A/N: Thanks to qazse for reaction ideas for roughly a third to half of the monsters. And for some reactions in the Bear beasts!
Also, again, remember to check out the MHA reacts to Monster Hunter stories: Class 1-A Learns About Monsters by Treppahcs and Monster Hunting 101 by Insane Boy. Both now have their first reaction chapters up and both are doing amazing so far. But now, let's watch monsters do awesome super combos!
"This is gonna be so cool! I can't wait to see all the awesome moves!" Ruby said.
"Indeed. Surely with the power of a monster and ingenuity of a human- Or Faunus!" Weiss said, quickly adding in those with animal traits before they could say anything. "The possibilities are endless." She finished.
"Not to mention, we'll likely see many more monsters we haven't seen yet, or may not otherwise see, since not all of them have videos on them." Pyrrha added.
"So, you guys have all of these monsters?" Jaune asked in amazement.
"Between the two of us, yes. A lot of Riders have multiple mounts and we're no exceptions." Tekko confirmed.
"Yeah. We definitely have our favorites and our main mount, like mine is a Barrioth named Crystal and Tekko has a Deviljho named Crushjaw- real original, by the way, sis, but we could make just about any monster work." Razara agreed, causing Tekko to pout at the jab to her monstie.
"Still, it will be really nice to see how you girls interact with your monsters. I'm sure both of you show them great trust and care." Summer said.
"R-right... Trust and care..." Razara said, scratching the back of her head, knowing that incident with her Kut-Ku would likely show up.
"I'm indeed interested to see just how well these monsters can work with humans." Glynda stated.
"Not to mention, it should give us an idea of their upward limits, which will be helpful for dealing with wild monsters." Ironwood added.
"I'm just looking forward to seeing some cool moves." Qrow stated.
"Then without further ado, here we go." Katana declared, starting the video.
Aptonoth - Slip 'n Slam
The Aptonoth rushed at a down Hermitaur, but slipped on a banana peel, sending itself into the air as Razara slipped off its back, the herbivore falling and miraculously crashing into the Hermitaur, crushing it beneath the beast.
Popo - Popo Dive
The Popo charged through a winter tundra, before its foot caught a rock and caused it to go flying forward, Tekko flying off the beast's back, before the herbivore slammed into a Zamtrios, knocking it onto its back.
Apceros - Dynamic Spin
The hard-shelled herbivore charged forward, before Razara suddenly leapt off its back as it stepped sideways and rolled with great force, flipping onto its back and spinning around like a deadly spinning top, before colliding with a blue Yian Kut-Ku.
The students, along with Summer, Roman and Qrow, were all laughing at the attacks while the more mature amongst the audience were left stunned. "Well... Certainly unusual, but definitely effective." Ozpin stated.
"Indeed. It certainly makes sense. Those are rather bulky herbivores, I suppose throwing or dropping their full weight on some one or thing would hurt quite a bit." Winter said, slowly regaining her composure.
"Yeah, I mean if you throw a cow at someone, it'd probably do some damage." Roman stated.
"You'd think something that bulky would have a better center of gravity, though." Hazel stated.
"I don't know. Monsters seem to interact with gravity differently. That's probably how the bigger monsters don't die under their own weight." Katana theorized.
Velocidrome - Velocirush
Razara raised her arm into the air to order her Velocidrome forward, the raptor-like creature screaming in compliance, before leaping into the air, doing several flips and emerging in an upright position, delivering a rain of deadly clawed kicks onto another Velocidrome.
"That's a pretty cool looking raptor. And it's got some nice kicks. Maybe we found you a second monster, Vel." Coco noted.
"Maybe. I do like its head crest and big red claws." Velvet admitted.
"Not to mention, that's an impressive level of coordination to throw so many kicks all at once without catching its feet on each other." Ren pointed out.
"In addition, it's quite agile and acrobatic. Those flips were quite impressive. I'm certain it could have done plenty of extra damage by flipping towards its foe. Surely, its claws, beak and tail would be able to deal significant injury." Penny added.
Arzuros - Hunter's Claws
The Blue Bear Beast swiped its paw through a river, sending two salmon airborne, which the Arzuros and Tekko each caught one of them in their mouths, before diving down at another Arzuros, Tekko's bear beast slashing its counterpart across the face with a cross slash.
"This one is my favorite. Hands down." Blake said, drooling.
"Gosh, I wonder why? So, did you actually see the attack itself, or did you just focus on the fish?" Emerald asked, summoning a napkin and wiping Blake's mouth.
"Hey, I can't see anything wrong with that. A nice, strong attack with a meal to go. That's a good deal." Qrow said.
Neo giggled. "Hey Roman, I just got a slogan idea for your inevitable scheme to sell people Arzuros. It fights for you AND feeds you! What more could you want?" Neo asked.
"That's actually not bad. But seriously, cool move, Tekko." Yang said, giving her a thumb's up.
"You know, I only just realized, I kind of look like Nezuko with that fish in my mouth." Tekko noted.
""Who?" Everyone asked.
"Cutest demon ever. Besides my babies of course." Katana said, hugging her daughters.
"Mooom!" They both whined in embarrassment, trying to escape their mother's hold.
Yian Kut-Ku - Fireball Expulsion
The Strange Bird Wyvern rushed forward at Razara's command, before stopping as a trio of Konchu passed in front of them. At the sight of their natural predator, the insects curled up into balls for defense, but this only doomed them to be eaten by the Bird Wyvern, who seemed incredibly happy with this meal. Razara was less than pleased at her monster's lack of focus, however and smacked it in the back of the head, causing it to cough up the Konchu as fireballs, which blasted an unfortunate Velocidrome.
Naturally Ruby, Pyrrha and Velvet were not very happy with that. "Razara! Why did you do that?!" Ruby demanded, pouting instantly.
"Exactly, it was just trying to enjoy a tasty meal and you hit it like that? Unacceptable!" Pyrrha criticized.
"Yeah, that'd be like taking a fish from Blake or pancakes from Nora! It's so mean! And you hurt the poor thing! It could've choked!" Velvet added as they glared at the young demon, who despite being able to effortlessly defeat the three of them, was starting to feel much smaller.
"Well, I mean- come on! We were in the middle of a fight! That's definitely not a time to be eating! Wouldn't you guys get mad if Ruby pulled out some cookies and started eating if you were in the middle of a fight?" Razara tried to defend herself.
"Maybe, but we would smack her in the back of the head, especially when she's taking a bite." Weiss said.
"Don't worry, girls. I made sure to give her a good spanking for that." Katana assured them.
"Mom!" Razara cried out in embarrassment, shock and betrayal.
Lagombi - Slide Spinner
Tekko was on the back of her Lagombi, riding it like a snowboard as it slid down a snowy mountain peak, the two of them doing several spins and flips in the air, almost like a pair of graceful figure skaters, before Lagombi came crashing down on its Velocidrome target like a devastating spinning ball of death.
"Ooh, yeah... I don't see that Velocidrome getting back up. Lagombi's at least twice as heavy and it looks pretty frail to start with." Jaune noted.
"Best. Sleigh. EVER!" Ruby cheered.
"I know, right? So much fun!" Tekko said happily.
"We HAVE to try that sometime. Could a fieldtrip to Atlas be arranged?" Coco asked.
"After seeing this, I'm certainly considering it." Glynda stated.
"Wow, Tekko, you're quite the little gymnast, aren't you? You almost look like figure skaters with all those twirls." Summer praised.
"Thank you..." Tekko accepted the praise, blushing madly.
Bulldrome - Wild Ride
Tekko and her boar beast faced off against a Khezu, the Bulldrome scuffing its hoof in preparation for an attack, before it rushed forward at Tekko's command, the massive hog creature weaving back and forth slightly, before slamming into and bowling over its target.
"Well, I don't know what else we were expecting." Cinder said with a shrug.
"Too straightforward and predictable. If their opponent wasn't blind, no way would that have worked." Adam stated.
"To be fair, I don't really see a giant boar being able to do much else besides charge things." Ilia stated.
"Oh, no they can do WAY more. They can also violently shake their heads back and forth. That's it." Katana said.
"Why would someone choose that as a monster?" Ironwood asked.
"They're usually a beginner monster newbies get stuck with. But, in their defense, they are pretty tanky." Razara admitted.
Zamtrios - Freezing Spouts
Razara braced herself as the Zamtrios she sat on rapidly expanded into a massive beach ball, the shark-like amphibian giving a deadly smirk, before it created ice armor around its body in addition to its bloated size, leaping into the air and crashing down, unleashing a massive array of ice spikes in all directions, but mostly towards its target, slamming into the Khezu and forcing it to stagger back, before retreating. [1]
Winter groaned while some most of the students laughed, seeing it inflate. But they all went silent when the ice crystals shot up from the ground. "Well, that was quite impressive. I can overlook the ball transformation for that." Winter admitted.
"Again, it is one of the Zamtrios' unique abilities and strengths. It should be encouraged." Ozpin told the specialist.
"All those ice spikes slamming into it at high speeds, I'm amazed that Khezu isn't a pincushion." Weiss stated.
"That would make this a lot darker." Neo stated.
Khezu - Spark Surprise
Tekko suddenly found herself upside down as her Khezu had leapt onto the ceiling of a cave while she somehow hadn't noticed, almost causing her to fall out of her saddle, but she quickly grabbed the horn of the saddle and hung on while her mount swung back and forth from its suction cup tail, building up electrical power, before releasing from the cave roof, before landing on all fours and releasing a massive surge of electricity, almost looking like an electric explosion that decimated a Tigrex.
While the creature did creep them out, Ruby and Nora had to admit, that was a fun attack to witness. "That was so awesome! I wanna do that! I'd get a huge boost to my semblance, too!" Nora said excited.
"I know, right!? That was so cute and looked like so much fun!" Ruby cheered.
"Yeah, I don't see many Grimm walking away from that." Emerald agreed.
"Very impressive, Tekko. But how did you avoid getting electrocuted?" Cinder asked.
"Rubber undies." Tekko explained simply, not caring if she revealed something rather private, much to the embarrassment of her mother and sister. Luckily, everyone else seemed too stunned at this revelation to respond.
Gendrome - Paralyslash
Similar to the Velocidrome earlier, the Gendrome let out a battle cry before leaping into the air with Razara in tow, doing several spins. Unlike its Status-less cousin, however, it landed with its head aimed down, rapidly taking several bites out of a Nerscylla, leaving the Spider beast on its back, twitching from the neurotoxin.
"Wow. And I thought Nora was fast when eating pancakes." Jaune said.
"Jaune, that was rude." Pyrrha scolded. "Still, that's quite interesting. Another raptor with a similar attack, but more bite-oriented. It really shows how different even the most similar of creatures are." She noted.
"Not to mention that spider's twitching like it's getting electrocuted." Hazel noted.
"So it's a thunder raptor?" Yang asked.
"Close. Gendrome has a paralytic bite." Razara explained.
"Paralyzing raptor! Better!" Yang said.
Royal Ludroth - Moonsault Splash
Tekko breached out of the water on the nose of a Komodo Dragon-like leviathan with a large sponge-like mass around its neck. The two of them soaring high into the air, Tekko leaping nearly two stories higher into the air above her mount, twisting elegantly in the air, before coming back down and stomping on the sponge-like mass and releasing several powerful and condensed balls of water, washing away another Nerscylla.
"That thing looks pretty cool." Neo said.
"Royal Ludroth. It's a Leviathan with a giant sponge mane on its neck to keep itself hydrated out of water." Tekko stated.
"Interesting. Perhaps it could help out Sakurai and I with dishes as well. It already has the sponge." Ren pondered.
"Wow Ren, you really know how to make these awesome monsters boring." Coco told him.
"I would call that being resourceful, Miss Adel." Glynda berated the senior student.
Gypceros - Venom Flash
Razara sat on the back of a Gypceros as the beast squawked and clacked its strange head ornament against its beak, creating several sparks, before letting out a powerful cry and unleashing a blinding flash of light. The next bit seemed to be from the targets point of view, which looked around before spotting the two in the air, at which point Razara pointed down at the enemy, to which the Gypceros unleashed several blasts of venom at the Rathalos, knocking it down and more than likely, out.
"That was pretty impressive. Maybe I should start carrying something that can blind the opponents to help with a quick getaway." Ilia pondered.
"It's not much to look at, but that creature has some good versatility and movement." Adam stated.
"I bet watching a documentary about these guys would be funnier than any comedy show." Yang said, smirking a bit.
Nerscylla - Predator Needle
A Nerscylla swung through the air on a line of web, Tekko holding on tightly as the Temnoceran launched itself high into the air, spinning several times, before righting itself and extending its stinger, the pair diving down onto a Diablos, Nerscylla injecting the stinger into the beast and dealing great damage, while also causing it to fall asleep.
Pyrrha lit up at this. "That looks really fun! And putting the enemy to sleep is a very effective strategy! Arachne, this move is perfect for us!" Pyrrha said, hugging her giant spider.
"I know, right?! You were swinging through the air like Spider-Man!" Nora cheered.
"And indeed, a sleeping enemy is an easily defeated enemy. This attack will be incredibly useful." Ironwood agreed.
Queropeco - Barrel Bomb Storm
Razara lifted a large barrel with a fuse coming from it above the head of her strange-looking, bird-like mount, which lit the fuse by striking its wings together to create a spark. The young demoness then rolled the bomb down her mount's head and beak, the Bird Wyvern flicking its head to throw the barrel bomb at a Gendrome.
"Ooh, that's a pretty bird monster. What does it do?" Velvet asked, clearly intrigued by the bird.
"Queropeco can use its beak and throat sack to mimic the calls of other monsters to attract prey or scare off predators or nuisances. Like if its trying to eat some fish at a riverside, but some Jaggia keep stealing them, it will make a Deviljho noise to scare them away. Problem is, more often than not, when it makes that monster call, the monster its mimicking tends to show up. But it can also use its wings like flint and steel to make sparks to start fires." Razara explained.
"So, it could summon any monster, but you just made it light a fuse?" Yang asked.
"While its mimicry summoning could be very useful, I also see it going very wrong. So perhaps that is the best option." Weiss defended the demoness' actions.
Rathian - Scorching Slice
Tekko flew low to the ground on her Rathian as they flew towards their opponent at high speeds, the Rathian launching a fireball to deal damage and stun their enemy, a Diablos, before the Rathian did loop de loop in mid-air, diving down while doing an aileron roll, righting itself before it suddenly did several backflips at blazing speeds, to the point it even became a glowing green sawblade, knocking the Horned Wyvern down.
Ruby, Yang, Nora, Neo and Coco were amazed at the move. "It was like a living sawblade!" Ruby cried out.
"That is so awesome!" Nora cheered.
"And I like the way it was glowing, too." Neo added.
"Totally! Better than any light show I've seen before." Yang agreed.
"Add a fog machine and some some flashing lights and you're golden." Coco said.
"You haven't seen anything yet." Razara declared.
Razara was then seen on a Gold Rathian, doing the same move, but at the end of it, the power generated from the attack somehow created a black hole that sucked up everything within close proximity, before violently detonating.
Everyone was left awestruck at this ability. "It made a black hole!? Th-that's impossible! No living being should have the power to create a singularity such as that, even on a minor scale! And how did you even survive that?!" Winter demanded.
"We flew away REALLY fast. It only lasted for a second at most, it didn't have enough time to do any serious damage." Razara explained.
"Still, a creature being that powerful, even if a demon was increasing its power... You two might be more of a force of nature than Salem." Hazel said.
"Mom would have killed her a while ago, but it has to be residents of the world that destroys its ultimate evil. We can mess with a lot of stuff, but that's where the line is drawn." Tekko stated.
"Still, with monsters like that on our side, it's sounding a lot less impossible to beat her than it did at first." Blake said.
Barroth - Rushing Charge
Razara and her Barroth backed up, the mounted monster ankle deep in thick mud, before it roared with its head held low, digging and rolling up a massive mudball, much to Razara's misfortune, as a large glob flew back and hit her in the face, before the Brute Wyvern finally shot it forward, slamming into and knocking the Gendrome they faced back several feet.
Qrow, Summer and the less mature students all chuckled at this. "That gives fighting dirty a whole new meaning." Qrow said.
"I bet you needed a bath after that, Razara." Summer giggled.
"I needed like twenty." The demigoddess groaned.
"A ball of mud did THAT much damage?" Cinder asked, shocked along with the teachers and Atlesians, Weiss, Penny and Pyrrha
"W-well... In essence, I suppose a large, condensed mudball could be quite heavy." Glynda said, although it sounds like she was trying to convince herself.
"I'm starting to believe we should stop attempting to make sense of these monster's abilities for the sake of my processing and your sanity." Penny told them.
"Oh, it's also worth noting there's an ice version of this monster called a Jade Barroth, but its kinship attack is still the same, it just turns its mudball to ice just before launching it." Katana added.
Cephadrome - Sand Spray
Tekko was seen surfing on an unknown monster beneath the sand, before a hammerhead shark-like creature with legs burst out of the sand with a roar, before diving back beneath the sand, going completely underground along with Tekko, before they burst out of the ground in front of their opponent, causing a tidal wave of sand and dirt to crash down on the Gypceros they were facing.
"Yeah! Another shark monster!" Nora cheered.
"A sand shark. Sun may not want to go back to Vacuo any time soon with those things around." Blake stated.
"Swimming through sand like water. Quite fascinating." Ozpin said.
"Buried under all that sand? Yikes, not a good time." Roman said with a shudder.
"A day at the beach gone SUPER wrong." Neo agreed.
"And its the desert, so you know that sand's gonna burn." Emerald added.
"I hate doing that attack. It sucks being under all that sand. It's all rough and course. And it gets every-" Tekko started.
"Don't you FUCKING DARE!" Razara snapped at her sister.
Diablos - Fiendish Cyclone
Razara charged forward on her Diablos, before the Flying Wyvern dove into the sand and popped up, powering through the sand like a shark through waves as they circled a Barroth once or twice, before causing a massive fissure in the ground, bursting up from directly under the poor Brute Wyvern while making a giant Dust Devil [2] that sent the creature plummeting to the ground... revealing machinery equipped to it? [3]
Ruby and Nora will get excited at this. "It's like another sand shark!" Ruby cheered, high-fiving the bubbly hammer user.
"And did you see that Dust Devil!? That was awesome!" Yang said excitedly.
"Or, how about the fact it caved in the ground? A fissure that size looks like it could easily fit a whole house in it." Ren stated.
"Is that... machinery?" Hazel asked.
Both of Katana's daughters shuddered at this. "Yes. There was a mad scientist named Doctor Manelger who saw Riders and became obsessed with the idea of controlling monsters, rather than living peacefully and bonding with them. He captured numerous monsters and grafted armor and machinery combined with a kinship stone on them and tried to control them, all to get the world to recognize his genius, which eventually led to a nation-wide catastrophe." Razara explained.
"That's terrible." Pyrrha said in horror.
"No living creature deserves that." Blake said in sadness.
"I don't think even Watts is that depraved." Winter said in disgust.
"I didn't think it was possible for someone to be worse than Jacques Schnee." Adam growled.
"I wanna break his legs!" Nora snapped.
"Sorry, but one of his mechanized monsters broke out of his control and ate him." Tekko said. [4] Everyone was surprised at this, but couldn't say they felt bad for the man.
Tigrex - Rock Smash
Tigrex stood atop a massive mountain and roared, before jumping off the peak and charging down the steep side of the mountain, off of a cliff, where it brought its paw back, along with Razara, the two of them channeling their energy together as the Pseudo-Wyvern slammed its paw into the ground, sending a massive web of cracks through it with energy surging all through them, before creating a massive explosion, managing to bring down even the massive Gravios.
As soon as Blake and Velvet saw, Tigrex they instinctively covered their ears. "Not again!" They both cried.
"It's alright, Bun-Bun. It doesn't look like its roar comes into play here." Coco assured her teammate.
Emerald also rubbed Blake's back. "She's right, Blake. It was just that one little roar. You're fine now." Emerald told her, the two Faunus girls being able to watch the clip.
Everyone else will be shocked at the force displayed. "Holy crap! That explosion was huge! An even bigger light show than when Blake set her house on fire." Ilia said.
"I did what?!" Blake cried out in shock at her future actions.
"That was so awesome! We need to get someone a Tigrex!" Jaune said.
"No!" All the Faunus cried, even Adam and Ilia, who lacked the enhanced hearing.
A Molten Tigrex was shown with Tekko riding it, the two performing the same attack, but this time, rather than a massive series of cracks through the ground, the blast powdered beast released an enormous cloud of blast powder throughout the arena. Suddenly, a VERY strange-looking Felyne emerged from the smoke, before smirking as electricity sparked off his whiskers, igniting the blast powder, creating a massive explosion, sending the Felyne flying and obliterating the Uragaan trapped in the powder.
"Who or what was that!?" Neo cried out as they saw the Felyne emerge from the Blast Powder.
Tekko groaned. "That's Navirou, this Felyne that followed me around for the longest time for whatever reasons. You might have seen his whiskers spark, because he was experimented on by Menelger (he was explained earlier) and infused with the power of a Zinogre, so he could generate electricity. That came in handy once or twice, but he was SO ANNOYING! He offered to be my navigator, but he was a complete idiot who couldn't find his own butt with both paws and a map! Not to mention, he was a complete glutton and made Professor Port seem humble! That's how arrogant he was! I had to ditch him when he was sleeping and go to the New World to finally get away from him!" Katana's younger daughter ranted.
"Oh. So, Weiss before she became nice." Ruby stated.
"Hey!" Weiss snapped.
"Still, it's quite impressive he has the abilities of a Zinogre. Just a shame of how he obtained those abilities." Ironwood said.
Iodrome - Poison Slash
Like its raptor brethren before it, the Iodrome cried out to the sky before leaping into the air with Tekko, doing some flips in mid-air, before rapidly swinging its head like an axe at with its axe-like head crest glowing purple and leaking a purple venom as it struck the Rathian they faced off against.
"I wonder if poison would be useful against the Grimm?" Weiss wondered.
"I like this one. An axe on its head must be pretty useful." Summer stated.
"Hey, isn't that the one we saw with its pack taking down a Zinogre? That must mean they're pretty capable." Qrow added.
Basarios - Laser Ambush
The enemy's POV was shown once again as the target tried to look through a thick purple fog to spot Razara and her mount amongst a massive field of rocks and boulders. However, it soon spotted Razara through the mist, due to the glint of sunlight off her binoculars. She then raised her hand as the rock she was laying on rose up, revealing it to be her monster as it glared at the target and opened its mouth, firing a massive beam of fire and heat from its mouth, destroying rocks and cutting through the fog before slamming into and staggering a Gravios.
"I don't like that look it had." Ruby said, shivering a bit.
"Yeah... It's a little creepy." Velvet agreed.
"Well, it IS a monster. I doubt they get very far if they look adorable." Cinder stated, remembering that the bears, while adorable, were very low on the food chain.
However, all that changed when they saw the beam. Ruby, Penny and Velvet all had stars in there eyes. "That is so awesome!" Ruby cheered.
"Such power! It appears to at least be comparable to a railgun!" Penny said in awe.
"Very smart, hiding amongst the terrain and smoke." Winter praised.
"Yeah. That's how you win against bigger, stronger opponents. You fight smart." Hazel agreed.
"And it reminds me of a sniper's nest. Very nice. You could have a nice future as a sniper, Razara. Maybe next time you could join Ruby and I when we do our sniping practice." Summer offered, holding Ruby close. [5]
"I'll think about it." Razara told her.
A/N: Yeah, I had to split this one into two parts. Still, I hope you enjoyed it as always.
[1] So, yeah, I changed some of the targets in the video so RWBY and co. wouldn't have to repeatedly see innocent herbivores and cute things like Lagombi take these attacks.
[2] Dust Devils are basically whirlwinds in the dessert, different from tornadoes. This is your wind-based fun fact of the day.
[3] I'm aware that wasn't mecha Barroth in the video, but it felt like a good chance to bring up Menelger so the group could hate him.
[4] I'm also aware that isn't what happened to him, but assuming he won't be in Stories 2, that's my head canon.
[5] We know Ruby got the idea of a scythe from Qrow, but Harbinger is a shotgun, so Ruby had to get the idea for a sniper rifle from somewhere else.