Hello all you Boils and Ghouls! It makes me so happy knowing that you're all enjoying this story so far but it also makes me wonder just how far I can take this before my ADD kicks in and makes me forget it...
Now, to answer some reviews publicly I'm gonna resort to using the AN's up here to do so.
DevilMax, he will only attain Perfect Knock-out when he is level 50 in both forms and obtains a Gamer Driver. That is the ONLY way I'll let him do so.
Perfect Knockout, while I have toyed with and considered the idea of Bugsters being in the world of Remnant, I am still undecided on the matter as a whole mostly on the fact that Remnant is already a messed up place as it is what with all the Grimm roaming around an everything. That being said, only time itself can answer that one. Also, I'm glad I'm trying to do something unique. XD
Revamped Persona, other Riders appearing is still up in the air so I would advise patience until I can come to a decision; however, please note that a Rider Player will appear sometime by Season 3 IF I continue that long.
Ride player hary AND Hero King Gilgamesh... I am not saying ANYTHING else but this; you're gonna get your answers in this chapter. XD
Anyway, I own nothing but the OC used in this story and I hope you all enjoy this one as well.
)-Legend-(
"Yo!" - Speaking
'Is he an idiot?' - Thinking
"Dearest love," - Reading
Kaishin no Ippatsu! - Specials
)-First Person PoV-(
Three days...
It's been three days since I've woken up in this forest... Three days since I first found the Gashat Gear Dual... And three days since my first, and; despite how short it was, second battles... Since then I had found a rather large bush that was growing what looked to be strawberries on it as both a hiding place for when I sleep and a place I could turn to for quick food. As luck would have it, that very bush was growing near a small stream that I could use for drinking water so I had been able to survive for a while... I also managed to get a good look at myself in the water... And hoo boy...
I am nothing like I used to be...
Instead of flat, shoulder-length chestnut hair with olive green eyes my hair had changed to become a short, spiky, primarily bright red mess with twinges of my hair sticking up and a deep blue in color along with two of them jutting out like antennae; these two could reach past my neck if I were to stretch them out. Not that it mattered what I did to them, anyway; afterall they would just flip right back into place. My right eye was now the same bright red as my hair whereas my left eye was a cerulean blue... I also took notice of the clothes I was wearing as they weren't the pajamas I had worn when I went to bed on the night before I found myself on Remnant... I had on a simple black t-shirt with denim blue jeans and a pair of black shoes with yellow laces and white soles and trim lines that followed the outside of the laces and connected from the laces to the soles in three different places. Over my shirt I had on a crimson jacket with blue semi-long sleeves that went down to just below my elbows. Around my neck was a simple black string necklace that had a small wooden tiki hanging on it.
Overall... I think Coco would probably murder me for looking like this.
That thought would have brought a chuckle out of me if not for my frustration at this very moment... I was rapping my fingertips against a tree trunk in annoyance as I glared at the woods around me... The source of my frustration? Why the very thing I was looking for; the very thing that was missing from this scenario...
"Where the hell are all the Grimm?"
That's right - I had somehow scared off the Grimm... At first I was wondering if they were just waiting for me to drop my guard and actually slept outside my little hovel for an hour or so before going back into it because of the cold, but not a single sign of the Grimm could be found; without the Grimm, I'm short on EXP and, without EXP, I cannot level up. With that in mind, I had originally stayed there and hoped that by the fourth day in the Grim would be liable to attack me again yet nope; not a single hide nor hair of them... Either they're outright avoiding me or something else is attracting them away. Let's just hope it's the former cause if it's the latter...
I have no godly idea what could attract that many Grimm.
And not knowing a situation is worse than knowing the bad of a situation, so in a grunt of frustration I punched the tree I was leaning on before turning to the bush and grabbing some of the berries off of it for later consumption. I had made a make-shift basket out of some twigs and vines that I found lying around earlier on and used it for carrying any extra berries for when I had to travel; and this was one of those times as I put the berries I had just picked into it, picked up the Gashat Gear Dual and pocketed it into my jacket before I headed south. My frustration started when I found out I could kill the Grimm insanely faster as the Fighter Gamer rather than the Puzzle Gamer as that just literally broke my soul to find out I wasted all that time and effort for the same results... That then lead to my hunting spree on the Grimm which allowed me to reach level 18 with Knock-Out Fighter in a single day but that's when it all went downhill - on the next day, the Grimm stopped hunting me down and it became harder and harder to level up Perfect Puzzle; though not impossible as I got it up to level 14, but just barely. It was also around that time that I found out I could only chain 2 Power-Ups at a time until I had hit level 10 as the Puzzle Gamer. Now I can do 3; the max that was known to be done by Parad when he used the form yet I saw 3 more locked chain slots whenever I was transformed... As I trekked across the forest my mind began to wander on the life I had essentially been robbed from...
My mother who had been working herself to the point of death to make sure her kids were taken care of...
My older sister and brother that did everything they could to cause what they called "twinsanity" upon me...
My younger sister who could probably turn a Nevermore into a teddy bear by just looking at it AND whose birthday I had missed...
And my best friend who would give me her support even when I felt all I ever did was make things worse...
I'm not sure I can go back to all that but at the very least I can try and not mess THIS world up. Afterall, I was found with the Gashat Gear Dual; so maybe there was a reason for me being here? Whatever it was, though, would have to wait...
I have some levels to grind.
)-Sometime Later-(
It's been a few hours since I started my travel south and I've yet to see a single Grimm; this is concerning me greatly as that only ever happened when the Grimm found newer, more vulnerable prey to kill... That thought scares me but I can't really help anyone if A: I don't know where they are, and B: I let the fear get to me; even if the Grimm sensed and ignored my own fears, the stress of the fear itself doesn't do well for one's health. I had to get my mind distracted on something else... Sadly I found the perfect thing all too soon...
The Gashat Gear Dual...
In the show, the GGD; and I'm going to refer to it as that from now on, couldn't be used by any human without succumbing to a lethal amount of the Bugster Virus - that in itself SHOULD explain the pain I felt, but it doesn't explain the other inconsistencies. When Parad transformed into either Puzzle Gamer or Fighter Gamer he was automatically level 50, yet I had to start out as level 2; granted I couldn't start at level 1 because there is no level 1 form for either game but regardless I shouldn't have had to level up at all and let's not forget the fact that I lost the armor after being without the GGD for a few minutes - that never happened to Parad. Then we get into the inconsistencies with each game starting out with Perfect Puzzle... Parad's Puzzle Gamer form could chain three power-ups at any given time and they lasted until he used a finisher or until he tried for a fourth power-up; I, on the other hand, could only chain two power-ups at once, until I was level 10, with a time limit on the power-ups to boot but once I hit level 40 I can chain a grand total of six. That's quite a scary thought if Parad could do that...
And then we get into the crux of the inconsistencies... Knock-out Fighter... As the Fighter Gamer, Parad couldn't use power-ups but instead gains power the more fired up for a fight he gets; thus negating the need for power-ups. Don't get me wrong, I can use the whole fired-up power like him, but, on the other hand, I can use power-ups as Knock-out Fighter - just one power-up, which is also on a timer, but still it left me to thinking as I asked myself 'Just what else is different about this GGD than the original?'. I never really experiment with Knock-out Fighter because of how fast I leveled up that form, but I know I feel more comfortable as the Puzzle Gamer as that form was more versatile and I've had more experience in it in the short few days I've used it. I also know that, while Knock-out Fighter is more for immediate power, Perfect Puzzle has the potential to be the stronger of the two forms. My thoughts are cut short as I hear rustling in the bushes to my left as I continued to walk; only to stop and see what was making the noise as I pull the GGD out and put my basket of berries down. A pair of Grimm larger and stockier than the Beowolves lumbered out growling cautiously as they stared me down; these Grimm had spikes across their backs and arms and bony white masks that covered their entire top half of their heads with red designs that were more intricate than the Beowolves.
A pair of Ursa Minors had made the mistake of appearing - just what I was looking for! A smirk danced across my face for a moment before I turned the dial to Perfect Puzzle and received the confirmation noise for it's selection along with the familiar Techno music playing in loop.
"PERFECT PUZZLE! What's the next stage?"
As the power-ups began to dot the surrounding area, the smirk I wore replaced itself with a look of curiosity as the Grimm both flinched with one of them even taking a step back even though they never took their eyes off me to look at the discs that now littered the forest - no, I realized as I started to glare at them, not at me; they were looking at the GGD as if they had recognized it. That means these weren't younglings and that I had to eliminate them quickly before they got away. With a call of "Henshin!" I pressed the buttons to transform.
"DUAL UP!"
The holographic image of the Puzzle Gamer appeared in front of me and passed over me, covering my body with the armor as it did so and transforming me into Para-DX Puzzle Gamer once more as I placed the GGD into it's holster.
"GET THE GLORY IN THE CHAIN! PERFECT PUZZLE!"
With that done, I ran at them as the Grimm I had hunted had done to me. The Ursa that had stepped back charged at me, standing on it's hind legs as it neared striking range with a paw raised to attack me - big mistake as I slid under it's legs and, quite literally, kicked it's arse. The kick sent it tumbling onto it's belly but it wasn't enough to do much damage to it as it got back up and tried to turn to me, only to find a golden-soled boot to the face as I launched a short, flying kick at it. This sent it rolling to the side, but it's partner finally decided it wasn't going to fight alone as the Grimm charged straight for me with a swipe aimed at me. I jumped back quick enough to dodge it, but hadn't noticed the Grimm I had knocked before come at me from behind and swiped my back which sent me flying to the side; just like I figured, these weren't young Grimm - they knew what they were up against and attacked accordingly. If I was going to walk out of this relatively unharmed, I'd have to work fast. I spotted a red disc with the image of a Rider flexing and immediately rolled for it; narrowly dodging a double-pronged swipe from the Ursas. As I rushed to the power-up, I cocked a fist back and punched straight through it after reaching it.
"MUSCULAR!"
I felt my muscles tightening up as new-found strength filled me. Turning to the Ursas which were lumbering towards me from different directions, I smirked as I got into a ready stance. "Okay, let's see how you boys like picking on someone your own size?" I asked rhetorically before punching one in the gut, causing it to stumble, and used the momentum to slam the back of my heel into the side of the other's face sending it spiraling into a tree. The fact that neither one died in those hits was a testament to how sturdy these Grimm were. As I prepared to grab the GGD to perform my finishing blow, I heard gunfire from behind coming straight for me... "What in the world -" was all I could get out before getting flung by a yellow blur into the air...
"LIQUEFACTION!"
And straight into a Liquefaction power-up... My body melted as it splashed into the bushes that were under me. Granted this time wasn't all that bad as I had learned I could flex my body to move around, it was still annoying as hell whenever I didn't WANT to be liquidated...
"Monkey humpahs, what the hell was that?" I asked, but got an answer as I heard a distinctly female voice call out "Nailed it!" My eyes went wide for a moment as I tried to scuttle to where the voice came from.
)-Meanwhile, As the Fight Started-(
)-Third Person PoV-(
Yang Xiao Long; a young woman with curly blond hair and lavender eyes wearing a tan jacket with golden brown piping and short, puffy sleeves with black cuffs that feature two gold buttons, a low cut yellow crop top with a black emblem of a burning heart on the left side of her chest in black, and a pair of black mini-shorts; was having the time of her life being able to almost literally fly through the air as she continued to propel herself with her shotgun gauntlets, Ember Celica, after being flung off of Beacon Cliff for her initiation. To her, the rush of the air and adrenaline was throwing her into an excited flurry that she thought lasted forever.
Sadly, it only lasted for about a few seconds before she realized she was about to hit the ground. "Whuh oh," she muttered as she used her gauntlets to keep herself airborne for as long as she could before hitting the ground, though she felt she had hit something on the way down but couldn't make out what it was on account of her sunglasses and how fast she was going. She managed to slow down her momentum enough, however, that a single roll was enough to stop her as she gave a quick "Nailed it!" in celebration of her small victory. Now that she was firmly on solid ground, however, she had a new dilemma. She had to find a partner and fast; only then could she retrieve the artifact and return to Beacon as a full-fledged student. She looked around her surroundings and called out to anyone that was listening to try and spot any signs of life but only found shrubbery and trees...
Until she heard some rustling in the bushes, that is.
)-First Person PoV-(
I peeked out to see what was going on and saw, to my utter and absolute surprise, that Yang was actually here in the forest. Now that I knew she was real as well, I could finally deduce just WHEN the hell I was on Remnant...
'Okay, so... Judging by her outfit,' I started thinking to myself during my examination, 'she's still in Beacon or close to it... She's also got both arms so it's way before the Battle for Beacon... And she's calling out to people despite knowing if anyone is actually right here... Which means...'
My eyes go wide as the pieces began to fall into place. 'Which means this was the Initiation episode! Oh crap, I am royally screwed now,' I thought in a panic. The reason for my panic is the fact that I have been messing with time since I got here by hunting the Grimm. I had messed up big time. I was in so much of a panic that I almost didn't realize the Liquefaction power-up was wearing off which caused the bush I was in to rustle some. And Yang was on her way to where I was. I nearly froze until I heard the growl of one of the Ursas I was fighting from earlier behind me.
'Oh dear god, why?' I asked myself in my mind frozen in terror.
)-Third Person PoV-(
"Is someone there?" she asked in the direction of the noise. She followed the sounds of the rustling to a nearby bush that was behind her and peeked over the top of it in morbid curiosity as she asked, "Ruby, is that you?" Her reply was a standing Ursa minor that growled menacingly at her but she could look at it this way; she got her answer.
"Nope," she said as she made a popping sound with the 'p'.
Rolling to the side, she avoided the Ursa's swing and bought enough time to arm her weapons, but it also put herself in the line of fire of a second Ursa as it jumped over the bushes at her. Back-flipping away allowed her to once again avoid being hit. With one of the Ursas charging at her, she cocked a fist back and unleashed a shotgun-powered punch into the beast an sent it flying backwards, and with the second one coming after her she landed an uppercut on it and followed with a quick spin-kick to send it reeling next to it's partner. "You guys wouldn't happened to have seen a girl in a red hood, would you?" she asked the Grimm as they were recovering. One of them stood on it's hind legs and roared at her before swiping at her.
"You could just say 'No'..." she said as she hopped back from the first swipe and narrowly dodged the second with a back-flip. With a laugh, she started to taunt the massive beasts by saying "Geez, you two couldn't hit the broad side of a ba-," before stopping as she watched a lone strand of hair floated to the ground; her hair.
)-First Person PoV-(
I couldn't help but silently cheer on who was, to me, the most likable character in the series as she fought the Ursas, though I did have the initial thoughts of her being a kill-stealing little firecracker since I weakened them... Then I saw the hair falling down and just facepalmed at the bad luck these two had.
"Oh crapbaskets," I whispered to myself, "You two are in for it now..."
)-Third Person PoV-(
Yang, for lack of a better word, was furious; she had worked all morning to get her hair just the way she liked it and these... things... had to go and ruin it. As her eyes closed and opened back up, gone was the lavender irises in favor of a bright and burning red to symbolize a burning, raging fire of hatred she felt for these Ursa. Said Grimm could only glance at each other in confusion as they did not know what she was capable of; they would soon learn that this was a big mistake.
"You... MONSTERS!" she roared at the soon-to-be dead Grimm as her hair lit aflame, and what came next went by as fast as it had come. With her weapons' recoil, she dashed up to the Ursa that had dared to touch her hair and landing a single jab on it to disorient it before nailing it with an uppercut and sending it flying. In a flash, she sped up to it an unleashed a flurry of shotgun-powered punches that sent it straight through several trees and thus ending it's life. The second Ursa had done it's best to run up to this strange woman who had quickly dealt with it's partner but had been too late as she turns to the now standing beast and gloated, "What?! You want some two?!" The Ursa only had time to roar before a sickening slash of a blade against flesh is heard.
)-First Person PoV-(
I had seen her pull that off, but to see it from an angle that the show could never give... It was spectacular. She was incredible with that kind of raw firepower, though scary when I thought about it - I never wanted to get on her bad side; Kamen Rider Para-DX or not... Then I saw the Ursa go down by being stabbed in the back with a pistol that had a blade pointing down from the barrel and a ribbon tied to the stock. I turned my head to see if my suspicions were true and, sure enough, they were...
Holding the other end of the ribbon was a fair skinned young girl with amber eyes and long black hair wearing purple eyeshadow, a black buttoned vest with coattails and a single silver button on the front. Underneath this was a white, sleeveless, high necked, crop undershirt, white shorts with a zipper on the front of each leg, black low-heeled boots, and full stockings with a color gradation of black to purple at her ankles; there was no doubt about it, this was Blake Belladonna in all her season 1 glory... but something seemed... "off" about her... I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but I could tell it was on the tip of my tongue as she ripped the gun out of the corpse's back... Then it hit me as I looked at where her bow normally would be...
Instead of her black bow-tie bow on her head, her faunus cat ears were right there in plain sight for everyone and their grandmother to see! 'What the hell?' I asked myself in thought, 'She never took the bow off before she revealed her ears to Sun... Oh this is bad - REALLY bad.' If Blake was changed, then what else has changed because of me? And how DID she get changed? I didn't have long to contemplate, however, I HAD to get out of here before I was spotted. I slowly crawled my way out of the bushes towards a Speeding-Up disc when I snapped a twig under my heel. Blake was the one who responded to the noise with "Who's out there?!"
'Oh crapbaskets...'
)-Third Person PoV-(
The now ex-Ursa had hit the ground revealing Blake Belladonna, a fellow initiate classmate of Yang's, who had killed the Grimm by throwing her weapon into it's spine before tugging on the ribbon and ripping it out; catching it just as it reached her hand before she extended the blade and putting it back in her holster-blade. Smiling, she looked at the blond who only smirked back and said, "I coulda taken him..."
"That may be," Blake started off, "but I'm not too sure about our uninvited guest..."
Yang could only look at her in confusion as she looked around and asked, "Wait, you mean there really WAS someone here?"
"There IS someone here... I can't tell where but -" Blake was interrupted by the sound of a twig breaking. She looked to where the noise came from and called out "Who's out there?!"
"SPEEDING-UP!"
Instead of an answer of the typical sort, however, what she got was a yellow blur zipping by them and causing Yang to spin like a top for a few moments. Blake looked to her now partner to find that her blond friend was now dizzy as her eyes had been replaced with swirls.
"Blake, did you catch the number of that Bullhead pilot?" she joked as she shook her head to clear her equilibrium and regained her orientation. Blake could only smile as she thought to herself, 'This is going to be a fun time at Beacon; I just know it.'
)-First Person PoV-(
As I was running, empowered by the Speeding-Up disc, I was scolding myself, "You stupid idiot; you nearly got caught! Your only saving grace was that damned power-up!" I sighed to myself as I continued to openly contemplate on everything that had happened. "Okay, so it looks like I was right and this actually IS the initiation test but there's some key differences; the first of which is how Yang landed which I can attest to by being slammed into a Liquefaction power-up, and then there's Blake's bow or lack thereof... Just what else has changed?" I couldn't contemplate anymore on it as I stop and get distracted by a sight I was more than glad to see; in one of the few clear openings in the forest was a large pack of Beowolves with an Alpha Beowolf seemingly surrounding someone or something. "Alright, a lucky break. They're Beowolves, but hey, I'll take what I can ge- wait... Who's that?" I asked myself as I noticed someone in the center of the pack. She was a pale skinned young girl with pale blue eyes and long white hair pulled back into an off-center bun tail and pinned with an icicle shaped tiara with a thigh-length strapless dress with faint color gradation from white to pale blue at the hem.
No doubt about it, this was Weiss Schnee, but why were my internal alarm bells ringing? I looked behind me to see a lone tree in the clearing, and then it hit me like a speeding train. I had to get out of here before - "Gotcha!" I heard someone say before the unavoidable happened.
"Oh crap!" I yelled as I rolled out of the way of a trail of fire that hits the tree before I ran back into the forest to avoid the incoming forest fire. "THESE GIRLS ARE OUT TO GET ME!" I yelled knowing I would be drowned out by the howls of the panicking Beowolves as I continued to run away.
)-Third Person PoV-(
Two girls were running up a hill to escape the consuming flames that now threaten to engulf the forest and stopped only to catch their breath and look at the destruction that was caused. One of them was Weiss Schnee, heiress of the Schnee dust company, and the person responsible for the actual flames. Her travel acquaintance; a fair skinned young girl with silver eyes and black hair that fades to dark red at the tips cut in an asymmetrical bob wearing a long sleeved thick black blouse with a high collar and red trim on the sleeves, a black waist cincher with red lacing up the front, and a black skirt with red trim, and a pair of thick black stockings and black combat boots with red laces, red trim around the top and red soles; was right behind her before looking back at the rising billows of smoke and turning back to her partner.
"What was that?!" she asked in frustration, "That should have been easy!"
Weiss began to grow impatient with her so-called partner's antics as she glared hard at the girl and said, "Well perhaps if you had exercised even the slightest amount of caution with the placement of your strikes, I wouldn't have set the forest on fire!" At this, Ruby scoffed at the girl and was about to retort before she could hear a small, strange sound; a sound that began to grow louder. "Hey wait... Do you hear that?" she asked the heiress who's only reply was to try and suggest that it was the sound of the flames burning down below.
"No no, not that... It sounds like... Buzzing..." she muttered as it continued to grow louder.
Weiss was now starting to internally panic as she could hear it. "Now that you mention it... I believe I do hear something akin to that..." They started to look around as the noise grew to the point of being painful on their ears before it suddenly stopped.
Ruby was the first to break the now eerie silence. "... Weiss?"
"Yes? What is it?"
"Do you have a feeling that something REALLY bad is going to happen any second now?" As she said this, a pair of very large, glowing orange eyes appeared in the shadows of the trees behind her. Having noticed this, Weiss was visibly shaking as she nodded her head but couldn't say anything as a shriek had startled both the girls along with the sound of wood being cut down following suit.
As they saw what caused this; both girls screamed as loud as their longs could carry their voices.
There it is; the next chapter. Sadly, I had to cut it there because the word count was getting too high... But fear not, for I WILL be working on the next chapter!
Until then... See you next game!