Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Grimm Eclipse!

by Kamen Rider ZER0

Start a New Game! The ultimate Gamer Rider becomes the Ultimate Huntsmen Rider! The Ultimate team of Huntress' face the ultimate pandemic to life the Bugsters! Together these two forces fight to change the fate of the world with no continues. Let the battle for Remnant begin, GAME START!

5. The Battles Level up!

Z0: Ah time for another chapter of Ex-Aid. Who's ready to bring in real game bosses as enemies?

GT: I don't mind. Only question is: Do we only allow bosses from games that started as games or do we also include ones based off other sources like anime, manga, reality TV, or cartoons?

SZ:...That's a good question. Because most games these days are based off something from manga, tv, cartoons, and/or anime.

Z0: Hm...good point...but then again in the case with Pac Man...Pac Man took on his cartoon appearance before becoming his atypical ball form...so...I guess everything is fair game. Not to mention that's all based on how much of our media we want to make canon as well Media to the RWBY world. Hm...let's make that a to talk about as we go topic.

SZ: Good idea.

Z0: Yeah Remnant is NOT Earth, but they have things like our books, since Blake was reading the classic novella 'Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'. So we can just as easily say other forms of our media exists there.

GT: True. But that can be discussed outside of writing this chapter. Now do we have to do a disclaimer or can we get on with the fun stuff?

Z0: Onto the fun stuff!

GT: WHOO! *pulls out a sign and hangs it on the curtains before fleeing for the hills*

Sign reads 'Spaghetti sucks and doesn't love ya.'

SZ: 0-0….*runs for it*

SMG4 Mario: *breaks a wall down, roaring before attacking the curtains*

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(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!

(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!

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"Mwahahaha!" a Bugster with blue and white body armor with a snail-themed head laughed as he fixed his top hat. He swung a cape as he dodged a punch from Ex-Aid level 2, "You're attempts are cute Ex-Aid!"

"Ugh...Salty! This is like the third time I've fought you…this month" Ex-Aid groaned as the two battled atop a building during the dead of night.

"Hey, hey, hey~ The people like the game I'm from! You shouldn't be shocked!" Salty shook a fist.

"Why can't there other bosses from the game I could fight…?" Ex-Aid muttered as he blocked an electrified punch before kicking Salty away, "I've faced a boss from at least every game the Gashats are based on, before and after getting into Beacon." he went on, "And they're always the same ones I fought before."

"Why are you complaining like this is some old tired relationship?!" Salty complained.

"I'm 18 and kicking your butt. What's your excuse, Mister Final Boss?"

"Duh! I am the Final Boss of the game! Strongest there is!"

"Actually...you were fairly easy compared to world 7's boss."

"WHAT?! I AM THE TOUGHEST BOSS, DAMMIT!"

"And I beat you with this," Ex-Aid said, inserting his Gashat into his Finisher Slot.

=Kimiwaza! Mighty Critical Strike!=

"Wait, what?" Salty blinked before seeing the glowing foot aimed at him, "Ah spilled salt shakers..."

"HA!" Ex-Aid shouted, landing his kick, before he bounced off and came back for a bicycle kick, which then spun into a flying roundhouse kick...before he spun and landed another kick.

=Kaishin no Ippatsu!=

"THAT WAS OVERKILL!" Salty cried as he exploded as Ex-Aid landed in a crouch on the ground.

"That must have left him feeling...salty!" Ex-Aid smiled to himself, "...No one's here and even I know that was bad."

---

Yang snorted awake, sitting up in her bed, "Someone just told a pun and I wasn't there to enjoy it."

Ruby's pillow smacked into Yang's face as the younger sister mumbled, "Go back to sleep…"

"I'll be there next time!" she shouted.

"YANG!" the other three girls shouted, throwing their pillows at her.

"Jokes on you! Now all the pillows are mine!" Yang smiled.

---

"I get the feeling I just made things troublesome for three of my friends," Ex-Aid noted as he began building jumping; while teleporting was cool, it was always disorenting for him when he wasn't in the zone. So at times Emu would use his superior leg and jumping powers to traverse the city like some kind of atypical comic book hero, "And probably not gonna have another Bugster to deal with for a while. And still no sign of the missing Gashats or my doppelganger." he grunted landing on another building wall before jumping down to another rooftop, "Oh great, now I'm brooding...I'm like one supervillain watching me away from living like a legit superhero."

"Now that's rude...I'm not a supervillain." Parad spoke, watching over Ex-Aid from a skyscraper.

"I feel almost flattered," the Black Ex-Aid spoke, "He is progressing well, but I feel he made a point. It feels...boring using just a limited number of Bugsters."

"And I agree with him on the fact that World 7's boss is way harder than the final boss."

"..." the Black Ex-Aid raised his unusual weapon at the back of Parad's head before shaking and lowering it.

"But I mean it's not like there are...There are other Bugsters, aren't there?"

"Tons." he replied.

"Well, how have we not seen them then?"

"They didn't seem of use to me. I didn't need them, so I locked them away within my Bugvisor. But...I suppose I could trade Bugvisors with you and Graphite for...a favor."

"I am not winning a gaming championship for you to give you the prize money."

"That was Roman and you know it…"

"How can I tell...I never listen to you or Miss Burn-It-All anyway." Parad replied with a shrug.

"Do you want the power of pop culture or not?" Black Ex-Aid blankly asked.

"Hm? Pop Culture?" Parad raised a brow before the Black Ex-Aid showed the list of locked Bugsters, "...Okay, so how many championships should I beat?"

"None...and next time that orange headed knucklehead tells you I ordered that...blow up half his supply of stolen goods."

"Graphite does that anyway."

"I need new data. Once one of these loses, suck them back in and press the A button. That will send me all the collected data on the battle." he explained.

"That's it?"

"So...you don't want them?"

"No, no. I do."

"Then get me the data I need."

"Alrighty!" he smiled, taking the Bugvisor.

"One more thing," Black Ex-Aid spoke as he pulled out four Gashats, "See if you can find a way to hand these out to the test players." he explained, handing them over to Parad, "With these, we can test their progress and further gain more data. But don't make it easy. Otherwise, the tests are pointless."

"Got it, got it. Give 'em power ups, test them with fight after fight. Bring the noise!" he cheered, scrolling through names on the Bugvisor, "Ooh...so many new friends...hehehe...This is like nerd heaven~!"

---

"Aw...It was just Salty again?" Ruby whined as the three teams were at a table for breakfast, "Why can't the Bugsters change things? Like having the World 7 boss? She's awesome and harder than Salty."

"Maybe Budget issues when the virus was made?" Nora suggested between multiple layers of pancake shoved into her mouth.

"Don't talk with your mouth full, Nora," Ren sighed, taking a sip of a green smoothie.

"Well I suppose it makes it easy." Emu spoke, taking a sip of morning coffee, "I mean, at least I've faced the Bugsters from almost all the Gashats. Salty, Revol, Motors, Aranbura, Kaiden, Vernier, Gatton...and that's about it." he muttered.

"Wait...when where those last three?!" Ruby asked.

"Before I came to Beacon," Emu revealed.

"Oh yeah...You already had your Gamer Driver before coming to Beacon," Jaune recalled, "So, wait...it's just only those guys as Bugsters?"

"So far, yes." Emu nodded, "From what I can tell, the Boss for DoReMiFa Beat isn't really villainous, so they haven't manifested; and Shakariki Sports hasn't manifested yet due to being the last of the games."

"Who's the boss of DoReMiFa Beat? And, well, what is that game?" Pyrrha asked.

"DoReMiFa Beat's a dancing game. You don't use a normal controller but a mat that you stand on to follow the beat of the songs in a list," Jaune explained before Emu could say anything, "The only character that could be considered a 'boss' is Poppy Popipipao, who is actually the tutorial trainer for one player and two player games."

"Poppy Popa...Popop…" Ruby tried to repeat the name.

"When she introduces herself, she tell the player that if you can't pronounce her last name, you can just call her Poppy for short," Jaune replied.

"...How did you…?" Kiriya began.

"I live with seven sisters who love playing the game and often pull me into playing it," Jaune replied, "It's a good game."

"Huh... For once, we get game info from someone other than Emu," Yang noted.

"I feel like I was too slow on the draw," Emu chuckled, "But that is the gist of the game. It's become easier to play at home with the advent of motion trackers, but people prefer the stepping pads...more accurate."

"Three of my sisters prefer the motion trackers since those, as they put it, are a better challenge," Jaune shrugged, "I personally don't mind either way."

"So that explains that game then." Blake spoke.

"Then what about the last game?" Pyrrha asked.

"Shakariki Sports is an Xtreme sports game, skateboarding, rollerblading, but mainly BMX bikes ar the means of transportation. The game has a sort of story and a bully boss character Charlie...but hard pressed to see how that translates to a monster." Emu explained, his hand reflexively moving to his chest where he was struck by the Black Ex-Aid.

"I call dibs on breaking Charlie's legs when he becomes a Bugster~!" Nora declared after swallowing her latest mouthful.

"Nora...please...no talking while eating," Ren groaned.

"You know... thinking of it that way, it's not a lot of monsters to look forward to," Ruby spoke, "I'm more excited for the chance to see this Black copy of Emu's armor."

"Ugh...that guy." Yang groaned as Blake was the only one to notice Emu's hand grip his shirt.

"It's odd for him to choose to use the Prototype Ex-Aid armor. He must have done so for some reason." Ren spoke, "Possibly to spite Emu."

"It does seem odd to steal the more dangerous version, considering what Professor Hanaya warned us of the consequences." Pyrrha spoke.

"It's also a video game cliche for evil versions of your playable character to be a prototype version." Jaune added.

"So...he's being Meta...joy." Yang rolled her eyes.

"Hey. It could be worse," Kiriya shrugged, "He could be a clone of Emu who desires to replace him in every facet of life."

"..." Everyone turned to Kiriya before tossing their leftovers at him.

"Hey! Hey!" Kiriya complained before Nora tossed Ren's smoothie in his face, "Pft…" he spit whatever landed in his mouth out, "Ugh! What was in that, Ren?!"

"Lettuce, wheat grass, vanilla protein powder, raw spinach, cooked spinach…" Ren began to list.

"Aside from the protein powder, it's all super healthy icky stuff," Nora stuck her tongue out.

"It's not that bad," Emu noted.

"That's 'cause you like healthy junk!" Kiriya complained.

"My body is a temple." Ren and Emu joked in a zen monotone.

"Ugh...sugar...junk food...I need ten hamburgers in my body now!" Kiriya shouted, walking off.

"Hahaha…" everyone laughed.

"IT'S NOT FUNNY!"

"So what's the plan for today?" Yang changed the subject.

"Considering it's Saturday...wanna go down to Vale?" Ruby asked.

"I could use a day of fresh air." Weiss added.

"Sounds like fun." Blake replied in a monotone voice.

"Sure," Emu shrugged, "I heard Genm Corp's gonna reveal something involving retro games." he muttered, trying to recall.

"Uncle Kuroto is having a reveal?" Yang blinked as Ruby stiffened, "What did you do?"

"Wha!? Why do you think I had...okay he asked me to keep you away because last time you came to one of his public events, you punched a dude through the wall of his new building, and pushed construction back by a month." Ruby buckled quickly.

"Hey, hey, hey. He was the one who grabbed me," Yang defended.

"Security cameras from it say differently," Ruby deadpanned.

"Regardless...I know what we're doing today." Yang smiled mischievously.

"Oh no…" Ruby cried.

"Way to go, Emu…" Weiss groaned.

"I didn't know…" Emu replied before Ruby began shaking him.

"You did this!" she kept crying, "Jinx! You invoked Murphy! You tempted fate! You put the salt in place of the sugar!"

"What was that last one?" Blake raised a brow.

"Onwards to the event!" Yang declared.

"The ship to Vale doesn't come for another hour," Ren noted plainly.

"...To preparations for an hour and then onwards to the event!" Yang declared, a foot on the table and a finger in the air.

"Yang, you're stepping in my breakfast," Weiss's eye twitched.

"You can eat at the event!" Yang replied.

"I'm...gonna...get...brain...damage…" Emu shakily spoke as Weiss joined Ruby in throttling him.

"Should we stop them?" Pyrrha pondered.

"I think so," Jaune replied before flinching.

"What was that about?"

"Sorry. I think I've been practicing a little too much as Brave. Thought I was about to get another sidequest notification," Jaune admitted.

"Maybe we can use this trip to talk to Mr. Dan about fixing your support AI," Pyrrha offered.

"Yeah," Jaune nodded before seeing Emu was foaming at the mouth with swirls replacing his eyes, "Hoo boy. Uh...Ruby, the cooks are about to throw out yesterday's unsold cookies and strawberry parfaits."

"What!?" Ruby gasped, halting her shaking of Emu to grab Weiss, "I need your cold powers for the parfaits!"

"Wait, wha…" Weiss began before the two were gone with only a downed Emu and rose petals as any sign of them being there.

"Emu...are you okay?" Pyrrha asked, worried, as she knelt down to the Gamer.

Emu just rosed his hand in a thumbs up, "Blarg…" he groaned, passing out.

"At least it wasn't 'Herk, bleh,'" Jaune noted.

"You should know all about that one!" Yang teased.

"I thought we were done with that!" Jaune complained.

---

"Hm...so the brats are leaving for the day," Taiga noted from his desk in the medical office before the door was kicked open, "Ms. Adel...you know I hate it when you kick the door." he groaned, rubbing his eyes at the fact he'd need to fix another boot-shaped crack in the door tonight.

"Medical emergency," the kicker responded as they walked in.

The kicker was a young woman with fair skin, short dark-brown hair, and dark-brown eyes. She had wavy locks on one side of her face, dyed with a gradient that started in dark brown and transitions to caramel. Her attire was rather fashionable with a long, cocoa-colored shirt with a dark brown waist cincher, long, dark brown trousers with ribbons on the left side and a brown belt with bullets and another cocoa-colored belt of bullets with a gold crosshairs buckle above that with a drape of a black skirt on her right side.

"I'll be the judge of that…" Taiga sighed, standing up and putting his white coat on.

Two boys, one big wearing various shades of green and the other with dark skin and bright orange hair carried in Velvet. The rabbit Faunus was barely conscious, groaning in the bigger male's arms.

"What happened?" he demanded.

"When we woke up, she was perfectly fine," Ms. Adel explained, adjusting her sunglasses, "Velvet went to go turn in a book at the school's library and said she'd meet us at breakfast. When she didn't show up, we looked for her. Fox found her halfway in a bush like this."

"Put her down on the bed and stand back," Taiga ordered, taking out various tools.

"Yatsuhashi," Ms. Adel nodded.

The bigger boy nodded and gently placed her on the bed before moving back to the other two members of their team. Taiga walked up as he went through various scans of his hightech stethoscope, after several scans he blinked.

"No…" he shook, his head confused, "...tell me, before this morning, did she interact with anyone...odd?" he asked as he pulled out his scroll and read through a list of symptoms, "None of these match...what strain is it?" he muttered to himself.

"I heard her talking with someone about this event hosted by Genm Corp," Fox noted.

"Anything to note?" Taiga asked.

"The other's voice was...kinda growling underneath it all, almost like a dragon Grimm's growling," Fox replied.

'Right...Forgot he was blind…' Taiga mentally reminded himself, 'But still...good enough. It had to have been Graphite. This...must be a new strand of the virus. That's not good. I can't tell what effects it will have… That could stress her out further and push development faster. I need to think…'

"Why was she talking about an event by Genm Corp?" Yatsuhashi pondered.

"She told me she had gotten tickets to it and was going to ask this first year she met at lunch a few weeks back that she's been hanging around on the way to some classes she has without us to it," Fox replied.

"Hoh? Velvet's got a crush?" Ms. Adel's sunglasses gained a glint to them as she adopted a smirk.

"Hmm…" Taiga muttered, seeing the stress level suddenly rise, "That was odd…"

"Anything about him you can tell us?"

"From the one time I ran into the two together, he seemed...really excitable when games were brought up and Velvet seemed to stammer a little at random times when he smiled at her from how I heard the air move and the muscles in his mouth shift," Fox replied.

"Excitable...games...Hojo…" Taiga realized, having overheard them, "Even on a day off, he becomes a part of my days issues…"

"So a Gamer? Well, that's interesting. Didn't think our shy little bunny would be into someone excitable like that," Ms. Adel giggled.

"If it at all helps…" Taiga spoke, "He's second rank among the first years, losing only to Miss Niskos. He's also somewhat popular and is supported by Genm Corp, who gives him his weapons. But he's an utter...goof." he rose a brow as the stress level rose up again, 'Okay...what's going on here?'

"A goof? So he makes her laugh, too? Okay, I think I'm gonna have to meet his Hojo guy," Ms. Adel noted, "See just what he's about."

'WHY IS IT RISING SO FAST?!' Taiga's eye twitched madly at the stress levels going up faster, 'Calm yourself, Taiga...think...they are teenagers...think...wait…' he blinked as a lightbulb turned on in his brain.

"You're not going to do what you to the last guy you thought Velvet liked, are you, Coco?" Fox deadpanned.

"Oh come on. So he transferred all the way to Atlas. Not my fault he wasn't up to my standards for our Velvet," Ms. Adel huffed.

'Her best friend is also the cause of all her new stress!' Taiga mentally shouted.

Velvet let out another groan before crying out in pain on the bed, grabbing her chest.

"Velvet!" the trio of students exclaimed before Taiga fired a shot into the ceiling, making the three look at him.

"If you care at all about what happens to her, you will be silent from this moment on until she is better," Taiga ordered simply before hearing a scream and looked up at the hole he made in the ceiling, "Sorry, Peter."

"My biscuits!"

"He'll be fine…" Taiga replied, "Anyway...your friend is sick with a rare virus...under the right circumstances, it can be cured with minimal issues. But the key to time is stress. Lowering her stress level is key right now. If at all possible...try not to discuss things that stress her out…" he looked directly at Coco, "You know what I mean." he said in response to her look of shock and outrage.

"...Fine…" Coco sighed, "We'll be back to check on Velvet later, Doc." she grabbed the shoulders of the two boys and dragged them out, "Come on. Let's give Velvet a chance to destress."

"But…" Fox began.

"We are going to find the guy who probably did this to her," Coco whispered as silently as possible.

"Yes, please do!" Taiga responded, "I can read lips."

Coco flinched but didn't stop dragging them out. Once they were gone, Taiga shook his head before looking back at the infected student.

"...Come to think of it...She's actually the first Faunus that's been infected that I've encountered," Taiga admitted, "Could it be this is acting differently due to the animal genes in her?" he asked, "Hm...this is worth noting." he admitted, taking out his scroll and hitting record, "Taiga's notes: First Bugster infected Faunus." he began as he setup the scanner to keep a constant monitor on her, "Lets hope we can get some info out of this incident...so others don't have to suffer this badly."

---

"Wow. This is crowded." Yang spoke as the group of teenage Hunters found the event packed with people, from expert elder gamers to families here for a happy event involving games for their kids.

"Small issue before we can get in," Ren noted.

"What's that?" Ruby asked.

"Tickets," Weiss replied as the two sanest members of the two four-man teams pointed at the ticket booth reading 'SOLD OUT' on the glass.

"Sold out?!" Yang exclaimed, "Aw come on!"

"Well, too bad I guess," Ruby admitted, "Maybe we could check out some shops or…"

"Beat the highest score of the Two Player Nightmare Mode of DoReMiFa Beat and win ten tickets for the event!" Ruby paused in her attempt to get Yang away at that call.

"I didn't do it!" Emu shouted.

"Come on! Come on! If two people can work together and beat the high score, I will give away ten genuine tickets!" a man in a bowler top atop a black afro and a very bushy mustache called, showing the tickets and showing a badge on his salesman getup showing he was with the event, "Just fifty lien a try! All proceeds from this go to charity!"

"That's…" Jaune began before he and Emu froze, feeling like a giant dragon was glaring down at them both with glowing red eyes and shining golden scales.

"Win. Those. Tickets."

"Yes'm," both squeaked before Yang beamed as her hair went out and her red eyes went lilac.

"Oh boy... Here we go…" Ruby groaned.

"Are we gonna just ignore that?!" Weiss asked as Blake hid behind Pyrrha with wide eyes aimed at Yang.

"It might just be for the best…" Pyrrha answered with an awkward chuckle, her hands twitching as if she was trying not to grab her weapons, 'I haven't seen something like that since the last fight I was in before coming to Beacon…'

"Let's win those tickets!" Emu spoke in forced excitement

"For our lives…" Jaune whimpered.

"What was that?"

"For a day of fun!" Jaune quickly corrected, sweating heavily and trying extremely hard to not look behind him, 'Oh god...It's June when she wanted that game all over again!'

"We got two new contenders!" the man shouted as Emu already paid.

"Might as well...get it over with." Emu sighed.

"Y-Yeah…" Jaune agreed before smiling, "Still...at least we're playing a good game, right?"

"Be ready…" Emu sighed, "I've only beat Nightmare mode once...and that was on a professional machine. This is easily the hardest mode of the game as you need to not only get the steps right but match the tune of the song."

"...Hoo boy," Jaune gulped.

"Jaune, my friend...This will be a battle even more intense then any bugster or Grimm we have faced 'till now." Emu spoke as a gust of wind blew his hair back slightly, a smirk forming on his face, "Bring out everything you got, man. We got to give it every ounce of effort we can." he smiled as his eyes began glowing pink.

"...Got it," Jaune nodded, "Because if we don't…" both flinched as they swore they heard a dragon growling right in their ears, "We're gonna be killed by an angry golden dragon."

"To victory!" Emu cheered, pumping himself back up to gamer mode.

"Do you think they can win?" Ruby asked.

"Maybe," Ren shrugged.

"Come on! You guys can win! I'll break your legs if ya don't!"

"Nora!"

"Motivation~!" Nora smiled and gave a thumbs up.

"It needs work!" Jaune complained.

"Ready you two?" the man asked.

"Uh, I could use a sec-"

"Drop the beat!" Emu shouted, his formerly black eyes pure pink now.

"Got it!" the man grinned as he pressed play on Nightmare Mode and the first of three songs started.

"?! I know this song," Jaune noted under his breath, "This is one of the ones my sisters play constantly when they drag me into playing it with them." he grinned, "I got this."

"Oh, we got some hot shots!" the guy in charge spoke, "Look at 'em go folks!" he cheered as Emu and Jaune moved to the song perfectly.

Emu and Jaune moved their legs to the instructions perfectly as they got every single arrow. They even began adding extra moves such as jumps and spins to their moves as the song kept going.

"They're really good!" Ruby awed.

"I've never seen dancing like this," Weiss admitted.

"I think Jaune's actually doing better on the improvisational moves," Pyrrha admitted, noticing that Jaune's eyes were flashing between their normal color and the dark blue at times, staying on the Bugster side longer when improvisation happened.

"Yeah...they are good at this." Yang smirked, "We should invite them next time we go out dancing."

"Never again." Blake and Weiss spoke with glares.

"It wasn't that bad…"

"Is this from your Girls Night a week ago?" Ren asked confused.

"...Yes, yes it was…" Ruby slumped.

"Suddenly, I think spending the day with Jaune was safer," Ren muttered.

"Let's do Girls Night again!" Nora cheered.

"No!" Pyrrha, Ruby, Weiss, and Blake freaked, the former two's face bright red with blushes due to embarrassment from a memory no one wishes to repeat.

"Oh, that's two songs down!" the guy cheered as Emu and Jaune beat the second song, "But can they handle the third song?"

Emu and Jaune took a moment to breath as the next song was loading. Both nodded as it began playing. The two began stepping to the instructions. The moment they noticed a gap in difficulty between lyrics, the two grabbed hands and jumped to one another's spot before dancing to the next set of instructions. The two continued before Jaune helped Emu do a backflip which lead into a solo section for his part. Emu spun and high fived Jaune, giving the next solo section over to him. By this point, the two had attracted a rather large crowd of people to watch them.

"Holy…! Look at them go, folks! Can they go all! The! Way?!" the guy asked as the crowd cheered loudly.

"Go guys!" Ruby cheered as they were close to finishing the song.

"Whoo!" Yang cheered as well.

Emu and Jaune both nodded as they hit the last combo of steps before they both flipped and landed on the last step just as the song finished to punctuate the completion of the song.

=You Win~!= The female announcer cheered.

"AMAZING!-!-!" the event announcer spoke in an over-dramatic tone, "They managed to complete all three songs on the hardest settings without a single misstep!"

"Go guys!" Ruby cheered.

"We'll be taking those tickets please." Yang smirked.

"Now let's see if they managed to beat the top score for two player mode!" the event announcer declared as the screen displayed a list of high scores with a chibi girl with pink hair and a yellow dress watching as the combine score of Jaune and Emu's was carried up by a pair of music notes until it reached the very top, causing the chibi girl to start hopping up and down in glee, "And new top high score! Congrats to you both! You've won the free tickets!" he handed Jaune the tickets, "That was some amazing footwork from you both."

"Thanks…" Emu breathed.

"What I miss?" Kirya asked, walking in with a pretzel.

"Jaune and Emu won us tickets to enter." Ruby explained.

"Cool." Kiriya replied, eating away without a care.

"Man...that was...awesome." Jaune admitted as he handed the tickets out to their friends.

"Where did you learn to dance like that outside of the required steps?" Yang asked.

"A lot of lessons from my mom alongside my sisters," Jaune shrugged.

"Well it seems you're pretty good at this game." Blake noted.

"Seven sister who all love this game," Jaune deadpanned.

"Maybe we should give him the Gashat for it." Emu smiled, "Once we get it back of course. But for now, Retro game time!"

---

"Welcome, people of all ages!" Kuroto spoke on a stage, "I am Kuroto Dan, the CEO of Genm Corporation! Today I am happy to host this event in respect of games new and old. Everyone here has fond memories of video games from their childhood. Today, the Genm Corporation is proud to reveal that, in cooperation with other game companies, we will be bringing you the greatest games in history!" he spoke as screens showed the titles of multiple retro games, "I present to you Video Game History HD!" he smiled as a title formed, "A new subscription system that will allow you to play retro games of older platforms, 5 games of greatness from the past each month all for you." he spoke as people began cheering, "But first, please enjoy the festivities and have a taste of all the games you will be playing very soon."

"Wow...five free games a month? Talk about a good deal," Kiriya noted, "Right M...meijin?"

Emu said nothing as he just stood there, stars in his eyes as he had a huge smile on his face. Yang waved her hand in his face a few times, getting no response.

"Oh boy... He's like Ruby but for video games…" she groaned.

"Yeah. He's like m…" Ruby began before she realized what Yang said, "Hey~!"

"...Oh….my….god…." Emu finally spoke as he blurred around the area, "Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Sonic, Megaman, they have them all! Th-OH MY GOD IS THAT A MARIO GAME?!" he shouted becoming a blur again as they found him clear across the giant room and hugging a machine.

"Wow...he's weird." Ruby laughed, earning stares from her team, "...What?...What?!"

"Pot...meet kettle." Weiss deadpanned.

"What am I weird abo...OH MY GOD! IS THAT A MAN AT ARMS RECREATION OF ZANGETSU~?!"

"See…" the rest of Team RWBY sighed as Ruby vanished in a rain of rose petals.

"Wait oh no...last time this happen she got ban from a shop."

"What did she do?" Weiss asked clearly worried.

"Trust me. If a inanimate object could sue for molestation…"

"Stop...Stop!" Weiss shouted, "I'm sorry I asked."

"Now I'm disturbed." Kiriya muttered.

"Guys…" Kuroto called out as he spotted them, "How...nice...to see you. Why are you here?" he quickly changed his tone as he zeroed in on Yang.

"What? We're scoping out your competition uncle."

"Yang…" he leaned in making her lean back and chuckle awkwardly. "What is Ruby doing to that sword?"

"Oh god Ruby not again!" Yang panicked, running off.

"This is why I asked Ruby to keep Yang away...mostly because I asked the Man at Arms booth to be here...and to keep herself away." Kuroto sighed

"So...how's it feel knowing your games lost out to Super Mario Odyssey?" Kiriya smirked.

"Yeah the sales are amazing." Blake said, looking at a review.

"Yes they did amazing on their newest console." Kuroto spoke.

"Hmm." Blake pondered.

"What's wrong, Blake?" Weiss asked.

"Well...honestly i'm a bit worred about this collab." she admitted.

"Why?" Jaune asked confused, "I mean Genm Corp sells all sorts of games, and companies contract them to revise them all the time."

"And so far all the bugsters we've fought are from Genm corp games." Blake reminded.

"Ah...yes…" Kuroto spoke overhearing that, "You see that is my worry as well. In fact the very reason we haven't seen a bugster outside of our original games is amazing. At the moment the strongest on record is Graphite, and he is the final boss from Drago Knight Hunter Z."

"So if he's the strongest why are all the others...Stagnant?" Weiss asked, "Each time we've seen them they seem about the same power level as before."

"Bugsters are an odd thing. They have an odd and unpredictable evolution. Even Graphite has the potential to grow and he's a perfect Bugster." Kuroto added, "But I'd feel remiss if I didn't admit something to you kids." he sighed, "The truth is the virus did gather data of other games all those years ago."

"That's a problem." Blake said as everyone looked at her, "Take games like Megaman, for example. It's an old classic and has grown exponentially as a series. Who's to say Bugster data isn't influenced by that? Like Tekken the greatest fighting game of all time. At this point, it could create a Bugster we're not ready for,"

"Blake...why do you suddenly know so much about video games?" Kiriya blinked.

"As soon as Emu explained all Bugsters gain form from video games, I began studying them." she admitted. "Someone had to do that incase Emu isn't around when we need his brain. Also I asked you once and you didn't know the difference between Side scroller and platformer...so clearly you know nothing."

"Ouch…" Kiriya spoke, holding his hand over his heart in mock pain, "That stings, goth girl...it really does."

"We should be happy so far no such instance has happened." Kuroto spoke, "It'd be difficult as we have only recorded…" he began.

"Jinx! Jinx! Jinx! Jinxed!" Nora shouted.

"Ha! Suck it! For once, it ain't me! Its Mr. CEO!" Kiriya shouted.

"Come now...this is not how the world works. I doubt my talking about it will actually cause a new strain of Bugsters to happen." Kuroto spoke.

"I don't know… We've had a lot of bad luck involving these things." Blake admitted.

"True," Pyrrha sighed.

"Why?!" Jaune cried to the ceiling as he fell to his knees.

"You kids are overreacting…" Kuroto shook his head before he pulled out a black scroll that was ringing, "Ah Doctor Hanaya! Perfect timing. Tell these kids no such thing as jinxes exist."

=Oh my god... What have you done?= Taiga asked.

"Nothing. I just told them I doubt a new Bugster strain would just pop...why are you shaking your head? ...Stop giving me that look." Kuroto complained.

=Turn me to the kids…= Taiga sighed as Kuroto did so =Yeah he jinxed you...Badly...like real bad=

"How bad?" Emu asked having just returned as Weiss dragged him by his hoodie.

=...= Taiga simply turned his scroll to show Velvet on a medical bed.

"Velvet?" Emu asked worried.

=A brand new strain that matches none of the ten games. It's completely new and foreign. I can't track the symptoms and, furthermore, this is the first case of a Faunus being infected. I'm afraid I'm stuck in the dark here= he explained, turning back to him =Ex-Aid, I need you back here now. You're the only one I can rely on to be able to fight whatever forms=

"..." Nora aimed her hammer at Kuroto's head, imagining it as a golf ball.

"No…" Ren spoke, taking the hammer and letting it drop on the ground, "Just...just no."

"I have a date with your toes." she promised Kuroto.

"What does that mean?" Kuroto asked worried.

"Better you not know." Ren sighed.

"Alright. I'll be right there." Emu spoke, holding Kuroto's scroll at the moment.

=I just need you...You can bring Brave or Lazer...but no one else...trust me= Taiga spoke.

"Eh?"

=Trust me...just...just don't bring any of those girls= he then ducked as fire almost hit him =Son of a…= the connection was cut.

"Okay...I'm...gonna...go." Emu spoke, tossing the scroll back to Kuroto.

"Why do you think Taiga doesn't want any girls to follow?" Jaune blinked.

"We can bring Weiss. I think she counts as a animal more," Kiriya said before he was smacked upside the head, "AH! Son of a...ugh that hurt! Woman, why you hit so hard?!"

"Me...your toes. Don't sleep tonight." Nora informed kuroto.

"...Lock every single thing," Ren warned.

"Why can't I know normal teenagers?" Kuroto sighed as he watched Yang drag Ruby away...who was holding on tight to a Final Fantasy 7 Buster Sword.

"Uncle Dan~ Your favorite niece needs an allowance,"

"I'll...handle it…" he sighed, "Just...please...go deal with monsters instead." he pleaded.

---

"Whoa!" Taiga ducked at the tossed bed, "Do you know how much of my money that comes out of...don't you think about fireballing me." he ducked a large fireball, "You just fireballed me!" he growled, putting on his Gamer Driver, "That's it...I've tried being civil...but quite frankly...I prefer shooting."

"Taiga! We're here!" Emu panted as he ran in with Jaune, "Okay. I'm... Oh my god! What is that on her back?!" he shouted, seeing an orange and green spiky shell on her back.

"That's what I'm trying to figure out!" Taiga shouted, "Her Bugster entered its Level 1 phase but...it just formed as that shell that is indestructible!"

"Hmm?" Velvet blinked as, in her eyes, Emu changed into a plump man with a mustache in a red hat, red shirt, and blue coveralls and Jaune looked like a tall, skinnier version of the first guy with the red replaced with green and Kiriya looked like an extremely fat man with a fat purple nose, spiky mustache, yellow shirt, yellow hat, purple overalls, and white gloves, "RAHHH! Mario!"

"Huh?!" Emu blinked, "Who? What...oh no...no...no…" he spoke as instead of fear, his face grew into a large smile, "No...freakin'...way!-!" she then roared, spitting fire out of her mouth.

"WHA!" Kiriya and Jaune panicked, holding onto one another, "WHY ARE YOU HAPPY!?"

"It can't be...but it is...she called me Mario! That has to be it! This...this...this is a Bugster from the Mario games!" Emu gasped stars in his eyes, "Mamamia!" he cheered, jumping over a fireball as he plugged his Gashat into his driver and transformed into Level 1, "Henshin!" he spoke landing, "Let'sa go!"

"WHAT'S THE BUGSTER?!" Taiga demanded.

"It'sa Bowser!" Ex-Aid replied happily, adopting an Italian accent.

"...Is...Why is he speaking like that?" Kiriya asked.

"He's gone into Game Zone in his head," Jaune facepalmed.

"And here I was hoping he was trying to play along with the Bugster..." Taiga said as it looked at him.

"Captain Toad, we meet again!"

"I'm a frog?" Taiga asked confused.

"Mini-mushroom man the size of a child," Ex-Aid explained.

"..." Kamen Rider Snipe Level 1 took Taiga's place, "That feels more insulting."

"Why are you letting that antagonize you?!" the two untransformed ones asked.

"Shut it!" Snipe shouted as Ex-Aid jumped around, bouncing off the walls, "Ex-Aid, how do you deal with a...whatever this is?"

"Mario...villains...are immune to conventional attacks. You need to...stomp them!" he grunted using his hammer to knock a fireball out the window.

"Seriously?" Snipe slumped his shoulders in disbelief.

"And it has to be pretty hard, too. Like jumping on top of him, or using his son's flying clown car to..." Ex-aid went on, "ahh ahh!"

"What what's wrong?"

"If this Bugster follows the rule, then this might be a fake castle! Only thing missing is the princess!"

"Why is there a princess involved?!" Snipe snapped.

"Wait. We might be lucky. I'll destroy it now...Velvet, I'm coming to save you!" Ex-Aid spoke as he activated stage select.

Everyone blinked, finding themselves in a large open field suddenly. Ex-Aid landed as he began running forward, using his Gashacon Breaker to block fireball after fireball. Once he was within range, he jumped up before forming a block he used to jump further up into the air.

"Snipe, Bullet attack now!" Ex-Aid ordered.

"This better work!" Snipe complained as he rolled into a bullet that fired directly at her, only for the shell to grow out and act as a shield, knocking him away, "Gah!"

"Got ya!" Ex-Aid shouted as he landed on the shell and brought his hammer down on it, causing it to crack, "Hehe...I figured you must be able to do something like this!" he smirked as the shell fully cracked to pieces as Ex-Aid landed and caught Velvet.

"Wait...you used me as a distraction!?" Snipe complained.

"Well, I knew the Bugster must have taken a form like this to trick us, so I figured the shell must be the Level 1 stage and you needed to make it grow to full size first. Then from there, I applied the Mario mechanic of dropping and stomping along with my Breaker." he revealed, "But I needed it to consider doing so first. Best way is to block an attack too big for its shrunken form. Your giant bullet spin of doom thing was the best option."

"Come here!" Snipe complained as he began chasing Ex-Aid around, the two Level 1 Kamen Riders running around with their comedic small bodies.

"Ah! Dr. Hanaya, wait!"

"You used me as bait, dang it!"

"Eek! Be careful where you aim! That was too low!"

"I was aiming there!"

"HELP~!" Ex-Aid freaked.

"...Are you really recording this?" Jaune asked, seeing Kiriya was indeed recording it on his Scroll.

"We show this to the girls and Ren later with popcorn. Revenge for the Gaming Marathon he pulled us into."

"...Keep it going," Jaune grinned sinisterly.

"Ex-Aid!" Snipe shouted as Ex-Aid's eyes emoted tears as he kept running.

"I feel like we're ignoring something." Kiriya blinked.

"Oh...where am I?" Velvet groaned.

"Velvet!?" Ex-Aid asked while stopping, causing Snipe to run into him and knocking them both down, "Oh...my giant head…" he groaned, his eyes replaced by pink spirals.

"Oh good... Velvet fin…" Jaune paused as did Kiriya while little chicks ran over their heads as they had a realization.

"WHERE'S THE BUGSTER?!" They panicked.

"Ah!" Snipe and Ex-Aid both gawked, realizing...the Bugster didn't form in this area.

"What's happening here?" Velvet blinked, confused as she began to get up.

"You did this!" Snipe shouted as he smacked Ex-Aid.

"Ow..." Ex-Aid complained, getting up, "Teachers aren't supposed to do that!"

"Shut up!" Snipe complained, kicking him over, "You darn tick! You let the Bugster escape."

"You're the sniper! How'd you miss him?!" Ex-Aid countered before a gun was aimed in his face, "Sorry, sir. I apologize for my tone."

"After this, detention." he groaned as they both canceled their armor, causing the stage select to cancel and return them all to the infirmary, "Any ideas where the Bugster might have gone?"

"Hunting, gentlemen...hunting." Emu said with a grin, "Oh, I am going to make so many references today, I don't know where to start."

"Answer the question," Taiga frowned, aiming his gun at him once more.

"Right...right...well if it is Bowser...then most likely he'll go after a prin….cess…." he paused for a moment, before a timer formed in his mind as it began ringing, "AH! I know where he's going!"

"Can someone explain what happened today?" Velvet muttered confused, worried, and wondering why these short chibi figures where talking in the voices of people she knew, also the potential several hours of lost memory worried her as well.

"A bit of a story," Jaune replied.

---

"Seriously, Ren, isn't that a bit much?" Weiss asked as Ren put himself and Nora in handcuffs.

"It is for the safety of Mr. Dan and the Genm Corp employees who work late hours in the building." Ren explained, "This way, I know she won't get far."

"Kinky," Yang teased as she dragged Ruby alone as she happily hugged her new collector's item to proudly display in their room.

"You're gonna keep momma safe when she sleeps with Crescent Rose tonight...no Crescent Rose, she's not replacing you. It's not like that!" Ruby spoke to her weapons.

"...She's talking to the weapons again." Blake pointed out.

"She'll get over it…." Yang sighed, "Why can't I have a normal little sister?"

"I heard that!" Ruby shouted.

"Why can't I have normal teammates…?" Weiss deadpanned.

"Define 'normal' in our lives," Blake countered.

"...Point," Weiss admitted.

"Hey, look...giant turtle dragon." Nora spoke while looking up.

"Giant what?" Blake blinked.

Ren stopped and looked up as his eyes widened. He raised his hand not cuffed to Nora's as he slowly pointed Blake's head upwards to see what he saw. Everyone else followed their eyes as the all gawked in shock at the figure standing on a building and roaring.

*Cue Big Bad Bosses - The Raid*

The figure was a massive turtle-dragon with a bright green shell littered in silver spikes while its scales were a vivid yellow/gold. Spiked bands covered just below the shoulders and over the wrists. Its head was green with a large peach-colored muzzle with vivid fiery hair stuck out of the top like a mohawk and bushy eyebrows while horns grew out of the sides of its head. Even the back of its tail had spikes growing down it. It also...was looking through a coin-operated pair of binoculars on the building right at them?

"Ggrrr?" it zoomed in at Ruby, imagining her as a genderbent Mario, "Rah rah rah! Blech." it then moved to Yang...seeing a golden Eastern Dragon, "Ruh-uhn." it moved to Blake...seeing a blond-haired, very tall lady in a black cat suit, "...Rrr." it shrugged before landing on Weiss...and seeing her in a princess dress, "?! AWOO~!" it panted, stamping the ground while hearts replaced its eyes.

"You think it spotted some meat?" Nora asked, "If so, I call dibs! My meat!"

"Nora, that is a dragon-turtle. I think it has priority dibs on meat," Ren deadpanned.

"...Huh. He looks familiar…" Yang muttered as Blake took a better look with a pair of binoculars.

"Is that…" Blake lowered them, "Bowser?"

"Who?" Weiss asked before the dragon-turtle jumped off the building and landed right before her, the impact sending everyone a few feet in the air and letting the turtle grab Weiss, "Hey!"

"Rrrr~!" the dragon-turtle's nose flared as pink steam came out of the nostrils; it then made kissy-faces.

"...What the heck?" Pyrrha blinked twice.

"Oh gods…" Blake facepalmed, "Don't tell me…"

"Hey, what are...Help!" Weiss freaked as she was tucked under one arm and was unable to use both her arms, and she didn't have her sword at the moment anyway. Bowser turned and ran off giddily, carrying her off.

"Ruby, Weiss is eloping!" Nora exclaimed.

"What? No, Weiss! Don't leave me best friend!" Ruby freaked, running after them.

"...Why did you make it worse?" Ren sighed.

"And what did you just imply about my baby sister?" Yang cracked her knuckles.

"Oh come on! I imply nothing! I told her eloping means leaving the school." she said, "Oh, and besides, she likes Weiss more than you, Yang."

"Nora…"

"Ahh!" Ruby panicked while running back, before anyone could ask why, they noticed something was chasing after her in mass.

"Oh, look those grun...what the heck are those?!"

"Used plungers and toilet scrubbers," Ren replied, his nose scrunching a bit.

"DAAAAAAAAAAH!-!-!" a swarm of Bugster minions roared...their heads now white with rabbit like ears, with red eyes and some in boxers, panties, blonde wigs, or traffic cones. Each one seemed to employ some form of large plumbing/household tool as a weapon, like plungers, wrenches, hammers and so on.

"Are those supposed to be...rabbits?" Pyrrha pondered.

"Worst…" Blake whispered," They're...Rabbids!"

"They're rabid?!" Nora freaked a bit.

"No. Ra…" Blake began before ducking under a plunger aimed right at her, "..."

"Are they...using plungers as weapons?" Pyrrha blinked, ducking under a random swing from one of the Bugster virus grunts. It helped they swung so wildly and clearly dodging was easy, but it did little to diminish everyone's shared desire to gag at the fact it was a plunger!

"HELP ME!" Ruby screamed.

"Ruby?" Yang blinked as she heard her sister run from some Bugsters, one of which was swinging her scythe wildly, "...How did…"

"I tried attacking them and they stole my Crescent Rose!" Ruby screamed, "And the worst part...they're not even using it right~!"

"HOW?!" Yang cried in shock at that.

"And she was the only one who brought her weapon…" Ren pointed out as he pushed his palm into one, sending it flying away and into a tightly bunched group of them.

"...That wasn't a good idea…."

"Huh? Wh-"

"DAAAAAAH~!" the Rabbid Bugsters screamed as they shot up, their eyes bulging out and turning red.

"Hitting them only makes them angry."

"So...now…"

"Duck and cover brats!" a familiar angry voice shouted as they heard a warning siren, "Shoot!" Snipe shouted,aiming and firing his rifle, unleashing a giant energy blast that incinerated a bunch of the Rabbid Viruses.

"Professor Ha-er...Snipe!" Ruby exclaimed, correcting herself since they were still in public.

"Happy Birthday, brats." he spoke while jumping down to the street, revealing he was carrying a giant backpack holding everyone's weapons, "Figured Miss Rose would take hers, s-WHY IS THAT BUGSTER HOLDING IT?!"

"And it's just swinging it around~" Ruby sobbed.

"Ugh…" Snipe groaned as he lifted up his rifle, "Scratch it and you're doomed to three months of detention." he sighed, holding it up to her, "Well...do you want it or not?"

"..." an unsettling glint appeared in Ruby's eyes as she took it and aimed at the Rabbid Bugsters, "It's Rabbid Season…"

"I've been meaning to get in some old hand to hand practice anyway." Snipe grunted in annoyance as he charged forward and tackled down one of the Rabbid Bugsters before he rolled forward and kicked a second. He then pushed himself up on his right arm and spun around, kicking a large mob of the odd minions sending them all flying into the air, "Now Miss Rose, f-"

*BANG*

A bullet kept ricocheting off each of the Bugsters before it knocked Crescent Rose out of the hands of the one that was holding it, causing it to fall to the ground as the airborn Rabbid Bugsters blew up.

"...what just happened?" Snipe slowly blinked, his one visible eye actually blinking as the white of his pupil grew to emote his shock and awe.

"You may want to scrub it in a sink filled with boiling alcohol," Yang advised.

"I don't even want to know…" Snipe replied as he raised his hand up and back fisted a Rabbid Bugster, making it groan and fall down, "And you haven't change why, Brave Boy?!" he snapped at Jaune, who was just arriving while short of breath.

"Give me...a break…" Jaune panted, but inserted the Gashat and opened the Gamer Driver.

=LEVEL UP! Taddle Meguru! Taddle Meguru! Taddle Quest~!=

"Ugh…'Drink more stamina potions. Thou art a slowpoke,'" Brave read the new subquest notification before another popped up, "'Slay yon Rabbids.'"

"BWAAAAAA…"

*SHINK*

"Thank you for being my venting tool for these subquests almost always insulting me!" Brave thanked, Gashacon Sword impaling the Bugster grunt's face. He then pulled out as it burned down to, well, whatever happened when they blew up. He then charged as he slashed several of them with his flaming sword, the grunts all cried in pain before exploding, "Know what? At first I questioned the point of grunts...but I'm starting to like them." he admitted, switching to Ice sword mode as he charged and slashed more of them down.

"Wait...where're Emu and Kiriya?" Yang asked, punching one of the Rabbid Bugsters into the sky where it exploded.

"Looking for the Level 2 of the Bugster!" Brave replied before repeatedly stabbing a Rabbid Bugster with its own plunger, his mask's eyes emulating one twitching madly and the other going slit like a cat's eye in rage, "And! left me! behind to run! to get here! WITH! NO! TRANSPORT!"

"Man up…" Snipe complained as he blocked a weak swing from a grunt before he landed multiple pressure point blows, ending the chain of attacks by flicking its head and letting it explode, "Besides, they're probably having it easy right now."

---

"Why does he keep tossing blue spiked shells at us?!" Lazer snapped as Ex-Aid barely dodged another blue spiked shell with wings on it, said shell exploding upon hitting the ground.

"It doesn't make sense! We're not in the lead! He is!" Ex-Aid complained.

"LET ME GO!" Weiss snapped, whacking her rapier on Bowser's head.

"Rrr grah grrrr!" Bowser beamed before pulling out a pile of round bombs with feet and threw them behind them.

"Ah! Bob-Ombs!" Ex-Aid freaked.

"Why do they have wind up legs and...who invents this stuff?!" Lazer panicked as they jumped the first row of little explosive figures.

"Nintendo, that's who!"

"Why did he kidnap Ice Queen!?" Lazer asked, still in panic mode as they weaved around explosions.

"Bowser likes princesses. Most likely, from how Weiss acts, he thought she was a princess," Ex-Aid replied.

"I don't know if she feels insulted or flattered…" Lazer grumbled sarcastically.

"I can hear you!" she snapped.

"You were meant to hear it!"

"Is now really the time for your guys' hate-hate relationship?" Ex-Aid asked in a deadpan tone.

"SHUT UP!" Weiss and Lazer snapped.

"Save me from the scaled lunatic!" Weiss exclaimed, "He keeps making kissy faces at me."

"Oh...this must be Bowser from Super Mario Odyssey then," Ex-Aid noted.

"...And that's bad why…?"

"Simple; he wants to marry her."

"WHAT?!" Weiss shrieked in panic.

"Oh don't worry! He takes forever to actually get to it. I mean I played the game for like a couple of weeks just to get everything first and the thing was just barely starting by the end of it." Ex-Aid laughed off the panic episode.

"That doesn't make me feel better, you pink idiot!"

"Hey! Call me an idiot, but do not insult the color pink!" Ex-Aid countered.

"She's so irritating even Meijin falls into arguing...well, while in gamer mode at least. None Gamer Mode can barely even stand up to her angry expressions…" Lazer noted.

"I CAN STILL HEAR YOU!" Weiss snapped.

"I'm trying to see if I get you angry enough the big turtle will dump ya." Lazer laughed.

"..." Weiss began to think.

"You're not really gonna make him so mad he'll dump ya, are you?" Lazer deadpanned.

"NO!" Weiss barked before making a glyph appear ahead of Bowser.

Bowser took a step on it before screaming as it shot him into the air...with Weiss still being held by the dragon-turtle. Ex-Aid and Lazer both gawked behind their masks before Ex-Aid smashed a trophy and grabbed the Jump Energy Item, making them jump after them. At the apex of their rise and then the fall, Bowser yelped as his 'princess' came out of his claws.

"I'm smaller and lighter," Weiss explained as Bowser fell faster than her.

"Rargh?!" Bowser exclaimed, trying to hover by kicking his legs as fast as he could until Lazer's rear tire smacked him in the face and used him as a springboard to let Ex-Aid catch Weiss.

"Princess get!" he cheered as he landed back on Lazer and revved the gas, sending them all away from Bowser with a burst from Lazer's tailpipes and left them to land on a building and let the Bugster to fall to the streets below.

"I am not a princess," Weiss glowered.

"And here I thought you enjoyed having people do stuff for you?" Lazer arched one of his eyes.

"I swear I will pay Mr. Dan and the company that makes that drumming game to make a Gashat together based off that game and switch your Gashat for it just to beat you in the face with the sticks in the Level 2 form!"

"..." Ex-Aid looked down at Lazer.

"...You better not be thinking what I think you're thinking," Lazer warned, his mask's left eye emulating a twitchy eye.

"I didn't say nothin'," Ex-Aid laughed.

"Did you destroy the Bugster?" Weiss asked before they heard a loud roar.

"...I knew I forgot to ask him to do something," Lazer admitted as a shadow came over them.

The trio looked to see Bowser above them...riding in a strange contraption. It looked white the bottom half of a white orb with a clown face drawn on the front with green detailing and a propeller on the bottom. Bowser pointed at Ex-Aid and Lazer before pointing at himself and them smashed his fist into an open palm.

"Oh my gosh….Oh my Gosh!" Ex-Aid spoke as he clapped his hands to his helmet, his eyes growing wide and sparkly, "Oh my Gosh~!-!"

"Will you snap out of it?!" Weiss clocked up on the head with the hilt of her revolver rapier, "We're in danger again, darn it!"

"You gotta slap him." Lazer sighed.

"It's the Clown Car~!" Ex-Aid squeed before a chunk of ice smacked into the back of his head, "That hurt~!" he spoke, still excited, before a larger chunk hit him, "I'm back! What day is it?! Mom, did you find out about my wasted allowance on games?!" he panicked.

"Wow...You smacked him down to adolescence," Lazer noted, "I'm impressed."

"Actually, that was last year," Ex-Aid sheepishly chuckled before he ducked under a drill on a long mechanical arm coming from the machine Bowser was in, "Ack! It's got Bowser Jr's modifications from Smash Bros! ..." the sparkly eyes returned, "I want it~!"

"EMU!" the others shouted as even Bowser was sweatdropping from the awkwardness.

"Right!" Ex-Aid shouted, revving the handle as he drove Lazer around each attempted strike from the drill.

"Grrrr!" Bowser growled before flying above the roof and ducked into the machine.

"Now what's he doing?" Weiss groaned.

The Clown Car flipped upside down...and a giant cannonball the size of Bowser fell out at them.

"SERIOUSLY?!" Weiss freaked.

"I got it!" Ex-Aid shouted as he jumped off Lazer and swung his Gashacon Breaker hammer at one of his choco blocks that broke to reveal the Strength Energy item, "Item Get!" he cheered, glowing red as he kicked his leg and punted the cannonball right back at Bowser, who had corrected the Clown Car and poked out.

"Grah?!" Bowser gawked before adopting an annoyed expression as he looked at the distance...AKA the screen you're reading this from, "Mrrrgh…"

"What's he looking at?" Lazer and Weiss both asked as the cannonball smacked into Bowser, blowing up the machine and sending him falling back down to the ground beside the tall building, screaming.

"Okay...I think that's...that's the last one," Blake noted.

"Thank god…" Snipe groaned, sitting down on a downed Brave's back.

"There there, Rosey," Ruby cooed, cuddling her scythe-sniper gun like a baby, "We'll get you all cleaned up and polished and lots of cuddles! The mean bunny can't touch you anymore…"

"That is the second most disturbing sight I've ever seen," Snipe admitted.

"Why do all the teachers say that?!" the students gawked, Ruby ignoring it in favor of cuddling and comforting her weapon.

"You'll learn sooner or…" Snipe began before a shadow came over him, "Huh?" he looked up in time to see Bowser's screaming face inches from his own, "Oh sh…!"

*BOOM!*

"What was that?!" Nora yelped, looking at the cloud of debris that came up from the impact.

"Uhm...Professor?" Ren asked.

"Jaune! Are you alright?" Pyrrha asked, remembering he was with Snipe.

"No, no, no. It's like this," Nora corrected, clearing her throat and adopting an accent, "Jaune! Are you still alive?"

"Yes, I'm still alive!" Brave replied as the debris cloud settled, revealing he was beside a turtle shell-shaped hole.

"Ah...I saw my life flash before my eyes…" Snipe gasped, beside Brave, "Oh great...now I'm emotionally scarred again."

"How did you avoid whatever that was?" Yang asked.

"He hit me in my ribs and I fell over when he looked up," Brave explained, rubbing his side.

"I dodged…" Snipe muttered bluntly and sarcastically.

"Rrrrr…" a growl came from the hole.

"..." Brave and Snipe looked at the hole before it exploded as Bowser jumped out of it, roaring while uppercutting them both, "GWAH!"

"Ugh…" Brave groaned, his Rider Gauge dropping to 60 percent as Snipe rolled backwards and onto his feet, his gauge dropping to 55 percent.

"He hits really hard...That took a big chunk of our gauges," Snipe groaned, helping Brave back to his feet.

"RARGH! GRWARGH! RRRRAAAWRGH!" Bowser roared, stomping on the ground and pointing at the building Ex-Aid, Lazer, and Weiss were on.

"What is he doing?" Yang asked, confused by his actions, "Also...isn't that the turtle thing from Mario?"

"...Oh, so this is the Bugster that came out of Ms. Scarletina," Snipe realized before aiming his gun at Bowser, "All the more reason I'm going to enjoy this."

"I guess this Bowser doesn't have speech," Ex-Aid noted, hearing the roaring from up where they were.

"What are you talking about?" Weiss asked, "He's basically calling you a stupid pink plumber."

"YOU CAN UNDERSTAND HIM!?" Lazer freaked, falling over in surprise.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Weiss raised a brow before hearing a 'thwock' and something hissing before a lit Bob-Omb was before them, "...Emu?"

"There was a tennis game...well, multiple," Ex-Aid replied, his eyes emoting tears. The little bomb began glowing red as the fuse disappeared into its shell. Ex-Aid grabbed Weiss and used his own body as a shield as it exploded, taking a chunk of the roof.

"And now he's blowing up buildings! That's my dream, darn it!" Nora snapped as she swung her hammer down on Bowser's head, only to start bouncing away like she was on a jackhammer, "Stro-o-o-o-ong head!"

"Rrr?" Bowser turned around, noticing all of them, "Rar?" he noticed Snipe about to pull the trigger and quickly ducked into his shell, spinning around just as Snipe fired at him, the shot bouncing back at Snipe and knocking him away before Bowser got up, roaring as the chunk of broken roof crashed behind him, "RAWRGH!"

"WHY WON'T HE GO DOWN?!" Snipe snapped.

"He is known as one of the Big Bad Bosses after all," Ex-Aid simplified as he crawled out of a crater with Weiss.

"Big bad what?" Snipe questioned.

"Bowser, Dr. Eggman, Sephiroth, and Ganondorf. They're known as the Big Bad Bosses AKA the four most famous bosses in Video Games," Ex-Aid explained, dusting his armor off, "Also they are most commonly the most updated and often used in other games as well."

"And how do we beat this guy then?"

"Well...if we go retro, we'll need a castle with lava in it, a bridge, and an axe on the other side," Ex-Aid replied.

"Where are we gonna get a...a castle…" Brave began before looking at his Gamer Driver, "..." he began pressing the Stage Select until a screen displaying a demonic castle on a volcano, "This one good?"

"Yup! Now hit it!"

"We never agreed to this!" Most of their friends shouted a little too late as the screen washed over all of them, their scenery now replaced with a sinister castle interior, the walls made of obsidian bricks with gargoyle statues holding up the ceiling.

"...WHY ARE WE 8-BIT?!" Lazer, back in Level 1, exclaimed as the group were now 8-Bit sprites.

"Oh...now this...this is retro!" Ex-Aid laughed, unaware of Weiss stomping up and messing with Brave's Stage Select button until everything reverted to normal and making everything MUCH scarier, "Ah…" Ex-Aid slumped his shoulders.

"At least we're still in the Demon King's castle," Brave noted, moving away from Weiss and keeping a hand over his Stage Select so no one would push it again.

"Ugh...curse you, Kuroto Dan!" Lazer complained to the ceiling.

"I felt like Weiss while we were 8-Bit," Yang noted.

"Huh? What do you…?" Weiss began before she connected the dots and frowned at her, "Oh, you are really going there? I do not have a fl…" Weiss began before a green and yellow blur ran by, grabbing her and leaving a trail of hearts, "AGAIN?!"

"Come back here, Bowser! Fight me!" Ex-Aid shouted, chasing after them.

"Pyrrha, any chance can your shield and spear combine into an axe?" Brave sighed.

"Uhm...no." she sadly shook her head, "I'm sorry."

"No...longshot anyway…" Brave sighed as they watched Ex-Aid chase Bowser across different levels of the castle.

"Come back here, Bowser!" Ex-Aid shouted, chasing him down the walkway on a higher level of the building, "I just want to fight you to the end in an honorable battle of video game characters!" he shouted, swinging his hammer around as Bowser somehow kept a good distance from the fastest on their feet Kamen Rider among them.

"For a big guy, he sure runs fast," Nora blinked.

"I'm impressed it's so surprisingly nimble on its feet." Snipe added, Ren agreeing.

"SOMEONE HELP ME ALREADY!" Weiss snapped.

"Get back here, King of the Koopa, and face me!" Ex-Aid shouted as he swung his hammer and smacked away spikes fired from Bowser's shell, "Coward!"

"Emu, stop trying to fight him and save me!" Weiss complained.

"Well...it is a castle. Bowser's always in castles in the original games and quite a few recent ones," Brave noted.

"...You mean to tell me that you brought us to a place that is almost second nature to a giant dragon-turtle?!" Yang demanded.

"...Ten page essay on why you plan things before doing them. My desk. Due tomorrow," Snipe growled, "You and Emu both!"

"Shut it! I got it, teach!" Ex-Aid chuckled, taking him by surprise with his tone.

"Did…" Snipe blinked more confused than upset.

"He's...been getting a lot more snippy since we found out it was Bowser." Brave noted, "Emu almost never does that. It's like he a different person when he gets like this."

"He acted differently when you two played DoReMiFa Beat as well," Ren recalled before they saw Bowser and Ex-Aid going in and out of doors in a long hallway up ahead until Bowser dropped a banana peel that Ex-Aid slipped on and resulted in the pink Rider hitting a wall, causing Bowser to cackle and run off.

"Wait!" Ex-Aid grunted as he pulled his face free, "You have to fight me!"

"The longer this Bugster is out and about, the more likely the patient is going to expire," Snipe scowled under his mask.

"Velvet's going to what?!" Brave exclaimed.

"It's as I feared," Snipe sighed, "Ex-Aid synchronizes too well with his Gashat." he revealed, "This is causing him to further grow a combat personality to allow him to use his fullest potential."

"You mean he's acting like Yang when she loses a strand of her hair?" Ruby asked.

"I have no idea what that is, but it sounds bad." Snipe muttered, "She almost broke my ribs when I commented on her long hair once…"

"I said sorry…" Yang shrugged.

"Back to...Emu." Ruby spoke, "How do we bring him back to normal?"

"Bowser!" Ex-Aid shouted, running while made of Metal.

"Rahh!" Bowser complained.

"It's your own fault for him being so determined to catch you because you kidnapped me," Weiss frowned.

"Okay, okay...we, uh, I think I have an idea," Brave noted before running around, "Now if I remember right…" he stopped before a pair of double doors and pushed them open, revealing a platform over the volcano, "There it is. That's where you fight Aranbura. Now we just need to get Bowser on there and..."

"HEY! BOWSER!" Nora shouted, "THE PINK GUY CAN'T JUMP ON FLOATING PLATFORMS OVER LAVA!"

"Huh?" Brave looked at Nora before he was run over by Bowser, who used him as a springboard to get onto the floating platform, "Ow…"

Bowser landed on the platform, "Rawr!" he turned to the castle, pulled down an eyelid, and blew a raspberry, "Rar-rawr-ra-rah-rawr~!"

"Ew~! You got spit all over me!" Weiss exclaimed in disgust.

"Emu!" Ruby shouted as Ex-Aid jumped through the door and double jumped onto the platform.

"GRA?!" Bowser's jaw dropped as his eyes comically bulged out.

"Oopsie~! I lied~" Nora pulled an eyelid down while sticking her tongue out at Bowser.

"GRAA!" Bowser snapped, shaking a fist at Nora...before noticing that it was the hand that had held Weiss, "Rawr?!"

"You okay?" Ex-Aid asked, holding Weiss.

"I am covered in dragon-turtle saliva...what do you think?" Weiss glowered.

"..." Ex-Aid chuckled as he pulled out a handkerchief from his suit somehow.

"Hmph," Weiss huffed, but accepted the handkerchief.

=GAME CLEAR!=

"...Why did it announce the game cleared when Bowser's still here?" Ren asked.

"D'oh! The goal isn't to beat Bowser…" Brave facepalmed, "It's to save the princess."

"Ah…" Ex-Aid blinked, remembering that.

"Wait...you mean this whole time all you had to do to beat the game was save me?!" Weiss snapped at Ex-Aid.

"Sorry! Sorry!" he quickly replied, the pink glow in his eyes behind his mask fading.

"Clearing the game reverts him to his base personality…" Snipe noted.

"Look look! The game's over, so we don't have to worry!" Ex-Aid assured, "...As long as he doesn't change into Giga Bowser."

"...I-I'm sorry. GIGA Bowser?"

"Uhm...think...oh wait...what would be a term you understand…" Ex-Aid muttered lost in thought, "Well the game term is when you beat a boss they revive bigger, stronger, badder...worse-er…"

"That's not a word!" Weiss snapped at him for that nonsense.

"How else would you explain it?" he countered, "Besides that Bowser is from the Smash Bros games and...it's...not like we...recently...got a new one...announced...mother…" Ex-Aid panicked as his eyes dilated in fear.

"...He's in the latest one, isn't he?"

"..." Ex-Aid slowly turned around as Bowser grew even taller than before.

His skin became far more pale and his scales became far more detailed, his figure becoming more dragon like as well. His horns started to grow out, becoming more devil like as the spikes on his shell grew out while said shell started getting more rougher and scalier. Finally, his eyes snapped open, revealing them to be a crimson red and slit as eh gave out a roar, the entire area shaking.

"Ah…" Brave sighed as he fainted into Pyrrha's arms.

"What is that?!" Weiss cried in shock.

"Giga Bowser...I told you...Worse-er!" Ex-Aid panicked as Giga Bowser loomed over him, "Not the face!" he cried as Bowser grabbed his head and slammed him into the platform repeatedly.

"...You know... In hindsight? We're lucky." Blake informed.

"How and why?!" Snipe complained as Bowser kept tossing Ex-Aid around like a rag doll.

"He's obviously forgotten the fact he can go godzilla size any time he wants." she replied.

"...Never say that again." Snipe ordered.

"Oof!" Ex-Aid cried, hitting the ground as his rider gauge dropped to 80.

"Rah rah trah!"

"He said I finally got you now, Mario." Weiss informed.

"Wait... he thinks I'm Mario still?" Ex-Aid grunted, pushing himself up, "Also...how did you learn his grunt 'n growl language again?" he asked before rolling out of the way of a fireblast.

"I...don't even know. I just do."

"...Wait...If he still thinks that Meijin's Mario...and maybe," Lazer blinked, "Hey, Snipe, hit him."

"I am!"

"Rah rah!"

"He said 'Back off, Captain Toad.'"

"...Jackpot!" Lazer said.

"Oh, I see where you're going with this." Blake realize, "But how are we gonna convince Weiss?"

"Well simple; reverse psychology." he elaborated.

"What happened?!" Brave asked, sitting up only to see Ex-Aid running up Giga Bowser's back before smacking his head with his hammer, "Night-night…" he fainted again.

"Look. Bowser is still Bowser, and what he wants is his crush's attention." Lazer added, "I don't think he particularly cares what type!" he said in a panicked tone as the ground shook due to Ex-Aid and Bowser punching at each other, causing the shockwave in question, "So...just taunt her into taking some initiative, Little Red..." he began.

"I got it!" Nora grinned, "Hey, Weiss! Lazer said you make a terrible princess!"

"What?!"

"Nora...what are you doing?" Ren blinked.

"Ha!" Ex-Aid roared, grabbing a strength item as he and Bowser clashed fists again and pushed against one another.

"And Emu said you act horrible for a damsel in distress."

"Excuse you!?"

"Kinda busy!" Ex-Aid shook her shout off as he and Bowser punched repeatedly at one another each time the ground shaking from their strength clashing.

"...Something's off here…" Snipe muttered, 'If we clear the game, shouldn't the Bugster have just died or vanish…'

"Hey, Weiss! You suck so bad at being a princess, Ruby can do it way better in! Her! Sleep!" Nora added.

"I can?" Ruby blinked, confused.

"Oh no she can't!" Weiss snapped, "Hey you!" she snapped as Bowser paused and looked at her. "Why are you wasting time with him? Hurry up and kidnap me! We'll do it right this time!"

"Rah?" Bowser blinked, his jaw falling down in shock.

"Meijin, now!" Lazer grinned as Bowser got sucker punched by Ex-Aid.

"Grah!?" Bowser gawked, stumbling back, before Ex-Aid continued punching with his enhanced power, pushing the new Bugster back across their platform. Ex-Aid landed a last punch...only for the red glow to fade away. Bowser didn't move much and looked down at the Kamen Rider, raising a brow.

"...Ow!" Ex-Aid shouted, shaking his hand.

"Oh great...Now what?" Snipe looked at Lazer.

"Uh...Brave...wake up! You know game stuff!" Lazer slapped Brave repeatedly.

"Wha?! My head...I had a nightmare...Emu was trapped in a lava pit with Weiss as Giga...why are you all looking at me like…" he paused, turning to see Bowser, and, before he could faint again, Lazer slapped him with his tire tonfa, "OW! I'm up!" he shot up, "What is going on?! What now?"

"Taddle Quest. Cheating magic fox's platform over a volcano. Any traps or anything?" Lazer asked.

"Um...Oh! There's a panel that, if you step on it, makes a three-by-three grid around it vanish, the spot the panel's on included," Brave explained, "But the panel randomizes each time it activates."

"Great…" Lazer groaned, "So where could it be?"

"We'd need a Third Sight Potion for anyone to see it," Brave explained before turning back to the castle, "And if memory serves right...There's a single one at the end of the third floor corridor past a gargoyle that you either have to guess the riddle he gives correctly or, if you get it wrong, smash it with a wooden mallet dyed orange and yellow and named 'Context Sensitive.'"

"Why is this game so specific?!" Lazer shouted while going through information overload.

"It's a good game and adds in more play time," Brave shrugged.

"Good, so go get it," Snipe ordered; Brave made a move to argue, only to get a gun aimed at his face, "Get it."

"G-Got it…" Brave gulped before running off before coming back, picking up Ren, and ran back in, "I need your brain! I am terrible with the gargoyle's riddles and there is smith shop in the castle to purchase a wooden mallet!"

"Without context, this would be odd," was all Ren said as they left.

"Whoa!" Ex-Aid panicked, jumping over another swing from Bowser before slashing his arm with his sword.

Bowser roared as he unleashed a stream of fire only it to collide with a wall of ice. Bowser gawked at the sudden wall before it was smashed by Ex-Aid's hammer, sending ice chunks as projectiles at the new breed of Bugster. Ex-Aid jumped as he swung forward to strike with his hammer only for Bowser to catch him and toss him down to the platform and sending him sliding over towards the edge. Ex-Aid was able to grab onto the edge just in time before he fell off. He looked down, making his eyes bug out of his goggles almost as he saw the lava below.

"Well...now I'm hot pink…" Ex-Aid laughed awkwardly, trying not to panic. He snapped his head up as he heard a familiar laugh and looked up to see Bowser above him, the monster lifting his leg intent on stomping on Ex-Aid's hand, "Oh the situational irony…" he grimaced.

"Weiss, you suck at being a princess!" Nora called.

"Alright! I've had enough of this bit," Weiss groaned as she pointed her sword as a glyph stopped Bowser's foot and instead launched him, flying away from Ex-Aid.

Bowser, in his confusion, just rolled with the sudden force before stopping on the clear opposite end of the platform. Bowser looked up at the ceiling while groaning as if asking in a dramatic manner 'Why?', all the while not able to see as Weiss walked over to Ex-Aid.

"Aren't you supposed to be good at this nonsense?!" she snapped at him.

"Hehe...normally? Yeah. But I never got this good instantly. Natural skill just takes a person so far." he grunted, pulling himself up with one arm as his other had to hold onto his Gashacon Breaker, "Besides I think I got a long way to go before I'm good enough to really be called a hero. I can't even control my own impulses. Some hero huh?" he chuckled.

"Ugh…" Weiss just facepalmed at that.

"But...can't let that stop me now." Ex-Aid added as he swung his legs forward until he touched the bottom of the platform before pushing them off. As his body straightened out, he pushed his legs down as he shot himself up and over Weiss and landed on one knee, "I still got a game to clear with no continues."

"Why do you say that anyway?" Weiss asked, somewhat interested in his catchphrase, "In video games, aren't continues good?"

"Yeah...in video games, yes. But real lives don't get the option to continue after they die." he explained as Bowser struggled to roll back onto his feet, "So that's what I mean by no continues. You only have one life: yours. So...you have to make it count for all it's worth. That's why I agreed to be Ex-Aid. Extreme Aid, going to any length to help."

"Wait...your name is derived from 'Extreme Aid'?" she blinked, surprised.

"That didn't make sense?" Ex-Aid tilted his head surprised, he honestly thought everyone figured his armor's name out already.

"I...nevermind…" Weiss groaned.

"Hahaha…" Ex-Aid laughed, surprising her.

"What's so funny?" Weiss blinked.

"Nothing, I just figured if anything you'd figure my name out first. I guess you really are just a normal person in the end." He laughed in a happy good natured tone.

"H-Hey!" Weiss snapped, a tiny blush gracing her cheeks.

"WILL YOU JUST BLOW UP THE BUGSTER ALREADY?!" Lazer shouted.

"Right," Ex-Aid nodded pushing the A Button on his Gashacon Breaker as he began twirling his hammer as it extended into sword mode, "Let's end this odyssey!"

"Do you always have to be clever?" Weiss asked.

"My partner is Kiriya...one of us has to." Ex-Aid chuckled, earning a small one from Weiss.

"Hey!" Lazer complained.

"He made Weiss laugh! He is amazing!" Ruby joked.

Bowser finally got up only to get slashed across the face by Ex-Aid. Bowser growled before he was pelted by icicles from multiple angles around him. Bowser spun around, spewing fire, only to get his leg slashed by Ex-Aid. Bowser fell down, stopping himself with his arm. The bugster blinked only for a white blur to strike him multiple times across his arm and face. Bowser grunted before he was slashed across the chest. This time, a scratch was left in his torso's armoring making him stagger back a step. Ex-Aid spun around as he kicked Bowser making him stagger another step. The bugster then grunted as he felt Weiss's sword strike his torso where he was scratched, digging an even deeper mark into his armor.

"We got the potion!" Brave called as he and Ren ran in.

"I don't get why you always lost to that riddle," Ren noted, "It was easy."

"How does 'The baby fell from the first floor' be the right answer in a panic-inducing scenario riddle?!" Brave complained.

"Give me that!" Snipe complained, taking the potion, "Things like this work just like energy items." he noted before crushing the vial; the contents turned into mist-like energy that he breathed into his mask. His visible eye began glowing as he looked over the platform, "Got it." he spoke, taking out his gun and unfolding to rifle mode, "Ex-Aid, move the Bugster towards the southern end of the platform!"

"Got it!" Ex-Aid shouted, tapping the B button 5 times as he slashed, causing five pink streaks to cut up Bowser's chest, leaving multiple scratches.

"This better be an actual plan!" Weiss added as she thrust her sword forward multiple times, chipping away at the chest armor.

"The diameter of the squares and the bugsters feet…correlate size, add for weight and volume..." Snipe muttered to himself as he scanned the entire area and doing math in his head, "15 more steps back and 8 steps to your left!" he ordered.

"Got it...I know the plan now!" Ex-Aid smirked as he jumped and drop kicked Bowser, sending him sliding back, "Weiss, ice slide!"

Weiss rotated her blade's revolver before the blue dust in it glowed. She stabbed it into the ground and a trail of ice formed in Bowser's path. Ex-Aid jumped as he slashed Bowser sending him stumbling onto and slipping on the ice. Bowser slid back along the desired path to where he needed to go. Snipe aimed and shot a square that made up the platform, causing a large chunk to crack and fall to the lava bellow. Bowser stopped himself just short of the pitfall, only to look up at Ex-Aid as he pulled his Gashat out.

"Time for the finisher." Ex-Aid smirked, blowing on his Gashat before slotting it into the finisher slot on his hip and double tapping the button.

=Mighty Critical Finish!=

Ex-Aid roared as he ran forward before he jumped up and rolled forward before he extended his leg as it began glowing with pink and green energy. A Glyph formed in his path as he kicked it, the magic symbol holding him in the air for a few moments before multiple rings of the Glyph formed around him and began spinning as if building energy. The glyphs suddenly changed color before shooting Ex-Aid like a bullet as the energy around his foot turned bright blue and pink. Bowser gawked as the kick hit his chest, causing large cracks to spread across his chest. The built up pressure and speed turned into a large burst of kinetic force that sent Bowser flying off and falling to the lava below.

"..." Weiss waited until Bowser was fully submerged in lava before looking at Ex-Aid, "Please tell me he doesn't have a lava-proof form."

"I don't think he has that. It was exclusive to a crossover set of Amiibo for the Wii and WiiU versions of Skylanders Suerchargers, so I don't think Nintendo owns all the rights to the form," Ex-Aid replied, "But normally a dunk in the lava is how the game ends so…" he waited as a large explosion came from beneath them, "I think we're good."

"Oh thank goodness…" Weiss sighed in relief, "That's a relief. I don't want to do anything with that big brute anymore."

"Judging from what I've read off her lips and her posture, we're good," Snipe informed.

"Jaune...take us home please." Pyrrha ordered.

"So can I keep these things I found in the treasure chests?" Yang asked, wearing several gold crowns on her person.

Brave tapped his Level Select and the area reverted to normal. The crowns glowed before vanishing in a poof of smoke.

"Aw...I had to punch a lot of fake boxes to find those," Yang pouted.

"Nora tried it before you in practice once," Brave explained.

"I still blame you!" Nora complained.

"It's not my fault!" Brave complained as the Kamen Riders all reverted to normal.

---

"Ah...that was fun," Parad spoke as he sucked black mist into the Bugvisor, the screen lit up to showed a confused and injured Bowser; Bowser looked around before he began tapping the screen, growling to be let back out, "Don't worry, buddy. You'll get another chance to get your princess, but right now time to ride the bench."

=RAR?! RAAAAAAA…= Bowser began to roar before Parad taped a picture to the screen, making him pause.

"Good thing I photoshopped this when I saw him abduct that girl," Parad noted as giddy growling was heard from the Bugvisor, "Now, who's next? And who would look good with an upgrade?" he asked himself, holding up a red Gashat titled 'Gekitotsu Robots', "Oh, the fun has just begun for me." he smiled happily as he walked away, "Hey, what do you feel like, sushi?" he asked Bowser.

=Rr?= Bowser paused in his giddy growling =Rrrr...Rah!=

"Hmm...good point. You are such a good conversationalist, you know that?" Parad smiled.

---

"Ow!" Emu cried as Taiga applied topical cream to wounds on his back.

"Oh shut up. They're minor burns and scratches," Taiga shook his head as he slapped his back.

"Ow…" Emu groaned.

"You're lucky this is the worst you got with the punishment that walking, almost talking, fire breathing turtle did to you," Taiga sighed, "Okay. We're done here. Just keep that cream on you for the night and they'll be healed by morning."

"Got it." he grunted, putting his shirt back on.

"Arc, get out of bed. You're not hurt." Taiga sighed, moving one of the curtains, revealing Jaune laying back in the bed.

"Hiding from Yang since she's still mad about the crowns," Jaune informed, "Nora only added fuel to the fire."

"Boohoo. Girl's chasing you. Get out of my office," Taiga muttered, not even paying attention.

"I'll be back in ten minutes or less," Jaune whimpered as he peeked out, seeing no signs of the blonde or his orange-haired teammate, before going out.

"The women in this place are insane… He's gonna die," Taiga bluntly spoke.

"You talk as if that is something that's...constant." Emu noted.

"..."

"...That is something that's constant," Emu's eyes widened.

"Oh, look, there's someone waiting for you. Get going," Taiga informed before literally punting Emu out.

"Ow...Why kick me?" Emu groaned.

"You're not the first one he's done that to," Emu looked up at Velvet.

"Normally he grabs me by my hoodie," Emu grunted while getting up, at that his hoodie was tossed out and onto his face, "Thank you…"

Taiga's response was closing the door.

"While he doesn't have a good attitude, he is a good doctor," Velvet chuckled awkwardly at Taiga's attitude.

"You know, I bet deep down he's not half bad." Emu sighed, putting his jacket on wincing at the stinging to his wounds from how he moved his shoulders, "But he always gets the job done."

"True," Velvet agreed before rubbing her arm, "Thank you."

"Hm?" He blinked a bit of worry running through his head.

"For helping me when that thing was using my body to attack you and the others," Velvet explained, "Before Professor Hanaya let me out, he said you were the one who did the most to help cure me."

"Oh...it was nothing really...I mean…." he muttered to himself, "I just did what I thought was right. What I had to, and that's it." he blurted out, "I'm not good with...being thanked honestly…"

"Oh...Still, I am glad for what you did to help me," Velvet noted before sighing, "Though it's just my luck, I suppose."

"Hm?" Emu raised a brow before Velvet took out a pair of tickets, "Oh! Those were for the expo today?"

"I was, well, hoping to ask if you wanted to go there today, but as you can tell…"

"Yeah...things...got crazy." Emu chuckled, "To be fair, I don't think I'll be welcomed back after I chased a graphics team around with a hundred weird questions. Also...I think I've had my fill of video games today." he sighed, "How about instead...a movie? I hear there are some fun old black and white film screenings this week."

"...I'd like that," Velvet smiled.

"Yeah, I could use a little normal fun." Emu chuckled, "Besides the seats at the theater are pretty comfy." he groaned, rubbing his shoulder.

"True...though I wish they wouldn't charge so much for snacks," Velvet admitted.

"Tell me about it… It's like going to the movies is paying for one big ride. But there are times having a sneaky and crafty roommate turns out useful. Such as showing you how to sneak things in." Emu smirked as they began walking down the hall to leave the building.

"Really now?" Velvet blinked twice.

"Yup."

"...Your teammate, Kiriya?" she guessed.

"...Yup," he sighed after a small pause, "Don't tell him, but he's a good friend when he wants to be." he chuckled.

"I HEARD THAT, MEIJIN!" Kiriya's voice echoed throughout the hall, until it was overshadowed by a loud clanging sound, "OW!"

"You idiot! They were having a moment!" Yang's voice hissed.

"Not cool," Blake added.

"Maybe I need new friends." Emu chuckled awkwardly.

---

"...What are you doing?" Graphite raised a brow, seeing Parad looking over the Bugvisor with a giddy grin.

"So many more new Bugsters...so...little...time…" Parad whispered.

"That look in your eyes...it's unsettling, Parad." Graphite muttered.

"Shh...I'm fantasizing."

"Creepy is more like it…" Torchwick muttered.

=Rawr!=

"...What are you playing now?"

"Oh no. That's our new buddy," Parad grinned before showing Torchwick the screen...where Bowser was picking his nose with his pinky claw with a bored expression.

"What in the sweet name of money is that supposed to be?" he blinked.

=RAH!?=

"Yeah, I know right? Such a tool," Parad spoke to Bowser.

=Rawr. Rah harh= Bowser snorted before digging into his shell and pulled out a giant gold coin =Raw-rawr~=

"...He makes money?" Torchwick asked.

"Correction: The game he's from has a TON of money in the form of GOLD. COINS~"

"Most Bugsters can manifest typical objects of importance from their games," Graphite explained, "Others can turn their games mechanics into powers that never would make sense in the game world themselves. I suppose for Bowser he can form the game currency on a dime so to speak. His castles tend to have giant rooms filled with bundles of 'em."

"...Can we bring him out to do a little cash exchange for better hired men?" Torchwick asked while, as if on cue, a Bugster grunt that Graphite made screamed as it landed flat on its back...before a large crate filled with Dust crushed it, "See?"

"My game is filled with all monsters. It has no such thing as...competent grunts," Graphite sighed.

=Rah-gra-rah-bwa? rah-rah-gra-grawr=

"...What'd he say?"

"'What are you complaining about? I've got Koopas that are so scared that when they go into their shells, they don't come out for days even if they're gonna fall into lava and shiitake mushrooms with useless fangs,'" Parad translated.

"Great. So both of our dragon residents have useless grunts..." Torchwick sighed, "Why don't you just summon the actual dragons and demons from your game then?"

"It doesn't work that way; only the boss characters can come out." Graphite groaned.

"Besides, you know how messed up it would be if a Deviljho from Monster Hunter were caught roaming around here?" Parad asked.

"What's a Deviljho?"

"Hahahaha,...ah...oh...you poor, stupid, dollar store crook!" Parad laughed, "What's a Deviljho? ...oh...that's rich!" he kept laughing as he walked off and plugged the Bugvisor into a computer as Bowser was uploaded to the screen, the giant turtle enjoying the larger space, "But he does make a point on the minion thing...think we should employ Ganondorf?"

=RAWR?!=

"...You're right. Too competent, so maybe a last resort. Hmm…" Parad began to ponder as he looked through the list on a seperate screen, "We need someone who is good with large numbers but is actually good at leading them around. Hm...well, that's a small list all things considered. Maybe one of these strategy games, or something like Dynasty Warriors..." he muttered as he narrowed the list down, "Hmm...so many of these are based off animes...some maybe a bit too OP, so maybe go with something simple, like...oh...oh~ oh, this will be an interesting game."

=Grr?= Bowser raised a brow as he looked at the game Parad was looking at =...Grr?=

"No. It's not because of how...ahem... shapely the girls in that game are. Besides, there's more than looks when it comes to certain characters."

=Grr?=

"You'll see once the game begins…"

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SZ: Hoo...this one took a while to finish…

Z0: My bad, I'm having a lot of computer issues, my bad.

GT: It's fine, Z0. There's also been a matter of real life stuff getting in my way of helping write this, too. Honestly, I thought I was done tearing down walls and putting up new sheets of drywall in their place…

SZ: And I've been sick as of late…

Z0: Life sucks...plain and simple.

GT: *shrugs* But it does have its ups with its downs. *holds up a Gunpla for Burning/God Gundam from G Gundam* Did I mention that I love having a store that sells all things anime, manga, and model kits here?

Z0: Several times.

SZ: A lot...wish I had something like that, but at least I have a place I can go hang out at on thursdays for Yugioh tournaments.

Z0: I spend my time video gaming in the sanctity of my room. Re-playing Persona 5! But eh that's besides the point, I'm working on my computer things, we'll try and find more time to work on this, cause this is a lot of fun.

SZ: Agreed.

GT: Very true!

Z0: Anyway we hope to get these out far more regularly from now on, and hope to keep doing our best. So that's about it, we'll end it with a preview for next time folks. Things should get interesting for our heroes.

GT: Very true. But for now...PREVIEW! *throws an egg wrapped in paper at the screen, blowing up in a plume of purple and black smoke*

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Weiss: What's this about a new student?

Blake: Something about a new girl who's getting everyone's attention. You know...the usual cliches.

Ruby: Whoa~ Did she just out-ninja Blake?!

Yang: Wow...now that's some skill.

Kiriya: Is no one gonna mention the fact she's…?

Team RWBY: Kiriya, shut up.

Save File 6: RWBY vs Shinobi

Emu/Jaune/Kiriya/Taiga: EH?!

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SZ: ohh~ this should be interesting.

Z0: Welp the boys are gonna be useless next time.

SZ: So it'll be the girls' time to shine.

GT: Very true.

Z0: I can just smell the shenanigans.

SZ: Oh yeah, so tune in next time folks.

GT: So until then, Read and Review! PLEASE!