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After Dantos' fright, he realized the practical use of this miracle and left the matter alone. That is, until Aionion mentioned he could implant thoughts into another's head. Dantos giggled like a middle school girl. Aionion grimaced as best he could and mentally smacked Dantos. Dantos suddenly got a headache and dropped to the ground, holding his aching head. Aionion lent him a hand to pull him up and Dantos gripped it before pulling him down with him.

They laughed, Dantos physically and Aionion mentally, before they stood up and left the room. Aionion went to get his armor and Dantos sat outside his room. Practically as soon as Aionion opened the door, Dantos grabbed him by his metal armor and began dragging him down the hallway.

The two settled on an open end plane into Vale. They hopped on just as it rose off the ground and settled in for the flight.

Aionion and Dantos, seeing that they were close enough to the ground to jump, leapt off of the plane and free fell for a few seconds before landing. Aionion stood up from his usual small crater and Dantos fluttered down.

They revisited the store and ordered more than twenty of the pieces of clothing and had them sent to the airport they'd pick them up at later. That took half an hour and now they were walking towards the outskirts of Vale.

As they traveled, they noticed the houses become more and more decrepit. The houses had scars from old battles that had invaded the city. Some had walls caved in, others roofs. One was even missing the front half of the building.

A few minutes of walking later, they cane upon the giant wall that kept the Grimm from getting further into Vale. Ironically, the wall was the only thing in decent shape in this part of the town. It was littered with heat marks and scratches sure, but it was still functional.

As they reached the top of the wall, Aionion could see past the walls of the city and further into the frontier. Their were skeletons of buildings everywhere and theose slowly gave way to fields and further on, forests. Aionion could make out small hunters in training moving throughout the skeleton city. They were doing recon on the amount of Grimm in the area. All of this Aionion could see from atop the wall, a huge structure that towered over every building with five miles.

They hurried through the city and entered the forest that stretched across the horizon. Not even five minutes later, they were attacked by two Ursa minors. They were dealt with swiftly and efficiently. They took to the trees after that, wanting to avoid the worst of the Grimm for a while.

This fell apart when they were cornered in a clearing. The opposite side ended in a cliff that they did not see an end jumped down from the trees and were soon surrounded by nearly one-hundred Grimm of assorted species. There were many Beowolves, numbering around forty or so. Aionion spotted Ursa minors that were spread throughout the crowd and even a few Ursa majors. The rest of the Grimm were small, spiderlike creatures, roughly the size of Dantos' torso.

Aionion formulated a plan within two minutes of being surrounded. The reason it took so long; they were being attacked on all sides by Grimm.

Aionion had his short swords out, which nearly looked like daggers in his hands. He was tearing through the Arachnas with blistering speed. Their exoskeleton not doing much against his powerful slashes. Dantos was back in the trees, thinning the Ursa numbers with his handguns before being swarmed by Beowolves.

Both became a whirlwind of blood and removed limbs. Aionion's thick armor prevented most of the damage from the attacks but some squeezed through small gaps in his armor. Dantos was little better for wear. He had a slash along his chest that was slowly stitching itself shut and numerous small cuts littered arms. They regrouped at the cliff and Aionion told him of the plan.

'Get high and remove as many Ursa as you can. I'll see what i can do about the Beowolves.' Upon hearing Aionion's weird voice in his head, Dantos threw a chain that stuck on the cliff face and he hauled himself up to a ledge he spotted.

Aionion slid his blades back into place and twisted a knob next to his gauntlets and boots. The two made cocking noises and Aionion lowered himself into a loose fighting stance. As he heard the first pop of Dantos shooting the Ursas, the remaining nineteen Beowolves charged at him.

With a ear- shattering roar, the shotguns in his gauntlets activated and he blasted the first Beowolf point blank. The head exploded into viscera and gore and the body hit three others before falling still. Aionion kicked another in the gut as it lunged at him before it smacked into the cliff, breaking its back and killing it. 'Ooh that was nice! Don't you think you'll run out of ammunition before you kill all of them?'

The remaining seventeen circled around him. He punched his gauntlets together, reloading them, before readying himself for the next charge. By now, Dantos was out of ammo but was finishing off the Ursa physically. Aionion returned back to his fight only to be caught off guard when two jumped at him. 'One at twelve and one at five! Shit, three at six!'

Aionion punched at twelve, missing the Grimm but still killing it. Off balance, he leaned down and kicked at five, knocking it into a tree but not out of the fight. He spun on the ground underneath the three that leapt at him and punched at their backs. He hit one and killed it but the other two came back, joined by the one he kicked into a tree. He was down to his blades and his final three shotgun rounds now.

He fired the last three at the group still circling him, bringing the number down to twelve. They all began circling him now. He pulled his blades, still dripping with Grimm blood, from their sheathes and ran at the Beowolves.

Not the brightest Grimm, the remaining Grimm charged at the tank. He spun around the first Grimm and stretched his blades out while he ducked under them. They sliced through the Beowolves like butter and reduced them by half. He swung his swords again and the number dropped to three. The remaining three fled and Aionion wiped the blood off his visor and blades onto the fur of the dissolving corpses. 'God this shit smells! I thought the blood dissolved too. My armors gonna be stained black.'

'You just survived a Grimm encounter of nearly one-hundred Grimm and you want to complain about blood being on your armor. That's pathetic.'

'Can't i turn you off?'

'You see, that would req-'

Aionion tuned him out to notice Dantos looking up the cliff. Then Dantos glanced at him. He noticed his lack of climbing equipment and smirked before throwing a chain up to the top of the cliff.

"Race ya to the top! On your mark, get set, GO!" Dantos was gone before he even finished the sentence. He was slinging himself up with his chains and Aionion watched until he reached up using his semblance and ripped the chains out from the wall. Dantos turned in mid-air to look at Aionion then threw his chains back into the cliff. Secure once more, Dantos turned and stuck his tongue out at Aionion.

Dantos resumed climbing and Aionion walked up to the wall. He stuck his right foot on it and stretched his left leg up higher. Using his semblance so he didn't slide back down the cliff, Aionion began to jog then run as he grew used to the odd sensation of running vertically. Dantos watched in horror as he was passed then redoubled his efforts. Both pulled ahead only to be overtaken by the other until they reached the top of the cliff. By now, Dantos' hands were burning from the friction and Aionion was tired from using his semblance for so long.

The two looked back down the cliff they scaled. Dantos was getting vertigo since he never really thought about the height he could have fell from. They turned around but had to duck immediately to keep their heads on. The Death Stalker screeched at the two and drew its tail back for another try at impaling them. Dantos jumped over and Aionion ducked under it but they were knocked away from each other when it swung its pincers at them. They continuously avoided the pincers and tail, receiving minor injuries, until they had their backs to the cliff edge again. "Shit! We're cornered."

'Buy me some time, I have a dangerously stupid idea that might work. Lure the Grimm to the edge when I signal you.'

"How much time do you need? We talking thirty seconds or what?"

'Just do it!'

Aionion dropped beneath the cliff edge and stuck himself to the wall while pulling some explosive charges he kept on hand 'just in case'. He could hear Dantos screaming at the Grimm and running circles around the Grimm. He set the timer for two minutes and jumped back to the top. He ducked immediately when a pincer nearly took his head off and he heard a "Sorry!" from Dantos. He jumped on top of the Grimm's back slicing its back with his swords while avoiding the tail that was attempting to take him off. He stabbed an eye as he ran passed and landed next to Dantos when he jumped off.

"How long will this plan take?"

'Get it to the edge, as close as possible.'

They tried to maneuver the Grimm to the edge but ended up there instead.

"When is the plan gonna start? The Grimm's getting closer."

'Shut up and wait, we only have one chance at thi-duck!'

The Grimm's tail passed over their heads and stuck into the ground, immobilizing the Grimm. Then Dantos heard a rumbling, that emanated from their feet.
"Is that what I hope its not?"

'What did you not hope for?'

"Explosives!"

'Oh well than yeah.'

The ground lurched and began breaking apart underneath them. A large piece of the cliff they were standing on broke away and left them on the edge. The two looked at their only chance of salvation, passed the Death Stalker, and sprinted at the stuck Grimm. The Grimm swung at them but they jumped over the pincers. The Grimm ripped itself free and lashed out at Aionion and Dantos. Not expecting the Grimm to attack behind it, they were knocked onto their backs and both scrambled to get up and off the falling piece of dirt. Then smaller clumps began pulling off with a sickening slurch, grotesquely reminding Aionion and Dantos what would happen if they didn't move. All plans to do this fell apart (A/N hehe, all the puns) when the chunk of the cliff shattered.

The two began jumping to avoid falling to their deaths and narrowly avoided the rocks again and again as they fell. They were nearing the top now and they could hear the Grimm screech as it fell off the slab. It swiped at Dantos as it fell and he narrowly missed an early grave by jumping off the rock he was on. The two burst out of the pile and hung onto the edge for safety. Aionion swung himself up first, followed by Dantos who nearly fell off because of more shifting earth. The two laid down where they were and each chuckled in their own way.

"I think- I think that's enough excitement for one day, let's go back before that explosion attracts more Grimm."

As they were walking away, Aionion turned back to look at the cliff that was noticeably shorter than it was before they came. He shrugged and had a silent, thoughtful (A/N god im on a roll baby) conversation with the annoying space rock that was his arm.

'Think they'll notice?'

'Who would miss an explosion as loud as that?'

Aionion sarcastically replied, 'You.'

As Nebula grumbled at Aionion, he was already turning back around to head back to Vale. Aionion was mechanically running through the forest when Dantos asked him a question.

"You wanna get a mission after this? I'm sure we could get an easy one like recon at the edge of town."

Aionion nodded his head and the two changed direction slightly to go straight to the airport. They stopped running once they reached the gargantuan walls that surrounded the city and Dantos whistled. "They're a lot bigger from this side aren't they?"

Aionion ignored his attempt at making small talk and began scaling the wall to get back into the city. The next hour was awkwardly silent, and they made it to the airport relatively undisturbed. They could hear gunshots from nearby and went to observe the fight. It swiftly became one of the most odd things they'd seen. A multitude of people in varying colors were fighting what looked like the White Fang. Then Aionion noticed the man that they children were fighting. He would've snarled if he could. He stood and was about ready to join the fight when Dantos pulled him down. A Bullhead was being pulled down by one of the children and would have taken him with it. The bowler hat man fled to a fourth Bullhead that he hadn't noticed. The two crept away seeing bowler hat man and his goons get away. They hurried to the airport and took the clothes with them on the short flight. The Bullhead they were in was made for transporting passengers so they had to wait to get off like everyone else. Aionion, after sitting down in a seat near the back, leaned his head against the wall to sleep during the short flight.

I don't have anything to ramble about today T-T. See ya next time, might be a while before next update though. I can only work on this for about half an hour during school.