*Camera turns on.*
*The camera is not making any noise as ZS Connor and Dark Prelate Mitchell start their commentating.*
ZS Connor: "Welcome back, everyone. The camera is working fine again.*
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "Yeah, good thing too…"
ZS Connor: "So...Before we start the chapter, we need to go over something that happened in the last chapter.
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "Yeah...since we didn't due to the overheating camera…"
ZS Connor: "As for the topic, It's about that reptilian form of this guy over here. *Points at Dark Prelate Mitchell.* "
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "...Uhm...what about it?"
ZS Connor: *Struggling to remember the details provided in last chapter.*"Well...Just about it in general...Like...I don't know….Why would you want to become whatever the name for 'it' is."
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "I never said I underwent the procedure WILLINGLY...I just took advantage of it when I was turned into it…"
ZS Connor: *Thinking up a question on the spot.* "So...this procedure...Is it dangerous? And is this 'Greed-Whatever' more of a curse or a mixed bag kinda thing?"
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "Mixed bag...and it CAN be dangerous, especially if the person performing the procedure has the same medals as you, and more of them...fortunately, the guy who did this had a different set of Core Medals Greeedifying him, so...yeah…"
ZS Connor: "So...these medals...Can I see one...and show it to the camera ? Or is that not possible?"
Dark Prelate Mitchell: *ejects one of the Cobra Medals from his hand, and shows it to the camera*
ZS Connor: *Takes the Cobra medal and looks it over.* "So...Is there any problem with me holding this medal this far away from you?"
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "Uhm… … ...I'd rather you didn't… … …"
ZS Connor: *Quickly gives back the medal.* "Sorry...Like I asked...Is there a problem if one ends up missing outside of your possession?"
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "...For me, yes…a big one..."
ZS Connor: "Let me guess...Nasty side effects or conditions that gradually get worse over time?"
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "Yup…I can easily show them to people as long as they remain close to me, and I can use them for...other purposes that've yet to be seen in-story, but if taken TOO FAR away...yeah, problems…"
ZS Connor: "Okay. Um...Is there anything else we can talk about that's not going to be used later and avoid spoiling?"
Dark Prelate Mitchell: *shrugs*
ZS Connor: "I'll take that as a 'yes' for now...Um...Let's start the chapter now..."
*Chapter 6 starts*
Chapter 6: The Warrior of the Khala
The group was escorting Emmeryn when an ambush caused a 'complication'...and what it actually was another battle. Except this was one was fast paced compared to the previous battles.
With the help of Connor, Daniel and his friends, the first batch of enemies fell. However, an ally named Cordelia had shown up, giving a warning that reinforcements were on the way. And like she said, there was reinforcements.
That cluster of enemies were dealt with as the group advanced, took out more enemies and eventually the leader of this ambush. With the threat gone at the moment, Emmeryn was having second thoughts about leaving Ylisstol and its people.
After some more talking, Cordelia ended up sticking with the group, Chrom was given the Fire Emblem, and Emmeryn was heading back to Ylisstol.
The group changed course, now heading to Ferox.
On the way, the Shepherds helped out a set of villagers being attacked from Risen. Thankfully, every villager that was in danger was spared from harm. With that, came rewards that the group accepted as the villagers thanked the Shepherds for defending them.
The items in question was a ladle, log, and something called a Seraph Robe. There was other items as well, but these three stood out more.
Oddly, no one expressed interest in the log...except for Connor. After he was sure no one had a use for it, he took it into his possession.
It was later discovered that the villagers were in danger in the first place due to ANOTHER village forcing them to remain outside when the Risen came, barring their gates and preventing ANYONE from getting in. They claimed this was to ensure that 'peace' remained...the Shepherds all agreed that this wasn't any real kind of peace, only isolation in an attempt to save themselves.
Eventually, the group had made their way to Ferox.
It seemed a day or two have passed...but it was just one day. A odd occurrence went on in the meeting with Flavia between Sumia and Chrom...resulting in the former punching the latter. It was done to apparently bring his mind back to the moment.
Pain subsiding and time going on, Flavia brought up that the Feroxi army was mobilized and ready to fight. She also mentioned that the other Khan, Basilio was getting involved as well.
Of course, Basilio chose THEN to arrive and announce something…
"Chrom! Good gods, I've been looking for you everywhere!" he called.
Chrom asked, "Is something wrong?"
"Our scouts have reported back. Dark news, I'm afraid... Ylisstol...has fallen."
"What?!"
"The Plegians captured your exalt and retreated back across their lines. Gangrel has declared she's to be publicly executed within the moon."
"E-executed?!"
Lissa...didn't take the news well. "Ooooh…" In fact, she fainted into Lenora's arms.
At that point, Chrom initially began acting rashly, planning on charging in, but fortunately, the Khans and the Avatars managed to calm him enough to listen to reason. A plan was made...as Daniel and Connor made their own plans.
"So...we know that Sevon's and Lenora's plan is gonna fail. This means we need to decide NOW what we're gonna do…" Daniel replied.
Connor quickly mentioned something he came up with, which involved his decoy and invisibility. The plan was to use the invisibility to move 'someone', while the decoy was a fake version of that 'person' as events played out….But, there was a problem with that plan...and Daniel pointed it out.
"What happens when the Plegians discover Emmeryn's still alive? Wouldn't that potentially cause everything to backfire?" Daniel asked.
"... ...Yeah...I didn't think that far….or of that outcome. Do you have a plan, or something we can use to help us out?" Connor responded back.
Daniel smiled before offering up his plan.
Some small amount of time passed before the group had to head out to try and rescue Emmeryn. The current mission, however, required that the group travel through a desert to avoid being spotted by Plegian forces.
The sandy dunes made the advancement slow down, but its results of not getting spotted were worth not having get slowed down by the enemy in combat.
Unfortunately...Things were just about to get out of hand.
A small squad of scouts from the Ferroxi army had passed information back to Frederick that an engagement of some kind was going on south of the group's location. The path they were taking was in that direction...meaning they had to ready to get involved in the worst case scenario.
After going down south, the group saw a interesting sight involving a large mercenary and a small maiden with green hair. Initially there was some confusion about what was going on, but when the large band of strange dressed people showed up saying something about wrath…
The confusion increased actually...but what became clear was that a battle was on.
Daniel looked out over the battlefield...before pulling out and putting on a NEW belt. This one had three slots...the perfect size and shape of the Core Medals that Daniel showed them back in Ylisse…
Then, he ejected a Cobra, Kame, and Wani medal from his hand...before putting it in the belt, which he then took the front of and turned it so it was diagonal slightly. Then, he took a ring like decide and used it to scan the belt...then…
"KOBURA! KAME! WANI! BURA-KA~WANI!"
The resulting armor was orange and brown, with the head possessing two purple lenses and a helmet resembling a turban made from a snake. On the arms and shoulders appears to be shields made from a metallic turtle's shell, while the legs looked like the neck of a crocodile.
This was the Burakawani Combo. And Daniel had become Kamen Rider Neo OOO: Kamen Rider OOO's doppleganger.
Despite the significance, which Connor never cared about remotely, he quickly poked Daniel with the log he was carrying and said, "Put your mind back into the fight before you get lost in thought about...whatever you're supposed to be."
"Kamen Rider Neo OOO…" Daniel replied.
"Whatever...Man, this heat is killing me." Connor said before fanning himself in a vain attempt to cool down.
"Really? Huhhh...I guess being a Greeed has its advantages…" Daniel replied, "Especially the Reptile Greeed…"
Lightly bumping the log into Daniel, Connor just said, "Great...Now let's get going...I need to test out this log as a weapon." before running off lugging that log over his shoulder.
Daniel just watched as he left. "... ... ...Why?" he asked aloud.
The girl, Nowi, and the mercenary, Gregor, made their stand in the middle of the field, but Grimreal continued charging in.
One Grimreal Swordsman got close to the girl, when…
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" she screamed, before she...turned and blasted the cultist to smithereens. The Shepherds took a moment to watch this, shocked, before continuing to fight.
However, a pair of additional cultists soon approached...before…
"I fear not death." Daniel's Protoss companion, Fenix, arrived. Psi-blades blazing, he cut down an axe wielder. "For our strength is eternal."
"DIE!" called a Dark Mage, before firing a Flux Spell… … ...which only splashed harmlessly on his shields.
"I fear no enemy!" he charged, before stabbing the man. "For the Khala is my strength!" He wrenched the Psi-Blades out of the enemy, before the enemy fell to the ground, dead. "Are you alright?" Fenix asked Nowi.
"Yeah...I'm fine...that was incredible!" Nowi replied.
Fenix gave a boisterous laugh. "Indeed, it was. Now come! If what I heard was true, these people sought your capture, and it is up to us to show them their folly!"
"Right! They won't leave me alone unless I make them! Let's do it!"
Fenix roared, before charging into battle. Nowi followed shortly after.
Gregor watched them go. "...Well...be guessing girl will be safe with warrior guy with flaming blades… … …" he said to himself, "Better be getting back to fighting, then…"
Several Grimleal cultists were amused and bewildered at what they were seeing. A strange man in black and dark red armor running at them with a large chunk of wood being used like a spear.
Once they got done being amused, one of the cultists fired a dark magic spell at the running log wielder. The spell projectile just went throught the man as he disappeared a moment later.
Then that same cultist felt a log hitting his face, doing enough damage to end his life as it bounced off and landed in the sand.
His comrades were jumpy after seeing that...as the attacker showed up in their vision. Trying to avenge their comrade, the two remaining cultists tried charging to attack Connor.
Their weapons ended up missing as Connor dodged them and retrieved the log. The log was quickly thrown at one of the cultists, ending his life after getting knocked onto his back.
The reaming cultist, an axe wielder, tried to the same thing with his own weapon. That only resulted in him being weaponless as Connor yet again retrieved the log. Except this time, he used to knock the cultist onto his back.
What followed next was Connor slamming the log hard into the cultist's face multiple times till he stopped moving. And then Connor did it one more time just to be sure.
After that, Connor kept moving on, running across the sands, log still in the arm's hold.
While this was happening, Neo OOO was moving around the battlefield, striking at the enemy. An Axe Wielder charged...only to face two powerful punches from the Kamen Rider, who knocked him to the ground.
A sword wielder charged, but he was hit by a pair of kicked, each producing a set of energy-based crocodile jaws, which chomped down on the enemy, killing them.
A pair of enemy mages approached...before Daniel pulled out a pungi, and began playing it, confusing the mages… … ...before the 'turban' he was wearing turned into a cobra, which then struck the mages, killing them.
He looked around at his four kills, before moving on.
The villages among the field of battle were visited by Shepherds, in which the villagers inside each one spared a item after either being warned about or offered protection from the Grimleal forces.
After that passed, the battle still dragged on as more cultists fell to the ground of sand.
Soon, Fenix and Nowi reached the leader of the Grimreal in the area. "Ha ha! You dare defy Grima, god of annihilation?" the Grimreal cultist laughed.
"I fear...NO enemy…" Fenix repeated, his Psi-Blades burning brighter, as he charged.
The cultist dodged his strikes, trying to fire off a spell… … ...before seeing Nowi watch the fight...and firing a spell at her. Fenix noticed this and broke off, using his shields to protect the Manakete. Once that was done, Fenix charged once more, this time striking the cultist faster than he could dodge.
"Master Grima...my life force...is yours…" the cultist rasped, before he finally perished.
Finally, Fenix disengaged his Psi-Blades. "Finally...it is done!"
It was true...in the short amount of time after Fenix defeated the leader of the cultists, the very last one was just finished off by Connor and that log he's been using as a weapon.
Nowi and Gregor met with Chrom and the others, and Nowi seemed a bit divided in how she felt: split between upset at how horrible her day was, and still in awe at what she saw Fenix able to do. In the end, Gregor ended up being hired by the Shepherds to join the war effort, while Nowi joined both to aid the Shepherds AND for her own protection: she is, by her own admittance, a runaway slave.
The Avatars also had a question they been wondering about throughout the battle. It was about the cultists they were fighting, which got explained as that they were Grimleal. The Grimleal were followers of a dragon called Grima, who was slain way long ago in the past.
The group decided to set up camp at a nearby oasis, as they were closing in on the Plegian capital. Connor himself was worn out from his actions on the battlefield...
As...shown by the fact the log he was carrying through the battle was damaged to the point that it was broken. Some of the group were actually a bit scared at the fact Connor had made what was considered to be used as firewood into a weapon.
Ironically, that same log ended up being used as fuel for the fire that cooked the meat and other foods being made during the resting period.
Meanwhile Daniel, who'd returned his Core Medals to himself and turned back to his normal form, was now talking to the rest of his group. "So...basically, that's the plan."
"Are you sure you should trust them with this?" Zeratul asked.
"They are...kinda destructive…" Noire commented.
"And I know they would wish to slaughter each and every Plegian there…" Ash'pur commented.
"Personally, I think it's a great plan," Tsukasa commented.
"Honestly, I'm worried as well," Ruby stated, "Like Ash'pur pointed out, what's to stop them from killing EVERYONE…"
"TRUST ME, everyone, I got it all figured out…" Daniel stated, "Just...just trust me on this, ok?"
The others murmured their acknowledgement.
"... … ...Personally, I find it to be ingenius…" Reinhardzh commented.
"YOU WOULD!" Zeratul, Noire, Ash'pur, Ruby, and (via note) Neo shouted.
The rest period was over...as the group continued towards the Plegian Capital. Except for the few who already knew...History was about to be changed forever...Again.
*Camera switches over.*
ZS Connor: "I'm really surprised the log lasted as long as it did. *Looks at Dark Prelate Mitchell.* "What do you think about it?"
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "Actually, if I recall properly, the game version of the Log has a fair bit of uses…"
ZS Connor: "Except it isn't it classified as a lance in the weapon triangle system?"
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "Tru dat… … ...And I unveiled ANOTHER Kamen Rider identity I possess…"
ZS Connor: *Not caring* "Yeah, yeah, we get it. You have a lot of belts and other Rider junk in your possession. The more impressive thing is that I used that log more like a blunt spear.
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "Yeah yeah, we get it…"
ZS Connor: *Stares at Dark Prelate Mitchell* "You know, I think a live demonstration of my method is needed."
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "Do I HAVE to bring Triple-M in here?"
ZS Connor: *In a mocking tone* "No...I'll just leave...so I can shove a log in your face when I get back and you can see how I won the fights I got into."
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "Really? Maybe I should pull out one of my currently-unseen Drivers and show you what I can REALLY do!" *leveling a glare at the guy*
ZS Connor: *Points behind DP Mitchell, seemingly lying.* "Look, right behind you it's a portal shooting out wooden logs."
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "Bullsh-"
*WHAM!*
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "WHAT THE FUCK?!"
ZS Connor: "See, I told you. There was-"
*WHAM!*
*Wooden Logs keep getting shot out as the camera watches.*
*Eventually, a log gets shot out towards the camera….just barely missing it as the camera lands on its side, seeing another log slam into ZS Connor.*
*The camera gets turned off...and back on.*
*The portal disappeared, leaving at least 10 logs laying around the room.*
ZS Connor: *Trying to make light of what happened with, "Well...at least we got free firewood.*
Dark Prelate Mitchell: *sarcasm* "Gee, great…" *end sarcasm* "WHAT'RE WE GONNA USE IT FOR?!"
ZS Connor:"If not that, I can also do this." *Picks up a log and lightly taps Dark Prelate Mitchell with it.* "Now imagine that, except going way faster and it being aimed up higher."*
Dark Prelate Mitchell: *glares at ZS Connor...before swiping his arm, his Warp Blade activating mid-swipe.*
ZS Connor: *Watches the log he was carrying get destroyed.*
*The destroyed log gets dropped down onto the ground.*
ZS Connor: *A bit worried* "You do know that I'm just messing around...right?"
Dark Prelate Mitchell: *glares*
ZS Connor: *Turns to the camera.* "And we just ran out of time...We'll be back after my co-commentator has calmed down."
Dark Prelate Mitchell: *slowly reaches for the camera and shuts it off*