Holy shit! I cannot believe what happened in the most recent episode of RWBY, can you guys believe it! I know I can't, but I won't be giving away any spoilers to those who haven't seen it yet. I will tell you all this much, you're going to be hating several characters quite a bit more than you already do.
Now, I'm going to let you all in on a little secret, one of the series I was also considering on using as an idea for a crossover with The Force Unleashed and GI JOE. Basically, its somewhat the same thing as my Remnant Unleashed, but I couldn't really figure out which entry of the GI Joe series I would use, seeing as I have only seen the shows and haven't really read any of the comics. Comic books weren't on my buying list way back when.
So, anyway I think I'll included the SSSN vs NDGO fight for the heck of it. I mean it is pretty funny after all. Anyway, onto the reviews.
Spartan-626: Yes it indeed begins. You will like who Galen and his team will be fighting, but that is going to be around the end of this chapter. Again, I agree that Cinder must pay for what she did.
54godamora: Well it's a good thing that I made Neo a different character than she is in the canon. Like I have said before, I always feel like there is a lot more to her than any of us know, seeing as Rooster Teeth hasn't really given much of a backstory on characters like her and Sienna Khan. In that regard, depending on what happens in the Volume 8 finally, I have a strong feeling that a certain Spring Maiden might make a reappearance involving a certain character we are all hoping isn't KIA. I agree, RWBY hasn't exactly been living up to its hype after Volume 5, I think but I'll keep up with it until it ends. Besides, the great thing about Fanfiction is that you can write stories the way you want to.
42: I still haven't figured out what I'm going to do about Penny getting ripped apart, but I think I have an idea.
Monster King: Thank you.
Darth Cody: I think Griffin would be a good callsign for Alice and you'll be surprised at who Team GARM will be fighting. Again, I thank you.
Luffy L Deathwalker: I'll be keeping the SSSN vs NDGO fight for this chapter and as for what Ambrosius said about not falling, he never really gave us an answer about why they shouldn't fall, but I have a strong feeling that someone might make a surprise appearance again, breaking her rule. Now, I do have a feeling that whatever Salem is going to do when she returns won't be pretty. However, I do hope that Watts is killed for not stopping Cinder from using the last question, along with the current Fall Maiden herself and by her Grimm arm, that would be awesome. Not so sure about Neo being killed, I want her to learn the truth behind Roman's death and maybe, just maybe defect like Emerald did.
The guest calling himself Galen Marek: You are referring to a double-bladed lightsaber, right? Well, in the hands of someone like Maul and Krell, it is a weapon of a butcher. Now as for the clone named Glitch, I haven't heard of them.
Chaotic Demon Skunk: I'm still trying to figure out what Ruby's actual Lightsaber will be.
Anyway, let's get this chapter started. Disclaimers are the same as before, please enjoy.
Chapter 33: New Challengers
The countdown for the match between Team JNPR and Team BRNZ caused the crowd the cheer as Port announced for the match to begin. "Come on guys!" Jaune shouted with his sword raised as all four members of Team JNPR charged forward while only three members of Team BRNZ did the same as them. The fourth member, the beanie-wearing May Zedong turned around and headed for the trees in the forest part of the arena, cocking her weapon.
Brawnz Ni, leader of the Vacuo Team delivered a knee kick to Pyrrha's shield sending her skidding back before she blocked the claws on his fists with her xiphos, jerking her sword away and making him leap back just as May jumped into the branches of the forest with the bladed end of her axe, revealing it to double as a sniper rifle.
Ren readied his SMGs for an attack on Nolan Porfirio who was almost blindsided by Nora swinging her mighty hammer, only to have Nolan ducked and attempted to hit her with his cattle prod. Neither of them noticed that May had taken aim with her sniper rifle and fired off two shots, destroying the rocks behind Ren. Jaune noticed this after blocking an attack from Roy Stallions buzzsaw gloves with his shield and was quick issue an order to his teammates.
"Fall back!" he instructed, covering Ren and Nora's escape to the mountains with his shield as Pyrrha did before leaping over a rocky outcropping for cover.
"What do we do?" Pyrrha asked her leader as more sniper fire kept on coming.
Jaune looked over the edge of the rock, seeing that the melee members of the opposing team were closing in. "Spread out! Try to keep moving!" he instructed just as a Brawnz landed a punch on Jaune's shield.
The enemy sniper got higher in the trees, smiling from behind her scope as she looked at the fight below. Brawnz and Pyrrha continued to duke it out while Nolan slowly advanced on ren when he slid into his path. The prod-wielding warrior looked back at the trees nodding to their hidden ally who then fire a single shot at Ren's feet, making the pink-eyed boy to jump around and start dodging the bullets. Just as Ren landed, Nolan hit him upside the head with his weapon, dodging a retaliatory kick from his opponent before landing another blow on Ren's knee and a final hit on his chest with the business end of his prod. Electricity coursed through Ren's body before he collapsed to the ground beside his childhood friend.
"Ren!" Nora shouted, scowling before she took a swing at Nolan who was quick to dodge it and once again, releasing his weapons power into Nora's corset but a different reaction came from the grinning redhead.
"Oh-ho! Looks like one of my favorite students, Nora Valkyrie, is charging up to use her semblance." Port announced from the commentator's box.
"What?" Nolan said in panic, looking up at the screen as Oobleck continued what Port had begun to say.
"Yes, Ms. Valkyrie's Semblance lets her produce, as well as channel, electrical energy straight into her muscles! This allows her to jump explosively into the air, wield her mighty hammer, or in this case, absorb Nolan's attacks and send the young man flying!" he explained.
"What?!" Nolan asked in surprise once again, turning to his opponent as Nora finally took the cattle prod away, with the damage already done. Flexing her arms as pink lightning courses through her body, Nolan tried to surrender just as thunder started to spark from Nora's aura as the redhead girl rushed at him. A split-second later, a horrified Nolan was greeted by a victorious and smiling Nora before his foes hammer hit him head on and him bouncing across the field and crashing through a rock, staying where he stopped moving.
From base outside the kingdom, Rex and several of his brothers were watching the match and saw that the opposing team had the advantage with their sniper. "They need to eliminate that sniper or else they'll be picked off one-by-one." The 501st captain noted.
Jaune noticed this as well and quickly looked back to the mountaintop on his team's side as a dark storm cloud appeared over it, cracking with lightning. Looking over to his energized teammate, he quickly instructed Nora to get her butt over to the mountain while he instructed Ren to distract the sniper.
As Nora hoped up the mountain, Roy threw one his saws towards Jaune's shield, but the leader of team JNPR was quick to dodge the attack as the saw blade returned to its master. Pyrrha got close to Roy, who delivered a series of spinning swings with his arms into Pyrrha's shield as Jaune dodged several sniper rounds from May.
"Yeah! Go get 'em, Jaune!" Ruby shouted from her seat in the stands with the rest of her team along with team GARM beside them.
"Well, he's certainly improved." Weiss observed.
"Yeah, but he ain't got nothing on Pyrrha!" Yang reminded the heiress.
"I wouldn't count Jaune out yet." Galen added.
Both of their statements were proven true as Pyrrha took on both Brawnz and Roy, delivering a kick to Brawnz and blocking the disks from Roy, throwing her javelin to distract the latter while somersaulting back to use both her feet and landed a blow on Brawnz. As for Jaune, he raised his sword and blocked several shots from May's rifle before he threw his sword at one of the tree's, the blade swinging and cutting right through the tree that May was using as a sniper position.
This action forced May to jump to another tree and began to shoot at Ren who was dashing towards her position, leaping out of the way of her shots and the flying saws, sliding under Pyrrha before firing his SMGs at Nolan the moment he was close enough.
Ren ducked and deflected each of the cattle prods attempts to hit him before catching his opponents' weapon in the blades of his weapon, landing a double kick and catching Nolan's weapon and use him as a shield, getting May to stop firing. "Nora!" Ren shouted as he tried to keep Nolan in place.
Jaune caught Brawnz's claws with his blade as Nora lifted herself higher and higher onto the mountain as Pyrrha rushed towards Jaune who rolled out of the way of a launched saw blade. Pyrrha leapt over Brawnz, landed on Jaunes shield before she was thrown into the air with her own shield raised, blocking a kill shot aimed at Nora. This gave Nora enough time to reach the peak, lift her hammer up as a bolt of lightning hits the weapon directly, before changing it back into its grenade-launcher mode and fired off six shots over the field in a heart-shaped formation directly onto May who had barely enough time to gawk before she leapt to another tree as the one, she was on went up in pink flames, leaving only a giant scorch mark billowing smoke, blocking her view.
May jumped down from the branches as her other teammates look up behind as Nora came down like a meteor, slamming her hammer into the ground sending them back a few feet. "This is it, guys! Let's finish this! Ren, Nora, hit them with the hammer!" Jaune instructed the orange-haired girl who grinned with a devilish sort of smile, jumped over in front of Team BRNZ, brought her hammer around which collided with the four fighters, who screamed as they were sent soaring into the forcefield surrounding the arena's rim, sliding down to the ground with their limbs in various positions.
"And with that, it appears that Team JNPR wins by knockout, literally! … Can someone go make sure they're okay?" Port said over the intercom.
At that very moment, a certain scythe-wielding figure with a tattered red cloak sat at the counter of a bar, looking at the screen above him with the caption 'Team JNPR Defeats Team BRNZ!' The nearby bartender stated that the kids from Beacon weren't half-bad, but the man didn't say anything.
At the same time, The Galm and Garuda teams were preparing for take-off. They were to fly escort for the Bad Batch, Delta Squad and Ghost Squad into the Round Table to investigate the abandoned droid base. Hunter had a strange feeling that something about the sudden withdrawal of the droids, but when he brought his concern to Ironwood, the Atlas general assumed that the droids had retreated to another base they had established. Having faced the droids more than the good general, Hunter decided to investigate the base anyway, but with the possibility of running into whatever Mutant's, droid or Imperial fighters than might be hiding in the Round Table they needed an escort. A couple of minutes passed and the four planes, plus the starship carrying the three commando teams took off and headed towards the former enemy base.
Back in the coliseum, the main monitor flashed a blue background as white particles gathered into the tournament symbol for the four kingdoms on Ooblecks left as the Doctor announced the next match. "Ah, well, Vacuo fans are sure to be hurting after that one, but this next one will have them on the edge of their seats!" he announced.
"Team NDGO of Shade is certainly a crowd favorite, but these lovely ladies are going against some of the toughest, testosterone-filled teammates we've seen thus far! I'm of course talking about… Team SSSN! Sun Wukong and his team are certainly a force to be reckoned with and although he'll be representing the Mistal Academy of Haven, I'm sure his friends and family in Vacuo will be cheering him along!" Port added as multiple spectators in the stands held up signs with Suns face or his set of abs while the four members of Team NDGO waited for them to walk onto the field.
"Good luck, Neptune!" Weiss called out. Said boy continued to wave until he spotted his four lovely opponents, which caused the blue haired boy to develop a confident attitude before he addressed the four ladies. This also caused Weiss to shake with rage before she pointed into the arena and shout to Team NDGO. "Break his stupid face, NDGO!" she shouted.
"Easy there, girl." Rose told the heiress, pulling her back into her seat while the rest of the crowd readied themselves for the fight as did the two teams below.
"Alright girls, try and remember: hands above the waist." Neptune flirted with the four lovely opponents they were about to face.
"Ignore him, for he… Yeah, he's dumb." Sun apologized to the opposing team, grasping Neptune's shoulder. Neptune simply gave another sparkling wink to the four ladies who were disgusted by his flirting just as the holographic roulette that controlled the arena showed up again and landed on an image of sandy dunes and stone formations, the real thing emerging from below along with small circular light overhead, causing most of the crowd to don sunglasses.
"Alright! Home field advantage!" Nebula, the indigo haired leader of the all-female team said with a laugh.
"Don't get too cocky! That's my turf, too!" Sun reminded.
"I hope I don't get sand in my shoes." Scarlet said, looking down at his own attire.
"Be cool, man." Neptune whispered to his teammate just as Dew, the blonde-haired spear-wielder pointed out that the second part of the arena was the ocean. Hearing that, Neptune turned around and his eyes dilated as his goggles reflect the blue symbol of tidal waves, and causing a slight whimper to escape him.
"Uhh, what's wrong with Neptune?" Ruby asked her teammates.
"Its almost like he's seen a ghost." Galen added.
"Oh, no." Blake said with her face in her hand, unable to look as a sandy beach and pirate shipwreck raised into the arena while Neptune stiffened up with fear. "Neptune's… afraid of the water." She confided.
"Seriously?" Galen asked as March started to laugh like crazy at the whole situation.
"3, 2, 1, BEGIN!" Oobleck shouted. As the match began, Neptune zoomed through the enemy team and skidded up the mountain behind him, much to the surprise of his teammates and opponents.
"Neptune, what are you doing?!" Sage called out from below.
"Uh, you know, just gaining higher ground!" he yelled down to his friends, standing over the edge. Sun questioned his teammates motives, but Neptune assured him that the enemy wouldn't have expected it and even Team NDGO had to agree before they rushed forward into Team SSSN's turf.
Scarlet ditched his coat before he came upon Octavia Ember who emerged from a nearby arch and tried to slash at her, only for his opponent to duck under the swing and continued to slide away, past Sage and Dew who were about to rumble.
Hefting his massive sword with both hands, Sage brought the blade down only to get knocked back by Dew's spear. He glanced up just in time to see the blonde girl wave her weapon over the sand, creating three small twisters that kicked up dust in Sage's face. As the twisters surround him, they coalesce into a big tornado that picked up off the ground, tearing his weapon out from his grip and screaming in panic as the winds threw him and his blade out of the arena. "And NDGO gains the advantage!" Oobleck announced as Sage slams his fists onto the ground.
Octavia continued to slide until she came in front of Sun and Scarlet who readied themselves for a fight. Spinning her sword around, the brick red haired girl produced a wave of flame that kicked up dust into their faces, but Sun managed to jump out of the way. "Neptune!" Sun called to his teammate who was still on the mountain.
Seeing that his leader was starting to fall back, the blue-haired boy leapt down from his position and cocked his gun as Octavia attempted to use another fire attack, but Neptune simply pulled down his goggles and fired an electric bolt at his opponent, who blocked the shot right before she saw Sun leap out of nowhere, delivering a neck-snapping kick to the face, which only made Octavia furious. Scowling, the girl tried to retaliate by bringing her blade down on the monkey Faunus, but the blow was countered by Sun's nun chucks in their staff form. Sun then spun around his weapon all around his body and hitting several parts of her own body, knocking her onto her back and eliminating her from the match.
"Oh! And we're down to 3-on-3!" Port called out.
"This would go a lot better if Neptune didn't have to worry about his damn fear!" Rose stated aloud from the stands.
She wasn't wrong. As Neptune was circling Gwen, Scarlet was attempting to go weapon-to-weapon with Dew. The spear-wielder easily dodged a kick before calling upon another sandy cyclone that lifted Scarlet up, but the boy revolved around the spiral until it launched him over the shipwreck. For a moment, it seemed as if he was going to eliminated like Sage, but Scarlet extended his arms and dived onto a part of the ships mast. Nebula and Gwen noticed this and rushed to pursue him. Scarlet was quick to catch the beam on the mast and flipped himself up, almost losing his balance but was quick to find his balance just as Nebula closed in and launched an arrow from her crossbow at the mast, using it to jump to Scarlet's position.
Folding up the sides of her weapon and changing it into its sword mode, the two began to trade blows with each other while ducking and missing the others attacks, before Scarlet is struck by the hilt of Nebula's weapon and countered with a kick to Scarlet's head. Quickly, the leader of Team NDGO circled the mast of the ship, deflecting another blow, slamming her blade over Scarlets own weapon and forced him to lean back against the post. Luckily for Scarlet, he managed to get his sword back out of the trap, feigning a swing at Nebula's feet before knocking her into the air with his elbow and causing the NDGO leader to fall to the sand below.
From the mast, Scarlet saw that Gwen was continuing to throw her knives at sun, causing the boy to smirk as he whipped out his pistol and shot the hilt guard as a grappling hook that got Gwen by the ankle. "Gotcha!" he smirked, using the cord to lift Gwen into the air while he slowly came to the ground, only to find that he landed directly beneath the knife thrower who attempted to protect her modesty as knives start raining from her dress. Scarlet quickly adopted a pose that somehow allowed him to miss every single blade that came crashing down into the sand at his feet, sighing in relief.
His luck didn't hold out for much long when Dew leapt near Sun, causing the monkey Faunus to find two coconuts that he knocked out of the nearby palm tree, using them as improvised weapons that we was quick to throw at his opponent only to get them knocked right back at him, spontaneously catching fire as they travel. Sun narrowly missed both coconuts, but Scarlet took one to the face whole the second one landed in a place that made him squeal in unimaginable pain while his Aura dropped into the red zone and the other males watching the match put their hands over the area where Scarlet got hit, as if they knew the pain of a hit in that area, except for Galen and Arthur.
"Nuts!" Sun sighed as Dew summoned a few water tornadoes that he tried to dodge. "Uh, Neptune? Could use some help, buddy!" he called.
"Uh, you know, uh, it would probably be better if you can over here! Yeah, I can guard this… sector! We're in lockdown mode!" Neptune called back to his leader, with an excuse.
"What are you talking about? There's nothing to lock down!" Sun argued as Nebula managed to shoot the cord holding Gwen up.
"Lockdown! Right! You got it!" Neptune stated.
"Dude, I know you're afraid of the water, but you gotta-" Sun called out as he jumped out of the way of Dews spear just as a blue shot knocked Dew out of mid-air and into the water.
"There! I helped! Are you happy now!? Also, I am not afraid of water, and I have no idea what you are talking about!" Neptune countered as Dew got back up and was quickly joined by the rest of her comrades, lifting their weapons and readying themselves to fight once more.
"NEPTUNE!" Sun shouted in frustration.
"Okay, fine! Just get out of the water!" Neptune relented before he jumped over to a spot near the coastal line next to Sun, unfolded his weapon into its trident form before he tip-toed forwards with his eyes closed and plunged the sparking prongs into the water. The energy surged through the water until the remaining members of NDGO were electrocuted and fell to their knees in the water, smoking and defeated as the buzzer sounded.
"And with that, Team SSSN moves on to the doubles round! You know what I call that victory?" Port announced before he turned to his fellow commentator.
"Shocking?" Oobleck asked.
"No, well earned. What you said is stupid." Port corrected, causing Oobleck to turn away frowning.
Back in the bar, the bartender whistled. "Now that was a match!" he exclaimed.
"Heh, that was a mess!" his customer said.
"Come on man, you didn't like them, the Vale kids, or any of the rounds before that? What fight are you here for?" the bartender asked.
"You'll see." The man said.
Once again, the coliseum erupted in cheers as Galen and his team took to the arena as they waited for their opponents. "Now, we have saved the best match for last. Going up against the skilled Team SDOW of Atlas is Team GARM of Beacon." Port announced as the display screen in the arena showed the faces of the Beacon team and the faces of their opponents.
"Yes! Team GARM has established quite a reputation as first year students, considering that one of their teammates is from the highly skilled Penwolf family and their leader posses that rival even the most skilled huntsmen and huntresses, but that might not even be enough for them to get through this match." Oobleck added.
"Indeed. As this is their final year at Atlas Academy, Team SDOW fights only the best and skilled opponents there is, such as Team GARM. But these individuals have quite a few tricks up their sleeves, which we would see if they would arrive now." Port said in agreement.
"Think they chickened out or something?" March asked, brushing his top-hat.
"Doesn't sound like them to just throw in the towel before the fight." Rose added, checking her weapons for the fourth time.
Suddenly the noise of jetpacks filled the air as flying in from one of the arena entrances were four figures in Mandalorian armor of different colors. One was royal blue, another was blazing red, the third one was pink and the other was yellow. All four of them had a pair of WESTAR-34 blaster pistols holstered to their sides, a DC-15A blaster rifle slung over their backs, vambraces equipped with weapons designed to combat against the Jedi and much to their surprise, each of them had a silver spear with them. "Guess they decided to make an entrance." Galen chuckled as the arena began to shift.
One part of the area featured the same ocean field as from the fight between Teams SSSN and NDGO while the final part of the arena featured the ruins of an urban area. "This is going to be quite a challenge." Arthur said with a smirk as Port began to match.
(He's a Pirate starts)
The Atlas team charged towards them, their spears in hand before they split off to engage one of their opponents. The one in blazing red went for Arthur, the one in pink went after March, the one in yellow had their sights set on Rose while the one in blue targeted Galen. "Blades only! If they want to use only melee weapons then we'll do the same!" Galen instructed his teammates, igniting his blue blade just in time to counter an attack from the spear.
"Fine with me!" Arthur replied, drawing Excalibur and blocked an attack from his own opponent, pushing back hard as both he and his opponent struggled to get the edge over each other. "I prefer swords to guns any day!" he added.
"Fighting a Penwolf! This is an honor for my team and myself." The red warrior stated, identifying herself as a woman. "All of us heard of the exploits of Team GARM and we want our final year at Atlas to be one to remember!" they added, sweeping Arthurs legs out from under him before preparing to bring their spear down on him. Arthur quickly rolled out of the way and into the urban area, jumping back to his feet.
"A woman? Well, I am impressed." Arthur smirked under his battle mask, raising his sword to block another attack and noticed something. "My cousin trained you and your team, didn't she? I thought I recognized the fighting style." He added.
"Artoria is one of many instructors we trained with. Of course, she would teach us some of her family's style of combat." The red warrior replied, smiling under their helmet before they pressed a button on their spear, changing it into a short sword. "A fair fight wouldn't you agree?" Again, Arthur smirked underneath his battle mask. This was a fight he was going to enjoy.
Arthur may have been enjoying the fight, but March was having a bit of difficulty against the pink warrior who's lighting fast attacks kept the rabbit Faunus on his toes. Fighting onto of the pirate ship, March blocked each of his opponents attacks while trying to land an attack of his own. "Here's a pop quiz! Why do pirates call the upper part of the mast 'the Crows Nest'?" his opponent asked in a playful manner.
"Because it's a lookout point!" March answered, swing his sword at his opponent, only to embed his sword in the mast as his opponent swung around and slammed into his back, causing him to slam into the mast hard. "Ouch!"
"Wrong! Because it makes a good place for a diving attack!" the pink warrior replied, firing a grappling hock up to the crows nest before leaping down and again slamming March into the mast, knocking his aura down a bit. "Come on, give me a challenge!"
After finally managing to free his sword, March was quick to engage the warrior whose own spear turned into a large broadsword and the mere sight made the rabbit faunus gulp. "Should have brought a bigger sword." He said with a sweat drop before the massive sword nearly sliced his father hat in half.
In the urban section of the arena, Rose blocked multiple strikes from her opponent whose spear turned into a pair of single-bladed long-swords which they held in both hands. "Long way from ranch, cowgirl." Her opponent taunted. "Should have stuck with tending to crops and livestock, this is no place for someone like you."
"I'll pretend you did not just mock me and the life my pa gave me before he passed." Rose snarled, bring both of her sabers onto her opponents own blades. "I'll have you know I do more than just help on the ranch; I keep the Grimm away from our cattle and I give rustlers a run for their money!" she snapped.
"Well, good for you! Bet your father worked hard to get to where he was before he passed away. But don't think that means your going to win this fight!" the yellow warrior taunted, sweeping Rose from her feet and was about to bring both their swords down onto her, only for the cowgirl to roll out of the way. "You got some moves! I'll admit, I'm impressed. But you still have a lot to learn about fighting with a sword!" they said impressively.
Arthur slammed his sword into his opponent's spear, knocking them into a rock before he activated his semblance. Blue and white flames covered his sword as he slammed his weapon into his opponents' body, hitting them hard and reducing their aura down. "Oh! And a one hit blow brings the match down to four-on-three!" Port announced.
"Damn it! Arthur is showing me up again! Well, I guess its time to use the big guns!" March cursed before he pulled the trigger on his sword, firing a blast from his shotgun barrel, sending him flying into his opponent, landing a double kick into his opponents' chest and sending them flying out of the arena, slamming into the barrier. "YEAH!" he shouted with a fist pump.
"Is he insane?" Rose's opponent asked, losing her focus long enough for the only female of Team GARM to sweep them off their feet and deliver a drop kick to the face. "Ow! That hurt!" the yellow warrior said in pain.
In another part of the urban area, Galen was matching his opponent move for move with the leader of Team SDOW. Something about his opponent's skills caught his interest and somehow, he felt like all of their opponents were of Mandalorian heritage but their families must have been living on Remnant for quite a while.
Reaching out with the force, Galen grabbed several small rocks and sent them towards his opponent who spun their spear in front of them, blocking the rocks. "Now this is what I call a fight. I've been wanting to fight a Jedi for years!" the warrior said with a smirk, throwing down their spear before pulling out a lightsaber hilt and igniting its cyan blade. "In case you are wondering; this weapon was given to my family by a Jedi that died an honorable death many years ago. I've been wanting to test my skills against an actual Jedi and now I have the chance, so don't hold anything back." the leader of Team SDOW stated, rushing towards Galen.
"GO GALEN!" Ruby shouted from the stands to her boyfriend.
Galen heard her and readied himself as the leader of the enemy team attacked him with a strong Makashi attack. "Form II as well? Better than fighting Vader." Galen said to himself, countering with his own Makashi attack against his opponent. Both blades collided before his opponent pushed him back. Evenly matched, Galen decided to change things up and switched to Form IV, Ataru.
His opponent swung their saber at him, but Galen leapt behind the warrior narrowly avoiding an accidental beheading of his opponent. "You've got skills, I'll give you that. But I have a lot more experience than you." Galen complimented, bringing the two of them into a saber lock that Galen quickly broke. His foes lightsaber went flying from their hands and Galen then blasted the warrior with the force, slamming them into a buildings wall and knocking their aura down into the red with one blow.
(End song)
Sheathing his lightsaber, Galen picked up the spear and lightsaber of his opponent and returned them to her. "It was a good match; you had some pretty good moves. You've certainly made this a memorable match." He stated.
"You certainly did." The warrior said, removing her helmet and revealing their blonde hair and pink eyes. Her other teammates did the same thing. The one in red had red hair in twin pig-tails and purple eyes, the one in yellow had orange hair and blue eyes while the one in pink had reddish/pink hair and yellow eyes. Each of them was about or almost twenty-one years. "We have a rule, never remove our helmets to our opponents unless they showed honor and displayed exceptional skill. This is the way of Team SDOW. I am their leader, Sarah Drirn. This is Dominque Brud, Olivia Tagy and Wyn Vypern, who like me are descendants of Mandalorian warriors." Sarah explained.
"Dude! You guys were so badass! You beat us without even losing one of your own." Wyn exclaimed.
"You beat us fair and square. It is clear that we all still have much to learn before we graduate." Olivia said in admiration.
"Yeah, well I was holding back. Didn't want to make you rookies cry in defeat for losing your first Vytal festival." Dominque said, rubbing the back of her head in defeat. "If we were in our planes, we'd kick your asses." She added.
"Well, the boss is our resident pilot here, especially since he's the Demon Lord of the Round Table, like the old legends." March bragged, only to get a smack on the back of the head from Rose. "Was I not suppose to say that?" he asked.
"You're the Demon Lord? Well, that made this match even more memorable then it already was." Sarah said impressively before holding out her hand. "I'll be proud to fight alongside you anytime, anywhere whether its on the ground or in the air, same thing goes for the rest of the girls."
Galen smiled and took hold of his opponents hand, shaking it. "I look forward to it." He admitted.
"Now this is what the Vytal Festival is all about! Sportsmanship and bringing the two kingdoms together!" Port announced over the intercom.
Back in the bar, the customer smiled. "That was the fight I was looking forward to." He said, tossing a few Lien towards the bartender as he spotted an aircraft with elegant ribbons flying behind him. "Happy Vytal Festival!"
Back above Beacon, the first day of tournament had come to an end and as everyone left the stadium, Weiss became star-struck as the same aircraft with ribbons flew over the stadium with the heiress's face displayed a mixture of joy and anxiety.
And done.
Now Team SDOW, as many of you have noticed is an original team I came up with. For physical appearances they are based on characters from the Anime Cross ANGE Rondo of Angel and Dragon, an anime created by Sunrise, the same company that created the Gundam series and Code Geass. More specifically, the team is based off Ange, the main character of the series, Hilda, Vivian and Rosalie, but are the descendants of Mandalorian warriors and fighter pilots. As for their planes, that will be seen in a later chapter.
Secondly, it seems that Hunter has a suspicion about the abandonment of the droid base in the round table, so he, Delta Squad and Ghost Squad are going to check it out. What will they find there? You'll have to wait and see. Also, speaking of the Bad Batch, Star Wars: The Bad Batch is set to be released on Disney Plus on May 4th of this year. So, we don't have much longer to wait and I can't wait for that series to air.
Anyway, please read and review and I'll see you all next time with another exciting chapter.