Chapter 23
Song: Pokemon Theme (Version XY)
Artists: Ben Dixon and the Sad Truth, John Siegler, and John Loeffler
I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them is my cause
(Pokémon!)
(Gotta catch 'em all), it's you and me
(Pokémon!)
I know it's my destiny
(Pokémon!)
Yeah, you're my best friend
In a world we must defend
(Pokémon!)
(Gotta catch 'em all)
Gotta catch 'em all
Gotta catch 'em all!
Pokémon!
After Team RWBY defeated the Seikamater, rescue Prof. Acacia and gather enough royal Jelly for Blake's Tricwe, the four headed back to the hot spring resort to rinse off all the dirt and jelly they got from their adventure. Once they rinse everything off, they enjoy a nice soak.
"Ahh... This feels good.~" Ruby says with a blissful smile on her face and neck down covered in water.
"I have to agree.~" Weiss has the same expression of Ruby. "Hot springs are truly amazing.~"
"Don't get too used to it." Blake says while lounging against some rocks, "We still have to continue our journey. We should find a way back home."
"Yeah, I know." Yang says while drifting in the hot spring on her back. "But still, this does feel amazing. Come on.~ You have to admit it." She gives a smirk at Blake.
Blake's face is a little red as she admits with her eyes looking the other way, "Yeah. It does feel good."
The girls laugh as they enjoy their time in the hot springs.
Back on Remnant, Cinder's team explore the ruins of the temple to see what they can find with Cinder lighting the way with a lantern. The inner works of the temple are dry, dark, and full of a wide array of pots. There are even paintings on the wall that depict all kinds of Pokemon yet shows off more legendary types.
Cinder looks at the paintings and go, "Hmm..."
"What is it?" Emerald asks.
"These pictures show more of these creatures. Yet these ones are different. They appear to be similar to the statues outside the temple." She examines a few bird-like paintings with one being like a blazing phoenix, another appearing as a yellow, spiky, electrical bird of some kind, a graceful blue bird, a strange bird-like creature that is white with some blue protrusion or plates while having its wings look like hands, and some sort of majestic bird with some golden hair doo along with some orange coloring. "These birds must have some great importance."
"But what are they?" Mercury asks.
Cinder looks at some of the inscription, "According to this, these are legendary birds that have a great amount of power with three of them representing the elements, one represents the skies while the other represents the seas. Moltres, Zapdos, Articuno, Lugia and Ho-oh. It also says that Lugia created the three elemental birds while Ho-oh created the three elemental beasts."
Emerald walks away, "So nothing of use to us here."
At one of the pots, Neo (in her disguise) found what appears to be some gold coins just in the pot.
Emerald zooms over and admires the gold coins with sparkling eyes. "Now that is of use!"
Mercury notices and says, "Well, we need it to fund the White Fang and keep Roman happy."
"Take as many as you could." Cinder ordered. "But leave enough for the scientist to examine. We still need the information about this place."
Emerald pulls out a very strange, blue stone and has something that looks like bubbles on it. "I found this weird stone!" she raises it to show it to the others. "But it is very pretty!"
Neo pulled out more stones yet also pulled out yellow stones that have flames on them, green stones with yellow lighting bolts on them, an orange spiky stone that almost looks like the sun, another stone that seems a mix between gray and teal with ribbons of pale yellow and purple, and many more.
"What are they?" Emerald asks as she looks at the stones.
"Might be of some value." Cinder says. "Before we send them, we should let the scientists examine them. If these stones are similar to Dust, then we send them to Roman and the White Fang."
"I found some more treasures!" Mercury says while holding a relic crown and relic statue. "This must've been a treasury or something." he states.
Cinder then says, "We'll take some photos of the drawings, take some of these treasures to the scientists and smuggle some of this wealth out."
In the camp close to the temple, Cinder and her team brought some of the stones to an archaeologist to see what they are.
The archaeologist examines the stones on his desk with his magnifying glass as he goes, "Hmm..." He continues to examine it until he lowers his magnifying glass to look at Cinder's team. "I'm sorry to say but I have no idea what these stones actually are. They don't appear to be made of Dust. Yet there is some sort of power coursing through them. I recommend that you take these to one of the geologists. They have the proper equipment for analyzing stones." He press a few buttons to have holograms of the paintings that Cinder took appear. "In the meantime, I will take a closer look at these paintings. I would like to know more about these creatures."
And so, Cinder's team takes the stones to one of the geologist who use some sort of analyzing machine that scans all the stones that they brought. The geologist looks up at the computer to see what the scans show.
"Interesting." says the geologist while looking at the screen. "Very interesting indeed."
"What is it?" Emerald asks.
"Hmm?" the geologist's concentration was broken as he looks at Emerald. "Oh yes. These stones appear to be full of some sort of energy depending on their element. However, they aren't like Dust. I may need to do more research on these things. Although, they do have essence similar to these gems." The geologist looked at a case full of gemstones that are the same shape yet different colors.
"Ooo!" Emerald went with sparkles in her eyes.
"What are those?" Mercury says as he takes a closer look at the gemstones.
"These are some gems that Team JNPR discovered a little further in." the geolofist says, "Team CFVY brought back a few pebble samples that are the same material that the temple is made of. So far, I am unable to identify what kind of rock the temple is made of. It almost...no, I probably shouldn't say it."
Cinder's interest is piqued. "Go on."
"Well... I think the material maybe alien in origin. I know it maybe ridiculous, but it's just a theory. I mean; portals to another world, creatures that can use elemental powers, a temple that broadcasts everything that one of our missing Huntress teams in that other world through our networks. To be honest, not too far fetched if you ask me."
"I see." Cinder sounded very interested in her tone of voice. "But about the gems?"
The geologist chuckles a little, "Women always love jewelry. The gems there do have a specific power to them. Judging from what some of the archaeologists got from some of the texts, these gems enhance a certain element when one of those creatures use a power that fit those elements. In other words, according to the texts, 'it enhances a certain elemental move by a small amount.' At least, that's what we got."
"Hmm..." Cinder gets an idea. "Here's an idea: how about we try those gems on someone who's semblance matches the element of one of the gems? Or better yet, how about testing it on Dust to see it can enhance it?"
The geologist has taken an interest in Cinder's idea and the wheels in his head are spinning with all sorts of ideas. "Yes. Yes, that could be possible. Yet I might need someone that can use one of these elements as part of their semblance and test it out on Dust. I shall inform General Ironwood about this. Thank you, miss..."
"Cinder."
"Cinder. I'll inform your ideas in my report."
Cinder grins maliciously as the geologists inform the general. She is starting to get a bunch of nefarious plans in store for Vale and possibly the other world where Team RWBY is at.
Later at night, Mercury has a bag of coins while being out somewhere in the Emerald Forest. His guard is up since he is out in the middle of nowhere and Grimm are lurking in possibly every dark corner of the forest. In the bag contains a bunch of relic copper, silver and gold coins with a relic statue in the heavy sack in order to payoff the White Fang and Roman Torchwick.
"Psst." someone says in the bushes.
Mercury manages to listen to someone getting his attention. He heads towards the bush where he notices something was off about it. There are two 'sticks' that are completely leafless.
"Are you my contact?" whispered a voice of a female.
"Yeah." Mercury replies.
"Do you have the goods?"
Mercury toss the bag in front of the bush and was quickly snatched into the bushes.
"Thanks." says the female in the bushes, "With this, we can get enough cash for selling these things. But do you have anything to report? Adam Taurus would like to know about anything worth of interests."
Mercury pulls out his scroll and sends the details to the deer Faunus' scroll.
"Thanks. Despite being human, you are very helpful."
"Just get out of here." Mercury says in a bit of a harsh tone. "The longer we hang out, the greater the chances that we get caught or the Grimm will get us."
"Right, got it."
Mercury then leaves with the deer Faunus disappearing.
Later in the morning, Nora is brought somewhere more secluded with some of the scientists and the rest of Team JNPR to do some testing. Nora has a few lobes on her head and parts of her body. There are a few holographic computers and some training dummies.
"What are we doing?" Jaune asks.
The scientist explains, "We're testing out some of the gems your team discovered. Since Nora has the ability to generate and manipulate electricity, we're gonna give her the yellow gem to test a theory that the woman, Cinder, came-up with."
Ren starts to look worried, "Wait a minute, you mean you're gonna try to supercharge-"
"Yes."
"Oh no." Now Ren starts to really worry.
If Nora is already all juiced up because of her semblance which explains her energetic personality, just imagine what a magical gem would do.
"Alright, begin testing." says one of the scientists.
Nora smiles as she cracks her knuckles and fingers as she is about ready to punch one of the training dummies. She then charges up her semblance to the max.
"Her electrical field has reach up to 7,000 volts and 5,000 watts and holding." says the scientist looking at the monitor. "You may 'break-legs' when ready."
Nora then punches the dummy right in the face and sends it flying three miles into the forest.
"Readings are good." says the scientists. "Give her the gem."
One of the scientists then gives Nora the electric gem and runs out of there immediately. Nora then charges up her semblance again with the gem in her left hand.
The scientists looked at the monitor and notice a change. "Her electrical field is now 9,100 volts and 6,500 watts and...increasing? That can't be right." The scientist check his equipment to see if everything is right. "The equipment seems fine. Electrical field now at 11,900 volts and 9,200 watts. You can 'punch his face' now."
Nora pulls her right fist back and prepares her strongest punch. Once she is ready, she punches the training dummy so hard that it went nineteen miles into the forest.
"It actually worked." says the scientist in surprise. The guy is completely baffled on the success of the experiment.
Jaune and Ren are now scared of Nora even more now. Pyrrah is amazed how a slight increase in power can make a difference from something that isn't a Dust.
"That worked a lot better than I imagined. Those gems are even superior than Dust. As a matter of fact, it is the equivalent of three crates worth of Dust."
Not too far from the test site, Cinder has hacked into the scientists' computers and got some data from the experiment. Cinder smirks that her idea is working. If she and her team found more, that could help with her nefarious plans. All she needs is some tests from gems on the Dust and she will find as many as she could.
Up on one of the airships, some of the scientists conduct some experiments on the gems reaction to Dust. Ironwood oversees the experiments in a section of his ship with one glass container containing red Dust and a red gem in another. A female scientist is checking on the computer to monitor the energy levels of the Dust. All huntsmen teams (including Cinder's team) are there to see what is gonna happen.
"Begin the test." Ironwood ordered.
"Yes, sir." says the female scientist.
A robotic arm is extended from the ceiling and carefully grabs the red gem from the glass container as the lid of the container opens. The arm gently grabs hold of the gem and slowly and carefully takes it to the container of Dust where the lid of it opens slowly. Everyone is taking every precaution to avoid any incidents like many other Dust experiments. The arm carefully lowers the gem into the container and notice a change.
"Energy readings are rising." says the scientist. "All readings are in acceptable parameters."
The arm lowers. The Dust in the tank are glowing a little brighter.
"Energy readings continue to rise. The temperature has risen up by 10 degrees Celsius."
Ironwood then says, "So it not only increase the power of the Dust but increases the elemental qualities as well. Keep going."
The arm lowers again as the Dust glows brighter.
"Temperature has risen up by 30 degrees Celsius. Energy output has reach beyond maximum containment."
"Stop!" Ironwood orders. "Move on to the next experiment."
The arm pulls the red gem away from the red Dust and puts it back in the container. Then the Dust and red gem are swapped out with blue Dust and a light-blue gem. Everyone is eager to see what happens next, especially Cinder.
"Begin the next test." Ironwood ordered.
"Yes, sir." the scientist begins.
Like before, the arm carefully and gently takes the gem and carefully lowers it into the Dust container. It lowers a little as the blue Dust starts to glow.
"Energy readings are rising. Temperatures are...lowering. It lowered by 10 degrees."
The glass started to fog up because of the cold. Everyone noticed that and are a little surprise.
"Continue." Ironwood says unphased.
The arm lowers bit by bit as frost starts to form on the glass.
"Energy readings continue to rise. Temperatures have lowered to -40 degrees."
"That's enough now." Ironwood ordered. "Excellent work." Then the containers are taken away.
Velvet says, "Do you know what those are? They are natural Dust and semblance amplifiers! Something like that could change the world!"
"I'm not sure." Pyrrha says. "Using something from another world feels like cheating."
"True, Ms. Nikos." Ironwood says. "However, a member of the science team says that they are used for amplifying the creatures' elemental attacks so why not semblances. Yet we need every advantage we need against the Grimm."
While everyone is talking about ethics about using resources from other worlds, Cinder and her team leaves.
Cinder whispers to her team, "Get all the data from all their experiments. We need everything about the new world and everything that we can use. I believe a change of plans is in order."
Back in the Pokemon world, Team RWBY made their way to Brazil City after taking ride Pokemon (taurus') in order to not only fight a gym but also a Pokemon Contest and Pokemon Showcase. They even practice on the way over. The four look over at a beautiful coastal city that has an eco-arcology look to it with plants on the side of buildings that had an arch look to them. And now, it is time to claim victory.
AN: Hey everybody! Hope you enjoy this chapter.
WrighteousRighter: I checked it out. Interesting.
Just to give you guys a bit of info, that there is going to be some changes after New Years. Fist off, there will be approximately four stories coming in 2020. As you know, I could do two chapters per two weeks. So in one week I will write two chapters for two stories then in another week two chapters for two other stories. The reason being is because of work. Just to give you guys the heads-up. So there will be one chapter per two stories every...four weeks. But I could do three chapters for three stories if possible.