Hello all you Boils and Ghouls!

I see some of you are actually surprised about Dichro being a Faunus. Well if you look back, you can see all the clues that point to the fact that he wasn't human when he first picked up the GGD. That being said, one of you got it in one go and deserve a commendation. Before I get into the questions, there is one question that has been brought up continuously that must be addressed now and forevermore...

"Will the Gashat Gear Dual Beta be in the story?"

The short answer...

No...

The long answer...

I have no godly idea how to answer to that; the story up until now has been more of a bunch of spur of the moment decisions with a singular goal in mind. I don't know why it's working but it is and I am glad of it, but please belay this question until I come to a clearer understanding of the plot overall. As for other Gashats... I can now say that there are TWO Gashats that WILL BE appearing later on in the story, but not in the immediate future. Those Gashats are...

"MIGHTY BROTHERS DOUBLE X!"

"Kamen Rider Chronicle!"

I hope that answers your questions on the matter, but we still have other questions and reviews to get to. Let's go, shall we?

Raidentensho, you may want to sit down for this because it's going to take a while for me to get done with the calculations... *goes outside to get a calculator and tries to estimate how much 20 tonnes is*... FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND POUNDS?! Holy crap, that'd be incredibly OP! Oh right, the other questions! Ahem... I cannot answer your Pyrrha question as it would spoil too much. I will say, however, that it won't be TOO much different than cannon except for Pyrrha living.

Ride player hary... Alas, Emu will only be in a filler chapter which won't be for another few chapters; what this means is officially, he won't exist in the story except in this one chapter.

Demons Anarchy of Pride, I can assure you that they are not confusing his Rider form for his armor-less form. The clues to him being a Faunus are scattered throughout the previous chapters. As for who this will be a headache for... I'm gonna go D. all of the above. XD

Mind Master, you are literally flattering me, but all I'm doing is just writing something that I, myself, would enjoy reading. "If you build it, they will come." This is a quote that applies even to arts like cooking, drawing, and yes - even writing. Now, onto your questions...

1) He is already infected with two different strands of the virus but he hasn't shown any of the symptoms he has described yet.

2) As funny as that will be, I am not sure I can slip it past my 'betas' in order to get away with it. XD

3) Funnily enough, I had planned on them falling straight through the energy items when they try to grab them.

4) Dichro will only have the forms granted to him via the Gashat Gear Dual, I'm afraid... The story is practically built around Kamen Rider Para-DX and the Time Paradox he created.

And finally, a warning: I don't want anyone to get into trouble so I would kindly like to ask not to post more than two reviews per chapter. Anything more will get removed to ensure no one gets into trouble for abusing the review section. I do this because certain people, I won't say who, have been leaving multiple reviews with messages complaining about autocomplete and autocorrect... I can understand the frustration here, but do keep in mind that I'm not one to accept people getting into trouble over trivial things like that.

I hope that you all have enjoyed the story thus far and will continue to enjoy it throughout this new chapter.

)-Legend-(

"Yo!" - Speaking

'Is he an idiot?' - Thinking

"Dearest love," - Reading

"Kaishin no Ippatsu!" - Specials

)-Third Person PoV-(

The remainder of the day had passed with little incident aside from Team JNPR being told of their situation of lacking a leader as well as announcing all the new teams for the new year; as such, they were also notified of Dichro being a sort of 'overseer' for both them and Team RWBY.

Needless to say, a carrot topped, hammer swinging ball of energy was greatly against this at first; claiming that she would "pop some skulls" and "break some legs" if she didn't get an answer as to why their team didn't have a leader of their own. When told about the circumstances of Dichro's appearance as well as the fact that his identity as a Kamen Rider was to remain a secret, she reluctantly agreed. Team RWBY were also held to the same stipulation that they keep Dichro's identity as Para-DX a secret; to which they agreed immediately.

Lacking space in either dorm, Dichro requested to sleep in the hall as he had been used to sleeping outside; much to both teams' chagrin, save for Weiss and in some part Blake since they understood why, as no one wanted to see someone have to sacrifice like that just for the sake of comfort.

The next day came as the bi-colored teen yawned as he stretched, waking up to see the sun had barely started to rise. 'Typical...' he thought as he stood up, 'Sleep in a forest for three nights and you'll never wake up late again...' Looking around, he tried to discern just what time it was, but couldn't find a clock anywhere nearby; not that he was looking all that hard anyway. Deciding that it would be better if he stayed productive, he chose to do some simple and quiet exercises in the form of push-ups, crunches, and squats. Needless to say, he found out all too soon that there was an early riser amongst Team RWBY, and it was the last person he expected - Yang Xiao Long, whom had caught him in the middle of one of his squats as she giggled. This caught the teen by surprise as he blushed and bolted upright before he turned to face her as she asked, "What are you doing?"

)-First Person PoV-(

Of all the people to be an early riser... Why, oh gods, did it HAVE to be YANG!? I was in the middle of my forty-sixth squat when I heard her giggle behind me and ask what I was doing. I practically jumped in my skin with the heat rushing to my face as I stood up and turned around to catch her in her PJ's; a simple orange tank top with her burning heart emblem in red right smack in the middle and black, low-cut shorts that may as well have been underwear. I turned away embarrassed even more at the sight before I nervously replied, "I w-was simply doing some m-morning exercises..." It always embarrassed me when any of my siblings or my mom caught me doing any of my morning exercises let alone the ones Yang caught me doing; I never could explain why though...

Guess I just was never too fond of showing off.

Anyway, I asked her; while still looking away from her, if there was a reason she was up early since Ozpin gave the new teams an extra day off to get acquainted with each other. Her reply got me off guard, however...

"I'm normally up before Ruby, and she's an early bird," she started off, "Someone has to keep her in line while we're here. Besides, I wanted to get a head start on knowing someone else on the team." Hoo boy... This is not going to be fun. I was still trying not to look at her even when she asked me, "See anything you like?" I hid my face in my hands in a groan of sorrow which prompted Yang to laugh a little before I punched either side of my head. Evidently, this wasn't what Ms. Punsalot expected as she asked if everything was alright.

)-Third Person PoV-(

She couldn't help it - she loved seeing guys squirm when they were around her and she hadn't had them in some vice grip or anything. Seeing Dichro continuously try to look away from her simply made her laugh because it meant her own charms were working... At least she thought they were as she posed with a hand on her hip and one holding her head with the elbow resting on the wall as she asked, "See anything you like?" She laughed and smiled a little as she saw him cover his face and groan but that laughter and smile vanished as she saw him punch himself as hard as he could. "Whoa, hold on there - you alright?" she asked with concern as she thought, for once, that she overstepped a boundary she didn't want to.

He sighed sadly as he closed his eyes and replied, "Not really... I just... was reminded of home just now..."

'So that's what's up, huh?' she thought to herself as she put a hand on his shoulder. "Dude, look..." she started, "If you wanna talk about it, I've got more than one ear open... At least I think I do." She play-picked her ear as she said this last bit before smiling and saying, "Yup, both ears are working."; popping the 'p' sound as she said "Yup".

"Thanks... I just..." he hesitated as he thought of what to say. "I have an older sister and brother who are twins and... well they tend to make things as awkward as possible. They always called it 'Twinsanity', and one of the things they would do was that my sister would just bound right in, nothing but her underwear, and hug me from behind while I was doing something shouting 'Good Morning' as loud as she could before my brother would come in and say something that got me teased by my sister... They'd always ruffle my hair because I'd never look at her when she does that before leaving me to my misery afterwords." He gave a sad smile as he looked up at the roof before continuing. "They always played pranks and jokes whenever they had the chance... Makes me miss them..."

"What happened to them?" she asked. Dichro simply shrugged as he said, "Beats the bananas outta me; one minute I'm going to bed, thinking of my baby sister's birthday party, and the next I find myself waking up in the Emerald Forest..." Though he left out the fact that his appearance changed along with his height since that would only arouse more suspicion.

This brought an angry rise out of the blonde brawler as her violet eyes turned red and her aura started to flare up before speaking, "You were kidnapped?!"

"How else would you explain it?" he simply asked her. This caused the young woman to suddenly drop her aura as her violet eyes returned before asking what he meant. "What I mean is how do you explain how I got to that forest when I was asleep when I'm from outside the four kingdoms?" Her anger was now vanishing as confusion seeped into her conscious. "I..." she started but was interrupted by a now smiling Dichro.

"Either way, I'm here and not home... So I'd best make the most of it... Right?"

That question sounded so much like her own life choices; to just go wherever the wind takes her and just deal with things as they come. That was part of why she wanted to be a Huntress in the first place; the freedom of going wherever her whim takes her and to do some good along the way. "I guess, but... It's still not right." she stated as she shook her head.

"Is it any less wrong if I wasn't looking for someone to help in the first place?" he asked, catching her off guard as she raised an eyebrow. "Whadaya mean 'you weren't lookin' for someone to help'?" she asked, "Were you TRYIN' to avoid everyone?"

"In a sense..." Dichro started, "Yes, I was... Sadly, events I put into play put everyone at risk so I had to intervene... You can see how that turned out."

'There's no arguing that,' she thought to herself, 'if he hadn't been there, then Ruby would've... I don't even want to think about that...'

"By the way..." the dichromatic boy said, interrupting her musings, "I need to ask a favor of you... A really BIG one..."

This caught her attention as she went on high alert internally, thinking he was going to try and take advantage of her for saving Ruby; he may have saved her life, but she won't just give him something like that for free. "And that would be...?" she asked cautiously as her eyes narrowed at him.

"You wouldn't happen to know the ritual for unlocking one's aura... would you?"

Her eyebrows did a good impersonation of her hair as they went up and hid in it. "Er... yeah?" she more asked than answered but proceeded anyway. "Why...?"

She could see he was nervous about something as he fiddled with his thumbs and lightly blushed. "I'd... Like you to perform it on me..." Her eyes widened in shock at this which was soon washed away in a wave of relief.

'That's it?' she asked internally, 'That's what he's asking for in return? Jeez, now I kinda feel bad for thinking he wanted to do something else... He really must not have anyone here he can really trust.'

'I really hope I haven't stepped over any lines I wasn't supposed to...' were the worried thoughts of the hallways' only other occupant. His thoughts were interrupted as he heard the reply, "Sooner said than done, kiddo... But I have to make sure; is this what you want? You're not gonna go tryin' to make a scene out of it or back out and find someone else, will you?"

He shook his head at first, thinking she was referring to the latter question but then nodded vigorously as he realized she was still talking about if he was sure about this. "Then... You're gonna have to look at me for a few minutes..." she told him. His eyes opened wide in shock before he closed them and shook his head. Yang by this point was getting to the limit of her patience before remembering what he had said. 'Is he... afraid of looking at me like this?' she asked herself before deciding to try another approach.

"Okay, you don't have to look at me but you have to at least face me; otherwise this won't be good for either of us..." she explained.

She got a nod as Dichro turned to face her, his 'hairs' twitching a little as she closed the distance and sat him down with herself following. She placed a hand on each shoulder and closed her eyes as she rested her forehead against his; her aura materialized around her and moved to envelop Dichro. 'I haven't done this, even for Ruby...' she thought in concern but pushed forward with the hope that she would do it right as she began the incantation.

"For it is in passing that we achieve immortality... "

Her words echoing in his mind as both of them felt an oddly pleasant chill run down their spines before a warmth began to build within their chests.

"Through this, we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all..."

The aura around Dichro began to change from it's yellow color to a vibrant red and dark blue, almost spiral in it's patterning.

"Infinite in distance and unbound by death, I release your soul, and by my shoulder, protect thee."

Between them formed a single, thread-like golden aura that stretched until it touched where their hearts were as their aura's slowly faded. As they both opened their eyes, their first sight was the golden thread that lingered, even after their aura faded, for a few moments before it, too, vanished. Too enthralled by what had happened, they stared wide-eyed at the space where the thread had been before the bi-colored boy blushed and turned to the side. Yang looked up at him in surprise and saw that his scratches were healing up rapidly. "Whoa..." Yang whispered to herself, the image of the golden thread still fresh in her mind.

"Wh-What does that mean...?"

The blonde brawler shook her head and looked at her dichromatic friend before asking what he meant. "That thing," he replied nervously, "the one that was... y'know... on our chests. What does that mean?" She shrugged lightly before shaking her head in a negative as she said, "Not sure..."

"Well..." Dichro began, "You need to get back inside; I'm sure more than one member of your team's an early riser..." At this, she felt something building inside she rarely felt, if ever; embarrassment. Embarrassment over what, she didn't know, but what she did know was that it didn't feel like it was her own. She chuckled lightly and patted Dichro's shoulder before saying, "If that's your way of telling me to get dressed, I'll be right back out. Besides, we have to stop by Vale City and get you some clothes or something."

"Yeah, and maybe a haircut..." was his reply as he tugged at one of the "hairs". Seeing this made Yang flinch as she got up before she turned to the door of her team's dorm and went back inside.

)-First Person PoV-(

'I wonder what that was all about...?' I mused as I thought about the incident that just occurred...

I looked down at my arms to find all the scratches from when I was in the forest healed up right fast, so I knew my aura was now active at least; the only problem left was learning how to use it. I suggested to myself that maybe pulling a page out of Mr. Miyagi's book would do me some good. I sat cross-legged on the floor with my hands on my knees as I closed my eyes and slowed my breathing. Trying to clear my mind, the scene with the thread kept appearing in my head and the more I tried to push it out the more I kept thinking of it. Eventually, I gave up trying to push it out and instead focused solely on that thread. 'What does that mean?' I asked myself, 'I've never seen it in the actual show; especially since it never happened with Jaune and Pyrrha... So then... why did it happen with me and Yang? Do we...' My musings were cut short when I suddenly felt... frustration? Why was I frustrated? I was only confused for the time being, and now I'm suddenly frustrated at Blake for some reason...

This is going to get confusing really fast...

)-Meanwhile-(

)-Third Person PoV-(

Blake had woken up and looked around the room after rubbing her yes to find that Yang had run off somewhere. Thinking she had gone to the bathroom, the young faunus woman decided now might be a good time to catch up on some reading until Ruby and Weiss woke up. Reaching the nearby dresser, she opened the top drawer and pulled out a black book with pinkish-red cursive writing that read "Ninjas of Love". The series was her favorite to read, despite the negative connotations it's gotten, simply because she could relate to the character's issues. She opened the book up and read a few of the passages before the room door opened up; revealing a confused blonde-haired girl in her PJ's. She looked up at her partner with a raised eyebrow and asked, "Is something the matter?"

"Wha? Nah~!" Yang replied halfheartedly as she asked, "What makes you think that?"

"The fact that you're denying something's wrong and that you just came back in from doing something with Dichro," she stated in a deadpanned voice before genuinely asking in concern, "What happened out there? Did he tell you anything?"

"Only that he was basically kidnapped in the middle of the night from his sibs and dropped smack in the middle of the forest 4 days ago..."

Blake's eyes widened in shock and horror. The fact that someone would just kidnap someone else like that wasn't all that alien, so she would have understood it if he had been kept as a slave or as some sort of ransom; but kidnapping someone just to leave them in the middle of a Grimm-infested forest was a whole other level of unusual.

"Why would someone do that?" she asked; her only reply being a shrug of her partners' shoulders. "Did... Did something else happen?" She was morbidly curious; the one day she's spent around Yang, she could tell the girl was as open as a well-read book yet here she was walking around like a lost puppy. 'Was she taken advantage of?' she thought before her partner finally spoke.

"... Yeah... Something... Odd..." When asked how odd, Yang continued, "He asked me to unlock his aura, but it doesn't get odd there. Before that, he wouldn't even look at me."

"Maybe it's because you're half naked in front of a guy?" The blonde brawler mock-laughed at Blake before speaking again.

"Very funny, Blake... But that was when I learned he has family back where he came from and after that, he asked me if I could unlock his aura. I said 'Yeah, I can' so I did the thing and then this... weird thing happened."

The cat faunus' eyebrows shot upward in shock before she asked, "What weird thing?"

"I dunno!" Yang replied, grabbing one of her outfits from the closet before continuing, "It was like I felt something in my chest; not heartburn, mind you - that would have hurt. This didn't. Anyway, when I looked down to see what was going on, there was like this 'string'..."

"A string?!" Blake asked almost too excitedly.

"Yeah, it was kinda like coming out of my chest and Dichro's at the same time..."

"What color was it?" Blake inquired. Externally she was still in shock, but internally she was screaming like a bloody school girl. 'I swear if it was gold, then I am NOT going to be reading Ninjas of Love for a LONG time,' she thought to herself.

"Um... I think it was like... Gold or something... Why?" That did it as Blake's hands covered her mouth to hide her small gasp. She couldn't believe it; her own partner was going to be the center of a rare phenomenon. 'I don't believe it!' she exclaimed in her mind as it was running a thousand miles an hour.

"Blake? Was that a bad thing?" She got a negative as Blake shook her head side-to-side. "Was it a 'good' thing?" This time, she didn't immediately get a reply.

"I'm not telling," was Blake's response. This made Yang frustrated at her partner as she stared in disbelief. "What's THAT supposed to mean?" she asked, "What are you hiding?"

"If you don't know already, you'll have to find out on your own," Blake said as she gave a small smile and pretended to resume reading her book. The blonde brawler merely frowned and growled lowly at Blake before going into the bathroom, holding her outfit, and closing the door to change. The cat faunus simply smirked as she looked at the bathroom door and thought, 'Yang, you have no idea how lucky you are... Finding your soulmate is no easy task.'

)-Later-(

)-First Person PoV-(

Man... Today was... Weird...

First, Yang unlocks my aura and we saw this golden string on our chests... Then when both teams came out, I started getting these weird looks from everyone. It started out with Blake who almost looked giddy everytime she looked at me; then Yang eyes me up every now and then like she's just as directionally challenged as I am in where this was going; then, after talking to Blake, Nora starts giving me the stink eye... Meanwhile, Ruby, Weiss, Ren and Jaune look at me like I'm supposed to be some sort of performer and Pyrrha... well... Pyrrha's the only one who hadn't looked at me unless she was talking directly to me, namely because I think her mind was wandering elsewhere...

The actual shopping was... embarrassing!

People thought I was Red's little brother or something! I couldn't go anywhere without being called "cute" or "short", I couldn't find anything even halfway 'decent' in terms of size and comfort because half the time Ruby or Nora would tell me it looks bad; like they have any room to talk, and the other half was because the clothes were either too big, were child sizes, or too expensive; afterall, I had no money. I mean yeah, Weiss DID offer to pay for the clothes, but I wasn't going to be that snark little leech that just rings her bill sky-high... Eventually I just gave up and said I was going back to Beacon. Yang followed me because she was going to be bored if she stayed so... yay me... That started a chain reaction which got Blake following because she, and I quote, "Wanted to see how it would turn out", Ruby following out of loyalty to her big sis, then Weiss following because she had to keep Ruby in check... And then Jaune followed because of Elsa, and then the rest of Team JNPR soon after...

It was good to be back in Beacon...

When we got to the dorm, I rummaged through one of the drawers on the dresser near the door and found a pair of scissors which I grabbed and carried with me to the bathroom.

"If anyone needs me, I'm cutting my hair," I told everyone. The only reply I got was Weiss saying, "Don't leave the hairs in the sink, please. And if they fall on the floor, pick them up!"

I closed the door behind me and turned to the mirror on the wall before tugging down one of the long hairs that was on my forhead. The other one twitched for a moment, or at least looked like it to me, but I shrugged it off and brought the now open scissors to it near the same length as the rest of my hair before I heard something outside and started to feel... Panic?

"He's doing WHAT!?"

At that moment, I heard the door burst wide open as Blake and Yang, both with expressions that would look more at home on someone watching a gorey horror flic...

"Wha - What are you doing!?" Blake was the one to ask this. I simply looked at her like she had grown a third head before replying, "Cutting my hair?" Both girls looked at each other in wide-eyed shock before turning back to me. "Dichro..." Yang called out cautiously. "What... do you think you are?"

"A human. A really stubby human, mind you..." I replied, "But a human nonetheless."

"H-How..." the neko started to say before she shook her head and turned back to me. "Nevermind... Dichro, do you remember what happened on the Bullhead to Beacon from the Emerald Forest - How you dented that metal armrest?" As she asked this, I vaguely remembered it but nodded regardless; still lost by what was going on.

"Even among Faunus, that kind of raw strength is rare without a semblance." she explained somewhat slowly. Again, I nodded dumbly as she continued. "It's almost impossible for a human who hadn't had his aura unlocked to be able to have that much strength, let alone someone of your... stature..."

"So... what, you think I have a semblance before I had my aura unlocked?" I asked. She shook her head and continued. "That's impossible; for without access to one's aura, one's semblance would forever remain hidden... What I mean is... You're not human." I glared at her as my eyes began to narrow. "What do you mean, 'I'm not human'?" I asked almost threateningly. I swear if she calls me a freak alien... Well the alien part would be right, but the freak part I won't put up with.

"You're... an Ant Faunus..." This caught me by surprise as I stared wide-eyed at her once more before Yang spoke up, though I wish she hadn't.

"You weren't about to cut off hair... You were about to cut off your antennae!"

At that realization... I couldn't take anymore... Everything just suddenly turned... Black.

xXx

Sorry for the cliffhanger, folks, but I wanted this to go out before I took a true break from the story; I also wish to apologize for the lack of any action thus far but I can assure you it will be coming soon. Until then...

See ya next game!