Hello all you Boils and Ghouls! Now that all that bad stuff is out of the way, I just want to tell all those that wished for those of us that were in the way of Hurricane Nate, which petered out before it made landfall, thank you for the well wishes and to let you all know that updates will be slow until I can get into a better predicament...
Sadly, that won't happen until I eventually get a new laptop...
But for now, let's get on with the questions; starting with the missed chapter!
immortal gamer, I cannot make any promises about what will happen when Dichro and Raven meets... But chances are, one of them's not walking out of that conflict alive.
Raidentensho, I am afraid that I have to count the Kamen Rider Build Gashat as a Primary Rider - meaning it will NOT be appearing AT ALL nor will it be mentioned... I am sorry if I misled you otherwise...
And now to the last chapter's questions!
mr . unknow, that is correct; she is almost entirely new. You'll see why I say 'almost' soon enough.
Kamen Rider Chrome, I will say she has a LITTLE bit of Bagamon in her. The rest, however, I will not spoil. You'll have to read on to find out yourself.
Demons Anarchy of Pride, like with mr . unknow and Kamen Rider Chrome, I cannot spoil anything at this time.
Now that that's out of the way, let's start with the disclaimer!
Disclaimer: I only own the mentioned OCs and the Kuroto wannabe. Kamen Rider and RWBY are intellectual properties of their respective owners. Please support the official release.
)-Legend-(
"Yo!" - Speaking
'Is he an idiot?' - Thinking
"Dearest love," - Reading
"Kaishin no Ippatsu!" - Specials
)-CoRRUpT3d PoV-(
Data Log Entry 4
Subject: Another World
Entry Log: My earlier hypothesis was proven incorrect as I have discovered the identity of the Kamen Rider Para-DX that has inhabited this world; it is a young man by the name of Dichro Spectrum. As I searched through the web for any information on him, nothing came up; so I can only assume that his name is an alias. What's more, I managed to view a conversation that revealed incredibly savory enlightenment; he's from an entirely different reality than myself and this world.
Perhaps this can be used to my advantage... But to do that, I need the boy alive for as long as possible; I need to learn and uncover everything about him...
I need his mind...
Perhaps simply having something he had from his original world will do to aid in discovering it?
Data Log Entry 5
Subject: Success or Failure?
Entry Log: Just as I had come to the conclusion that my experiment was a success, one of the prototypes 'perishes' on me! And right as I attempt to dispose of the body, that blasted woman comes in and distracts me from my task with meaningless blather about me aiding her in more ways than I am now. As I was quarreling with her, I hear a noise and discover the creature was, in fact, more than alive - it was trying to escape!
Whatever I made, I now know that my genius was poured into it - making it capable of eluding not only myself and the woman, but all of her supposed 'children' and managed to dig itself underground at implausible speeds!
Wherever it is now... I hope it does what it was programmed to do...
But for now, I must shift my focus on to the other three prototypes! Their gestation is nearing completion and nothing else must interfere with it.
Data Log Entry 6
Subject: Zero Day
Entry Log: My earlier attempt at surveillance via the Gamer Driver has yielded an unwarranted, but not totally unwelcome, side-effect. I can already feel the presence of a new Bugster being born into this world, but it is vastly different than any other I have encountered or created in my past life. As I surmised, there are video games in this world which allows the virus to not only survive, but thrive in their new land. My only regret is that the video games of this world are... VASTLY inferior to my own genius creations...
My only concern is, from what little data I could collect from both the driver and the new Bugster, is that they are also inferior to the games that Dichro is familiar with...
The need to reach his universe is growing rapidly; who knows what beautiful and dangerous wonders I could find there?
)-Meanwhile-(
)-Beacon Academy, JNPR's Dorm-(
)-Third Person PoV-(
Shock and awe was eerily prevalent throughout the room. Everyone present, even the still weak Ruby, was staring at the newcomer with so many thoughts running through their heads, but the most popular ones were 'What does she mean where is she?' and 'How is this possible?'. The newborn Bugster's thoughts, however, were a bit different.
'What am I doing here? Why am I here? What's going on?' she asked herself these questions and more as she looked around in fear and concern, but one question popped into her head more than any other.
'Where's Ruby?'
As she looked around, she saw the young reaper lying in bed sweating and panting as she stares in shock at the newcomer. She couldn't believe that something as adorable as a puppy like the AI of her favorite game was standing there looking like a massive and monstrous mess that's scared of the world around her. Mustering her strength, Ruby slowly but clearly spoke the words, "Hi... there..." The Bugster simply continued to look at her for a few minutes as everyone watched and waited for her reaction. The reaction they got, however, was not what they were expecting, except maybe Dichro since he saw something similar.
"OH MY GOSH, YOU POOR THING!" she exclaimed, her voice sounding similar to auto-tuned vocals, prompting all except the headmasters, the Atlas headmaster stumbling and Ozpin cringed slightly with a raised eyebrow, and Dichro, who slapped his forehead, to fall face-first onto the floor. The Bugster almost skipped to the crimsonette's bedside and knelt down next to her as she said, "You look so ill, what's wrong?"
"Maybe we shouldn't judge her just by hearsay?" Pyrrha suggested as she recovered. Dichro still stared at the Bugster in annoyance as he said, "I never said there weren't exceptions... And it's clear she's one of them." The Ant Faunus snapped his fingers at the Bugster in an attempt to try and get her attention while yelling out, "OI! You with the crane arm!" This spooked the already skittish thing into jumping away from Ruby and into on of the drawers, knocking the whole thing over in the process.
"Ooooh, I'm so sorry..." she apologized quickly as she looked at the damage she had wrought, but the dichromatic young man shook his head before asking her, "What's your name?" At this, the Bugster soon turned rigid before standing upright and saluting with her left arm as she said, "Personal Digital Assistant, Quartz Sapphron, reporting for duty!"
'This is gonna be one of those days, isn't it...' the dichromatic young man thought to himself as he tried to stifle his laughter before he shook his head with his fingers rubbing his chin as he said, "Mhmm... Yeah... Except you're kinda not." The Bugster jumped slightly in surprise as she took the sentence in and asked what he meant by that. He tried to give his reply, but Ozpin beat him to it as he quickly interjected and stated, "You are a creature that was born from a viral infection that has begun to wreak havoc on Ms. Rose's body... Whether or not she can be cured is unknown..."
"Of course she can!" Dichro nearly shouted out, "There are two ways to cure her; the first is to um... Well... Kinda destroy the Bugster..." As everyone else save for the headmasters, and Quartz who was listening, started to state their disapproval of this method, Dichro once more took the moment to impose what he wanted to say, "Now hold up! There IS another way, but that one's a bit trickier." As they calmed down, everyone looked to each other as if asking the same question; a question that the young man took full responsibility for answering.
"We have to find a way to clear her game."
"But you destroyed Ruby's scroll!" Jaune stated, "How are we supposed to clear her game?"
"The scroll was never important," was all Dichro gave in retort before he walked up to Quartz and patted her arm, "What's important is we have her still around... Otherwise... There's no telling how things will go. What's more is that clearing a game without killing a certain Bugster requires THAT Bugster's Gashat..." At seeing everyone's confused expressions, Dichro explained that a gashat was what the GGD is, except smaller and was used in the device they found earlier which he told them was a Gamer Driver.
"So that's the Gamer Driver, huh?" James finally voiced out as he took the device from Dichro, who still had it in his hand as he ran to the room, and investigated it, "I never thought something so tacky could be so powerful and dangerous."
Nora's color seemed to literally drain as her body started to gray out. Her thoughts were muddled with self-blame; her face belied this as Ren put a hand on her shoulder and spoke a soft "You couldn't have known, Nora," to her as he looked down sadly at his long-time friend. "He's right; nobody but me could have known, and even then I'm STILL not sure I know how," was all Dichro said as the color returned to the carrot-top girl's body along with a smile and a nod.
"I think our best course of action at the moment," Ozpin began as he sighed, "Is to simply try and keep an eye on Quartz and Ruby for the time being..."
"With all due respect, Ozpin..." James began, "I have a request to make of Mr. Spectrum. I wish to -"
"Take the Gamer Driver back to Atlas to have it studied, right?" Dichro immediately finished, shocking a nod out of the general before he continued, "I'm fine with that because we may need more than one of those, but you keep that damnable thing under lock and key ten times over until the first copy has been made, got it? Otherwise, there's no telling what kind of outbreak is going to happen!" At this, the Atlas headmaster agreed willingly to these terms as he had already planned on ensuring only the best of the best were allowed to even look at pictures of the device. As he started to leave, he looked back and noticed Quartz turn back to the bedridden young girl before he turned to Ozpin as he asked, "Do you have any plans as to what to do about her?"
"I haven't the slightest, James..." was the reply he got from his fellow headmaster whom started to leave the room. At this, the iron general shook his head in disbelief as he muttered, "I'll be damned... The impossible has actually happened," before finally leaving the room with the device in hand.
As this was going on, Quartz was once more kneeling next to Ruby and was trying to bring up small conversation. "Say, little one... What's your name?" she asked the tired and ill girl who smiled softly and replied that her name was Ruby. "Ruby..." Quartz repeated, "I knew a guy named Ruby, once; he kept putting defense turrets slap in the middle of the civilian districts and bringing his knights out into the wilds where they don't work at all -"
"Quartz," Ruby giggled weakly, interrupting her, "That was me."
The poor Bugster jumped in surprised and cried out, "What?! I thought Ruby was a GUY'S name!" This brought the young reaper into a fit of laughter that quickly converted into a fit of hacking and coughing that caught her half-sister's attention. "Easy there, sis," Yang spoke softly, "You still need rest... And just to make it easier, I'll lay off the puns until you can kick this in the bucket."
Coughing lightly, Ruby gave a weak, yet coy, smile as she said, "That just makes me want to stay sick..." The blonde brawler couldn't help but chuckle as she patted her sister's shoulder as she told her, "Whatever makes you sleep, Rubes... Just try to rest up, okay?" At the crimsonette's affirmative nod, Yang smiled and turned to Quartz and motioned for her to follow as she left the room. As they did, the members of Team JNPR along with Dichro and the remaining members of Team RWBY followed them, though Quartz DID have difficulty squeezing through the frame as she left JNPR's dorm and entered RWBY's. Upon doing so, however, Yang was the first to speak up, "Well I think now's as good a time as any to 'spark' a conversation."
At this, everyone but Dichro and Quartz groaned with the former of the two chuckling and the latter being confused. "You won't get it at first," the Ant Faunus explained, "Puns are more of an acquired taste." At this, Yang scoffed before saying, "Anyway, I think we should try to get ourselves introduced to our new friend here," as she sat on Blake's bunk, to which said girl rolled her eyes at and leaned against the wall next to their beds while Weiss sat down on her bunk; a look of unadulterated awe and curiosity at their new guest finally making itself known. "I think I'll go first..." Pyrrha suggested as she held her hand up, "My name is Pyrrha Nikos, and I hope to be your friend, Quartz."
"The name's Nora! If you like destroying things, then we are gonna be the bestest of friends! If not, then we can still be best friends, at least..."
"Ignore her antics until you can get used to them..." Ren said with a small smirk as he laid a hand on a pouting Nora's shoulder, "My name is Lie Ren, but please - call me Ren."
The introductions continued as such, with a slightly distracted intro from the still curious heiress, until they eventually came up to Dichro. The young man turned to their new Bugster acquaintance and said, "Name's Dichro Spectrum, and I'm the walking invocation of Murphy's Law..."
"What the heck is Murphy's Law?" Nora asked innocently. The dichromatic young man sighed as he stated, "Long story short, anything and everything that CAN go wrong WILL go wrong." At this, the room's occupants gave a shared "Ohhh..." at the revelation.
"Anyway, I think it's time to -" he began to say but was interrupted by several stomachs growling, "... Find something to eat..." At this, he nervously chuckled as he looked around the room with similar expressions to his own. "But how are we going to hide the fact that we have a seven foot amalgamation of buildings from the school?" was the question that Blake brought to light. As the group thought on this, Dichro suggested that Team JNPR go on ahead to the mess hall without the others, though that got shot down by Pyrrha and Nora, but then suggested to send someone to get food for the rest of them and telling the mess hall staff a half truth; that one of the teams' members is ill and that they don't want to leave her alone for too long. Taking this as a challenge, Nora quickly ran out of the room without bothering to take anyone's orders, while Ren simply asked what everyone wanted and wrote it down before quickly leaving to follow suit.
"Now that they're gone..." Dichro said as he sat down onto the floor and crossed his arms, "We need to think of something to do with Quartz here... Simply dressing her up is out of the question - she's too obvious not to notice." As everyone began to think on what to do, Quartz suddenly jumped up in excitement shouting, "I GOT IT - OOF!" Clonking her head on the ceiling on the way up and rubbing it once she landed, the Bugster groaned as she said, "Why not just simply call me a pet or a robot servant?"
"Made out of buildings?" Weiss asked skeptically, to which Jaune continued, "Sorry, but even I'm not that dumb." Whimpering in defeat, Quartz hung her head low as she sat back onto the floor which caused the room to shake a little as well as Ruby's bed to suddenly collapse on top of Weiss and her bed.
"GAH! Get me out of here!" the heiress practically demanded as she struggled to lift the bed off her in vain. Quartz tried to rush to her aid, but tripped on her own foot and broke the beds in four as she crashed straight through them. "NOT YOU, YOU BIG OAF!"
"Sorry..." was all Quartz muttered as she stood back up and lifted the half of Ruby's bed that Weiss was under with one hand. As the heiress stood up and got off the now ruined bed, she took in the overall damage as anger started to fill her; rage building within as she voiced her disapproval, "HRRRRRN! Look at what you've done, you clutz! Who's going to pay for the damage to school property?!"
"Weiss, that's enough! You're scaring her!" Yang called out as she got up and marched toward the heiress whom simply huffed as she crossed her arms. Weiss turned to the blonde brawler and retorted, "She deserves to be told off because of what she did!"
"She doesn't know any better so just cut her some slack!" Yang argued back. The bickering kept going on until they heard Pyrrha suddenly cry out Quartz' name along with a strange shimmering sound. As they turned to look at where the Bugster was, all they saw was orange pixels flying out the room straight through the still-closed window.
"NOW look at what you've done!" Yang said as she motioned to the spot the Bugster was. Weiss gasped in shock and ask "What I've done?!"
"You were the one who yelled at what was effectively a newborn," Blake pointed out in a dry manner. The heiress rounded her sights on the Cat Faunus and questioned if she was now trying to gang up on her. At this, Dichro growled out a simple, "Shut up, ALL of you!" Yang could feel his rage and concern building up as he said this and chose to simply obey the command, but Weiss couldn't tell as she demanded to know why she should listen to him at all when he was the one responsible for this mess in the first place.
"For the same reason you have to listen to Ruby; I'm still the acting captain of BOTH Teams RWBY AND JNPR, and I'm pulling rank HERE and NOW!"
No one said a thing after he made that declaration. He looked between all of the members currently present before speaking up again, "Do ANY of you know what is happening right now?!"
"A poor, innocent creature is lost and alone with no one to fall back on..." Pyrrha softly said, but a quick "No" from Dichro put her into a cringe. "What just happened," Dichro explained, "Is that an innocent, newborn creature, with a threat level index beyond ANY Grimm, has just teleported to who knows where and we haven't the faintest idea on where she is! As it is, she could LITERALLY be ANYWHERE on Remnant AS WE SPEAK!" This bit of news shocked all currently present as Weiss blurted out, "Then how in the name of Oum are we supposed to find her?!"
As she said this, Dichro pulled his jacket open to reveal the GGD still tucked away inside. "With this," he began, "I believe I have the best shot at finding her. This version of Kamen Rider was designed specifically to combat Bugsters... So there has to be a tracking method on it somewhere..." 'Even if they never had it nor shown it in the show,' he added internally as he pulled the device out. "Where are you going to even start?" Blake questioned before being told that Vale was as good a place as any to start by her partner. "Then what about the rest of us?" Pyrrha asked worriedly, to which the Ant Faunus shook his head dismissively and said, "Someone needs to be here for both Ruby when she wakes up and Quartz if she happens to find her way back."
With that, he turned the dial to Perfect Puzzle and pressed the button with a quick cry of "Henshin!", the screen image of the Puzzle Gamer form appeared.
"DUAL UP!"
As the screen washed over him, the familiar blue, red, and gold armor formed over his body as he transformed into Para-DX's Puzzle Gamer Form.
"GET THE GLORY IN THE CHAIN! PERFECT PUZZLE!"
"If any of the professors besides Ozpin ask..." the Kamen Rider stated as he holstered the GGD, "Let them know I'm out on Kamen Rider business." And with that, he walked up to and opened the window before jumping out with his arms and legs tucked into his body in a roll. His landing, however, was even less graceful than his dive as he bounced off the ground before landing on his back and yelping in pain and shock.
"I'm okay!" he called up to the others who stared in shock and horror as he got back up and ran off towards Vale.
It is said to this day that if you listen carefully you can still hear the sound of the Schnee heiress' loudest facepalm.
)-Meanwhile-(
The Valean Natural Park was quite the hot spot when it came to visitors. Hike trails, picnic areas, a vast man-made lake and a few scattered memorials and statues here and there make it worth a stop or two; there were even a few designated sparring areas for Hunters to train. The people bustling here kept themselves busy in as many ways as they saw fit with all kinds of outdoor activities such as jogging, kite flying, and even simply napping and reading. Overall, the park was a vastly peaceful, if abundantly active, place to relax
All this changed, however, when a swirl of orange pixels suddenly swarmed the center of one of the in-use arenas, interrupting its combatants as they jump backwards from the swarming cloud that formed into an amalgam of buildings with a TV head. At seeing this creature, both huntresses-in-training screamed in horror and each ran in the opposite direction of the creature as if their lives depended on it.
"Did I... interrupt something?" Quartz asked herself aloud as she looked at the park and the people either running or staring at her in fear. As she walked around the park, she waved at anyone who was brave enough to walk up to her before having to watch as they ran in fear of her. Each time she saw this, she sighed sadly as she continued to walk blindly through the park.
She eventually came up to a bench with a young couple kissing each other every so often and leaning onto each other the rest of the time. As she came up from behind them, she spoke softly and asked, "Excuse me, but do you know where I am currently?" One of the couple spoke up as they started to turn to her, "Oh you don't know you're in the Valea-AAAAAAGH!" As they screamed, their partner looked at what they were looking at and ran screaming as said partner followed suit. "Awww... I was just trying to be nice..." Quartz whispered as she sat down on the bench the couple had abandoned, "Kinda like how Ruby was nice... Poor girl was more ill than a rotted corpse and she was still sweet even if I couldn't talk to her much..." That's when a thought hit her; she was the cause of her 'friend's' illness and that her destruction meant that Ruby would be cured. She looked at her hands as she thought, 'No one will want to be friends with a monster like me... Even if I wanted them to... So if I can't be friends... Maybe I can at least be a good enemy? That way, they'd HAVE to try and cure Ruby!'
"Then that does it; I have to find a way to make myself into a bad guy!" she proclaimed to no one in particular, but then flinched as she corrected herself, "Er... Bad girl, I mean! Sorry!"
With her quest in mind, she got back up with renewed vigor and made her way to...
The exact opposite exit of where Vale City is...
"Oh C'MON!"
)-xXx-(
Well there you have it; Quartz Sapphron has entered and left the building! And in the wrong direction, I might add - HEY GET BACK HERE!
Er, I have to catch up with her before she gets into trouble before the next chapter, so until next time, See you next game!