Hiatus over. I'm back with the next chapter of this little crossover. Sorry it took a while. Now, on with the chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own Assassination Classroom. Assassination Classroom is owned by Yusei Matsui and Shuiesha.
"Hands up! Now!" Ryu snapped, pistol at the ready. John and the pregnant Toka put their hands up, startled.
"John?"
"Yeah?"
"You're sleeping on the couch."
"Wait." Ryu looked at Toka. She looked and sounded familiar, he just couldn't put his finger on it. Even so, he kept his pistol at the ready for him to fire.
"Get onto the ground, now." he said.
"Look, buddy, I know that this looks bad, but just let us explain all this." John said.
"You can explain to the rest of the group, but for now, get on the ground." Ryu said.
"Wha-"
"Let's figure this out later John. for now, we should just listen to him." Toka interrupted.
"Uh, well you see, I'm not sure that that's a good idea. For Toka at least." John said. "See, she's pregnant. And-"
"Toka?"
"Yeah. Toka Yada?"
"Yeah, right. Last I checked, she's not pregnant, she's not married, she's not an adult, and she's downstairs." Ryu narrowed his eyes.
"Wait, really? Oh, crap." John said. A bullet whizzed by his head, accompanied by a loud bang. John and Toka both flinched back.
"The next shot won't miss. Tell me who you are, what's your plan, and-" Ryu began. John's eyes narrowed. A long black tentacle shot out, impaling Ryu's pistol, shattering it. Ryu's eyes widened.
'A tentacle?! He's been injected with an antimatter serum?' Ryu thought to himself.
"John, calm down. He's just confused. I mean, from what he could tell, there's two Tokas in this very building." Toka said.
"Oh yeah, good point." John said sheepishly. "Sorry about your pistol."
"Don't worry." Ryu's hand darted into his vest, pulling out another. "I've got more." he pointed the gun at John.
"How do you have those tentacles?" he demanded. John looked at him with an impassive look on his face. The tentacle shot out again, but this time, Ryu dodged it. He fired back at the surprised John, grazing his cheek. "Try it again, and I won't hold back."
"Enough!" Yada said as she burst into the room. She was followed by the rest of the Hunter Classroom. Karma, Isogai and Kayano were all holding pistols. Yada held a knife, Sugino had a bat, and Okuda held vials of chemicals. Experimental grenades, if Ryu remembered correctly. She froze at the sight of Toka.
"Who are you two?" Karma said, pointing his pistol at them.
"Look, can we just all settle down, and take a seat?" Toka said exasperatedly.
"What's going on?" Rinka asked as she and Itona walked in, boxes of chicken in their hands, a shinai on her back. She also froze at the sight of the two. Itona zeroed in on a strange machine near the two's feet.
"What's that? Some bootleg portal gun?" he asked. He walked over to the two after handing the chicken to a disgruntled Rinka. He picked up the machine and looked over it. It did look like a portal gun, with a long, white, sleek body. It also looked like a portal gun combined with a power glove. Itona slid it on.
"Oh, uh, I don't think you should do that." John spoke.
"Be quiet." Ryu said. John opened his mouth to respond, but all were shut up by Itona pressing a button. The portal gun shot a ball of energy at the wall, creating a large portal. To their surprise, there was a tall redhead looking at them in surprise. Karma's eyes widened at the sight of his older self.
"What the- John? Toka? What's-" the older Karma began, but he was immediately cut off. The glove began to spark, smoke starting to come out of it. Itona hissed in pain, ripping off the glove. Ripping, because the glove had melted his skin inside, causing the glove to stick to his flesh. The portal seemed to crack before it closed with a bang, sending everyone back. John's tentacles whipped out and caught Toka, protecting her from the impact.
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"Chiba. Chiba. Chiba. Chiba!" Ryu's eyes snapped open. He quickly sat up, headbutting Okuda who fell back with a yelp of pain. Ryu looked at the chemist next to him.
"Sorry about that Okuda." Ryu stood up. Nagisa had returned from a meeting with Karasuma, the group in the medical bay. John and Toka were both sitting against the wall. Nagisa had his katana pointed towards them. Yada was examining her older counterpart, occasionally poking her cheek. Sugino and Isogai were examining them as well. Kayano and Rinka were both rubbing their heads. Ryu walked over to his girlfriend and gently checked her over.
"You okay?"
"Yeah. Can't say the same for Itona." Rinka grimaced. Ryu looked towards Itona. His arm was horribly burned and mangled, covered in medicine, from what he saw in the seconds before Karma finished wrapping it in bandages. Ryu narrowed his eyes and looked toward the Portal Glove. He walked over, picked it up, and carried it over to Nagisa.
"This is the device that damaged Itona's arm." he said, handing it to the assassin. Nagisa sheathed his katana and took the glove. He examined it before turning to John.
"What's this?" he questioned. John looked up at Nagisa.
"You know, I knew you were a badass, but it seems like you mellow out with age."
"One of my friends had half his arm melted together from this thing. I'm not in the mood. What is this." Nagisa repeated. John winced as he looked at Itona.
"Right, right. Sorry. That there, is a Portal Gun."
"What, from the video game?" Karma said as he walked over.
"We think it's based on that. Apparently, it's supposed to be some sort of super weapon that a certain group of people are trying to perfect. We tested it out, but it was fine with us. Don't know why it did that to Itona." John explained, looking over to the emo. Itona walked over.
"It probably overheated. A machine like that, there's a chance that transferring people through time wasn't good for the battery." Itona grabbed the machine with his good hand. "Ritsu and I will look over this, but I doubt we'll be able to figure out much. This sort of thing isn't exactly something you can just Joogle, and I'm not at that level yet." the entire Hunter Classroom looked at the machine he had been building over the past week. It was a machine he was building, one that was meant to create or replace parts of an actual human body with bones and tissue, for more serious wounds.
'Not at that level my ass.' they all thought simultaneously. Ryu looked at Itona.
"How do you know they travel back in time?"
"We saw a grown up version of Karma didn't we? What else could that mean?" Itona said.
"Except I have no memory of this." Toka said.
"And that Karma, if it really was Karma, was genuinely surprised. I've been acting for over 10 years, and never once saw anyone who can 100% mimic a surprised expression." Kayano added.
"It could be the Multiverse Theory." Karma said.
"You mean the theory that there are an infinite amount of timelines and universes?" Nagisa asked.
"That's the one." Karma said.
"Actually, I think that instead of transporting us to the past, the machine transported us to another timeline." John proposed.
"What makes you say that?"
"The fact that Yada doesn't seem to know me. We met in the third year of highschool."
"Wait, the beginning, middle, or end."
"Beginning."
"But I never met you." Yada said.
"Wait, how do we even know the portal gun worked? How do we know it was even real? It could've been an illusion or hologram or something." Rinka cut in. Ryu hummed. She had a point.
"It was real." Itona said. "When I opened the portal, I felt a blast of cold air, like walking into an air conditioned room after a day in the hot summer sun, and the game room has no air conditioning."
"Then at the very least, we know that the portal was real." Nagisa said. He turned to John. "How did you get your hands on such advanced technology?"
"We're bounty hunters. We stormed a building with the rest of our group and found that. I decided to test it out by doing it like in the game. You know, shooting towards the ground, and then the ceiling. Creating a falling loop." John said.
"Why would you shoot it towards the ground? Everyone knows you have to shoot it up first." Karma said.
"Hey that's how I always did it." John shrugged. Karma looked at him in shock. Like he had offended him personally.
"So, you shot it at the ground, a portal opened up, and you ended up here?" Nagisa summed up.
"Yeah, that just about sums it up." John shrugged.
"That seems like the plot of a bad action flick." Kayano deadpanned. Those were the kinds of movies she hated being in.
"Yeah, well, that's the chapter AzureWriter83 and Crusherboy93 wanted." John said.
"Wait, what?"
"Just ignore that, it's just something he does." Toka shook her head.
"So, we know that the portal gun works, but how do we know that they're who they actually say?" Rinka asked.
"I know!" Yada said. She turned to Toka. "Tell me something that only we would know."
"Hm. how about…" Toka leaned forward and whispered into Yada's ear. Yada listened carefully before beginning to blush furiously.
"You could've stuck with the locker combo." she muttered as she backed away. She nodded to Nagisa.
"They're legit."
"What did she say? Your fetish?" Karma teased. He burst out laughing when Yada's blush deepened. "Oh my god! She did!"
"Stop it Karma." Nagisa said.
"Sorry, sorry." Karma chuckled. Nagisa turned back to John and Toka.
"Alright, so you guys are bounty hunters too. And you found a special weapon that is an actual, working portal gun. And by accident, you were teleported into another timeline." Nagisa summed up.
"Yep, that just about- wait." John stood up. "You guys are bounty hunters too?"
"Yeah, the Hunter Classroom." Nagisa said.
"Wow. Our group is called the Hunter Classroom too. Who named it?" Toka asked.
"Nagisa was the one who decided it, but he received a few suggestions." Karma answered.
"Kanzaki actually gave Nagisa the idea when I told her about the group." Sugino said.
"Wow, same here. I guess some things are the same." John commented. Sugino checked his watch.
"Speaking of whom, I need to get going."
"Oh yeah, you have the second date." Nagisa said.
"Yep. I think I'm managing quite nicely."
"Remember what I taught you." Ryu said.
"Yeah. Make sure to make her feel flattered, tell the truth, but don't overdo it or I'll make it look like I'm desperate." Sugino listed. He walked out. Rinka raised a brow at Ryu.
"Isn't that how you act on the dates we go on?"
"What, you don't like me complimenting you?"
"I like it, just wondering."
"If you guys are done, we have something else to talk about." Karma said. Ryu and Rinka turned back to the group.
"Yeah, like what to do with them." Isogai said, pointing at the two.
"Well, supposing that they're telling the truth, the only thing we should do is find a way to get him home." Nagisa said.
"But the only one of us who can actually do anything about that has his arm ruined. And Ritsu is more so meant for destroying and infiltrating. No offense." Ryu said to the A.I. who was listening from their phones.
"No problem Ryu. Destruction was my primary function. And infiltration is something I taught myself. It might take a little too long for me to learn how to engineer certain materials and machines." Ritsu admitted. "How long do you think Itona will take to heal?"
"Judging from what I've seen, maybe a few years with intensive care." Nagisa said.
"A few months at the least." Itona said. The group stared at him. "What? Yanagisawa's experiments gave me a healing factor. Nothing like the likes of Tante and Bergil from Demon May Sob, but strong enough to heal from this. The healing is becoming weaker, but I should have enough in me to recover from this."
"Huh. Now that I think about it, Kayano did heal rather quickly from her fractured bones." Nagisa said.
"Yeah, she was up and at it a bit too quickly." Isogai said.
"Wait, I wanna try something." Kayano said as she went over to the side. Nagisa ran over and grabbed her hand as she tried to cut herself with one of the knives there.
"Yeah, no." he said as he twisted her hand, disarming her.
"Aw come on, I wanna see if I have a healing factor." Kayano whined slightly as Nagisa led her away.
"The healing factor you have would probably be much weaker than mine. For the same reason why my kinetic vision is better than yours."
"Look, whatever the reason, it might take a while for Itona to recover enough to see if he can fix the machine." Nagisa said. He turned to the two. "So it might take a while until you two can get home."
"Maybe not." John said as Nagisa walked around and undid their cuffs. His tentacles reached out and helped Toka to her feet. "I'm no expert, but I'm also no slouch when it comes to machines. I can help with fixing it."
"Hm, maybe. Alright we can go for that. Until then-" Nagisa was cut off by his phone ringing. He reached into his pocket and pulled his phone.
"Hello?"
"NAGISA SHIOTA! ITS TWENTY THREE IN THE NIGHT! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE HOME TWO HOURS AGO!" Hiromi's yelling caused Nagisa to lean away.
"Sorry mom, there was a, uh, situation."
"Well, hurry home. Your great uncle is here."
"Okay. I'll hurry over." Nagisa turned back to his teammates. "You guys get some rest. You two can stay here for the night."
"Oh really? Thanks." John said.
"No problem. Classmates have to help each other." Nagisa said as he left. Ryu led John and Toka to the spare rooms.
"Hey, sorry for shooting you guys."
"It's cool. Not all that surprising, your reaction." John said.
"But still, I don't think you should've been so fast to act like that." Toka said.
"Well, in my defense, we're in a tournament where there are several bounty hunting groups, ready to utterly trash us. I have to be a little cautious." Ryu said.
"Tournament?"
"I'll tell you later." he said. "For now, time for bed." he opened the door, holding it open for them. John and Toka walked in and Ryu closed the door. The cheap sleeping bags were replaced with decent beds. And a couch. John sweat dropped slightly at the sight of the couch.
"So, uh, shall we go to bed?"
"You're still on the couch."
"Oh come on sweetie."