Echo Creek
In the town of Echo Creek, many of the buildings, were abandoned and destroyed or completely demolished. The jet black Colossus continued to move along, hovering above the ground while surrounded by its white barrier. Soon it stopped moving, but it continued to hover in the air.
Julio was standing on top of the roof of a still standing house, he placed his goggles over his eyes and his eyes could see red crosshairs locking onto the colossus. "Let's see if your shield can handle this!" his right arm was a large energy cannon which was charging a bright blue energy beam. He then fired it from the hole of his large cannon and it was speeding to the colossus, a sound blast was heard as the beam travelled so fast it broke the sound barrier. It crashed into the shield which made a giant explosion. After the beam hit, the white barrier was starting to fade. Once it faded a purple beam was seen hitting the stomach. Mandy was holding a scythe with a smoking blade.
"Okay, now we just have to make it expose its power core!" Mandy exclaimed.
Future Star shot a huge blast that shook the huge Colossus. It slowly turned its head and within its HUD it showed the faces of Future Star and Mandy and it below their faces read. 'TARGETS ACQUIRED. PERFORMING ELIMINATION PROTOCOL.' Every large piece of debris, including stationary and wrecked cars, and large pieces of concrete was rising and they saw that the colossus was raising its arms and it was telekinetically lifting the debris.
"Why would it need to do that, it's already got plenty to take us out!" Kevin exclaimed. It threw the cars and they were heading for both Mandy and Future Star who were standing close to each other. Future Star made a pink barrier that covered both of them and the debris covered the barrier. Afterwards, a purplish black energy covered them. Raven tossed the debris back to the colossus and they exploded on it, but no damage was caused.
Mandy looked at the armour that was covering the Colossus. "That must be some alloy from the future that nothing in our timeline can penetrate… but…" she looked to Kevin. "Levin, I need you to absorb the armour of that thing."
"And what good, will that do?" Kevin asked.
"Think about it. The only thing that's hard enough to scratch a diamond is another diamond, right! Same logic applies here; the only thing strong enough that we can use to penetrate that futuristic alloy would be the same futuristic alloy."
Kevin smirked. "I'm pretty sure Diamonds can't scratch each other, but its the best plan we've got…" he started to run towards the floating colossus and as he was getting close Aang made a raised platform for him to run on. Soon he later made a pillar to launch Kevin towards the giant mechanical beast and Kevin held onto the jagged lower chest. Kevin started to absorb the futuristic material and his entire body was becoming coated in the same black metal and he held on with his right hand and his left arm formed a blade. He drove it to the lower chest but it made contact with an invisible white barrier that sheened over the entire colossus. There was a floating drone that blasted Kevin off with a red laser and he fell but Aang made an air cushion for him to fall on to. "Good news, I think we got its attention. Bad news, it has another shield that is covering its body. So unless we get rid of that, we're not touching this thing." Kevin stated.
Mandy glared at the Colossus. "Just when things can't get worse, these things can generate an Aura!"
"What are you talking about?" Raven asked.
"You see… there is an Earth-like planet outside our Solar System, called Remnant and on that planet all living things have this life force called Aura… and for some reason… this thing can generate one! At least I have an idea on who had a hand in building this monster!" Then suddenly small cannons grew from the side of it fired small beams towards Future Star. She flipped over the beams but it swerved in the air and it was heading for her back.
"DRAGONFLY DEVESTATION!" a stream of bright yellow dragonflies was speeding to the beam and it ignited the beam from the Colossus before it could hurt Future Star. The shockwave shot her to the ground and she slowly got up.
"I didn't do that…"
"Ehem!" she heard. Future Star saw her younger self and Marco standing close to her. "You're welcome." Star Prime cheerily said.
"What are you doing here?! I though Cloudy got you two to a safe place!"
"Yeah well about that…" Marco started.
"That doesn't matter! You two need to leave, now!"
"Not a chance!" Star exclaimed. "If we're going to do this, then we need to do it together… we're both Star Butterfly, so we stick together!"
Future Star chuckled to herself. "That's funny… Because that is exactly what I said five years ago." She got up to her feet. "I should have known that I'd still be as persistent. Fine you want to help?" she shot a red beam from her wand which vaporized the magnetic bracelet that kept Star Prime and Marco together. "Distract this thing; we need to figure out a plan…"
"Gotcha!" Star said while giving a salute. The energy charged up in her wand and she aimed it to the Colossus's left flank. "Narwhal Blast!" she shot a blast of baby narwhals in a wave of water that bounced off the mech's armour.
"Yeah… I don't think narwhals are going to cut it!" Future Star stated. The Colossus had white geometric lined that were spread all over its body. Its yellow eyes were shining white and aimed its arms forward and two white magical looking circles formed in front of the hands and it was firing explosive white blasts and when then hit the ground, the explosive blast froze on contact, making a large icicle stick out of the ground. Both Stars and Marco avoided them.
"Okay, it's mad, but it's not mad enough!" Mandy exclaimed. "We have to hit this thing even harder! First we have to penetrate that aura shield it's using."
"Yeah, you got a plan for that?" Star Prime asked.
"Like I said, we just have to make it mad enough to expose its power core, once we do that… this thing is as good as dead!"
Danwood
The white colossus stood in the city of Danwood as the seal it came through closed. Many people were looking up at it and they were even taking pictures with their camera phones. There were news helicopters that were circling it as they were trying to get a good view of it.
Standing a distance from the still colossus was a green skinned alien with three eyes along his forehead but the middle one was much bigger than the ones flanking it. He also had four small tendrils that stretched from his chin. He had tentacle arms as well. He wore a black and white suit with a red tie and there were clear, squared glasses that fell below his eyes.
"Will Harangue coming to you live with breaking news!" he exclaimed with a camera pointing at him with the blinking red dot on the top right corner recording his broadcast. "This metal monstrosity had just arrived here moments ago, but it seems to be standing still. We are getting reports that this could be the result of the vortexes that were appearing all over the planet. The camera looked up to the sky to see three jets speeding to the colossus. "It looks like the Air Force has finally arrived! But the question that this reporter asks is what this event has to do with the menace that is Ben Tennyson?" Before he was allowed to continue a pink energy blast shot him in the gut and he fell to his back.
The source of the blast came from a girl who was standing in front of a Plumber Tank and her right gauntlet was smoking from the discharge of energy.
"Sis! Why did you do that?" Ken asked as he jumped out of the tank.
"Because he was annoying me! Plus, he's alive, what's the problem?"
"Did you see that?" Will said getting back up. "This reporter was just assaulted by a Ben Tennyson sympathiser."
Kim growled under her breath. "We don't have time for this… oh and you may want to look up!" the camera man turned the view of his camera up and he saw that the missiles and gun fire of the jets were proving to be ineffective against the Colossus.
The orange arrow grilles on the face of the large monstrosity shone and small guns opened on the sides of his head and it shot odd rounds that reduced the oncoming jet to a metal version of Swiss cheese as it crashed into the ground.
As soon as Suzy saw this she jumped out of the tank. "Well this is as one-sided as it gets!" she slammed her omnitrix core and standing in her place was small two legged creature colored in a swamp green skin with a tanned stomach. Her eyes were yellow and sharp with whisker like lines on her face. She had a tail and there were dark green spots, dotting her skin, her blonde hair puffs remained on her sides. "Alright! Here is the plan!" she looked at Ken and Katara who had jumped out of the tank. She pointed to the blue exposed power core of the colossus. "See that? We have to aim out attacks there. Mandy believe that the power core is its weakness."
Ken looked at Suzy who had transformed into Upchuck. "You never did say, but where did you get an Omnitrix?"
"Stole it from an alternate dimension, but we have no time to talk about that!" she pointed to Katara. "You, do all that you can to distract it?"
"And how am I supposed to do that! Do you have any idea how big that thing is!?" Suzy opened her mouth and four long tongues stretched out and grabbed onto a nearby fire hydrant and she ingested the hydrant after ripping it from the concrete, allowing gallons of water to spew out. "Will that help!?"
Before long the colossus started moving and it then grabbed the large four spiked ring from its back and it tossed it to the direction of the next oncoming jet. The pilot quickly made evasive manoeuvres to avoid being hit by the large ring, but he was unable to notice it swerved in the air and it crashed into the jet quickly, making another explosion in the air. The final jet flew overhead and dropped a bombshell onto the head of the colossus and it made a large explosion but it stood tall and the Colossus grabbed the large ring as it flew back to him, he then tossed it to the jet at a fast speed as it spun in the air. The pilot was unable to avoid the high speed object and it crashed into his jet. The ring flew back to the colossus.
Ken looked at the Colossus with his jaw dropped down to the floor. "H-how are we supposed to beat that!?"
"Well just follow my lead…" Suzy exclaimed as the fire hydrant she swallowed was still in her gut as evidenced by a green glowing energy on her growing belly. She spit up a green energy that exploded on the colossus, but is only made a scorch mark on its armour.
Katara cringed at Suzy practically vomiting projectiles at the colossus.
"So what do we do now?" Katara asked.
"You have Artiquana right?" Suzy asked Ken.
"Uh… I think…" Ken replied.
Suzy slammed the her omitrix core, turning her back to her human form. "Good, cause we're going to need it."
At the same time, Kim leaped onto a building and her gauntlet was surrounded in a pink energy for a second before she started sprinting across the roof. She leaped off and she landed on the back of the colossus and she reeled her arm back to throw a punch to the back of the white colossus, creating a purple shockwave as her punch was augmented by the energy that was built up in her gauntlets. She decided to let go, and she fell to her feet leaving cracks in the road.
She saw an ice ramp and her brother as Arciquana was sliding up the ramp with Katara and Suzy on his back. Katara had two long water whips and the ice ramp spread to the mid-section of the colossus. But the large mech leaped into the air and its shoulders opened revealing holes that discharged multiple flat-head missiles to the ground.
Kim's eyes were locked onto the missiles and she was stunned. Suzy leaped off Artuiquana and she activated and slammed the core of her omnitrix. She transformed into a variant of Echo-Echo with blond puffs of hair flanking the sides of her head. The Omnitrix symbol was on her upper back, where the power pack was. She duplicated herself into 12 copies and each released a sonic shriek that was able to detonate all of the missiles before they could crash into the ground. The colossus crashed back to its feet taking some of the Suzy echo-echos with it and turning them to dust.
Right after this it eyed Kim and through its HUD it showed her as a Temporal Anomaly. Its orange eye grilles glowed orange before it grabbed its four pointed ring that was magnetically attached to its back. It tossed it to Kim and it tore through the road that it was rolling on, flipping cars and debris into the air. Kim became covered in a bright purple energy and she shot forward while her gauntlets were shining a bright pink, her eyes were also engulfed in a bright pink glow. Her right gauntlet fist punched into the ring releasing a huge punching force that managed to stop the large destructive ring from moving any further. She glared at the white colossus. "Hey! You forgot something!" she reactivated the purple aura and punched the ring back towards the Colossus, it was unevenly rolling back to the mech. The colossus easily caught the ring and made it float close to its back. Kim fell to her knees and started panting as sweat was dropping off her.
The group had run over to Kim and Ken transformed to his normal form and tried to help his sister up. "Sis are you alright?"
She chuckled. "Jeez, this thing is tougher than we though. I already used half of my aura and that was only trying to stop his spiked ring or whatever, and it's not like we can use it against it because it can easily control it." Ken helped her to her feet. They looked at the colossus and they saw it get into a charging position.
"Oh no, what's it doing!?" Katara asked.
Suddenly thrusters shot out of the upper back of the colossus and they ignited, releasing blue afterburners. It shot right towards the group as wheels had appeared on the heels of its feet, making a screeching sound as it sped forward like a torpedo. Kim stood to her feet and glared at the charging colossus. Kim tried to generate as much of her aura as she could and she made a bright purple energy barrier in front of her. The colossus crashed into the barrier and it shattered like glass. The group flew back as the momentum of the colossus was abruptly stopped. The four crashed into the lobby of a building. Katara and Ken slowly got up, to see Kim tiredly getting to her knees.
"What can we do. None of our attacks are touching it." Katara asked.
Suzy got up and had several cuts on her body due to them crashing through glass. "We have to just stay alive… hopefully our backup comes soon."
Destroy All Dimensions II: Temporal Destruction
Arc 2: Time and Space
Episode 12: Rise of the Colossus Part 2
Unknown Location, Black Providence HQ
Christiana was walking through a massive complex where many Providence peons and robots were moving equipment around. There were also human personnel that were piloting two-legged forklifts that were lifting very large equipment.
As Christiana continued to walk through the very large hangar she ran into the mystery ninja who had assisted Black Knight back at McFist Industries. "Oh it is you… I can assume you're here to ask me something?" Christiana asked.
"I was told that you could stop Maltruant, how much longer to I have to wait?"
"A little longer, you just have to wait. Once we activate the Dominion Program, then all future events will fall into place."
"They better… otherwise my efforts will have been for nothing."
"You should not worry. Come with me." She followed Christiana through the hangar until they turned into a pentagon hallway that was lit with bright white lighting. They had walked through until the lighting began to turn light blue.
"So where are you taking me, and what is this place?"
"Hmm, Black Knight didn't brief you. Well this is the new headquarters of Black Providence, as you know we are dedicated to stopping Maltruant from succeeding in his plan. I'm sure you're aware of the Colossuses?"
"How could I not? It's because of them and Maltruant that I'm here."
"Well the Dominion Program will take care of them, thus preventing your timeline from being ravaged by them and Maltruant."
"I still don't follow…"
"You don't have to worry about it; you just fight any targets I sent you to. After the Dominion Program activates, we can move on to destroying Maltruant, and then Malevolence, as well as everyone in our way. I plan to create a perfect world, with my Master, and I know he can make it happen. We just need everything to go perfectly, and when it does. This world, no this entire Multiverse will be in perfect harmony."
"So… what is this Dominion Program, what exactly does it do?"
The pair stopped in front of a large blast-door that opened automatically to reveal a large room where Vlad Masters, Black Knight stood. Beside them was a person that was fair skinned with a black robe with yellow accents covering the ends of the wrists, down the middle of the robe. There was a yellow skull on the chest of the outfit. He had a dark right eye and it was flanked by a yellow cybernetic one with half of the top of his head being covered in bright yellow cybernetics. "Nice to see you could make it, Brother Blood." Christiana said.
Inside the room there were large monitors with stations that had buttons and dials along with holographic displays. There were also numbers of Black Providence scientists with gray lab coats, there were also hooded figures that were covered in gray cloaks with the symbol of the H.I.V.E Academy on the chests.
"So are we really going to do this?" Black knight asked with a grin.
Christiana looked to her. "You just be ready to do your part. As for the rest of you, prepare your stations. We are about to initiate the Dominion Program!" the scientists and HIVE grunts began typing on their consoles and the holo-displays were changing to a green colour. On the huge monitors, it read. 'DELTA LINK ESTABLISHED', before long there was a red button on the main control panel that lit up and it was behind inside a glass case on the panel. There were four spaces for four different keys. Black Knight, Vlad Masters, Brother Blood, and Christiana all took out their specific keys and as soon as Christiana nodded they placed their keys into their spaces and when they all saw the lights above the keyhole light up, they turned their keys clockwise and once this happened. The class case that housed the flashing red button quickly opened. Christiana walked to the button.
"With the push of this button, the timeline will change in favour of us!" Christiana said. She pressed the button and as soon as she did, alarms were blaring all over the hidden base and all the monitors in the base read: 'DOMINION PROGRAM INITIATED'
Christiana walked to the centre of the room she was in. "Everyone, don't celebrate yet! There are still lots of work to be done so wait for further instructions." There was a loading bar on the main monitor along with a countdown to when it would complete. "Almost there…" she looked at the ninja girl standing next her. "Now I have a very important job for you. Will you be able to do it?"
Remnant, Vale
City of Vale
Possible light years away from Earth, June was standing in one of the many stores in Vale along with Team RWBY. Though this was slightly against her will due to Ruby's insistence on her getting a weapon, though June could attribute that to the girl's love for weapons. So there she was standing in the middle of the store while the girl in red was whizzing around looking for a weapon that would suit her.
"So Juniper, what is your fighting style like?" Weiss asked.
"Eh… well I'm not sure how to describe it, but it just consists of me kicking butt." she answered.
Yang chuckled at June's answer and gave her a hard pat on the back. "You and I are going to get along great, like peanut butter and June. Huh?" she said, asking for comments on her most recent pun. This earned an eye roll from Weiss, but June was left thinking.
"That has to be one of your worst to date, Yang." Blake commented.
"Sure I guess we could get along, but only if you can get me some Weiss cream later." June joked in an effort to alleviate some of the pressure off her and it worked, well for the most part. Yang was laughing to herself while Weiss wasn't as amused.
"Good one!" Yang said as she and June hi-fived. "I should have thought of that one."
The heiress had rolled her eyes for what must have been the eighth time that day. "All horrible puns aside, you do know what you've gotten yourself into right? Pyrrha is arguably the strongest person in our school."
June chuckled. "Yeah, but not after I beat her."
"You're awfully arrogant, for your sake you need to back that up."
"Trust me, I will… I have to." Weiss could sense a seriousness in June's voice, this indicated to her that there was more to her than she had let on, but she would have to wait before confronting her about it. They watched as Ruby continued to zip around the store picking up different weapons from the racks. "Is she always like that?" June asked.
"Only around weapons." Yang said. "She's kinda crazy about them, kind of why she dragged you all the way out here."
"Alright!" Ruby exclaimed standing in front of June with arms full of different melee weaponry. "Take your pick!"
June sighed. "I'm not going to get out of this, am I?"
"Nope!" Ruby chirped while popping her 'P'.
June picked up the weapons and went to the back of store to pick out the best weapon for her, leaving the four alone.
"Something weird is going on." Weiss said.
"What do you mean?" Yang asked.
"I mean something just isn't right. Remember when we all had that dream that some guys that came looking for that clock-like piece months ago. And they just happen to appear while we were in Vale."
"I thought we agreed it was because of the food we ate that night." Ruby said.
"It didn't seem like a dream." Blake remarked
"I'm just saying… what if June somehow has something to do with the weird things going on. Her knowledge on everything is… severely limited."
"You're over thinking it Weiss; I say we can trust her." Yang said.
"I wouldn't be so sure." They saw Blake walking to them from the store window. "There is also something about the new professor, there is just so much we don't know… and then there is Torchwick and the White Fang to worry about."
"If only we could get our hands on her transcripts." Weiss wondered out loud
"You're willing to go that far?" Yang asked. "Pretty bold of you Ice Queen."
"C'mon guys, June's nice. We should make her feel at home!" Ruby cheerily said.
"…Says the dolt who dragged her to Vale against her will." Weiss remarked.
"Starting now!"
June walked back to them and she was holding a metal bow-staff that had a handlebar grip on each side of the weapon. "I'll go with this."
"A metal stick?" Yang asked incredulously. "I'm pretty sure that my sister picked a bow-sword off there and you choose the stick?"
"I think I'll manage. The guy at the back told me how it works." June spun the staff with one hand. She held the two grips with her hands, and twisted them, breaking the staff into two tonfas that were held on her arms, and she pulled a trigger on both of the bars, forcing steel blades to stretch out from the other ends of the tonfas.
"I think she'll manage." Blake said.
The five walked over to the counter and when they were going to pay for the weapon Ruby slightly looked nervous. "I said that I was going to pay… but I kinda left my Lien back at the dorm room."
They looked at Yang who answered with: "Hey, don't look at me."
June, Ruby, Weiss and Yang looked to Blake who responded with a shrug of her shoulders. So, predictably Weiss was the one who had to make the payment. "Ugh fine." She took out a card that had the snowflake symbol of the Schnee Dust Company. "But just this once."
Right as she was about to pay there was what a slight tremor that echoed around the whole of the city of Vale. The girls sprinted out of the store to see a very shocking sight. The normally blue sky was almost littered with vortexes of different colours.
"Girls… I don't think we're in Vale anymore." Ruby said.
"Don't be so sure." Blake turned around allowing for the others to do the same and they saw that the same sign for the weapon store was standing albeit it was barely recognizable. This was also the case for the rest of the buildings around the Commercial District. There was a thick bluish white fog that surrounded the city.
"This doesn't make any sense, things were normal a when we walked in!" Weiss exclaimed. Right as they were still trying to make sense of their situation. The city was eerily quiet, that was until they saw a large four legged, animalistic figure slowly walking to them. It was on four legs and was about the size of a regular human adult on its four legs. It had canine paws with curving claws along with razor sharp teeth, and a long red, drooling tongue. It was black with white, bone armoured spikes on its back. It had gill shaped nostrils on the side of its face, and it had no eyes. It was black in colour with red cuts along the sides of its body. The insides of the gills were red.
"A Grimm! Here!?" Yang exclaimed in shock.
June noticed the orange and black, diamond cut crystal on its's forehead. "Maybe not, it looks like a Vulpi-" June quickly remembered that she wasn't on Earth and that no one on Remnant had even seen a Vulpimancer, much less know what one is. "I mean… it's probably some kind of Beowolf of something…"
"Whatever it is, we can't let it walk around here!" Ruby who had her weapon hanging on her lower back, had grabbed it before it looked to un-fold into what looked like a large scythe blade with a red and black frame that was forced into a crescent shape. It also had a sniper scope, and ammunition clip.
"Whoa!" June gasped, taking a step back. "What kind of weapon is that!?"
"I call this baby, Crescent Rose." Ruby said. However, the five quickly saw the Grimm lookalike sprinting to them. "This will be easy, especially since it has no eyes!" Ruby smirked and she aimed her scythe in such a way that the blade was behind her, she looked to pull a trigger mechanism on the weapon. A muzzle on the frame of the scythe fired an explosive blast, allowing the recoil to send Ruby forward to the beast.
While June was impressed with the use and execution of Ruby's weapon, she forgot a fact of the beast in front of them that she needed to tell them. "Wait, Ruby. It doesn't need eyes!"
Though she was too late, a trail of rose petal trailed her as she flew to the beast as she planned to instantly decapitate it. The gills on the sides of its neck looked to have opened.
The beast was able to fully sense Ruby's motion and despite her speed, he managed to leap up into the air, avoiding her strike. Once it was in the air, it heavily hit the ground.
"That's no Beowolf…" Blake noted.
June glared at it. "You all should know that it can still sense us, even without its eyes. Its senses are just that sharp."
"How could you possibly know that?" Weiss asked with suspicion.
"You really think now is the time for this!" June held her staff and spun it several times. "I've got this one!" June ran towards the beast's flank and its gills opened up again, it ran toward her with incredible speed and she narrowly avoided a swipe by jumping up. She landed on the ground and she ejected one of the blades of her staff and she jumped from the ground in an attempt to impale the beast in its neck. But this was anticipated and after June missed, her weapon was grabbed, and she was thrown away while the beast held her staff. She crashed into a building and she shook her head. "Malevolence would be laughing if he was watching this." She muttered to herself. She got up glared at the beast that was slowly walking to her in a predatory fashion.
Before it could even think about striking her, explosive rounds struck the face of the beast making it face its right flank. "Hey ugly, Juniper's off the menu!" saying this was Yang as she had a pair of yellow gauntlets that covered her forearms and on the underside of the gauntlets were red shotgun shells. The blonde smirked as the beast howled after the energy pulse had hit. "Aww, did that hurt?" Yang mockingly asked as she motioned the beast to come to her. When the beast turned its body to face Yang, June quickly threw a knee into the beast's gut, making it hold its gut in pain. This gave Yang the opportunity to run to the beast.
Thinking fast, the beast quickly dug a hole in order to escape Yang's punch.
"This thing digs too?" Blake asked as she readied her weapon, which looked to be a simple sword that she held at the hilt. Weiss prepared for battle as well, she aimed and readied a silver rapier which had four prongs on the hilt that encased a revolver-like chamber that held different coloured crystal rounds within them.
June picked up her staff. "We better hope that's all it can do." The ground started to shake and it shot out of the ground and it was high in the air. As it took off it landed on the roof of a nearby building, grabbed a huge slab of concrete from the roof of the building and tossed it towards Blake and Weiss. The dark haired girl sliced the concrete with her blade. Getting frustrated, the beast leapt to the two. The revolver chamber of Weiss's weapon spun and she bent her legs and shot her rapier forward, creating a blue barrier that protected both her and Blake from the beast.
Once the beast was held back a sniper round had hit it right in its right gills, forcing it to let out a pained howl. "Got it!" Ruby cheered as her weapon looked to have folded into a bolt-action rifle.
"Nice job sis!" Yang shot forward and increased her speed by shooting her gauntlets behind her, using the recoil to her benefit. An explosive punch crashed into the side of the beast, shattering its upper left fang. It crashed into a building.
The beast wobbly moved from the smoke that was covering it. It then howled and it surrounded itself in a red aura. It then leaped forward in an increased speed and sped to Yang and it slashed her, making her slide back, but she wasn't injured as she prevented herself from getting slashed by crossing her gauntlets in front of the claws. It turned to Blake and attempted to slash past her, but what he ended up slashing was thin air as the figure of Blake disappeared. Suddenly the real Blake was above the beast while she was holding two blades. One of them was a Katana while the other one looked to be the hilt for the katana that had a sharp edge just like the sword. She horizontally spun in the air, slicing the beast four times, forcing it to the ground.
Weiss jabbed her rapier into the ground and a line of small magic circles sped to underneath the beast. Suddenly a line of icicles grew and they crashed into beast, sending it into the air. Once it fell on its back it looked to be engulfed in a white glow and two figures looked to be separating from it but it quickly reformed and got back up.
"That was weird…" June looked at the crystal on its forehead and it was shining a red colour.
"What was?" Ruby asked standing next to her.
June was thinking and when she came up with an idea, she separated her staff into the two tonfa and the silver blades shot out of them. "I've got to get close to that thing. I'm going to make a weak spot, and then you have to fire at it, think you can make the shot?"
Ruby placed a new ammunition clip into her scythe. "Of course!" she exclaimed. "Just do your thing!" June suddenly saw a yellow circle below her and it was the shape of a clock and the hands were spinning fast. She suddenly felt a lot lighter.
"What is...?" June saw the source of the power and saw Weiss aiming her rapier at June with a bright yellow trail going to her.
"If you're going to do something, make it quick!" Weiss said with urgency.
June nodded and she sprinted faster than she had ever before thanks to the energy that Weiss had supplied with her haste glyph. She got close and she sliced the beast several times before making an X in its chest that was leaking out blood. The beast quickly pushed June away and before it could move, Yang grabbed its right foreleg as it stood up. What looked like a folded version of Blake's katana had wrapped around the left arm of the beast with a ribbon tying the leg. She was seen pulling back on the ribbon with all her might.
"NOW RUBY!" both girls exclaimed.
Ruby acted quickly and shot a round from her sniper and it shot right through the X of the beast and once this happened, it became heavy and collapsed to the ground. Yang let go and Blake took back her folded weapon and they all watched as the beast was engulfed in a bright white glow. It then looked to be separating into two and the white lights faded to reveal a regular Beowolf and a dark orange furred Vulpimancer.
"No way… they were fused?" June said in shock.
"You mean a Grimm and whatever this thing is, were mashed together?" Yang asked while pressing her fingers together
"It looks like it." June saw the crystal that was on the former fusion's forehead on the ground, it shifted from orange and black to a pure white colour. She picked it up and examined it. "I'm going to hang on to this for a while."
After defeating the beast Ruby got their attention. "Hey… where is everyone?" she asked while folding her weapon. "Its like Vale has become a ghost town."
"That's a good question." The five heard. "Though the answer is quite complicated." June saw a familiar face walking to them through the fog. He was light skinned, and dressed in a white lab coat with dark brown pants and green rimmed goggles hanging off his neck. He looked to have a metal prosthetic arm
"Professor Paradox?" June asked.
"Precisely Juniper Lee, it has been a while."
"I don't get it, why are you here on Remnant?"
"I don't think I really have to answer that. Firstly, I should let all of you know that what you are currently seeing is in fact Vale." Paradox said.
"What are you talking about?" Weiss asked. "And for that matter, how did you even get here? How is all this weird stuff happening!?"
"Calm yourself, Miss Schnee. All will be explained, but I'm here to let you know that you are currently in a Temporal Vision."
"A Temporal Vision?" Blake repeated, and she quickly figured out what Paradox was trying to say. "So what you're saying is that we're seeing Vale, but in a different time period?" she asked.
"That's right, well 200 years into the future to be precise."
"Whoa! How did you figure it out so quickly?" Yang asked.
"I read it in a book once."
"Nerd!" Yang playfully teased.
"Wait… if this is the future of Vale, then what led to it? And what about the rest of Remnant?" Weiss asked.
"That would be way too complicated to explain, but if I was to be precise, this is 200 years into the future of your current timeline." The five girls gasped. "Shocking I know… but I haven't come here to discuss these matters… I have come to deliver a warning…" he gave a serious look to June. "He is coming for the Maiden under the tower, protect her at all costs…"
June could only guess that 'He' was Malevolence, but she was confused about the tower and the maiden. "You're talking about Malevolence, aren't you? When is he coming?"
"I cannot say, you shall find out eventually. But it's time for you girls to return to your own time." Paradox snapped his fingers and the girls ended up back outside the weapons shop but back in their regular time period.
"Whoa that was weird…" Ruby said. "Is everyone okay?"
"All good here sis." Yang replied.
"Anyone notice something missing?" Blake dryly asked. The rest of the team noticed that June was gone.
"Unbelievable! She just ran off!" Weiss exclaimed. "When I find her, I'm going to give her a piece of my mind!"
Meanwhile June was sprinting as she tried to get back to Beacon as quick as she could. "I've already attracted too much attention to myself; I have to do this on my own. No need to drag Ruby and her friends into this!"
Axion Labs, Amity Park
As the sun was falling over the horizon the base was pretty empty, the only ones who were inside were Heidi, Lila, Gwen and Tucker. Maddie, Jazz and Jack Fenton had returned home for the night. Valerie's father, Damon Gray was patrolling the halls of the base, since they were all on high alert due to the Colossus epidemic.
Gwen and Tucker were in the main operating room, they were both trying to figure out the origins of the Colossus, though they could find nothing on the Intergalactic Extranet. They haven't been seen on any other planetary system either. This problem seemed exclusive to Earth and Earth only. Tucker gave a sigh as he sat back in his chair. "It's like these things don't even exist."
"I know what you mean, and I'm not sure if Techadon built this thing. If that was true, then a weapons master would have come to oversee them." Gwen said.
"No planet under Plumber jurisdiction has even heard of it. And they just pop up in front of our doorstep."
Heidi and Lila walked into the room and Heidi looked more fatigued while she wore a pink tank top with black yoga pants and blue sneakers. "Hey guys!" Lila greeted. "The others haven't come back yet?"
"No not yet." Tucker answered.
Lila looked down in worry. "I hope that they are okay. They have been gone a while."
"Heidi, what happened to you?" Gwen asked.
"Lila wanted me run with her… I could barely keep up…"
"I thought your powers would have helped." Lila said. "Besides, this should help since you get tired since you always get tired every time you use them."
"Y-yeah… sure." Heidi said while still trying to catch her breath.
Gwen turned around to face the large monitor that she was using. "At any rate, we should probably let Magister Fenton know that we couldn't find anything on these Colossuses."
Suddenly Heidi's eyes started glowing green and her Control Nanite started to control her other Nanites.
"Heidi, what's going on? Why are you using your powers?" Tucker asked.
"I-I don't know… The Delta Control Nanite is doing something." Her eyes and sclera were covered by the bright green glow. She outstretched her right hand in front of them. "Dominion Link-up established." Heidi said in a robotic voice. Lila and Tucker started stepping back. "Guys you need to run!" Heidi warned. Her arm had green cyber lines going across it. Gwen had pink circles surrounding her hands.
"Heidi! Control yourself!" Gwen exclaimed.
"I-I can't!" Heidi exclaimed. She was using her powers to shut down all the computers and electrical equipment in the room. A ball of green electrical energy was growing in between her hands. She made it expand before shooting it forward The energy was able to blast Gwen and Lila back.
When they flew back, they noticed Heidi walking over to one of the emergency generators and she started absorbing electricity from it. Her bright green eyes turned to the two. She blasted an explosive electric pulse to the two. Gwen quickly made a square barrier that was able to block the attack. After it hit, her barrier shattered and she fell back. Lila looked at Gwen and glared at Heidi.
"I don't know what your problem is, but I've gotta stop you!" she shot forward to try and restrain her, but Heidi made a bunch of electrical equipment build up on her arm and they merged into a futuristic gauntlet and she shot a bright blue energy beam from it. It crashed into Lila, forcing her into the computers, shutting them down. The gauntlet fell apart off Heidi's arm and she started walking through the base by herself.
Suddenly there was a voice in her head. "Delta, what is your status?"
"I have neutralized both the Anodite and the Sasquatch…"
"Excellent, one of our agents has been sent to pick you up; the location has been sent to you. Before you leave, make sure you erase all of their data. The less means the Plumbers have, the better."
"Affirmative, I shall get right on that." Heidi continued in a monotonous voice. Suddenly Damon Gray arrived in the hall and he shone his flashlight on her.
"Heidi? What are you doing out here? There has been a power outage; you need to get back to the others."
Heidi slowly stretched out her arm and the green geometric circuits shone on her arm and a bright green electric pulse shot from it. A loud grunt was heard from Damon as the electric beam made a large green flash in the hall.
…
Heidi was on the street outside Axion Labs and she saw the same Ninja girl that was associated with Black Knight, standing outside.
"Are you Delta?" she asked.
"Yes, did Black Knight send you?" Heidi asked.
She gave a simple nod. Then Heidi heard Black Knight's voice again. "You two have met, now intercept the first colossus. It's heading your way. What of the Plumber base?"
Suddenly the whole of Axion labs exploded and there was a large fire in the base as the entire roof blew off. "I triggered the base's self-destruct function."
"Excellent, Omegatron shouldn't be far from your position, meet with it and defeat any resistance that stands in your way…"
Heidi closed her eyes and reopened them and they were shining bright green. "I have found Omegatron, however it will take me three hours to meet it at its my maximum speed."
"Ninja girl, your suit can use teleportation now, use that to take Heidi to the location." Black Knight said.
"Okay, what is the location?" Heidi walked to her and she pointed her finger at her forehead and a green electric jolt quickly rushed into her head and she saw the location, as well as the red Colossus. It was in Piedmont, California.
"I have the location!"
"Then go! We cannot waste any time!"
Lila slowly walked out of the burning Plumber HQ, she was limping and she leaned on a large piece of debris. "Heidi!" she exclaimed.
Heidi turned to Lila and her eyes were still glowing. She shot an electric pulse to Lila. She was forced through a wall that was standing and she fell to her back and rolled backwards to her left foot and right knee.
The ninja girl grabbed the shoulder of Heidi and they both disappeared in a bright purple flash.
Piedmont, California
Danny is flying towards the walking red colossus, he charged an explosive ecto ball and tossed it right at the Colossus' power core.
The Colossus made a red energy barrier that covered his body and the ecto beam exploded off the barrier.
"Alright, it's advanced ghost shield is up." Phillip said. "It will remain for about twenty seconds." He said.
"So what do we do till then?" Valerie asked.
"I have a plan, but it can only buy us some time." He started to type on his futuristic gauntlet, and soon there was a metal, football sized object that materialized in Phillip's hand.
"Whoa!" Mabel gasped while pushing her cheeks together. "How did you do that!?"
"It's future tech and I have no time to explain." He pointed to Valerie. "You can get into space with that board of yours, right?"
"Kid, what are you getting at?"
"Okay, let me explain. This is a bomb that had a high concentration of electrical energy. However it can only affect the systems of a Colossus. Apparently the creator built a bunch of these as fail safes."
"Wait… can't we just find the one who created the Colossuses and deal with them?" Dani asked.
"Because the creator doesn't exist in this timeline… not yet… but that doesn't matter. This bomb is a temporary kill switch that will disrupt all the colossuses around the world but only for ten minutes."
"Wait… shouldn't we only use that as a last resort?" Dipper asked.
"This thing can take anything we throw at it! I say we do it!" Randy said.
"Sure, but what comes after that?" Valerie asked. "After this thing can't move, what do we do then?"
Suddenly a purple and black ninja ring hit the bomb's wires and the bomb was immediately shut down. "You won't know!" an unfamiliar voice said. Arriving close to them was the Ninja girl and Heidi.
"Heidi!?" Randy exclaimed. "What's going on!?"
The ninja girl unsheathed her short sword from behind her. "Just like I said back at McFist Headquarters, telling you would ruin the surprise, wouldn't it?" Randy quickly unsheathed his sword.
Suddenly the Colossus's was glaring down at them and it was sending a large fist towards Heidi because she was its target.
"Heidi! Watch out!" Danny exclaimed. He flew over to her, but before he could reach her, he was slashed by the mystery ninja and he fell to his back.
She chuckled. "Fool, observe!"
The fist was heading to Heidi. Her eyes were shining bright green. "Activating Colossus control program: Dominion, Colossus name: CX1M02 – Omegatron!" her eyes gave out a bright green pulse and the energy engulfed the whole Colossus and the fist stopped, short of hitting Heidi's nose. The sounds of Nanites could be heard and the Colossus picked up Heidi and it then stood up straight with Heidi on its right shoulder. "Acquisition of CX1M02 – Omegatron, is complete." The eyes of the colossus shared the bright green glow of Heidi's eyes.
"W-what just happened?" Dani asked.
"I think she just hacked it." Dipper commented.
Phillip could only look on in shock. "No… this is all wrong… this never happened in my Timeline!"
"What are you talking about?" Mabel said.
Heidi lifted her right arm. "Beginning termination protocol." As Heidi lifted her arm, the same arm of the Colossus transformed from a fist into a large Gatling gun.
Phillip pointed to the Fenton RV. "WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE!"
"You're not getting away that easy!" the mystery girl shot forward but was stopped by Randy as he had his sword out and blocked her strike.
"GO!" he exclaimed. "I'll catch up!"
"What! Are you crazy!? We're not leaving you!" Dani exclaimed.
"There is no time, I have to keep these two busy!" he blocked another sword slash from the mystery ninja. He jumped back and threw ninja rings to slow her down. "Just get out of here!"
"This is no time to be a hero!" Valerie exclaimed.
"I'll catch up with you guys, promise! Just go…"
Phillip gave a panicked looked as everyone, except for Randy got in. "Whatever you do we need to leave now!" the colossus was charging the Gatling gun and Randy looked to Heidi. "Ninja Flash Ball!" he threw a white and black ninja ball to Heidi that made a bright flash as it exploded and this distracted her enough that she wasn't able to finish commanding the Colossus to attack.
The mystery girl charged to him. "You'll pay for that!" she ran to him with her shortsword, the sounds of Nanites were heard. Randy chucked another ball to her, but this one exploded into a swarm of bees. She was running around as the bees were attempting to sting her. She engulfed herself in purple fire to shrug them off, and she wasn't very happy about that. "ENOUGH GAMES!"
"You're right." Randy said. "Smokebomb!" he disappeared from her sight and he then reappeared behind her in a puff of red smoke. "Now let's see who you really are?" Randy quickly pulled on the ninja girl's mask and her dark blue eyes grew wide. As Randy pulled the mask off, he noticed that her ninja suit didn't come off along with the mask. He saw a wave of medium long orange hair fall down her neck and Randy recognized her, but he hadn't met her personally. "Wait… Are you Candace!? Stacy's friend?"
"WAIT! You mean Aunt Candace!" Phillip quickly covered his mouth as he had already said way too much.
The Candace look-alike tightly gripped her sword. "Yes I'm Candace, but I'm her from five years in the future! The timeline in which Maltruant took over! I'm here to stop that, and no one's getting in my way!" she threw a swipe which Randy quickly avoided.
"Hey, knock it off will you! We're all shooting for the same goal here! So why are you working with that Black Knight person?!"
"You already know way too much!" she slashed past Randy and her blade managed to draw blood from Randy's midsection as there was a cut on the left-mid section of his suit. "Everyone… all my friends from that timeline have been wiped out by Maltruant's Colossus army, so what better way to stop that than taking control of them ourselves." She looked up at Heidi. "What are you waiting for?! Take them out!"
Before Randy could do anything else, Dani grabbed him and she quickly lifted him and threw him into the Fenton RV. "PUNCH IT!"
Valerie quickly stepped on the petal and the Fenton RV sped off. However the Gatling Gun from the Colossus fired and the short blue energy beams were heading for them.
"Drop the ecto bomb!" Danny exclaimed as he planted his hands on the ground and the entire Fenton RV turned invisible and intangible. Valerie pressed a button and a large black bomb was dropped from the underside of the RV and was left behind. This created a very large explosion of green and black smoke and this was meant to create the illusion that the RV blew up and that they perished along with it. Danny still kept the RV invisible as they sped through the smoke that the bomb created.
Back with Future Candace and Heidi, they saw the large smoke cloud. Future Candace gave a sigh. "Yep, there is no way they survived that… but it had to be done." She looked to Heidi. "Heidi, call the others."
Heidi nodded. "Affirmative; connecting to the Command Link of CX1M02, attempting to link to other Colossus units, Acquisitions acquired. Established Link with CX1M04 – Velocitrion, Established Link with CX2M05 – Cerebretron. Unable to establish link with CX1M03 – Juggertron and CX2M06 – Swarmatron."
"Right, so there is still two more to find. Let's just take off with the ones we have."
"Affirmative." Heidi said and Future Candace jumped onto the arm of the Colossus and suddenly there were thrusters that were igniting from the bottom of its feet. It then took off like a rocket and it was soaring into the sky with Heidi and Future Candace hanging onto it.
From the Fenton RV, they saw the trail of white smoke that left the feet of the Colossus. They stopped to take a look and they stood outside looking at the sight. "Wait, those things can fly too!?" Mabel exclaimed.
"Uh I think we have more things to worry about." Dani said. "Like why and how Heidi was able control that thing!" Dani exclaimed.
"Well for some reason… she's fighting for them now." Rex said. "It must have something to do with that Nanite, Black Knight injected into her a few months back."
"So what happens now?"
Danny looked back at the smoke trail. "Well we need to get back to our Plumber base so we can properly figure this out."
Phillip agreed. "Yes, the timeline has clearly changed, and I have a hunch that the other Colossuses will end up with Black Providence."
"Wait… Candace, mentioned something… she talked about someone named Maltruant… where does he fit in all of this?" Valerie
"I'm not sure… and just thinking about it scares me, but we need to regroup with the others as soon as possible."
Danwood
Over the skies of Danwood, Ken who was Stinkfly was holding onto Katara by her arms. "Why does this one smell so bad?" Katara asked.
"It's not my fault; just remember what you're supposed to do."
Katara nodded and Ken flew her towards the colossus.
Meanwhile on the ground Kim was trying to distract the huge mechanical monstrosity. She was shooting pink electric pulses from her gauntlets. The Colossus looked down and it's orange grilles shone briefly before it threw a punch towards her that would completely crush her. But Suzy as Humongousaur stood in front of her and tried to stop the punch but she was thrown back and rolled on the street. This gave Kim the chance to run across the arm of the colossus and as she ran, the holes on the shoulder opened and six flathead missiles fired towards her.
Kim blinked and suddenly her eyes were shining pink and the missiles looked to be in moving slow motion and she jumped around them and she climbed onto one of them and leaped to the face of the colossus as her gauntlets were generating pink energy. Time resumed and she punched one of the grilles and there was a crack in the glass that her punch left.
Meanwhile Katara was running along the left arm and she had long water whips on her hands and when she got close enough she attempted to slice the ring on the back of the colossus but the ring was way to strong and her water simply shot through, leaving only a very minor chip in the large ring. A flathead missile was speeding to her and she used her water to generate a water barrier, she wasn't hurt but she was sent falling to the ground.
Kim saw Katara falling and she gave a huge gasp. Her eyes were engulfed in a pink aura again and she jumped to the ground underneath Katara. The glow faded and she broke Katara's fall by catching her bridal style and Kim fell to her knees in fatigue. "Well?" she asked with a loss of breath in her voice.
"Nothing, my water could barely touch the ring."
Katara jumped off Kim her ally gave a long sigh. "So that's it then?"
Ken landed by them and his omnitrix timed out and he knelt by Kim. "You alright?"
"I'm fine, but that thing is still up and running!"
Suddenly the thrusters on the back of the white colossus ignited and it began flying into the sky, soon boosters shot from the bottom of the feet of the colossus. Allowing it to defy gravity and soar high into the air.
Ken looked to his omnitrix and he contacted Stacy. "Hey uh… yeah… the Colossus checked out!"
"What do you mean 'checked out'?" Stacy asked.
"It just flew off… I'm not sure where it's going."
"Alright, head back to the Plumber Base, I'll get everyone together and we'll think about our next move."
"Right." Ken looked to Kim who was panting and she looked fatigued.
"What's up with her?" Katara asked.
"It's part of her special powers, they call it a 'semblance' she has the power to move so fast that time slows down around her, but it causes huge strain on her body, so she'll rarely use it."
Kim got back up. "So does anyone have a plan, or do we just roll over and die?"
"Stacy said we should get back to the Plumber base."
"That doesn't make sense, those things should have finished us off. Just leaving isn't like them."
"This isn't the place where we should talk about it, we should really head back." Katara said.
"Hey, what about that other girl who was with us earlier?" Kim asked.
At the same time Suzy was watching them while she was hidden inside an abandoned building. She chuckled. "No way, I'm not fighting those things, they can die all by themselves." She thought about hiding in the building but as soon as she turned around, she came face to face with Maltruant himself.
"You and I need to have a little talk…" the evil chronosapien uttered in a dark tone. "It's about the Colossuses…"
Suzy suddenly grew a smirk on her face. "I'm listening…"
Echo Creek
Mandy was holding her scythe and she was glaring at the colossus. "Alright, just like we planned!" Mandy exclaimed. Kevin was still engulfed in the futuristic armour of the Colossus and made an obvious charge forward. It then generated white magic circles that looked like glyphs and it was shooting large freezing energy blasts from them.
As they were fired, large dark purple energy bolts shattered the beams into ice crystals. Once the projectiles had ceased Future Star ran forward and aimed her wand. She blasted a bright red beam that was aimed for the colossus's upper chest and this hit but a white sheen was seen all over the colossus as the beam hit. The colossus locked onto Kevin and its yellow robotic eyes shone red for a second. It summoned many smaller glyphs around its body and was firing freezing blasts towards Kevin, but before they could hit a large earth dome covered him. The dome was frozen over as the freezing beams hit it, but it quickly burst and Aang shot out of it with a long blast of air following him. As he flew forward, he shot an engulfing wave of fire at the Colossus which was scorching the aura of the colossus.
Julio was a distance behind the colossus and his goggles were over his head. His arm was generated into a large energy cannon and he shot a blue energy beam at the colossus that was also forcing the colossus to use its aura as a defensive mechanism.
Mandy looked up. "No good, we need to weaken it further." She heard a groan close by and she saw Ben sitting up in his older body.
"Ugh… did someone get the number of that truck?" he asked
"Ben!" he turned to Mandy. "If you're done lying around, we could really use some help!"
He slowly got up. "Ugh why do feel taller?" he shook his head. "Alright… what are we doing now?"
"Just go up and hit it as hard as you can!"
"Works for me!" he activated his omnitrix. "Right… here we go!" he stopped moving his fingers when he found his desired alien and he threw his palm on the core, engulfing him in a green light.
At the same time Star Prime was behind the large colossus. "So you like freezing things, huh? Then let's see how you like this! Winterstorm Hyperblow!" Star summoned a chilling wind that struck the Colossus, ice crystals were starting to grow on the black metal.
Aang and Kevin who were on the ground saw a green blur speed past them. The blur hit the Colossus in the chest forcing it to hover back slightly. The blur was revealed to be Ben as Atomix. "Colossus… prepare to feel the righteous hand of Ato-" before he could finish a bright yellow shoulder beam cannon shot Ben in the chest and he shot back to the ground, making a large shockwave that shot a huge amount of dirt into the air.
"Well that was very anti-climactic." Future Star said.
Marco tugged at her sleeve. "Hey could you possibly explain what is going on here!? I'm very confused!"
"I'll explain if we survive this!" she said generating a hemispherical barrier that protected them from a bright yellow energy beam.
"Wait… IF?!"
"Yes, IF we survive this. These Colossuses are meant to be unstoppable killing machines, trust me, I've seen it first-hand."
Ben was charging a blast of green energy from his omnitrix shaped chest. He fired a green blinding beam that was able to engulf the whole Colossus in green radiation.
The Colossus was covered in green electric sparks and the white sheen was flickering on and off and before long the aura had faded away.
"We did it!" Mandy exclaimed. Mandy spun the scythe and shot a beam that made a large bubble, as she did this Julio landed close to everyone with large jet turbines that were attached to a pair of wings. "Quickly, everyone throw your most powerful energy blasts through this bubble. It will strengthen the power of them.
Julio generated his energy cannon and both Star Butterflies were charging their wands. Atomix built a green energy orb in between his hands. Raven stood by with her hands covered by purplish black energy circles. The colossus's bright yellow eyes were shining as made many glyphs surround its body.
"DO IT!" Mandy exclaimed.
Ben fired his green energy orb while Julio shot a blue beam from his energy cannon, Future Star shot a purple blast while her younger self opted for a Narwhal Blast. Raven outstretched her hand, down her sides and a dark purple projection of an eagle shot out from her body and it soared through the bubble along with the other blasts.
Shooting out of the bubble was a purple eagle projection with a green and blue tail and blue baby narwhals were inside the energy blast. The ice blasts from the colossus had slammed into a massive wall that Aang made rise from the ground in front of the group.
"Alright, Now!" Kevin exclaimed. Aang then launched Kevin into the air and he was high above the colossus. The fusion blast crashed into the colossus's chest and it then hovered down to the floor and it fell on its back, causing the ground to shake violently as its fall created a tremor.
Kevin was about to strike the finishing blow and as the fell. The eyes of the Colossus suddenly shone bright green and Kevin was stopped in mid-air by a telekinetic force. The Colossus hovered back to its regular position and it then threw Kevin back at the group. He bounced on the ground and lay on his back as the black armour faded from him.
Mandy growled. "I really thought that would work!"
Before she could think of her next move a huge thruster opened on the back of the colossus and it ignited an orange boost that allowed it to fly up into the air and away from Echo Creek.
"Where is it going?" Julio asked.
"Hopefully back to where it came from." Marco said.
"Or to Maltruant." Future Star said.
Ben looked up and saw the thrusters of the Colossus. "We need to find out where it is going, and fast."
"Can't be done." Future Star said. "These things have a field that surrounds them constantly, the field shuts down any kind of tracking device… so unfortunately we'll just have to wait until these things show their faces again."
"Well until then, we'll need to regroup, and fast. Who knows when these things will strike again." Mandy said.
Ben transformed back to his human self. "I'll give Rook a call to pick us up."
Meanwhile Star Prime walked to her older counterpart. "We make a pretty good team, huh?"
Future Star sighed. "Maybe I'm already too late…" she muttered in a low voice.
"What are you talking about?" Star Prime asked.
"Nothing, let's just stick to the plan… right now it's all we've got."
Marco walked next to Star as they both watched Future Star walk to Mandy. "What's her problem?" Star asked.
"Star… I think something very bad happened to her… or you… in the future or something like that."
"C'mon. It couldn't have been that bad right?" Marco gave Star a dis-satisfied glance. "R-right…?"
Remnant, Vale
Beacon Academy
June was knocking on the door that leads to Christiana's room. "Great, she ditched me again!" she gave a sigh. June then picked up her holographic phone from her pocket, which was called a scroll, Glynda had given her one since it was a necessity for a student to have one. She looked to see how much time was left before her fight with Pyrrha Nikos. She had about 10 minutes left.
As June made her way towards the Amphitheatre, she was sneaking around, trying to make sure she wasn't caught by anyone from Team RWBY, considering how she ditched them she wouldn't want them getting involved in her vendetta with Malevolence.
"There you are!" June quickly turned around to see Glynda AKA Professor Goodwitch. "Miss Luster informed me that you might have been lost."
"Speaking of which, where is the buzz kill?" June asked.
"She is out on important business, but you have somewhere to be, you haven't forgotten your match with Pyrrha Nikos have you?"
"I was just heading there."
"Then let me take you there…"
As June and Glynda made their way to the amphitheatre, a woman around June's altered age was eyeing her, all that could be seen of her were her amber coloured eyes as well as her long red dress, that had bright yellow glowing symbols on it.
…
June suddenly found herself on the stage of the amphitheatre; her newly bought weapon was hanging from her back by a black sash. The eyes of other students were staring at her and they were comments suggesting that she was from another academy. She could also hear Ruby chanting "GO JUNE!" from the crowd. She saw her and the rest of her team. Ruby was happily waving, while Yang gave her a thumbs-up, Blake and Weiss though didn't share their looks of encouragement as Blake had a look of indifference while the Schnee heiress gave June an icy cold glare. She swore that she felt ice crystals were growing on the hairs of her skin.
Her opponent walked onto the other side of the stage. June was initially shocked at how battle ready she looked, her weapons looked to be a shield and a short rifle strapped to her back. She had fair skin along with long red hair tied in a waist-length ponytail, she had vivid green eyes. Her outfit consisted of a bronze strapless top that was split vertically with some bronze patterns, and bronze gorget around her neck. Below that was a black miniskirt with a red fabric tied around it. Below that she wore bronze armour that started from her mid-thigh and stretched down to her high-heeled boots. She also had a bronze bracer on the top of the sleeve of her left arm. Finally she had a bronze headpiece that fell above her ear and under her bangs. She had the overall appearance of a battle hardened goddess.
"So you must be Juniper Lee, it is nice to meet you. I am Pyrrha Nikos." Pyrrha introduced in a formal tone.
"I know who you are… apparently you're a big shot at this place… well I'm looking to get stronger, so do me a favour. Don't make this too easy for me." Pyrrha was slightly shocked at June's over confidence, never-the-less she stood in a stance, waiting for June to make a move.
"Then I wish you the best of luck." Pyrrha said in a friendly tone.
Glynda stood a safe distance from battling pair. "And begin!" suddenly there was a monitor that displayed the aura levels of both June and Pyrrha.
At the sound of her words June launched off her feet towards Pyrrha, seeing the Te-Xuan-Ze going for the direct approach, Pyrrha quickly made use of her bronze coloured shield and easily blocked the force of June's punch which sent shockwaves all around the amphitheatre.
"So this is how it's going to be?" June said with a glare before she jumped back and shot towards her again. This time she threw a kick which was predictably blocked by Pyrrha's shield. Knowing her attacks would do next to nothing with that shield in the way, she grabbed her staff from her back and the blades shot out at June's command. She jumped towards Pyrrha and when her strike was blocked by the shield, she smirked as she swung the underside of her bladed staff towards Pyrrha's legs but she jumped of the blade and June saw that she was open for a second and drove her left fist to Pyrrha's exposed mid-section. As her fist made Pyrrha slide back, her aura meter slightly fell.
"Gotcha!" June didn't relent as she leaped towards her and a white raging aura was surrounding her. She threw another punch but this time Pyrrha quickly was able to avoid the attack as she quickly moved to her right and seeing an opening, she drove her knee into June's stomach and the white aura around June quickly ended. June was knocked back by the shield on Pyrrha's left arm. She rolled on the ground but quickly rose to her feet and gripped her weapon tightly. She looked at the battlefield in front of her, the area was to her disadvantage, there was no way she could break Pyrrha's defenses easily on a simple stage. June grit her teeth and ran again towards Pyrrha and she split her staff into its tonfa form and the blades shot out.
Pyrrha seeing what June was trying to do gripped the rifle that transformed into a double bladed spear. Their blades clashed, she blocked June's strike with her Javelin and she would spin it in order to block a second strike from June's weapon, they went back and forth with June attacking and Pyrrha blocking, sometimes even with pin point accuracy. June threw another slash with her left blade but Pyrrha chose to dodge it and June was left wide open allowing Pyrrha to drive her shield into her. June fell to her back and she dropped her weapons during the impact.
June's aura was already half depleted, although she didn't know that as she let out a battle cry and the raging white aura appeared again. Deciding to just go for it, she leaped to Pyrrha at almost super-human speeds and because the speed surprised her, she was punched in the forehead and she slid back and fell to one knee.
This didn't stop June however as she kept up her attack and Pyrrha rose her shield and June let loose rapid punches into the bronze weapon. In order to force June to back away, she swung her javelin and June predictably backed off. Pyrrha was quick and charged to June, aiming to use her shield to impact her.
June saw this and she stopped the Pyrrha's momentum by shooting her palms onto the shield, stopping her completely. Once she was stopped she glared at her opponent as and she headbutted Pyrrha, forcing her to her back. But Pyrrha didn't stay down for too long, she quickly got back up but June was again speeding to her.
Pyrrha closed her eyes and she focused her other senses since her eyes couldn't keep up with June. Suddenly, she knew where she was and her eyes shot open and she easily ducked under June's punch before she spun counter-clockwise and used her spinning momentum to smack the side of June's head with her shield. Once again, June's aura augmentation shut off and she was on her knees and at this point she was seething with rage.
In front of her, instead of the warrior Pyrrha Nikos, she saw the smug figure of Malevolence in front of her. "Ha, if you can't even beat her… then you have no chance against me. I can't believe I thought of you as an opponent. Oh well, I guess I'll entertain myself by destroying a planet or two, perhaps I'll start with Earth." The figure of Malevolence laughed and despite June's fatigue she rose to her feet, and the white aura surrounded her again and it was flaring wildly.
"MALEVOLENCE!" June exclaimed as she threw a rage filled punch towards Pyrrha.
"Enough Miss Lee!" Glynda firmly said, but the red mist was in June's eyes and all she could think of was destroying the dimensional tyrant in front of her, problem was, it was only Pyrrha and not Malevolence in her vision.
So Pyrrha quickly avoided her strike and flipped June over and onto her back. "Snap out of it! It's over!" Pyrrha exclaimed.
June's vision returned and she saw both Glynda and Pyrrha looking down at her. "That was very reckless Miss Lee, if you knew anything about dueling, you would know that it ends once your aura reached its critical point, and you used what was left of it in that last attack of yours."
"So I lost…" June said looking down in slight shame.
"In future Miss Lee, you may want to refrain from using up your Aura so quickly in combat, you leave yourself very vulnerable to attack without it." Glynda turned to the audience watching. "As for the rest of you, you are all dismissed."
June picked up her separated weapon and put it into its staff form and placed it on her back. "Are you okay?" she turned to Pyrrha who gave her a concerned look. June angrily turned away and left the amphitheatre.
…
The shattered moon of Remnant was high in the night sky. After that disaster of a fight, June tried to distance herself from everyone, so she took to sitting on the roof of one of the dorm rooms and she gave a long sigh as she hugged her knees. There was a gust of wind and her hair was blowing to the right.
"Hey there." She looked to her right and she saw Yang standing on the roof with her.
"W-what are you doing here?" June asked, jumping to her feet.
"Duh, I came to check on you. You looked like you took a beating back there."
"Thanks for rubbing salt in the wound." June angrily snarled.
"Hey, to be fair Weiss did warn you."
"You just don't get it! If I can't beat Pyrrha then…"
"Then what?" Yang asked.
"Nothing you need to know…"
"Look I just want to help you; you don't have to be so feisty. Ruby's been worried about you."
"Really?"
"She's probably zooming around the school right now, trying to find you."
"You don't have to be concerned. I have to do this on my own."
"And what exactly are you trying to do?" June looked away from her. "Whatever your reason for being here is… I won't pry, but you can't do it alone I mean that's why they put us into teams. You can't become a Huntress all by yourself."
"I was on a team once… but I decided to leave… there was a disagreement, a huge one… And so, here I am, trying to get stronger, but instead I'm out here getting by butt kicked."
"Well if you're trying to get stronger, then let me help you."
"And how are you going to do that?"
"You look like you need to blow off some steam. So how about it?" Yang started to stretch her arms. "I can be your sparring partner."
"Thanks…" June though just couldn't relax, because of the warning Paradox had given her, she knew it wouldn't be long before Malevolence shows up on Remnant; it was just a matter of time. Paradox's words echoed in her mind. 'He is coming for the Maiden under the tower, protect her at all costs…' What could that mean? But she knew she had to be ready, because Malevolence would show up at any time. Even though this wasn't Earth, she figured she should do all she can to protect Remnant since she had no way of getting back to Earth. "You think we could start now?"
"Whoa, really?" Yang mouthed in surprise.
"Yang I need you to keep a secret okay." June gave the blonde a serious look. This prompted Yang to nod, agreeing to this request. "Something big is going to happen, it may happen tomorrow; maybe a few weeks from now, but something, or rather someone is coming."
"If you're trying to scare me, it isn't working." Yang said with a chuckle.
"Then maybe I'm not being clear enough! There is a person out there in the universe named Malevolence and he is very, very powerful, and he could be on his way here as we speak."
"Whoa, whoa… back right up… what exactly are you getting at? Actually what are you saying? If it is really true that this guy is somewhere in the universe, then how would you know about it?"
"It's been eating at me, so I had to tell someone. You see Yang, I'm not from here at all, I'm not even from Remnant. I'm from a different planet! I am from a planet called Earth!"
"W-WHAAT?!" Yang exclaimed, trying to take in what June had just told her.
Standing by a window on the inside was the same woman with the red dress that was spying on June earlier. "Not from Remnant…? Interesting…" she muttered to herself.
Unknown Location, Black Providence HQ
Inside a large hangar area of the new Black Providence HQ; Black Knight, Vlad Masters, Brother Blood, and Christiana were looking at the still figures of the powered down Colossuses that appeared on Earth. Heidi was standing next to Black Knight.
"Take a good look everyone, the most powerful weapons in the Multiverse, are now under our control." Black Knight announced.
"So, what do we do now?" Brother Blood asked. "We should use them right away while our enemies are confused!"
"No…" Christiana said. "We should start looking for the other two Colossuses. The last thing we need is for the others to be found so they can be used against us."
"And you know the location of the other two?"
"No, but we should focus our efforts on finding them as soon as possible. Maltruant is trying to build his own army, we should do the same."
"With your combined forces, plus H.I.V.E, we are unstoppable." Brother Blood said.
"It may look that way, Blood." Christiana said. "But we're far from being at full strength; there are a couple of little things we need to dispose of. Starting with Malevolence…"
"Oh yes, that one guy you're so afraid of, I'm pretty sure Alpha can take him on." Black Knight said.
Christiana laughed. "That would be a dumb idea, cause then we'd be gifting him with the Gamma Nanite, and that something we don't want."
"So what's your plan?"
"For now, we wait. We don't want to pull the trigger on the Colossuses too soon. We need them as our trump card. Right now we have another objective…"
"Are you going to tell us?" Vlad asked.
"I'm still ironing out the details, I shall let all of you know of our next move soon." Christiana turned away from them and a very wicked smile appeared on her face. "Yes, everything is going perfectly... soon Bill, everyone shall appreciate your power... yes, very soon."
To Be Continued…
A/N: I know I'm a month late for this update, but I was writers blocked through the middle of it. The next chapter will hopefully be out later in July, cause I have less school stuff to worry about. Also The Cipher Incident story that was on my profile was going to be a different story all-together, but I may not do it after all. As for plans after D.A.D II, I haven't thought that far ahead as of yet.
Question and Answer time
Q: Time wise where does this take place in the RWBY universe?
A: Everything is taking place in Volume 2 after the episode "Welcome to Beacon"
Q: When will the heroes look for Juniper and will they look for her during the Vytal Festival?
A: Well I don't plan on adding the Vytal Festival from Volume 3 considering that it would take long to write up to that point and I don't plan on doing that, though I appreciate the idea.
That is all for this update, remember to review and tell me what you thought and I'll be back with another update
Next Time: Countdown To Oblivion
