Cybernetic Appendages
In an age where technology has advanced, if one loses a limb then depending on finance, connection, and time, a person can gain a new prosthetic if they have lost their own limb. Be it an arm, a leg, or perhaps even an extra appendage for faunus who have lost one of their animal traits. Regardless, all such models are made for convenience and safety. Therefore, it is unallowed for prosthetic to hold weapons and are illegal unless one does the proper paperwork.
The two killers faced one another. Both gazing at the others form and stance, and instantly knew what they were facing.
A killer.
Katz was known for his cruelty and joy in his murders. He was so feared, that only Sammael accepted him as the rest were too terrified to work for such a man. Being cunning and smart in his battles, and having countless tricks up his sleeves.
Tyrian went on a killing spree all across Mantle and Anima. Becoming so feared, that Salem of all people personally broke him out. While deranged and leaves himself to many openings, his unpredictable battle style makes it difficult to fight him.
Both are feared beings, and are some of the best in assassinations. Only the bravest of heroes can even hope to face them.
"Well then little kitty," Tyrian giggled as his tail posed and his weapons activated his blades. "Are we ready to tango?"
"You definitely seem better than the others insect." Katz insulted as he then had two small balls in his hands. "But don't think that'll save you."
Nearby, a camera that was on and out of Watts scrambler was observing the intruders. As both stood still to the camera's eyes. Then they moved.
"Hya!" Tyrian leapt up and jumped where he shot out his bullets which were aimed a Katz. The Mobian moved and he dodged them where he then threw his little balls. Each then bursting into a small explosion to obscure Tyrian's vision, with Katz then throwing two more little balls where spikes came out of them.
Tyrian used his tail to wack them upon sensing them, the spikes doing no harm to him. As he landed, he attempted to bisect the mobian with his blades. Katz used his small size to his advantage to avoid them with minimal steps. Where he then took out a bat which he used to try and hit Tyrian. The scorpion faunus blocked it with his left hand only to get a shock as the bat held a miniature conductor which released electricity into him. Katz smirked and then kicked Tyrian away.
Gritting his teeth, Tyrian then looked up and smiled. He jumped up to where he lights hung overhead and used his blades to bring them crashing down. Katz forced to dodge as they fell, then jumped back as Tyrian landed in front of him and twisted where his tail then smacked itself onto Katz side and skidded him to the left.
Clicking his tongue, Katz then took out a ping pong ball and threw it where Tyrian tilted his head. However, Katz pressed a hidden button on him and the ball exploded into flames which temporarily blinded Tyrian from the light. Katz used this opportunity to run up and take out his bat again, though Tyrian quickly heard him thanks to his hearing and rolled out of the way.
He blinked a bit and he could see again as he then giggled. "I didn't know you liked playing sports?"
"Everyone has a hobby." Katz then took out a satchel and threw it. From it, many spiders came out of it and latched themselves onto Tyrian. There were nine in total, and they crawled all over and got ready to bite. Their venom being lethal and could make a grown man cry in agony as the venom coursed through their system.
Tyrian simply got on the ground and began break dancing while rolling on the ground. A few spiders were forced off by the dancing and the rest squished when he rolled on the ground. Tyrian then aimed his weapons at Katz and fired with Katz simply deciding to zig zag forward. Dodging the bullets, he then came in front of Tyrian and punched him in the face.
In retaliation, Tyrian kneed Katz in the abdomen and both took a few seconds to catch their breath and let their aura heal themselves just a bit. A second later, they attacked once more, becoming at a stand still.
For Tyrian, he was unused to fighting someone so small and agile. And while he didn't say it, he was taking a bit more damage than he'd like due to leaving so many openings. His aura slowly going down and Tyrian unable to get a proper hit. Those he could land, he noticed Katz taking them easily showing he must have had a strong aura.
As for Katz, he didn't like it, but this nut job was too crazy for his normal tricks. Usually he could predict the attacks of his opponents in some way after years of battle. But this guy had no normal battle style, and was all over the place. Making moves that were absurd and was too chaotic to land a lethal blow like he normally could. Not to mention the battle was too fast for him to even look at his eye.
Grunting, Tyrian then decided to roll backwards where he then grabbed a spider he noticed and gripped it. Throwing it at Katz who's eyes widened a bit as he moved to avoid it, Tyrian then using that opportunity to roll forward where he then uppercutted the mobian cat who slammed into the ceiling.
Laughing, Katz frowned as he fell down and just took out some golf balls where he then threw them roughly at the ground where they then exploded with sharpel sent everywhere. Tyrian was forced to cover his face as while aura protected the body, certain parts like the eyes weren't as easily defended.
Katz then used that chance to land near him and kicked him between the legs. Not even Tyrian could ignore that.
"Gah!" By instinct his hands flew to grab his injured part, and Kazt then leapt up and kneed the freak in the face. Suddenly he felt something grab his tail, and looked to see a scorpion tail gripping his own.
"...Damn." Truer words, as Tyrian used that chance to use his tail to slam the mobian onto the ground with his tail. Then he spun around in a quick twirl near some cargo causing Katz to hit his head a few times on it. Tyrian then stopped spinning, used his tail to bring Katz towards him and kicked him in the stomach. This time he got a slight reaction from the mobians aura which flicked a bit. Still a long way from being depleted, but the kick had caused some damage internally.
Kazt landed in a crouch and growled.
'Alright. I admit. Dude's a bit better than I thought.'
'Tch. How does he still have so much aura?'
At this rate, neither were getting anywhere. In truth, Katz could win given how he had more aura than Tyrian thanks to the pill he had taken, and can triumph thanks to that. But Tyrian was making the battle last too long, and the scorpion faunus himself realized he needed a way to get a killer move or this battle will just keep dragging on. Luckily, he had just the thing to turn the tides.
"I think it's time we ended this. Don't you agree?" Tyrian chuckles with Katz smirking. Having a plan in mind as well.
"I couldn't agree more." He laughed as the two then raced towards one another. Both ready to end it.
"Finally. About time." Hazel says as he breaks free from the encasing that the mobian held him in. It shamed him how he was contained so easily, but the cat made the mistake of not ending him as he had decided to use water Dust secretly on him to escape. It was a risk to then use the lightning dust in his body to use the two together since he had no idea how this new Dust he's encountered would react, but things seemed to have gone well.
'Still though, I've never seen that type of Dust.' Noticing a small crystal that was leftover of the Dust used on him, Hazel grabbed it and put it in his pocket for later. He then moved toward the cockpit and saw a few monitors where to his surprise, saw through one of them Katz and Tyrian fighting. Both in a battle of speed and not stopping anytime soon.
"Seems Tyrian has this covered." Hazel then went to the controls ready to insert the virus. Or he would have, had it not been for the scroll Watts gave him was now damaged from his stunt to escape. Damn.
Sighing, Hazel looked at the controls and saw if he could fly it, but then decided to forget it. He could fly a Bullhead and a few Atlas ships, but this was a bit different since he's unused to it. He recognized a few designs, but he didn't dare touch them out of risk of making them crash.
"Uh." He then turned and saw none other than Bandit Princess looking very sick.
"What happened?" He asked with slight worry.
"Damn...cat…" Bandit Princess says before lurching forward and throwing up a bit. Thankfully, she's used to nightmares, so Katz little Semblance didn't affect her one-hundred percent, and he only toyed with her too. Still, she felt sick like a dog. Hazel walked up to her and grabbed her to support her.
"Come, we must go. This is a lost cause.' He then checked the monitor and saw Cinder on one screen who looked angry and tired. For some reason in her hand was a little ball before she then broke the door down with her own Semblance and just moved forward.
He then turned to the monitor with Tyrian and then turned to leave. If anybody can handle Katz, it's him.
Both mobian and faunus moved as quickly as they could. Running, dodging, counter-striking. In a fury of blades and deadly sports equipment, Katz and Tyrian were pushing one another to think even more creatively to try and outdo the other. Now, they weren't thinking much at all and were just reacting.
Tyrian kept trying to slash at him, but Katz evaded constantly and always hit the faunus with little balls that either burned, shocked, or even pierced him with his spikes.
As for Katz, it was becoming clear he was unable to put the dude down as he was clearly used to doing. His little bags slowly running out of gear.
Tyrian then tried to use his tail to inject him with venom, Katz instead grabbed the tail and tugged where he then threw consecutive punches on his opponents chest and then threw another ball with some deadly gas. Tyrian holding his breath and moved down where he had his tail trip Katz and grabbed his leg. Throwing him near some cargo.
The cat mobian frowning as he then decided to waste a little money and took out a Dust Crystal, throwing it at the faunus who ducked as the thing then exploded. The force of it caused some damage to the plane, but nothing it couldn't handle while the force of it also made Tyrian tumble forward where Katz then slid past his feet and then jumped onto his back and tried to strangle him.
"Nighty night!" Tyrian gasped as he felt his lungs unable to breath. He tried to use his tail, but Katz grabbed hold of it and used his aura to augment his strength to try and hold the appendage back. Tyrian slowly losing oxygen.
Gritting his teeth, the scorpion then let himself fall backward making Katz's back hit the ground. Tyrian then did everything he could to get this cat off him. Punching, slamming him into the cargo, even tried shooting at him. Strength slowly leaving him and darkness taking hold.
Then, in a matter of luck, he saw a spider and rushed toward it, where he grabbed it and shoved the thing in Katz's face. The mobian surprised as his pet was on him and fearfully saw the spider was too scared to realize its master, and was ready to bite his left eye!
Not wanting to lose an eyeball, Katz had no choice but to loosen his grip and then use his right hand to grab his pet and regrettably kill it. Tyrian used that chance to then grab Katz's face and bring him forward where using his superior strength, slammed him harshly on the ground where he jumped up and both feet stomped on his chest where a slight crack could be heard.
Feeling his own ribs crack and some blood in his mouth, Katz in anger grabbed one of his more deadly balls and threw it at point blank in Tyrians face where it exploded with deadly sharpnel hitting him all over.
"Ahhhhh!" Tyrian screeched as bits of metal embedded itself into his face. Amazingly, none hit his eyes, but even then the bits of metal hurt like hell. Hands trying to rip out the metallic bits in him and left him open. Having enough of this, Katz moved forward where he then took out a hockey puck and threw it at Tyrian.
Despite the agony he's in, Tyrian saw it and tried to defend himself with his tail.
Slick!
Where two-thirds of it fell off as the hockey puck sliced through it. In an instant, Tyrians face didn't matter as instead his tail took priority. While he had a good pain tolerance, having lost his own tail was too much and he screeched in pain as blood and bits of venom spurted from what remained of his fine tail.
Katz grinning as he finally got a good hit, and was ready to end it.
However, despite Katz's advantage, there's a reason the saying, 'fear the cornered rat', was used.
Eyes turning purple, Tyrian decided he had one shot at this. Afterwards, he wouldn't be able to fight as his tail was constantly sending his brain into overdrive with the pain, and had to do this quick. Instantly he rushed forward where to Katz's surprise, he saw Tyrians right hand turn purple, and go upward from his stomach to the chest.
"What in-!" Where to his utter shock, his aura vanished away like it wasn't even there. He hadn't been depleted, and he could still feel his aura in him. Seconds later, Tyrian gave a nasty cut on his chest as Tyrian laughed.
Click!
Then in another second, he felt blood in his mouth as Tyrian used the opening he made to shoot his final bullets into Katz's chest. The bullet rounds going through his chest then exiting his back with Katz coughing and spitting blood.
Thankfully, the rounds didn't hit anything like his heart or major arteries. But the second he felt something wrong with his breathing, he realized one of the bullets must have gone through his lungs. Didn't help that Tyrian then used the remaining stumpy tail of his to shove the open end into Katz's bullet wound, where a small bit of venom now entered him.
Katz kicked Tyrian away, who didn't get up this time, and weakly moved toward the emergency exit where he quickly activated the timer. Aura back on soon healed his bullet wounds, but Katz needed actual medical help for the internal damage. Luckily, he had a special medical pill that Sammael gave to all his followers that could help slow his bleeding until he got aid and perhaps surgery. Opening the door, he adjusted the parachute and spat in Tyrians' direction.
"If you-uh-survive this...we'll...huh...meet again." He then jumped away and fell downward. Parachute activated where he then pushed the emergency sos so that one of the Invisible Hand members would come to him.
"Tu. Wuss." Tyrian says before he then falls flat on his face unable to move now. Only able to hear the timer ticking down with a few minutes before everything blew up. Well that sucked.
"There you are." Then Hazel came with Bandit Princess on one shoulder and Cinder with him. The giant man grabbing Tyrian and then adjusted him on the shoulder, where he then ran with Cinder who quickly went and grabbed a bag of Dust where they then all jumped off the plane where the Nevermore came towards them and caught them on it's back. Flying away just as a few minutes later, the plane exploded and went downward, where aside from the black box the vessel and a good chunk of the forest was vaporized due to all the Dust onboard.
The incident catching the attention of many people causing local forestry damage, loss of money, and town now forced to wait longer for the Dust, and no criminal behind bars. Though it did provide two things.
Information...
...and entertainment.
"Well, that was a good show." Sammael mused as he saw the plane explode. "I must say, not often we see Katz facing a person that can rival his cunning."
"True. But the man's battle style left him utterly defenseless at times, and cost a few times during the fight." Moloch states.
"Indeed. This scorpion faunus, is certainly not the most precise fighter, with a style that while unpredictable, leaves far too many openings. Why, he now has lost his most effective weapon." His stinger. "Though as the saying goes, an eye for an eye."
"Or in this case, bullet wounds." Moloch said with a hint of amusement. "From what I saw, some surgery will definitely be needed. Aura only heals the outside and bones, not organs like the lungs."
"We'll also need to clear his blood." Sammael then thinks back to when the faunus shoved what remained of his tail into the bullet wound. "Something tells me he'll be feeling rather sick soon enough. As for the others," His Seer then showed the other fighters. "They'll now have learned that there are those that can face and challenge them, or defeat them." Which means either they'll fall all the more easily...or perhaps use this opportunity to learn and rise from it.
Same with Katz, as with this wound while he'll be angry and likely vengeful, he'll probably plan more accordingly for the next battle. So if these newcomers wanted to continue whatever goals they had, they must learn to change and grow. After all, even if he wasn't bothering them, someone else will.
"That him?" Callie asks Sebben who nods. It has been hours since the plane crash, and to Sebben's surprise the culprits were none other than not just Katz, but one of the newcomers of this world as well. Callie sighing as she saw what footage they had. "Well, I guess I can see why he can be a threat. Not often there's someone who could face Katz and actually do real damage."
"And it seems we now know how." Sebben replayed the footage he secretly procured and then played it. Where it then showed the scorpion faunus's arms glowing purple and somehow getting rid of the aura Katz had. "Quite a dangerous Semblance. Not to mention with the skills he has, a definite Rank 4 threat."
"Shall I put him on the wanted list then?"
"Yes. I already created false records so that it'll appear he's lived here, and is a rogue agent of Satyra." No need for the police to get involved and be suspicious why this person didn't exist. So a fake name, crime list, and everything. Yes it was illegal, but this man had to be stopped.
"Still, how did he get on board that plane? Security shows how Katz got in, but not him and whoever else was with him." Callie says, wondering how this man even got on the plane.
"It doesn't entirely matter I suppose." Sebben states. "If anything, for now we have other matters and hopefully the police among others will find whatever target they have next."
"Especially Japan, given the news over there." Sebben sighed at that when Callie said that. Somehow, despite it being a secret, video of the battle between Japan's own Demon Blade of the East and highly trained Huntsmen have gotten out and made its way on the internet and the news. Particularly of their defeat and losing members to the Grimm Japan now knew as the Hound.
Sebben already getting a feeling Sammael may have done that, as the response from those watching was of fear and a hit in faith with Huntsmen, with others defending Sanban and her team.
'Sammael always was good at making fear.' The Headmaster thought. 'Undoubtedly this Hound of his is his latest way of doing so, and it seems he has more recruits than expected.' But he can't worry about that right now. Instead, he must focus on the next matter. His head turned and opening the door were four individuals who had time. Time that can be used to help. "If I may ask, can I count on you for this mission."
"Of course." None other than Ross Noften says, with the rest of Team REYN behind him. "How may we help?"
I hope you enjoyed this battle between killers. And it seems that Tyrian, like canon, lost his tail once more. Though he got a decent hit on Katz and trust me when I say both are now holding a grudge against one another.