AN: This is as a courtesy to the weaker stomached. There is a scene or two containing mild gore, including skin deterioration and the like. It should be relatively obvious when it is coming.
Vacuan Desert
Not long after…
"So, you said that you haven't met your employer yet. Where the hell are you taking us then?" Durane interrogated as the group of now 7 trudged through the desert sands, the wreckage of the White Fang Convoy long behind them while the two mercenaries' mechs were attached to the back of Geod's.
"Yeah, we might have lied slightly on the whole not knowing our employer bit. Well, we don't know our employer but we know of them." Cytomander drawled out, clearly apprehensive towards the situation.
"Just get to the goddamn point already bird face." Ivor growled, glaring at the avain man in disdain.
"Have you heard of a man by the name of Adam Taurus?" Cytomander hastily said, as if the mere utterance of the name would summon its bearer.
"What, you mean one of the higher-ups in the 'Fang? What Faunus hasn't heard of him? Do you take us as uneducated swine?" Durane retorted, stopping momentarily at the realization. "Wait, we're going to take on the head honcho of the Vale section of the White Fang? Wouldn't he, you know, be in Vale?"
"You know, I never thought as to why he's here. I just know that he is." Cytomander replied, shrugging slightly as he continued to lead the group. Eventually, they stopped on a cliff overlooking a sort of oasis looking area, signs of combat already evident from the gashes as well as blood littering the otherwise pristine looking area.
"Looks like we aren't the only ones tracking this group of the White Fang." Geod stated as he jumped down the cliff face in Lazengann, hopping from the cockpit to investigate closer. "They were here recently as well. This blood is still somewhat fresh, based on how it isn't dried. They must be aiming for destabilization and not death though, as the lack of bodies would suggest." getting back into the mecha, Geod motioned to the rest to follow. "Based on the direction the blood is going, I'd say they went North." Trudging forward, the group encountered little opposition beyond the occasional Desert Prowler or Decay Reaper. Once the group came to a rest by a dune, until the hill suddenly exploded almost violently, revealing a Haranae Gigas with a sizable Burn Crystal embedded in it's back.
"The hell?! Since when can a Geist Possess sand?!" Tyrus shouted out as backpedaled, pulling out the Alkaid Glave to try and shoot at the Gigas' mask, only to miss and have the shot refracted off the Burn dust in its back. Ivor attempted to slash it in half, however, the sand quickly filled in the 'wound' thus negating any damage done to it. Growling in annoyance, the azure-eyed huntsman attempted to catch the Grimm by surprise with an explosion underneath its legs, but only caused the sand to temporarily blind them, allowing the Haranae Gigas to charge up its dust attack, the Burn Crystal in it's back glowing from the energy withdrawal. In front of the Giant's mask formed a ball of pure heat, which grew to around the size of a basketball.
"SHIT! Everyone get down!" Ivor shouted out as the Grimm fired off the laser in a sweeping motion, turning several other dunes into glass from the heat emitted by it. Turning to the two criminals, Geod had Lazengann detach their Gunmen and place them on the ground.
"Cytomander, Adiane! We need as much firepower against this thing as we can muster! Can I trust you two to not betray us after we kill this thing?" The albino shouted as he dodged another slam from the Sand Giant.
"Geod! You know we can't trust those two entirely, regardless of past associations you may have with them!" Ivor shouted at the team leader, trying and failing to injure the Grimm that they were facing.
"Do we even have a choice? If we don't then we're as good as dead!" Verneri countered as he dodged another of the Sand Giant's attacks while shooting blades of wind at it in vain.
"Fine! I just hope you know what you're doing Oum dammit!" The blonde huntsman yelled as he continued his pointless assault. Nodding to the two criminals he rushed the Haranae Gigas with a drill extended, attempting to hit its mask but was swatted away by its arm before it moved back, preparing another laser. Grinning, Cytomander and Adiane hopped into their respective Gunmen, firing up the engines without realizing the imminent danger the Sand Giant presented to them in their vulnerable state. As soon as the engines heated up, the Haranae Gigas fired off the laser, directly impacting Cytomander's mech resulting in an explosion that engulfed the two.
"Adiane, Cytomander, no!" Tyrus shouted as he saw the flames engulf the Gunmen, presumably killing the two. Roaring out in rage, the air around the Gorilla Faunus began to haze before dark flames erupted around him. Glaring at the Sand Giant, Tyrus gave another guttural roar before throwing the Alkaid Glaive as the dark flames followed, engulfing the Grimm and thus turning its body to glass and preventing it from dodging the spear aimed at its mask, resulting in it being killed by the impact. Slowly stalking towards the disintegrating mask, grabbing his weapon from the remains, Tyrus pressed in a small, almost indistinguishable trigger resulting in the spearhead compressing towards the shaft, widening in the process as it formed a secondary form, the Alkaid Hammer. Shouting out in rage, the black-haired Faunus slammed his weapon into the Grimm's slowly disintegrating remains resulting in the mask shattering further, eventually leaving nothing behind.
"I know it hurts, but we have a job we came here to do. We can grieve later." Durane said as he patted the much taller man's lower arm, a solemn frown on his own face as he glared at the spot that the Sand Giant previously stood. "Now come on. At least we know where to go."
"Yeah, I guess so." The Gorilla Faunus sighed as he placed the Alkaid Hammer on his back, not bothering to shift it back. Walking back to the group, Geod let out a breath he didn't know he was holding.
"Well, I suppose we need to continue on the trail." The albino suggested as blaring noise came from Ivor's left breast pocket.
"WHERE'S THE LAMB SAUCE! WHERE'S THE LAMB SAUCE! WHERE'S THE LAMB SAU-" "Hello, this is Ivor Alan speaking." The professional huntsman spoke into his scroll, wondering who got his contact.
"Professor Alan? Huh, turns out trying random numbers DOES work in dire times. Anyways, this is Colys of Team C.R.S.N., calling to inform you of the fact that Vale is under siege." The strangely calm ice user stated, saluting on his end of the call.
"Wait, wait, wait, back up a moment. Vale is under siege? By who?" Ivor grilled, mentally panicking.
With Colys…
"Well, you see this explosion sort of happened in the center of Vale, and Grimm just started POURING out. I think everything is under contr- oh no." Colys paused, noticing an odd blot of pure white in the sea of black.
"Oh no? What's happening Colys?" Came the reply of Ivor at the Ice user's pause.
"The Redead Corps. are here." Colys answered, glaring at the slowly rising army. "Listen, I need to go. Try and contact any other Huntsman you can and send them to Vale. it was nice talking to you, Professor Alan." Ending the call, Colys looked down from his perch on an Atlesian Airship heading into Vale to provide air support. Spraying out some Ice, the noirette began to form a ball around himself to prepare for his landing. "Well, here goes nothing!" Screaming in excitement, the team leader rocketed into the central square, landing directly on the head of an Ursa major that was at the front, killing the Grimm instantly.
"Oi, Colys! I told you to wait for the rest of us!" Came a semi-distant shout as one of the smaller dropships opened up, revealing the rest of Team C.R.S.N. alongside a small battalion of Atlesian Knights. Jumping ahead of the other two, Nuada pulled out Armageddon using his new bionic hand, roaring out as he slammed into a Beowulf, crushing the Grimm's skull in the process. "Well, as they say, the Cavalry has arrived!" Rushing towards an Ursa, the brunette extended out his arm to punch the Bear Grimm, resulting in his new hand being comically smaller than the rest of the arm. Regardless it launched the Ursa into a building, cracking its skull from the impact. From the ice sphere, Colys was encased in came a muffled shout before the ball sprouted dozens of spikes, propelling itself into the front lines of the Redead Corps. before exploding into countless shards, shredding some of the Redeads that made up the bulk of the forces.
"Yo, Team R.W.B.Y.! Glad to see you four alive and kicking!" The ice user shouted before punching a Beowolf that pounced at him, sending a few hundred volts of electricity into its brain. Turning around as a Stalfos attempted to take his head off, the noirette encased his fist in a layer of frost before smashing the skeletal warrior's ribcage.
"Good to see you two, Frosty!" Yang shouted as she uppercutted a Creep, sending the subterranean Grimm into a pile of others, knocking them over. Utilizing Ember Cecilia's shotgun function, the blonde brawler took out more of the two-legged lizards before being caught off guard by a King Taijitu behind her. Just as the snake-like Grimm was about to strike, a sparking, purple spear slammed through its head, exploding into violet sparks that caused it's head to explode.
"Hey. need some help?" Raiden shouted as he and Enkaar ran out from the slowly dispersing army of Grimm, the two killing the monsters that got too close for comfort.
"Weren't you two on your mission already?" The buxom blonde asked as the two gave shrugs.
"We weren't that far when we heard the sirens. Probably helps that both our teams took missions in the Forever Fall." The lizard Faunus answered, stabbing an Ursa in the area that would normally be the kidney. "Anyways, talk later. Kill Grimm now." Removing the knife from the Ursa, Enkaar ran forward, slitting the throats of various Grimm and monsters as he passed, stopping in the center of the plaza to catch his breath. Over his head flew a Creep encased in ice, courtesy of Rhydwyn using the elemental dust function of Lament. Stabbing a Redead through the chest as it shambled towards himself, the sound user sent high decibel sound waves at a small platoon of Stalfos, crumbling the skeletal enemies into dust as a result.
"Hey, any idea what caused this anyways?" The turquoise-eyed teenager muttered, stabbing a Beowulf that got close.
"I think the hole over there is a bit of a dead give away. Considering the fact that the wreckage of a train is next to it, I'd guess that said train was rigged with explosives." Sinikka supplied, shooting a small Nevermore out of the sky. As a larger one of the Bird Grimm tried to swoop down, a clawed arm of pure darkness swatted it out of the sky, crushing it in the limbs grip. From the origin of the construct, Dakura ran forward before slashing a Stalmaster in half with Shadowsteel.
"Dark Arrow!" Shouting the attack name, the spell fired forward, tearing through a few dozen Redeads and Stalfos, exploding in front of a Deadhand. As a result, the demon burrowed towards the swordsman, popping up behind him and tearing into his shoulder with a bite. Roaring at the undead creature as it began to drain his life force, Dakura began to inhale the darkness in the surrounding area. "Dark Dragon Roar!" The shout was accented by a beam of dark energy severing the Deadhand's head from the rest of its body, it's green blood flinging onto the Dark Dragon Slayer. Growling at the demon in rage, Dakura stomped on the remains of its head before continuing to tear through the Redead Corps in a blind rage. While he did this, the remainder of the Grimm that had come through either were finally killed or ran off. Colys was sitting in his Paladin/Lazengann hybrid that he made earlier as he decimated the remaining Redead Corps alongside his fellow team leader, either freezing them solid or blasting them to shreds using his control over ice to form missiles.
"Hey Dakura, want to make a bet? Whoever kills more of these things has to buy the other and their entire team lunch." Colys asked as he sent the Lazengann Paladin into semi-autopilot after hopping out next to the crimson eyed man.
"Sure, sounds like fun! Be sure to keep count Frost Emperor!" Dakura shouted out as his face burst into a feral grin. Cloaking his fist in darkness, he lashed forward at the nearest contingent of the Redead Corps. "Dark Dragon Claw!" Slashing the frontline of the group in half, Dakura pulled out his shotgun from his back, aiming at the next set. "Explosive Slug!" Firing the magic bullet, it burrowed itself into a Redead's chest before exploding, destroying both the initial victim and the others in a 5-foot radius. With Colys, the ice user formed a few Frost Taluses, sending the constructs out to handle the more dangerous of the Redead Corps while he took on the grunts. Running to a Stalfos platoon, the noirette covered his fists in more ice, before having a pair of bladed claws sprout from the knuckles.
"I've always wanted to feel like Wolverine! I wonder if any wolverine Faunus are capable of this though." Colys shouted as he slashed the Stalfos to pieces, stomping on their skulls to ensure they wouldn't rise back up. Turning to the next set of skeletal creatures, Colys extended the blades further, allowing him to slash through multiple ranks at a time. "I wonder how things are going back in the plaza? Whatever. It's probably nothing too important." The coal-eyed male muttered to himself as he stepped on another Stalfos skull, smiling from the thrill. Back with Dakura, the Dark Dragon slayer finished clearing out the area he took for himself.
"Well, looks like I'm finished here." The crimson eyed man said to himself, before turning back around upon hearing the clattering sound of bones. "What, back for more..." Dakura trailed off upon noticing what was forming behind himself, the bones of the enemies he had already killed flowing past him into a giant, vaguely humanoid shape. "Oh no. That's not good. Hey Colys!"
"What u- WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?!" Colys shouted out, noticing the giant shadow forming above him as the bones of their defeated enemies slowly converged, forming a draconic skeleton, missing only its wings.
"I was hoping they wouldn't bring out this thing. Looks like I was wrong. Its name is Stallord." Dakura said, pulling out Shadowsteel in preparation. "The remains of a long-dead Dragon, Stallord was, or rather now is, used only in dire situations. The only way we can stop it now, however, is by killing it."
"Good thing you're here then, Dakura. You know, because you are a dragonslayer." Colys joked, before pulling as much of the Ice he already had towards himself, reforming the Lazengann Paladin. "You think the others have noticed this thing yet?" Colys asked before the Stallord's right hand cracked, Rhydwyn landing next to Colys' construct with Lament heating up to fire.
"That answer your question, Frosty?" The spearman retorted, firing off the beam that was built up at the Stallord, breaking off one of its ribs. "Now go on, you and I both know you do better at close range."
"Right. You're a good friend, Rhydwyn." Colys replied with a small smile as the Lazengann Paladin pulled back its fist, striking the skeletal dragon in the spinal column. Rearing back its head, the Stallord gave off a mighty roar before exhaling a putrid breath, resulting in the surrounding buildings beginning to melt from the acidic nature of the gas.
"Get down!" A random soldier yelled as the breath passed near. Glancing back at the sound, Colys immediately regretted doing so as he was met with the site of the Atlas Platoon's skin melting off, the soldiers that were on the outskirts of the gas choking as if it were mustard gas.
"Wow, talk about bad breath! Ok. that was bad, shouldn't have said that." Colys joked, continuing to pummel the Stallord's spine. Destroying the section he was latched onto, Colys jumped away as the venerable bioweapon began to fall forward, before reattaching what was left of its spine together. Roaring again, the Stallord began to prepare another one of its breath attacks before its mouth was frozen shut. "Hey! Ever hear of say it don't spray it?" Latching back onto the spine, Colys attempted to slam into it again, only to be shook off by the Stallord.
"You alright, Colys?" Rhydwyn asked when the ice user was knocked out of the Lazengann Paladin from its impact with the ground.
"I've had worse impacts. You holding up fine?" Colys replied as he got back into his normal stance. Cracking his knuckles in anticipation, the noirette began to gather more ice in front of himself. "Now hopefully this will have a bit of an effect on it!" The ice he gathered formed into a cannon, which began to glow an almost ethereal blue at the muzzle. "I've done this only once before. Hopefully this goes well!" Colys shouted out as the power seemed to peak, before an ice blue laser shot out, impacting the Stallord's mouth leaving its head frozen solid.
"Nice shot, frosty!" Raiden shouted out as he, Enkaar, and Yang ran up, the former launching an Electron Beam at the skeletal dragon's frozen head, shattering the ice surrounding it. "Oh, shit." Roaring out in rage, the Stallord reared its clawed fist back, slashing at Dakura as he flew around it using Dark Maker: Dark Wings.
"Dark Dragon Roar!" The crimson eyed man shouted as he released a beam of dark energy from his mouth at the undead construct, further cracking its skull. Building up more energy, Dakura flew at the Stallord with his own fist cloaked in dark energy. "Dark Dragon Hard Fist!" slamming his arm down into the amalgamation's eye socket. Roaring out again, the Stallord swatted at Dakura while stomping around the mostly empty block it was in, causing various forms of debris to launch towards the others, thankfully being stopped by a timely Ice wall courtesy of Colys.
"Hey, try and lead it away from the city, yeah?!" Colys shouted out as the debris stopped falling. Reforming the Icicle Paladin, Colys charged forward personally and began to strike the Stallords spinal column again.
"Hey ugly, eat this! Bombling Rush!" Kaito shouted out as the aforementioned insects rushed out from his swarm, climbing up the Stallords body until reaching the shoulders and detonating. Charging with Muramasa drawn, the albino joined the other two in assaulting the Stallord. Jumping up with the assistance of his swarm form, Kaito landed on the construct's waist and aided Colys in taking out the spine. Popping in a wind Dust Crystal, Kaito increased the slicing power of Muramasa as he slashed at the Stallord. As the skeletal beast attempted to step forward again, a massive earthen fist grabbed onto it, pulling the grabbed leg underground.
"Hey Colys, Hope you don't mind if Team F.Y.R.E. joins this party!" A familiar monotone themed female shouted out as she flung one of her Meteor Hammers at the Stallords still surfaced leg, shattering the outer layer of bone.
"So Yardley, which one is this 'Colys' person Roxanne was talking so animatedly about?" A darker skinned male wearing a dark-visored cap. The insomniac then pointed at the Icicle Paladin.
"I think the one piloting the Atlesian Paladin. He did make an ice platform to transport us around the school during his tour after all." Yardley answered as he pulled out his Falcata, which quickly ignited from the friction of its unsheathing. Rushing at the skeletal dragon himself, Yardley jumped back when a skeleton in typical medieval style soldier armor burst from the ground in front of him, attempting to swing its heavily rusted sword, though the action resulted in its arm crumbling.
"Yardley, Fern! What are these things?" The last member of Team F.Y.R.E. asked as she struck them with an Urumi coated in flames.
"I don't know Eliane. They're new to me as well." The now named Fern replied as he destroyed a couple with a single swing of his Zweihander. "Though I feel like they have something to do with big and ugly over there." Raising his right hand, an almost hurricane force wind blew into the Staltroops, crumbling them from the force. Rushing next to Roxanne, the swordsman noticed the Stallord's head come clean of its body, the remainder of the Redead Corps disintegrating with the behemoths presumed death. "I guess it's finally over, right?"
"Hey, you two! Get out of there now!" Dakura shouted as the severed head of the Stallord flared back to life, floating a good three feet off the ground before barreling through the two members of Team F.Y.R.E. and making a beeline for Colys' Ice Paladin. Opening up its surprisingly intact jaw, the headless, or rather bodiless, dragon fired off a fireblast that decimated the ice construct. Rushing out of the flames, Colys covered his fist in a layer of ice.
"I thought we killed you!" The noirette shouted out as he latched onto the Stallord's head, pounding his fist into its skull repeatedly. Roaring out, Colys released a cloud of various forms of Dust before jumping off and igniting it, causing a multi-elemental explosion. "Take that you boneheaded bastard!" watching the dust settle, the Stallord released a bone-chilling roar before collapsing and disintegrating, finally dead…
Blueghast 1: Well that battle got intense, huh?
Blueghast 2: Yeah it did. Where'd the third go?
Blueghast 3: Sorry. Went to the bathroom.
Blueghast 1: I wonder if I could fix this with another [Stand]?
Blueghast 2+3: Don't even try it.
Blueghast 1: Come on, I even handcrafted this [Stand] to fix stuff like this. Though it was created more as a counter to Funny Valentine using it rather than myself…
Blueghast 2: You better be sure then. If I don't see you after this, I guess it worked.
Blueghast 1: Alright, here goes nothing [Copycat]!
Blueghast: Did it finally work? Good. I wonder if with the end of this jojoke our OC's will crop back up…
Colys: WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT THING?!
Blueghast: Yep. anyways here's Wonderwa- I mean C.R.S.N. Chibi.
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Blueghast: Okay I have no ideas for C.R.S.N. Chibi right now. Feel free to leave suggestions I guess. As always, Read, Rate, Review, and Favorite.
*Blueghast900 has signed off*