Outcasts and Outlaws

Volume 3, Chapter 21

The Four Generals

Here they are! The Four Generals! Reading back this chapter brought back some memories for sure, things get bloody quicker than I remember. Anyway, enjoy this. All their lives are truly at risk in this battle.

Opening Music: https/youtu.be/jOz5mHKWaQ8 [GATE OP 1]

(Music starts)

(Note: Characters listed next show up at the same time as the letters in the video)

(Shows Yang)

(Shows Jim)

(Shows Irileth)

(Shows Kane)

(Shows Mars)

(Shows Damien)

(Shows Ruby)

(Shows Connor)

(Quickly shows the letters of the title)

OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS (Shows Connor walking down the corridor of Beacon)

Toku ni nani mo nozomu koto (Connor looks behind him)

nante nai!

(Ruby is behind him)

Minihodo wa shite

(She smiles at him) iru sa!

(Yang comes out of her room) Sonna boku de sae mo

(She pretends to be grumpy but let's out a small smile)

oku no hou ni!

(Shows Irileth in the arena facing away)

Yuzuritakunai

(She spins around and faces forward)

ikou geedo wa

(Attacks with her dual energy whips)

arurashii!

(Shows Stephane walking away from the arena)

Mamorutte angai to

(He scowls angrily)

muzukashii ne!

(Shows Mars raising his fist into the air)

Aki-

(Shows Kane charging into battle) -ra-

(Shows Jim punching with his metal arm)

-meru

(Shows combat air ships leaving Beacon) wake ja nai kedo!

(The air ships arrive at the naval platform)

Aoi sora no hate

(Everyone jumps down from the air ships and lands on the naval platform)

tsunagatta machi no yukue

(They walk towards the soldiers) Kitto teki to wakari

(The soldiers fire at them)

aenai

(The team fires their semblances) dakedo

(Their semblances take out the soldiers)

iin ja nai!

(Shows Mars using Mystic State) Hirata tobira wa

(Shows Kane surrounded by dark clouds)

subete o kaete

(Shows Jim's muscles growing stronger)

yuku!

(Shows Daryl standing on the roof watching the battle)

Sora no akatsuki no you ni!

(Shows Michael in flying around in his dragon exo-suit)

Oh wow wow! (Shows Michelle teleport behind Irileth and Kane and swing her twin-blade at them) Oh wow wow!

(Shows Wolf slicing at Jim, Yang and Stephane with his claws)

Oh wow wow!

(Shows Jorge firing a chain gun at Mars and Damien)

Oh wow wow!

(Shows Mars, Connor, Jim and Kane trying to push a tank back) Oh wow wow!

(Shows Michael, Michelle, Wolf and Jorge)

(Shows Mars and Damien)

(Shows Yang, Jim and Stephane) (Shows Kane and Irileth)

(Shows Connor and Ruby)

(Shows them all cheering in a line)

Music: http/youtu.be/eksvmp7RtSQ

[FMAB OST- Clash of the Alchemists]

All the members of the newly formed assault group stood and watched patiently as the four generals casually strolled out of the huge steel doorway, it sliding closed behind them. They all knew this would be where the real fight would begin, where things would get intermediately tougher. It was because of this that they stood and waited for their enemy to come to them, only a fool would rush headfirst into battle against an mostly unknown enemy.

Damien had briefed the rest of the group on what he knew of the four generals on the way to the naval base, although there were holes in his information. Despite that they knew the basic facts about the four, and could put names to faces.

The first of them was perhaps the most peculiar, the one that Damien hadn't even expected to be on the battlefield as he usually worked as the department's scientist, developing new technology for them to take into the war against crime. Damien had told them his name was Michael Hydra. It was evident from his attire, a white science coat and glasses, that he was still the resident scientist for the base. It was what was over his coat however that made him peculiar. He was fitted in a large robotic exoskeleton, a head or two taller than a person and much bulkier. The strangest thing was that it was made to look like a dragon, a metal mask covering his eyes and forehead along with metal wings, a tail and claws on the ends of the arms. He was strapped in all across his body, some straps on his arms, legs, and even his chest. He looked like a walking tank, in dragon form that is. Connor hoped he didn't start breathing fire, but did notice a weak point. While the exoskeleton itself was heavily armoured, the front of open, giving a clean path to Michael himself.

The second of the generals was Wolf Saturn, codenamed after his weapons, metal claws attached to his gloves that looked as if they could rip through titanium. Other than that, he wore a sleeveless tank top and power armour leggings, the same power armour that the troops had been wearing. As expected of his name, his hair was ruffles and his sideburns were lengthy and shaggy.

The third one of the group was Jorge, his last name lost to the ages. Damien had spoken of him familiarly, but said he hadn't ever been a part of the Outlaws, so they must have picked him up from somewhere else. He was a bulky looking man, wearing a full suit of the white power armour except for the helmet, showing off his skinhead style hair and a tattoo of a lizard on his cheek. Information on him was the most limited, but his aura gave off a nasty feeling.

The last of the four was the one that Damien said had the most authority of them all, Isabella Charon, wearing a female's suit of white power armour. He remembered her well from her days as an Outlaw, her sword skills were unmatched, despite her lack of a semblance just like all her current teammates. She had challenged many in the sparring arena of the Outlaws base and defeated them all, as well as being a devil woman on the battlefield. Damien had theorised she'd give them the most trouble, but he still warned the others of the danger of the other three Enforcer Generals. One thing Connor did notice that all four had in common was that they all had hefty steel backpacks on them, carrying barrels of something along with them, two each.

Music: https/youtu.be/tuAUAuilk0s

[Log Horizon OST- Tatakau Kakugo]

Without a word of taunting or warning, the generals then began their fierce attack. Michael launched himself forward, flying through the air low to the ground with the aid of his dragon exoskeleton. Before he reached the team and landed a hit, Connor barrelled into his side mid air and knocked him over to the left side of the massive platform crying out, "I got this one!" Michael tried to control his flight but Connor grabbed his head and drove into the metal ground with a crunch as the other generals approached.

The second to charge was Wolf, who dashed forward towards Jim at lightning speed, intending to start cutting him up with his claws right away. His valiant attack was stopped however, by Jim's surprisingly strong metal arm uppercutting him under the chin. He stumbled back after the hit, he had not been expecting to take a hit so early, especially such a tough blow. Before he could move, Jim was on him again, accompanied by Yang, who had activated her gauntlets. The two of them simultaneously punched Wolf hard in the back of the head, right as Stephane stepped up and rammed his back with his rocky great-shield and together the three of them declared, "This one's ours!"

Next, in a sudden flash, Isabella was in front of Kane. She took out a double ended twin-blade from her back and swung it at Kane much faster than he had expected, leaving him only just enough time to block with his scythes crossed over his chest. Rushing over to help Kane, Irileth then swirled her energy whips at Isabella whilst cursing, "Bitch!" Isabella reacted impeccably swiftly, seemingly teleporting away from Irileth's strike before it hit her and reappearing a ways in front of the pair. "How did she do that?" Irileth wondered. "Damien said they don't have semblances..."

As for the last remaining general, Jorge, he stayed where he was in front of the great steel doors of the base, staring down Mars and Damien. Holding his hands by his side, he then charged up a transparent blue aura around them, which solidified and formed into a sea blue, see through heavy machine gun. He wasted no time firing it off, sending a storm of bullets towards Mars and Damien. Mars brought up a translucent green shield to stop the bullets in their tracks, whilst Damien used his wind semblance to hold the bullets in place in front of it, but Jorge didn't seem to be running out of ammo.

Music: http/youtu.be/KrFQ7iK7EwA

[Fairy Tail OST- Black Flame]

Connor grinned confidently over at his teammates in their respective battles as he stood up after grinding Michael's face into the ground, who was now unmoving. All of a sudden he noticed movement out of the corner of his eye, just a second before Michael shot up to his feet and punched Connor in the belly with his metal dragon exoskeleton claw, sending him flying back along the ground.

Connor was on his hands and knees after that attack, finding it hard to breathe for a few seconds. The hit to his stomach had winded him, and it hurt quite a bit too. Michael packed a serious punch whilst in that exoskeleton. He kept his grip on his katana though, and raced forward with it, preparing for a sideways slash. Michael however reacted way too quickly, grabbing the katana with one of his metal claws and snapping it in two effortlessly. He then threw a punch towards Connor with his other claw, which he turned to the side to avoid. Next as a counter, he grabbed the steel arm while it was still outstretched and pulled, throwing Michael in that direction.

That didn't go so well though, Michael was able to quickly find his feet and land without a scratch. Connor scowled in annoyance and flicked his arms, his duel arm blades extending out from his gauntlets. He then rushed forward as Michael did the same and the two attacks met each other head on, both smashing into each and pushing with all their might. Michael's exoskeleton proved its strength again however, extending out it's arms with such force that it shattered Connor's arm blades and even the gauntlets they were attached to into many small pieces.

"Damn you." Connor cursed, stepping back from his opponent while he had the chance. He then accepted he would have to fight without his weapons and rolled his sleeves up to the elbow, golden light appearing around his hands as he activated his semblance. "I'll beat you with my bare hands, come at me!" He then bravely challenged, and Michael came.

All the way over on the other side of the platform, Kane and Irileth's fight against Isabella Charon had begun. She and Kane were in a stare down, both with their weapons in hand waiting for the other to attack whilst Irileth watched from a distance, just as ready. Kane could tell from her battle pose alone that Isabella would be a tough opponent, she had the posture of a master swords woman, and had already proven her expertise with her double ended twin-blade. While he was thinking this, she suddenly disappeared from in front of him. Staying silent as to not let the enemy know of his uncertainty, he looked around without dropping his battle pose, trying to locate her.

Suddenly, Kane not being at all ready for her, she appeared squatting right in front of him as he looked over his shoulder. He barely had time to turn his head back and see her before she slashed with her twin-blade, cutting at his knee. Blood spilled out of the wound, but luckily it wasn't deep enough to cut off his leg or render it useless, he could still stand.

Wincing ever so slightly from the pain as he watched his blood splatter across the metal platform, Kane swung his scythe down at her head, only for her two disappear again. This time she promptly reappeared behind him and, once again before he had time to react, slashed her blade through his side. Once again blood spilled out of the cut, but much more this time, it was a deeper blow and Kane actually started to think he might be in trouble if he lost too much more blood. Luckily before Isabella could get another hit in, Irileth shifted her whips into duel pistol form and fired off rounds of purple energy at her. Isabella disappeared again, easily avoiding being hit, and then reappeared in front of them a ways.

Running up to his side to check on him as his previously jet black trench coat became stained red, Irileth urgently asked Kane, "Are you gonna be ok?"

"Please." Kane simply replied, acting as if the blows he had taken were nothing at all. He was not wholly telling the truth however, he could feel his side burning as blood continued to leak from it, and it pained him so to stand on his leg that he half expected it to buckle under the strain any second. "Injuries like this won't keep me down." He said regardless. "Just a little bit of blood, I've had worse." He had in fact, he found his mind going back to when he had had his arm blown off years ago just before entering Connor's mind.

As for the fight against Wolf, Jim, Stephane and Yang would soon not be having a fun time. At first they all stood in a group, covering each other's sides. Jim took the initiative and launched one of his boomerangs towards Wolf, confident it would hit. However Wolf swiftly back stepped just out of its reach, and then seemingly disappeared just like Isabella had; except more gradually.

"Where'd he go?" Jim wondered out loud, looking around for the enemy just like Kane had done before being hit.

"He's still around here, I can sense his aura. Don't let down your guard." Stephane responded, and after some quick thinking deduced, "He must have gone invisible."

"Invisible?" Jim repeated in confusion. "Didn't Damien say these guys don't have semblances? You don't think he-agh!"

The reason for Jim's abrupt cut-off was soon revealed as Yang and Stephane twirled around to look at him. Their eyes widened in horror as they saw the claws that Wolf had attached to his hands stabbed through Jim's lower torso, and Wolf himself standing behind him. Jim was gurgling as blood was spiking out of his mouth, being pushed up by the claws piercing through the him.

Feeling a sudden rush of anger run through her, Yang immediately punched her fists together and activated her semblance, then blasted a fiery shotgun shell at Wolf. Wolf then abruptly disappeared again, assumedly once more invisible, and the blast zoomed past where he had been standing and hit a steel wall with an enormous bang.

Luckily Jim didn't fall down, but neither did he look in good shape. He swayed back and forth on his feet, looking as if he could lose his balance any minute, and his face was starting to get pale. He coughed up a large amount of blood before Yang reached him whilst Stephane stayed on guard, clutching his wound with his hand as the blood trickled over it.

"Jim?!" Yang desperately called to him, waving her hand in front of his face and shaking him perhaps a little too roughly. "Jim?! Stay with me!"

"I'm...I'm...okay..." Jim weakly mumbled, really starting to feel the effect of the blood loss. While Kane had only been cut, albeit deeply, Jim had been stabbed straight through meaning a lot more blood vessels were ruptured and leaking. "I can...still stand...I think..." He groaned, barely able to keep on his feet despite his words.

Yang felt so useless at that moment, Jim was hurt and there was nothing so could do to help. At least Stephane was guarding the two of them, but she had no medical training and so had no idea what she should do. As she began to panic however, then it came to her. She thought back to a time when she and the rest of her team had been hunting Grimm in Forever Fall, how she'd been badly injured and she had seared the wound shit with a makeshift torch to stop the bleeding.

"Sorry, this'll hurt." She warned Jim, standing him up straight to get a good aim. Before he could protest, she then coated her gauntlet with fire using her semblance and punched it straight onto Jim's wound, his face lighting up in pain as he screamed as reflex. Stephane looked over his shoulder to see what was going on and saw Jim on his knees clutching his torso where Yang had hit him, then grew concerned.

Gently moving Jim's arms out of the way as he winced and sobbed from the sensation of his wound, Yang inspected the wound again. Through the hole that was know present in his jacket and shirt, she saw that she had successfully seared the wound shut and made it so he wouldn't lose any more blood. He would be all right.

"Yang..." Jim mumbled as the pain died down, remaining on his knees at Yang got down on hers and put her hands on his cheeks affectionately.

"I'm so sorry, it must have hurt so much." Yang apologised sincerely, fighting to hold back the tears at the thought of what she had just done to him.

"Wait...he didn't hit any of my organs." Jim told her, his voice croaky and sore.

"What do you mean?" Yang replied in confusion, not understanding what he was getting at.

"Think about it...an expertly trained dude liked him, he should've been pretty on target right?" Jim explained, his voice starting to return to normal but his breath limited. "He's toying with us, he missed my vital organs on purpose so that I wouldn't die just yet..."

"Why would he do that?" Yang scowled, angry at the thought of it. "What kind of psychotic little bastard-"

Yang was then cut off just as Jim had been cut off earlier by a distressed yell from Stephane. They looked over to him to see the left side of his face covered in blood, three claw like scratches running across it, past his now useless left eye. The scratches started on his forehead and went along his eye all the way down to the top of his cheekbone. Yang and Jim instantly knew that Wolf must have uncloaked, attacked Stephane while he was off guard, and then become invisible again.

Mars also heard the scream, still combining his shield with Damien's semblance to hold back the barrage of bullets being fired at them by Jorge's machine gun. "Mars!" He heard Damien call over to him, as both of them still held their hands out in front of them to power their semblances. "How much longer can we keep this up?!"

"Not long!" Mars responded pessimistically, although it was the truth. "It's only a matter of time before my aura runs out and the shield starts to weaken!" Right as he finished his sentence, Mars then felt a sharp bullet whizz past the side of his head, leaving a bleeding scratch behind. He looked back at his shield and saw the hole it had gotten through, which meant it was already happening. He was already running low on aura and the bullets were beginning to break through the shield. His semblance couldn't keep up such a heavy duty shield for very long, they needed another plan.

Sliding backwards on his feet after blocking a hit from Michael, Connor scanned the battlefield, seeing the less than hopeful situations his allies were in and growing extremely worried for them, he was glad he hadn't let Ruby be a part of this, that she was safe in his head.

"It isn't looking too good for the rest of your team, is it?" Michael taunted to get back Connor's attention, speaking in a slightly squeaky, nerdy sounding voice.

Feeling angry at his enemies taunting, Connor felt his semblance getting stronger. He hadn't used the Kalos Crystal yet, he was rising to the sort of power he had used against Mars in the tournament. "Let's change that shall we?" He dramatically declared, the golden light of his semblance having snaked it's way up his forearms and began orbiting around him. "We'll start with you."

Ending Music: https/youtu.be/KruXhNuindw [Naruto Shippuden OP 3 V2]

(Shows Damien on the left and Connor on the right)

Habata itara

(Shows Damien's flintlock pistol and Connor's Katana)

modoranai to itte!

(Shows Connor's eye, then Damien's eye, then Ruby's eye with a tear)

Mezashita no wa

(Shows Connor on his knees in front of a shadowy figure)

aoi aoi no sora!

OUTLAWS AND OUTLAWS

(Shows Connor falling through the sky towards the naval platform) Kanashimi wa mada obeorarezu! Setsunasa wa ima tsukami

(Shows Connor floating next to Damien)

hajimete! Anata e to daku kono kanjou mo!

(Shows Ruby holding her hands to her chest)

Ima kotoba ni kawatte iku!

(Shows Jim with Stephane and Yang)

Michi naru sekai

(Shows Kane with Irileth)

no yume kara

(Shows Mars with Damien) mezamete!

(Goes back to Connor falling through the sky)

Kono hane wo hiroge

(He straightens himself mid-air and his fists glow with the golden light of his semblance)

tobitatsu!

(Shows the four generals in a circle)

Habata itara modoranai to itte! (Shows Mars, Jim, Connor and Kane)

Mezashita no wa

(Shows Mars and Damien fighting Jorge)

aoi aoi no sora!

(Kane and Irileth fire their semblances at Isabella) Tsukinuketara

(Shows Jim, Stephane and Yang fighting Wolf)

mitsukara to shitte! Furikiri

(Connor throws a punch at Michael)

hodo

(Shows Connor fist fighting Michael)

aoi aoi ano sora!

(Shows the four generals together) Aoi aoi

(Shows Daryl with a shadowy figure)

ano sora!

(Shows Connor standing up)

Aoi aoi ano sora!

(Shows the Beacon team standing on the naval platform in front of Daryl, the shadowy figure, and the four generals)

END