Chapter 57


Rarity


"I will not be making the mistake Ivan did, my master ordered me to personally oversee your deaths" Lupin stated coldly.

The Bisharps were sharpening their arms, in a few seconds, their blades were going to be sharp enough to slice through anything.

Lupin looked at Blaze and held up his sheathed sword saying "quite an impressive weapon, rest assured I'll make good use of it"

"That's not yours! I earned that from my teachers, you don't deserve to hold it" Blaze scoffed.

Lupin shook his head beneath his robe and said "who deserves what is irrelevant, all that matters is who has power...Ran and Shaw shouldn't have wasted their skills on training others, all those secret skills and techniques wasted"

Blaze's eyes widened as he remembered something Ran and Shaw had told him about, a skill just as lava manipulation and just difficult to pull off, one to their knowledge that only Shaw had ever performed. It was a long shot, but much like when he and Alex were cornered at the passage of time, he knew this was their only chance.

As Alex and the others struggled helplessly in their ropes, Blaze focused on the air around them, all fire required it, and if he could just focus his energy the way Shaw described it, he may be able to escape.

"Struggle all you want, that rope is fireproof and you have no chance of breaking it, Bisharps, COMMENCE!" Lupin ordered.

The 4 Bisharps drew their blades back, but just before they could deliver the killing blows, a massive explosion shook the area, causing the four guards to turn around briefly.

"That came from the entrance to the mine, what in the world is going on!" Lupin demanded.

"Now or never" Blaze whispered as his face curled from concentration.

Alex, Tesla, and Lana all gasped as Blaze's body began to glow orange before dissolving in a puff of fire, the ropes he was bound in falling off the pillar instantly.

Lupin's red eyes brightened as he said "what just happened?!"

In response Blaze appeared behind him in an explosion of fire, knocking him down and even managing to burn off a small part of Lupin's robe revealing the end of a blood-red colored paw. The four Bishops turned around to defend their master. The Flameport, as it was called, could be used as a nonviolent teleport, but Blaze's inexperience had caused it to suck up too much air and make a small explosion.

Blaze swiped his sword and unsheathed it before throwing it Alex's ropes. Blaze's aim was so precise that the blade pierced the top just above Alex's shoulder, freeing him without cutting him. The Infernape then turned his attention to the Bisharps as they attempted to subdue him.

The former human escaped his bindings and used his tusks to free the others. Tesla, Lana, and Alex came up behind Blaze just as the last Bisharp fell to the ground, his armored body dented and sizzling.

Lupin managed to get to his feet as the four surrounded him, he clutched his head with his slightly exposed paw as he regained his balance. Blaze's new skill had managed to do a decent amount of damage.

"You're surrounded! Give up!" Blaze demanded as Alex handed him back his sword.

Lupin chuckled as he replied "depends on where your standing"

On cue, four massive creatures three-fourths the size of a Tyranitar appeared in puffs of black smoke. They stood on four legs, two thinner legs clearly built for running in the back and two beefy arms on the front, they resembled a cross between a Rhyhorn and a Scolipede with pitch-black armor plating over their bodies and red bioluminescence within. They had jaws full of razor-sharp teeth and two horn-like mandibles surrounding their glowing red eyes.

"Betas, KILL THEM!" Lupin ordered as the stone doors behind him opened.

As the four betas moved in Lupin fled the room, Blaze sized up his opponents and said "we can't let him get away, go, Alex, we got this!"

The Fraxure nodded and using his energy constructs to make a platform, he jumped over the betas, escaping just before the betas boxed them in...


As Alex ran after Lupin he gasped at the sight of two legendary Pokémon dispatching the many steel and fighting types in the mine. They were two quadrupedal, yellow, tiger-like Pokémon with black stripes and a white underside. They had thin, light blue tails with sharp angles and a spark-shaped formation at the end. Most of their faces consisted of thick, white fur and shorter yellow fur around their red eyes. The creature's muzzles formed a light blue "X" and had a black faceplate with two bumps that cover its forehead, nose, and ears. Two long fangs that hung from their mouth gave them an incredible intimidation factor along with their large claws each converging to form a single point. You could see the muscles rippling under their fur as they moved.

Alex disregarded the two Raikou, clearly, they were working to stop this mine and that was all that mattered. Alex chased Lupin deeper into the mine, as glowing purple crystals lined the walls.

The former human came to a room a few seconds too late and a door slammed in front of him, he could hear shuffling inside and then a familiar whooshing sound, followed by a constant pulsing. He had only heard this sound twice before, at treasure town when Ivan dragged him to the future and the old ruins. Someone had opened a dimensional hole!

"Not this time!" Alex stated firmly as closed his eyes and focused his white matter into his hand.

With a single strike, the heavy stone doors were blown off their hinges, revealing Lupin standing in front of two massive stacks of metal crates 10 feet tall and 20 feet wide. The two dimensional holes were directly below the crates, warping them away in a flash leaving Alex and Lupin alone in the massive circular room.

As the portals vanished, Lupin turned to face his opponent with "I must say, you and your partner are impressive, I have quite the appreciation for strength"

Alex scoffed and said, "strength huh, looks like you're trying to run away rather than stand and fight!"

"Quite the contrary, I needed to assure my master's assets were secured. Now that the task is done, it is down to you and it is down to me" Lupin explained, spreading his robed arms out wide to reference the empty room.

Alex gave a skeptical look and asked "your master? Who are you working for? What is he capable of?!"

"You will get no information from me, but I want to see firsthand why my master sees you as such a threat" Lupin admitted.

Alex scowled and stated "I stopped Temporal Tower from collapsing, and I'll stop you here and now"

"We shall see….." Lupin said coldly before grabbing his neck and throwing off his robe.

His appearance was similar to Artemis but the "mask" of black fur covered more of his race and his thighs were slimmer. He had spikes on the back of its paws, which had turned crimson. His feet had spikes as well which have become crimson too. His dreadlock-like appendages were longer, with two of them going all the way down to his thighs tipped in crimson, almost as if they had been dipped in blood. His shoulders also possessed a spike each, but the most distinct thing between Lupin and a normal Lucario was his lime green fur instead of blue and the cream-colored fur on his chest being a light blue.

Lupin saw Alex's shocked expression and gave a grin that showed off his fangs saying "Surprised? A one in a million genetic trait that made my mega evolution permanent the first time I used it. Let's see what the hero of Temporal Tower is really made of, shall we?"

Author's note- Sorry about another cliffhanger...hehe

1. Suprised at Lupin's appearance, an evil member of his species is so rare I couldn't pass it up. Yes, I know Mega Lucario's eyes are orange but his are red because...ya know, evil!

2. Oh look Betas from one of my previous stories have returned, if you need a reference picture lookup a Rhino from Call Of Duty Ghosts, mine are specifically called Beta Rhinos but either is fine.

3. The next few chapters will reveal some info that will be relevant in the future, both for RWBY distortion and 12 hours.

Leave a review, up next is the finale of the two mountains arc, then a chapter or two later Alex and Blaze will get a certain visitor at Sharpeado Bluff...