Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Grimm Eclipse! Chapter 4: The Finish Line of Lies, a Kamen Rider + RWBY Crossover fanfic

GammaTron: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

KamenRiderZER0: Ah a start to a new year, new things to be released, and another chance at a good year. As a toku fan what I look forward to most is new Super sentai at the start of a year and new rider at the end.

GT: *nods* True.

SZ: To true…

Z0: So it's been a while since we got to work, and to be honest we might have gotten some stuff done during the holidays...but I had a computer set back. And etc and etc. Look new year new beginnings. And among those is getting more chapters for our stories out.

SZ: Hai. More chapters for many of our other stories, including this, Zyuohger: Monarchs of Mobius, and (this one has been meaning to get updated in a while), our Persona/Ginga story.

GT: True, true, true. Yokai Chronicles as well. BUT LET'S GET GOING! *picks everyone up and throws them into the linebreak* NO DISCLAIMER! GO! GO! GO! *jumps in after them*

(Cue Opening: Excite by Daichi Miura; TV size version)

(I gotta believe...)

I don't wanna know if the truth is disappointing.

I don't wanna know ignorance is bliss.

Why? Why? Why? Why? Before I knew it, I came too far

I can't stop this premonition of

The new beginning

I will now open up this new unknown frontier

I gotta believe!

(Turn it on!) Extreme!

EXCITE! EXCITE! Raise the beat!

EXCITE! EXCITE! My heart

is being guided to that place

I'm just going to dash through!

(Hey!) I'm on a mission right now!

EXCITE! EXCITE! The answer is…

EXCITE! EXCITE! The answer is...

(One!) In my hands...

(Two!) ...is a life that should continue...

(Three!) ...just got to live!

Narration: The 4 Kamen Riders have been gathered, 4 chosen warriors who have the power and bodies to fight against a new threat the Bugster virus. Each has begun down this path for their own reasons, but for why they fight are reasons all their own.

"Ah…" Kiriya panted as he ran down the street in the rain.

He began pushing his way past people who were crowding around the streets. He finally broke through the people as he stopped at the scene of a car accident. A young man was lying on the ground...motionless. Kiriya screamed in terror as he ran over to him. He slowly moved the young man over trembling as he did.

-BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!-

"Ah!" Kiriya shouted shooting up in his bead in cold sweat, his hand shot out and grabbed an alarm from his scroll as he turned it off, "Ah...ha…" he panted holding his head, "Ugh...no more coffee before bed." he groaned, getting up and noticing his roommate and partner still sound asleep.

Kiriya quickly changed into his uniform as he wore his blazer over his shoulders before he pulled out his circle rimmed sunglasses. He grabbed his Gamer Driver and Gashat before making his way out of the room. He pulled his scroll out before he typed in a number.

"Yeah... It's me. I'm checking into that favor I asked about."

=Oh...you're a cheeky one, you know that.= Taiga's voice came over the line.

"I think it might be useful."

=Looking into your partner's history behind his back? Some show of trust=

"Heh...well somehow I think he won't even know the answer I'm looking for." Kiriya smirked as he walked down the halls in the early hours of the morning, "He's not so bright honestly."

=Well I'll see what I can find for you. But I warn you...good chance Kuroto and Ozpin are keeping his secrets hidden=

"Heh...Oh, don't you worry about them. I know how to deal with those two." Kiriya smirked before hanging up.

"And how exactly would that be?" a voice spoke as Kiriya turned to see Ozpin standing around a corner, "I never took you for an early morning type, Mr. Kujo."

"Can't get a whole lot done with my entourage hanging around distracting me." Kiriya admitted, "But...on my own...I can do a fair bit."

"Funny...I don't believe that was the type of lessons I strived to teach." Ozpin replied, "You enjoy being the smartest person in the room."

"Don't you, too?" Kiriya smirked, "Besides...It's lucky I found ya. I need something from you."

"Something of me now?" he asked with a smirk, walking around Kiriya, "Funny...What would the oh so clever Kiriya Kujo need from a humble educator like me?"

"Hehe…" Kiriya smiled as his sunglasses slid down his nose slightly.

"So...he's just been vanishing for the past week?" Jaune asked as he and Emu clashed practice swords.

"Weird right? Normally he's always there to jumpscare me in the morning." Emu explained as he blocked another swing from his friend, "But this past week...nothing...He's just gone 'till First Period."

"...He jumpscares you?" Jaune pondered.

"You know his lack of understanding personal space?" Emu sighed.

"Big time."

"Imagine waking up to his face three inches away from yours every...single...morning." Emu shivered.

"..." Jaune gave a shudder.

"Tell me about it…" Emu groaned as he blocked another swing, "Try putting your shoulders into it more like a punch." he offered, pushing Jaune back, "The trick to one handed sword play is putting a wider arc and larger force behind it." he explained, "It's the difference between one handed and two handed sword play. Two hands allows for more force with less momentum. If you're gonna use one hand, you gotta master the skills of it."

"Right," Jaune nodded, "Thanks again with these lessons, Emu."

"No problem." Emu smiled, "But you should really ask Pyrrha for more lessons. I don't know much of sword and shield fighting." he added, "I've rarely gotten past three lucky hits the times I spared with her."

"Ah...I know...but you know how that armor works. If anyone can help me figure how to use it better, might as well go to you." Jaune sighed.

"What about Professor...Hanaya….No, you're right…" Emu sighed.

"Yep," Jaune nodded with a cringe, "I get the feeling he really doesn't like me."

"Does he like anybody?" Emu countered.

"No...yeah that's true. But when it comes to me. I see him glaring at me a lot." Jaune admitted, "I get the sense he really doesn't want me to be Brave."

"If it's any consolation...he still seems to enjoy throwing me by my hood." Emu added, making Jaune chuckle. "Come on. Let's try a little bit of armored practice before class." he said, putting his Gamer Driver on.

"Right…" Jaune nodded while doing the same.

"Henshin!"

=I'M A KAMEN RIDER!=

Both Ex-Aid and Brave stood in Level 1 forms as they stood before one another.

"You didn't get a chance to practice with this form much, but keep in mind this form has a purpose." Ex-Aid spoke, "At first, I made the same goof and always went into Level 2, only later did I learn Level 1 is designed to help separate a Bugster from its host. Also for me, this form actually has a higher attack power."

"Wait, really?" Brave asked.

"Don't get carried away, man. I'm both faster then you and more skilled in hand to hand combat." Ex-Aid reminded.

"Ugh...That was the worst fight ever...you didn't even use your sword." Brave groaned.

"At least this way you and I are on the same level of klutzy." Ex-Aid chuckled, "Alright, Sparing round...Start!"

Their chest armor lit up at those words as a green layer appeared over their Rider gauges. This was a practice mode that was engaged amongst riders in fights that held no stakes. The two then charged as Ex-Aid jumped over Brave who missed an attempted shield bash. Ex-Aid jumped off a tree before rolling across the ground and around Brave.

"Whoa...how...how do you do that!?" Brave asked as Ex-Aid jumped and stomped on his head, "Ah!" he cried, falling over as his rider gauge dropped to 70 percent.

"Ah...Jaune...did you forget you have elemental powers?" Ex-Aid asked.

"Huh...oh right." he grunted, getting back up. He spread his arms and legs as he was covered in fire and charged at Ex-Aid. "Ha!" he shouted, trying to tackle into him only for Ex-Aid to somersault over him, "Wha?" he blinked before tackling into a tree and blowing it up.

"Hm...you're for sure strong...but you weren't fast enough to hit me before I could evade. I suppose a more defensive style would suit better." Ex-Aid muttered to himself, "The more you train with me, the more you'll just try and emulate my fighting style."

"And...I'm stuck… I feel like a turtle." Brave groaned before his mask's eyes flashed briefly, "...This thing has a snarky sense of humor. I just got a quest saying 'Get yourself unstuck, you stupid turtle.'"

"I suppose given you're an RPG-based game means yours has a lot of things sneaked in there," Ex-Aid muttered as he pulled his gashat out and reverted to Emu. He walked over and took the Gashat out of Brave's belt, reverting him to Jaune.

"Oof!" Jaune grunted as the loss of armor popped him free of where he was stuck.

"Maybe you should learn a fighting style that fits you better first." Emu spoke, "You have a lot of power, but your speed could be improved upon. So maybe a more defensive style would suit you."

"Right," Jaune nodded as he got up, "Guess I should've thought of that sooner. I mean, I have a shield when I turn into Brave. ...Hey, you think our stats are different depending on us? Like you use a platformer so you're more of a balanced character while Kiriya's faster since he's a racing game."

"Before meeting you guys, I was mostly a solo act." Emu admitted, "I'm only now beginning to see what my suit does special to just it. From the way I see it, the Four Riders are built like a team."

"How do you figure?"

"Ex-Aid, Lazer, Brave, and Snipe. Each have a specific field to them. Like you pointed out I seem rounded out while you have higher strength, Kiriya has his bike body and speed making him a great support type, and Professor Hanaya is a gunmen, and if I had to guess he might be better and smarter than us in this whole set up. I guess Kuroto made four on purpose."

"Huh...It's kinda like a Huntsman team. Four Riders, four members to a Huntsman team," Jaune noted.

"If only Professor Hanaya wasn't so hostile...he'd make a good team member. I swear his aim is even greater than Ruby's."

"You don't have to tell me twice," Jaune cringed, unconsciously rubbing his forehead, "I think he uses us as practice in his classroom."

"You remember that time he hit Ruby while she was moving with her super speed?" Emu reminded, "Should that have even been possible?"

"I have no idea," Jaune shrugged, "Still, it was a little funny how she looked like a mummy using her cloak after she tripped from that hit."

"Haha...I know right." he smirked as they began walking to make it to class.

A figure sat on the edge of a roof as he let his legs swing off the edge. The man sighed as his black coat decorated with USB cables and charger cords looked at the sun.

"What a boring day…" he groaned pulling out a handheld gaming device, "All we've been doing is boring jobs to steal Dust."

"Humans have a lack of certain things." Graphite spoke while standing behind him, he then cracked his neck as his body began glowing with green fire as his scaly humanoid dragon appearance was burned away leaving a man with wild black hair dressed in a long sleeve shirt with a grey torso and green sleeves, with a brown scaled vest over his chest and black baggy pants, "Ah…" he grunted, rubbing his neck, "I hate this form...but it conserves energy."

"You know you draw less attention as a human, right..." Parad mumbled childishly.

"I despise the fact I need to put on a human face…"

"Why not make yourself a Faunus then?" Parad offered, "You seem to like them well enough."

"Because they aren't humans." Graphite argued.

"I don't see any difference besides a few cosmetic changes." Parad admitted.

"Well People can't freely change their faces like us Bugsters." Graphite argued.

"Well even still, I'm bored. Acting in the shadows, sneaking around. It's fun for a game where you get points for it. But those are only fun for so long before you want to enjoy a nice violent action game." Parad spoke, "I think it's time we made a move on the Kamen Riders."

"Yes...yes…" Graphite smiled at that, "I can have an all out battle with Ex-Aid again."

"I was thinking more like send a new friend after them to make their lives at school worse."

"...You're kidding, right?" Graphite asked.

"What?"

"You'd rather just taunt them...while we can kill them now?!"

"That's not part of the plan." Parad spoke.

"Screw their plan...I hate listening to their orders. Why should we have to hold back for their stupid plans? We should be going in there and fighting the Kamen Riders face to face." Graphite argued as he punched a wall, cracking it.

"True, but plans have timing. Mess up a single part of it, and it all comes crashing down. Besides...you don't want to anger you-know-who now...do you, especially considering they're always watching?"

"Grr…" Graphite growled at that, "Mark my words...I'm gonna be the one to take the Kamen Riders down."

"We'll see. Fate is like a puzzle game after all, once you have all the pieces, you can fit them into a real masterpiece." Parad smiled, "I can't wait to see what story this puzzle tells."

"Tsk…" Graphite clicked his tongue in annoyance, "Fine...I have just the guy to mess with them."

"Oh? Who?"

"If I have to watch...I'd enjoy watching something entertaining." he smirked, holding up his hand mounted device from before. He typed on the buttons, cycling through game menus before stopping on one with a familiar title reading: Bakusou Bike.

Kiriya sat at his seat in class as he leaned on his hand. Once again, the day winded down to Professor Port's class. Try as he might, the cheeky Kamen Rider was unable to keep his eyes open during the lecture. He groaned as his head leaned down multiple times, his eyes finally closing. Not even a minute later, he shot awake with a surprised snort from what he saw within his own mind.

"Kiriya...you okay?" Emu asked.

"Fine! Yeah...yep...yeah…" he spoke, shaking his head rapidly, "Ah...just...phew...did not get enough sleep last night. I need to cut back on the coffee...weird dreams."

"Ah, Mr. Kujo, I see you're rather eager today," Professor Port noted, Kiriya realizing he had stood up when he had shot awake, "Well, come now. Step down to face the Grimm I was able to catch this week."

"Eh?!" he gasped.

"Oh just get it over with, Kiriya!" Yang spoke up, "Come on! It's not like it'll be anything you haven't handled before."

"...Yang, you better not have invoked Murphy's Law on me," Kiriya grumbled, his eye twitching.

"Oh stop crying already." Yang grinned, "Now be a man and get down there!" she said before tossing him down.

"That was assault!" Kiriya shouted, "Oh-ho...you just think you can do anything, huh?"

"Ahem," Port cleared his throat, "If we can get on with this, Mr. Kujo?"

"Alright...bring it on Teach. What...you catch a Beowulf...Ursa...Boarbatusk...some...creepy tentacle monster? Or better yet, something nightmare fuel inducing?"

"Oho...someone is excited, I see the adrenaline has caught hold of you." He smiled, "Well, I was hoping for one of our Ace students like Mr. Hojo or Ms. Nikos. But you should be able to handle this little fellow." he said as he walked over to the cage before he cut the padlock.

The door fell down as a set of red eyes blinked. A long serpentine figure crawled out as its skeletal dragon head opened its jaw. It was a solid 8 feet long with black scales all over its body and spikes along its spine. Kiriya frowned before looking up at Yang.

"You invoked Murphy," he deadpanned.

"How was I supposed to know he caught a freakin' Dragon!?" she shouted back.

"You...I blame You!" Kiriya pointed at her, "Oh...I am so getting you back for this one!"

"Kiriya…" Ruby spoke up.

"Not now, Ruby!" Kiriya groaned, "Seriously...This is that time at the nightclub all over again!" he went back to arguing with Yang.

"But Kiriya…" Jaune started.

"I will dye all your stuff pink, Jauney, if you do not let me argue!" Kiriya pointed while still focused on Yang, "And you still owe me ten bucks for that drink you ordered!"

"Oh, you are so not doing that! You are the one who ordered when you knew full well what I was going to do."

"You couldn't wait ten minutes for me to get my drink!"

"I never got mine either."

"Kiriya!" Emu shouted.

"What is it…?!" Kiriya snapped before something growled, "Oh...right…" he said as he felt drool fall on his shoulder.

"Survive!" Port declared...from behind the cage with his weapon in hand.

"Ah!" Kiriya screamed as he jumped out of the path of a blast of lightning, "It breathes Lightning?! How...WHY!?"

"I caught it during Tuesday's thunderstorm!" Port replied.

"What even is this thing?!" Kiriya shouted as he flipped over another blast.

"I don't know the real name, but it looks like the Storm Wyvern from Taddle Quest," Jaune noted, "Ugh...I died so many times against that thing…Kept forgetting that electricity healed it because it looked like the Aero Wyvern all because of a difference of just one pixel being a different color."

"Oh...it kind of is...but wingless." Emu nodded.

"It's trying to eat me!" Kiriya shouted as he ran up a wall, letting the beast crash into it. He then swung around and kicked it across the face, cracking the bone mask on its skull, "Oh no...that just made it mad…"

The Grimm roared as it lunged at him again. Kiriya jumped over each of its snaps to bite him before he kicked it again. As the Grimm backed away from the strike to its head, it roared before turning back to face the human who continued to evade and enrage it.

"What are you doing?" Weiss hissed as she saw Emu had taken out his handheld game.

"Pulling up the current version of Taddle Quest, Re-1.5 Final Mix," Emu explained earning a blank stare from her, "...What?"

"I'll give it once...twice even...but you really expect me to think the monsters in that game lines up with this thing?" Weiss pointed out as Kiriya ran across its back while panicking in a high pitched scream.

"Found it," Emu replied as Jaune looked at the screen.

"Oh, they call it a Storm Wyrm in the game," Jaune noted before looking over at Weiss, who had slammed her head on her desk.

"Let's see...electrical breath, aquatic body, comes out during storm, wings hidden on its back…" he read, "However...young ones are smaller...lack wings and can't fully control their electric breath attacks."

"You mean this thing is a baby?!" Kiriya screamed as he rode on its back as it thrashed about, trying to buck him off.

"Wow. You really called Murphy's Law out, Yang," Ruby blinked owlishly.

"Oh come on! Who expects a baby Dragon?!" Yang complained.

"AH!" Kiriya cried as he slammed onto the floor, "Ugh...I hate my life…" he groaned before he shot his legs up and stopped the beasts jaws from biting his face off, "Ah...boy...you don't smell like a baby...smells like death….and Professor Port's Lunch…" he gagged.

"So that's where my sandwich went!"

"So...how do you kill it?" Blake asked while Weiss was still banging her forehead on the desk.

"Well...normally this...and this is just video game logic, it takes a long range fighter…" Emu began.

"Bowmen." Jaune elborated.

"...To shoot its wings, and then the others attack while it's stunned and grounded." Emu finished. "So...Kiriya has the opportunity now as its grounded and it should not be able to grow its full flight wings."

"In short...stop messing around and actually fight it." Blake shortened.

"Yes," Emu nodded.

"Kiriya...are you done?" Yang asked.

"Did I make you feel bad?" Kiriya asked with a smile.

"Ugh...yes! I'm sorry for doing that and I'll make it up to you later. Okay?" Yang groaned as she leaned her head on the desk.

"Say you're sorry with a cherry on top?" Kiriya smiled as he grabbed the Grimm's tongue that was trying to either taste...or whip him.

"Don't push it, Bike Boy."

"Alright, that's fair." he smirked before he kicked the Grimm's head, making it skid across the ground.

"Wait, what?!" Weiss shouted, stopping mid swing to smack the desk, "You mean this has all been a bit?!"

"Duh...Kiriya is easily one of the strongest guys from my class." Yang smirked as Kiriya put his blazer on properly and tossed his sunglasses over to his seat.

"I hope you liked the ride, folks." Kiriya smirked as the Grimm lunged at him.

Kiriya swung his arm in an uppercut as he nailed the bottom of its jaw, the punch forcing its jaw to snap shut before he sent its body shooting up and hitting the roof.

Ozpin blinked as his coffee suddenly began shaking. He stared at it for a few seconds before he shrugged it off.

The dragon Grimm began falling down as Kiriya moved his leg back. He then swung it and his whole body around as he hit it in the same place its mask cracked before. The power behind his leg spread spider web cracks all across its head until the dragon's head finally...well...exploded. Everyone took a second to blink a few times at what just happened. Kiriya spun on his sneakers as he let the momentum of his kick fade away. He smirked as he watched the body twitch for a few moments as its body registered that it lost its head. It began fading away as Kiriya took his blazer off and put it on over his shoulders like a cape again.

"Uhm...well, yes...quite impressive, Mr. Kujo…" Port complimented, "May just have to find a fully grown one the next time you volunteer."

"Please don't." Kiriya asked nicely, "The only reason I'm this strong is 'cause I was the only one not afraid to partner up with Yang for sparring practice." he pointed over his shoulder to said girl as Ruby and Blake looked at her, "That girl has no concept of holding back."

"Where's the fun in holding back?" Yang shrugged.

"See!?" Kiriya shouted before the bell rang.

"Yes, well...That's all for today, students. Please write a team report on the Grimm that Mr. Kujo fought today due next week," Port informed.

"Team Report…" Emu blinked.

"I'm gonna have to do everything." Weiss muttered.

Ren nodded.

"Ugh…" Kiriya groaned, walking back up as he grabbed his glasses, "So now what guys?" he asked.

"Kiriya...you okay?" Emu asked, "You've been...having sleeping trouble?"

"Ah...it's nothing to worry about." he shrugged off.

"Maybe you've been lacking pancakes," Nora noted, popping up between the two and startling them, "I always get funny when I don't get a pancake a day. And Ren never lets me go a day without a pancake, but I don't mind! Because pancakes are oh so yummy!" she paused to give Kiriya a wary look, "...You can't have Ren Pancakes. They're mine."

"Nora," Ren said, grabbing her by the collar of her shirt and dragging her away, "You...learn to get use to it…" he sighed as Nora gave the 'I'm watching you' hand gesture as she was dragged off.

"What's with you again?" Yang asked after that, "You normally aren't bad at getting good hours of sleep...sometimes you get in extra hours of it."

"What can I say? I've been...distracted." he shrugged after a few, "It's no big deal. I'm just being myself." he smirked as he began walking off to leave his friends, "I'll catch you guys later. I'm gonna go...mess with someone." he smiled as he left them all behind.

"This isn't normal for him, is it?" Pyrrha asked once he was gone.

"Nope," Yang replied, "I haven't seen him acting like this since…" her eyes widened a bit, "Oh…"

"Yang...What are you hiding?" Ruby asked sketpcily eyeing her older sister, and invading her personal space as well.

"Would you mind filling us in on what you've realized?" Blake asked calmly.

"Hah…" Yang sighed, "How do I say this…" she pondered, scratching the back of her head, "It's not exactly...a story I'm happy remembering myself."

"What do you mean?" Pyrrha asked, interested now and a little wary given the normally happy Yang seemed so upset.

"This all happened before Kiriya got that belt." Yang blurted out, figuring just to start somewhere, "Back before we came here to Beacon. We would spend each day at comat school same as normal, goofing off...practicing. But Kiriya and I had this friend. He was a real brainy type. He was Kiriya's best friend before…"

"Before?" Emu asked.

"Did...something happen to him?" Blake asked now caught up in the worried atmosphere.

"..." Yang sighed, looking down at the ground.

-flashback-

"Bugster...virus?" Kiriya asked as he and a friend taller than him dressed in a white coat looked at a computer, "What's this?"

"It's something I found. I was able to find all sorts of hidden files in the computers at Genm Corp," he explained.

"So...what is it?" Yang asked, looking over Kiriya's shoulder.

"It's a virus...duh." Kiriya replied.

"I know that, Mr Sarcasm. I mean what's the big deal about it?" She complained, punching him in the shoulder and sending him flying out of the seat.

"I traced an outbreak of the virus back to an event where...a lot of people disappeared," their friend explained, not looking towards them.

"What? Like a magic trick or something?" Yang asked.

"...A magic trick that makes an entire city become a ghost town…" he muttered, holding his arm as they didn't notice.

"Come on, Jungo...that sounds...like something out of a horror movie!" Kiriya laughed as he got up and walked to the computer, "Sure you didn't find the plot for a new game they're making?" he offered.

"I'd play it," Yang smirked, "The mystery sounds spooky~"

"Guys...I'm not joking… Why would they hide this...in such a way as if to make sure no one would find them...and then connect to actual missing person reports?" Jungo asked, clearly shaken by his revelation.

"Hey come on, dude...it can't really be something like that." Kiriya spoke.

"You talk like someone is watching us." Yang pointed out.

"..." Jungo sighed as if trying to calm down.

"Hey, if you want, I'll give this look over." Kiriya offered as he got comfy in the chair.

"Oh yeah? What can you do?" Yang asked.

"Hey...who hacked who's Scroll to get them unlimited data?" Kiriya countered as she backed off, "See? Is it so painful to give me a little credit and respect?"

"Yes, I actually feel like I died a little inside." Yang snarked back.

"Thanks…" Jungo spoke after a while as he seemed less tense, "I swear I'd go nuts without you guys…"

"Aw...he loves us." Yang teased.

-time skip-

"Jungo...I think you might be onto something." Kiriya admitted, having found all sorts of data files in the data his friend brought, "According to this, this Bugster virus is some...weird virus that can actually alter DNA...and reconstruct it…"

"I told you it was something to look into." Jungo nodded.

"Yeah...but according to this, it can be in a person for years...and not show any symptoms… The thing that turns it on is...stress?" he blinked, looking at the files, "Stress...really…? How are we all not dead then?"

"Kiriya…"

"I'm just saying. Not everyone is able to shake stress off with punching folks like Yang."

"My ears are burning~!" Yang sang as she entered their secret little hideout in an old computer room.

"Ah! She's evolving new super powers!" Kiriya panicked.

"..." Jungo just gave Kiriya a deadpan look at that.

"So what's up? Kiriya find out it's a new game or something?" Yang asked.

"Man, I wish…" Kiriya grumbled, "If you understand...even the slightest bit of medical mumbo-jumbo, then this a legit virus that they have...discovered. Why does a Game company even have this stuff?" he complained mid-explanation, "Anyway...it looks like our jumpy best buddy...did find something legit scary."

"Oh…" Yang blinked twice, "So any symptoms or vaccines for it?"

"Cure…" he scrolled down to a section saying 'No known cure, possibly incurable.'

"No cure?"

"Yeah...at least as of this note. These are all...four years old." Kiriya explained, "As for symptoms, there are several. Chest pains, cold and hot flashes, sudden pain and muscle spasms, and it seems it increases with stress. My best guess if this well...blanked out part...are worse effects they didn't feel like mentioning." he highlighted text sections that were replaced by empty black boxes.

"Why not brighten the page? Remember when we did it on that game site and found it was hiding cheat codes?" Yang suggested.

"Oh please. like someone….Son of a…." Kiriya grumbled as he grabbed an old Keyboard and began bashing it, "Really?! That worked?"

"Well, they are a gaming company…" Jungo noted.

"Alright...in worse cases symptoms will evolve into...personality changes, mental psychosis, lost of body control, and in some cases...development...of multiple personality disorder. Even more intense cases will result in genetic altercation...and eventually...death...Jeez!" Kiriya groaned finishing reading all that, "What the hell even is this virus?"

"And you're sure this isn't the plot from some horror game?" Yang asked just to be sure.

"Trust me. I'd have found data files for a game...These are all medical notes and study reports." Kiriya sighed, "Okay...we need...to tell someone about this." he stated.

"Tell someone?" Jungo repeated.

"Yeah...What are we supposed to do, man? I'm not a doctor...and pretty sure not even Yang can punch someone so hard she knocks a virus out of them." Kiriya pointed out.

"Nope. Not yet anyway…" she smiled, trying to lighten the mood, "But Kiriya's right. We should totally tell someone. I bet one of my Uncles can help." she offered.

"See? Progress." Kiriya smiled.

"I don't know…" Jungo spoke nervously, "Would they even believe us if they don't know about it? Plus, even if they did, what would happen to us for discovering this?"

"Come on man, you talk like this is all some big conspiracy." Yang pointed out.

"Look. We got this info...it's a good backup plan in case we think the talk is going south." Kiriya offered the option of Blackmailing the powerful leader figures of their world.

-Pause-

"You were going to WHAT?!" Weiss exclaimed.

"No...no...no," Yang quickly replied, holding her hand up, "Kiriya was...and...uh...I think he did...otherwise, how else did he get his Gamer Driver?" she shrugged, "Darn. Now I wish I was with him….maybe I could have gotten one."

"Uh, let's get back to it. So what happened after that?" Jaune asked, backing away with Ren and Emu at the twitchy look Weiss was giving Yang, the two Rider of the trio even slowly pulling their Gashats out.

"Oh...right...the part I hate most of all." Yang sighed.

-Resume-

"Kiriya, this isn't a joke."

"Hey I'm just saying...I bet they'd like this." he smirked, typing at the computer.

"What?"

"I...made an App that can track the virus."

"You did...what?" Yang blinked, "How?! You barely even know how to take care of yourself."

"Don't doubt my skills." Kiriya smirked, "See, I found these...scans for a tracking device to find them. It wasn't that complex to turn that data and jury rig my scrolls to ping for the Bugsters' data signature."

"What?"

"Kiriya make magic app to find the bad things." Kiriya shortened it in a condescending sweet talk tone.

"Hey!" Yang pouted.

"Tracking is good and all, but there's still issues like containment or-or even trying to make a vaccine," Jungo ruffled his hair in annoyance.

"Hey...I'm not a doctor, man. I'm sure some egghead somewhere knows how to do that." Kiriya replied.

"You seem awfully worried about a cure?" Yang noted, "It's not like you're sick or anything."

"And...test…" Kiriya muttered to himself, ignoring his friends in favor of testing his invention.

=BEEP!= His scroll went off as an arrow pointed towards the frantic Jungo.

"Uh...dude...is...there something you forgot to tell us?" Kiriya asked in a worried tone as the arrow continued pointing to him.

"Kiriya, a-are you sure you made that right?" Yang asked.

"It's a first test...I wasn't thinking it'd even find some of this bugster stuff…" he spoke as their friend turned away as he held his arm.

"..." Yang's eyes widened before she looked at their friend, "How long and how?"

"Ever since I found those files…" he breathed out, moving his hand as the skin he was hiding was...for lack of a better word...glitching, "When...I turned on that old computer...a cloud of dust came out…" he added as his arm returned to normal, "Once I began reading, I found a file explaining how the virus can be spread using technology...like games...or computers."

"Why didn't you tell us…?" Kiriya asked.

"I wasn't sure at first. When...you read the symptoms...I began feeling them." he added, holding his chest, "And it's been getting worse. I'm seeing things. Some...guy in black has been following me around."

"What guy in black?" Yang asked as she moved to get closer only for him to shoot away and back into a wall.

"Don't…" he shook his head as his eyes were glowing a sickly yellow, "Now that I'm sure...I'm not safe to be around. I dragged you guys into this. You need to stay away from me." he said as he ran for the door.

"Oi!" Kiriya shouted as they ran after him.

-end-

"And...then?" Emu asked as Yang stopped.

"He kept running...until...he ended up in the middle of the road." she began, "One of his symptoms started up because he just dropped and...no one saw him there…"

Blake's eyes widened a hint, "You mean…?"

"Yeah...as far as anybody thinks, it was an accident." Yang sighed.

"But really...it was the virus." Emu spoke, holding his chest as he put the pieces together.

"The symptoms made him unable to move in time." Ren added.

"So...that's what Kiriya meant when he said the virus took his friend's life." Jaune spoke.

"This is why Kiriya became Lazer." Pyrrha realized, "For his friend who died because he discovered this virus."

"Pretty much…" Yang nodded before Ruby ran up and hugged her, Yang smiled before returning the warm hug, "It'll be a year since then tomorrow." Yang explained on, "I guess that's why Kiriya is so...out of it. After that, he kinda disappeared for a few...weeks." she shrugged sheepishly.

"I guess that's why you were feeling a lot more fight happy back then, huh?" Ruby asked.

"It wasn't that bad."

"You wrecked the training field to the point they had to hold a big fundraiser to rebuild it," the youngest member deadpanned.

"...Do we even want to know?" Weiss blinked.

"I'd rather not relive it." Yang chuckled.

"You also tossed Dad through the table one morning." Ruby added before Yang pinched her cheeks.

"You should learn when to take a hint baby sis…" Yang smiled maliciously.

"Uh...Don't you mean into the table, Ruby?" Jaune asked before flinching and holding up Taddle Quest when Yang's look aimed at him.

"Shh...don't question how angry Yang can get." Emu whispered.

"You really shouldn't." Blake added.

"So...what will happen with Kiriya?" Nora changed the subject.

"...Not sure. If it gets as bad as last time...he'll disappear for a week or two and come back with something neat." Yang offered her best assumption.

"It better not be something like the last time he gave us 'something neat,'" Ruby glowered.

"What happened th…" Weiss began before the two sisters gave her looks that made her flinch.

"We don't bring up the Cloth Massacre," Ruby informed.

"And just like that, I'm terrified," Emu blinked along with the others.

"Ditto," Brave LV1 squeaked, holding his shield up to the sisters.

Kiriya stood on the roof looking out at the view from Beacon. He sighed, taking out his Bakuso Bike Gashat. It was his source of power, but at the same time it made him feel so powerless. He had no ability for proper combat. He was just...a bike.

"Glitch my ass…" Kiriya groaned, putting it back in his jacket. He then blinked as he found a can of soda suddenly next to him; he took a moment to look at it, wondering several things. How did it get here, when did it get here, is this possibly a trap. It was only when he looked at the type of soda it was did he realize how this got here, "Seriously Little Red, Strawberry is your favorite flavor." he smirked, popping it open.

"Ruby…" Yang groaned as they walked out from behind the door.

"It's a good flavor," Ruby defended herself.

"Sup?" Kiriya asked as he took a sip, "You're being nice to me...why...oh my god, you're here to kill me for that Massacre thing aren't you!? I thought we were cool!"

"Oh we are…" Ruby smiled sweetly...while Crescent Rose was out in scythe mode, "Perfectly cool."

Yang shook her head before walking over to Kiriya, "You okay?"

"Me? ...I'm always fine." he smirked as she stood next to him, "...He never got to go here…" he sighed, looking up, "Jungo, he'd like it here...He would...have liked it here." he groaned, pushing his sunglasses up.

"Yeah...He always did like these big views," Yang agreed, "Remember when he got caught climbing the flagpole to get a better view of the school?"

"Hehe...who do you think kept shouting jump?" Kiriya laughed before sighing, "It's not fair...He was better than me at all of this. He should be here...but…" he sighed again as he took another drink of his gift soda, "Well...at least now we know...there is...kind of a cure."

"And all it takes is looking like pure white Smurfs with different helmets," Yang joked.

"Hey, I make it look good," Kiriya chuckled.

"Well at least you got Emu and Jaune to help." Ruby added.

"I have Emu…" Kiriya bluntly corrected.

"Yeah, give it time with Vomit Boy," Yang shrugged, "He actually went LV1 because of Ruby earlier."

"Pfft...Hahaha...Little Red scared Brave Boy into transforming?" he laughed.

"Hey! I can be scary!"

"Yeah, by acting like a creepy stalker." Kiriya countered, "You followed him around for two days just to get him to let you borrow his new Gashacon Sword."

"N-Not true!" Ruby blushed.

"Ember Celica, Age 12," Yang deadpanned, causing Ruby's blush to only grow brighter, "Found you in the closet with them and your toy scythe having a tea party."

"Aw...that's adorable." Kiriya laughed.

"Mmm…" Ruby pouted, her face glowing red all over.

"You're right, teasing her is fun." Kiriya laughed with Yang.

"Told ya~" Yang laughed.

"I am so gonna get you two back for this…" Ruby huffed as Yang hugged her in apology.

"Hm...let's see...I found that beasty here…" Peter Port muttered to himself, looking over a map as he walked down the paths around Beacon, "So...then maybe it came from further up here…" he noted before he bumped into someone in a black hoodie, "Oh! Terribly sorry, young man."

"No...it's fine." he replied before he smirked and pulled something out of his jacket as Professor Port turned away from him, he held the Bugvisor up before clicking a button as it sprayed the professor with a black mist.

"Ah…" he coughed as the mist surrounded him for a moment. He turned towards the man as he ran off, "Wait…" he called out as he began coughing more.

"Hm…" Kiriya blinked as his scroll went off, "A Virus outbreak?" he read, "Well...time to get to work as they say." he grunted, sending the same message to Emu and Jaune.

"What do you mean outbreak?" Yang asked.

"I updated this bad boy to detect Airborne Bugster virus. Best guess, someone might have been recently infected." Kiriya smiled.

"Air born?" Ruby repeated, thinking of a Bugster being carried by a glitchy Stork.

"Airborne is a term for a Virus that travels through the air and breathed in." Kiriya explained, "You know...like in those apocalypse movies where a virus has killed almost everybody but the main characters."

"Huh?" Ruby blinked still confused.

"Achoo!" Yang fake sneezed on her.

"Ew~! Yang!"

"Now you have Bugster virus." Yang smirked.

"What?! No~!" Ruby panicked.

"No, you don't...but that's what we mean by Airborne." Kiriya smiled, "Well might as well go see who got sick."

"I wonder what poor person got infected?" Ruby asked.

"Hello Students!" Professor Port greeted those who followed the Kamen Riders to Taiga's infirmary.

"Sit back, Professor." Taiga ordered as he used his stephescop scanner to do as its title implied.

"Right-O." he smiled.

"Professor Port...you...you have a Bugster?" Emu asked, shocked.

"It would appear so, my boy. Quiet sudden. I was in the middle of my great plotting to hunt down yet another of the mighty Sea dragon grimm, when all of a sudden a mysterious figure clad in black and hidden by a large hood appeared from out of the shadows and blasted me with a cloud of black miasma." he explained in a dramatic tone.

"Dude in a black hoodie sprayed him with aerosol Bugster virus." Taiga translated.

"Thank you, Professor Hanaya." Blake nodded.

"...You think it's that dragon guy from initiation in disguise?" Nora asked, "Because if it was, black is a terrible color for him."

"Dragon…?" Taiga growled out, making everyone shiver, "Was his name...Graphite?"

"Yeah...why?" Jaune asked.

"He's mine to kill." Taiga replied simply before he sighed, massaging the bridge of his nose, "But...that's not important. Professor Port, you should just sit here and rest."

"What...but I'm fine!"

"For now, but if you let yourself get stressed, the virus will grow to a point it'll take full form. So...sit...and rest." Taiga ordered while crossing his arms.

"It feels like the roles of our old days have been suddenly reversed…." he muttered.

"Ooh!" Nora bounced over and whispered into Taiga's ear.

"No, you can't perform that if he gets too rowdy," Taiga frowned at Nora, "Detention and three pages on why you shouldn't do that due tomorrow."

"Aw...you're no fun."

"Of course not; I'm a teacher." Taiga smirked.

"Ah...So you can smile!" Nora gasped.

"And yet, somehow...he's still scary." Jaune pointed out.

"How do we treat Professor Port?" Emu asked walking over to their teacher who was infected.

"For now, he just needs to rest." Taiga informed, "By tomorrow, the virus will be stable enough we can call it out with our Gashats and from there we just need to kill the bugster." he explained, "But...no...stress. That means no hunting."

"D'oh!"

"No going out for drinks."

"Oh!"

"And most importantly...no...work…"

"You know, this might not be as bad as I first thought." He smiled as his eyes opened in realization.

"I'll deal with your paperwork for tonight and I'll inform Ozpin."

'Is paperwork that bad?' the students all thought.

"Hojo, I'll leave you and your friends to watch over him." Taiga said as he wrapped his medical tool around his shoulders, "Keep him from stressing himself out. Anything he needs, get it." he said, walking off.

"Uhm...Professor…" Jaune began as he realized what orders they were given.

"What, you said you wanted to help fight Bugsters, didn't you? Well...you're helping." he replied before walking off.

"Only issue is if he wants an alcoholic drink," Weiss noted before seeing Yang whistling innocently and Kiriya avoiding her gaze, "..."

"So…" Professor Port spoke up, "Who wants to hear a story?"

"Oh, look at the…" Ruby began before Emu and Kiriya blocked the door.

"If we gotta do it, all of you have to do it," Kiriya hissed.

"Wha…?" Ruby began before Jaune picked her up and carried her over to Port.

"We are not suffering alone," Jaune whispered.

"D'oh!" Ruby groaned.

"Oh, it can't be that bad. It's for his own good after all." Pyrrha spoke up.

"I demand freedom!" Nora and Yang complained to Emu and Kiriya.

"You invoked Murphy!" Kiriya declared, pointing at Pyrrha.

"You need to stop referencing a tool for fiction." she sighed.

"Oh believe me. It always happens." Port spoke up, "In fact, I have a few stories about this."

"Okay, that time it was you!" Emu pointed at Kiriya.

"So Peter is infected this time," Ozpin noted as he sat across Taiga, "And we have confirmation that they now have developed it to be Airborne."

"I won't call it pandemic levels, but they can infect people from a distance and not inject them." Taiga nodded, "It makes it a lot harder to find the culprit if they can stand across a rooftop and spray a walkways worth of people."

Ozpin nodded as he took a sip of his mug, "Now then…" he reached under the desk before coming out with a stack of papers as tall as him standing, "This is Peter's paperwork."

"Good lord...is this...?"

"Yes, three months of backed up paperwork," he nodded.

"...Peter…" Taiga groaned.

"And these…" Ozpin continued as he motioned for Glynda to come in...levitating several other staks, "Are his assignments that he's forgotten to grade for the students this year."

"...I should have made the brats do this job." he groaned, shaking his head, "But...if anything, they can better handle his...sick behavior."

"Do be careful. I've heard that backed up paperwork multiplies like normal rabbits," Ozpin warned.

"It wouldn't be the first time I've faced inhuman odds before." Taiga sighed.

"Yes, but compared to this? A swarm of Beowulf seems far more enticing." Ozpin argued.

"Ya know, despite how much I respect you...you're not making this any easier." Taiga complained, his eye twitching.

"This is why I have employees...do the things I don't want to." Ozpin smiled.

"This is Senior year all over again." Taiga groaned, picking the papers up.

"No one made you take the job as my student aid." Ozpin called out.

"Glynda can back me up...this is a Thankless Job!" Taiga shouted as he left.

"...So...How long do you think he'll realize that those are just the papers for the first years?" Glynda asked.

"...with any luck...we'll have to pull out that file you made for: 'Incase a teacher loses it and shoots up their paperwork' and that'll be best case scenario," he replied, taking a calming sip of his coffee.

"And...worst case?" she asked with worried eyes

"Call a contractor and blame Doctor Oobleck being given decaf again."

"That was the worst decision you made in regards to the staff room."

"Trust me...that day lives on in my dreams." Ozpin deadpanned.

"...And that is why Taiga never says 'Don't touch that button' without explaining why."

"Oh my god...that explains so much. He's been through all this stuff before." Kiriya blinked.

"So his hair really did use to be all black?" Yang asked.

"Indeed." Port nodded, sipping his tea.

"I honestly thought he was joking about that…" Jaune muttered, holding a hand to his hair.

"You're blond...who will notice the difference?" Kiriya pointed out.

"My Mom," Jaune replied with a look of terror.

"So...somewhat serious question?" Yang spoke up again, "Has he always been so angry?"

"Taiga...heavens no!" their Profesor laughed, "He use to be the kindest student in his year, always smiling, always helping others. Very popular among his lady classmates, too." he laughed while wiggling his eyebrows in a wave like manner to let them understand what he actually meant.

"Taiga...was...happy?" Kiriya spoke.

"And Popular?" Jaune blinked.

"And smiled without being scary?" Nora added before Ren lightly elbowed her.

"Oh yes, Taiga was no different from any of you. He was a bright Huntsmen and easily the top of his class, and even the school, within his first year." he laughed at the memory, "He formed one of the best first year teams in all of history here. A student, skilled, natural leader."

"Wow...he sounds...perfect." Blake noted, "Wha...what happened?" she couldn't help but ask given what the current Taiga was.

"Oh...that…" Port sighed, his mood dropping suddenly, "I suppose everyone has to get a good chunk of reality sometimes," he sighed looking down, "Taiga went on a mission in his senior year...and part of him never came back."

"..." Nora began to raise her hand before Ren pushed it down, knowing very well what Nora was going to ask.

"During that mission…" Emu spoke up, "Was he...?"

"Yes, he was Snipe at the time." Port nodded, "That was the year Taiga was turned into the first Rider. Ozpin didn't like it. But I thought if anyone could handle the responsibility, it'd be our star student Taiga. So I pushed him to reconsider...ha...it is my fault Taiga is stuck here. He should be out there making a name for himself as the greatest Huntsmen. But...instead...he suffered. Now he can't move on."

"Come on, Professor Port...it's not your fault." Ruby spoke up.

"Taiga had to have known what would happen when he agreed." Jaune spoke.

"He made his choice. I'm positive he doesn't blame you in the slightest." Weiss added, "You just had faith in him and wanted to help. You never would have known what could happen."

"No...even in spite of that truth, my dear, the fact I pushed Taiga to accept means I had a hand in making him suffer the pain he went through." he added, looking at the frame on Taiga's desk.

"Professor…" Emu spoke up.

"Ah…" he coughed, "Ah...oh...what was that?" he asked, breaking the mood, "Ooh...that was a nasty one."

Ruby dope slapped the back of Blake's head.

"Ow! What was that for?"

"We're supposed to lower the stress, not increase it," Ruby fumed cutely.

"Hmm...I think I do have something," Kiriya noted before pulling out a toy helicopter.

"AH!" Ruby freaked, jumping into Yang's arms, "He's got another one! Keep it away from our clothes and Zwei!"

"Hahaha…" Port laughed slightly before stopping, "I'm sorry...but that was adorable."

"What?"

"It's true. That was adorable, Ruby," Pyrrha tried to not giggle, "I'm sorry, but it really was."

"It's not cute! That thing is evil!" Ruby pointed at the toy still in Kiriya's hand...while still in Yang's arms.

"Who wants to hear the story of why Little Red fears toy copters?" Kiriya spoke up loudly.

"AH! NO!" Ruby freaked only for Yang to keep a grip on her, "Yaaaang~"

"Oh come on, we need to lighten the mood." Yang sighed, "So...suck it up, baby sister. We'll murder Kiriya later." she winked with a low whisper for the last part.

"Okay, it all started on a normal old day!" Kiriya began.

"Will it be painful?" Ruby cried, waterfall tears comically falling from her eyes.

"Shh...yes, yes it will, my dear sister." Yang soothingly patting her head.

"I got back from a family trip and brought souvenirs for my buddy Yang and Little Red. One just happened to be a little toy helicopter with the blades shaped like little swords that would fly when you wound the blades up. Of course, this was around when Little Red had issues with controlling her Semblance when startled," Kiriya continued, "And just as she was winding it up, her pet puppy Zwei chose to bark loudly."

"Aw, Puppy!" Nora spoke up.

"A dog?" Blake tensed.

"Yep. And it was a really loud bark, too," Kiriya chuckled, "She was startled and ended up winding it up at top speed."

"Oh Zwei, you were so cute...why?" Ruby grumbled, "Well you still are cute but you where a puppy...so you where by default cuter…" she rambled to herself.

"And when she let go, it shot off all around before ending up in her closet...with her and Zwei in it since both were chasing it to either stop it or because it was fun to chase," Kiriya chuckled, "She came into school the next day wearing one of Yang's old outfits from when she was her age."

"So...wait...all your clothing got...?" Weiss paused.

"Even Cloakey~" Ruby whined, hugging her cloak.

"It was her first cloak," Yang explained, "She used to wear it all the time...that is 'till...that happened."

"What's hilarious was that all your clothes she had to wear until your dad could get more were all sporting…"

"Ah! No, no, no, no!" Ruby yelped, managing to get out and tackle Kiriya over, "No one here needs to know what was on them!"

"Ack...my back…" Kiriya groaned, "She hits like a bullet...small...fast and deadly."

"...She named her clothes?" Jaune asked.

"You're one to talk…" Nora snorted, "You named…" she began before both Ren and Jaune covered her mouth, "Mmph!"

"We agreed never to talk of that. I thought I was alone!" Jaune hissed as Ren nodded.

"I'm still trying to forget," Ren shivered slightly.

Port couldn't help but laugh. From the story to the antics and even the commentary of his students. It was entertaining to him to hear these young ones tell such stories for his sake. More than a little heartwarming as well that they'd go so far for his sake.

"..." Taiga sighed as he finished one stack of papers. His good eyes and steady hands let him finish multiple at the same time, but it only did so much to defeat the beast before him. "That guy…" he shook his head as he got up, "I better check on those brats to make sure that the Old guy hasn't bored them into comas."

Taiga made his way down to his office where he found everyone having succumbed to sleep in several forms. The girls commondered and shared the extra beds in the inframry. They seemed comfortable enough that it was even kind of cute. Taiga looked at Port, who had fallen asleep and was contently snoring...how no one was woken up was a mystery to the elder Kamen Rider, but then again Taiga had slept through what he can happily describe as firefights. He then looked down to see the boys of the group had all been fighting for a place to sleep, Emu and Ren had claimed the only comfy chairs to sleep in while sitting. Kiriya and Jaune were forced to share a couch...with the two unintentionally sleeping in each other's arms due to them both falling over to the side. Taiga stifled a laugh before pulling out his scroll and taking a picture.

"Oh I'm gonna slip this into the next health class slideshow…" Taiga laughed under his breath before checking on the virus inside of Port, "The virus isn't as far as I expected. Seems they weren't as stressful as I thought they'd be...either that or Port made himself fall asleep from one of his own stories."

After a short moment to himself, Taiga sighed as he put his scanner back around his neck. He went over and pulled out blankets before putting one over everyone and a big one over every sleeping group/pair. After he made sure everyone was warm, he turned off the lights before closing the door silently. Taiga sighed to himself as he began walking while rolling his shoulders, best to get to work and finish another stack or two of Port's backlog of paperwork. At the very least with all he did, he can call in a favor in the future. With all that was going on now, he might need a favor or two from his new work colleagues. But first...he needed the power of caffeine, and lots of it. Time to raid Ozpin's personal stash.

Morning, the wonderful start to a new day where a new sunrise shines on the world. Typically a time for early risers to awaken and begin the day. Let us see what this morning brings upon our young heroes.

"Hmmm…." Kiriya mumbled in his sleep, seemingly no nightmares just yet this sleep.

"Hehe...why yes Weiss...I am working on my skills…" Jaune drooled in his sleep.

"No Nora...no...coffee…" Ren muttered.

"Snrk! Ah! What time is it?!" Emu shouted, waking up as he got out of his chair.

"Ah...what?" Ruby yawned while waking up.

"AH!" Kiriya and Jaune screamed, waking up to see one another.

"What happened?" Yang asked, shooting up while holding up her hands ready to fight, "Who screamed?"

"It's too early for this…" Weiss groaned.

"On that...I agree…" Blake muttered.

"When did we pass out?" Ren asked Emu, who was laughing at his friends as they shuddered in disgust.

"Not sure...last I remember was calling dibs on the comfy looking swivel chair." Emu shook the laughter off before he noticed the blanket he tossed off when he woke up.

"Did you boys get these out for us?" Pyrrha asked, having woken up along with the rest, she herself holding up the blanket that had been covering her, Ruby, and Nora.

"Wasn't us." Ren shook his head.

"Ren and I just took the chairs and enjoyed the look on Jaune and Kiriya's faces when they had to share the couch." Emu admitted.

"I'm unclean…" Kiriya shivered.

"Not even an acid bath would be good enough to sterilize me…" Jaune shuddered.

"What did we miss?" Yang asked, standing up.

"Nothing!" Kiriya and Jaune replied a bit too quickly.

"Are you s…"

*click*

*shing*

"Nothing. Happened," Brave and Lazer stated, guns and blade at Emu's now sweating head and neck.

"Right...hehe...nothing…" he chuckled sheepishly.

"How did they change so fast?" Yang whispered.

"Rule of Funny," Nora replied.

"That...can't be a thing." Blake blinked, "But then again video game viruses are a thing so…"

"Ah! That's right!" Ruby exclaimed as she looked over at the waking Port, "I'll go get Professor Hanaya!"

"Oh right." Emu nodded.

"Armor off." Lazer pointed out, "If we stick around in this too long, we could force the Bugster out." He reminded, reverting to Kiriya.

"Oh. Right," Brave nodded, reverting to Jaune, "...It never happened?"

"Agreed," Kiriya shook Jaune's hand in agreement.

"What are you guys on about?" Pyrrha couldn't help but wonder.

"Something they'll no doubt take to their graves." Ren muttered.

With Ruby, she opened the door to Taiga's classroom, "Professor Hanaya, we…" she blinked a few times at Taiga glaring at a stack of papers on one side of his desk while the other half of the room was filled with stacks, "...Uh, Professor?"

"Shh...Ms. Rose, I am in the middle of the greatest battle of wills ever," he spoke, "This better be important 'cause I'm on kind of a caffeine rush at the moment and not sure I can control any sudden temperamental changes."

"Um...well...We need a check up on Professor Port's Bugster Virus to see if it's ready to be extracted and blown up?" Ruby blinked twice.

"...Blown up?" he took a second before dropping his pen, "Crap!" he fully remembered, "Go! Go!" he ordered, grabbing his jacket and Gamer Driver.

"Yes, sir!" Ruby yelped before going off, leaving a trail of rose petals behind her.

"I wonder how long it will take for the janitors to start complaining on those," Taiga pondered before turning to look back at his desk...with two stacks of paper on one side, "...Was there always two there?"

"Professor!" Ruby complained.

"Right!" he shouted.

"Are you ready?" Taiga asked Port.

"Well I'm as ready as I'll ever be to have a monster extracted from me!" he laughed, sitting up in bed. "Question...how much does this tend to hurt?"

"The side effects will be bad while we fight the bugster." Taiga explained, "But don't worry. You're one of this academy's strongest teachers. If anyone can handle a little pain, it's you." he smiled.

"Haha! Right you are, Ta...Professor Hanaya!" he corrected himself, "Then I leave my care in your hands, my former Pupil."

"So how does this work, Professor Hanaya?" Jaune asked, this being his first time removing a Bugster from a patient.

"Simple enough." Taiga said while putting his belt on, "A Kamen Rider holds his Gashat up, and activates it. Once the Game Field spreads, the Bugster Virus will gain more stability to its structure, enough to defend itself and, indirectly, its host."

"Then from there, we use Level One to fight their weakened primary state. Level 1 has the special to only itself power to separate a Bugster from their host." Emu went on as he stood next to Taiga, "It might be tricky as, in an ironic twist, their weaker primary forms are Larger than our shorter Level 1 selves."

"Oh, I get...Wait, larger?!" Yang gawked.

"The normal First Stage Bugster is about two meters tall and/or bigger," Taiga spoke.

"Wow. ...Um...is that big?" Ruby asked.

"It's 6.5 feet or even taller," Blake replied.

"Two times bigger than you." Nora simplified even further.

"Oh...Hey!" Ruby pouted, "I'm not that short."

"You're taller than Weiss maybe." Yang smirked.

"Hey!" Weiss exclaimed in annoyance.

"So...after the big scary form?" Jaune asked.

"Then the Bugster takes humanoid form, which is trickier and more developed mentally," Kiriya went on, "That's where Level 2 comes into play. You kill the Bugster in this state and-Boom!-, Game Cleared and our patient cured."

"Right," Jaune nodded, 'Though now I have to wonder how stupid that guy's giant form was…'

"As soon as the Bugster comes out, Ex-Aid will activate Stage Select to take us to an isolated location. Brave, you will take care of Profesor Port while Ex-Aid and I finish the Bugster. Lazer will provide support depending on what type comes out. Most likely, it will be easy enough," Taiga ordered.

"Wait...I'm sitting this out?" Jaune blinked.

"Don't complain. You're the rookie here, so you take grunt work," Taiga stated.

"Oh. Right," Jaune slumped a little.

"Seniority and skill takes precedence." Kiriya shrugged.

"Let's get going then." Emu spoke, "Professor...don't worry. We'll change this fate with our own hands."

"Mission...Start!" Taiga called out, clicking his Gashat.

=BANG BANG SHOOTING/MIGHTY ACTION X/BAKUSOU BIKE/TADDLE QUEST!=

Four fields of data spread across the room. Professor Port groaned in pain as orange data formed around him before it took on a blob like appearance. After enveloping him it changed and took shape. The mass began growing until it looked like a giant spiked wheel, with the spokes connecting to a large eye in it's center. The Eye blinked as it looked at the four Riders as they plugged their Gashats in.

"HENSHIN!" all four shouted.

=LETS GAME! METCHA GAME! MUCHA GAME! WHAT'S YOUR NAME?! I'M A KAMEN RIDER!=

"Target...Lock." Snipe spoke summoning his Magnum.

"I'll clear this game with no Continues!" Ex-Aid shouted, holding up his Breaker.

"Let's take him for a ride!" Lazer laughed, swinging his tire tonfa around.

"Wait...you...ALL have catchphrases?!" Brave blinked.

"What? You don't?" Lazer chuckled.

"Well...I knew Emu did...but I thought that was just his thing!" he complained as Stage Select activated, sending them all to an empty parking lot before his eyes flashed once, "'Quest Added: Put the peanut you use as a brain to work on a catchphrase.' ...I need to voice a complaint to Mr. Dan. I think my Gashat likes insulting me."

"Go!" Snipe shouted as they charged at the giant tire monster.

The tire monster roared from its eye as it spun around them before pointing directly at them. It raced down the road intent on crushing them. It was stopped when Ex-Aid rolled forward and crashed into it, sending it skidding backwards across the asphalt. Snipe rolled around the side as he shot at the eye, making it blink in pain from each HIT the shots earned. Lazer went over and smashed a trophy case summoned by his game as he got an Orange energy item.

=Chohatsu!=

"Oi, Ugly! You're the stupidest monster I've ever seen! What? A tire?! You couldn't be a mutant Armadillo or something?" Lazer taunted the Bugster as he was glowing orange.

The Bugster stopped as it tried to run over Ex-Aid. It looked at Lazer before its eye was covered in angry fire. It rolled back and readjusted to charge at Lazer. Lazer ran away as the monster chased him. Snipe aimed and began shooting as Ex-Aid began jumping on his blocks to gain a higher ground for attack. Brave looked on, confused, before shrugging as he cut open a chest. A blue medal flew into his chest.

=Jump Kyo-Ka!=

"Jump….This is a jump boost...Oh, I get it!" he nodded as he jumped up and used his fall to slash the Bugster as it ignored all their attacks in favor of chasing the rider that angered it AKA Lazer.

"Wait...we didn't go with them this time?!" Ruby shouted, outraged.

"We went last time though…" Weiss noted.

"Emu must not have done it right." Nora muttered.

"I kind of wanted to see how this goes." Yang admitted.

"Hm…" Pyrrha blinked, seeing a blinking light on Taiga's TV, she pressed on the light and the TV displayed the Riders fighting with the Tire monster, "Uh...everyone, I think I found them."

"No way!" Ruby shouted.

=Whoop-Whoop-Whoop!= Lazer laughed as the monster chased him =Come on! You know you want to kill me!= he taunted smacking his rear as he dodged an attempt to run him over =Miss me! Miss me! Whoop-Whoop!=,

=You're aware it has to kiss you now, right?= Brave asked.

=AH!= Lazer panicked, running from the monster =No! No! Don't follow that rule! For the love Ozpin's Coffee, don't!=

"Is it wrong to feel vindication from his freak out?" Weiss asked, keeping a hand over her mouth to try to hide her amused smile, as Yang and Nora were holding each other in their laughter.

"What a freaky experience…" Blake noted bluntly, "I never in all my life...would have expected to see four Chibi Armored heroes fight a Tire Monster."

"I never in all my life would have expected that sentence to be spoken," Ruby blinked twice.

=Brave, you and Ex-Aid pincer attack it. Lazer...keep trying not to die= Snipe ordered in a very bored tone at the end.

=Right!= Ex-Aid and Brave agreed.

=Why does no one care for Bike Guy?!= Lazer complained, running as best as his stubby legs could.

=Ready...Attack!= Snipe ordered as he aimed and shot the eye, making the monster stop.

As it did, Lazer turned around and aimed with his right handed tonfa and began unleashing a machine gun barrage of energy bullets, keeping the monster in place. Ex-Aid and Brave ran at the beast before splitting up. Ex-Aid held his hammer above his head before he began rolling forward, turning into a pink and white ball. Brave held his sword out before he began spinning like a top as he was covered in fire. Both Riders tackled into the monster, causing a large explosion as most of the tire part of the monster was destroyed. The central eye section flew into the air, looking around before blinking at Snipe.

=Time to end it= he spoke, jumping into the air before he spun around covered in energy that formed the shape of a bullet, he then shot forward like an actual bullet and hit the final part of the monster, annihilating it.

"He...became...the bullet?" Blake blinked.

"Oh my gosh...that was so COOL!" Ruby squeed, seeing that attack.

"Professor!" Snipe called out, grabbing Peter in his arms as he rolled to the ground safely.

"He's okay!" Ex-Aid excitedly spoke, running up to them. "Is he okay?" he double checked incase he jumped that gun.

"Pfft….ahhhhh!" Port took a deep breath, "That has got to be the second worse event in my life."

"Oh thank god he's oka...wait...second?" Lazer asked.

"My boys...some memories are better left in the past. Trust this wise elder gentlemen's advice." he quickly spoke.

"Uh...oookay," Brave nodded before clapping his hands together, "So...Where's the second form?"

"Give it a second…" Snipe held his hand up as they all turned around to see all the orange had collected into a humanoid shape.

Standing there was a tall golden armored figure who looked like he turned a biker suit and bike parts into body armor; save for his right hand, which was like Graphite's and covered in blue spikes that contradicted his overall design. The Bugster tapped his flat tortoise-like head, two exhaust pipes poked from the back of his shoulder like mufflers as smoke puffed from them.

"YO! Motors in the house!" he cheered in a stereotypical wannabe tough biker voice.

"..." the other Riders looked at Lazer.

"What?" he asked.

"He's your bugster isn't he?" Brave asked.

"What...well...yeah, I can see it." Lazer sighed.

"Come on, my cherry ride!" Motors called out as a mass of bugster virus formed into a motorcycle with a virus grunts head acting as the headlight.

"..." everyone looked at Snipe.

"...What?"

"As I told Yang yesterday...You. Invoked. Murphy," Lazer deadpanned.

"Excuse you?" Snipe blinked.

"How was I supposed to know he caught a dragon?!" Yang barked, her hair starting to ignite.

"Yang...are…"

"Not now!" Yang snapped, making Ruby jump into Nora's arms.

"Sorry!" Ruby cried in fear of her elder sister.

"...You think we can roast marshmallows over her hair if we get her angry enough?" Nora asked.

"But...what if you overcook it and it falls into her hair?" Ren pointed out.

"Oh that's easy! I just have to be faster than anyone else," Nora beamed.

"That's surprisingly cold…" the others bluntly muttered due to the irony of the hypothetical situation.

"Yeehaw!" Motors whooped as he jumped onto his vehicle ally and revved the motor.

"So what's the new plan?" Brave gulped.

"Emu and I can handle this one!" Lazer spoke as he held both Tonfa in one hand.

"Hmm...Four on two, eh? Let's flip the script!" Motors laughed as more Bugster virus appeared to make an entire biker gang of grunts.

"Okay this is just cruel."

"Go for the Pink one! He's the one who made this virtual space we're trapped in." Motors ordered to his goons who all revved their bikes, "YAHOO! I am one with the wind!" Motors cried as they encircled them.

"This is bad...this field helps them." Snipe spoke as the riders stood back to back.

"Big open area with lots of flat road to ride over…" Brave muttered, "Yeah...advantage them."

"Then let's take that away." Ex-Aid spoke.

"I like the way you think partner!" Lazer spoke, "2nd Gear!"

"Dai~HENSHIN!"

"Dai-Ni Senjutsu."

"Oh come on! You all even have catchphrases for leveling up?!" Brave complained, "Not now, Achievements!" he groaned before grabbing the lever, "Um...Second Quest?"

=LEVEL UP=

=BANG BANG SHOOTING GO/BAKUSOU BIKE/TADDLE~QUEST/MIGHTY-MIGHTY ACTION...X!=

Snipe and Braved landed on their feet while Lazer landed between them, his engine revving as Ex-Aid landed sitting on the Bike formed Kamen Rider. Ex-Aid revved the handles as the biker gang of Bugsters surrounded them.

"We'll clear this game with No Continues!" Ex-Aid shouted, holding up his Gashacon Breaker sword mode.

"Ex-Aid, what's the plan?" Snipe asked as he helped Port up.

"Lets see who's control of a bike is greater them...or us!" Ex-Aid shouted.

"I like the way you think, Emu!" Lazer shouted as Ex-Aid pressed on his Stage Select button.

The Bugsters blinked as the field changed. They all found themselves in an indoor skatepark. Several of the grunts ended up driving into a halfpipe and crashing, causing small explosions, while others overshot ramps, sending them flying off their mounts.

"A skate park?" Brave asked.

"It's the unlockable RADICAL Difficulty Level from Bakusou Bike." Lazer explained, "If you can't control your ride then these ramps, halfpipes, and rails will slaughter you."

"Let's Ride!" Ex-Aid shouted, driving off with Lazer.

The two rode across the map as they jumped the half pipes and went up ramps with controlled speed. The two stopped at the top of a ramp before turning around. Ex-Aid rode down the ramp as he slashed at a Bugster biker sending him flying off his bike. The Riders made their way to the other end of the area before riding up the wall and turning around as two of the Bugsters failed to perform the same trick and crashed into a wall. Ex-Aid ran forward before turning and pulling the brakes sending him and Lazer skidding across the ground as they tripped the duo of grunts who tried to crash into him while popped up on their rear wheels. Ex-Aid and Lazer skid across the ground before Ex-Aid slammed his hammer into the ground lifting them back up right.

Snipe got on one knee next to Port as he aimed around while shooting from his Magnum pistol mode, shooting out the tires of the Biker gang grunts. Brave swung around, slashing one of the grunts and sending him flying away, before he turned around and jammed his sword into the spokes of a bike, sending it and its rider flipping through the air and crashing into a wall. Snipe aimed and shot the tire off a bike sending it and its rider flipping into the air, as the Bugster grunt came down, Brave slashed it. Brave grunted, catching it on his sword before he spun around in a circle, building up momentum along with heat on his sword before he tossed the Bugster back into its bike, making both explode as the words 'GREAT' appeared in the air.

"Damn you!" Motors growed as he rode down a ramp aiming at Brave, "I'll run you down and leave you in my rearview!" he shouted as his bike lifted up on its rear tire as the front tire kept spinning while covered in razor blades of energy.

"Not gonna happen!" Ex-Aid shouted as Lazer slammed his front wheel into Motors Bike, Lazer's power overtaking Motors' own bike.

"What? That's impossible...no machine is stronger then mine…" he grunted.

"I'm not ordinary run of the mill Bike." Lazer spoke, "Good luck getting that puny thing to overpower me."

"PUNY?!" Motors snapped.

"Lets go! Bike Duel, you and me Motors!" Ex-Aid taunted.

"I'll run you off my road you wannabe Anime Main character!" Motors shouted as the two charged at one another.

Both passed each other before turning around to aim at one another again. As if it were some game of chicken, both just kept accelerating towards one another as adrenaline and speed seemed to slow their perception of time. Both neared one another as Ex-Aid held up his sword at the same time Motors summoned an exhaust pipe as his weapon. Both passed one another while swinging their weapons, causing a burst of sparks upon their weapons clashing. The two riders skidded to a halt before glaring at one another. They turned their bikes around and charged once more. Both then took a sudden turn as they raced alongside one another. Both clashed weapons multiple times while crashing bikes into one another to try and knock the other over.

"Haha!" Motors laughed as he locked his arm around Ex-Aid's.

"What?"

"Got you know, Pink Boy!" he taunted before he looked down and clicked on Ex-Aid's stage selection button.

"What happened...it turned off?" Yang asked as the TV shut off suddenly.

"The Bugster did something to Emu's belt." Blake noted.

"Did he send them somewhere else?" Pyrrha asked.

"But...we followed them when Ex-Aid sent them to the skate park." Ren noted.

=STAGE SELECT!=

Everyone blinked as the two bikes suddenly appeared and crashed into the door, Ex-Aid crying in surprise as they drove down the hall.

"WE'RE BACK AT SCHOOL!? HOW!?"

"KUROTO, YOU IDIOT! YOU DIDN'T MAKE IT SO ONLY WE CAN WORK THAT?!" Lazer shouted.

Kuroto sneezed, hitting a key on his computer by mistake.

=Deleting current document= the computer stated.

"AH!" he screamed before fainting.

"Ugh…" Snipe groaned as he walked out the now broken door frame, "Glynda is gonna have my ass for this…"

"Uhm, guys...why did I teleport into the closet?" Brave asked as he walked out of it with a bucket stuck to his helmet and a plunger on his shield.

"Get back here!" Ex-Aid shouted, chasing Motros down the halls of Beacon.

"Yeehaw! I AM THE WIND!" he laughed turning a corner as Ex-Aid and Lazer continued following him.

"This is insane...How do we get him out of here so we can kill him?" Lazer asked as they drove up the stairs.

"More importantly...before Ozpin finds out and gives us detention…" Ex-Aid muttered.

"It's strange how we fear that more than a monster," Lazer pointed out, "But damn if I don't ever want to do that again!"

"Aw geeze…" Brave sighed before looking at Blake's Gamboul Shroud before noticing Ruby glancing at it as well, "...Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Yep!" Ruby beamed before the two racers shot by, "Hey, you guys! Get that Bugster to come by here again!"

"Got it!" Ex-Aid shouted, turning the corner.

"We're trusting you!" Lazer shouted as they continued chasing Motors.

"Move it, stupid humans!" Motors shouted, pushing Cardin into his locker as he passed him by.

Ex-Aid and Lazer skidded to a halt before their eyes emote their malicious intent. Ex-Aid slammed the locker closed before typing in some numbers and sending it flying off. Both Riders laughed evilly as it flew away. They then shot off again.

"Emu, the Trophies!" Lazer shouted as trophy podiums lined the halls, "These are my Energy Item containers, so break them!"

"Got it!" Ex-Aid nodded as he pulled out his hammer and smashed multiple trophies until a pair yellow energy item flew into both of them.

=KOSOKU-KA!=

The two shot off as a burst of yellow light. Motors laughed before blinking as Ex-Aid and Lazer ran past him. The bugster shook his head as his eyes...well...bugged out of his head as the two taunted him.

"Later, Slow-poke!" Ex-Aid shouted.

"Enjoy looking at our asses!" Lazer laughed.

"Why you…" Motors snarled before noticing they were outside the cafeteria, "...Idea~"

"Is he taking the bait?" Lazer asked.

"I don't...Where did he go?" Ex-Aid blinked, slowing down, "Did we go too fast?"

"...Oh yeah…" Ex-Aid looked down at Lazer, "Remember what my game's about? Bakusou Bike is a racing game…" the doors to the cafeteria slammed into their faces as Motors cackled, driving out with a meatball sub in his mouth, "...where...there...are no...rules…"

"Ugh…" Ex-Aid groaned, his head stuck in the door, "Ah man~" he complained, realizing they already broke stuff.

"KISS MY ASS, YA SLOW-MOS!" Motors cackled between bites of his sub, "Oh! This is good!"

"I'm stuck…" Ex-Aid groaned pulling himself free after a considerable push, but a good chunk of door still stuck around his neck, "Oh come on!"

"I got an idea too…" Lazer spoke up, "Hang on a sec." he ordered as they drove off.

"Kiriya...Kiriya?!"

Motors blinked and turned around, expecting them to come after him but so far nothing. He scratched his head before screaming as he heard something land on the headlight of his bike.

"Boo!" Ex-Aid spoke as he flipped over Motors and wrapped his arms under his, keeping him from steering his bike properly.

"GAH! Where did you come from?!" Motors freaked.

"Hello~" two voices spoke from right next to him.

"Nice driving, Yang." Lazer laughed as Yang was driving this time.

"I know right? And you said I couldn't drive a bike through school that fast." Yang smirked.

"That's not fair! You can't just change drivers!" Motors shouted.

"Bakusou Bike has no rules," Lazer reminded.

"...Son of a Grimm, I hate it when that gets turned on me," Motors grumbled.

"Emu, take the next left!" Yang ordered, going to the right.

"Got it!" Ex-Aid said as he used one of his hands to turn the bike to the left and down a hall, "Bye-bye!" he said, jumping off and leaving Motors confused as he turned around to shake his fist and make rude gestures at him.

"You little brat! I'll…"

"Now, guys, now!" Ruby shouted quickly.

"What?" Motors turned to look ahead just in time to see Blake and Nora pulled Gamboul Shroud's ribbon tight until it was even with his height, "Oh you gotta be kidding…" he hit the line and was sent off his bike and out the window, "MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

"Professor!" Brave called as he pulled out his Gashat while he and Snipe looked up at the falling Motors.

"Target...Lock." Snipe said, doing the same with his Gashat.

Both Riders loaded their Gashats into their weapons as Motors screamed like a child while falling.

=GASHATO! Kimiwaza! TADDLE/BANG BANG CRITICAL FINISH!=

"Ha!" Brave shouted, swinging his sword and sending a wave of fire.

"Bang…" Snipe aimed his rifle as he fired a powerful beam that hit the wave of fire, igniting it blue as it hit Motors, causing a large explosion and sending him higher into the air, "Lazer...it's up to you!"

"Now Yang!" Lazer shouted as she slotted the Gashat into his finisher slot.

=BAKUSO CRITICAL STRIKE!=

Yang and Lazer jumped the roof as Lazer's tail pipe began unleashing a stream of fire and energy that bombarded Motors. The Bugster cried in pain as he was sent flying away.

=GAME CLEAR!=

"It's the end of the line for me!" Motors screamed as he exploded in the distance.

"Wow...that was oddly fulfilling," Yang smiled as Lazer's eyes followed something falling from the smoke, "Huh...whoa! Kiriya?!" she shouted as he drove off, leaving the others behind.

"Kiriya?" Ex-Aid asked as the others saw him leave and take Yang along with him, "What…?"

"Where are they going?" Ruby blinked.

"You think he's taking her off to have his way with her?" Nora asked, causing Pyrrha and Weiss to gawk at her.

"Stop it." Ren spoke up, quickly bonking her on the head.

"Huh? Have his way with her? What are you guys talking about?" Ruby tilted her head.

"We can't reply since your father didn't sign your slip," Snipe replied.

"Dang it Dad!"

"I'm going after them." Ex-Aid spoke as he super jumped away.

"Yang's my partner. I might as well go save her...or scold her depending on what we find." Blake spoke before running off.

"Kiriya...where are you taking me?" Yang asked as the two stopped, having made it to the bottom of the cliff side on the beach.

"That." Lazer spoke as she saw Motors' charred body, his eyes empty of light.

"Uh...don't they blow up?"

"If you put in the normal amount of force...yes." Lazer spoke, reverting to level one as he walked over, "But...if you do it just right...you can keep the body around and clear the game. You just have to have the matching game Gashat." he explained, "And from there...you can collect samples."

"Samples?" Yang blinked, "...Wait a second...Kiriya, are you going to um...er...shoot, what's the opposite of dissect again? When they're alive and all that?"

"Vivisect." he explained, "It's how you study a virus...a live sample." he added as he reached behind his back and pulled an empty Gashat out, "And I've already got the perfect tool to collect a sample." he said as he held it upside down before he stabbed it into Motors' back, making him twitch for a moment, the Gashat began glowing as it turned yellow and the sticker remained blank as the data card sucked in Motors' energy and data, "Living Sample obtained." he smirked before taking the Gashat back, "Thank you for progressing science, Motorhead." he laughed, holding the Gashat.

"So you're going to study that and try to make a vaccine?" Yang asked.

"Of sorts. It's just one strain, but with this I can make the basic designs for A vaccine." he explained as he hid the Gashat in his armor, "But...I can't say more than that, don't want to jinx a good thing ya know."

"...This is about the dragon, isn't it?"

"Murphy's. Law." he countered.

"I'm just saying I won't judge you if this is about the Dragon." she held up her hands.

"Kiriya/Yang!" Both tensed at the voice of their partners catching up.

"Wow...you guys caught up fast." Lazer laughed awkwardly.

"Aw poo. And I was hoping they'd stay with the others," Yang pouted as she kept her back to them, imitating she was putting her shirt back on.

"Ah!" Ex-Aid panicked, covering his eyes, "I saw nothing, I swear!"

"Emu, she's lying," Blake pointed out.

"I can never tell with her…" he admitted/sobbed into his hands, his helmet's eyes emoting them being shut and welled up with tears and a blush.

"There there…" she smiled patting his shoulder, "Also...what...is that thing still doing alive?!" she pointed at Motors' body as it twitched.

"EH? Motors?!" Ex-Aid shouted, getting over his little emotional turmoil, all while pulling out his sword, "How...we got a Game Clear!"

"Guess he put the no rules from the game into making sure he wouldn't die from that," Lazer replied.

"So that's what you two were doing...making sure what you saw was this?" Blake guessed as she and Ex-Aid walked over to the Bugster.

"Yes…" Lazer spoke after a moment of pause, "Yes we did. Ain't that right, Yang? Just making sure we double tapped him!" he said, holding his gun tonfa up for emphasis.

"You got that right," Yang nodded, banding her Ember Celica together.

"It's so weird seeing one upclose that isn't trying to kill me," Ex-Aid spoke, poking Motors with his sword, "It's like he's brain dead…"

"He could be. He got hit by three finishers in a row with two being a combined attack," Lazer replied, "Add in the fall…"

"It might be useful to...take him to Mr Dan." Blake offered, "He's a live sample to study."

"That's a good idea." Ex-Aid nodded, reaching for the back of his belt to get his scroll.

=CHU DON!=

Suddenly, two beams of energy hit Motors' body, causing a large explosion.

"Emu/Blake!" Lazer and Yang shouted.

The sand was parted as Ex-Aid lowered his arm, having protected them both from the explosion. Both held their swords up as someone walked in from around the corner of the cliff. Everyone blinked as standing there was….a Black Ex-Aid. What was pink was pitch black as night, the stripes on his suit were purple instead along with purple shoulder armor. His eyes were made up of two white pupils and multiple red glowing rings. He walked forward in a strutting confident stride as he lowered a Bugvisor, its barrels smoking from being freshly fired.

=MIGH~TY ACTIO~N X!= came from his belt as he stood before them fully.

"Another Ex-Aid?" Blake raised a brow.

"We share the same armor…" Ex-Aid spoke as he stood up to face his doppleganger, "It's like a Mirror Match."

"Hmph…" He spoke in an altered electronic voice that could either be male or female. He reached to his side before he pulled out a green Gashat. He showed it off before clicking it.

=SHAKARIKI SPORTS!=

"A second Gashat?" Ex-Aid blinked as the Black Ex-Aid loaded it into the second slot on his Driver before closing the lever and opening it.

=Gachan! Level up! Mighty Jump! Mighty Kick! Migh~ty Actio~n X! A Gacha! Shakariki! Shakariki! Bad Bad! Shaka to Riki to Shakariki Sports!=

At that, a neon pink and green pedal bike flew out of a green screen before racing around him. It flipped around before it folded into chest armor as a helmet formed above it. The chest armor docked over his torso as the two tires formed into shoulder flap. The neon pink and green helmet locked in place above the Black Ex-Aid's goggles like a crown.

"What…" Ex-Aid gasped.

"Level 3…" Black Ex-Aid spoke as he yanked the pike tire off his right shoulder.

=SHAKARIKI CRITICAL STRIKE!=

The tire was covered in bladed energy before Black Ex-Aid tossed it. It crashed into Ex-Aid, causing an explosion as he was sent flying away and across the ground. His Rider gauge dropped to 30 percent before his armor shut off on its own. Emu gasped for air as a gash formed in his clothing and his aura faded away.

"Emu!" Yang gasped before glaring at the Black Ex-Aid, her eyes turning red, "Okay, you jerk! No one does that to one of my buddies!"

"Hmph...I expected more from the Genius M. Here I thought the Rider with the greatest potential...would be stronger." Black Ex-Aid taunted Emu, "Maybe he's just too...Human." he sighed before turning around.

"Hey!" Lazer called out only for the tire to swing around and hit him, knocking him out of his armor, "Punk ass...biiiiiiiiitch…" he coughed in pain.

"Kiriya?!" Yang gasped surprised again.

"Emu, are you okay?" Blake asked, helping him sit up.

"Ah...that hurt a lot… That's the power of Level 3?" Emu grunted, holding the long streaking bruise left across his chest, "It took out my armor and aura in one blow…"

"Get back here!" Yang barked as she charged at the Black Ex-Aid, her hair lit up in flames while cocking a fist back.

The Black Ex-Aid sighed as he turned around and slapped her punch away as it caused a large hole in the cliff wall beside them. Yang blinked as she turned around to punch again only for Black Ex-Aid to grab her by her shoulders. He then began walking as he pushed Yang through the sand until she was trapped from the waist down.

"What the heck?!" Yang gasped trying to pusher herself up and free.

"I'll see you again, Emu Hojo." He spoke to Emu, "Try not to disappoint me next time." he said as he left in a blur of purple and black wind.

"Ack! Ptui! Pffft!" Yang spat out some sand that slammed into her face from his leave, "Ugh! What was with that jerk?!"

"I don't know...I didn't even think there was a fifth Gamer Driver." Emu grunted as Blake helped him stand.

"Ugh...Yang...you okay?" Kiriya grunted, not even trying to get up, "Punch the ground once for yes, twice for no." the ground shook once as everyone who was standing stumbled for a bit, "She's okay!"

"Can someone help me out please? ...I'm stuck." Yang muttered, crossing her arms.

"Blake, can you clap for me?" Kiriya groaned, "I would...but my body hurts too much."

"Emu can stand just fine and he got the worse hit…" Blake pointed out.

"I'm not that strong...bleh…" he said, pretending to pass out.

"..." Yang looked around, "Blake, can you find me a seashell? One with a pointy top?"

Blake sighed, 'My partner for four years…' Emu despite his pain patted her shoulder, fully understanding her pain.

"A...Black Ex-Aid?" Taiga blinked as they returned, Emu laying back on a bed with his chest bandaged up to help his wounds heal safely, "No, I've never heard of one." he shook his head.

"So...what? He's...new?" Yang asked.

"Relatively…" Taiga muttered.

"What's that mean?" Ruby asked, eying their teacher in suspicion.

"I mean the person might be a new element, but I think they are using a Proto Gashat." Taiga explained with a nod to himself.

"What's that?" they all blinked.

"First generation Gashats. They work the same as the normal ones, however they are just that...prototypes. Using them gives great power...but they lack safety measures. The stress is too much for any normal human or Faunus to handle...without dying from exhaustion...or going totally insane." he explained, reaching for his desk and pulling out a box before punching in a complicated code as it opened to reveal a black version of his Bang Bang Shooting Gashat inside, "If you're lucky...you'll end up half as messed up as I am."

"You got that white hair from using that on your first mission as Snipe," Ren realized.

"Not exactly." Taiga spoke, "That's a story for another day, but let's just say I'm lucky. Just turning this thing on could kill a weaker person." he explained, putting it back as the case locked itself with a few beeps before it vacuum sealed itself for added measure, "But regardless...that Black Ex-Aid is using one. The Proto Mighty Action X, clearly. But this is bad as he's clearly on the side of the Bugsters."

"And a bicycle enthusiast going by that other Gashat," Yang noted.

"Other Gashat?"

"He put another Gashat into his Game Driver and it summoned a bike that became armor that let him beat them both with one hit," Yang explained.

"Level 3…" Taiga spoke.

"Wait...we have a Level 3?" Jaune blinked.

"Why do you think we got two slots?" Kiriya asked from another bed, "It's not so you can't mess up putting it in the belt that's for sure."

"Level 3 are the next step in the Gamer Driver's system." Emu spoke, "Mr. Dan is currently working on them now...but how did this guy...?" he was stopped by the Riders scrolls all ringing suddenly.

=Riders! Bad News, the Level 3 Gashats have been stolen!= Kuroto spoke as Jaune was the one who answered =Oh good! You're all in one location...anyway...The Level 3 Gashats have all been stolen!= he panicked.

"...Asked...and answered," Weiss sighed.

"Whoa! Whoa! Back on up, Uncle Dan! What happened and how?" Yang blinked.

=Well as I was working, an alarm went off and suddenly my security caught sight of a strange man making off with the five level 3 Gashats: Shakariki Sports, Gekitotsu Robots, DoReMiFa Beat, Girigiri Chanbara, and Jet Combat=

"Well...we found Shakariki Sports…" Kiriya replied, "It left a skid mark on Emu's chest and gave me a concussion."

=So...they have already begun using them...this is not good...this is bad...Very Very Bad!=

"Yeah, no Duh!" Kiriya snapped, tossing a pillow at Jaune's scroll.

"Look, Kuroto, we'll handle it. You...deal with Ozpin and a certain other individual who won't be happy to hear that." Taiga spoke.

=No wait! Taiga, don't make me tell James alone!= Kuroto begged.

"We're getting a bad signal, whatcha say?" Taiga asked before he turned the scroll off and threw it out of a window, hitting a raven flying by.

"Birdie no!" Ruby cried.

"Aw man...I really hope I can find it before Professor Goodwitch finds out," Jaune gulped.

"Who threw their Scroll?" a cold voice called outside.

"..." Kiriya chuckled as Jaune let out a whimper, "Murphy...I love ya right now."

"Gets some rest, Dumber and Ex-Aid, you've earned it." Taiga sighed, "Rest of you, take the rest of the day. I'll handle it with Ozpin."

"Ack!" Jaune yelped as the front of his shirt was grabbed by something and pulled out the window.

"...Um...What about Professor Goodwitch?" Nora raised a hand.

"I'm already dealing with explaining...that!" he pointed to the messed up halls, "You guys can handle hiding in your rooms and resting. Don't push your luck."

"Professor Hanaya, help me!" Jaune pleaded outside.

"..." Kiriya closed the window and quickly went off to see Ozpin.

"Traitor!"

"Sorry, but I'd rather live!"

"HELP~!"

SZ: Ahh...poor Jaune.

Z0: We all knew this would happen when he accepted being Brave.

GT: Eeyup. But now we've got a mystery on our hands. There's a new Rider...a Dark Rider at that. And he's most likely stolen the Gashats for LV3.

Z0: He must have a lot of dangerous tools on him then, how will these heros deal with him.

GT: No idea. The preview, on the other hand…

Z0: Right-O!

Kuroto: This is the man who stole the Level 3 Gashats.

Taiga: That's the guy who infected Professor Port.

Emu: New Bugsters?

Kuroto: Yes...it would appear that the virus has taken in data of different games in the past years…

Weiss: You stupid overgrown turtle! I'm not a princess!

Ex-Aid: Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! OH MY GOSH!

Lazer: We are not going go-karting with him. You hear me?

Brave: I wonder if Ren knows a good recipe that uses freezer-burnt or roasted turtle-dragons in it.

Chapter 5: The Battles Level up!

Ex-Aid: OH MY GOSH! It's actually him! Bowser!

Weiss: For the last time, I AM NOT A PRINCESS!

GT: Yep...We are going there.

Z0: Oh my God...Oh my God *joins Emu in the fan freak out corner*

SZ: Oh yeah. Time to bring the OC Bugsters!

Z0: OC as in in terms of Bugsters they are new and not part of Ex-Aid's cannon. But let's face it if Toei had the OK they would have done more stuff like this. I mean they had Ex-Aid fight Pac Man of all characters...so clearly other games are capable of turning into bugsters. But you get the point we're gonna take the fight game villains concept and crank it all the way up to freakin' 11!

SZ: YEAH~~!

GT: So until we get to the next chapter, we hope everyone Reads and Reviews this chapter! We love reviews!

Z0: Indeed we do and we've been getting some good ones. So thank you. But anyway we feel that's all the times we have for this chapter folks.

SZ: So until next time, we are Team X-Over signing off. Ja ne.