Hello all you Boils and Ghouls! Hopefully THIS will be the end of the Pilot arc and I can actually end the Initiation with this chapter. And before we get started on that, let's begin the questions.
Eternal Lancer, it will not be in the immediate future, but it IS planned for him to turn into Perfect Knockout. Just not yet, anyway.
Xivitai, I'm not so sure about the GGD Beta as it will be an awful time for me to pick a form for each game and then try to write down what they look like; I mean hell, I had to google up what RUBY looked like in text form just so I could write it up. So yeah, my prognosis is I highly doubt that will appearing.
God of Crossover, this chapter, boi. XD
Hero King Gilgamesh, I'm happy to say he will be the host of not one, but two bugsters. Sadly, neither one will be able to become Kamen Riders due to um... extenuating circumstances.
Derp, I've been throwing ideas around but ultimately decided that there will be no shipping in this story for the forseeable future...
The Mind Master, only Para-DX can use/activate them but more than just him can be the target of Power-Ups that require one such as Shrink or Emission. Yes, he will be able to do so at some point in time, but right now he has no idea how to play Perfect Puzzle itself so he cannot control them so easily if at all; a similar ordeal is going on with Knock-Out Fighter. Cannon Gashats are up in the air at the moment, however I will say that they will be used AS intended rather than by Para-DX as extra weapons IF I add them.
And finally, a comment to reply to that I think everyone should take note of...
Epion Legium, we are talking about a world where exists people that can hit in the force range of megatonnes; not tons, not kilotonnes, MEGAtonnes; a few to name would be Yang Xiao Long, Adam Taurus, Nora Valkyrie and even Ruby Rose herself. If anything can survive megaton levels of force, then a few tons should be easy to deal with. And I'm sorry for the Power-Up placements as I am trying to keep the story within a word count per chapter range.
With that out of the way, it's time to begin the next chapter! I own nothing but the OC used.
)-Legend-(
"Yo!" - Speaking
'Is he an idiot?' - Thinking
"Dearest love," - Reading
Kaishin no Ippatsu! - Specials
)-Third Person PoV-(
It took a few minutes, but the girls managed to reach what appeared to be the ruins of a rather simple rotunda with three of the columns broken and lying around the area in pieces. Five of the stone columns that held up a circle of stones were still standing as well. The floor of the structure beared a rather intricate symmetrical design. Around the floor were 22 stone pedestals; some with a large chess piece on top with a duplicate of each piece that weren't missing.
Yang pointed at the temple and called out to the others, "See? Told ya we were close!" Blake looked around and noticed the missing artifacts from the pedestals before pointing this out, "And it looks like we're not the first to get here... We may have to try our luck at running back to Beacon Cliff if all else fails."
"Yeah, that's going to be a problem, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it..." At this response from her partner, Blake shook her head dismissively before setting Weiss down near the steps of the temple. "Now try not to move that leg too much, okay?" the faunus girl said to her pseudo patient who harumphed lightly as she crossed her arms.
"I'm not dying..." was her retort before her face scrunched a little in disgust, "Well... I won't be thanks to you and Ruby."
Blake had to hold back a smile as she knew they were still in danger. "I'm not trying to sound ungrateful but we're not out of this yet," she warned the white-haired girl, "So don't go thanking us just yet." The heiress nodded her acceptance of this reason before Blake continued. "First thing's first, though, we need to find out what you were up against and prepare ourselves for it..."
"Well..." Weiss hesitantly started, "it was... well, for lack of a better term, massive... And it looked like an insect of some kind... Not one from Atlas, otherwise I would have been able to identify it right away -"
"It was a mantis with two blades on it's arms instead of one!" Ruby said as she fiddled with some of her ammunition along with a shell or two from Yang's personal arsenal. At this, Blake's eyes widened in fear as if realizing what they were up against; though her reaction was initially ignored by all present as Weiss addressed the weapons dork quickly. "Is that what it was?" she asked, "I thought it was an assassin bug for a moment, or some sort of mosquito-based insect."
Ruby didn't even look away from her objective as she continued to fiddle with the dust used in the shells and replied, "Nope, definitely a mantis; even Yang can spot one of those a mile away."
"Not true, Rubes..." Yang quickly retorted. "Only HALF a mile away because normally those things are tiny."
"We're not safe here..."
Yang and Weiss looked to their raven-haired companion in curiosity while Ruby ignored her as she continued. "That thing... It's more dangerous than it looks; it took out an entire cargo train by itself and nearly managed to kill everyone on it; the hunters stationed there included."
Before anyone could ask what she meant, Ruby shouted out in triumphant victory as she jumped up, "DONE! Now let's shoot these things off." She loaded the clip into the barrel of her weapon in rifle mode as she aimed straight up and fired; sending a fireball half the size of the rotunda straight into the sky at high speeds. "If THAT doesn't get anyone's attention, nothing will."
Weiss looked at Ruby in disbelief at the monstrous flare she created while Blake was still lost in her thoughts. It was only Yang who broke the silence as she asked, "Remind me again why you had to be the one to shoot out the flare?"
Ruby simply smirked before turning to her half-sister to reply. "Because despite their long range, Ember Celica still lacks the necessary speed to reach the right altitude for the flare to be seen at all; let alone someone who can help." That seemed to be enough as Yang shrugged her shoulders before heading to the artifacts. "Still, if we're gonna be stuck here for a while we may as well grab our artifacts while we're here..." Ruby's realization on the subject was an 'Oh' face as she followed the Blonde to the artifacts.
Picking up a golden Knight piece, Yang held it up for Blake to see and called out to her, "Hey, Blake! How 'bout a cute lil' pony?" Blake finally shook her thoughts free as she looked to her partner and nodded absently. This got Yang concerned as she walked back over to the raven-haired faunus while Ruby quickly nabbed the other golden Knight piece and ran back with her. "Blake? You okay there, kitty kat?" she asked her partner in concern.
Blake tried to reply before shouting and commotion brought their attention away from their current conversation. That commotion being a girl with short orange hair and turquoise eyes wearing a collared black vest that ends at her waist, a white sleeveless top that forms a tiny heart shape just below her collarbone, a white detached sleeve on each arm, matching fingerless gloves on each hand, and a pink skirt that starts at the waist and ends mid-thigh rolling towards them with a cloud of dust coming up to catch her as she finally stopped.
)-Moments Earlier-(
Nora Valkyrie was your average, high energy, and spunky girl with a zest for life that would make just about anyone smile if one could look past her rather unusual tendencies, but if there was one thing no one would truly know her as if they didn't understand her it would be observant; when it came to Lie Ren, she had to be in order to tell what was going on with him when he was feeling down and wouldn't tell her about it. Not that she would openly admit she was THAT worried for him, mind you.
But that observant talent would come in handy as she noticed some of the leaves glowing a light orange despite it still being mid-day. She turned to her partner and longtime friend, Lie Ren; a male teenager with long black hair tied into a ponytail that ends midway down his back, a magenta streak on the left side of his hair, and eyes that matched said streak wearing a dark green, diagonally-buttoned, long-sleeved tailcoat that is red on the inside, with black and gold trimming that goes down the right side of his torso and forms a black collar, and pink cuffs; and grabbed his sleeve to get his attention. "You see that, Ren?" she asked as she pointed to the leaves, "Did someone start a fire or turn on a heat lamp somewhere?" As she said this, the young man looked around and found the source; a rather large flare in the sky resembling a fireball.
"A flare? Someone must be in trouble if they shot that." he deduced before concluding his thoughts, "But the professors said they wouldn't interfere with the initiation... so why send one out unless it was a warning to stay away?"
"Nope. Not gonna happen. We're going to help them."
Giving no time for Ren to reply, Nora simply unclipped her weapon, Magnhild, and changed it into it's hammer form before slammingthe head into the ground and placing a foot on it. She didn't get another step on it, however, as her friend and partner gently placed his hand on her shoulder. "Nora... what have I told you about riding Magnhild like that?" he asked her in a slightly condescending tone.
"... Not to ride it unless it was an emergency..." she replied in an exaggeratedly tired tone.
"And is this an emergency?"
Nora did her best to open her eyes wide and pout her lips as she tried to do her puppy dog eyes on Ren before replying, "Yes?"
Ren simply smiled softly before shaking his head and taking his hand off her shoulder. "Then go ahead, but don't go too fast; okay?" he warned her. This was ignored, however, as Nora had a grin plastered on her face as she stepped her grounded foot onto the hilt of Magnhild with her free hand saluting and the hand holding Magnhild to pull the trigger; sending her skyrocketing through the woods with Ren hot on her heels. This contininued until she made one very, VERY, big miscalculation...
Trees. Have. Branches.
"Uh oh," was her only words of regret as the head of her weapon and sending her flipping through the woods before landing on solid ground and rolling to a stop. Coughing to clear her throat of the dust cloud that surrounded her, she stood up and patted her clothes to get any dust and debris off them before looking around to see 4 fellow girls at the temple. "Hi!" she greeted them cheerfully at them. As she looked around, she heard Ren's voice panting as he said, "Nora... Don't ever do that again..."
Lo and behold, the girl had already left once everyone's attention shifted to the young man. Turning to the relics, the found said girl picking up one of the pieces, a golden Rook, and places it on her head, but before she could do anything else, Ren calls out to her. "Nora! This isn't the time to play around, we have someone seriously injured here."
Nora's eyes widen in shock before dropping the Rook piece; which fell on her foot and bounced into her hand, as she ran to her friend's side to see what happened; when she did, her entire body almost seemed to gray out as she spotted the bloodied and wounded leg of Weiss Schnee. "What... Happened?" she asked trying to keep herself calm; a storm of emotions going through her with the most prominent being fear and anger.
"A Grimm managed to do this..." the raven-haired faunus said as she started to explain, "Ruby and Weiss had an encounter with a dangerous Grimm that can somehow overpower one's aura and injure it's victims in such a way that their aura cannot heal them on it's own... I've seen it once before I came to Beacon..."
Shock filled Nora's body as she stared at Blake dumbfoundedly before turning back to Weiss before turning to Ren who's attention up until now was on the heiress' leg as he inspected it. "Well, the damage is severe but it was disinfected quickly enough so that should buy her some time..." he surmized as he pulled some bandages out of his pocket and started to wrap Weiss' leg, "Don't worry, we'll stay and help as much as we can." Nora nodded absentmindedly before shaking her head and putting on a strong front behind a smile. "Yeah!" she cheered, "We're not gonna get split up as long as that thing's around - does anyone else hear screaming?"
It was right at that point that they heard a faintly growing scream of someone before a red and white blur was sent barreling into one of the trees. With a loud thunk and the rustling of leaves, the figure fell out of the tree hard; revealing themselves as a tall teenage boy with dark-blue eyes, short blonde hair messily layered on his head with the right side of his hair nearing his right eye and the left side swept back, wearing a white diamond-shaped chestplate cut off above his lower abdomen and white spaulders with rerebraces set under them, a black short-sleeved hoodie with detached reddish-orange sleeves, blue pants with a white patch on the left knee, and black sneakers; the sound of the impact he made caused everyone present to cringe and inwardly draw breath.
"Oooh... That's gotta hurt..." pointed out Yang as Blake simply asked, "Did that guy just fall from the sky?" Nora shook her head before replying, "Nope, I think he was launched from a catapult," as she made a popping sound while pronouncing the 'p' in 'nope'. Ruby immediately zipped over to him after recognizing the figure to check up on him. "Jaune!? Are you okay?" she asked in concern. Her reply from him was a grunt as the boy simply put a thumbs up from his facedown position in the dirt before his hand slapped the ground.
"Well, vomit boy's alright," Yang declared before continuing, "Now let's try to get outta here before something ELSE crazy happens." Yang had unintentionally invoked Murphey's Law with that declaration. Just as that had happened, they heard a roar in the distance where Jaune had came from.
A girl with red hair in a waist-length ponytail and vivid green eyes wearing a light-brown, strapless top split divided vertically with some bronze patterns; a low bronze V-neck; an elastic, black, A-line miniskirt with a red ankle-length drapery that wrapped around it; and and brown opera-length gloves on both arms with a bronze bracer on the left; elaborate bronze greaves that start below her mid-thigh, continuing downwards into her boots and a pair of cuisses that begin mid-thigh and end slightly above her knees; was racing from the forest roughly in the same direction Jaune went flying. She wasn't running to him, though; to be more precise, she was running away from something. On her tail, crashing through the trees as it gave chase, was a large Scorpion-like Grimm with a jet-black exoskeleton underneath several white, bonelike plates upon its back, which are adorned with red markings.
"Did that girl just run all the way here with a Deathstalker on her tail?" Blake asked in disbelief. Before anyone could reply, though, the girl was sent flying by a swat of the Deathstalker's claw and crashed to the ground near herself and Weiss as Blake went to check on the girl. "Great, the gang's all here!" Yang exclaimed sarcastically, "Now we can die together!"
"Not if I can help it..." Ruby whispered to herself before dashing straight for the Deathstalker and unclipping her weapon as it transformed into it's scythe mode. "Ruby, wait!" Yang called out to her sister, only to be stopped by Ren putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Hold on, we've got more company," he said as he pointed to the sky. It was too far away to make out all the details, but the silhouette was unmistakably a very large Nevermore. "That's... not good..." Blake looked at the Nevermore, but Yang pulled her shoulder free and ran for Ruby who... well...
Let's just say she wasn't fairing very well against the Deathstalker.
When she first reached it, she fired a shot behind her and used the recoil to try and land a hit on the scorpion creature, only to be smacked away by it's claw. She then tried to use her Semblance to try and get behind it, only to realize she had worn herself out fighting the mantis Grimm from earlier; so she changed strategies and fired a few rounds at the creature's eyes which it blocked with it's claws before using it's tail for a long range attack that the young girl narrowly avoided by shooting a recoil shot to send her backwards. With that, she started running as fast as her legs could carry her before hearing a roar that almost sounded like a raven's call. Looking up behind her, Ruby could see a giant raven-like Grimm with two finger-like clawed appendages at the joints of the wing and a white mask with red markings covering the top of it's head with four orange eyes that faded to red staring at her. The Grimm stalled itself in the air before clapping it's wings together, sending a volley of feathers that rained down on Ruby; all but one missing the girl and blocking off Yang's route to her, with the one nailing her cloak and pinning her to the ground.
"Ruby!" Yang called out, "Get outta there!" Clawing desperately at her cloak in a vain attempt at pulling it free, Ruby called back out to Yang, "I'm trying!" If there was ever a case where she regretted sewing her cloak onto her top, this would be it. She could only tug at her cloak as she saw the Deathstalker approach with it's tail poised to strike.
"RUBY!" she shouted as she tried to reach for her sister, only to see a golden blur zip up to the Deathstalker
)-Meanwhile-(
)-First Person PoV-(
I ran.
For how long, I'm not sure, but I ran for as long as I could; even after my Speed Boost wore off. Whatever was going on, I had to hurry and make it to them. I just had to.
I'm not stupid, though, I know I cannot save everyone; but would it be any worse than if I never even tried? I cannot save everyone, but if I really have messed up history as badly as I think I did then it's my duty to take responsibility for it; to protect this new timeline and this new world... To become Remnant's Kamen Rider.
I passed up a Speeding-Up disc as I came up to a clearing that gave me a good view of where the flare had come from. In it, I saw dilapidated ruins that held 6 teenagers my age or older with one of them, a white haired girl I could recognize as Weiss; even from this distance, lying on the ground. I looked around and saw the Deathstalker slamming a black and red body into the ground with it's claw and a head of yellow hair trying to catch up to her. Then it happened; the sky rained down large, black feathers that pinned Ruby to the ground and cut Yang off from her. Seeing the Deathstalker crawling up to Ruby left me no choice but to personally intervene as I punched the disc and dashed straight for the Deathstalker. With a battlecry of "IKUZE*!", I cocked back a fist and prepared for the worst...
)-Third Person PoV-(
This was it; the end of her career as a huntress-in-training; the end of her life; the end of Ruby Rose... As the young girl clenched her eyes shut in lieu of the impending fatal blow, she heard something.
"IKUZE!"
Following the shout was a sound almost like glass breaking. She thought she had been hit, and the sound was her ribcage shattering; but instead of pain, she felt... nothing.
She opened her eyes wide and looked to the Deathstalker to see what had happend as time for her seemed to slow down; what she saw was something out of a child's story book.
Standing in front of her, with their fist extended as if they had just punched something, was a tall figure wearing a strange suit; the suit itself was primarily black with white in the torso and crotch regions and a golden dial or knob or something on their back, she couldn't tell what it was; their hands were encased in huge almost pauldron-like boxing gloves that were red on one side with flames going up the edges and blue and gold on the other with golden armor pieces along the feet and legs as well as a golden belt. The figure's head, however, drew her attention the most as the back had a blue head with what appeared to be a large, blue triangle running down the middle of it like a lock of hair; a pair of black goggles where eyes would be; and a gold, turtle-neck collar that took up a good third of the figure's back face. The figure's front face, however, was just as odd with red, spiky hair that jutted out to the right side; eyebrows that extended past the headband; and the eyes, though primarily yellow, held what appeared to be circles to represent the iris with white pupils. Through it all; the golden, red and blue parts of the suit all held a metallic sheen to them, almost glistening in the sunlight. Around the figure's fist were the shards of the Deathstalker's now destroyed stinger. As she regained her senses, she noticed the figure staring down the Deathstalker as it crawled back screeching in agony.
Whoever this person is; they had saved her life.
"Head's up!"
Nevermind, this person was trying to kill her! She ducked under the back-handed swing just in time to see it shatter the arrow that had pinned her cloak down. As she moved away, she noticed that her cloak was free and that she could stand up fully because of it. Her sister, now free of her own imprisonment, ran up to her and squeezed her hard in a hug; elicting a yelp out of the poor girl.
"I'm so happy you're okay!" Yang exclaimed as she pulled away from the hug, but then looked to the stranger who oddly enough was a whole head taller than her, "And thank you SO much for saving my lil' sis."
"We're not out of this, yet; the thing's still alive and that one up there's circling back for round two," the stranger replied, though how anyone would have been able to talk in that helm, let alone be heard so clearly as if they weren't wearing it, was anyone's guess. Jaune simply looked on in mortified horror as he asked what they were gonna do.
"Just leave them both to me."
"No offense," Weiss started, "but you don't seem to be equipped to handle an airborne target." The stranger simply scoffed at her words before replying, "Not in this form, I ain't; but I'll worry about it later. Right now, I've got some scorpion stew to make." With this, he pounded his gauntlet-covered fists together, creating a ringing clang sound that reverberated throughout the area. The Deathstalker took this as a warning rather than a challenge and tried to scuttle away but was chased down by the stranger. "Oh no you don't!" he, as his voice was more on the masculine side, yet could still easily be confused as a woman if one wasn't careful, called out before landing a downward punch onto the dead center of the Deathstalker's raised claws; thus shattering both of them into black mist.
"Holy crap -" Yang started before her sister interrupted her and called her out on swearing, "He's got some strength, huh?"
)-First Person PoV-(
'Alright!' I celebrated in my thoughts, 'With it's claws and stinger removed, this Deathstalker is nothing more than a meal on legs. Now to finish the job.' I gripped what was left of it's arm and twisted my body so that I could fling the Grimm over my back and onto it's own back. With that done, I jumped on top of it's underside before grabbing the GGD and barely pulling it out enough to turn the dial back to it's default position and then into Knock-Out Fighter before slamming it back down without it calling out Kimewaza once again.
"DUAL GASHAT! KNOCK-OUT CRITICAL SMASH!"
I slammed my fists together as crimson energy flickered across them before raising them as high as I could and slamming them back down onto the Deathstalker's vulnerable underside; disintegrating it in the instant it hit in an explosion of black mist which seeped into my chestplate.
"K.O.!"
As the essence was absorbed, I looked at my level and EXP to see that the bar was filling up not once, but twice, as I hit Level 19 and then Level 20 with only 2% of the EXP required for Level 21. The level up announcement played along with the familiar tune though I was in no mood to cheer just yet; there was still the Nevermore afterall. Turning towards the sky, I looked around to see if there were any power-ups around, though sadly there were none nearby, so I had to make do... And by that, I mean I had to change forms. With that, I removed the GGD and began my preparations as I turned it to it's default position
"GASHOON!"
With one more twist, my target form was set.
"PERFECT PUZZLE! What's the next stage?"
As the title screen appeared behind me, the all too familiar discs showed up and scattered across the field before I pressed the buttons on the GGD with a quick call of "Dai Henshin!".
"DUAL UP! GET THE GLORY IN THE CHAIN! PERFECT PUZZLE!"
)-Third Person PoV-(
Everyone present could only stare in wide-eyed awe as they had witnessed a single person literally disintegrate a Deathstalker; with his own hands. Their awe turned into fear as they saw what was effectively the remains of the body be absorbed by this stranger in armor. Finally, their fear turned into horror as his head suddenly turned a sharp 180 degrees. Only two mouths remained silent during this event; the mouths of a certain raven-haired faunus girl and a normally calm and collected black-and-pink haired guy. Two, however, were more animated in their fears as one of the girls screaming was actually Jaune who suddenly felt the weight of someone jumping into his arms.
That someone was a terrified, and grayed out, Nora Valkyrie, who had made a grab for the nearest warm body; normally, that would be Ren, but this time it was an unfortunate white-knight-wannabe. They only stood still for a moment before they felt something... off...
"Uh, guys...?" Jaune said to get everyone's attention. "I um... I think I wet myself..."
Nora simply shook her head as if to disagree yet didn't take her eyes off the stranger. "Nope. I think it was me..."
Jaune merely looked down between their bodies and nods lightly before turning back to her. "I-It was both of us..."
At this, Yang's aura flared to live as her normally violet eyes turned red in her rage; her shout causing both of them to flinch and Nora to jump out of Jaune's arms. "TMI, YOU TWO!"
Blake's mind, however, was on this stranger and whether or not he was even human or faunus at all. Eventually, that lead to her thoughts of Yang's bet earlier on and that she may have had a point in thinking the way she did.
)-First Person PoV-(
'Okay, now that I'm in my Puzzle Gamer form,' I thought to myself, 'How best can I reach Big Bird up there? Hmmm...' I looked around until I saw a few power-ups that would serve the purpose I needed quite well. 'Okay, so there's a Stretch over there, but I need some speed to go along with that to even catch it... Then there's the matter of what to do when I do so I guess some firepower would-oh nice; a Muscular. Okay... let's do this!'
With that in mind, I extended a hand to call on the furthest power-up from me; the Stretch power-up, and focused only on it. Eventually, though, it does float to me where I punched straight through it as it arrived.
"STRETCH!"
With that active, I extended my arms out and punched both the Muscular and the Speeding-Up discs to activate them.
"MUSCULAR!"
"SPEEDING-UP!"
And now that I had what I needed, it was time to finish the fight once and for all. I reached to the GGD and pulled it out before putting the dial into it's default state and then back to Perfect Puzzle; practically slamming it back into it's holster before it could call out "Kimewaza".
"DUAL GASHAT!"
With that, blue and gold energy surrounded my entire right leg rather than just my foot as I got into a relaxed kicking stance.
"PERFECT CRITICAL COMBO!"
)-Third Person PoV-(
Ruby's eyes widened in recognition as did Weiss' from earlier in the forest against that mantis Grimm. They had heard that declaration before; that meant this must have been the very same person that helped them escape. Ruby looked back at her injured partner who nodded as she thought, 'I guess now we know who we owe our lives to for earlier...'
)-Meanwhile-(
A Bullhead was seen flying over the Emerald Forest heading straight for the temple; on board were Professors Ozpin and Goodwitch. Glynda herself was flying the airship as she checked on the navigations console before announcing that they would be arriving momentarily. However, as she looked back out ahead, she and Ozpin got a sight to behold; something long and very skinny had shot up into the sky, covered in blue and yellow flame-like aura, before swatting what appeared to be a Nevermore to the ground at a pace much faster than something that large should move.
"Professor... Did you see that?" Glynda asked Ozpin.
"Quite frankly... I wish I hadn't..." Ozpin replied before continuing, "We may need to break into Qrow's stores when this is over..."
Glynda merely nodded as she continued to fly to the temple; the very place where the... 'thing' came from.
)-First Person PoV-(
In what I assumed at the time to be the dumbest idea ever, I threw my leg upward as if to bring it down for an axe kick but saw that it was extending all the way into the clouds; high enough that I could hit the Nevermore and fast enough that it won't be able to dodge. With that, I brought my leg down and, in a chain reaction, nailed the Nevermore on it's back; bringing it all the way down to ground level but still alive. With the time I had left on the power-ups, I retracted my leg and extended my arms to grab it by the wings and pushed down on it as I dragged it to me. Once in range, I retracted my arms once again before pulling the GGD out completely this time.
"GASHOON!"
"Alright, Bird Brain... Let's finish this," I taunted as I turned the dial to it's default position and then back to Perfect Puzzle.
"KIMEWAZA!"
With the announcement and standby noise playing out, I replaced the GGD into it's holster and got into a light fighting stance.
"DUAL GASHAT! PERFECT CRITICAL COMBO!"
The blue and gold energy covered my leg once more as the Nevermore was just now recovering and clearly in a panic as it started to flap it's wings rapidly in an attempt to get airborne; it wouldn't get the chance.
With a roundhouse kick, I knocked the Grimm over onto it's side before unleashing a flurry of blue and gold kicks onto it; hitting it in multiple different parts of it's body before finally ending with another axe kick onto it's neck, thus severing it's head from the body as I cried out, "Shuuen no Ichigeki*!" In a burst of black mist that followed my leg as it retracted back to my body, the Nevermore exploded and was absorbed into my suit.
"All Clear!"
I looked at my level thinking I wouldn't be hitting past twenty once all that essence got absorbed, but to my surprised it climbed all the way to Level 21 with 80% left until Level 22. As the level up announcement played, I sighed in relief before turning back to the others...
Who were just staring at me... Like I'm some kind of monster or freak show...
'Uh oh...' I thought to myself, 'Lucy, you've got some 'splainin' to do...'
)-Third Person PoV-(
Glynda had barely managed to land the Bullhead near the temple when the onslaught came upon the Nevermore; never before had she seen a Grimm dispatched so handidly, especially one that size. Ozpin, however, had other things on his mind as he simply hopped out of the Bullhead. "Is everyone here alright?" he asked.
None of the students had even heard the Bullhead come in and land and almost none of them heard him address them except for Ruby who broke from her trance and ran up to the Headmaster.
"Professor Ozpin, Weiss was hurt by a Grimm attack," she all but blurted, "Her aura was up and everything and it just - it..." She motioned to the young girl laying on the ground. "LOOK!"
He looked at the leg from afar and nodded his head slightly before turning to Ruby. "It seems, Ms. Rose, that you and Ms. Schnee were attacked by a rogue Grimm that had went missing a few days prior; one that had been responsible for a near massacre," he began to say before closing his eyes, " To say that I'm surprised that both of you are still living and only one of you is walking out of here with nothing but a scar while the other is nearly unscathed would be an understatement... You are both to come with me and Professor Goodwitch immediately.
Hearing this snapped Yang out of her thoughts and her voice caused a chain reaction that drew everyone's attention from the stranger. "Hey now hold on! I thought you said 'the teachers weren't going to get involved'? Isn't this exactly what you weren't going to do?"
Glynda glared at the hot-headed blonde before answering her question as curtly as possible, "While that WAS the intention, Ms. Xiao Long, I'm afraid certain circumstances made it too dangerous to leave the students completely unsupervised; that Grimm Professor Ozpin mentioned was only part of the reason we came out here."
"The other happens to be your... saviour I suppose..." came the quick reply of the Headmaster as he looked at the stranger.
"Now then... I don't suppose YOU would be willing to come peacefully and tell us your name, would you?"
)-First Person PoV-(
Crap... Here it is... The Crescendo of all my mess-ups...
I had contemplated just running away but then they would cordon off the entire forest just to find me... Then I remembered Oum's Naming Rule and decided, 'If he wants a name, I'll give him one... just not my real one...'
With that, I turned to him and grabbed the GGD and turned the dial to the default position. "In this form, you may call me Kamen Rider Para-DX... But..." I introduced myself before hitting the button to turn the suit off and return me to my normal, human form. "In this form... you may call me..."
"Dichro Spectrum."
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And there it is; the final chapter of the Pilot arc! This was annoying as hell as well as a LOT of fun to do; I had originally planned on just piling all of this into the previous chapter, but decided against that and so far - I'm happy with it.
Let me know if you like it and until next time...
See you next game!
Ikuze! = roughly "Let's go!"
Shuuen no Ichigeki! = "End of the Line!"