Outcasts and Outlaws
Volume 3, Chapter 25
Into The Base
All righty, now we're getting into the final cour of volume 3, the last couple of big moments will be within the next 10-12 chapters. There's a new opening an ending for this one I really like, one of them being an original, meaning the visuals are my own design instead of being based off of an already existing opening. Anyway, enjoy!
Opening Music: https/youtu.be/KSLG_oeD1yw [Attention Question- Tohka]
! Means a beat in the music
Music Starts
(Shows Daryl standing in Dust Valley, holding a gun. He raises his arm and points the gun whilst flashbacks of his team and his past appear behind him)
Music stops for about a split second then starts again
(Shows Connor standing in Dust Valley, looking at the ground with hair covering his eyes. He looks up as flashbacks of Team Kalos and the rest of his friends appear behind him)
(Connor runs at Daryl and aims a punch)
(Daryl fires his gun)
OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS!
Are kore kakaekonde omoeba iranai mono made
(Shows Connor sitting with his head between his legs)
Umaku naru iiwake to myou
(Shows Ruby sitting inside of Connor's head with her legs drawn up to her chest)
na PURIADO!
(Shows Kalos sitting on top of the stone wall)
Jibun wo tana ni agete (Shows Jim, Yang, Kane, Irileth, Mars, and Stephane standing in Dust Valley, their hair and clothesflapping in the wind)
hito no koto aadakouda!
(Shows Murlough standing on the naval platform amongst the dead bodies of the generals)
Iu tsumori mo nai kedo!
(Zooms in on Murlough's face as he punches his hand and grins evilly)
Mukishitsuni
(Shows Daryl towards someone) Mawaru Tic and Tac!
(Shows Damien walking towards Daryl)
Ganbaru tte
(Connor and Kane approach Daryl from either side)
nandarou!
(Connor and Kane charge at Daryl) Attention! Question! Nantonaku nagasateru socchi no mizu wa (Shows Connor and Kane fighting Daryl with their semblances)
amai desuka!
(They hit Daryl's air current barrier with their golden light and black clouds)
YES/NO!
(Shows Isabella in tattered clothes with purple energy around her) YES/NO!
(Shows Mars with green energy around him)
Atari mimawashita totan ni!
(They shoot their energy blasts at each other)
Koko dake
(Connor goes into Dragon State and launches himself off a rock face)
toki ga tomaru
(He flies out and hits Daryl) COLOUR!
(Shows a massive light in Dust Valley)
(Shows Connor on the naval platform)
(Shows Murlough on the naval platform)
(Shows Murlough and Connor looking at each other from afar, Murlough with black clouds trailing from him, Connor with golden light trailing from one hand and black clouds trailing from the other) (They charge at each other)
END
After the airships landed, the medics rushed onto the battlefield to heal the wounded. Ozpin had hired the best in the continent for this job, specially trained doctors with healing semblances. Whilst they held their hands over the wounded, a warm green light healing the wounds, they injected everyone with strange syringes. According to them, the syringes were filled with a special type of medicine designed to quicken aura restoration and improve the bodies natural ability to repair damage. They claimed that combining it with their healing semblances would fix wounds amazingly quickly and even restore lost blood, but the resources required to make the drug were few and far, meaning the medicine was extremely expensive to make and only a few batches existed. Ozpin must have paid an absurd amount to secure such an asset.
The medics around Connor were set on healing his bruises with their semblance whilst checking him for broken bones or any other similar injuries, however he did not appreciate their help. He repeatedly told them he was fine and that they should go and check up on the other, more seriously injured, fighters first, but they insisted other medics were already on it. So he sat there and endured the check up, letting them search his body for any signs of wounds, major or minor, looking over at the others who still lay on the ground surrounded by doctors.
Kane had awoken surprisingly quickly after the medics had fixed up the wounds on his knee and hip, and had immediately bounced up, demanding to know where Irileth was. His attitude surprised Connor, who had never seen him so wound up before, but he supposed it was a change that was for the best. The medics then hurried to lead Kane over to where Irileth was laying, her wounds having just been healed and bandaged in case they reopened. He sat down next to her as the doctors completed their work, checking on some final points, until she started to stir.
Kane was the first thing she saw upon opening her eyes, looking up at him as she lay on her front, the medical team double checking her back wound, and she lightly smiled. "You look like you've been through some torture." She joked, seeing the blood stains all over his coat and leg.
"You should see yourself, you're gonna have a big arse scar." Kane responded, seemingly trying to lightly joke back, but with the same bland expression as always.
"You got her then?" Irileth questioned, referring to Isabella, spying her body laying flat on the ground a ways across the battlefield. "Nice job, I knew you could do it."
Kane responded to the praise with a grunting noise, modestly shrugging it off. "I couldn't take her out...not until after you..." Kane admitted, trailing off before finishing.
"Hey, I'm here now, I'm all right." Irileth butted in, comforting him. She then held a hand out in front of her self she still laid their with the doctors being almost done, hoping maybe he'd hold it. "So...what do we do about us? I told you I love you and I wasn't lying."
Kane was silent for a few moments after that, seeming to be conflicted whilst thinking it over. He looked to Irileth and away from her many times before speaking. "I'm not good with emotions, you know that. Not ones other than anger and hate, anyway." He eventually said, not looking at Irileth whilst talking to her. "I don't love you, I'm not even sure if I like you, not sure if I like anyone. To be honest I really don't know why I got so mad when you got hurt, I'm still figuring myself out, so don't get your hopes up about having a happy relationship with me."
Irileth was saddened by that, but knew she could somehow get to Kane, he'd softened up even in the time since she'd met him again. Holding her hand out further, making it impossible for him to ignore, she pleaded with him, "We can try, can't we?"
Looking at her hand and, despite having his usual grumpy look on his face, seeming uplifted, Kane then reached out his own hand. He held hers softly and gently, allowing her to wrap her fingers around his whilst he once again looked away from her, too conflicted to look her in the eye. "Yeah, we can try." He quietly told her, not wanting anyone else to hear him.
Meanwhile Jim and Yang were going through a similar ordeal. The doctors had crowded around them, seeing their injuries as the worst and quickly setting to work on healing them. It wasn't long until the medics decided they would be alright and spilt off to help others, a small group staying with Jim and Yang as they awoke.
Jim found his eyes reluctant to open, a ringing in his ears and a banging in his head, but forced them to. He immediately saw a pair of doctors hunched over him, dressing his chest wound after having dealt with the bleeding and closing the cut. Turning his head to his left as he lay there, he saw the same thing was happening with Yang as she lay with her eyes closed but breathing, although he could see she was starting to awaken. "Hey there, beautiful, rise and shine." He cooed to her.
"Don't say that like it's a normal morning, you idiot, you're making it sound like we sleep next to each other." Yang scolded, using her arm to shield her eyes from the light as she first opened them.
"Nothing wrong with that in my book." Jim remarked, shooting her a smile and proving he was still his old flirty self. Yang rolled her eyes at him, then they both have a doctors a surprise as they simultaneously rose into a sitting position, seeming unconcerned by their bandaged wounds as the doctors back away nervously.
At first, they both just looked at each other, smiling. Yang then bursted out saying, "Well, I'm not gonna do it first!" The doctors were extremely confused by this, but Jim knew exactly what she meant.
"Well then, I guess I'll have to lead." Jim flirtatiously replied, before leaning over and kissing Yang on the lips. The first kiss was a soft one, but as he pulled away from it Yang grabbed his face and forced him into another kiss, another and another until they were sloppily snogging in the middle of the battlefield as the medics watched awkwardly.
Connor saw this from where he was standing and pulled a disgusted face, making a sound of disapproval as he watched his best friend swapping saliva with his fiancées sister. "Good for them." He heard Ruby say from inside her head, sounding a lot better than she did when he had spoken with her during his battle with Michael, and simply responded with an uncaring, "Yeah, whatever."
Mars, unlike the others, had shrugged the medics off of him, claiming he didn't need treatment for his wounds. Just as expected, he was acting tough. Damien had allowed himself to be checked over, but was the least wounded of any of the team. As for Stephane, he had let the doctors clean the blood from his three claw marks across his face and heal them slightly, but had insisted on leaving them as raw red scars, thinking it cool. All three of them joined Connor in the centre of the platform, as the others headed there as well to discuss the next step in their plan.
"So, what do we do now?" Connor asked Damien, saying what was on everyone's minds. "You never told us what we'd do after we beat the generals."
"The next step is to destroy the base itself, so that they really can't recover from this attack." Damien answered, drawing everyone's attention to the enormous and thick steel doors at the front of the main building with a pointing arm. "We need to break through that, I doubt they'll open it up for us. Once that's done we spilt into teams with different roles." He then turned back to the group, preparing to designate jobs to everyone there. He then ordered, "Connor, you will go down the right route of the base to find the aura bank, with that active we won't be able to use our semblances within the interior of the base, so destroy it quickly."
"You can bet on it, I'll smash the damn thing to pieces!" Connor valiantly assured Damien, who then continued giving out roles.
"Me, Kane and Jim will also be going through the facility by different routes, taking out any remaining guards we see on our way to the main reactor." Damien continued as everyone listened closely. "Whoever reaches the reactor first, there's a button in there that activates the self destruct by overloading the nuclear rods, behind a small hatch that opens and closes rapidly, so try not to get your arm stuck in there or you'll get blown up with everyone else. When the others in there hear the alarm go off, head straight for the exit, every man for himself. Everyone I haven't so far mentioned will wait outside and take out any reinforcements. Everyone got all that?"
"Sounds so simply when you put it like that!" Connor joked, feeling fired up from his battle. "Let's get that door open!"
The group then all made their way to the giant steel door and made stood in front of it. After observing the obstacle for a few moments, Kane and Connor stepped forward, volunteering to be the ones to open it. Connor shot Kane a confident grin, wordlessly expressing what he had in mind, to which Kane nodded in agreement. The two of them then positioned their hands behind and in-between themselves, the palms facing each other. They then started to build up their auras in the palms of their hands, charging up their ultimate attack. The dark clouds from Kane mixed with Connor's golden light, creating a shining storm cloud in their hands. They then thrust their hands in front of them, aimed at the door, and yelled, "Darklight Cannon!"
The dark cloud with the golden light shining through the cracks then shot out of their hands like a cannon blast, erupting towards the door in a majestic display of power, their coats flapping in the gust it created. The door withstood the hit at first, but as the blast kept coming it weakened, and inevitably buckled.
Now the truly difficult part of the battle had begun.
Ending Music: http/youtu.be/YRLW-llroVw [Fuyugyaku Replace]
! Means a beat in the music
Wake in loneliness! Loneliness!
(Shows Connor standing on the naval platform)
Falling inside your story!
(Shows Murlough standing opposite him)
Walking after you! After you! (Zooms in Connor's face)
I will share my time!
(Shows naval platform)
(Shows Connor in Dragon State) OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS Maykoinda sekai de!
(Shows young Connor in front of his parents bodies)
Boku no kage to kasanatte
(Shows Murlough in Connor's hometown)
Ima! I can't go back!
(Shows Connor losing control of the dark clouds in his hometown) Ketteiteki no boku shoumei wa! (Shows Connor in his original outfit) Jidai wo ima koete monogataru! (Shows Ruby reach out in front of her)
I will be the brand new age!
(Shows Team Kalos and Allies) Yeah! From this day!
(Shows young Connor and Murlough walking)
I will save myself!
(Shows Connor with Kane's shadow behind him)
And the time is now!
(Connor opens his eyes, one is black, one is gold)
Kill my weakness!
(Shows Connor in his original outfit running towards volume 2 Murlough)
Weakness!
(They change to their volume 3 versions)
Kanarazu koete naite satte!
(Shows a flashback of the Murlough VS Connor fight from volume 2)
And I stay alive!
(Their semblances hit each other) Alive!
(Shows the naval base in a fiery explosion)
Saigo wo shinjitaku wa nakute! (Shows Connor's village being destroyed by black clouds)
Kill my weakness! Weakness! (Shows Murlough summoning dark clouds all around him)
Itsuka kidsuita to shita mo!
(Shows Connor going into Dragon State)
I will prove myself that I have lived today!
(Shows Connor and Murlough fighting in their most powerful states)
Starting now!
(They both hit each other's fists and let off their semblances)
END
