Death Comes For Us All
Beacon Academy
The sight of the human girl that Lisker mercilessly killed was quite a shock to Adam. He was well aware of the numerous humans he had killed in the past, but the bull Faunus always made sure that the deaths were quick so that he would move onto the next human. Yet seeing how this human in strange organic armor made the kill so gory, yet so quickly was both disturbing, but also satisfying to watch. The cries of horror induced anguish from his former subordinate was also pleasing on some level that Adam would never admit out loud.
"Do you see now Blake," Adam said as he looked down at the girl. "That is the fate of those you cherish," he added, pulling his sword out of Blake's stomach. "And I will make sure they all suffer for your betrayal to the White Fang," he finished as he sheathed his sword.
Once the blade was pulled out of her body, Blake took a brief moment to activate her aura to seal the wound before using her Semblance to escape Adam and Lisker. Once she was gone, Lisker approached Adam, ignoring the blood on his foot.
"You're just going to let her go?" Lisker asked, somewhat puzzled by Adam's actions.
"She can run all she wants…" Adam said as he walked away from Lisker. "…that's always been her first response to problems she can't handle," he added, walking further down the hall. A wandering Beowulf tried to attack him, but Adam took it down with one cut from his sword.
"You Faunus really are no different from us," Lisker said to himself before turning to look at where the Amity Colosseum was floating, noticing air buses leaving it. "I suppose I should play with the students getting back from their little tournament," he said while activating his gravity orb. "At least until Fukamachi shows himself," he added.
Amity Colosseum
As the civilians and the majority of students ran toward the exits, the remaining students such as Ruby, Jaune, Ren, Nora, teams SSSN, ARBN, BRNZ, and a few others rushed toward the arena to reach Pyrrha as a giant Nevermore relentlessly attacked the barrier the encompass the Colosseum. It was difficult as those that chose to remain had to push against the massive swarm of people fleeing in terror.
"PYRRHA!" Jaune cried out as he struggled to get close to the arena.
However, Pyrrha did not respond to Jaune's voice, her eyes were still on the shredded girl that she had unintentionally killed. The revelation that Penny was a robot still didn't register in my mind, all Pyrrha sees is a dead girl and that she had a hand in it. Due to her mind shutting down, Pyrrha didn't hear the Nevermore letting out a cry after successfully breaking through the barrier, nor did she notice the giant bird Grimm swoop down to attack her. Before the Nevermore's beak was close enough to bite Pyrrha's head off, the giant bird Grimm was knocked away by what appeared to be a spinning blue of red rose petals.
Pyrrha looked up to see Ruby standing in front of her, facing the Nevermore while holding one of Penny's swords.
"R-Ruby," Pyrrha barely whispered out, coming to her senses as she finally noticed the Grimm in front of them.
Whether she heard her or not, Ruby's focus was on the Nevermore with an angered expression on her face.
"Leave her alone!" Ruby cried out as she held the sword in a defensive position.
The Nevermore simply got back on its feet and circled around the two girls, as if it was looking for an opening to strike at them. It could practically taste the despair emanating from the female that was still on her knees as well as the rage from the smaller one that stood in defiance of it. The Nevermore took one step forward, causing the human with the sword to point the blade at its direction which in turn made the Nevermore take a step back. Moving to its right, the Nevermore kept its focus on the one with the sword, who was pretty much its obstacle. After three steps to its right, the Nevermore lunged as the girl.
Ruby prepared to for the Nevermore's attack, but the giant bird stopped short, backing away a bit before circling around her again.
'What is it doing?' the small reaper wondered as she kept her defensive position before remembering something Doctor Oobleck told her back in Mt. Glenn.
"Ruby, not every Grimm is mindless, or rather not every Grimm is still mindless…"
While the rest of Oobleck's words were lost to her at the moment, Ruby realized that her history teacher was right about not every Grimm being mindless, and this Nevermore was proving it. Regardless, the youngest Beacon student refused to let her guard down as she still has someone to protect.
The Nevermore made for another mock lung, forcing Ruby to return her focus on the Grimm as it backed away once again. It had already tricked her twice into thinking it was going to rush her and Pyrrha, but now Ruby felt like it was toying with her.
'What do I do?' Ruby found herself asking herself as she could not tell when it would attack her and Pyrrha for real or if the next lung will be another fake out.
The Nevermore lunged at the two girls once again, Ruby keeping herself on the defensive regardless of whether it would be another fake out or not. If the Nevermore was trying to trick her it did not matter as the giant bird found itself suddenly pinned to the arena floor as it was bombarded by multiple rocket lockers. The Grimm bird let out a screech of pain before losing consciousness.
Ruby and Pyrrha looked up to see their friends as well as a few of the students from the other academies enter the arena to retrieve their weapons before making their way to the two of them.
"About time we these lockers showed up," Flynt said, trumpet in hand. "I don't how much longer we could take that thing tricking us," he added.
"Yeah, it's like that dumb bird was trying to make a fool out of you, kiddo," Neon agreed, skating around everyone.
Before Ruby could say anything in response, the Nevermore regained consciousness, picking itself back up and ready to attack once again.
Ren reacted quickly by launching himself into the air, going for the Nevermore's eyes while the leader of team ARBN, Arslan, used her rope dart to grab a hold of Yatsuhashi and swung him into the air while Sage jumped up to aid the tall student in what he figured was Arslan's plan. Nora joined in by rushing to the Nevermore and hit it with Magnhild, sending the bird upwards as Yatsuhashi and Sage descended from their peak height, coming down and decapitating the Nevermore, its massive head landing in front of Ruby.
"Whoa…" Ruby simply stated, impressed with the impromptu display of teamwork before turning to face Pyrrha.
"Ruby, I…" Pyrrha tried to speak, but couldn't as tears started to well up once again. "I'm so sorry…" she finally said.
Ruby looked at the poor girl, sorrow filling her up. "Me too," she replied, her sorrow quickly turning to anger. "But it wasn't your fault," she told Pyrrha, knowing that the crying young woman never meant to kill Penny.
"She's right," Jaune said as he approached the two girls, carrying Milo and Akouo. "The one on the microphone, they're the ones who did all of this," he told Pyrrha as he handed her weapons to her. "And we need to make sure they don't take anyone else," he added.
Wiping away her tears, Pyrrha took her weapons, standing up next to Jaune and joining everyone as they prepare to take on the invading Grimm.
"Sun, I need your scroll," Ruby said to the blonde Faunus.
Streets of Vale
Russel charged at two Beowolves, dodging the first one by moving to the side when it tried to pounce on him, before jumping toward the second Beowolf and jammed his left clawed hand into its stomach. The impaled Beowolf let out a death cry before dissolving, while the first Beowolf turned around to attack the Zoanoid, but it was stabbed in the head by Russel's tail blade. Once the two Beowolves were nothing more than vapors, Russel turned his attention to a large Ursa standing upright, causing the young Zoanoid's eyes to widen for a moment before he lunged at the bear Grimm.
The force of Russel lunging knocked the Ursa off its feet and onto its back. Russel let out a loud shriek before tearing into the Uras with his claws. This savage act didn't go unnoticed as the rest of team CRDL and team NDGO watched from behind after dealing with some of the Grimm that Russel didn't take down.
"For guy afraid of bears, he sure is doing a good job hiding it," Dove commented, feeling a little uneasy seeing Russel actions as something similar to a horror movie monster.
"Did you know about this Nebula?" Gwen asked her leader.
"Yeah, but now's not the time to talk about it," Nebula replied as she reloaded her crossbow.
"Why not?" Octavia joined in, wanting to know the story.
"Are you FUCKING serious!" Nebula shouted at the redhead while gesturing at the situation they were in. "How can you ask that now of all times!?" she loudly pointed out.
While the two teams were dealing with the Grimm, Aptom had just finished up with several of the Nevermores and Griffons that tried to snatch up the fleeing civilians. Taking to the air in his Fourth form, Aptom spotted Mercury and Emerald observing the carnage.
"Time to deal with these two," Aptom said to himself as he flew at the two terrorists.
Up on the building they stood on, Mercury spotted something flying toward them.
"Say Em, you think you can do something about that?" Mercury asked, pointing at the large insectoid creature approaching.
Emerald looked at the approaching Aptom, focusing her semblance onto him, but whatever illusion she was trying to cast seemed to have no effect on the Lost Number Zoanoid as he continued heading toward them. Eyes widening, Emerald pulled out her weapons and shifted them into their pistol form.
"He's still coming for us!" Emerald shouted in a panic as she started shooting at Aptom.
Mercury was also shocked by what Emerald said before preparing himself to fight against the approaching Zoanoid. Once Aptom was withing range of them, it flew over their heads and landed ten feet behind them. Mercury and Emerald turned around to see it change from its dark flying form to a bluish white form while turning to face them. The Lost Number commander tossed something up before catching it in his hand.
"You kids really should have left this city during all of this," Aptom said, sizing the two up before talking again. "You both would have lived a little bit longer that way," he added before throwing whatever he had in his hand at Mercury. "Think fast," he said, expecting the silver haired boy to react quickly.
Without thinking, Mercury caught what was thrown at him with one hand. He and Emerald looked at Aptom in confusion as he turned away from them.
"You kids have fun now," Aptom said with a sinister chuckle as he leapt off the building and back to the ground.
"What was that all about?" Emerald said as she tried to understand what just happened.
Mercury didn't say anything, his focus was on the object in his hand as he opened it to see what he caught. In the palm of his hand, Mercury saw watch appeared to be a finger of some sort. The silver haired young man tried to throw the finger away in disgust, but skin started growing from it and he could feel the skin attach itself onto his hand. Mercury screamed out in shock as he could feel something taking over him.
Emerald turned to see Mercury freaking out for seemingly no reason.
"What's with you?" Emerald asked, only for Mercury to be silent as he dropped to his knees. "Hey, what's wrong!?" she shouted as she approached.
Suddenly, Mercury swung out his right arm, forcing Emerald to back away before Mercury let out a loud scream as his body started expanding as he rapidly changes. Shoulders bulging into a grotesque size with spikes protruding from various holes. Mercury's skin became a lemon-yellow color. Large bulges swelled up with a strange bio-organic nozzle growing out of each forearm, and four tentacles erupting from his lower back all the while screaming in pain before coming to an end. At the center of Mercury's head, a large horn grew out as his face changed into something she couldn't describe. Once the transformation was complete, what stood in Mercury's place was a massive bipedal rhinoceros-like creature. Emerald continued to back away as whatever Mercury became turned to look at her before chuckling in the same sinister tone as Aptom.
"Merc…?" Emerald called out.
"Sorry, but he can't hear you anymore," the creature said. "But it was fun making him squirm before taking over," he added.
"What are you?" Emerald couldn't help but ask as she pulled her pistols out, aiming for the creature's head.
"Forgotten already…" the creature said. "Oh, that's right, I forgot to introduce myself before leaving. My name is Aptom, your executioner," he introduced himself.
No longer wanting to listen, Emerald fired two rounds at Aptom, but the massive monster easily dodged her shots. A feat that the green haired girl didn't think was possible with his build, but it didn't matter as Aptom had just moved right past her. Emerald turned around to fire another shot at Aptom, but the Lost Number commander shot out some sort of liquid at her left leg. Confused by this Emerald looked down, giving Aptom the chance to fire another shot of liquid onto that same leg.
An explosion happened as soon as the two liquids came in contact with each other. Emerald was blown to the edge of the building. She tried to get up, but found herself struggling to get up on both of her feet, something felt off to her. Looking down, Emerald screamed as left foot and half of her shin was blown off. Panic set in as Emerald saw a bit of her bones protruding.
Aptom watching, barely amused by this girl's reaction.
"And to think, you're one of the fools who managed all of this," Aptom said, feeling disappointed that the girl didn't put up more of a fight, but he shouldn't have expected much from her. "Oh well, time to end this little game," he aimed one of his arms at the down girl.
Emerald looked up just in time to be hit by a stream of the same liquid as before. Realizing what was about to happen, Emerald had to do something fast.
"Wait!" Emerald cried out. "Please don't do this, I…I'll tell you everything!" begging for her life. "W-w-who we're working for, what we're after…" she started talking, hoping that this monster will listen.
"Kid…" Aptom said evenly as Emerald mentally prayed that he'll consider what she's saying right now. "I don't care," he finished, dashing Emeralds hopes as he shot another stream of explosive liquid at Emerald.
Emerald tried to block the liquid from hitting her face with her arms, but it didn't matter as some of the liquid got through her pathetic attempt at defending herself. The resulting explosion obliterated Emerald with barely anything but a bit of her lower body remaining.
"Barely worth the trouble," Aptom said as he turned his attention toward the Grimm flying around while the Atlesian ships fired at them. "Maybe these Grimm can keep me entertained," he wondered before firing bio-missile at one of the Grimm that was flying much lower than the rest.
Amity Colosseum
As the evacuation continued, more airships were docking resulting in the mass of people rushing toward those airships. However, the newly docked airships revealed that they contained more creatures of Grimm, which jumped out of the airships and began attacking the frightened civilians and students. The soldiers that were in the colosseum, turned their attention from ushering the people out of the stadium now found themselves opening fire on the Grimm along with the Atlesian Knights.
One such Knight approached an Alpha Beowolf and was swiftly torn in half. One of the soldiers saw an Ursa approaching one of the students, who froze in fear at the size of the Grimm. The Ursa was about to pounce on the student, but the soldier pushed the teen out of the way as the bear Grimm's claw came down on the soldier. The pushed student looked on in horror as the soldier's head was torn off from his body. The Ursa turned its attention back to the student it was about to kill and charged at its intended prey.
As the chaos continued, the large group that consisted of Ruby, teams JNPR, CFVY, ARBN, SSSN, and half of FNKI. The assembled students were shocked at the carnage that was happening in front of them. While the Griffons that were entering from the stadium were being taken care of by Port and Oobleck, the students didn't expect things to be just as bad outside the stadium arena.
"They're coming from the airships!" Bolin of team ARBN pointed.
"We need to help!" Sage said as he held his sword tightly.
While many of them agreed, the students didn't know where to start. While the students got their weapons ready, a Beowolf was charging at them, but it was stopped when a powerful blast knocked it back. The large group of students turned to see General Ironwood make his way toward the Grimm, his gun in hand before rushing toward the Beowolf and proceeded to face off against it up close and personal. The students were amazed as the General dominated his brief fight with the Beowolf with just his fists before finishing it off with a shot from his gun under its jaw.
"So badass," Nadir said, awed by how the Atlas headmaster took down the Beowulf while everyone else rushed toward the General.
"What's going on!?" Ruby cried out, as she got Ironwood's attention.
Turning to face the assembled students, Ironwood couldn't help but feel shame over how things had turned out. He had hoped that he had everything under control, but it was clear that was no longer the case. Yet when he looked at each of these students, looking to him for instructions, the Atlesian General knew that he had to take control of the situation if he was to make sure that everyone in Amity and Vale would be safe.
"The Grimm are crawling all over the city. The White Fang has invaded Beacon, and to make matters worse some…vagabond has seized control of my ships…" Ironwood told the students. "Until we regain control, the skies are out of our control, So I'm…" he paused as he aimed Due Process forward, much to the shock of the students, and fired.
The bullet fired avoided the students, many of them turned around to see the corpse of a Creep dissolve after being shot.
"…going to take it back," Ironwood finished before making his way toward his ship.
"What should we do?" Jaune asked, causing the General to turn to face the students once again.
"You have two choices. Defend your kingdom and your school…" Ironwood gave the students the first choice to this dire situation. "or save yourselves," he gave them the second choice, causing the students to look and murmur amongst themselves over which choice was the best. "No one will fault you if you leave," his tone softened, knowing that no matter what these kids choose, he would respect their choices even if some others wouldn't.
After giving the students their options, Ironwood turned toward the dropship waiting for him. Once he entered, the General spared one more glance at the students, a small part of him hoping they would choice to save themselves, not wanting the next time he saw any of these children would be in body bags.
"Let's move out!" Ironwood ordered the pilot.
The students watched the airship take off, its destination toward the Atlesian fleet that hovered over Vale. Some of the students started talking amongst themselves again to decide on what they should do now. While this was happening, Ruby looked at the numerous floating airships with a determined look on her face.
"Well…Come on!" Sun's sudden loud cried jolted Ruby as she and everyone else turned to look at him. "You've all heard the General, we can either stay and fight or up and leave," he summed up the options. "And I rather fight!" he added, raising his weapon in the air for emphasis.
Sun's boisterous declaration managed to invigorate the assembled students and they all cheered out loud.
"We can take on of the ships to Beacon!" Jaune shouted, pointing at one of the airships that hasn't taken off yet.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Coco stepped forward. "Let's get this show on the road," she added, making her way to the airship.
"But we're in the air," Reese pointed out, earning a bop on the head by her leader.
"Now's not the time for that," Arslan told the skateboarder.
"Hopefully things are going well down below," Sage said, worried that things on the ground were worse than up here.
Streets of Vale
A White Fang grunt charged at Russel, wielding two machetes, intent on putting the Zoanoid down on his own. The grunt jumped forward; machetes raised over his head before swinging down at the bird Zoanoid. Unfortunately for the Faunus, Russel caught the man's arms mid swing and held him in place. Undeterred, the White Fang grunt spat at Russel's face, much to the Zoanoid's annoyance.
"You don't scare me monster!" the Faunus proudly declared. "My people have suffered far worse than anything you can ever hope to imagine!" he continued bragging while trying to break free from the beast's strong grip. "What can you do that I haven't already endured?" he taunted Russel.
Russel's answer was him bringing the Faunus closer to him and in one swift motion bit off a large chunk of the fool's head. Satisfied with the obnoxious terrorist being silenced, Russel dropped his victim's body before spitting out the portion of the Faunus's head. The few remaining White Fang grunts that were in this part of Vale started to back away in fear of the Zoanoid that had effortlessly tore through not only them, but Grimm that they had led to this area of Vale.
"H-h-h-h-he's…He's a DEMON!" one grunt shout as she dropped her weapons, choosing to run after everything she saw.
Seeing one of them flee, Russel charged forward, catching one Faunus off guard before plunging his right arm into his chest. His claw erupting out of the White Fang grunt's back, holding a still beating heart before crushing it. Rather than pulling his arm out of the grunt, Russel grabbed the edge of the gaping hole he made in that person's body and ripped the body off of his arm. Several feet behind the Zoanoid, the rest of team CRDL and team NDGO watched, a few of them feeling a little uneasy with the brutality.
"That's…just gross," Octavia whispered, not able to find anything funny to say about what she saw.
"I think I'm gonna be sick," Dove said, trying to hold back the bile that was building up inside his stomach.
While the majority of this odd group of students watched Russel's rampage, Nebula couldn't take her eyes off of the Zoanoid. The carnage that Russel was unleashing on the White Fang and Grimm was something she never thought Russel was capable of doing, and it worried her that there may be a chance that Russel won't be able to tell the difference between friend and foe.
'What has happened to you Russel?' Nebula thought as she took a step forward.
Atlesian Airship: Callsign Blue-2
Inside the battleship, Roman and Neo entered the bridge, having already dealt with the crew of the ship, Roman was impressed with what he saw in the ship's bridge. Like a kid in a candy store, Roman eagerly approached one of the controls, fiddling with it to see what would happen. The first button he pushed set off an alarm, somewhat amusing the criminal duo.
"Well, that was fun…" Roman said before eye another button. "Now how about this one," he pressed the button.
Cargo hold of Blue-2
The ship's detachment of Atlesian Knights stayed motionless as they awaited orders from the ship's commander. When the cargo bay doors opened beneath the robots, they didn't have time to react as they were in a free fall toward the ground.
Blue-2's bridge
"Alright, nothing," a disappointed Roman said, hoping that something flashier would have happened.
Before he could press another button, Neo approached Roman with a scroll in hand. Roman took the scroll from his partner, smirking as he noticed the Black Queen insignia on it.
"Oh, this is going to be fun," Roman said as he inserted the scroll into the console.
Beacon Academy
After dealing with the majority of students within the school, Lisker stepped out to the front of the school, waiting for Sho to arrive. As he waited, Lisker activated his head sensors to check on who else would be reaching the school. He spotted Cinder approaching at least a mile away from the front gate while an airship was approaching from the east. His sensors detected less than twenty students within the airship, as well as a few others approaching from the west. Feeling a little disappointed, Lisker considered leaving the school to search for Sho but stopped when a thought came to him.
'This should be fun,' Lisker thought before concentrating on directing his thoughts to Guyver 1.
"Fukamachi, if you can hear me, then you better make your way to your school" Lisker told Sho.
"Lisker!?" Sho was confused as to why Guyver 2 would be talking to him now.
"There are about twenty or so students reaching the school, so you have about twenty minutes to get here. And for every minute you waste, at least one student will die" Lisker explained to Sho what he intends to do with the approaching students.
"You wouldn't!" Sho couldn't believe what he was hearing, but he should have expected something like this from Lisker.
"I would, and I am," Lisker said as he watched the airship land in front of him. "And they're here now," he added before cutting off his telepathic conversation with Sho.
"LISKER!" Sho shouted as he dodged a Griffon flying at him.
The airship landed in front of the statues that were at the front of the school. Once it touched the ground, the students composing of teams JNPR, CFVY, SSSN, ARBN, half of FNKI got out and spotted a single figure walking toward them. The majority didn't know who this person was, but to the Beacon students, the silhouette was very familiar. However, one student recognized the person in an instant as he took an unconscious step back.
"No way," Sun said as the figure got closer. "It's him…" he added.
Neptune caught on to what Sun said and paled when he realized who was approaching all of them.
Once Lisker reached the statues, he stopped to survey the students that stood before him. realizing that it would take a while for the other students he detected to arrive, Lisker decided to have his fun with the students right here.
"You kids have twenty minutes," Lisker said to the assembled students, much to the confusion of the majority. "That's how long you have until Fukamachi shows up, so let's see how many of you will be alive within those twenty minutes," he explained as he began to walk to them.
"Come on, we can take him," Bolin shouted as he charged at Lisker.
"Bolin, don't!" Sun shouted to the young man.
But the Mistralian boy didn't listen as he lunged forward, thrusting his staff at Lisker's chest. Sidestepping the attack and letting the boy move past him, Lisker grabbed the back of Bolin's head. Bolin screamed as he felt Lisker's hand squeeze the back of his skull. Lisker kept the pressure on the back of Bolin's head for a couple more seconds before finally crushing it. The sickening crunch of Bolin's skull rang through the ears of the students as the boy dropped to his knees before falling forward, bone fragments, brain matter, and blood falling out after Bolin touched the ground.
Bolin's teammates screamed in horror, looking at the dead body behind the Guyver. The other students were also horrified by what they saw. Never had any of them witnessed such a gruesome display in their lives. Lisker, on the other hand turned his attention toward the students, ignoring the corpse.
"Clock's ticking," Lisker said as he took a step forward.
"YOU BASTARD!" Arslan shouted as she charged at the bronze Guyver.
Lisker moved to his right to dodge Arslan, who struck with a palm strike before turning to throw a roundhouse kick after her first attack missed. Lisker blocked the attack with his left arm, barely putting any effort into the block, yet it was enough to cause Arslan to recoil in pain when her foot came in contact with the bio-booster armor. However, the blonde fighter was undeterred as she threw a fireball at the Guyver's face. This attack caught Lisker off guard, resulting in him backing away for a moment. Seeing this as a chance, Arslan went for a jump kick to Lisker's head. Arslan's expression changed from determined to shocked when Lisker grabbed her leg mid-kick.
"Just because you surprised me with a fireball, doesn't mean it actually hurt," Lisker told the girl before swinging her over his head and slamming her onto the concrete ground, causing her to cry out in pain. Lisker turned to look at these kids and was disappointed that they weren't attacking him while he was focusing on Arslan. "This isn't a spectator's sport kids," he told the students as he picked Arslan up, still holding onto her leg. "Either come at me all at once, or die one by one," he continued before slamming her back onto the ground once again.
"STOP IT!" Nadir shouted as he and Reese charged at Lisker, firing their weapons.
Despite not feeling anything from the shots hitting him, Lisker swung Arslan toward where the gunfire was coming from, using the girl as a shield. Arslan screamed as she was pelted by the dust rounds from her two remaining teammates, causing them to stop attacking.
"Pathetic," Lisker said as he threw the blonde fighter at her teammates.
Lisker's head sensors detected someone coming at him from the rear. He turned around to see a dark-skinned redhead boy strike at him with bladed tonfa like weapons that were designed in a way that was similar to the Guyver's vibration blades. The boy, Fox, tried to slash at Lisker with the arm blade, but the Guyver evaded the attack with ease.
"How cute," Lisker sarcastically remarked as he grabbed Fox's right arm. "Let me show you mine," he said as he moved the boy's arm toward him while activating his other arm's vibration blade.
The vibration blade cut through Fox's arm so easily that he didn't even register what happened until a few seconds later. Fox cried out in horror as the pain set in before Lisker silenced him with another strike that cut his head off.
"FOX!" the rest of team CFVY cried out as they watched Fox's head fall to the ground with the rest of his body landing on top of it.
Yatsuhashi let out a loud battle cry while Coco aimed her mini-gun at Lisker. Yatsuhashi put all of his strength into an overhead swing, intending to caving in the Guyver's head with his sword. When the weapon got close, Lisker tilted his head to the left, letting the sword hit the base of his neck, stopping without penetrating the bio-booster armor. Yatushashi was shocked that his attack didn't do anything, but his shock was very brief when he felt something enter his stomach.
Looking down, Yatsuhashi's eyes widened when he saw Lisker's right hand buried into his stomach and blood pouring out. The mountain of a boy's fear rose as he felt Lisker's hand open inside his stomach. The next thing he could feel was his organs being pulled toward something, stretching and shrinking in such an unnatural way that his heartrate was going a billion a second.
Lisker chuckled before firing the pressure cannon he created inside Yatsuhashi. The mini-black hole rushed upwards, sucking in everything that came between it and the outside world, including Yatsuhashi's head before vanishing toward the sky.
Velvet cried out in horror after seeing her friend and partner being killed in such a nightmarish manner.
"This…can't be real…" Velvet whimpered as she lost the strength in her legs to stand. The sight of Lisker easily killing Fox and Yatsuhashi was too much for the rabbit Faunus.
"Damn you!" Coco yelled as she fired at the Guyver, but her friends' killer jumped out of the way before the first few rounds could hit him.
Landing outside of Coco's current line of sight, Lisker noticed another student charging at him. It was Nora, who launched herself into the air before descending upon him, hammer aimed for his head. However, Lisker sidestepped Nora's attack with ease before turning to face her when she swung her hammer sideways. Seeing the move coming, Lisker backed away, letting the hammer breeze right past him, causing Nora to use her momentum to spin around before switching to an overhead swing. Sadly, Lisker caught the hammer by its shaft, bored with how predictable these kids' attacks were.
"I'll break your legs!" Nora loudly declared, infuriated by the bronze Guyver and his brutality.
Instead of saying anything, Lisker did a push kick aimed at Nora's right kneecap. Due to the bio-booster armor enhancing his strength a hundred-fold, Lisker's kick had more than enough power to not only break Nora's kneecap, it was strong enough to cause her right leg to bend backward from the destroyed knee that the bones tore through her flesh. Nora's scream was so loud that it filled the area as she let go of her hammer and dropped to the ground, reaching for her destroyed leg.
"NORA!" Ren, Jaune, and Pyrrha cried out in horror, Ren's voice being the loudest of the three as he rushed toward Lisker, guns blazing.
Lisker barely noticed Ren coming at him, but at the last moment, the bronze Guyver moved out of Ren's line of sight and used Nora's hammer, swinging it at Ren's back.
The blow to Ren's back was enough to knock the boy to the ground, but Lisker wasn't done as he raised the hammer over his head, one of his hand felt what he believed to be a trigger of sorts. Before he could deliver the final blow to the down boy, Lisker's head sensors detected another presence coming toward him.
This new attacker was Sage, who could no longer stand around, charging at the Guyver with his sword behind him. With this new attacker reaching him, Lisker swung the hammer at the side of Sage's head, pulling the trigger just before the hammer touched Sage.
The grenades within Nora's hammer went off literally right next to Sage's head, resulting the boy's head being torn apart by the shrapnel of the grenades exploding inside the hammer. Sage dropped to the ground with a thud, and Lisker tossed the destroyed hammer to the side.
"Four down," Lisker said to no in particular, but just the idea that this Guyver was keeping count of how many of them he was killing sent chills down the spines of every student that was still alive.
As he looked at the remaining students, Lisker's head sensors detected two more people entering the school grounds from the east. However, the new presences were not approaching the students, but were actually moving past them. From what his sensors could make out, they were two adults, a man holding a cane and a woman in heels, and from the pace they were going, the two of them would be entering the area in no time.
Noticing their foe was distracted, Scarlet fire a shot from his pistol at the Guyver. The shot it Lisker's right cheek, but the Dust round did nothing to the Guyver, other than turn his attention to the pirate themed boy.
"Was that suppose to do something?" Lisker remarked as he shot his head beam at Scarlet's gun.
The infrared laser destroyed the barrel of Scarlet's pistol, causing the boy to drop the gun in shock and backing away in fear.
As Lisker was about to continue his slaughter of the students, entering from the east side, Ozpin and Glynda arrived to see the ravaged school. The headmaster and combat instructor were horrified by the sight of many dead students and staff members. Several of the wounds on the corpses were not of the creatures of Grimm.
"No…" Glynda said softly, horrified that all of these students were killed.
"We need to keep moving Glynda," Ozpin told his assistant, holding onto his cane tightly in an attempt to keep his anger in check. "We cannot let her get a hold of the Fall Maiden's power," he added.
"I…know…but our students…" Glynda tried to say but her attention shifted when she spotted the students fighting Guyver 2. "I won't let him take any more of their lives," she said, determined to stop the killings once and for all.
"Glynda, don't…" Ozpin tried to stop his assistant, but the two of them stopped when they heard another voice.
"LISKER!"
Hearing his name, Lisker looked up to see the source of the yelling. Diving toward him was Guyver 1, one vibration blade drawn back, approaching fast. Lisker jumped out of the way and landed five yards away from the young Guyver, who struck at the same time as Lisker dodged. Acting quickly Sho rushed toward Lisker, activating his second vibration blade, striking at the older Guyver's mid-section. Lisker blocked the attack with the vibration blade on his right arm. The feedback from the two vibration blades caused everyone within the area to cover their ears, while screaming in pain. This caused Nora to forget about the pain of her mutilated leg and Ren to regain consciousness as they too covered their ears in pain.
"Took you long enough Sho," Lisker remarked as he tried to force Sho back.
Not backing down, Sho pushed back resulting in neither Guyver moving from their spot.
Still covering their ears, the assembled students and two teachers watched in awe as the two Guyvers tried to overpower each other. Finally, the two Guyvers pulled away from each other, much to the relief of everyone. Now free from the deadlock, Lisker fired an infrared laser at Sho, only for the blue Guyver to shift to his left to dodge the shot while forming a pressure cannon in his hands.
Sho fired the pressure cannon at Lisker, but the bronze Guyver dodged the attack, the black hole going past him and destroying a piece of the statue far behind him.
Once the black hole vanished, the two Guyver were keeping their distance from each other while keeping an eye on everyone that were still in the area. It was also at that time when Sho spotted Ozpin and Glynda several yards away from the battlefield. He also took notice of Pyrrha among the students that had been dealing with Lisker.
"Pyrrha, go with Ozpin and Glynda," Sho told the redhead while keeping his eyes on Lisker.
Pyrrha was shocked by what Sho told her, as well as Glynda due to Sho's refusal to help them when they asked. Ozpin on the other hand, looked at his wayward student in understanding.
"B-but…" Pyrrha was hesitant about going with her headmaster and teacher given everything that was going on.
"Do it, or she'll get to her!" Sho shouted at Pyrrha, making his classmate realize what was at stake.
"I…alright," Pyrrha finally agreed as she rushed toward Ozpin and Glynda.
Lisker listened to this conversation, curiosity piqued to the point that he allowed Pyrrha to run right past him.
Once she reached them, Pyrrha turned to look at her friends for a moment to see Jaune look at her in confusion. She also spotted Sun, Neptune, and Scarlet head toward Nora and Ren, taking them away from the area the best they can without hurting them.
"We must go now, Miss Nikos," Ozpin told his student. "Mr. Fukamachi will keep him busy," he added.
"No, WE'LL keep him busy," Glynda said as she stepped forward. "I won't let that monster harm anymore of my students," she declared as she moved toward the two Guyvers.
Ozpin wanted to stop Glynda, but the words that Sho said made him realize that Amber's attacker was close by.
"Ms. Nikos, we must go now," Ozpin told his student, who nodded in agreement before following into the school.
"Pyrrha!" Jaune called out to his partner before following after her, leaving Ren and Nora behind with Sun and his team.
Once again, Lisker allowed another student to run right past him, yet Jaune slowed down as he moved right by Lisker, taking a look at the bio-boosted human. Lisker, noticing the boy's slow movement, was quite annoyed with Jaune's hesitation.
"Don't waste my time any more than you already have boy," Lisker said without even bothering to look at Jaune. "Just leave," he told the blonde boy.
Feeling offended, but knowing that he stood no chance, Jaune chose to continue with his original objective of following Pyrrha and Ozpin.
Once Jaune was out of the way, Sho and Lisker focused their attention onto one another while Glynda pointed her riding crop at Lisker's back.
"Don't even think about it Goodwitch-Sensei," Sho told the teacher. "Lisker's all mine," he declared.
"Mr. Fukamachi, I will not have any more of my students die tonight," Glynda declared, her voice carrying her usual strict tone.
"Is that so?" Lisker said as he moved his right arm out, palm facing outwards.
Glynda watched as a small black hole formed within Lisker's palm before looking at where he was aiming. Her eyes widened in horror as she saw that this black hole was aimed at Velvet, who was frozen in place by the horror of seeing two of her teammates die in such gruesome ways. Acting quickly, Glynda focused her Semblance on the surrounding debris to use as projectiles to attack Lisker before he fired his Pressure Cannon at the Faunus girl. At that time Lisker turned his body to fire the Pressure Cannon at the center of Glynda's barrage of debris, destroying a couple of them while blocking an attack from Sho with his free hand. After blocking Sho's attack, Lisker countered with a side kick while turning to face the oncoming debris and firing a Sonic Buster attack. The high frequency soundwave attack destroyed the debris, shocking the teacher, allowing Lisker to move away from Sho and fire a Head Beam at the younger Guyver.
Sho felt the infrared laser hit the organic material that covered the gap between the armor on his neck, causing him to stumble back in both shock and reflex as if he was punched in the throat. While the shot wasn't enough to truly wound him, it was enough for Sho to instinctually reach for his throat to cover it. This was enough for Lisker to focus on a new target.
That target was Coco Adel, who was firing a barrage of bullets at the bronze Guyver with her minigun. Normally, a hail of bullets from a minigun would cause enough damage to a target due to the rapid-fire nature of such a weapon, it was more of annoyance as evaded the shots while advancing toward the girl. As for Coco, she kept her barrage going, her focus solely on the monster that killed two of her friends, she didn't even notice that the ammo she had was running dry, nor did she hear Velvet crying out her name. Once the ammo was used up, Lisker dashed toward Coco and stopped just far enough to have his right hand just inches away from the girl's face. It was Lisker's open palm that would be the last thing she ever saw as Lisker created another Pressure Cannon, wiping the fashionista's face out of existence in a manner of seconds.
"COCO!" Velvet screamed as she watched her leader drop to her knees before falling forward while Lisker moved away.
Not wanting his new Pressure Cannon to go to waste, Lisker fired it at the screaming Velvet, but the black hole was halted by Glynda's Semblance. Taken aback by this sudden development, Lisker turned to look at the blonde woman struggling to keep the black hole in place.
"Impressive," Lisker admitted before turning to face Sho once again. "But how long do you think she can hold it in place?" he asked the younger Guyver.
Sho didn't answer, instead he was looking at the now dead Coco. While he didn't know much about her, the young Guyver was angry with himself for not stopping her death because he focused his attention on his neck despite knowing that it was fine.
"Lisker…" Sho growled as his control metal started glowing brightly. "GIGANTIC!" he roared out in rage.
At that command, a rift appeared above Sho, catching nearly everyone's attention as the Gigantic Chrysalis exited the rift. The giant cocoon landed behind Sho before opening up, allowing Sho to enter it.
Rather than be surprised by this, Lisker waited patiently as the cocoon did its transformation before reveal Guyver 1 in his Gigantic form.
The students were in awe at the sight of the Gigantic Guyver. A few of them had heard of the golden giant that Nora called the Warrior God, but none of them believed her since during their brief time in Beacon, the exchange students learned that Nora had a tendency of saying outlandish things. Lisker on the other hand was quite excited as this was his chance to see how he would fare against the Gigantic.
"I have to admit, this is an impressive sight," Lisker said, not at all intimidated. "Now, I believe it's my turn," he added.
When he heard those words, Sho was confused by what Lisker meant until it clicked in his head.
"GIGANTIC!" Lisker shouted as another rift appeared in the sky before another Gigantic Chrysalis emerged from it, and landed behind the older Guyver.
"No, it can't be possible!" Sho yelled out in disbelief.
"Oh, but it is," Lisker said as he entered the giant cocoon and began his transformation.
Once it was complete, Sho looked in horror as another Gigantic Guyver stood before him. Its overall appearance was nearly identical to his own, but the most noticeable differences was that the armor was a dark shade of green and the left forearm had two vibration blades that curved forward while the right forearm had one broad vibration blade curved backwards much like all the other Guyvers. Upon taking a closer look, Sho noticed that the vibration globes were on left side of Lisker's mouth, but the four steam vents were located in the same spots as his own.
"I know it's a bit corny, but allow me to introduce you to my Gigantic Apex!" Lisker decided to indulge himself a bit in acting like a cocky cliché villain. "Now, let's see which of us is the strongest Guyver in this world," he challenged Sho while the power amp in his right hand started to glow.
Sho had a fraction of a second to react as Lisker came at him with a charged-up fist. Once Lisker's fist reached him, Sho blocked it with his left forearm, the power amp glowing, while creating a small energy shield to negate the increased force of Lisker's punch.
Author's note: Bet a lot of people were hoping for a full-on fight between two Gigantic Guyvers in this chapter. Sadly, everyone will have to wait for the next chapter.
Though I have to say I'm both surprised and happy that the majority of you readers were fine with how I killed off Yang in the last chapter. Sure, I have a couple of people who were pissed with it, one even going so far as to tell me they want to rewrite that chapter, and saying that he would "fix" what I did. Naturally, I told that person NO as this is my story with a vision in mind. So, as you can imagine, that person has probably stop reading this story, but I don't see it as a big loss. I mean seriously, this site alone has nearly 40 thousand RWBY fanfics, both standard and crossover, why get upset over one fanfiction from a nobody fanfiction writer who took a risk by killing a main character of the series.
With that in mind, I knew that after killing Yang, I would have to be completely committed going through with killing off characters regardless of their importance to the RWBY canon. But this also puts me in a situation where I can't just simply kill off characters left and right for no reason, but I can't make it where the characters can survive impossible situations without a justified reason. So yeah, that's going to be one hell of a challenge, as well as keeping track of who I did kill off, how they died, and who killed them.
Regardless, I am feeling quite excited to write the next chapter, as that will be the big fight between two Gigantic Guyvers.