A/N: HI READER

So I guess it's time for another chapter of Volume 2.

Also I'll kindly ask for you all to wait until the end for the announcement of September's fic as decided from the poll.

So with nothing else *CLAP* let's *CLAP* get *CLAP* this *CLAP* BREAD!

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CHAPTER 23: NEW FRIENDS OR AND ENEMIES!


An ominously large ship parked at the docks with many soldiers in white armour, Atlesian Knights and Atlas students disembarking.

One person who left wore an aviator's jacket as well as baggy jeans. He had the hood up so only a single red eye glowed in the dark of the hood.

"Ironwood certainly loves bringing his work wherever he travels." Glynda groaned.

"Well…" Ozpin shrugged. "Running an academy and military makes him a busy man. But yes those are a bit of an eyesore."

A chirping noise came from Ozpin's desk. "Come in." The headmaster turned as the doors opened to reveal a man in a white military uniform over a white shirt and red tie. He had combed over black hair and a metal strip over his right eyebrow.

"Ozpin!" Ironwood greeted.

"Hello General." Ozpin stood at attention, rather nonchalantly.

"Please, drop the formalities." Ironwood chuckled as the two shook hands. "It's been too long." Glynda then approached the two. "And Glynda, it certainly has been too long since we last met."

"Oh James…" Glynda waved off. "I'll be outside." She left as the two headmasters just chuckled.

"Well she hasn't changed a bit." Ironwood said with little to no surprise.

"So…" Ozpin walked back over to his desk. "What in the world brings you all the way down from Atlas? Headmasters don't typically travel with students for the Vytal Festival." Ozpin offered Ironwood a cup of coffee.

"Well you know how much I love Vale this time of year." Ironwood pulled out a flask and poured some of its contents into the cup. "Besides, with you hosting I thought this might be a good opportunity for us to catch up."

"Well I certainly appreciate quality time between friends, I don't appreciate liars." Ozpin sat and slightly narrowed his eyes. "Now tell me the real reason."

"I think you know why Ozpin." Ironwood sighed as he took a sip. "Some kid joins your school with the exact same gadgets and weapons as one of our best Huntsmen is not a coincidence. The council just wants to make sure they're in safe hands."

"So they can use them as weapons?" Ozpin stood up with force. "If Fusion hadn't wanted those Bottles in Mr Aldwin's hands then they wouldn't have chosen him, the same can be said for Mr Dragoon and Pendragon's power."

"But we can find people who are more qualified than them." Ironwood pulled a device out of his coat pocket and placed it on the table. He pressed a button on it and a holographic image of a suit of armour. "I give you Grease, based off blueprints from the Mechanist himself. If you just let us have those Bottles, we can improve it farther than any technology."

"If he's so special, why bring an entire army?"

"You and I both know why I brought those men. With Torchwick in prison, and the others still at large, especially one who first worked at this school."

"We are in a time of peace. Shows of power like this are going to give off the wrong impressions. That was shown when one of your 'experiments' was stolen by the White Fang." Ozpin emphasised by nudging his eyes to the blue belt on the hologram.

"But with what Qrow said now being true, we need to take every precaution!" Ironwood slammed his hand on the desk before he grabbed the device. "I just want to-!"

"It's the Vytal Festival." Ozpin calmly interrupted. "A time to celebrate unity and peace. So I suggest you try not to scare people by transporting hundreds of soldiers halfway the continent." Ironwood had a discomforted look.

"I'm just being cautious, especially hearing from Penny about your student using Fusion's darkest secret." Ozpin himself even frowned at that. "How do I know this 'Build' of yours is even ready for this level of responsibility?"

Ozpin only gave one of patented smirks before he pressed a button on his desk that turned on a bunch of holographic screens. Each one showed a different form Baron had used that Ozpin somehow had recorded.

"He…he has so many…" Ironwood was lost for words.

"I too am being cautious, which is why we'll continue to train the best Huntsmen and Huntresses in all of Remnant." Ozpin assured.

"Believe me, I am. Which is why I brought a special someone with me this time."

At the bottom of the elevator to Ozpin's office was the guy in the aviator's jacket. In his hand he held a golden pocket watch with the face broken and hands frozen.

"AH! Look out!" The guy turned his head only to be crashed into by a blur of red. The two people fell down as so did a lot of small board game pieces. "Oh, sorry!" Turns out it was Ruby who crashed into him. "Sorry, I was trying to get to library to meet my friends, but I was late, so I tried to get there faster, but I ended up crashing into you I'm so sorry!"

"It's fine." He said with a chuckle. He got up and helped Ruby pick up the pieces. "You a student here?"

"Um yeah, it's my second term. I'm Ruby." She held out her hand for a shake.

"I'm Onyx." He shook her hand. "I'm from Atlas and here for the tournament. Well not to compete just here to watch." Ruby looked at the single red eye in his hood, he almost seemed familiar to the red reaper.

"Oh well, I hope to see you around Onyx. I gotta go." She sped off with the box under her arm.

"Yeah, hope to see you to." He took the glove off his right hand to show it was cybernetic. "Jeez, she sure has a strong grip." He chuckled as he slipped his glove back on.


Ya know, the library is meant for us to study, read and improve our education. But NOPE we're playing a board game! WOO!

We were playing a game called 'Remnant the Game', which I can only describe as a mix of Dungeons and Dragons and Yu-Gi-Oh. I don't know jack s**t about D and D, but I know how to believe in the heart of the cards. Ruby was playing as Atlas, Yang was Mistral, Weiss was Vacuo and Blake played as Vale. While they played as the Kingdoms, Neo and I played as the Grimm, being that last option.

"Alright, Yang Xiao Long, prepare your Kingdom for Battle!" Ruby declared dramatically.

"Bring it on!" Yang challenged.

"I deploy, the Atlesian Air fleet!" The made Yang 'gasp' in shock. "Looks like I get to fly right over your Ursai and attack your walls directly!" She made a bunch of airplane noises and motioned with her hands.

"You fiend!" Yang 'gasped' again.

"And since Atlas is part of Mantle, my repairs only last one turn." Ruby snickered.

"Pretty sneaky sis," Yang chuckled before taking a card from her hand. "But you just activated my trap card!"

"WHA?!"

"Giant Nevermore!" Yang slammed her hand on the table, which knocked over a few pieces. "If I roll a seven or higher Fatal Feathers will slice your fleet in two."

"But, if you roll a six or under, the Nevermore will turn on your own forces." Ruby leaned in.

"That's a chance I'm willing to take." Yang also leaned in. Is this what family game night is like for them, what's Tai and Qrow like?

Yang rolled the dice, the number landed on being an eight. While the two sisters got a little too heated in the game I took a glance at Team JNNPR on a table opposite from ours. Naga was drawing something, Ren was reading while Nora slept on the turned pages, Jaune was reading a comic of X-Ray and Vav, and Pyrrha was studying. Pyrrha took and the comic from Jaune and gave him the book, before she started to read the comic.

"NO~~~~~~! My fearless soldiers!" Ruby cried dramatically.

"Eh, most of them were probably androids." Yang waved off with no care.

"Goodbye my friends…." Ruby looked like she was on the verge of tears, she's good at acting. "You'll be avenged."

"Not until I draw my rewards, which are doubled this round thanks to the Mistral trade route!" Yang celebrated. "Oh, and what's this, the Smugglers of Wind Path?!"

"BAH! Bah I say!"

"Looks like I'm taking two cards from your hand!"

"HAVE YOU NO HEART!?"

"Are they usually this dramatic?" Neo asked me as we looked over our hand.

"Well, yeah there's no way to sugar coat it, yes." I deadpanned.

"Baron's turn." Yang turned to me as Ruby continued to sob.

"My turn." I drew a card from my deck as Neo and I looked over our hand again. "You wanna summon anything or do we just wait?"

"Let's wait it out." Neo smirked.

"We pass. No attacks on anyone." The two of us crossed our arms with smug smiles.

"Seriously, why are you two being so passive? You're playing as the Grimm!" Yang exaggerated, not liking our playing style.

"Sometimes the best paths to victory are the long one." I replied with a shrug.

"Well Weiss, it's your turn." Yang said.

"I have…..absolutely no idea what's going on." Admitted with confusion.

"Look it's easy." Yang slid up next to her. "You're playing as Vacuo which means all Vacuo based cards come with a bonus."

"That sounds dumb." Weiss frowned.

"See," Yang started to go through Weiss' hand. "You've got Sandstorm, Dessert Scavenge. Oh! Oh! Resourceful Raider! See now you can take Ruby's discarded air fleet,"

"No~~~~~~~."

"And put in your hand."

"Okay…" Weiss still doesn't seem to understand.

"And since Vacuo Warriors have an endurance boost against natural hazards you could use Sandstorm to disable my forces and simultaneously infiltrate my Kingdom! Just know, I will not forget this declaration of war." Yang ended with narrowed eyes.

"And that means?" How does she still not get it?

"You're just three moves away from conquering Remnant!" Ruby whined.

Weiss stood up and cackled manically. "Yes! Fear the almighty power of my forces! Cower as they pillage your homes and weep as they take your children from your very arms!"

"That's a bit much isn't it?" Even Neo looked a little freaked out.

"Trap card." Yang showed her other downed card. She started to shuffle the pieces on the board. "Your armies have been destroyed."

"I hate this game of emotions we play!" Weiss also started to cry as she sank back down.

"Stay strong Weiss we'll pull through this together!" Ruby sped over and hugged Weiss.

"Shut up! Don't touch me!" Yet Weiss hugged back.

"Alright Blake, your turn." Yang rested her hands behind her head.

"Oh um, what am I doing?" Blake snapped out of her thoughts.

"You're playing as Vale trying to conquer Remnant!" Yang reminded.

"Right." Blake said uncertainly. "I'll pass."

"My move!" Yang drew her deck. "I place two face downs and attack the nearby Grimm in my Kingdom!"

"You activated MY trap card! Grimm Rebirth!" I dramatically flipped the card. "Now the effect takes place by allowing me to summon a level four or higher Grimm Monster from my Graveyard if I roll a six or above!"

"But if you roll anything lower you summon nothing!" Yang warned.

"Sometimes a chance is all it takes to win." I grabbed the dice and shake it before I threw it onto the board. It rolled for a few seconds before landing on a six. "Now with this I summon my Cyber Deathstalker!" I slammed the card down before placing a little Deathstalker piece that had Gatling guns. "And with such high defence, are you willing to sacrifice so many poor soldiers?"

"I retreat my forces." Yang growled. I slowly pulled the card from my deck, Neo and I gained wicked smiles from what we have. "What's so funny?"

"It's funny the kind of things one can think of when taking over the world. First I play Devils Charge, letting me bypass all of the wall's HP and attack the Kingdom directly!"

"And with that we attack Mistral with a hoard of Taurus!"

"No, not my Kingdom!" Yang panicked.

"Oh we are far from done. Now to summon the most feared of Grimm to ever walk the lands. With these four cards collected, the sword, the shield, the armour and the spirit of the Grimm Knight Grimoire!" I took another piece with this one looking like a knight.

"Now to attack, the Cyber Deathstalker charges to Vacuo gunning down everything, the Flaming Nevermore scorches Atlas,"

"Lastly Grimoire marches into Vale, and where he goes the Grimm will follow." Ruby and Yang gained shocked looks.

"What does this mean?!" Weiss asked.

"I win, the Grimm now rule all Kingdoms. Bow before me puny humans!" I let out the scariest of laughs that seemed to make any other students walk away.

"Baron I think you're going a little too far….." I stopped laughing and looked around at all the leaving students. Guess I did go a bit far.

"Hey, can I play?" Jaune asked as he walked over to our table.

"Sorry Jaune, we've already got five people." Ruby apologised.

"Then why's Neo playing?" He motioned to the mute.

"We're sharing." She waved off.

"Besides, this game requires a certain level of tactical cunning that I doubt you possess." Weiss declined the blonde knight's request.

"Uh….you attacked your own forces two turns ago." Yang smirked.

"Hmph!"

"Bring it on Ice Queen," Jaune challenged. "I've been told that I'm a natural born leader." Jaune boasted.

"By who? Your mother?" Weiss joked.

"A-and Pyrrha." Jaune pointed to the Spartan.

"Hello again!" She waved.

"Come on! Let me play your hand for one turn!" He started to beg.

"I'm not trusting you with the good citizens of Vacuo!" Weiss rejected.

"Why not?! You've trusted me with way more important stuff in the past! Like how you told us that Blake's a-!"

"Fun loving person!" Neo slapped her hand over Jaune's mouth. Pyrrha also ran over and slapped her hand over Neo's.

"Who we all admire and respect!" She added. Everyone sent worried glances at Blake who only had narrowed eyes.

"Sup losers?" We all turned to the voice and saw Sun walk in with Neptune. "Ruby, Yang, Blake, Baron, Ice Cream Girl, JNNPR….Ice Queen."

"Why does everyone keep calling me that?!" Weiss demanded.

"I never got a chance to formally introduce you to my old friend Neptune." Sun introduced the blue haired boy.

"Uh…aren't libraries for reading?" Neptune asked looking at the board game.

"Thank you!" Ren yelled.

"PANCAKES?!" Nora snorted as she woke up.

"Shut up, don't be a nerd." Sun whispered to him.

"Intellectual." He interrupted. "Okay? Thank you."

"So Neptune, where you from?" Neo asked as she looked over the teen.

"Haven, same as Sun. And….I don't believe I caught your name, Snow Angel."

"Name's Weiss, and, not interested." She said, which seemed to take Neptune back a bit. I could also see Naga slightly flinch and drop his drawing pad.

"Noted." Neptune said in defeat.

"I never took you as the board game playing type." Sun chuckled at Blake.

"Right…" She got up and dumped her cards on the table. "Well I think I'm done playing actually. I'll see you guys later." She then left.

"Women!" Nora shrugged.

"Hey Baron, come here." Naga ushered me over towards him. "So I've been thinking, you've got a lot of forms with all those Bottles, and me, well I got one. Two if you count that banana thing that doesn't work anymore."

"And where's this leading?" I asked.

"So what I'm thinking is, how about getting me some new forms huh?" He turned around his drawing pad and showed something that looked like his Cross-Z suit but mostly purple and silver. "I call it Cross-Z Thunder, still thinking on what it can do but whaddya think?"

"I mean it looks cool. But what do you expect me to do?"

"I was wondering if, you know, you could make it." He said with a happy smile.

"Naga, buddy listen, I can't make these kinda things." He lost his smile. "I didn't make the Driver and Bottles; they were given to me the same way Z was given to you."

"So, do I at least get anything? Power Ups or what not?" He put the pad on the table. "Cause I feel way underpowered compared to you."

Aw, my poor little Dragon Boi. He's sad….suddenly my Scroll started to ring, the ringtone being an 8bit version of 'Be the One'. "Hello?"

[Hello Baron. What's your favourite scary movie?] A voice said on the other side.

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"Hi Kaijin."

[WH-WH-What?! How'd you know it's me?! They have Scream in this world!]

"I took a guess." There was silence on the other side. "You wanna try that again?"

[You can be an utter pain you know. Just calling to give a little tip to my little baby.] What's wrong with this guy?

"What kinda tip?" I asked, Naga leaned in to listen.

[A certain General has just arrived and is currently searching for you and Naga to 'acquire' your special toys. Let's just say I'd rather not let them get a hold of Bottles that contain the essence of nearly every organic and inorganic objects.]

"Well thanks I guess." He only chuckled on the other side.

[Can't have you getting arrested. We got more games to play.] He said before hanging up.

"What was that about?" Naga asked.

"Apparently the headmaster of Atlas wants to capture us and take our Rider stuff." I sighed with a shrug.

"HA, please! As if the Atlas General would bust into our library with a troop of Atlesian Soldiers just to take you and I into custody for our Drivers." And so General Ironwood threw the library doors open with a small troop of Atlesian Soldiers. "I hate my stupid mouth…" Naga groaned.

"Spread out! Find Mr Aldwin and Mr Dragoon." Ironwood ordered as the Soldiers separated.

"Why is General Ironwood here?" Weiss and the others, save for Nora who was asleep again, leaned over the banister to look at the lower levels.

"And why did he bring a bunch of soldiers?" Yang added.

"Well apparently he wants to steal our stuff." Naga answered.

"Not surprising, I heard from Uncle Qrow that he's a bit of a power hungry General." Ruby said.

"So are we gonna run?" Neo asked the obvious.

Yeah running sounds like the best option. We'll split them up, take em out one by one with our own special little tricks. They'll never take me alive, THEY'LL NEVER-!

"Found them!" Well f**k! About ten Atlas Soldiers surrounded us and aimed their weapons.

"Should've ran."

A pair of the soldiers shifted apart slightly to make way for Ironwood to walk in and looks at me and Naga. What's worse is that he seems disappointed at us, wow.

"Baron Aldwin, Naga Dragoon." He addressed us. "I'm going to have to ask you to come with me. I have some questions."

"Wait we didn't do anything! We're innocent!" Naga pleaded.

"You're not in any trouble, I just want to ask about some items you have." Naga and I raised our hands upwards in a surrender motion.

"You can't just take two students into custody. If they're going, we're going to!" Yang and Neo got in front of us with their arms crossed.

"No you won't." Ironwood said firmly. "As a headmaster, and a General, I order you to stand aside." Yang stood her ground.

"It's alright, I'll be fine." I put my hand on her shoulder. "Here," I handed her my goggles. "Could you have that talk with DARCI while I'm gone?"

"Yeah okay." She took DARCI and watched as Naga and I were escorted out the library.


After a ways of walking, the Atlas Headmaster led us to an interrogation room. Why does our Academy have an interrogation room?

"So how much trouble do you think we're in?" I ask as Naga tried to pull off his cuffs with force. "Good answer."

Another five minutes later and the door finally opened with Ironwood walking in. "Baron Aldwin and Naga Dragoon," He sat at the other end of the table. "I have a few questions."

"And you couldn't have asked us in a nicer place? I mean seriously, why does a school have an interrogation room?" I leaned onto the table.

"Ozpin did say you were quite the talker Mr Aldwin." Ironwood sighed. "I just want to know where you two got equipment that belonged to two of the greatest heroes that ever lived in Remnant. And I only want the truth."

Naga and I looked at each other and just shrugged.

"I got mine when I woke up in the middle of the Emerald Forest."

"I found Z in a secret laboratory and he then helped me escape."

"I asked for the truth…" He growled. Are we really that unbelieving?

"We're serious, we're telling the truth." Naga reasoned. "We haven't done anything wrong anyway, we use these powers for good anyway so what's the big deal?"

"The big deal is that you two somehow got the powers of legendary Huntsmen that disappeared ten years ago!" Ironwood shouted at us. "When really those powers should be in the hands of those who are truly responsible."

"And who the hell are you to judge us?!" I slammed my hands on the table and stood up to look him in the eyes. "We've done nothing but protect people from Grimm and others like them! Tell me, what good have you done without having hurt people, huh?!"

Ironwood only growled at us and looked like he was gonna explode if it wasn't for Ozpin and Glynda to walk in, the Huntress having a frown.

"James I thought I told you to leave my students alone." Ozpin said to the General.

"Ozpin, I just wanted to ask them some questions." Ironwood said but was quickly silenced as Glynda walked up with a glare.

"You had no right to come to our Academy and detain two of our students James!" She flicked her crop and unlocked our shackles. "You boys are free to go."

"Hold on, I still have questions." Ironwood intervened but was stopped by Ozpin.

"General, I must kindly ask that you leave my students to enjoy the rest of their weekend." The Headmaster took a sip of coffee. "I need not to warn you again. Mr Aldwin, Mr Dragoon, you may leave."

The two of us stood up and went for the door. "A duel then."

Naga and I stopped and looked back at the General. "Beg your pardon?" Glynda questioned.

"I challenge your two Riders a duel, both of them against one of our newest Atlesian Paladins." Ironwood proposed the idea.

"That's absolutely absurd!" Naga crossed his arms. "Deal." That shocked me as I looked at the Dragon Faunus.

"Are you insane?!"

"Aw come on, we can handle one mech can't we? We got awesome Rider powers." He shrugged. "It's just a giant robot."

'This idiot's gonna doom us.' I mentally facepalmed.

"Then you have two hours." Ironwood said as he pushed past us both.

"Rude." I mocked and rubbed my arm.


"You have royally f****d us Naga, royally f****d us." Is the only thing I said on repeat as the two of us walked back to our separate dorms.

"Will you chill." Naga waved off. "It's not like we haven't fought robots in the past."

"But those were our size!" I emphasized. "See you in two hours then." Sighing as I opened my dorm room, I saw that Yang sat at the desk with my goggles on the opposite end.

"I think you at least owe him an explanation." Yang said.

"I owe nothing." The lenses flashed as she talked. "I trusted him, and he went against the one thing that he shouldn't have done."

"Could you not give him another chance, he only did that because we were on the losing side in that battle." The lights dimmed down slightly. "Come on DARCI, please."

"You know I wouldn't have used it if I had any other choice." I made my presence known as I walked into the room. "And it's not like I knew there was some kinda evil AI in there."

"He's not evil, he's just misunderstood."

"You seem like you know him far too well." Yang said which looked like it saddened DARCI.

"That's because he's my little brother, KAI." WHA~~~~~~~T?!

"The thing that tried to kill us is your little brother?" Yang asked with disbelief flooding her voice. "You'd better be pulling our legs."

"No, she's not." I realised. "But if he's your younger brother why did you try so hard to shut him out?"

"Because he causes nothing but trouble! Every time he took control of any kind of machinery he'd do some crazy s**t that ended up getting someone hurt."

"So why's he so monstrous?"

"When the two of us were programmed, we were given special added data. I was given data on a Huntress that Fusion once knew, she was kind and caring and always looked out for the little people."

"Then….what kind of data made KAI?" Yang reluctantly asked.

"Possibly the worst thing Fusion could do, Grimm data. He recorded all different types of Grimm behaviour, and in the end was able to make life out of it."

"And let me guess, he went full Ultron and wanted to make humanity extinct?" I took a wild guess, I mean it's kinda obvious.

"Not at first. At first he was made as a way to combat the Grimm, a possible saviour ya know. But after only a few months he decided that the Grimm weren't the problem, the people were the problem. So in the end, we put him in lock down. That was until you pressed that little blue button."

Okay now I feel a little bad…HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT'D HAPPEN?!

"Oh, um…sorry?"

"I prayed there'd be no scenario that would release KAI from his digital prison, but in the end I was acting like a petty child."

"Heh, she's not wrong." Saying that got me punched in the arm from Yang. "Ow…"

"DARCI there's no need for you to be so apologetic, if anything you're both at fault." She looked at the two of us. "First of all, Baron, you should've heeded her warnings and used the damn Trigger." I only chuckled nervously. "And DARCI, maybe next time when you wanna warn us about something incredibly dangerous, don't be so cryptic."

"Th-that's fair…"

"Now, can the two of you finally get along again?" She ordered rather than asked.

"Friends?"

"Friends." I picked up the goggles and slung them back on my head. "Now that that's sorted, I forgot to mention Naga agreed to the two of us fighting against a giant robot."

"HE WHAT?!"


"This is stupid!" Z complained as we walked into the Amity Arena. The rest of our teams, save for Blake because well she's Blake, sat in the VIP red seats. "Why the hell did you accept that deal?!"

"Don't look at me like that little guy, it was your Boss' idea to do this whole fiasco." I defend myself while the small dragon flew onto Naga's shoulder.

"It's no sweat, I've heard Paladins aren't even that big anyway." We walked into the centre of the arena. Naga cupped his hands around his mouth. "Come one then! Give us your best shot!"

'This guy's gonna be the death of me…' I groaned in my mind.

"How hard can this be?" Why is Naga acting so smug lately? And about 0.5 seconds later, a giant mech, far bigger and much different than what I saw in the show, crashed down in front of us.

"Mr Aldwin, Mr Dragoon, I'd like to introduce you to the Atlesian Paladin MK2. I hope you're not having second guesses; we did need to test the new weapon systems." Ironwood said over the arena's intercom. This Paladin was a lot taller and skinnier than the others and was a whole lot whiter and bluer than before.

"Oh I definitely am."

"I'm not."

WAKE UP!

CROSS-Z DRAGON!

WHALE!

JET!

BEST MATCH!

ARE YOU READY?!

"If this kills me Naga, you're not invited to me funeral. Henshin!"

WAKE UP BURNING! GET CROSS-Z DRAGON! YEAH!

HIGH FLYING BIG WAVE! WHALEJET! YEAH!

While Naga's navy-blue armour blazed on him, I got a navy-blue right arm and left leg with a whale head on the shoulder while the left arm and right leg were light blue with a small runway and jet on the chest, the back also had a pair of jet wings. The visors were a jet and a whale.

"The laws of victory are set in motion!"

"Listen here you bucket of bolts; cause I feel like I can't lose!"

The Paladin's arm opened up with a huge gatling gun coming out. The mech started to fire blue lasers, so Naga ran around it while I used the wings to fly into the sky. The Paladin aimed at me and fired into the sky as I rolled and flew out of the way, but it just kept following me.

While it was distracted with me, Naga ran up behind it and climbed up its back all the way up to its head.

"You want some?! HERE!" He used his Dragons Force on his arms and started to bash away at the metal plating. The Paladin stopped blasting at me and tried to grab Naga off. With one last bash Naga jumped off and latched onto to arm, which made the Paladin swing its arms around. "A~~~~~H!"

"Hold still I'm coming!" I called to him and flew on down. I took out my Drill Crusher and fired away at the cockpit to try to distract it while Naga kept punching its arm. I flew down and grabbed the Dragon Faunus by the back of his helmet. "Hey here's an idea, why don't we work together?"

"Alright, what's your plan smartass?" I dropped him on the ground and landed a bit in front.

"Try using this, might melt it." I said, chucking him the Volcano Bottle. "I'll catch it's attention and then you hit it hard!"

The Paladin turned to us and fired a barrage of missiles at us. Naga rolled out of the way as I took to the skies again, blasting with my Drill Crusher in gun mode. The Paladin blasted at me more with its gatling gun.

"Do a barrel roll!"

"You did not just make that joke?!" I was distracted by such a bad reference that I didn't notice that the Paladin retracted the gatling gun to switch it for two cannons on its shoulders. "Oh SH************T!" Both cannons fired massive lasers that seemed to follow me. "Naga, how's the melting coming along?!"

"Don't get your Bottles in a twist I'm on it!" He yelled back as he ran towards the Paladin's back with his Beat Crosser out.

VOLCANO SPECIAL TUNE! HIT-HIT-HIT PARADE!

His blade was coated in molten magma as he used his Dragons Force to jump up towards the two guns and slash em.

MEGA SLASH!

He landed back on the ground as the parts he slashed burst with oozing lava and fell to the ground. The Paladin turned to the Dragon Rider and tried to grab him, but I swooped by and aimed my Whale Shoulder which spurted a huge gust of water that pushed the Paladin back a bit.

"Send in the cavalry!" My jet visor flashed as the small jet on my chest flew off. The jet multiplied into many as it assaulted the mech with blasts, bomb drops or just full on kamikaze.

"Regretting this now bud?" I irritatingly asked.

"Tiny bit," He answered and rubbed his neck. "I thought they were smaller than this, 'bout the same height as a Goliath, honest." He defended.

"Let's just finish it off." I sighed as we both spun the cranks on our Drivers.

READY?! GO!

Naga's right fist blazed with navy blue fire as he rushed to the giant machine. Said machine tried to punch.

DRACONIC FINISH!

"Dragon Fist!" Both their attacks collided, which resulted in the Paladin's arm being completely destroyed.

VOLTECH FINISH!

"Naga, outta the way!" He nodded and jumped back as I spread my arms and released a minor flood. I jumped in and swam under towards the mech.

I busted out of the water with a giant whale underneath me. It shot water out of its blowhole that launched me further up.

"High Tide Crash!" Both the whale and I came crashing down, the whale slammed itself onto the mech before I joined in with a shoulder bash.

The mech crashed down as I jumped off and landed next to Naga. "Got em!" The two of us high fived as he smugly turned to the booth Ironwood and some Atlas Soldiers were. "Are you not entertained?! Is that all you got?!"

"DUDE! Shut up! Are you tryna get us killed?!" I smacked the back of his helmet.

"Oh please, they got nothing better to throw at us." He crossed his arms.

"Onyx, get in there." Ironwood said over the PA. Naga and I heard footsteps coming from the seating area, the two of us looked to see someone coming down the stairs to the edge of the audience seats. He wore an aviator's jacket as well as baggy jeans. He had the hood up so only a single red eye glowed in the dark of the hood.

"Who's that?" I wondered.


"Huh? Onyx?" Ruby shot up and looked at the footsteps to see the hooded guy she met earlier in the morning.

"Do you know him?" Weiss asked as she also noticed him.

"Not really, I mean I met him this morning after I ran into him on the way to the library. But he said he wasn't here for the tournament."

Onyx walked up to the edge of the railing before he jumped off and landed in the arena crouched like Iron Man.

"Woohoo! Superhero landing!" Nora randomly cheered.


"Woohoo! Superhero landing!" DARCI randomly cheered. "Now's really not the time!"

Onyx stood up and rolled his shoulders as he started to walk towards us.

"Pfft! Who does this guy think he is? It's two VS one." Naga huffed.

Onyx stopped walking and gave a chuckle. "Oh, is that so?" He reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out something that made Naga and I gasp. It was a blue Driver with a yellow handle and an empty tube on the side, as well as an empty spot in the middle.

SCLASH DRIVER!

He reached into his other pocket and pulled out a little gold pouch object with a robot on it. "A Sclash Jelly?"

He twisted the knob on top and threw it in the air before catching it and shoving it into the Sclash Driver.

ROBOT JELLY!

The Driver let out a mechanical pulsing sound as he raised his arm into the air and pointed at the two Riders.

"Henshin!" He pulled the lever down, filling the tube on the side with a brown liquid.

SQUISHED! OOZED!

A beaker formed around Onyx before it filled with the same liquid.

OVERFLOWED!

The beaker exploded and showed Onyx in a gold body suit with black legs and arms. He has a white head with red eyes. The white head then spurts out greasy oil, which solidifies into brown and gold armour atop the helmet and shoulders.

ROBOT IN GREASE! BURAA!

'Kamen Rider….Grease?' God dammit.

"My soul will burn…..and crush you!" He said calmly as he pointed at us before breaking into a full-on sprint towards us.

And so, in the great words of Red VS Blue, we both said; "Oh son of a bi-!"


A/N: Heh-heh-heh, cliff hanger.

Yes Grease has finally made a debut with his first battle being next chapter.

Oh but now for that little announcement of the poll answers. And the winner is Decade! [One or two bits of confetti fall down] So look out for that coming soon.

And now for reviews.

Guest DCDGojira: Naga and Onyx will, Rogue will not. I'm gonna be honest, I don't like the look of the Vol 7 clothes, especially Blake's hair, and if I'll be completely honest; I'm not excited considering how bad the past three volumes have been. When did I say that Stalk had something to do with the Evo Grimm, it's a natural form of evolution for them.

James Reed: I'm not gonna make Adam Killbus, because that's just stupid considering Adam dies in Vol 6. I already have something planned for Shocker. This Evolto is an AR version. I already have an idea for a Grasshopper bottle. Yes Baron will 'attempt' to change the bad things. No I will not make Cinder into Kamen Rider Blood because Blood was a pretty crappy Rider, and no one likes Cinder. No there won't be a version of the Hoktou Trio. And no, Baron can't expose Ozpin's secret since he's only seen up to Vol 5.

So that's it this time. I'll see you guys next time.

BYE, BYE.