as she was knocked from the air the next thing she knew, by a comically large inflatable fist from Yang!
Akane rolled across the ground for a moment, before laying face first in the sand. "Okay... ow," she said, upon stopping.
"Oof... sorry about that," Yang said. "You okay?"
"Yeah," Akane said. "Fine."
Akane jumped back up, weapons trained! Yang smirked as readied to take the canine girl once more! Only for the Inuwaka Clan member to get blown from her feet in a volley of shots of water!
"What?" Yang wondered.
"Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" Scharlachrot cackled. "And more drop like flies to me!"
"Aw man..." Akane said. "The lunatic had to take me out?"
Scharlachrot continued to have her crazed look in her eye as she drifted over to Yang. "And now for you!" she said.
"Uh-oh," Yang said, breaking into a cartoonishly fast run as Scharlachrot pursued her!
Linne typically didn't appreciate the limitations her smaller body gave her, but was thankful for it in these circumstances where she was better able to dodge around attacks from her enemies. While she would certainly prefer to be using her EXS to better maneuver around the attacks and get in close, it didn't necessarily detract from her skill as she had now.
Dual guns in hand, she snuck up to a shoot-out between Yozakura and Tsubaki, peppering them with some shots as she sprinted past! Neither one of them saw her until it was far too late and she was quite far away!
"What the heck!?" Yozakura asked. "How much speed was on that!?"
"Such an underhanded tactic," Tsubaki said, wiping water from her face. "No honor."
Mirai saw her approaching, and let loose her spray gun to fend her off! "Oh no you don't, shrimp!" she said. "You're not getting me!"
Linne was unimpressed, as she spun around Mirai's attacks, before sliding under another attack, shooting off a number of hits that blew Mirai off her feet! "Bold move calling me 'shrimp'," Linne said, "when you're barely a few inches taller than I am."
Linne felt her face red for the most part as she kept moving, resentful about being one of the shortest girls present, and somebody as childish as Mirai was actually taller than she was! Goddamm, mother trucking reincarnation! she wore internally.
She continued her run, spotting yet another shoot-out, this one between Noel and Ikaruga! She ran past same as before, knocking both of them out with running shots!
"Oh no!" Noel said. "That's unfair!"
"Not unfair," Ikaruga said. "We merely just got outwitted."
The sprinting kept up, as Linne caught sight of Miyabi fighting off Pyrrha! The shinobi was managing to outmanuever the untouchable girl despite her superior range with her rifle! Linne closed in, both guns raised up to bulldoze through both Miyabi and then cut through to Pyrrha on the opposing side!
However, probably through her shinobi training, Miyabi sensed Linne approaching! She ducked unnaturally far backward, just as the Huntress-in-training in front of her let loose a blast from her rifle that nailed Linne straight in the head! Body now soaked, Linne dropped to the ground, as Miyabi stood straight back up and raised her own gun!
"Oh! I'm sorry!" Pyrrha had just enough time to say to the miniscule In-Birth she gunned down, before she herself got shot by Miyabi! The white haired evil shinobi smirked proudly, bowing in respect to Pyrrha all the same, before she leapt off to find new targets!
Shirogane was crouched down low, keeping to the side and peppering shots as she went, catching the lunatics who were running all over the place! Naturally, she knew that if she were to go out with however many opponents as there were now and get right in the line of fire, she would end up no better than any of the others that were dropping like flies!
That is, until she heard a whistle from nearby. The Detective Prince turned to see Lilica smirking right at her. "So, uh..." Lilica said. "What've you been up to?"
Shirogane rose her gun, dodging just in time before Lilica began doing just the same! Shirogane tried her hardest to keep to the cover that she had marked, but Lilica was doing everything she could to catch her before she could properly hide! Shirogane was just able to jump over a rock and use it as cover, before sprinkling a few shots aimed at Lilica, as the demoness was headed right for the ocean!
However, Lilica took to the air, hovering low over the ground as if she were rollerblading, expertly snaking around Shirogane's shots! "Ha!" Lilica laughed. "Nice try, tomboy!"
"Hey!" Haruka yelled, jumping right over to the scene! "No flying!"
Lilica groaned as she dropped into the water. "Seriously?" she asked through the water. "I can't even use my wings? That's just unfair."
"What's unfair," Haruka said, "is the fact that only, like, two or three people here can fly when everyone else can't. No flying!"
"Fine!" Lilica yelled, bouncing out of the water as she took aim! "But I can still take you out!"
That may have been, only for Lilica to get nailed in the face with a blast of water, a millisecond before Haruka got nailed in the back of the head with another! Shirogane twirled her gun around a single finger, as she confidently walked away with a definiteive sashay in her hips.
"Lame," Lilica said, before sinking in the water.
"Totally lame," Haruka added, hanging her head in defeat.
Asuka was not having a good time. At first, she was hoping to settle a score or two with Homura or Yumi, but instead she found herself being hiding for her life from the redhead psychopathic Huntress by the name of Nora!
Naturally, Team JNPR's lunatic teammate was trained with a grenade launcher as her trademark weapon, and was proving her superiority with the weapon over pretty much everyone in her way!
"Here she comes!" Labrys yelled, firing off another rocket towards Nora! Despite not being able to use the water balloon grenade launcher to send herself midair, Nora still proved herself able to avoid the rockets, as she nailed Labrys with a few balloons!
As she kept running, she took a double header of white haired girls out by nailing Weiß and Yagyu with a few more shots! Nora was cackling like a witch as she ran past, looking for more victims!
"How is it that girl is around," Yagyu said, "and everyone from my world are seen as the weird ones?" Weiß could offer no response other than a small smile, taking her defeat in stride!
Asuka leapt in surprise as Nora found her hiding behind a rock, firing off a few protective shots from her handguns before Nora could knock her out with a few balloons! Asuka's only hope was to wait it out until Nora used up all her balloons! However, that was little more than a prayer, even with her shinobi skills in mind! So, despite it being totally dishonorable and not the least bit flattering to herself, Asuka did the one thing that might possibly save her from being totally creamed!
"Somebody help me!"
"Incoming!" Mai said, ducking down and firing at Nora with her assault rifle!
Nora merely laughed as she flipped and ducked around Mai's strikes, before firing a solid water balloon to the head!
Hibari was Nora's next victim, nearly given a solid heart attack as Nora pelted her with another water balloon that eliminated the pink haired ninja before she could even do anything so much to defend herself!
Okay, so asking for help wasn't the best idea, as Nora was tanking everybody that came near her! Asuka would have to find some new plan if she was going to survive! Weiss landed directly beside Asuka, throwing a blast from her rifle at Nora, the fellow Beacon student forced to duck beneath the attack!
Nora stood right back up, aiming her grenade launcher at Weiss, before she was pelted on either side by both balloons and water! From nearby, Orie and Makoto were holding their respective weapons which eliminated Nora! She dropped and groaned over her defeat, as everyone nearby sighed heavily, relieved that easily one of the most difficult opponents was knocked out.
"Okay ladies," Makoto said, reloading her own grenade launcher, "four teams stand opposed to one another. Four way free for all, get set!"
Orie and Weiss stood back to back, the Licht Kries member having just narrowly succeeded in her fight against Kamui, only because Nora had instinctively shot down the Millennial Guardian and narrowly missed Orie. All the same, the respective partnership between the Executor and Ice Queen was still felt as they silently vowed to handle each other once Makoto and Asuka were knocked out of the way.
"Hey. Hey now!" Asuka said, holding her own weapons, sensing the alliance that was formed. "You're not on the same team!"
"We call it a temporary truce," Weiss replied.
"Not the most honorable," Orie said. "But effective."
"Oh man!" Makoto said. "Okay, Asuka, if they're playing dirty than so will we! We team up too!"
"O-okay!" Asuka said.
Both Weiss and Orie launched themselves forward, the water flying as Asuka and Makoto backed up! The respective opponents proved themselves remarkably fast as they were able to duck and dodge around all the oncoming attacks! But little did they know, a fifth member of this free for all turned tag team had arrived on the scene, ready to take advantage of it!
Yomi aimed her gatling gun at everyone, licking her lips as she was ready to take out the four standing in front of her! Sensing her presence nearby, everyone turned to her, jaws dropping in horror! "Sorry everyone," Yomi said. "But I'm afraid that I'm reaping the benefits of this circumstance."
She let loose a volley of water from her gatling gun, nailing each of them! However, they had released their own attacks, all of which nailed Yomi herself, the shinobi having not prepared herself in the event that they would be able to let out their own attacks! All five dropped, having all been eliminated!
Further up the beach, Ruby was still running like mad! She'd seen Weiss get eliminated, and was unclear about where Blake, Penny, and Yang were currently, and how they were fairing. But she knew she couldn't handle it now, and had to worry more about herself and eliminating whoever came upon her!
Saki and Chie were not making any headway with their battle, both taking pot shots against each other as they hid behind cover. Penny finally appeared around Saki, jumping from behind her! The Atlesian student washed Saki with her shower gun, before leaping over the rock and spreading water towards Chie!
Chie herself desperately tried to dodge around Penny's assault, which managed to put her right into Ruby's crosshairs! Ruby took aim and sniped Chie a few times with her own water gun, which caused her to stop, and get showered by Penny just for good measure! "Thanks Penny!" Ruby called out, still running at full peg!
"You're welcome!" Penny said.
As Ruby continued to run, she screeched to a halt as Yang collapsed in front of her, Scharlachrot having finally nailed her and took her out! Scharlachrot was still laughing like a psychopath as her eyes settled on Ruby! She ran and leapt over Scharlachrot before the Valkyria could attempt to attack her, landing directly behind her!
Hearing noises behind her, Ruby took a quick glance behind to see the fight between Heart and Homura closing in on her! As it turns out, coming in the opposite direction, Blake and Shirogane were coming in, having started up a fight between one another as well! Ruby felt her heart rate increase even more, as the fights were headed towards them!
"Ruby!" Penny called out! "We have incoming!"
Ruby looked over, as Penny fought off Yumi as they came in from the right side! Ruby gave a nod, as Scharlachrot aimed her gun at them! Ruby jumped up in the air, crossing paths with Penny, who let loose a volley on top of Scharlachrot, as Ruby came out from behind Penny to attack Yumi! Whilst Yumi was able to dodge around the attacks in midair, Penny's shots rang true and nailed Scharlachrot!
"No!" the Valkyria yelled. "Dammit!"
"Sorry," Penny said, landing beside Scharlachrot. "But I had to take my chance."
Ruby and Yumi continued crossing blasts as they ran and ducked around the ground! The water flew all over the place, nailing Blake, Shirogane, Heart, and Homura as they closed in! Even Penny got hit with a stray blast from the battle between the Gessen and Beacon students!
"No!" Homura said.
"How in the world!?" Blake said.
"Aw man," Heart said.
The water continued to splash around indiscriminantly as Yumi and Ruby were the last ones standing, neither one getting a clear shot as every ounce of ninja or Huntress skill was put to the test to have at least a single hit nail the other! Their motions had become so quick that they became nothing more than blurs of red and blue as they continued their onslaught!
Back on the hillside, the boys hadn't said a word for the past several minutes as they watched these scenes unfold! They had been so gripped by such a beautiful display of grace and skill, watching each combatant drop one after another! Now their attention was gripped, wondering just who would be the one to come out on top between the duel of the Frigidly Flowing Femme Fatale or Team RWBY's Rose Red!
Hyde himself felt his heart pounding in his chest as he watched the fight continue, barely able to track just where Ruby or Yumi were at the time, as they were moving so fast! "Come on Ruby..." he said quietly to himself. "You got this...!"
A bark from right next to him caught his attention, prompting him to look down and see Zwei sitting next to his leg, tail wagging in delight. Zwei barked again, clearly trying to get his attention.
"Uh, yes?" Hyde asked. "Can I help you?"
Zwei suddenly jumped up, getting directly in Hyde's face! The In-Birth cried out in surprise, attempting to hold Zwei back! However, his efforts only caused him to lean backwards away from Zwei's face, but fall into Yu and Jaune!
"Hey! Watch it!" Jaune said.
"Sorry!" Hyde said. "But this dog is-!" He couldn't even finish, as Zwei jumped out of Hyde's arms, falling right into Hyde's face, causing him to fall back into Jaune and Yu once more!
The three had already been sitting on the cliff edge, and with Zwei pushing them over, the Persona user, Huntsman-in-training, and In-Birth fell off the cliff and rolled down the sandy hillside!
"Woah!" Sun said. "Men down! Men down!"
"Sensei, Hyde, and Jaune are down!" Teddie said.
"Well," Kanji said. "Was nice knowing em'."
But he spoke too soon, as Koromaru howled directly behind the three of them! The three got startled by the noise to the point that, in their current position leaning over the cliff to watch as their comrades fell off, prompted them to jump off the cliff and pursue them! The ones remaining were Ren, Kurogane, and Neptune as they watched the others topple down the hill, before they turned to the dog who was looking happy at his progress!
Back down the hill, Ruby and Yumi were charging at one another once more, guns raised and ready to shoot once they had a clear shot! That is, until Hyde, Yu, and Jaune all rolled down in front of their path in a crumpled ball of limbs! The Huntress and shinobi both put on the breaks, stopping right before they could run straight into their friends!
"Hyde!?" Ruby said.
"Yu!?" Weiss said, upon seeing Yu in the ball.
"Jaune!?" Pyrrha added, after seeing very much the same of her partner.
"Uh-oh..." Hyde said. He gave a reproachful look to the dog, who was still panting happily. "You did this on purpose," he said angrily.
"What the heck are you doing here?" Yuzu asked.
"Uh..." Yu said, sitting back up. "For the record, we only had the intention of watching."
"Yu Narukami..." Weiss said, anger coming off of her in waves. "You mean to tell me that you three were spying on us!?"
"I-it wasn't just us!" Jaune said. "It was Teddie's idea!"
At perfect timing, Teddie, Kanji, and Sun all crashed right into the three other boys, causing them to end up in a similar, if bigger, ball of limbs!
"Sun!?" Blake said.
"Kanji-kun!?" Shirogane added.
Teddie pushed himself from the ball, eyes glancing around. "Hey!" he said. "How come you were concerned about everyone else, but nobody was looking out for me!"
"Is there anyone else we should know about?" Ikaruga asked, sword now in hand.
"Uh..." Hyde, Kanji, and the others said, before pointing back up the hill, where the others were still sitting.
"We should probably run," Neptune observed.
"Agreed," the others said, breaking into a run!
Next thing the boys knew, the girls all had their weapons drawn, a dark energy permeating off their bodies! "Any last words?" a good majority of them asked.
Most of the men present had had encounters with demigods and beings of darkness, but at that moment they knew that the phrase "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" was a best summation of their current circumstances. The only thing they could think to say that might possibly make their punishment be any less severe was the obvious: "It was Teddie's idea!"
"Why do you forsake me!?" the bear himself asked, feeling the girls' turn most of their fury onto him!
Later that day, Hyde and Ruby were walking side-by-side in Kanzakai, the rest of Team RWBY next to them, and Weiss firmly hanging onto Yu's hand for good measure. "Glad we got little more than a fierce earful for spying," Hyde said, "rather than physical abuse."
"You two might've been immature," Blake said, "but we trust you more than the likes of Neptune, Sun, and Teddie. Same thing goes for Jaune, Ren, Kanji, and Kurogane."
"Speaking of Sun," Yu said. "You sure he'll stick to his punishment?"
"Forced to buy me lunch for a month?" Blake replied. "Oh don't worry. I'll make sure he'll pay."
"And same thing with Neptune?" Hyde asked.
"It's a bit worse for him," Yu said. "Because Chie won the coin toss and he'll have to provide for her steak habits."
"And what about Teddie?" Hyde added.
"Since he's the worst of all," Weiss said, "he'll have to work as an aide for the Licht Kries for over a month."
"Are you sure that's a punishment for him," Hyde asked, "or a reward?"
"Oh trust us," Yang said. "Half the things that the girls have in mind will have him swearing he'll never spy on a girl for the rest of his life. Namely because, they're gonna pass him off to Wagner every chance they get."
"Oh yeah," Hyde and Yu agreed. "That'll do it."
"I am wondering one thing," Ruby said, entering the cafe that the group was thinking to eat at. "Where was Yosuke? You would've thought he'd be there too."
"Well that's the thing," Hyde said. "We couldn't find him."
"Seriously?" Yang asked. "Doesn't Teddie live with him or something?"
"Well," Yu replied, "according to what he told me, Yosuke didn't show up after the New Year's Eve party. And Yosuke hasn't been answering my calls either."
The girls of Team RWBY looked to one another with somewhat nervous looks. "Uh..." Ruby said. "Don't you think that's... a bit of a cause for concern?"
Yu and Hyde shared a look, their eyes widening after a moment. "Now that you mention it," they both said simultaneously.
Suddenly, the Prince of Junes himself burst through the door of the cafe, running right over to the table that the group was sitting at and planted his hands firmly on there! "Guys!" he said. "You would not! Believe! What I have been through!"
To Be Continued.,,?
A/N: And there you have it folks! Probably the most requested chapter I've had in a while, is finally over! Now don't you worry, I already have a solid base for what's gonna/had already happened with Yosuke, so you can expect that sooner than this one, probably. As I'm sure a lot of you guys are wondering what happened to him, especially since Makoto was in this chapter hanging out with the girls, though Yosuke was still missing.
Anywho! I don't really have a lot to say about this chapter specifically that doesn't speak for itself. This chapter was a big action sequence that I had a lot of fun writing. Thinking of different scenarios between the girls, who would be where, it was a lot of fun for me to go through, and I personally hope that you guys enjoyed reading it. Most of the writing process was just letting my mind run wild, thinking of the different characters and where they go through, thinking of slowly but surely thinning the herd until the end!
Initially, the reveal that the guys were watching the girls the whole time was going to be somewhat different than what I actually wrote, but upon reflection, I realized my initial idea was actually not good. So, I broke it down and thought of something that would be more natural, if the least bit unoriginal. But, just as effective at serving the purpose I laid out for it, and I enjoyed that part just as much.
Review Time!
To Mystech Master: As always, you have great suggestions. I honestly missed that detail about Teddie, or just never thought about it before, so that's something that I would actually enjoy trying out in the future. The other character interactions like Ragna and the others are really cute/nice and I'll be sure to keep them in mind too, and I'll be sure to dedicate a chapter in the near future between Mitsuru and Ragna as well, to flesh out their pairing since as of now, it's still in the minor attraction phase.
To fernandamichelleraya: Close Punches as a ship name for YangxAkihiko is really good! Everyone else should let me know what they think! Your comments on a potential pairing for Seth are really good. I think Akane could work, and nothing against Maori but I think she'd work better as a friend. I'll be honest tho, I think that Yagyu could work as a potential partner! I don't think she's so much antisocial or needs more friends, so much as she is just a bit of a kuudere, but given time to bond with Seth a bit she might be able to chill him down a peg, when finding somebody else to be dedicated to. He might even form a bond with Hibari and look after her, or try to help her get stronger! But as always, I'll let others give me some feedback on giving the sad boi somebody to be with! Do you guys think Akane, Yagyu, or even somebody else? Let me know!
To Naoto Redgrave: Yes. The whole time travel shenanigans is something I had in mind when I put that chapter out! But I failed to make a joke about it.
To Kicklash: Thanks for liking it! I'm glad you enjoyed. And I've wanted to put more Akatsuki Blitzkampf or Akatsuki En-Eins characters in this for awhile, but the problem is the original games are all in Japanese and as of now, I've totally been unable to find any translations to give me a real beat on how they interact. The most I have now are basic descriptions of characters like Mycale, Anonym, or Sai. Not how they actually behave and such. I've heard they're making an actual English version of the game, and if they are, expect more once it's released, lest anyone else knows where I might find a proper viewing of the characters in a comprehensible environment for me.
To Thee Guest: Glad you're all caught up! And that is a tempting chapter idea, and I'll keep that in mind.
And to the guest user who recommended more training to the Investigation Team, I hadn't thought about actually going so far with them yet, but I'll try that out in the future.
With that all said, thanks as always for reading! Expect more in the near future, I hope you have a wonderful evening, and I'll see you in the next chapter! Take care!