RWBY belongs to Monty Oum
Chapter 8
"May I ask what are we waiting for?" asked a chilly voice, "It has been already a week since we sent those 3, I think it is sure to say that they are already death."
"Don't you think I already know that penguin? It looks like someone in the high grounds find out about the new piece in the table." Said a man sitting in front of a table looking at each of his man.
"Then what do you suggest us to do?" asked a calm voice.
"I suggest we go to that academy where he is hiding and made a distraction with the other one so we can get the target?" Said loud and raging voice.
"I was already planning on that. But unfortunately we need to wait someone that they sent, who I don't know I just-" the boss was interrupted as the doors of the place opened to reveal to figures.
"-Hope it is not you." Said the man as he completed the sentence completely annoyed.
"Is that how you treat an old comrade, I am hurt man." Said one if the figures as the other one just entered and stood still.
"the higher ups wanted us to deal with your little problem, none of them wants you to come to light seeing since that guy will know the moment you enter into action." Said the figure.
That angered the man.
"Do you think I am afraid of him?! The next time I and that bastard met will be the last!"
the newcomer just raised his arms in defense "Dude relax, if it means something I don't want to face the guy either, he is to serious." Said the man while everyone except for the other new comer and the angered one nodded.
"Anyway, there is something else?"
"Now what?"
"There has been a change of plans, she wants the target alive and if possible also retrieve the other one."
"That woman is asking to much.
"In that we agree, at least you know why they sent metal heal with me." said the man signaling next to him.
"MY OBJECTIVE IS TO RETRIEVE THE PRIORITY TARGET ALIVE AND IF POSSIBLE THE SECOND ONE." Said the second figure.
The man in the table just sighed.
"Fine, take some of my man, I will get ready for the operation we have in a couple of days, I do not need to tell you to attack at night?"
"But of course, there is no better time to hunt, besides there is an event that will must certainly help us."
It was a peaceful day in beacon, it was still morning and the students were in class, so there wasn't so suppose to be no one in the training area, but of course that was the exception for 2 individuals and a dog.
Bullet had left the day Drake returned form the forever fall, which Drake was graceful since he would be able to sleep more, but whatever the message Bullet gave him it made ask for sparring sessions with Drake as if he was preparing him for something.
They had sparred before but this times it was different it was as if he wanted Drake to fight without fear and restriction.
Axl said he had noticed in the past the power ups Drake gets sometimes changing the color of his energy constructions from white to black giving them a massive power up.
But he couldn't determinate what was the trigger and neither did Drake, he told Axl the times it had happened, when he fought the dark sky emperor, when he fought Yang, his fight with eagle and also many others in the past, that made Axl questioning him something.
"Have you ever fought beyond your breaking point?"
Drake nodded.
"It happened 3 times, I think you already know when one of them happened?"
Axl gave a thought at that, and then blinked in realization.
"The night you and lambert met"
Drake just nodded
"The second one happened when I was 12, the day I met the tin head."
"Tin head?"
"General James ironwood."
Axl was about to ask why so much resent to a higher up in the military but decided to listen figuring it out that the answer will come itself.
Flashback Drake`s point of view
*Five years ago*
I was in my mentor`s office in a normal day, he called me because according to him there was someone that would help me to understand best my semblance, of course with me there was none other that lambert who hast grown a bit since we met, I thought that perhaps it has something to do with him being a Grimm.
I sat in the office waiting for my mentor to began to talk, also in the room was miss goodwitch with a face that said 'I do not approve what you are about to do.', how I knew, I had seen it before.
Ozpin took a zip from his coffee and began to talk.
"Umm, master what are we waiting for?" I asked seeing that he called me and is had been 20 minutes since we were here.
"We are waiting for someone else, he is rather late."
"As usual." Said Glynda, in that moment I knew that he didn't like whoever was coming.
Soon after a beep was heard from Ozpin`s table signaling that he was here.
He stood up and so did I and turned around in the direction of the elevator, from there it came a tall man with a metal piece on his forehead.
"Ozpin! It has been so long." Said the man as he got close and he and ozpin gave a handshake.
He then turned at Glynda, who just kept staring with death eyes, and then he looked at me, but not in the same cheery greeting face but with an analytical face and eyes, then it returned to normal.
"And you must be Drake. It is a pleasure to meet you." Said the man as he was about to greet me just for lambert to get in the way growling.
'that should have been the first sign.'
"Now now, I am not here to hurt your friend, all the contrary, I am here to help him."
That got my attention.
"Help me?"
the man just nodded and looked at me.
"Young man, you have a give, that could help anyone if used correctly."
"You mean my semblance?"
"Yes… your semblance, I am here to help you achieve the full control of it."
I looked at him questionably.
"But I can already control it."
He then looked at Ozpin who had an unreadable; he walked to his desk and pressed a switch making a holographic screen to appear.
Then it showed me something that surprised me, it was me, the day I venture to the emerald forest.
"Why are you showing me this?" I asked as I could feel my hearth going faster for some reason.
"Look at what you are capable of." Said the James as the image changed to the moment I lost consciousness, and then I froze to what I saw.
Lambert when he was still a Grimm was running to the king taijutu, and the moment I saw I eyes getting close snapped wide open in crimson red and slit eyes and my hair began to glow, without much problem a huge energy wave was generated from me making the snake Grimm to release me and sending him flying away along with lambert.
I looked at my past self and felt something I didn't feel in at least 2 years, fear, fear of myself as I looked at his face, I had mad like demon grim that would scare anyone for life, then my past self began to ran where the king taijutu went and jumped in the air and charged at it in mid air.
My aura appeared around me but instead of white it was black, I raised my fist and soon after a giant fist appeared next to mine that landed a perfect hit in the Grimm making him roar in pain soon after my younger jumped back 3 feet away still with the fist that now that I looked closer it was more like a claw, soon after from my other hand appeared another giant black claw.
I saw paralyzed as my younger began to throw I series of barrage fist at high velocity fist after fist soon after that, he took the snake with both claws and ripped it apart, all of this while my younger stood still with the same face but something was different, the aura around me was bigger and I could have swore it was rising as well, soon a lot of grimms began to appear around me and charged to attack me, that was when my younger decided to put his hands together near his chess in X motion and spread them while shouting a scream, no, more like a roar.
Then it all went black.
"What happened to the rest?" I asked still feeling fear.
"After that blast all the cameras in the are were destroyed." Said Glynda as Ozpin got close to me while I was ignoring anything else while looking at my two hands.
"That is the reason James is here to help us understand your semblance."
"What if I not in control again?" I asked fearing the worst.
"You wont, I can assure you that."
End of flashback
Third person POV
"What happened after that?" asked Axl while Drake was petting lambert that was sad at the memory.
"It all went to hell." Said Drake as he looked at Axl
"Ironwood designed a device that analyzes and regulate the aura, his plan was to put me in there and see how my powers worked, Ozpin said that he would be in the room watching with the other that the second something seemed wrong he would stop the machine, so without further talking I left lambert with Glynda and decided to enter, it was a dark and closed space, there was not single light on it, only darkness." Drake took a deep breath.
"The space around me began to show create sparks of electricity, they didn't touch me but then something happened something I cant explain I began to feel a big wave of pain in my head, and my instinct told me to get out of there immediately, I began to scream but nothing not even a voice, and then it all went dark."
"And then?" Axl asked and was surprised to what happened next, tears began to form in his face with his eyes changed but not losing his stoic face nor changing the tone of his voice.
"My consciousness returned to see another devastated sight, but this time it was worst, the scientist were either death, or severely injured, I noticed that I was being held to a pair of arms I turned around to see Ozpin with his cane in the floor to see him giving me an apologetic smile, I then noticed Glynda was unconscious, lambert in his Grimm form looking at me sad even thought his red eyes didn't say much, and lastly the damn tin head looking at me with those fucking analytical eyes, and then I noticed that I had blood in my hands, I broke down after that"
"It turns out that Ozpin began to shout to stop the machine the moment he heard lambert start barking irrationally, but ironwood said that he maybe was just overreacting, still Ozpin insisted, but it was too late, there was an explosion of energy. After the smoke cleared, everyone saw me giving them the same Psychotic look and soon after began to attack everyone, didn't matter who it was, or if they had family or not, it took Ozpin, Glynda and Ironwood to stop me, in some moment Glynda was put unconscious and lambert had to reveal his Grimm form in order to save her, she was forever grateful for that.
Anyway, according to them little by little I was beginning to have more power but then there was a moment that something happened, the chain in my neck began to glow and soon after that I began to what they think it was me fighting for control, Ozpin seeing this has a chance decided to grab me from behind and start telling me to fight, it was in the end when he brought the name of Ruby`s mother that regained conciseness."
Drake pulled the right sleeve of the jacket to reveal the chain wrapped in his hand.
"I have never questioned my past, but I am grateful for whoever gave this."
"I know that I am pressing to many buttons now but I have to know, what happened for the third time."
Drake looked at Axl as he began again.
"After that incident with ironwood, he tried to convince Ozpin for another try in the machine, he will made it more secure the next time, but Ozpin told him that there wouldn't be a next time, he also ordered everyone around that everything that happened that day would be kept as a secret or else they would regret it.
I always hated Ironwood since that day, even until now he tries to convince me to "Help him" understand my power, after that event I wasn't the same having known that I killed made me sick, for what is worst is that everything altered me for the next years whenever I had fear or rage I would start losing consciousness, I tried my hard not to, so was the case when some student were bothering me for being some kind of special kid since I was Ozpin`s apprentice they began to push mu buttons to the point they began to attack lambert, that was the third time, luckily no one was hurt just scared for life." Drake took one final breath and continued.
"Since I figured that it was my emotions that triggered the transformation I practiced to hide and control my emotions turning me in what you see today, but I know it was all that machine`s fault, I felt different after that you can say I became "Sensitive", also until this day I am thinking than that machine was not what tin head said"
Axl stood up and offered Drake his hand to Drake, which he took it.
"Let's go it is time for lunch." Said Axl as they with lambert in the headgear began to walk.
"Let me give you a piece of advice." Said Axl as they continued walking.
"You need to stop repressing you emotions and free all the negatives ones you have or else you will regret it, believe I now" said Axl
"But then I will lose control." Said Drake neither watching at each other.
"You will lose control anyway if you continue like this."
Drake entered the dinning hall to see everyone eating, Axl spotted teams RWBY and JNPR who Ruby noticed then and made them signs to sit with them.
"You go and get your food, I will save you an spot." Said Axl as he went to the table and sat next to Ren in JNPR`s side.
"Why do both of you like if you were fighting and horde of Grimm?" asked Blake making notice him that his cloak is dirty with slashes on it.
"We were sparring." Said Axl as he raised his arm so Drake could see it, he sat next to Blake who noticed something.
"Were you crying?" that made everyone eyes widened and look at him and noticed the same plus the red eyes, still in his poker face Drake thought in the best lie he could as he opened a can of coke and put it next to his plate.
"Axl used his air manipulation to change the smell of the air around me to make smell like rotten onions." Said Drake in his usual voice as he began to eat.
'Not the best of lies, but still very clever.' Thought Axl, but Blake was eyeing suspiciously.
"Then why isn't your nose red or smelling like rotten onions?" that made everyone look at them suspiciously.
Drake just kept eating waiting for Axl to save his back.
"I don't know maybe the same reason you eat so much tuna yet you don't smell like it Kittycat." At that Blake`s face got red making Yang began to laugh as she changed the topic while Drake gave Axl a grateful look.
"So is everyone ready for the Vale committal fair?" asked Yang.
It was a fair used to get money for those who need it the most, many important people would be there and or donate something big.
"I cant go." Said Ren gaining a pout from Nora.
"Why?!" said Nora while shaking Ren by the collar.
"That is actually my fault." Said Axl as Nora was now choking shaking Axl with Ren in the middle.
"Why are you taking away my Ren time?!" that made every one snicker at the comment while Ren just sighed.
"Nora this one will be the last time." Said Ren gaining a look from everyone.
"Yeah, he will be yours… forever." Said Axl as Nora analyzed the words coming from his mouth repeating the last word in her mind over and over again.
'forever… forever… forever… forever… forever… forever… forever… forever…' thought Nora as she stopped shaking Axl and decided to hug Ren to death.
"I hate you." Said Ren.
"So you are stopping training Ren?" asked Weiss.
"Nope, I already taught him everything I know… at least the "Basic", the rest is up to him."
"So that means that it is all of us minus Axl and Ren." Said Ruby.
"I wont go either." Said Drake.
"What? Why?" asked Yang.
"I just don't feel like to." Said Drake as he was about to stand up without finishing his food.
"Wait. You still owe me that date." Said Yang holding his jacket while lambert jumped from the hood to eat the remaining food.
"And I will be more than happy to take you out, but last I remember you got in a fight with bullet and decided to stood me up and have our date with her." Said Drake speaking in double sense knowing she was talking about the rematch.
"So you are jealous because I was on top of another woman and not you?" said Yang making Drake began an staring contest with her, while everyone was questioning if they were still talking about sparring and wondering how the ever stoic Drake would answer, not seeing that they were getting closer and closer after each exhange.
"Not at all, I was more than happy to see Axl`s girlfriend giving you another wonderful experience and also gave me a few tips to make you end quickly." Said Drake as Axl noticed that his eyes returned to normal during the start of the debate and so did Blake, while everyone else was amazed that he had actually made a comeback at the brawler except for Ruby who was 100% they were talking about the spar no noticing the double meaning in each sentence.
Meanwhile Yang was thinking in another comeback not noticing that they were getting closer and Blake who noticed and decided to stay quiet since this looked like something from out of her books, while Axl was looking amused at this, until an imaginary light ball appeared on Yang`s head.
"Then why don't you and I get on with our date now and see if you like me when I am in top of you to see if you can hold it long enough for me to end tired." Said Yang as she got closer while everyone except for a clueless Ruby was confused.
At that moment Yang's hand that was still holding Drake`s jacket were interlocked with his hands by Drake`s decision and he got closer, that`s when she noticed how close they were, Drake decided to get more closer making their faces be 10 cm apart from each other as he spoke.
"I would like nothing more that making you end Yang." Said Drake as he got closer and everyone was watching what was gonna happen and Blake was having problem containing her cat like grin.
Yang didn't know how to react he saw his face getting closer to her, she was so frozen in place that she didn't notice that he had gone pass her head and next her ear and said, "Just kidding." After back he got back to his normal position was Yang stood frozen.
Everyone stood silence for thirty seconds but it was Axl who ended it by laughing hysterically who had taken pictures of the whole think, making everyone understand the situation, everyone started laughing at that while Yang just returned to her normal position completely red and put het face in the table in embarrassment while Blake just patted her shoulder.
"For someone who is stoic and cold you are such a tease." Said Blake still comforting Yang, looking at Drake who was now drinking his can of coke.
"She makes it so easy." Said Drake as he mentally thanked Qrow for his examples about teasing the opposite sex.
Yang was so embarrassed that if she put more force in her head the table would break in two.
"In all seriousness, we will have our date in another time, I promise you that much." Said Drake as he ended his drink.
"Yeah, besides you two might as well set your date for the tournament." Said Ruby who was next to Yang.
Drake stopped at that and began to stand up, "I am afraid that wont be possible."
Yang who was curious about that raised her head and asked "Why?"
"I have forbidden the participation." Said Drake a he began to walk waving a goodbye with out looking back with lambert walked behind him.
"Do you have any idea why?" asked Yang looking at Axl.
"Maybe it has something to do with him beating a S-class Grimm who knows." Said Axl as he stood up and put his hand on Ren`s shoulder
"See ya later grasshopper." Said Axl as Ren nodded, and the looked at Yang, "And thanks for the comedy Blondie." Said Axl as he waved a goodbye to everyone while Yang`s face turned red once more and planted her face back in the table.
"Well better for us, knowing that someone like him is not gonna be participating that give us a bigger chance." Said Weiss gaining a nod from everyone except for Yang who wanted to disappear.
"You know I am more surprised he kept his poker face all the time while pulling that stunt, I wouldn't have been able to." Said Jaune.
"I am not, he has never lost it in case of situation not even in battle in case you haven't notice it" said Ren since Axl had put him to spar against him and never losing it.
"I suppose the reason you cant participate it is because your little problem?" asked Axl as they were heading to their respective room.
"Yeah, neither Ozpin nor tin head want to risk it, plus I don't really care."
"I figure."
Both turned at the corner to see Professor Ozpin waiting patiently in front of Drake`s door with his signature mug.
"Oh.. finally." Said Ozpin as he got closer to the truth.
"I take it you are not going, correct?" asked Ozpin to both of them.
Both shock their heads.
"And I who was wondering that Axl was you gonna convince you, then again with that mask he would probably scare everyone."
Axl just looked at him, "Have you seen my girlfriend?"
Ozpin just stared for 30 seconds.
"Good point, anyway with you it makes 4 including mister Ren and Lambert." Said Ozpin gaining a woof in thanks from lambert.
"Now, if you excuse me." with that he was gone.
"So what are you gonna do?" asked Axl.
"Since Professor Bartholomew will also be in vale for the event, he asked me to check some of his exams for the first years." Said Drake as he opened his door.
"Then the reason you are here is for…"
Drake came from his room with a six path of cold Coke and dog food.
"gotta be prepared." Said Drake as he closed the door.
"Unbelievable, I am gonna sleep until it is time for the training session with Ren. See ya"
Both said their goodbyes, not knowing it would be the last time they would see each other for a time.
It was around night time and everyone except for 4 individuals.
And in the outside of the academy there were six figures ready to infiltrate the academy.
"Did you locate them?" asked one of the figures.
"AFFIRMATIVE, I DETTECT 4 LIFE SIGNATURES, OUR OBJECTIVES ARE SEPARATED, ONE IS IN THE WEST AND THE OTHER IN THE SOUTH, EACH WITH ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL."
"Good, you all already know what to do, without more waiting gentleman, lets start! Mandrill!"
as soon as he said that a tall man with features of a mandrill plus a tail gave a step front, his arms began to form electricity, he clapped them together and then raised them, soon after there as an small of sphere of electricity, making another clap he sent the sphere in the sky and it stopped in the center of the whole academy, soon after it began to emit small pulse that couldn't be visible by normal eyes.
"Let the hunt of the hunters begin." Said the man as the 6 rushed inside the academy while the robot divided the objectives, soon they were divided in groups of two.
Drake was returning from professor Bartholomew Office with the exams in hand double checking them since there was something that didn't add up.
`I can accept Jaune getting a 83 with Pyrrha`s help, a 92 from her, a 87 from Nora, 90 from Ren, 94 from Ruby, 95 from Blake, a 96 from Weiss, but there is no way in hell that Yang Xiao Long got a 99, Bartholomew says she sleep in most of her classes.'
"What do you think lambert?" asked Drake to lambert who was next to him, lambert just gave a woof to which Drake interpreted as an honest test.
Drake just sighed and put the exams in his jacket, both continued walking through the halls of his dorm, he passed team RWBY`s and JNPR`s and then turned the corner to the hall where his room was, at that moment he didn't notice lambert had stopped.
Drake kept walking and stood in front to his door, he was about to use his scroll to open it when lambert began to bark.
"What is it?" soon after that lambert ran at him as he changed to Grimm form and jumped at Drake keeping him out of the way of the door as exploded.
Drake saw what happened and pet lambert "What would I do without you buddy." Said Drake as he stood up and petted his dog while looking at the space the smoke was coming from.
'That was my room, my palace, my fortitude of solitude, I am pissed' thought Drake as his eyes turned crimson, and began to walk to his room, he carefully checked inside to se if there was anyone and then entered, everything was destroyed, from tv to fridge.
All of the sudden something came from outside of the window and grabbed him by the legs, it began to drag him outside the window successfully doing it, while falling drake draw his blades and cut the things and landed after being freed, he saw as the things kept going to the forest and looked down to see that what he cut were some kind of tentacles, lambert landed besides him still in Grimm form.
Drake decided to pursue the thing as he hopped on lambert who then began running the way that leaded to the emerald forest.
While on pursue he took out his scroll and decided to warn Axl, his eyes widened as he saw his scroll jammed, since there were not many people here and the fact they targeted his room, he knew they were after him and Axl.
'I just hope he is not as pissed as I am.'
Meanwhile Ren was clashing his guns and quickly changing pace while also shooting in each pace increasing the possibilities of a critical hit, while his enemy was gently pushing each of his hands to change the trajectory of the shot.
Seeing that his range of shooting was getting closer Ren decided gave a semi vertical slash from down to up making his opponent gave a step back so he could move his head back, this was what Ren wanted as he have kick to the leg that was in front making the enemy began to fall as Ren launched a kick pushing him forward, not wasting his chance Ren began to shoot repeatedly at the figure.
"Stop." Said a voice as Axl began clapping, as he got closer while Ren just relaxed.
"Gotta ask, I know that you have a perfect mastery over wind or air, but how did you did that?" asked Ren as he looked at the figure he had been fighting.
It was a tough body at the same height as Ren, it was made of rocks and earth and it could be also noticed that he had air flowing around it.
"I never said wind was my only mastery, plus you should have seen something like this when fighting Drake, you guys just never asked, now you have fought against a offensive and defense enemy now yo-" Axl was interrupted as wall of the room they were practicing on was destroyed.
Both watched at what happened before them and prepared for battle, from the smoke instead of a figure appeared a great number of boomerangs going straight at them.
Not thinking twice both began to deflect with their guns each of the boomerangs soon after they could notice sparks in the smoke as various sphere of lighting began to come straight at them.
Quickly deflecting the following boomerang both back flipped back several times not seeing that there was another type of attack coming, Axl not seeing another way out used the rests of the dummy Ren was fighting against to intercept the shot.
Ren was surprised that the impact created ice.
Having enough of this Axl moved his blue bladed gun in slash motion to dissipate the wind.
"Motherfuckingtastic." Said Axl as he saw from the smoke 3 figures he recognized, the first was a Faunus with affiliated horns of a deer and some kind of backpack, he had green eyes black hair and was wearing some kind of black military uniform.
The next one was an smaller man and a little fat, he had blue pale hair and eyes of the same color.
And lastly the tallest of the 3, a man not just tall but muscular that looked like a mandrill, he had yellow hair and eyes of the same color.
"Boomerang Kuwanger, Chill Penguin and Spark mandrill, perfect." Said Axl
"Friends of yours?" asked Ren as he got closer to Axl speaking in low voice.
"Of course,we a-" said penguin while Axl interrupted him
"They wish, they are mavericks highly wanted. Ren I am gonna need you to go." Said Axl both ignoring the ranting penguin was giving.
"No way, you trained me for this kind of situation, I am staying." Said Ren as he prepared for battle as the 3 mavericks prepared to launch their attacks while charging.
Axl smiled at that, "Ok, first things first." Said Axl as he shot 3 times with the blue bladed gun in the air, the three shots landed forming a triangular formation around the mavericks, the 3 points connected each other and formed a triangular wall of high pressure air.
"We don't have more time so ear me out." Said Axl as he saw mandrill began punching with electricity the wall, which already had a few cracks.
"There is no way you can take mandrill and I need penguin to pull something, so that leaves Kuwanger, he is the last type of enemy you were gonna face, he is fast and the most intelligent of the 3 but not the strongest, careful with his boomerangs he cannot just only throw them calculating it`s trajectory like I do sometimes but also knows how to change it, and lastly do not hesitate to end him, I can assure you he wont do the same."
Ren nodded as they both saw the wall was having more cracks.
"First we need to separate them, we are gonna run through that hole they made, I am gonna make sure that Kuwanger don't get pass it, but you have to make sure to give me enough time to seal the door."
"Got it, what about Drake?" asked Ren ready to run at his signal.
"If my guess is correct mandrill is jamming the signal somehow, so if he is in trouble we wouldn't know, just like we can advice him, I just hope that whoever he is fighting is not someone serious."
The wall was about to break and in that moment Axl gave the signal.
Ren stood back a little as the wall finally broke; Axl jumped high in the air and turned in mid air so his head would see the floor and began shooting at them as they began to run back, Axl began to focus fire in the surroundings of Kuwanger, he was about to speed up as he felt a present behind.
He duck left and began to back flipping as he could ear the sound of the guns.
He raised his head after a last back flip to see Ren with both guns raised as Axl had crossed the hole with the 2 mavericks soon followed after him, Kuwanger tried to follow them but Ren kept shooting at his legs not giving him a second to stand still.
Meanwhile in the other side Axl was happy that the hole connected to the outside, jumping back and seeing that Kuwanger wasn't there Axl raised his brownish-orange blade gun and shot a bullet that passed both, the bullet picked up bunch of earth around it, seeing that it was getting closer to the hole Axl made the bullet expand in a big wall using it to block the entrance.
"You fail you fool." Said mandrill, as Axl kept running not wanting them to notice that one of them was missing.
'I never fail a shot'
Back with Ren, Kuwanger saw the hole blocked and gave a sight while Ren was reloading his weapons.
"Those fool wont even notice that I am gone." He then looked at Ren, "I think since he planned to let me with you, he thinks you can beat me." said the maverick as he raised his arms to recollect the boomerangs that he had thrown recently, Ren noticed that the gloves he was wearing had a Red blinking dot similar to the ones the boomerangs has.
"You are mistaken, he doesn't think I have a chance against you." Said Ren as he prepared his battle stance while Kuwanger did the same.
"He knows I can beat you."
Meanwhile in the emerald forest Drake along with lambert who was running at high speed as they could feel they were being watched, in one moment lambert had stopped and began to growl signaling that the enemy was close but neither of them saw anything, Drake senses began to kick in as he shouted lambert to began to run, soon after several pillars of blue light came from the sky aiming at both.
Lambert kept running as the pillars got closer just to disappear all of the sudden, lambert kept running not wanting to risk another one just to see several little missiles coming at them.
"Keep Running." Said Drake with both blades drawn and slashed the air with both sending a strong wave of wing destroying the missiles and lambert running through the destruction just to be met by some kind of transparent look like digital wall that went straight at them, lambert jumped at the side to avoid it just be hit by another that came out of nowhere successfully sending both flying and getting Drake off lambert.
As they where in the air Drake saw as the same tentacles from before had grabbed lambert and pulled him away from Drake.
"Lambert!" shouted Drake as he recovered in mid air and created to small platforms under his feet and jumped with force at the direction lambert was going just to be met by another wall that stood in his way, Drake used his blades just to see that the wall had repelled him, seeing this he recovered in the air and landed to notice that from afar 3 sets of giant walls were created along with one on top, locking Drake successfully in a giant square.
"Well that worked perfectly." Drake turned at the direction of the voice to see a man with red glasses, long blue-silver hair wearing a combination of yellow and dark blue.
Drake pointed one of the blades at the man, "Made the wall disappear now!" said Drake as the man raised his arm in the air signaling to stop.
"Kid seriously where are you manners? First we introduce ourselves only that I already know who you are Drake, so allow me, my name is Dynamo it is a pleasure to you. " said Dynamo as he bowed and moved his hand mockingly.
"And the one who created the wall and is about to crush from the sky is-" Dynamo hadn't finished the sentence as Drake had jumped in front and doing a roll, he looked back to see a big figure with what looked had 2 circles that looked similar to the wall going from top to bottom repeatedly.
The smoke cleared to reveal that the figure was a robot (Basically the same Highmax).
"Highmax." Said Dynamo as he completed their introduction.
Drake was in no good position from both sides there were enemies and for some reason he could feel anger just thinking at the second one.
"THERE WAS NO NEED THE TELL HIM WHAT I WAS GONNA DO" said the robot looking at Dynamo.
"Oh come on were is the fun on that? Gotta love when a plans come together." asked dynamo as he pulled what it looked was black sword handles from his jacket.
'If these are the guys I am fighting for I am afraid against who Axl is fighting.' Thought Drake as he prepared his blades.
Speaking of Axl.
"Stay still you buffoon!" shouted mandrill as he and penguin were trying to connect a shot at Axl who deflecting mandrill`s spark shots with the brownish-orange bladed gun while avoiding completely penguins ice shots; he had dragged them to a zone away from the academy so that he wouldn't damage it.
Axl began shooting repeatedly an penguin seeing that he couldn't take mandrill with that little annoyance shooting ice crystals.
The shoots were stopped by mandrill who stood in it`s way and raised his forearms, the energy bullets make contact with him just to see them get absorbed.
"What the hell?" asked Axl as mandrill ripped off the sleeves of his uniform to reveal some kind of metal.
"Do you really think I wouldn't come here without being prepare?" asked mandrill while Axl just saw the metal.
'Those are made of the same material as the destroyed wings I found in the place Drake and Blondie fought eagle, and if I remember correctly Drake said he threw a giant electric beam at him and came out just fine.' Thought Axl.
"You know I am more surprised that you two idiots are fighting like a team, gotta admit that kinda freaks me out." Said Axl expecting an smart remark from the mandrill, but nothing came out and that worried him.
His eyes widened in realization of something, he jumped back and up as a massive ice stalagmite came from the ground, while he was in the air he noticed that behind mandrill stood penguin with his hands touching the ground and around was an small circle of ice.
He could have shot him from the air but mandrill would have just get in the way.
'there is no choice although I hate winning like this' thought Axl as he created a set of wind bullets above penguin that went at him at high speed just to be frozen and stooped.
"Like he said! We came prepare for everything!" shouted penguin as Axl saw more stalagmites coming from the ground this time bigger and larger, Axl not seeing another way than up seeing that it didn't matter if he avoided them and landed, there was another just gonna be another one waiting for him.
Meaning that the only way was keep going up not noticing that mandrill had put both of his fist together aiming at the sky, he clapped them together 3 times as a wave of lighting went to the sky passing Axl making it notice it.
Axl while still dodging wondered why made a shot like that since the distance between them was big, then heard it, the sound of thunder caught his attention as he looked up to see clouds gathering above him as he also felt the sudden change in the wind.
Axl quickly began to fly in every direction as purple lighting began to stroke from the sky while trying not to get to close to the land since there would also be some stalagmites added to the problem, while evading he noticed that the lighting were not hitting random spots but following, he made a quick view to see mandrill with his fist pointing at him figuring he was guiding them, his eyes widened as he saw one of his fist separate.
Axl quickly changed direction as the way he as going was stoke by lighting, he had watch in the sky in order to see from where it would hit completely forgetting that there was another maverick there as he felt his body immobilize.
He felt cold and only had one thought as he was falling from the sky with only one thought.
'How the hell did penguin managed to hit me!' thought Axl as he came in contact with the ground.
Axl managed to sit up as he saw that Mandrill was not only surrounded by his lighting but also looked like he was surrounded by icy wind.
'I See it is not that he hit me, he is passing his energy to Mandrill as he was conducting the lighting releasing ice every time one of the lightings stroke it was only a matter of time before I went through one of the places he had already attacked, I never thought these 2 would be so good in teamwork.' Thought Axl as mandrill clapped his fist again creating another lighting that went straight at Axl.
"I admit it you are good but… are you going to do anything else than just dodging and parry?" asked Kuwanger while Ren was doing exactly what Kuwanger said.
The moment Axl had left Kuwanger had begun to launch a great quantity his boomerangs but not at Ren but the whole room making them fly around in every direction, what it was surprised it was the coordination between the attacks when not one but several boomerangs came at him at a very high speed, thanks to Axl training it was easy to avoid, but he still didn't see an opening without risking having an injury while his enemy just stood there the entire time.
Ren decided to keep going like that trying to find a pattern but every time he thought he got it changed all of the sudden making Ren back into defense and thinking again.
'Gotta take a risk' thought Ren as decided to use the Gun katas to open away, he began to shot his guns for the first time to stop the boomerangs noticing that they only changed the direction of them it didn't stop them.
'I really need to change the caliber of these, but at least I am advancing.' Thought Ren as he decided to raise his rhythm.
Making more advance as Kuwanger decided to drop the calm demeanor as he prepared a running position.
Seeing that the speed of the boomerang attacks had decreased Ren decided to made a run for it as he activated his aura and make a charge while spinning guns successfully entering in a close range attack in which Ren didn't wasted time and began to attack spin the guns trying to connect a hit while shooting with no luck since Kuwanger was carefully avoiding the shots, Kuwanger catch one of the boomerangs that were coming at them and used it to start to parry as another one came at them as he also began to use it to parry.
Just as Kuwanger managed to parry both gun making Ren lose his balance he quickly stood back as from his backpack appeared a yellow light, the next thing Ren knew is that he was being pushed at high speed while being in between Kuwanger metal horns, Ren tried to free himself as he put as much aura as he could in his arm but it was too late as he was planted in the wall letting his guns fall to the ground while releasing an scream in pain before Ren stopped screaming.
Kuwanger separated himself from Ren who was still on the wall thinking he was unconscious; Kuwanger began to walk to the door of the training room as he raised his arm to recollect all of the boomerangs that were still flying and gathered in his arm and put them all under his sleeves. As he was about to get out of the room he began to hear something.
He turned around to see Ren standing up from the wall and surprisingly not picking his guns but instead taking of his upper clothes to reveal he was wearing a black best alone with one black arm band in each arm as he sat moment and took of another set of bands that were on his leg, Kuwanger realized what those were, that explained why there wasn't any blood on his horns.
"I gotta hand it to you kid, you are persistent, but I don't think that just by taking of those weights you will be able to beat me."
Ren just took of all the weights and places them gently on the floor as he put back one his normal clothes and took his guns.
"Of course after all I already know how you control your boomerangs, but more importantly how is that you use that many."
"Oh you don't say." Said Kuwanger as he raised both hands letting the same vast quantity of boomerangs come from his sleeves.
Kuwanger sent a great number of boomerangs at Ren who was against the wall while Kuwanger was literally in the other side of the room, seeing this Ren just prepared his legs to charge as Kuwanger's boomerangs came at him, imagine the surprise of Kuwanger when he saw that Ren wasn't there any more but instead one feet away with both guns in X position while still running.
Kuwanger eyes widened in realization as he saw that his hands were surrounded by his pink aura.
He jumped back as Ren slashed the air very close to him creating a blast of cutting wind making Kuwanger put both of his in defense to cover his face as he was send flying to the wall at his side.
Ren stood there and smiled as he saw that Kuwanger gloves were destroyed, he looked up to see some boomerangs falling while the others disappeared.
"I already had in mind that you were controlling the boomerangs with your mind that was why you stood there while several boomerangs came at me, also when you assumed the stance when I was going to attack you I noticed that the currency of the attacks had slow down meaning that you were starting to focus more on me and not in the boomerangs." Explained Ren calmly as his opponent stood up from the wall.
"Very impressed kid, but how did you know that must of them were holograms generated by the originals?"
"I didn't until you slammed me in the wall, I was able to barely see that all of the boomerangs were coming together usually being that close they would have clashed with each other but instead I could see as if they were passing through each other."
Kuwanger just gave a chuckle as the boomerangs that were on the ground came at him and surrounded him, Ren saw that there were only 15 of them.
Now why don't we end this seeing that you saw through my illusion.
Kuwanger charged with his back glowing yellow making him go at high speed as he took one boomerang in each hand while Ren matched his speed thanks to not having the weight off and putting aura in his eyes to see the start of his charge.
Ren saw as the boomerangs around Kuwanger were flying at him while he was preparing to slash him with the 2 on his hand.
Ren decided to go faster putting aura in his legs as he decided to get rid of the boomerangs for good putting again aura in his arms as he quickly cutting boomerang after boomerang carefully and calculating every step.
Kuwanger eyes widened as he clashed with Ren and noticed that all of his boomerangs except for the 2 in his hands had been destroyed and he didn't saw it, he put his aura in his 2 last boomerangs so they wouldn't be cut.
Ren began to overpower Kuwanger as he little by little began to overpower Kuwanger as his aura was being overpowered by Ren`s finishing destroying the last of his boomerangs, Ren quickly kicked Kuwanger back with his aura still active sending him back, Ren noticed as the back of Kuwanger was shinning brighter than ever as he recovered and planted his feet firm in the floor and began to run straight at Ren.
Ren did the same as he began to run at the same speed while spinning his guns while Kuwanger was using his horns, both crossed path while blade had made two shots while slashing from bottom to top.
A few seconds later Kuwanger had fault in the floor as did his horns, Ren turned around to see Kuwanger in the floor as he turned around to see the ceiling, Ren began to walk to pick up his weights.
"You shot at me legs while spinning your guns and still managed to cut my horns, Axl trained you well."
"Yes… yes he did." Said Ren as he putted back feeling again the change of pressure in his body.
"Let me ask you something, is that you max speed."
"I don't know, it is the first time since he took me as an apprentice that I had took off the weight, so I wouldn't know what is my limit with or without using aura." Said Ren as he decided to go and look for Axl.
"Aren't you gonna finish me?" asked Kuwanger.
"The way I see it you cannot longer walk there is no reason to kill you."
Ren didn't saw as Kuwanger picked up one of his broken horns.
"You are too naïve kid." Said Kuwanger as Ren heard something behind him.
Ren stopped for second as his eyes widened in realization, he then started walking again not seeing the scene behind him.
"It was a pleasure."
"Would you stop already, he should at least be unconscious by now." Said penguin as for the past 15 minutes mandrill had been sending the same lighting at the spot Axl was.
"Why don't you get close and see, I do not want to risk it."
Penguin looked at him.
"And risk being electrocuted no way in h-" penguin didn't finished the sentence as he felt something getting wrapped on his legs, those were vines.
"What the-" once again interrupted as he was pulled from the ground into midair and then launched at mandrill
Mandrill saw this and separated his hands and stepped right to avoid the collision with penguin.
Penguin saw the direction mandrill had been send.
"HEY!" shouted an angry voice making Mandrill eyes widened, as he turned back as he received a massive drop kick from Axl right in the face sending him back just to crash in an big earth wall that wasn't there as second ago standing 4 feet away from him and making him unconscious.
"Do you have any fucking idea how little air was in there!" shouted Axl angrily.
The moment the lighting was about to strike Axl made the earth around him suck him, making him be under the ground waiting for the ice around him to melt.
"I am gonna made you pay both of you for making me wait 15 minutes doing nothing!" said Axl as a figure in form of an ice drill came from the sky straight at Axl, while he just jumped back with an smile behind his mask as penguin stood were he was once.
"It doesn't matter we will just readjust our plan!" said penguin as he put his hands in the floor again and a small circle of ice appeared under him.
Axl just put his guns away and waited.
"You gone mad or- what the hell? Why aren't the stalagmites coming?"
"When I said that I spent 15 minutes doing nothing maybe I lied a little." Said Axl as penguin stood up and was about to ask what did he meant as he didn't noticed the sudden shadow that was falling on him… literally.
The wall that was behind him with mandrill had fall on him making the 2 be stuck between the ground and the fallen wall.
"Do you really think this will stop us? Give us- wait a second why the hell does this fell so hot, stop it! I feel like if I am burning WAIT NO, I AM BURNING PLEASE STOP IT!" shouted penguin while mandrill was still unconscious.
"Talk about fried chicken." Said Axl as he just sat seeing the wall being sucked by the ground, it turn out that the process of melting the ice was taking forever so he decided to get creative and see how far his earth manipulation could go calling an small amount of lava near him, but why stop there, he decided to fill the whole place under it with lava as he came with this little payback.
"Got to admit, it is the first time I use me earth manipulation to that degree." Said Axl as he heard the screams of penguin fading away.
Axl stood up and began to walk to the academy but stopped as he saw Ren walking at him Axl smiled behind his mask, but faded when he saw the face Ren had.
"He ended himself didn't he?"
Ren just nodded and wondered how did he know.
"The actual leader of this bastards is a monster, dying to seemed like a better option." Said Axl as he pulled out his scroll to see that it was still jammed.
"It looks like the signal is down even with mandrill death, looks like it is gonna take so-" Ren saw as Axl stayed quiet and them saw look at the direction of the emerald forest.
He saw at the direction of the emerald forest and a giant pillar of black light going to the sky.
"Shit."
(Various minutes ago).
In a part of the emerald forest there could be heard a great number of explosions one after another all of them trying to get a Grimm looking dog with a long red black like energy blade on his mouth.
Lambert had been running for a time now, with no luck of finding the one that grabbed him in mid air and separated him from Drake, but thanks to the tentacles that seemed to be everywhere lambert have been having problem to locate from they were coming from.
Also there was the fact that didn't matter if he was in a clear area or one surrounded by trees it would be bad anyway.
Meanwhile in another part of the forest stood a man with red hair wearing the same uniform as the others, the man stood in very far part of the forest with a great number of digital screens in front of him and also a great number of digital keyboards in front of him and finally the most notable thing is the giant pack in his back that was releasing a great number of tentacles.
'I still cant stand that have to take care of the Grimm this is humiliating.' Thought the man.
The man began to tap various keys as he was beginning to trap lambert in a location to end him.
He saw lambert avoiding another set missiles and r avoiding some o the tentacles that were coming from both right and left forcing lambert to speed up reaching a clearing, he stopped then he noticed that the tentacles following were no more, but his instincts were telling him to get out of there, as he was about to exit the clearing the tentacles appeared again from the ground blocking his exit and surrounding him.
'Lets se- what the hell is he doing?' thought the man as he saw the armed Grimm stretch his legs as he lowered his head and Ruben Mors began bright a little more that usual as lambert gave a fast 360 degree slash.
From the side of the man seeing that several of his screen when black while seeing from another view that lambert had cut all the tentacles in that surrounded him.
"very nice but… meh" said the figure to no one in particular as he pressed a button from one of the keywords making the ground where lambert was standing explode.
'Just because you cut various my tentacles doesn't mean you cut all of them you stupid beast.' Thought the man as he began to see through the cameras on the tentacles to search for his body.
The figure kept looking in the screens getting annoyed, as he didn't found the body, soon after, one of the screens began to beep indicating movement, the cameras were made to react in case of the visualization of the objective in this case lambert.
He turned around to see the Grimm he was hunting running in another side of the forest.
'How did he got there so fast?' thought the man as another screen began to beep.
"What?" this time asked out loud as he saw that his target was now in another path of the forest was now.
He freaked out even more as he began all of the cameras began beep.
"What the hell is going on?" asked the man as he freaked out as he saw that the screens that belonged to the special tentacles that he put near his area to protect him from near Grimm, were being destroyed before the alarm could even sound.
He made the screens disappear and separated himself from the massive backpack to reveal 6 tentacles coming from his back and prepared to attack whatever was entering his area.
He heard something from the bushed to his right and began to launch missiles from his tentacles at the bush; he stopped as he felt a something coming from his right at his head, he ducked left as he saw what had entered to his zone.
The puppy that he saw in the briefing for this mission, the Grimm turned dog with an small knife on his mouth.
'That`s why I couldn't found him he turned in to his smaller form when I set the cameras to only look for his Grimm form.' Thought the man as he saw lambert charged at him jumping with knife in mouth at high speed trying to attack the tentacle figure.
The man quickly began to evade the incoming attacks one after another while shooting his missiles at the direction lambert was gonna land in a futile intend seeing that he jumped back the moment he touched ground.
"Insufferable pest" shout the man as he octopus as he jumped in the air and targeted the are around but making sure not to hit the massive bag he was using earlier.
He released a barrage of missiles as lambert had landed, he saw as the missiles exploded just to see a black blur flying straight at him, he quickly shot all the tentacles in one direction to use the recoil to move at a side before he was attacked.
The black figure went pass him and destroyed the tentacles that he used to shot those last missiles, the figure fell on the ground and began to run to the massive back.
Lambert who had changed back to his Grimm form with Ruben Mors fully released as he saw the man opened the bag and then turned at him.
"Do you seriously believe that I will be defeated by an animal a Grimm no less! Ridiculous! Let me show you what I am capable of, I Launch Octopus!" shouted the man as several tentacles came out of the bag and stock at his back, he then began to use some of them to stand in a higher ground.
Lambert saw as a bigger barrage of missiles were shot at him while Octopus decided to his extra libs to go backwards fast, seeing this lambert decided to begin a pursue while avoiding all of the missiles.
Octopus who was still shooting his missiles while moving backwards stooped when they had reached a clearing, he landed in the ground and saw lambert running at him, he send various of his tentacles to attack frontally while some of them went underground while lambert began to evade tentacle after tentacle as he prepared to do a high speed thrust when he felt he was close enough.
As he was about to use his attack he fall to the ground as he noticed that something had grabbed one his limbs followed by the other ones and then was lifted in the air while every of the tentacles were pulling from each limb ready to split him apart, lambert had dropped Ruben Mors as he began to scream in pain.
"Scream all you want but this is your end." Said Octopus prepared in case he turned in his smaller form he would catch him again while changing, what he didn't have a accounted what was gonna happen now.
*HOWL*
"What was that?" asked out loud as from all of the sides appeared various Beowulf that jumped at the tentacles holding lambert freeing him, he was about to shot his missiles as he heard the sound of the bushed, he jumped quickly back seeing another Beowulf appear.
Octopus was about to take a higher ground again and launch another barrage of missiles just be hit from behind and send in the sky, then in mid air he was his again sending him back to the ground just be hit again this time forward, his eyes widened as lambert appeared in front of him as he saw not only Ruben Mors activated and glowing more with also that his eyes looked like of they were flowing energy along with his body that was glowing more darker.
Lambert passed octopus at very high speed while he was still in mid air, not a second later he heard the dog give a howl as various lines of blackish-red color appeared around him cutting him and destroying all of the tentacles.
He his the ground harder as he realized something.
"There is no way in hell, that was aura, how the fuck did he used an aura attack he is a Grimm!"
his rage stopped as all the Beowulf got closer to him and looked of a second at lambert who just moved his head giving confirmation.
The grimms the looked at Octopus as his face was in a state of terror.
Lambert sheathed Ruben Mors as he began to run where Drake was ignoring the screams of help that disappeared soon after, a couple of minutes later lambert stopped as he saw the giant square like prison, he was about to run again when he saw the cube being destroyed by a pillar of massive black light that came from the ground.
Drake was running with blades in hand at high speed without not enough way to go since he calculated that the damn square was only 300m long and for the 2 guys he was fighting it wasn't enough, especially with the immense amount of rage that was being accumulated.
Not because his room was blown up with all of his things, not because he was worried for Axl or any of the others since they knew they were capable fighters including Ren since he had been training with Axl, nor by how annoying how this Dynamo character could be although he had to admit that he was smarter than he looked like… or more like a coward.
All of these facts annoyed him or worried him raising only a little of anger, the true reason was that robot Highmax he couldn't tell why but just looking at him made him want to destroy everything in his way to do it.
Unfortunately he couldn't since those rings that surrounded him were acting as a force field that had the same properties as the square.
Drake stopped running as he quickly changed direction and started running again since pillar of blue light was gonna fall where he was going, he raised his blades as he saw various light pink purple blades coming flying at him but Drake just deflecting them as he continued running in that direction.
'Those were dynamo`s attacks and blades, I don't like this, Highmax hasn't made a move, I need to stay sharp.'
Little did he know that Highmax have been in the sky calculating and evaluating every possible that Drake had of victory, thinking in the fastest way of capture Highmax descended at a high speed in the direction Drake was going.
Highmax had landed with force creating a crater around him as he stood in front in Drake who had his blades in defense position.
"YOU SHOULD GIVE UP AND MAKE THINGS EASIER, THERE IS NO WAY THAT YOU CANT ESCAPE LET ALONE DEFEAT ME." said Highmax as all of hid body began to be surrounded by electric energy along with the rings.
Drake`s instincts were telling him to run, but there were 2 problems with that, one he didn't have enough places to run to for the limited the area and two is anger was getting the best of him.
Drake launched waves of energy made by his blades directly at him with no result as his enemy began launch sphere of energy at him.
Drake try to deflect them just for the spheres pass through the blades hitting Drake in the chest sending him back a little.
Pain unlike any other, that was what Drake was feeling, those spheres were made of some kind of energy as he felt they were doing something to him as he began to felt tired but was quickly replaced as Highmax came at sight.
Seeing Highmax in relative good distance he decided something, he stabbed hell on the ground and put some energy on it creating a massive wave of stalagmites that were glowing that surrounded Highmax.
Drake put even more energy on his blade making the stalagmites explode around him.
Drake thought a deep breath trying to replenish the energy he had lost not losing his sight of the place Highmax was.
Drake`s eyes widened as he saw something sparking in the place he was looking as smoke was covering all, one second Drake was looking at the place Highmax was, and in the second he was being pushed by Highmax while said robot was chocking him.
He had moved to fast that he didn't saw when he came out of the smoke, Drake who was still being able to hold his blades put energy on hell and managed to touch Highmax face with it to create an explosion, successfully freeing Drake, who began to run.
'I had to put more energy than usual to made the blade create and explosion by contact instead of waiting a few seconds for it, but still I feel tired again, first with those energy spheres and then with his… touch. shit' thought Drake in realization whatever Highmax attack were made of or even his touch was making him tired.
'No more like they are altering my aura or even worse my energy manipulation itself.' Thought Drake as he felt something above him.
He quickly raised his blades to block an incoming attack from dynamo who was using one of his spinning blades to attack, Drake parried quickly as he heard the noise of his spinning blades coming at him from all sides.
He quickly put aura in his arms seeing that he was exhausted to complement his usual strength and slashed the air in circular motion wit both blades to create a wave like tornado around him that deflected the blade.
Seeing Dynamo in frontal of him he decided to go for a frontal attack since he knew he didn't stand a chance against Highmax and waiting for Axl was his best option for it.
Drake charged at dynamo as he easily began to avoid or block all of his attacks.
"Tired Drake, wanna take a break?" asked dynamo as Drake wasn't fast enough to cover and opening that Dynamo took advantage of by sending a kick to Drake`s ribs sending him to a nearby tree.
He was about to stand up as he saw a familiar like looking energy wall in front of him but not just there as several appeared from all sides caging him in a box.
Drake began to slash the cage as he began to feel his energy getting drained again.
"You know I found it ironic that he lock inside a cage that is inside a cage." Said dynamo as all of the sudden sparks of lighting made of the same energy that Highmax uses making Drake start screaming in pain.
Dynamo looked as Highmax landed besides him with an small fissure on his face.
"You do know we need him alive right?" asked Dynamo as Highmax got closer.
"GIVE UP, IT IS FUTILE I WAS MADE TO COUNTERACT YOUR ALL OF YOU, EVEN THOUGHT I WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGN TO KILL YOU ALL ORDER ARE ORDERS, I WILL JUST WAIT PATIENLY WHEN THE OPPORTUNY COMES" said Highmax and even if he was a robot Dynamo could ear the clear disgust towards Drake.
Drake began to lost consciousness while the lighting was still hitting him.
"Hey stop now or you are really gonna kill him." Said Dynamo afraid of the higher ups would do to him if his objectives are death.
"I AM ONLY MAKING SURE H-" Highmax stopped when he saw Drake starting to get up with his face looking at the ground.
Highmax put more energy in the cage and in the lighting to weaken him but he stood still as black aura began to flow from his body.
The next thing both of them knew was that he slashed lazily with one blade the cage breaking it completely.
"HO-" Highmax was interrupted as Drake had send and X shaped energy projectile of black color.
Highmax stood there seeing it was pure energy and not like the explosion Drake pulled before thinking that he would be able to absorb it, he was mistaken as he was send flying with the X shaped energy projectile still going against him pushing him.
'THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE, THIS ENERGY IS 20 TIMES MORE DENSER THAN THE NORMAL ONE, THIS WAS NOT AMONG MY CALCULATION.' Thought Highmax as he felt as he had crashed against something behind him making him take the projectile by force leaving and X mark on his chest as one could barely see the circuits on it.
Highmax saw that the thing that he crashed from behind was a solid wall made of black energy, he moved at high speed as he felt energy based weapons flying at him he looked back to see that as the wall and the projectile before they were black.
'NOT RECOMMENDED TO GET IN CONTECT WITH THOSE.' Thought Highmax as he looked at the direction of the knives only to see Drake in mid air with his hair covering his eyes.
Highmax charged at him in mid air as Drake did the same with blades ready to strike, while Highmax created his rings around his body and raised his arms that were surrounded by energy to grab Drake from the collar.
When they clashed Drake`s blades clashed against the invisible barrier, Highmax was about to grab Drake as he noticed something, Drake`s eyes were not just red but totally slit and emotionless but also the mad grin he was giving him as the blades began to be surrounded by the dark energy as the rings around him broke destroying the invisible barrier around him.
Highmax began to parry with his metal hands that were surrounded by his own energy with difficulty as with every hot was becoming more unreadable and faster being able to land some slashes in his arms.
Highmax quickly created a wall above Drake and send it straight at him making Drake crash in the ground creating a cloud of dirt, but as soon as it hit the ground, one black chain flew at Highmax and wrapped around his waist and pulled him to where Drake was going through the smoke.
When the smoke was cleared it could be seen that in one hand was the chain Drake used and in the other one was hell impaled in Highmax chest with the black energy around it while heaven was unsheathed .
"THI-S IIIII-S F-AAAAAAR –FROOOOOOOOOOM OOOOOVEER!" said Highmax as around him a massive sphere of energy surrounded him hurting Drake but immediately healing him, Drake draw heaven and pulled off hell from Highmax chest quickly to slash both blades resulting in cutting Highmax arms.
Highmax having losing both arms began to fly in the air at high speed trying to get out of the barrier and let Drake inside along with Dynamo who had disappeared in the middle of the fight.
Highmax looked down to see if Drake was still down, he wasn't, his eyes would have widened if they could as he turned around just to be met by Drake`s grinning face that used his hand to grab Highmax throat and began to go down at a even higher speed while the dark aura around him was getting bigger as he slammed Highmax in the ground.
He then stood up accumulating more aura around him and free it all creating a massive pillar of black light that went through the cage breaking it and keep going to the sky.
Drake eyes snapped open as he sat in a bed, he looked around to see it was not his room and it was still night.
The last thing he remembers was losing consciousness because of the energy draining and the pain he had been feeling, he wondered if he had gone berserk again, he stood up and noticed some of Ren`s magazines meaning he was in team JNPR room.
He sat in the bed as he began to recall of the events, there was something that seemed weird but he could not pin point what.
His thoughts were interrupted as the door of the room opened to reveal Ren who looked rather tired.
"You are awake." Said Ren as he sat in another bed.
"What happened?" asked Drake looking at Ren who was uncomfortable, Ren told him everything that happened with him and Axl until the point Axl had beaten the tea that had gone after them.
"And after that?" asked Drake.
"He flew to the zone you were and helped you that is all I know since he didn't let me go, he returned later with you in hand and said that he would leave the academt for a while that he had to do something, he also said that you didn't have to worry, the MH will take care of this business." Said Ren while Drake just looked at him with his usual face analyzing what the told him and there was something inside of him that made him feel more uneasy.
Drake stood up and began to walk to the door.
"Where are you going?" asked Ren
Drake just looked at him.
"To my room, to see what can be save from it. By the way what time is it since I see that no one have returned yet?" asked Drake
"They should be arriving soon I have not being able to contact anyone since it looks like whatever was jamming the signal is still active for a while" said Ren as drake opened the door but not before looking at Ren with a little smile.
"I am happy you are alive by the way." Said Drake as he headed out of the room leaving a guilty Ren.
Drake walked to the hall and headed to his room as he heard some footsteps coming from there he wasn't surprised to see lambert running at him as he jumped while Drake catch him.
"Are you ok?" asked Drake as he petted lambert while he just nodded and then put him in the hood.
He entered his room to see everything burned with nothing to save, but he knew that wasn't what was worrying him.
He was glad that Ren and Axl got out alive but something in his story worried Drake it looked like the enemies they fought weren't as strong as the ones he fought, his eyes widened in realization.
"I needed to see if you were the real deal."
"Good thing I didn't hit that jacket."
"Gotta love when a plan comes together."
"You do know we need him alive right?"
"GIVE UP, IT IS FUTILE I WAS MADE TO COUNTERACT YOUR ALL OF YOU, EVEN THOUGHT I WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGN TO KILL YOU ALL ORDER ARE ORDERS, I WILL JUST WAIT PATIENLY WHEN THE OPPORTUNY COMES"
he remembered all his previous fights with the mavericks and all the words that were exchanged, Axl was never the objective it was him.
He tried to think in what reason could they have, more reason that just being Axl partner.
'Eagle and Highmax looked at me or talked like if they were comparing me with something or someone. And the worst part of all of this is that Axl probably thinks the same that`s why he wanted to stay as my partner, but why?' thought Drake as his mind was doing a lot of processing.
But came to one conclusion, he couldn't stay in the academy it would be to dangerous and besides it looks like Axl knew something about him and he needed to know so that he wouldn't harm the academy.
He stood up and took from his jacket his scroll that was broken, not that he was really surprised him, he saw that he still had Batholomew`s test and put them back as he threw his old scroll.
He moved the bed to reveal it had a secret compartment on the floor; he opened it to reveal a large safe box that needed a password.
'Summer Rose' typed Drake as the safe opened to reveal a back that was filled with lien some clothes and a new scroll. He had prepared this in case tin head decided to try and abduct him, then again that was 5 years ago but still had the idea in mind for emergency's and this one was, he stood up and began to walk in the half way just to be met by Ren.
"Where are you?" asked Ren with a serious look.
"Things have change I need to find a Axl as soon as possible, so please step out of the way." Said Drake in no mood for this.
"Axl said he would come back there is no need for you to go." Said Ren almost pleading him not to go and Drake noticed this.
He just gave a sigh and looked at Ren, "Are you wearing your vest?"
"Yes wh-" Ren didn't finish the sentence as Drake had landed an strong fist in the stomach so fast that he couldn't react leaving him unconscious.
"to see how much strength should I use." Said Drake as he took Ren and put him against the wall gently.
"I don't know why you don't want me to go, but that is the more reason to do so." Said Drake as he took Bartholomew`s test and put them in Ren`s hand and headed outside.
After he was outside of the dorm he told lambert to change in Grimm form, he hopped in and so that the air ships were arriving from afar.
"Time to go for a while buddy, I hope you are ready because we will take the long route to the city." Said Drake as lambert just gave a woof in affirmation and began to ran at high speed, when he reached the highway he looked back at the academy one more time before paying attention to the road.
AN:*sigh* long chapter, I feel proud about the fight with Kuwanger and octopus.
For those who ask what happened with Axl, dynamo, and the gap of time it will be all answered in the volume 1 finale.
I do not feel proud of the fight of Highmax for one thing the character itself since basically the same Highmax from X6.
I did also based Dynamo from the same game that is why when saw that things were getting dangerous he decided to step aside since he is the kind of character that would run away when he knows something would give him killed.
I saw the world of remnant 1, I had an idea that I discarded since it would be over kill to introduce but thanks to that video I know I can do it an explained but still that is for the future.
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