Hello all you Boils and Ghouls, and welcome to the OFFICIAL twentieth chapter of the Paradox of Remnant! Before we begin, I wish to give a shout out to all those that have aided this story in some way; either by reviewing it or sending well wishes during my troubling times, sending ideas for the story or just simply reading it. On the issue regarding Quartz Sapphron, I have only this to say; 'SHE IS NOT GOING TO DIE!'
She will be getting a human form, so she'll be a student of Beacon.
Also on a side note, I know his name is 'Burgermon', but that sounds too much like a fan-made digimon's name, so I'm just going to refer to him as Bagamon.
All in all, I have a lot planned for this story and will continue to update it as much as I can. Please keep your hopes high and attention active, and remember; If you build it, they will come! Also please remember that updates will continue to be slow as I'm trying to be careful not to corrupt any of my files again... I already lost part of this chapter twice... Now to move onto the Disclaimer before we finally open the chapter to the story!
Disclaimer: Dichro Spectrum, Quartz Sapphron, the Kuroto Wannabe, and any other OC mentioned here are the only things the author owns. Kamen Rider and RWBY are the intellectual properties of their respective owners; please support the official release. Also, please excuse the potentially poor quality of this chapter...
Now that I've done what I came here for, please enjoy the story and I bid you farewell...
)-Legend-(
"Yo!" - Speaking
'Is he an idiot?' - Thinking
"Dearest love," - Reading
"Kaishin no Ippatsu!" - Specials
)-Earlier-(
)-Just Outside Beacon Academy Main Avenue-(
)-Third Person PoV-(
Under normal circumstances, the Main Avenue of Beacon Academy would be bustling with students coming and going to the carriers and Bullheads in order to leave for Vale City, but on this rather lazy day the normally busy avenue was void of students and even staff save for the occasional guard or two. One such guard, wearing a simple dark-blue polo with black pants, shoes and fingerless gloves, was just passing one of his assigned sections to keep an eye on the area around him.
"Man, this sure beats that job I had back in Atlas..." the man said as he walked on, chuckling to himself in the process, "I was freezing my butt off up there." As he continued to walk, he heard a strange noise behind one of the lamp posts. "Wazzat?" he asked no one in particular as he walked cautiously towards the post in question. As he looked behind hit, all he could see was a small hole just barely wide enough for him to slip his fist into, but deep enough to shove his entire arm if it could fit.
"Now what in the name of Remnant did this?" he asked himself as he continued to investigate the hole. Another noise interrupted his thoughts, however; a slight chirping noise. As he looked around for the source, he couldn't find anything - yet the noise sounded as if it was right next to him. Eventually, he looked down at the ground near where he thought the noise was coming from...
He never saw what threw the blob of white at him, but, as he fell backwards onto the ground from the impact force, there was no mistaking that it was sticking to his skin; leaving only his mouth and nose safe from it before he started to feel his legs and arms being bound in the same way. 'Oh no! Oh sweet Oum, no!' he cried out in his head, 'This is it; whatever Grimm snuck in here is going to make a meal out of me!' And with that, he started to struggle against his bindings in a vain attempt to escape his presumably inevitable fate.
Yet as he struggled, nothing came. He heard the chirping noise, already muffled by the webbing covering his ears getting quieter by the second until he couldn't hear it anymore. By that time, the bindings around his arms and legs were firmly glued to the ground, preventing him from sitting up.
"Uh... Hello?! Anyone there?!" he called out to whoever was around to hear, which incidentally was no one, "A lil' help here! Please?!"
)-Back at Team RWBY's Dorm-(
Recovering from the shock and stupor caused by the scene that played out in front of them, the remaining members of both Teams RWBY and JNPR stood in pregnant silence trying to comprehend what they were supposed to do. Several ideas flowing through their heads until the silence was all the heiress could take as she cried out, "Rrrrgh, that idiot! Why'd they have to do that?!"
"Are you STILL on about Quartz?" Yang asked in annoyance, "What she did was in no way her own fault -"
"I'm not talking about Quartz, I'm talking about Dichro!" Weiss interjected rather rudely, "He left without telling us what to do while he was gone except to lie to the professors!" Blake sighed in frustration with her ears flicking around before she spoke up, "He said to tell them he was on Kamen Rider business; and since we're dealing with a Bugster, this IS Kamen Rider business."
"It's the principle of the matter!" the heiress clamored, "He expects us to cover his tail for absolutely nothing in return!" As she said this, her audience simply looked at each other as if they just witnessed the dumbest event in their young lives before everyone, even Jaune, glared at her. "How can you even say that, Weiss?" Pyrrha asked, "Have you forgotten what he's done for you and Ruby in the Emerald Forest?"
"And what about at the temple?" Blake added, "If it wasn't for him, we'd have never been able to get out of there in time."
"Besides that, the guy knows less than even ME!" Jaune threw in, to which Yang internally cringed at how wrong the poor boy was, "And that's saying something!"
"Face it, Ice Queen..." Yang stated, "We owe him at least this much, if not more." Yelling through gritted teeth as she stomped the floor, the heiress finally had reached her breaking point. Turning on her heel, she called back to everyone, "Fine! Have it your way - but I'm not having anything to do with it! I'm going to get my OWN breakfast" With that, she marched straight for the door, opened it, and marched straight out as she muttered curses to herself before she let out a yelp of surprise as she trips on something that made a small chirping noise and fell flat on her face. As she propped herself upon her elbows, she heard rustling from around the corner of the hall as well as someone calling her name from behind her, but she paid no mind as she crawled towards the corner. As she turned the corner, a sudden blob of sticky white sent her reeling backwards as she pried whatever it was off. She was now furious at what was going on and decided to take another shot at seeing what caused her trip to the mess hall to be ruined. "Now who or what in the name of Oum would be stupid enough... to... do..." she started to rant but her voice dwindled as she saw what had caused her so much grief in so little time.
The creature itself, a segmented and worm-like creature that was wider at the head and narrower at the tail, was barely tall enough from the belly to even match her heels' height and was just as long as her hand. Each of the segments was white with blue tribal patterns running along each one. Under two of those segments were eight, talon-like legs barely even the size of her nails. At the tail was one segment that had formed three spike-like protrusions that were each black in color. But her attention was more focused on the face of the creature; a face that was covered in blue tribal patterns with a pair of small mandibles lightly protruding just above what seemed to be feelers, and eyes as small as pin heads that glowed a soft and innocent baby blue. It chirped in fear at her a few times as it stood up trying to make itself bigger as she continued to stare at it, but the noise it made was all that it needed to break the poor girl's wall around her heart.
"Awwww..." she coo'd as she reached her hands to pick the creature up, "I'm so sorry for hurting you." As her hands came close to it, the creature tried to back away and failed as she gently scooped it into her hands and lifted it closer to her. "How'd you even get in here?" she asked it in curiosity. The little creature chirped at her a few times almost as if trying to talk to her, but before she could reply, she heard a yelp from behind her and turned to see Yang cowering behind Jaune and Blake.
"What the hell IS that thing?!" Yang cried out in fear as she continued to cower behind the blond knight. Blake noticed this and smirked as she asked, "What's the matter, Yang? Afraid of a little bug?"
"The hell do ya mean it's little!?" the blonde brawler retorted, "And besides, it's not bugs that gets me; it's worms and anything that looks like a worm!"
"What's so wrong with worms?" Blake asked genuinely curious. She couldn't have picked a worse trigger to use on her partner as Yang glared at the Cat Faunus and growled out, "Don't even try it, Blake; I've got a dog at home and can have him here by tomorrow." At this, Blake's eyes went wide before she narrowed them as she glared at her partner and said, "You wouldn't dare..."
"Would you two pipe down?" Weiss asked in annoyance as she cuddled the little creature close to her chest, "You're scaring Schneeglocke." Noticing how close the creature was, Yang immediately yelped and jumped away from Jaune, who was just as confused as he was when he first came out to see what was going on, who asked, "Schneeglocke? What's that mean?"
"Isn't that a bit pretentious to name something after yourself?" Blake asked dryly. Weiss shook her head before saying, "No, it's not; Schneeglocke is Atlesean for 'Snowbell'. You'd know that if you took linguistics lessons."
"So, you're calling that thing Snowbell?" Jaune asked cautiously as he pointed to the heiress' new 'pet'. Her response was just to glare at him as she held Snowbell closer to her chin, giving Jaune all he needed to know about this. "Okay... Going from Ice Queen to Snow Angel to Mama Polar Bear in ten seconds flat..."
"Stow it, Arc," Weiss interjected as she marched up to him, which caused Yang to take a few steps further away, "Flattery will get you nowhere with me; got it?" Nodding his head vigorously, Jaune merely watched as she started to coddle and coo at the little creature who seemed to be enjoying the attention as she turned and walked back into the dorm room.
"What... Just happened?" Blake asked aloud in confusion as she continued to stare at the heiress. Jaune simply shrugged as he suggested, "Too much character breaking...?"
)-Meanwhile-(
)-Vale City Residential District-(
Vale's Residential District was vastly different to its more busy streets and its park in so many ways; the buildings are sparsely laid out, the colors vary more to the brighter and bolder sides, and the streets are emptier during the busy hours of the rest of the city. The few that were walking about, though, practically knew the district like the back of their hand... Unlike a certain crane-armed Bugster that roamed aimlessly as people gawked at her in fear.
"Oh dear..." she whispered to herself, "This looks like it could be a residential area, but with how Ruby used to build her cities, this could very well be the city heart for all I know..." She looked around at the houses and saw one particular cul-de-sac that was especially filled as opposed to the rest of the sparse district. "Perfect place to start!" she declared happily as she made a quick jog towards the center of the dead-end street. Upon reaching it, everyone eyed the Bugster with caution, curiosity and fear as she raised her hands to the sky and shouted, "Listen up, people! I'm here to make your lives miserable and I'm going to start things off by summoning spires that will bestow blight upon ALL of you!" As she laughs as evil of a laugh as her rather young-sounding voice can muster, Quartz raises a foot up and slams it down onto the street, sending a plethora of shockwaves in all directions that knock a few unlucky bystanders away, which she silently apologized for, until they got to the sidewalks; at which point, the shockwaves stopped and shot upward with wires shooting out along with metal appearing out of thin air and covering the wiring until...
"Hey look, mommy!" one child said innocently, "That monster made lamps!"
At hearing this, Quartz quickly looked around, hoping to find massive pillars of haywire electricity scaring people, only to find that she had, indeed, made street lamps...
Normal... Everyday... Run of the mill... Street lamps...
"NO!" she cried out in frustration, "I said 'Blight', not 'Light'!"
As the residents begin to investigate the street lamps, one of them happens to call out to her as a thank you, saying, "We've been trying to beg the council to have these installed for months now!" Frustrated and devastated, the Bugster 'hero' grunts out a quick "I'm outta here," as she teleports once more.
A few minutes later, a certain Blue and Red Kamen Rider runs up to the cul-de-sac that was now in awe at what their first visitor brought them. 'What in the world? They're acting like they haven't seen street lamps before...' Dichro thought to himself as he ran up to the nearest person he could reach; an elderly man holding his pet chihuahua's leash.
"Excuse me, sir," the Kamen Rider called out to him as he rushes up to him, "Do you know what's going on here?" As the elderly man turned, he pointed back to the lamp post he was eyeing up and said in a shocked tone, "Some creature came up saying something about 'Light' or something, and the next thing we all know; these street lamps just grew out of the ground."
'So she's trying to do what Bagamon did... But she's even worse at it...' the Ant Faunus thought to himself in exasperation as he sighed in annoyance, 'Great...' "Ah... any idea where this creature went?" he asked the man who looked back skeptically. As he eyed the Kamen Rider down, the old man threateningly asked, "Why? Are you going to harm it in any way?"
"What? No!" Dichro replied in shock as he waved his arms a little, "I just want to bring her back to her friend; the reason she's doing all of this is to try and make herself look like a villain so that her friend can be safe."
"If she's trying to be a villain, she's doing a VERY bad job at it..." the man retorted, which caused Dichro to nod and moan out an "I know..." as he lowered his head in an exaggeratedly tired fashion. When he recovered, he asked if the man had any idea where she went, to which the answer was he wasn't sure; that all he saw was some orange dust flying off to the commercial district as he pointed to the north. With a quick thanks, the dichromatic warrior ran off towards said district; hoping to catch Quartz in time.
)-Few Minutes Later-(
)-Vale Commercial District-(
Vale's Commercial District, much like the rest of the city, was a bustling swarm of activity; from window shoppers to delivery runs and even the occasional street performance or two. If one were to truly take in the sight of it all, they would swear that this was the heart of Vale City. Though today it would find a rather... Unusual situation happening within its boundaries. More specifically near the border between the Commercial and Industrial Districts. As our Bugster would-be-villain teleports in, she eyes her new surroundings and sees that everyone is gawking at her in fear and shock. She inwardly smiles before she calls out to the citizens around her, "Alright, people, listen up! I'm here for one reason and one reason only - to make SURE you lot have a BAD time! And to make sure of that; I'm going to close out this ENTIRE area and make you all my PRISONERS!" As she says this, she raises her arms up which causes walls to form in between buildings within a three mile radius of her.
While this was going on, sirens could be heard further north as several police cars were chasing down a suspected Dust Shop robber who just so happened to be driving along the area where one of the walls formed. The suspect tried everything in his power to avoid being caught as he swerved around and dodged people, obstacles and other vehicles. As the wall rose, the suspect's car was lifted off the ground by one side and sent rolling onto it's back. Hearing the actual sounds, Quartz turned to the whole event going on and cried out, "What the?! What's going on?!" As she did this, she noticed a fatal flaw in her walling off the area plan...
She had somehow summoned walls with doors on them; allowing safe passage to and from the area. 'Oh you're KIDDING me!' she chastised herself, 'I know I messed up at things like this with Ruby, but this is ridiculous!' As she continued her mental tirade, the officers that were chasing the car pulled over in time to avoid the same fate and looked at said protrusions before looking to find what caused them. Upon seeing the creature, the police tried to piece the puzzle together but couldn't find any other solution.
"You there!" one of them called out to the Bugster, a female officer by the looks of it, "I think we owe ya one! This guy woulda been long gone if he made it to the ports!" Upon hearing this, Quartz' shock and confusion began to recede as something else took its place - something she never expected to feel and so soon after she came to be...
Anger.
Raw and unbridled rage boiled within as she growled at her own flaws and mishaps; her flaws and errors crossing her mind over and over again as she struggled to hold her rage in... She was almost ready to lose herself to her hatred and the thought of just outright attacking people herself came to mind. However, after a few seconds, she remembered why she was doing it in the first place - to save Ruby. When this thought came to her mind, she couldn't hold back the sob that forced its way out. Eventually, this lead to more and more to come out until she was full-on crying as she fell to her knees; her onlookers watching in morbid fascination and curiosity. As this happened, the walls, themselves, began to dissolve in orange pixels; leaving the areas where they were as undisturbed as if the walls never even existed. She continued to cry as she sat there, undisturbed, until she heard someone speaking to her.
"You okay there?"
)-Earlier-(
Having failed to catch up with his target, the Kamen Rider tried to chase after her towards the Commercial District. He also, however, failed to find a speed boost power-up and had to literally run the entire way there on his own power; exhausting himself enough that he had to stop just short of a bus stop to catch his breath. "Whew boy..." he panted out as he leaned on a pole for support, "I just hope she hasn't gotten into too much trouble by now..." Exhaling heavily, he looked around for any sign of her. Finding none immediately in sight, he spotted a Rejuvenation power-up across the street and tried to will it to him with an outstretched hand. It flew only halfway before it fell onto the ground and shattered on contact. "Ugh... Great... I'm too exhausted to even do that..." he stated in exasperation as he continued to search for more clues as to where Quartz was.
That's when he noticed a wall forming out of nowhere when he looked behind him. In a surprised cry, he jumped back a little and eyed it up before noticing it formed perfectly between the buildings without disturbing them. "What in the -" he started to say in confusion before realization dawned on him, "Quartz! She's gotta be in there! But how do I get in?" Upon saying this, he quickly noticed the door that stood right in front of him and stared at it with a hidden expression of deadpan.
"Really... Crapbaskets, I'm an idiot..."
As he walked up to the door, he noticed something was wrong with his HUD. Taking a quick look, he noticed that his level was no longer 21, but now the full level 50. He also noticed that one of his four Power-Up Chain slots was locked back up; leaving him with the ability to only chain three Power-Ups at one time, but the timer that normally would appear for them also had a sideways 8 on them - the symbol for infinity. Looking even more, he also noticed something near the top of the HUD: it read "Bugster detected! Now running in Debug Mode!"
"Debug Mode?" he asked himself quietly, "What the hell is that?"
His answer never came, however, as the door he started to reach for suddenly vanished along with the wall it was attached to in a flurry of orange pixels. 'Oh no - Please let her be okay!' he pleaded in his head as he made a mad dash for the area the walls were surrounding, and quickly found said Bugster on her knees crying. Mentally sighing, he quickly thanked whatever deity was listening that she was okay before walking up to her cautiously and asking, "You okay there?"
Quartz turned in surprise to see the armored rider; multiple thoughts running through her mind as she stared him down in confusion before she simply shook her head and effectively her body as she replied, "No, I'm NOT okay... Who are you, anyway?"
At first, this question shocked Dichro but looking at his HUD reminded him that he was in his Kamen Rider form which meant that Quartz doesn't know who he is. Sighing, he explained that he was someone who was trying to help her as he walked up to her and rested a hand on her shoulder. "Why don't we find a more secluded place to talk first?" the dichromatic warrior suggested as he looked around to the people eyeing them, "We have too many witnesses already and what I have to say can't be said in public..." At her skeptical glance, he added, "Just trust me, okay?" This seemed to suit her just fine as she nodded before he started lead her away.
'This is going to be hell in a handbasket to explain...' he thought to himself as he lead her to a rather unused alley, 'Especially to something I'm meant to fight... I just hope I can find a way to clear her game...'
)-xXx-(
And with that, we end the new chapter of the Paradox of Remnant! Will Dichro find a way to help both Ruby AND Quartz? And what is this strange creature that Weiss has suddenly made friends with? Let's find out together next time...
See you next game!