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BGM: Just Wondering (Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories)
"Alright, so, where do I begin?" Carmen wondered. "Name's Carmen, I came from a different world, basically."
"Yeah, you're definitely not the first." Weiss said.
"Oh, it's the standard in this universe? Sweet! Anyway, I was looking for some other shards that Y'shtola and I were looking for-"
Wait, Y'shtola? Chiaki thought, her eyes widening as she was slowly going into fangirl mode.
"Unfortunately, I was the test subject of some wacky experiment she was trying out and, lo and behold, I wind up in this area. I do have to say, the hills and clouds having eyes were pretty cool, including a few flowers. Although the moon being broken up iiiis kinda off putting, but hey, what can you do?" Carmen looked at Chiaki. "…Is she okay? She looks like she's about to explode."
"Oh!" Chiaki spoke up, her voice at a higher pitch. "Oh, don't mind me… I was just a little excited." She waved it off. Oh my gosh, she's a Warrior of Light from Final Fantasy XIV! Holy crap, that's awesome! …I wonder what her kit is like?
Ibuki playfully elbowed Chiaki. "Been playing Final Fantasy XIV lately, have you?" She teasingly whispered.
"Yeah, I've been on a Final Fantasy kick lately."
"Well, that would explain why you've been sleeping 'til noon lately~" Ibuki gave her a teasing wink, causing Chiaki to giggle.
"What are you talking about, that's normal for me."
"Y'shtola? Wait, I know her." Cloud spoke up. "Blind, odd mix of serious, academic and sassy?"
"That's the o-… wait a second, you're Cloud Strife!" Carmen excclaimed.
"You know me?" Cloud asked before chuckling. "Well, I guess my reputation precedes me."
"Of course!" Carmen summoned a little mini figure. "Ta-dah~! A cute little minion!"
"WHAT?!" Cloud yelled in surprise.
"It even had a description on the back here." Carmen cleared her throat. "At first glance, it appears that the artisan took numerous liberties in this rendition of the legendary hero. The distinct lack of upper-body muscle mass suggesting Cloud would have been unable to even lift a weapon the size of the Buster Sword, let alone brandish it over his head."
"You… you… you gotta be shitting me…" Cloud groaned, his body shaking in dismay.
"Aww, he's so cute! Look at those pinchable cheeks~!' Aerith gushed.
"You should be honored." Tifa smiled, playfully elbowing Cloud.
"Are you kidding? This is somewhat better than my own Amiibo but not by much!" Cloud mumbled.
"What? You look cute in that!" Tifa pointed out.
"I look like I was made in a plastic toy factory!" Cloud argued.
"Preach it, brother." Dark Pit agreed.
"Really? You look great in that." Pit said.
"No, I don't."
"Oh, before I forget, some friends of mine have tiny versions of those two." Carmen added, pointing to Aerith and Tifa.
"What?!" Tifa said in surprise.
"Oh, I bet I look cute!"
"So do I!" Tifa smiled.
"You gotta be kidding me…" Cloud sweatdropped.
"What are we, chopped liver?" Yuffie grumbled while folding her arms, hearing a chuckle from both Barret and Red.
"So! Who are the rest of you guys?" Carmen asked.
One intro later…
"Uh-huh… mhm. I'll definitely try to "memorize" it." She said, winking at Lea.
"Heh, I like her already." Lea smirked.
"Oh, by the way… Ruby, was it?"
"Yeah?"
"You wouldn't happen to have a doppleganger, would ya?"
End BGM
Ruby immediately tensed up. "Now… wh-when you say doppleganger…" She whimpered.
"Yeah, there was this monstrous version of yourself, wanting to ambush you all." She explained as everyone immediately had their weapons out.
"Form a perimeter! She's not gonna get close to her!" Sarge said. "I don't care if she said to that clown she's not afraid of her anymore, she needs all the help she can get!"
Wow, this girl really did a number on her. She thought. "It's okay guys, I took care of her. She disintegrated after I took care of business."
"She doesn't go down that easily." Blake said. "So unless she's really gone, we have to make sure to be prepared. She made Ruby's life a living hell."
"How bad we talking?"
"Tormenting, emotionally and mentally breaking her, giving her PTSD, lingering fear… all that fun crap." Yang said.
Carmen grimaced. "Yeeeeah, now that I think about it, she did seem to go down without too much of a fight. If what you're saying is true, then I definitely killed a clone."
"Cloning! Of COURSE she learned that…" Daisy groaned while Byleth turned around and hugged Ruby tightly.
"Deep breath… deep breath…" Byleth whispered as Ruby closed her eyes and did some deep breathing to help calm herself. "That's it… take it easy."
"Hmm…" Chiaki folded her arms. "The 1-Ups that we've been getting lately…" She closed her eyes. "You said they're a rarity here, right?"
"Yeah, pretty much." Mario nodded.
"Mmm… and the fact that we've been finding them so easily all of a sudden…" Chiaki opened her eyes. "That's definitely not a good sign."
"Oh, now she gets it!" Ibuki pounded her fist into her palm. "Finding free 1-Ups that are easy to snag indicates that shit is about to go down, right?"
"Correct, especially when you're playing a hard as heck game like say, Mega Man." Chiaki nodded. "I didn't think of it then when we found a handful of 1-Ups, but hearing that Ruby's doppleganger is back in play, especially of what you told me about her… I've a feeling we need to hold on to these. I don't know why, but I suspect that Bowser might be innocent and the doppleganger could have easily snagged Peach just to get our attention… ooooor I could be reaching and Dark Ruby is making our lives a nightmare while we try to rescue Peach from Bowser. Either way, it sounds like she's back in play and ready to make her move again."
"Yeah… I had a feeling that was the case." Summer said. "I knew I wounded her pretty good, but I wanted to make sure she was actually dead before I headed back to the afterlife."
"Exactly, and considering the 1-Ups we've found… we may as well count our blessings that we found them. If it were up to me, I'd say hold on to 'em unless you really needed it. I've a feeling crap is about to go down soon."
"Things have been fishy ever since we started this adventure… and I'm starting to get suspicious." Luigi said.
Chiaki nodded. "Right. So if we find more 1-Ups, hold on to them. We might need them for later."
Ruby groaned. "I know I told Dimentio I was no longer afraid of her, but… my instincts kicking into high gear and it's making me a bit paranoid…"
"That would do it…" Nyx nodded.
"We're here for ya, sis." Yang said as Ruby nodded with a soft smile.
"Sooo, you want to tag along with us after hearing all of that?" Qrow asked.
"You kiddin'? Sounds like she needs a proper ass kicking. Let's rock!" Carmen smirked. "Oh, before we go, I have to ask… you guys wouldn't happen to have seen a paid of androids in black, wearing blindfolds and have white hair?"
"No…?" Blake responded.
"Ah… shoot, oh well. Let's head off and… hopefully destroy that doppleganger!" She said as they all walked off.
"You played Nier Automata, right?" Ibuki whispered.
"I've been meaning to look into it. I've heard great things about it." Chiaki smiled.
"She played it. It's pretty fun!"
Ruby felt a tug on her sleeve as she looked down at the armadillo faunus. He had a "I don't know what's going on, but even I'll help with taking this Dark Ruby down" look in his eyes, which was enough to make her smile.
"You're sweet." She ruffled his hair and they all walked off.
World 4-1 - It's A Jungle Out There…
BGM: Overworld (Super Mario 3D Land)
"Sooo… what are we gonna expect out here in this jungle?" Tucker wondered.
"Probably a lot of Grimm." Weiss responded.
"We gotta be prepared for whatever happens." Byleth said. "Now that we know she's back into play…"
"Let's just hope when we defeat her, it's permanent this time." Gloria hoped as they all nodded, then they would see some Koopas meandering around with some Goombas and Biddy Buds walking around, then they would see a Brick Block embedded into a wall.
"Hello… what do we have here?" Epsilon wondered as he aimed his sniper rifle at the Brick Block.
"Aaaand he's gonna miss horribly and it's gonna reflect back to him…" Yang said as Epsilon took a deep breath and pulled the trigger, accurately hitting the block. "WHAT?!"
"Jade, you are a life saver." Epsilon said as he walked ahead to retrieve the item behind it.
"You're welcome!" Jade smiled and looked at Yang with a smirk. "You were saying?"
"…What did you do?"
"Oh, decided to give him a few pointers." Jade walked off with a casual whistle.
"That doesn't tell me anything!"
"Oh, it's just a 1-Up…" Epsilon mumbled. "Definitely could use it later."
Another 1-Up… Chiaki thought. Okay, I know 3D Land had 1-Ups galore in that game, but seeing this many in real life while having the knowledge that they're rare to find? I don't like this… something's REALLY fishy about all this.
"Something troubling ya?" Ibuki asked.
"Remember how 3D Land had plenty of 1-Ups?"
"Yeah, you could get Triple Crowns on your life counter. You couldn't go two steps without finding a 1-Up." Ibuki snickered.
"Right? So, with that in mind… how many times has anyone came across a 1-Up? And I mean like from the start of RWBY's first adventure in the Mushroom Kingdom?"
"From the beginning? Oh… she'd say around… maybe one or two this whole time? Probably haven't found any?"
"Okay, either no one's hitting hidden ? Blocks that contain these mushrooms or the fact that now they're being found every so often… mmph. It's driving me a little crazy. Something is about to go down… I can feel it in my gamer instinct!"
"Don't get Ibuki wrong, even she believes the high amount of 1-Ups we've found is highly suspish, buuuut there's also the possibility that we're just lucky."
"Lucky or fortunate? Either way, my hypothesis still stands… with all the extra lives we're seeing here, something's about to go down."
"The funny thing is-" Summer spoke up. "I was going to ask you at the top of the desert tower if finding all these 1-Ups meant anything to you. However, you were playing with the Faunus and I didn't want to break your concentration."
"It would have had me thinking for a good while, especially with all the Grimm we've seen lately." Chiaki nodded.
"I think she's just paranoid…" Dark Pit mumbled.
"Agreed." Cloud nodded.
Hmm, is she though…? Aerith wondered as they jumped across bouncing mushrooms while Mario landed nearby after he had found a rainbow-filled note block.
"Find anything good?" Ruby asked.
"…She might be on to something." Mario said, pulling out a 1-Up.
"Geez, how many does this make?" Yang asked.
"Let's see… I gave a 1-Up to Summer back in space… I doubt she's used it yet, not that I blame her." Luigi said. "Raven has one, Byleth snagged one for herself, Ibuki and Chiaki have two, Rosie has one, Epsilon found one-"
"The kid has one too." Summer mentioned.
"Really? Then adding that along with Mario… that's a total of eleven."
"Sweet! We can die eleven times with no consequences!" Grif said.
Chiaki sweatdropped. "What? No, that's not what-"
"Sarge, shoot me in the face!" Grif exclaimed.
"…As fun as that would be, I don't think that's a good idea. I'd rather shoot ya when you'd least expect it."
"Come on, it'd be fun! Besides, Chiaki's being paranoid over nothing."
"I'm not paranoid! It's called years of experience playing games and observing this kinda stuff!"
"Hmm…"
"Think about it, Sarge. You always wanted to kill me. Consider this letting out all of your frustrations."
"Hmmmmm!"
"Think about iiiiiiit! I'm offering you some catharsis over here!"
"Deal!" He pumped his shotgun.
"SARGE, PUT THAT GUN DOWN!" Chiaki flailed her arms in a panic.
BANG!
"…I'm still alive?"
"As much as I wanted to, it's not as fun being told by you to shoot you. Takes all the fun out of it."
"That is an excellent point, sir!" Simmons said.
"What the fu-… SERIOUSLY?!" Grif yelled.
"Besides, Chiaki has a point. We have to use these resources sparingly, not all willy nilly."
"She's just paranoid!"
"You'd be paranoid too if you were led to your death that kickstarted a tragedy..." Chiaki grumbled. I'm SO going to enjoy this when I'm validated over my hypothesis. She thought while Ibuki patted her on the back.
"And I thought the folks at Sabertooth were bad…" Laxus deadpanned.
Gods dammit, they are just as bad as Hildi and Nashu… Carmen thought with a deadpanned expression.
"Are we done yet?" Rosalina asked. "We still have a ways to go."
"She's right. And besides… paranoia or not, the lass is on to something. Years of gamin'? Heck, we could use that knowledge to our advantage."
"Thank you! Someone who understands!" Chiaki smiled.
"Whatever, are we gonna climb this tree or not?" Grif rolled his eyes as they started to walk, but they felt the ground rumble. "Um… was that any of you guys?"
Raven pulled out her sword. "We got trouble." She said as they would see Koopas, Paratroopas, Monty Moles, Waddlewings, Wigglers and Biddy Buds all running away as they would see a large Dinosaur Grimm walking through, letting out a loud bellow.
End BGM
"…Is… that a Brontosaurus?" Tucker asked.
"Actually, the Brontosaurus is the incorrect name for a creature like that. The correct term is Apatosaurus." Simmons corrected.
"Yeah, no one gives a shit!"
"I'm starting to think Salem's on some sort of dinosaur phase." Pit said.
"No. This is just her playing God." Dark Pit readied his weapon.
BGM: Intense Battle Against the Molduga (Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity)
The Thundering Grimm - Mokele-mbembe
"Wait, what? The Mokele-mbembe?!" Ibuki exclaimed.
"…Wait, you mean that cryptid that originated in Africa?" Chiaki asked.
"Yeah! It's like a mythological dinosaur that lived in Congo specifically!"
"Well, it definitely migrated!" Epsilon said as the Grimm stomped its feet to make shockwaves to scatter everyone.
"Is there a better way to call it other than… Mokala… whatever it is?" Yang asked.
"Sometimes they're called Mokeys." Ibuki responded as they spread out.
"Silly Ibuki, that's not a monkey!" Caboose said as he shot at the dinosaur.
Alright, what job do I want to go for for this big guy? Carmen wondered as Cloud swooped in and slashed at the Grimm's chest, then jumping back and casting Firaga on the creature. The Mokele swung its neck, knocking Nora and Ren away while Jaune conjured up water and Pyrrha conjuring up fire as the two unleashed their respective elements at the creature.
In response, the Mokele swung its tail and shot off spikes, where Rosalina put up a force field to block these as she raised her arm and threw down a small comet at the Mokele, then Ibuki played her guitar as electricty came out. The Mokele leaned over to bite Ibuki, but she rolled out of the way as the Reds and Blues fired at it, with Ruby helping out.
Byleth climbed up the tree and when she got in good position, she took a running start and jumped off, landing on the Grimm's back. "Hope you don't mind!" She said as she started cutting it as the Mokele tried to buck her off, while at the same time, Weiss lunged ahead and stabbed the creature's underbelly and Blake slashed through the neck, or at least she tried to.
This has got some thick skin… Blake thought, then Carmen unleashed Ruin 3 on the Mokele while Summer, having summoned dual blades, quickly slashed at the creature with Raven as Tai draconically punched it with Yang while Tifa resorted to a Firaga punch attack. Barret, meanwhile, finished charging up his minigun arm and started blasting it.
"Argh!" Tucker yelped as he was knocked back from the Mokele kicking him. He had ended up next to Chiaki who had busted out Samus's arm canon and shot at it with Plasma Beams. "Soooo, you wouldn't happen to know any powerful sniper rifles, would ya?"
"Here." Chiaki summoned the Machina. "This is the Machina from TF2. It's powerful enough to kill two people on a full charge."
"Ohoho! I love the sound of that!" Tucker took it as he would then take off while Chiaki went back to firing, where she quickly rolled out of the way and responded with a Super Missile in kind. Tucker got into position and had an idea. "Heheh."
The Makele stomped the ground as shockwaves knocked Shovel and Shield Knight down, but they quickly recovered as Shovel Knight shot out magic at the creature while Red spat out Firagas. Magic surrounded Yuffie as she jumped in and threw her shuriken, which caught on fire and struck the Grimm on the head.
"HEY ASSHOLE!" Tucker yelled, catching the Makele's attention. "360 NO SCOPE BITCH!"
"360 No Sco-" Chiaki's eyes widened. "TUCKER, WAIT A SECOND!"
"Hraaaaaaaah!" Tucker jumped in the air, spinning around and once he did a complete spin, he would quickly pull the trigger.
Click
"Whaaaa?!" Tucker exclaimed, seeing sparks fly out of the nozzle as the Makele headbutted Tucker and sent him flying into a tree. "OOOOF!" He grunted, letting go of the Machina as it landed near Epsilon.
"Hmm?" Epsilon looked at it.
"You… did tell him that it only works when zooming in, right?" Ibuki asked.
"Honestly, I was too focused on shooting Plasma Beams that it slipped my mind…" Chiaki sheepishly admitted. "Sorry, Tucker!"
"You totally set me up…" Tucker groaned.
"I don't think she did!" Simmons said, shooting at the Grimm where Mario jumped into the air, his hammer turning into ice and hammered the Makele in the head. Byleth jumped off of the Grimm and pulled out her Failnaught replica and fired a piercing arrow into the neck right as Luigi, Laxus and Nora fired lightning bolts at it, then Caboose gave Daisy a boost where the princess crystal punched it in the face where Qrow came in to slash it and then Maia used her semblance to give her a boost of speed and slashed the dinosaur, then Gloria used Dragon Pulse in her Latias form.
The Makele smacked its tail on the ground as it lowered its head, seemingly weakened as Lea and Dorothea unleashed streams of fire at it. The Grimm responded by swinging its head to try and hit them along with the Pits, but they had dodged as they would respond by firing arrows while also splitting their bows apart and cutting the skin of the Grimm, where Xion and Ven slashed through it and Isa threw his weapon at the creature's head, where JINXY and Umber made quick work of it from behind.
"Alright, it should be weakened enough!" Summer said. "Ruby!"
"Right!" Ruby nodded as they both used their Silver Eyes on it to petrify it, and just as they were about to deal the finishing blow, a sniper bullet went right through the petrified head, shooting it clean off. They would all turn to see Epsilon on his butt while holding the Machina in his hands.
End BGM
"Hoo baby, that's got a kick to that!" He chuckled. "I like it."
"Well, glad that's extinct now." Ibuki said, watching it fade away as the armadillo faunus peeked his head out of a bush, coming out of his hiding spot with a smile while Epsilon pulled up Tucker.
"Yeah, I think I see the problem with this gun. It doesn't work until you look into the scope." Epsilon told him.
"What? That's ridiculous!"
"I thought the same thing, but man, does it have a good kick to it." Epsilon patted him on the shoulder. "Relax, dude, I don't think she meant to embarrass you."
"She didn't warn me!"
"I mean… we were in the middle of a fight against a dinosaur. Not even I would think about the ins and outs about a weapon." Epsilon shrugged it off as he walked off. "So, we climbing this thing or what?"
"Yeah, let's-a go!" Mario said as they climbed the tree.
"Hey Tucker, sorry about that… I was so caught up in the fight, it completely slipped my mind." Chiaki apologized.
"Eh… whatever." Tucker walked off.
"Ah, don't feel too bad." Ibuki patted her on the back. "He'll come around. Besides, if the roles were switched, Ibuki's pretty sure the same thing would've happened."
"Yeah, good point…" Chiaki nodded as they continued to climb where they would see Epsilon snagged the flagpole.
"To the victor goes the spoils!" Epsilon said as they kept walking until they found a tower up ahead.
World 4-2: Forest Tower
"Well, wonder we'll uncover here!" Ruby smiled as they walked through, while Jade spotted a Mystery Box on the side as she walked in, and spotted a few Grimm Goombas.
"Oh hello there." She said as she aimed her Poltergust and incinerated them with the fire element, then a 1-Up dropped down. "You usually don't see this many…" She said before shrugging. "Well, an extra life is an extra life."
She would then pop out of it inside, right next to an already fading away Grimm Goomba Tower.
BGM: Underground (Super Mario 3D Land)
"Doesn't seem like we're uncovering anything." Laxus said, shooting down a Grimm Inky Piranha Plant that spat out acid.
"Yeah, I'm not seeing any treasure here…" Shovel Knight mused.
"It could just be a barren tower." Shield Knight guessed as they climbed up as Mario hit a ! Block as several face blocks popped into existence.
"…I swear, those faces are looking at me!" Grif grimaced.
"What are you looking at?" Sarge growled.
"That's… not creepy at all." Blake said. "…Then again, I'll take these over X-Parasites."
"Agreed." Weiss nodded as they continued to climb, where they would spot a Goomba Tower charging at a Grimm version of themselves, both of them smacking into each other as several of the Goombas would fall off of the stack, only until Ruby helped out by using her silver eyes on the Grimm Goombas to get rid of them.
"You guys are saved~!" Ibuki chirped happily as they continued to climb, and also bounce on mushroom platforms as they would soon reach a Warp Pipe as they would go inside and pop out on the other side where they would see a flagpole to snag as Nora jumped over and took it.
"Got it~!" Nora smiled.
End BGM
"I have to say, that tower was kinda boring." Carmen said.
"Eh, they can't all be winners." Chiaki shrugged.
"Fair point." She nodded as they turned around and walked off where they saw the trees were much larger and would see rotating platforms in front of them.
World 4-3 - Jungle Platforming
BGM: Athletic (Super Mario 3D Land)
"Let's see… either we take the rotating platforms or we could take the trees." Yuffie smirked. "I know what I'm doing~!" She said as she jumped over toward a few tree branches.
"Of course she goes for the parkour route." Cloud shook his head with a chuckle as they walked on the rotating platforms and walked across, although they would have to wait a while until it was safe to use. Ibuki looked down to see nothing but tree branches covering the ground.
"Geez… you can't tell how far up you are." Ibuki said.
"Definitely a long, painful way down." Tifa said as they made it across the platforms, but as they did, a few enemies dropped down on the tree branches and pulled out laser rifles.
"Hmm? Mario, you got a red dot on ya." Luigi pointed out.
"I do?" Mario looked down and then turned to see said enemies aiming at them. "Wah!" He yelped as he ducked.
End BGM
BGM: Napalm Man Stage (Super Smash Bros Ultimate)
"Sniper Joes?!" Chiaki exclaimed, quickly taking cover. "Are they Grimm versions or they the real deals?"
Ruby looked behind a wall. "I'd… say they're the real deal. I think. Definitely blending in!"
"Definitely the real deals." Cloud said as the Sniper Joes kept shooting, until they were forced to stop to prevent their laser rifles from overheating.
"Okay, go!" Ibuki said as they ran across as the Sniper Joes kept firing, hitting an invisible Coin Coffer and knocking it senseless.
"Alright, that's it!" Epsilon got on one knee and fired his sniper rifle, only for one to bring out it's shield and blocked it. "Augh, you gotta be kidding me!"
"Did you miss?" Sarge asked.
"If by "miss", you mean hitting their shield, then yes!"
"They have shields?! Dag blast it!" Sarge growled.
Behind the Sniper Joes, Yuffie landed behind them. "Hey boys!" She greeted as they turned around as Yuffie grabbed one of their shields and yanked it off of his arm, then kicked him off the tree. "Mind if I borrow this for a sec?" She smiled as she backflipped and threw her shuriken at the other one, where it blocked with the shield as Yuffie slid underneath the laser fire and kicked the other Sniper Joe down while retrieving her shuriken.
Yuffie threw the shield into the last one, knocking the Sniper Joe off balance as Yuffie casually walked over to him and tapped it with her foot. "Boop!" She grinned as it fell into the foresty abyss.
"Hey! That's my bit!" Nora called her out.
"So?" Yuffie playfully shrugged as they kept going while Luigi decided to pick up the coins the Coin Coffer had coughed up, but as they kept going and taking their time across the rotating platforms, they would see Grimm versions of the Sniper Joes, only they would be holding machine guns and rocket launchers.
"…Oh, you gotta be kidding me." Chiaki sweatdropped as they took cover again, where a rocket smacked into some Brick Blocks and ? Blocks, which was enough to scare the daylights out of Fake Blocks and Blockhoppers, where they would hop away or glide away with their Tanooki tails to safety.
"Did I just see a Brick Block with a tail?" Weiss asked as Ruby got into position and fired at the Grimm while Summer was making sure to protect the armadillo faunus from the Grimm that were firing upon them.
Yuffie dropped back down. No shields this time? They're cocky. She thought as she whistled to grab their attention. She waved at them as one Machine Gun Joe opened fire as Yuffie swiftly dodged as she got in front of one of his allies and jumped out of the way right as the Grimm committed Friendly Fire and tore his kind to shreds.
The Grimm sweatdropped as one of the Rocket Joes smacked it upside the head where magical orbs surrounded Yuffie and then she unleashed a Fire Ninjutsu on them to burn them alive while everyone else ran across, jumping across platforms to reach the flagpole up ahead.
Another Rocket Joe aimed at the group and fired, only for Yuffie to use a Thunder spell on her own shuriken and threw it, where it flew faster than the rocket and caused it to explode, then it came around and impaled the Rocket Joe. "So close, yet so far." Yuffie pulled it out and kicked the Grimm into the foresty depths below.
End BGM
"I could've ended them myself, but I didn't want to steal her thunder." Laxus chuckled.
"Just how powerful are you?" Cloud wondered as Yuffie returned to the group.
"Well, that was fun. Let's go!" Yuffie smiled after Aerith had taken the flagpole for herself.
"Yeah!" Aerith nodded as they walked deeper into the forest.
Ibuki: Chiaki-chan might be on to something here...
Ooooh yeah. Also, thanks DarkRebellion for that dinosaur Grimm idea!