GKC: What's up, everyone! This is GKC here bringing you another chapter of Remnant's Climax Heroes!

KRD: Yep! And right now I'm hungry! Hungry for this chapter! Because this is a 2-for-1 special!

GKC: Exactly! Two chapters for the price of one every time I upload our work here! And this time, we're going to get our hands dirty in the kitchen!

KRD: Yep! Because today's special is Japanese food!

SR: Great, now I'm hungry...

GKC: Ah, he's here.

KRD: I knew the food would entice him over here! Success!

SR: I've been betrayed by my stomach.

KRD: You're getting food in the end. So what are you complaining about?

SR: College. It will drive anyone insane, or give a headache.

GKC: Yeah? Well, I can't play my damn video games because of the crappy internet service.

SR: That's common in a lot of places.

GKC: Whatever, let's just get on with the story.

SR: Right.

KRD: Allez cuisine! And Henshin!


Chapter 19: Culinary Catastrophe!


Koa was sitting on her bed with a storm cloud over her head and tears in her eyes. "It's not fair…" she muttered. After the events of yesterday, half of the toys she bought were returned to the store and she was grounded for using money without permission. "They were all on sale and I didn't spend that much money."

"You should have asked first," Aaron called out from the Rider Base.

"I did ask!" Koa retorted, "But you jerks were stuck in that game!"

"And I wasn't there when you asked me!" Aaron shot back. Koa grumbled to herself.

"I'm starving here!" She shouted.

"Then go to the cafeteria!"

"I want something new!" Koa complained. "It's boring eating the same food every day!"

"She does have a point, Aaron." Orion admitted, "They don't exactly have a lot of selections for food."

"Yeah! Make me something new!"

Aaron groaned as light and the sound of sparks came from inside the base. "Ow! It's always something with you two!" Aaron cursed.

"Hey don't shoot the messenger." Orion raised his hands. "If you wanna hear complaining, you should hear Kuro."


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"Ughhhh! It's always the same thing!" Kurogasa slammed his head on the table in the cafeteria as he was eating lunch with Weiss, Ruby, Pyrrha, and Ren. "I'm tired of the same food!"

"Oh don't be so dramatic," Weiss said, enjoying some soup, "It's not any different from Atlesian cuisine."

"That's not the point! It's the same menu for the past week!" Kurogasa said.

"To be fair," Ren said, "A few of your battles did some damage to the storage room."

"Gahhhh… I want some Japanese food…" Kurogasa bemoaned. "Where are the sushi? The donburis? And the udon noodles!?"

"Sushi?" Ruby tilted her head.

"Donburi?" Ren said confused.

"What's udon?" Pyrrha asked.

"Popular food from Japan in my old world." Kurogasa sighed.

"Well, what if we learned to make them?" Ruby suggested. That caused a few bells in Kurogasa's brain to start ringing.

"Really? We can?" Kurogasa asked hopefully.

"Yeah. How hard could it be?" Pyrrha said with a smile.

"I am interested in learning about new culinary delights," Ren admitted.

"Yes! Woohoo!" Kurogasa cheered. "Weiss? What about you? C'mon, you know you always want to try something new when it comes to different cultures."

The heiress sighed, "Oh, alright. I suppose I can give it a try."

"Sweet!" Kurogasa cheered. "Alright, first thing's first." He said before bowing to Weiss with his hand held out. "I need your credit card."

"Use your own!"

"I used it when I bought Roman those ten ice cream buckets remember?"

Weiss sweatdropped, "You mean to tell me that you spent all of your money?"

"Yes…" Kurogasa said. "But I'll make it up to you!" He then leaned in and whispered something in her ear his offer of what he'll do in return. The more she listened, Weiss's cheeks gradually turned red.

"What did he say to her?" Ruby asked Pyrrha and Ren.

"Best not to ask," The older teens informed the young reaper.


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Koa was making a huge tower of blocks, humming until the door slammed open, knocking her blocks into the air. "Gahhhhh! No, my tower!" She cried out in dismay.

"Guys, we're gonna make some-!" Kurogasa said before being strangled by Koa.

"It took me all day to build that tower!" Koa said as she shook Kurogasa.

"Uwhawawawawawawawa, stop shaking me!"

Orpheus walked up to Koa and flicked her forehead. "Owie!"

"Thanks…" Kurogasa sighed as he plopped his butt on the floor.

"Why must everyone be mean to me?" Koa lamented as she cried anime tears in the corner.

"Oh grow up, Koa," Aaron said as he wiped his hands coming out of the base, "What's up Kuro?"

"We're making Japanese food and I need your guys' help!"

"Say what?" Aaron blinked in confusion.

"I'm tired of the stupid cafeteria food and we're all going to the supermarket to get what we need."

"Okay then…" Orpheus said, a bit surprised.

"Well, guess we better get going," Aaron stated.


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And so teams RWBY, JNPR, and JOKR went into the city to head over to the supermarket to buy ingredients and kitchenware. Kurogasa had made a list of ingredients of what they need, and it was an extensive one. Considering that he thought of every Japanese dish he could remember from his old world. After walking for a while, they finally arrived at the largest supermarket in all of Vale, so large that one would almost consider it to be a mall.

"Wow! Look at all the stores!" Koa said in awe. "Ooh! Toys!" She said as she was about to dash towards it when Orpheus held her up by the back collar of her shirt.

"No… Just, no…" Orpheus simply said.

"Party pooper…" Koa grumbled.

"We're not here to buy toys, Koa. We're here to get ingredients for the food." Aaron reminded the Greeed.

"So… this is what we'll do." Kurogasa, as he had already downloaded the list to all their Scrolls. "Team RWBY, you will be handling the meats, seafood, vegetables, and rice. Team JNPR, you will be handling the kitchen appliances, and as Team JOKR, Koa, and I, we'll be handling the miscellaneous groceries. We'll meet up in about two hours, okay?"

Everyone nodded and separated into the markets to gather their necessary resources for the Japanese meals to come.


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With Team RWBY…

"So much… tuna…" Blake drooled at the sight of rows upon rows of the huge fish. They smelled so fresh and… well, fishy. But it was an intoxicating smell for the cat Faunus. Yang sighed and dragged her away, much to her dismay.

"We're only taking one since it's huge and enough for everyone to share," Yang said. "So don't complain."

Blake groaned in despair.

"Ooh, what about this one Weiss?" Ruby asked, showing a packaged meat to the Heiress.

"No, get that one," Weiss said pointing to one.

"That one?"

"No, that one."

"This one?"

"THAT ONE!"

"I don't know!"

"Look, see here?" Weiss said, showing the label. "It's too expensive and very little of it."

"Eh?" Ruby said, looking at the food. "Really?"

"Look…" She pointed at the label. "The meat's already expired by one day."

"But it's on sale…" She tried to say, only to get a stern glare from Weiss.

"No." She said, making an X mark with her arms.

"H-Hmm…" Ruby pouted putting down the meat. "Then what should we get?"

"Hmmm…" The heiress said, looking around. "Here. This should be good. It's a bit expensive, but there should be enough." The girls looked over Weiss's shoulder and gawked in surprise.

"Holy cow! That's super expensive!" Ruby cried out.

"But that meat… it looks really good…" Blake admitted.

"Yeah…" Yang agreed. "I wonder how the others are doing?"


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Koa was balancing a bunch of groceries on her head giggling. "Koa! Stop! You'll spoil the produce," Aaron cried out.

"Come on, let her have her fun," Orpheus said, "You know how bored she gets." Koa giggles, as people watched her balancing act recording it on their Scrolls.

"She's sure having fun…" Kurogasa muttered as he picked up an ingredient and crossed it off the list.

"Well, she does have the mindset of a child…" Orion pointed out.

"I think it's because she wasn't made thousands of years ago." Orpheus points out.

"That or she's a dummy," Aaron said bluntly.

'How cruel!' All three of his teammates thought with a sweatdrop.

Sighing, the JOKR team leader checked the list again, "In any case, we're about nearly done. We've got most of the groceries but we need a few utensils and some items for the sweets."

"Yeah, wonder what JNPR is up to?" Kurogasa wondered.


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With Team JNPR…

"Nora, you need to be careful with those knives," Ren said. "Those are really expensive."

"What was that?" Nora asked her childhood friend as the knives she held… slipped out of her hands and flew directly at Jaune, who released a girlish scream. All the knives, however, floated to a stop as it was mere inches away from his face when Pyrrha used her Semblance. "Thanks…" He sighed in relief.

"Nora!" Ren gave the thunderous girl a scolding glare.

"Oops! Sorry, Jaune-y!" Nora apologized to her leader.

"It's cool… Yep, totally cool…" Jaune said with a sheepish chuckle as he slid down onto his butt… and promptly passed out.

"We should help him back to Beacon," Ren suggested. "And Nora, please stay away from any more knives…"

"Fine…" Nora huffed. "I'll get the pots and pans." She picked up a single pan, and the rest suddenly tumbled to the ground. "Ok, how does that happen?!"

"Pyrrha, I think you should handle everything with your Semblance." Ren sweatdropped.


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Back at Beacon, after Kurogasa paid for their ingredients and kitchen equipment with Weiss's credit card, they brought back their groceries to the school. Thankfully, Aaron equipped the Rider Base as a second home in case some huge emergency happened, in which case Team JOKR knew but won't happen until the next two volumes. They all then helped placed the ingredients and kitchen appliances on the counter of their Rider Base kitchen and helped distributed it to where it goes in preparation for cooking.

"That's everything," Koa said placing the last bag on the counter. Everyone then nodded to each other and placed aprons on.

"Yosh!" Kurogasa said determined, "Let's make Japanese cuisine!"

"BANZAI!" Everyone cheered.

And so the cooking began as each team member was assigned what dish to make. Ruby will be making sukiyaki, Weiss with miso soup, Blake with tempura, Yang with karaage, Jaune with ramen, Nora with mochi, Pyrrha with udon noodles, Ren with Sushi, Aaron with Rice Balls, Kurogasa with donburi dishes, Orion with okonomiyaki, Orpheus with takoyaki, and Koa… well, she'll be serving tea.

Now then, let's see how they're all doing… cue the montage music!


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Ruby was making the Sukiyaki, though, despite Kurogasa's instructions, she was having difficulty. But it should be easy. All she had to do was simmer grilled tofu, thinly sliced beef, negi, and enoki mushrooms in beef stock. How was that difficult? Ruby coughed as the food was a tad burnt from being left to simmer for too long.

"It's fine, Ruby. We bought plenty of food. Just watch your timing." Kurogasa said. He then looked over to Weiss who was stirring the miso soup.

"How does this taste?" Weiss asked, pouring a sample onto a small saucer that he took and sipped.

"A little too much miso paste, add a bit of water to tone it down." Kurogasa suggested.

Weiss nodded, "Got it."

"Blake! Stop eating the fish!" Aaron called out.

"Good thing Kurogasa assigned me to sushi." Ren said as he was making the sushi like a professional as if it were second nature.

"Um, I'm making this correctly, right?" Jaune asked over a steaming pot of boiling broth with noodles inside.

"Whoa, whoa," Kurogasa said, rushing over to Jaune to scoop the noodles out with the noodle basket. "The noodles go in the soup after you boil it. It's not like spaghetti."

"Well, sorry! I've never made anything like this!" The young Arc twin argued with a pout.

"Jaune, just take your time. Not everyone gets it the first time." Orion told his twin as he was flipped over the okonomiyaki since one side was done.

"Aaaaaaahahahahaha!" Nora laughed. She was having a blast pounding the mochi that was in the mortar with the hammer relentlessly, assisted by Koa who was putting water in a little at a time to make sure it stayed moist.

"Watch it! You almost smashed my hand!" Koa cried out.

"Honestly…" Aaron shook his head… while wearing the ZECT Rider Belt with the Kabuto ZECTer flying around his head and releasing mechanical chirps. He molded and formed perfect rice balls, each with different kinds of cooked meat and veggies plus a few jam-based centers.

"Dude, did you have to have the Kabuto ZECTer flying around?" Orpheus sweatdropped, turning the takoyaki balls with his chopsticks to make sure they were cooked evenly.

"Hey, Souji Tendou's cooking skills are legendary. You can't deny that you don't wanna try some of his cooking. Hence why I choose his powers because they also give me his skills like with Build I gain Sento's intellect or with Wataru, I gain his musical prowess." Aaron explained. "Besides, I'm also making sweets after I finish with these rice balls."

"Even though the actor himself just started cooking…" Orpheus muttered. "Really contradictory…"

"Well, good thing that Kamen Riders don't follow reality like so many others."

"Uhh… I think I left the chicken in the deep fryer for too long." Yang said, as her karaage was a little well done.

"Ack! Yang! Why didn't you take it out sooner!?" Aaron exclaimed in shock, feeling his inner Tendou come up. "Grandma said this: There are two things a man must never do, one is to not make a girl cry and the other to handle the food so crudely! I'm deeply disappointed with how this turned out…" He looked at the Kabuto ZECTer, who seemed to understand what the young man wanted. "Henshin." He said after catching the robot beetle then slots it on his belt.

HENSHIN

CAST OFF! CHANGE: BEETLE!

Kamen Rider Kabuto popped his neck and looked at everyone, who stared at the red Rider in surprise. "Out! All of you! Let a master work his magic!"

"DA-ME!" Kurogasa snapped, whacking Kabuto's head with a ladle. "Do not rob them of their experience!"

"Did you have to hit me on the head though?" Kabuto deadpanned.

"I don't care, you're not spoiling it for everyone with Tendou's badassery!" Kurogasa huffed.

"Fine, fine. I'll just return to my workstation but you're not getting any of the sweets I prepare later on."

"Sweets?!" The more immature of the group said with a small bit of drool.

"I said NO!" Aaron denied.

"Uh~?" Pyrrha pointed to Koa as she got caught sneaking a few bites of Aaron's sweets he was making, and Koa herself became a deer caught in the headlights upon midbite. Seeing she was caught, she finished her treat and enjoyed it before she got up, chuckled nervously as she slowly walked towards the door.

"Hehe um… good treat?" Koa said, trying to slither out of the grave she's digging.

"YOU FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!"

"Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"


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Aaron was making a pile of Cell Medals that he and the others picked up from the floor.

"You didn't have to go that far…" Orpheus muttered.

"Eh, she'll be fine." Aaron said nonchalantly. He turned to see Koa on her bed grumbling, and due to her punishment and lack of Cell Medals, she was very short now. The girls were fawning over how cute she was now, much to the Greeed's annoyance.

"So cuuuuuute!" The girls said, cuddling the Greeed.

"Stupid… Kamen Rider…" Koa grumbled.

"Well, it won't be long now. Dinner's just about ready." Kurogasa smiled. "And we'll be enjoying the fruits of our labor."

"Can I have my Cell Medals back now? These girls won't stop fawning over me!"

"NO!" Aaron shouted.

"Why you I'll- Hey! Stop that! That tickles!"

Aaron sighs as he facepalmed.

"Dude, just give back her Cell Medals…" Orpheus sighed.

"Later… Right now let's just end this nonsense." Aaron said as he looked at the dwindling sweets he had prepared. "Oh man, she ate nearly all the dango! I slaved all day making that."

"We still have plenty of ingredients for the Dango." Orpheus said.

"Then let's do it." Kurogasa nodded.

"Somebody save me!" Koa lamented.


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After what seemed like forever…

"Uwhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" All of them looked at the Japanese feast set on the table that they themselves have cooked. It was a beautiful setup with the sukiyaki as the centerpiece, the appetizers surrounding it, the side dishes and miso soup set up perfectly on the side for each person, a sushi set on the other side and finally dessert that was on another small table that was saved for later.

"So tasty…" some of the group drooled at the sight and smell.

"Well, c'mon, let's all dig in." Kurogasa smiled. "No use standing around." They cheered and started to dig in. The tastes of the cuisine exploded in their mouths. Suffice to say, they were in heaven.

"Mmmmmmmmm! This is so good!" Ruby squealed with sparkling eyes. Blake and Yang were moaning in delight at each bite whilst Weiss was blushing as she ate.

"The taste is melting in my mouth!" Koa said happily as she kept eating.

Nora was scarfing down the delicious meal as Ren calmly ate his own. Jaune and Pyrrha were eating together when Pyrrha had a wonderful idea. Jaune saw Pyrrha hold up a piece of food.

"Oh, Jaune you must try some of this." Pyrrha said with a smile.

"Huh? Oh sure." Jaune said. Everyone watched as Pyrrha fed Jaune some of her food, who seemed none the wiser as he munched on the offered meal while Pyrrha had a bright smile on her face.

Aaron leaned over to his partner, "Still clueless?"

"Yep," Orion answered.

"Clueless?" Koa and Ruby said confused, oblivious once again.

"We got two more to add to that list." Aaron sweatdropped.

"I was wondering what was cooking. It smells rather wonderful." A new voice said as everyone turned to see… Headmaster Ozpin!?

"Professor Ozpin?!" Weiss exclaimed in surprise.

"Care to join us, sir?" Aaron asked while slurping up some udon noodles.

"Why certainly," Ozpin replies as he goes to sit down. Just as he did, more people came in drawn to the aromas. Among those people was Glynda, Team CFVY, Port, Oobleck, and a whole lot more.

"We might need to make more room…" Koa sweatdropped.

"Don't worry I have that covered," Aaron said, pressing a remote and the walls suddenly opened up before pulling in the essential equipment into the walls as a place of storage before the walls closed up.

"You're spending way too much time here…" Kurogasa deadpanned.

"You need to get out more." Koa added.

"Shut up!" Aaron exclaimed in annoyance.

"Oh… Kuro. You got something on your face." Velvet said as she picked off a grain of rice near his mouth. But then she did the unexpected as she… ate it?!

"Ehhh!?" Kurogasa cried out in shock, blushing heavily.

"Indirect kiss!" Orpheus whispered, nudging his partner.

"Urusai…!" Kurogasa hissed back.

"What's wrong?" Velvet blinked.

"Er-hem, allow me." Orion said as she whispered into her ear as to what she did. Now it was her turn to blush heavily.

Koa then pondered this as she turned to Orpheus, looking to see if he had any food on his face. Seeing none she saw what he was eating. "Can I have some of that?" Koa asked, pointing to Orpheus's meal.

"Huh? Why?" Orpheus looked confused.

"I want to try it." Koa replies. Orpheus shrugged and held up some food on his fork, which she happily took a bite off of. The others stared at the two as this was more of an indirect kiss than Velvet's.

"Why is she so innocent? She's like Ruby's twin?" Aaron whispered.

"It's best not to question it." Blake said, eating a tuna nigiri.

And so, everyone got to enjoy the wonderful taste of Japanese cuisine. Ozpin had made a copy of the recipes to give to the cafeteria staff so that they too can make these wonderful meals. The only ones who didn't get any of the food were Team CRDL because they decided to eat out.

"Ughhhhh… so full…" Jaune groaned.

"I think we're gonna be sick…" Orion added.

"Uh-oh, here come the Vomit Twins." Yang chuckled.

"Why must you bring up that darn nickname…" Orion whined.

"Because you puked all over mine and Yang's shoes." Ruby pouted.

"Ah, I'm stuffed." Koa laid on her back with a toothpick in between her teeth.

"Say, where are Kurogasa and Weiss?" Coco wondered, now noticing that they weren't in the Rider Base anymore.

"Probably sucking face somewhere," Nora said with a smirk.

"No, just… no." Ren shook his head in disappointment.


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"Okay Weiss, I'm ready. Come on in."

"Are you sure about this?"

"Of course, it's just the two of us. I did tell you what I'd do after I used your credit card for the food."

"O-Ok, I'm coming in."

The heiress came into the room wearing nothing but a towel that was wrapped around her to cover her modesty. Inside Kurogasa was wearing a white shirt and pants that male nurses would wear and was standing next to a massage bed and a few scented candles were spread out here and there.

"Wow… uh, you look…" Kurogasa trailed off, trying not to blush too hard as he cleared his throat.

"Naked?" Weiss answered.

"Well, I, uh…" The young man tried to speak but the heiress cut him off.

"Just do the massage…" Weiss lays down upon the bed, prone first with the towel lower to expose her whole back as Kurogasa walked over. He then rubbed his hands in oil and slowly raised his hands and placed them upon her back. He began to knead his hands into her shoulders. Weiss began to heave a big sigh as she felt her tension leave her body.

"Ehehe… See? Just like I promised. A full body massage." Kurogasa got out.

"Less talk…" Weiss managed to get out, "More… massage."

"Hai hai…" Kurogasa said as he continued on. Weiss continues to sigh as the Rider massaged the Heiress's back.

"Did you seriously have to bribe me with this?" Weiss asked.

"I didn't bribe you. I gave you… incentive." Kurogasa said. "Besides, I'm doing this out of the goodness of my heart for my lovable sister/girlfriend, aren't I?"

"I'm pretty sure you just wanted to get your hands on my nude body. Such a pervy boyfriend I have…" Weiss teased while sighing with content.

"At least I treat you with respect… and I don't force it on you either…" Kurogasa huffed a bit.

"Oh, so you do admit it." Weiss said slyly.

"I- never mind, I'm not gonna argue…" Kurogasa pouted as he continued the massage. Weiss merely giggled as she enjoyed teasing Kurogasa and having the best massage in the world.


KRD: And that's gonna be it for this chapter! I know it's a bit on the short side but hey, it's all we could come up with!

SR: To be fair, fillers are meant to be short. Like how Chibi sort of works!

GKC: Aye, we have our few fillers… now let's get right back to the action!

SR: Right, so let's get this show on the road! Roll that clip!


Announcer: Jikai! Remnant's Climax Heroes!

Blake: I know you guys want to help me relax but that's not happening.

Aaron: Blake's been acting weird ever since that incident at the docks.

Azrael: Time to cause a little chaos…

Blake: I want equality, Aaron! I thought you of all people would understand that.

Ruby: Blake, don't do it!

Next Time: Curiosity and a Cat! Part 1

Aaron: Blake… Why would you do this?


SR: And that's that… wait, wasn't there going to be a collaboration and a movie special chapter? Or am I thinking later down the line?

GKC: Ah, that's right. Kamen Rider Chrome wanted to do a collaboration with us. He has yet to get back to us on that but the movie special chapter shall be announced next chapter.

SR: Yay!

KRD: Oh great, we're gonna have a Black Panther Alter now…? Joy… why don't we all give the rest of the Teams Alter forms? *crickets chirping* Dang it… what have I done?

GKC: You've given me more ideas is what you've done!

KRD: See you next chapter! *runs after GKC* Don't you dare turn my precious Weiss into an Alter!

GKC: It's happening, boy! You ain't stopping me! Peace out, everybody!

SR: And don't forget to leave a review and follow!