NOTE: I do not own either RWBY or Kill la Kill. RWBY belongs to the late Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth, and Kill la Kill belongs to studio TRIGGER…
Mmm...So fluffy…
Ruby Rose felt around her as her arms wrapped around whatever was exactly "fluffy." The texture was purely soft and puffy, yet there was a certain sticky feel to it as well. She opened her eyes slightly to see what she was feeling…
It was a pink cloud. Slightly amazed, she pulled on a part of the cloud and looked at it-a distinct compulsion to eat it itching the back of her mind. She put it in her mouth, as the sweet taste of cotton candy overcame her.
Oh...Oh, it's sooo goooooooood…
She started pulling even more of the cloud off-a hand sized chunk removed each time, bit by bit and processed straight into her mouth.
In her rabid quest to stuff herself silly with the sweet cotton candy, she felt something bop the back of her head. Rubbing where it hit she looked up...to see a chocolate chip cookie floating away from her-spinning like a coin tossed into the air.
It was then that she noticed the world around her. A floating buffet of sweet danced around her and in front of her eyes. Cupcakes, cookies, chocolate, strawberries, and many others flew around her, bobbing between clouds of cotton candy and floating rivers of milk. In the far distance, various mounds of white cake covered in white frosting and multicolored sprinkles surrounded her...and on the very top of one stood a large chocolate covered, multilayered, round cake.
She was drooling at the sight, and her eyes lit up like stars. She started to take a step forward when a familiar voice boomed outward.
"Ah! I see that you've spotted the chocolate fortress far away!"
She turned and looked up. Sitting on a golden cupcake with yellow frosting and lavender colored sprinkles floated down her sister Yang-trading her trademark uniform with a sort of old fashioned tuxedo colored brown and purple that exposed the midriff, with a yellow flower sticking out of the nearby pocket, and large-almost comical-shoes. A large grin was plastered on her face. Ruby followed up herself with a massive grin of her own at the sight of her sister. "Yang!"
She waved her hand out around her. "Hello! Kind sister! And welcome to the Land of Sweets!" The cupcake carrying her floated right next to Ruby, making the two sisters nearly level-eyed. "Yes, across a fair distance, and standing among the peaks of the frosted mountains stands the chocolate fortress! Home of the most dastardly of villains-Weiss Schnee, the Cold Hearted Popsicle Princess!"
She held out a hand to Ruby. "Come!, I will take you to face her, and save the land!"
Ruby nodded excitedly as she practically jumped onto the cupcake. Within seconds they were in the air, and within a few more they were sailing across the open expanse of land-made entirely of various sweets-and given only a glimpse of certain places as they quickly approached the Chocolate Fortress.
They rose to the very top of the fortress. Ruby-dangling from her sister's waist as she held on for dear life-felt her feet touch the soft ground (or should she call it frosting) and let go of her sister as she stood on her own two legs. She looked over at Yang, who decided to stay on her floating cupcake as she held out her hand above her. Within seconds, a large red and white candy cane materialized above her and floated into her grip.
"Here! It's dangerous to go alone. Take this and save the Candy Kingdom!" She handed Ruby the candy cane, who took it with a big smile on her face.
As she started getting a feel for the cane, she heard a sinister voice echo around her. "Well...it seems I have some...uninvited guests who want all of the cake to themselves…"
The world seemed to be shaking as Ruby struggled to hold her balance. Yang's brow furrowed as she looked around them nervously for any sign of Weiss. Her wish was granted soon enough, as the top of the cake before them started to crack and fall apart, before exploding upward as several multicolored popsicle's shot out from what was now a hole in front of them.
A massive, pale hand rose out from the same hole and slammed itself onto the roof, sending Ruby and Yang back a few feet. Soon afterward, a white mop of hair rose itself out from the hole as well-tied into a signature ponytail on the side of her blue eyes-one of which had a scar over it-looked down at them as a large, sinister smile graced her lips. "You-Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao Long-wish to end my prosperous rule over the Candy Kingdom. Then I-Weiss Schnee: The Popsicle Princess-will deal with your insolence personally!"
She held her hand out to her side as a popsicle materialized in her grip. Her smile grew wider as the popsicle-originally a normal sized popsicle in comparison to Weiss-elongated into what one could only consider a Popsicle sword. She pointed at the two of them and laughed. "Come heroes, and feel my wrath!"
She started to swing the popsicle blade toward the two of them. Ruby raised her candy cane to defend...when the blade promptly shattered, earning a shocked glance from the princess. "What! How?"
"Forgive my tardiness, friends…"
Everyone turned to look at the newcomer. A knight stood at the edge of the hole-their armor blacker than the colorful environment of the Candy Kingdom. The knight turned toward Ruby-a large pocky stick gripped in their hand-and pulled off their helmet...revealing a mane of black hair, amber colored eyes, and a warm smile underneath.
Ruby's smile widened as she recognized her friend Blake Belladonna-who instantly appeared next to her in a burst of speed. "I have come to help, Miss Rose. Please allow me to assist in this battle."
Ruby nodded as a laugh echoed out from the Princess. "I see you wish to join them in their fate, Pocky Knight! If that is to be the case-" Another popsicle blade materialized in her hand. "-Then come! LET US DO BATTLE!"
Ruby Rose grinned as she looked upon her friend-slash-enemy and started charging. Her voice ringing out in the process…
Ruby shot up from her futon, her arms raised above her head, as she shouted out to the world. "-FOR THE CANDY KINGDOM!"
Silence followed. Ruby paused as she realized that it was all just a dream and looked around. She wasn't in her dorm room-there weren't any haphazard bunk beds or some notably decent decorations, but several futons and an otherwise near barren room. A small table the only piece of furniture sitting in the room…
...That's right. She wasn't in her dorm room, she wasn't even on her own world of Remnant. Instead, she was on Earth, in the home of the Mankanshoku's with another girl: Ryuko Matoi…
...Or...at least that was how it usually was. Ruby looked around and saw that the futons were all empty. She looked over to the dresser. Senketsu wasn't hanging on the side.
She sat there confused. Where is everyone?
The door behind her slid open and she turned, seeing Sukuyo Mankanshoku with her own outfit neatly cleaned and folded under a small "bento." She blinked as the two of them made eye contact before giving a warm smile in her direction. "Ah, Ruby! You're awake now. Excellent, I had just finished cleaning your clothes and thought I might as well sit them right next to you until you wake up. But since you're awake, here you go!" She handed Ruby her clothes.
Ruby looked at her clothes before smiling and nodding in appreciation-taking the wrapped clothes and quickly putting them on as fast as she could. As she did this, she noticed Sukuyo walking away towards the kitchen and called out to her. "Ah! Mrs. Mankanshoku-"
"Please, call me Sukuyo."
"Uh, Sukuyo...Where did Ryuko and Mako go? They weren't here when I woke up."
Sukuyo's head perked back as she looked at Ruby. "That's right! They woke up at four AM earlier today and rushed off to school! I guess they forgot about you…"
"I guess…" Ruby said as her left eye twitched. They forgot about her! Come on! She had been staying there for as long as Ryuko, so how could they forget her. She sighed in frustration as she tied her boots and stood up to check the feel of them.
She walked over to the mirror and smiled at her outfit...with only one thing missing. She walked over to her backpack, unzipped it, and pulled out the one thing she was missing: her red cloak. She looked back in the mirror and nodded in appreciation before picking her backpack up and wrapping it over her back, then picking up her weapon on the way out the door.
She stopped in the doorway of the kitchen, where Sukuyo was busy making...whatever it was that she was making, and waved. "I'm heading off for school, maybe I can catch up to the two of them."
She ran out the front door and sprinted at high speeds toward Honnoji. Soon after, Sukuyo followed out, a used spatula still in her hands.
"Ah, I FORGOT TO TELL YOU! TODAY IS NO-LATE DAY!"
...Ruby would never hear it...nor would she discover it until a few minutes later.
Crimson Incandescence.
EXTRA-Explosivo!
"...It's so quiet today." Ruby said as she momentarily slowed herself, taking in the shantytown environment around her with a curious gaze.
What was going on? She was sure she would see someone moving around in the town-hear people chatting and getting into arguments with each other. Yet it was silent and deserted...almost like Mountain Glenn…
She took a few more steps forward, a single soul still not in sight. She readjusted the backpack hanging from her shoulder...she was starting to get nervous…
...Then she heard it-a set of screams in the far distance, towards the direction of Honnoji. Her brow furrowed as her pace quickened once more into a full on sprint. She ran down the road until she saw a turn up ahead and, with an outstretched hand, gripped a nearby pole to rapidly shift her in the same direction. She sprinted a fair distance more...until she skidded to a stop at the first few steps of Honnoji...
...At least, she thought it was Honnoji...Did Honnoji have a death trap-obstacle course for it's front stairs!?
She stared at the strange construction before her. A massive web of prebuilt routes that all led back up to Honnoji. Throughout these routes were various traps of multiple shapes and sizes-drills on each side, a ferris wheel-like grinder, a cage holding a sort of large white...cat? All of these led down back to what she stood before herself...a set of stairs.
They seemed tame...but considering there were a few unconscious bodies surrounding the edge of the bottom stair, she had the idea that there was something else to these stairs.
She looked at it all in confusion. When did this appear?
She started forward-taking note to step around the knocked out students lying on the ground. As she reached the first step, she started up the stairs…
...It was after she took the fifth step that the stairs shifted, turning into a completely flat surface that would send her tumbling back down.
She took notice, and instantly pressed her foot down hard enough to shoot her up towards the top like a bullet. As she reached the top, she pulled out Crescent Rose and embedded it into the top stair, using it like an anchor. Her body motioned upward in the direction she was heading before slumping back down towards the ground beneath her feet.
She let out a sigh as she wiped her head in relief. Her feet planted themselves on the ground, and she pulled Crescent Rose out from the ground before sheathing it under her cloak.
"-Well, this is unexpected...Just what is going on!?"
"YOU!"
She jumped in terror-almost thinking that Weiss had found her-and flipped around. There was a console-flanked by two One-Star students-with a big red button and a large monitor on the front with the word "Checkpoint" and a fraction of "Nine hundred and ninety nine over one" on the front. Standing before it were two familiar faces that she recognized instantly.
The first was a boy-notably short and bald, with wide green eyes and a missing tooth. The second was a much taller girl with blonde hair tied in two pigtails and two blue eyes. One of which was notably missing the telescope-like eyepiece from before.
Both were in regular, run-of-the-mill No-Star uniforms, which would've thrown Ruby off...had it not been for the fact that these were the first two students she met here beyond Satsuki and the Elite Four, Ryuko, and Mako.
Omiko Hakodate stared at her in surprise as Takaharu Fukuroda pointed a finger at her, his teeth grating on each other and his eyes wide with abject fury. He started stomping towards Ruby, his mouth beginning to run with a lengthy moment of profanity. "Y-Y-YOU BITCH, I remember ,Iouttathrottlethehelloutofyoursorryass,youdamnlittle-"
Ruby was slightly frightened for a second...when she remembered. As Takaharu continued on his rant of vulgarity and anger, she looked over at Omiko. "Why aren't you in your Two-Star uniforms?"
Both flinched as Takaharu paused. Omiko gulped down air, before she started to explain. "W-Well...if we fail Satsuki in any way, shape, or form, we lose the honor of wearing a Goku Uniform beyond a No-Star...and we can't re-apply for one until after a certain amount of days...the last of which is supposed to be today…"
Ruby blinked as she looked back at Omiko, then back at Takaharu-whose look of terror said it all: they were technically powerless now...and Ruby Rose had previously proven a few days ago that she could take on Satsuki Kiryuin...in a Kamui…
...Every bad memory Ruby had of Fukuroda seemed to break down the floodgates of her mind. She looked down at Takaharu-her silver eyes glowing underneath the shadow of her bangs. A grin going from nearly ear to ear spread across her face and a sinister giggle started to escape her.
Takaharu had gone pale as he saw Ruby make the realization...and turned completely chalk white when she started to pull out the still-furled Crescent Rose…
"Ah...Now that I've got that out my system...do you know what's going on?" Ruby Rose asked as she stood in front of a silent Omiko and Takaharu-whose head was covered from the neck up in various lumps of multiple shades.
Hakodate blinked. "...You mean, you don't know what today is?"
"No, what is today?"
Hakodate stared at her as if she had something on her face. She looked over at the boy right next to her as he tried his best to imitate a pinata, before looking back at the silver eyed girl before her. "...I'm guessing then that you have no idea what No-Late Day is, do you…"
"Fa-Fa, Feens uuk iz on fy sidd foday!"
Crescent Rose came down on Takaharu's head-which left a groaning Takaharu in its wake-before returning to Ruby as she answered Omiko. "No...what's No-Late Day?"
For a second, Hakodate looked at her like she had said something that would get anyone in trouble. Then, swallowing, she paused before a single word came out of her mouth. "...W-Well...I'd be happy to explain...if we can make a deal of sorts first…"
"...Then excuse me, but I'm gonna have to move fast if I want to make it past this mess before the first bell." Ruby honestly wanted nothing to do with the two of them, considering their actions toward her and Ryuko previously. With barely any effort, she sidestepped Omiko and proceeded to walk toward the next obstacle-a large part of the road that looped upward once before coming to a steep incline at the top.
"WAIT!" She heard Hakodate call out from behind her. "I-IT'S NOTHING MAJOR OR HUMILIATING! ALL WE'RE ASKING IS THAT YOU HELP US MAKE IT TO CLASS ON TIME!"
Ruby paused in her step. Make it to class on time? "And why should I help you do that…"
"Fesy, fe don't fave hoku-uniforms anyfore, yew bounded fy face infide-fe're utterfy hopefess…"
Ruby paused at the words...thinking them over, before she looked over at Omiko. "So...what did he say?"
Takaharu's instant tensing up brought a small smirk to Ruby's face. Omiko ignored her partners building rage as she began to speak. "The point of the matter is...we need your help if we're to make it to school on time...and you have no idea what No-Late day entails. If you help us, this arrangement would be beneficial to the both of us. So please...please help us."
Omiko was practically on her knees now, crying and doing her best to evoke a "puppy-eye" look. Ruby's eye twitched, before she sighed. "Why not just take one of the tram cars-" She pointed in the direction of the trams. "I'm sure those will work out for...you."
She was just starting to turn her head in that direction when she looked...and was honestly without words when she saw the destruction of the tram cars below-tangled in large whip-like appendages that she recognized were of Gamagoori, as the bodies of unconscious students littered the ground around them.
She stared at the destruction, before looking down at Omiko before her-her look still one of a puppy-eyed girl crying her eyes out-then at Takaharu-his face still sunken in from the beating she had given him earlier. Then, she looked away and sighed in frustration…
"...Fine."
"So what is No-Late Day exactly?"
"Well...No-Late Day is an annual event in Honnoji Academy. It's generally supervised and worked on by the school's trap department, a subdivision of the Disciplinary committee…"
"The one run by Gamagoori?"
"Exactly…"
The three of them stared at the trap before them...or more precisely, the cage before them.
Before them stood a large cage which blocked the way towards the school. Inside, a large white and black-striped cat-like creature stood before them, licking its lips. Behind it, a moderately sized hole was in place...most likely the only way to move forward to the school.
Ruby stared at the creature through the bars separating it from them, her eyes both lit with curiosity and and amazement. "What is it?"
Omiko and Takaharu almost fell face first onto the ground. "You mean you don't know what a white tiger is?"
Ruby glared at them in response. She had been in this world for several days already, and while there were some classes looking at various wildlife, her knowledge of the various animals around the world was sorely lacking. Gosh, it was even the same back on Remnant-she knew wolves and various small creatures existed...but a white tiger?
Omiko stared in astonishment, before sighing as she began to explain what it really was. "A white tiger...it's essentially a variant of the Bengal tiger, though judging from the size of this one...even I'm questioning if it's a normal tiger."
Ruby looked closer at the tiger, noting it's absolutely massive size. The head of the beast practically reached up to just an inch between it and the cage ceiling, and it's overall width was wide enough that she had to lean to her side to see the way through when they first walked up.
She continued to look at the animal, until her eyes met theirs. It stared her down with a look that indicated a spark of intelligence in it's eyes...and a predatory undertone that said to her, as succinctly as possible: "I'm the king here...and I'll eat you for breakfast, lunch, and dinner."
That was when the first instinct in Ruby went into overdrive-back up, think up a plan, and go with that instead. She took a few steps backwards, until Omiko was to her right. "So, do you have an idea to take care of this obstacle?"
Omiko answered immediately. "Yeah, You go in, and take it down with your giant scythe-gun-thing-whatever, easy!"
"Yeah...that's a good ideaaaauwwait a minute."
"What?"
Ruby looked dead on at Omiko. "First: Crescent Rose is a scythe and a customizable, high impact, sniper rifle-"
"Oh, gee, like we didn't know that already-what like you show it off everyday since you got here…" Takaharu snorted.
"You, be quiet-" Ruby pointed at the small teen, before pointing at Omiko. "-And SECOND: I refuse to fight and kill that big guy over there!"
"Oh, come on! We're gonna have to get past him someway or another. Or would you rather we try and rush past him in the hopes that we don't become his next lunch!"
"Well sorry to tell you, but I don't exactly go after my opponents with the intent to kill! And I refuse to do so-tiger, other animal, or any other living thing...except Grimm, but that's another story…"
"Wha...ohhh...so then what do you suggest!"
"Well! I...umm...ahh…" Ruby was at a loss. She had no real answer herself now that she thought about it.
Takaharu watched this all with boredom clear across his face. He yawned as he began to mutter to himself. "Geez, if it was a member of the boxing club facing this damn thing we would've been far past it already. Ah well, either way one or the others gonna have to budge, just hope that the stupid red...riding...hood?"
Takaharu looked up as he realized that the two girls had stopped arguing and were now looking at him. As he looked up at the two with dread building within, the girls looked back at each other, then back towards Takaharu, then repeating the same pattern until finally their eyes fell onto the tiger. Looking back at Fukuroda-who was sweating bullets now-the two smiled, as he started to cower away from them…
"Umm...Why are you looking at me like that?"
The two didn't respond. All Takaharu could see was a distinct red blur, followed by a something tightening around his arm. As he looked and realized that Ruby was grabbing him, he felt his other arm be seized as Omiko grappled him and-with red riding hood-started dragging him towards the cage.
"HEY, WAIT A MINUTE! I CAN'T FIGHT THAT OVERGROWN CAT! I DON'T HAVE MY GEAR! LISTEN TO ME, DAMMIT! I CAN'T FIGHT THAT THING, I'll DIE IF I EVEN TRY! PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME FIGHT IT, I BEG YOUPLEASESPAREMEDAMMITAHHH!"
The two girls tossed him inside. Takaharu landed on his face as he found himself inside the tiger's cage. Rapidly turning around, he faced the bars once more. "GET ME OUT OF HERE-"
He froze as the audible slam of a paw echoed to his right. Shaking uncontrollably, he slowly turned around as he came face to face with the massive white tiger. The animal looked down at him with piercing, cold eyes...and as a whimper started to escape Takaharu, he could swear that the tiger started to smile at him…
...Then it dived right toward him…
As the loud screams and roars echoed out from the cage, Omiko and Ruby stood on the edges of the cage. Omiko pulled a small emery board from her bag and started to file her nails, while Ruby reached into her backpack, pulling out a magazine dedicated to various weapons of any and all kinds. Ruby flipped open past the articles to the first page and began to read.
Soon after that, the screams, yells, and growls slowly died down. Though they initially ignored it at first, the forboding silence that came from the cage after awhile started to get to Ruby. Soon a thought entered her head: did Takaharu...not make it? Had she perhaps...been too hard on him?
Slowly she put the magazine away, brought the backpack onto her back, and started to turn and look into the cage…
...That was when the large white tiger barreled out from the cage, smashing through the bars with ease. It's head and face covered in multiple lumps and bruises as it flew past Ruby and Omiko.
The beast landed a few feet away, knocked out from whatever had happened inside. Ruby and Omiko looked at each other in amazement, before looking inside the cage itself.
Takaharu stood, somewhat slumped over. His uniform had been torn to shreds, exposing his now scarred physique to the two of them. He was breathing heavily-his knuckles covered to the brim with blood and bruises.
As the realization that Takaharu had just beaten a massive white bengal tiger senseless started to sink in, Ruby and Omiko looked over at each other once again...before glancing back at Fukuroda, both giving him a thumbs up in approval.
"Good job!"
"FUCK YOU! BOTH OF YOU!"
"So what's so special about it?"
"Well, it's in the name...you try to make it to school on time. If you don't make it, then you are officially expelled from the academy…"
"...Seriously?"
"Yep. It's done every year as a way to officially weed out the weak and find those worthy of Lady Satsuki's attention and approval. A sort of...trial, if you will."
"NO SONG, NO WAY PAST! SING YOUR HEART OUT, HEATHENS!"
Ruby stared at the words with bemusement. Glancing at the machine nearby, then back at the words, her mind started to figure out what it wanted…
"It...It...It wants us to sing!"
Ruby sat down in a fetal position. The way was blocked by a gate in front of them that encompassed the entire path, with both sides lined with a sort of monitor. Right next to the gate was a karaoke machine, as well as a microphone hanging on the wall nearby.
Hakodate paused for a minute, as she asked a question to Ruby. "You mean you don't know how to sing…"
"I do...I'm just terrible at it."
Omiko looked at the large gate before them. How were they going to get past? She wasn't exactly confident in her singing. It was most likely going to be that her singing would end up shattering a window in shame more than anything else. So if Ruby can't sing well, and she couldn't do well either...that left...
...A notable chuckle came from behind them. The two of them turned to Takaharu-a sly smirk spread across his face. "...So neither of you can sing, you say?" He took a step forward, advancing toward the karaoke machine. "Well...since there's nothing much else to do...why don't you let me handle this instead."
He reached the machine, pressed a few buttons, then grabbed the microphone…
A few minutes later…
"Llllove and compassion, their day is coming...all else are castles built in the air."
"And I wonder when we are ever gonna change...Living under the fear till nothing else remains…"
"All the children say!"
"We don't need another hero!"
Ruby and Hakodate watched on in a mix of astonishment and slight distaste as Takaharu Fukuroda sang his heart out. His singing actually being very, very good from what the two of them could hear. Really, Ruby would almost compliment Takaharu on how well his singing was…
...If not for his choice of song. Omiko's eye twitched as Ruby looked over at her. "What is he singing…"
"It's a song from an old Australian movie...a favorite of Takaharu, if I remember correctly...uhg."
Ruby looked back at Takaharu, well on his way to the next verse. As his song was well within the halfway mark, however, Ruby noticed the monitors on the sides of the gate. Both had lit up-showing a vertical bar that filled up the more Takaharu sang. And as she could see, both were nearly filled up.
Snapping out of her stupor, she shifted her feet to where she could run at any moment. Her arm wrapped around Omiko's waist, earning a small cry of surprise from the girl. "W-What are you doing?"
"-Bracing ourselves."
Takaharu reached one more verse, hitting the high note like a sledgehammer hits a cinder block. In that moment, the gate opened…
Ruby and Omiko bolted forward at a breakneck speed. Ruby held out another arm, clotheslining Takaharu and bringing him along with them in the process.
They shot through the gate instantaneously, before the two doors slammed shut just as fast as they had opened. Ruby held on to the two of them as best she could, before she finally slowed-landing onto the ground and rolling to a stop, with the other two rolling along with her.
Ow...that kinda hurt. Ruby pushed herself up, kneeling on the road as she looked toward Omiko. "Well...we made it...yay." She said, raising her arm in appreciation.
Omiko smiled in relief. "Yep...and it's all thanks to Takaharu...isn't that right...Takaharu?"
Lying just a few feet away from them-semiconscious from being clotheslined-Takaharu could only stay still from the pain as a thought repeated itself in his mind.
"Yeah...it's official...going to kill you two one of these days...one of these days."
"Soo...since you two were once part of Satsuki's forces, then you must've had to go through this sort of predicament before, right."
"Heh, don't get too carried away. While your guess is sound, those with Two-Star uniforms could clear this course easily. And besides...we never needed to."
"Really?"
"Yep...just take a luxury ride up to the school...no need to worry about traps and surprises in the slightest!"
"Oh...so you're saying you don't know if there's a Two-Star who's done the course before...including you."
"Exactly...wait, HEY!"
"You've gotta be kidding me…"
The three of them looked on at the large open clearing before them...or more specifically, the large bus that drove through the large clearing...as multiple explosions went off around wherever it drove. Ruby looked on in silence at the sight as Takaharu himself watched halfheartedly. "...I remember this from last year...I lost several good club candidates to this thing."
"You mean this was here last year as well?"
"Yeah…" Omiko said. "...As well as the year before that, and the year before that-along with the crushers, the lava pits, the spring trap, the fools path with the cheese and damn pie."
"You're still feeling sore over that from two years ago?"
"Of course I do! I like cheese, dammit!" Omiko screeched, earning her nothing but a smirk from Takaharu.
Ruby didn't even respond, simply turning to Omiko. "Who would be so cruel as to subject students to stuff like this?"
Omiko opened her mouth to speak, before being interrupted by Takaharu. "-Some poor schoolgirl who runs the trap club and gets mocked frequently-name's Maiko or something."
Ruby didn't respond, only turning to the minefield before them. A girl would do all this? Was it because she was bullied and made fun of all the time...this was way too extreme. She even knew that Cardin was a bully back in Beacon, but he never subjected anyone to death traps!
For a minute, she did nothing, only hearing the small talk between Omiko and Fukuroda behind her. Eventually, she sighed as she started to take a step forward. "I'll use my speed to detonate a fair amount of mines in a specific radius...you guys can follow afterward…"
Omiko and Takaharu paused before looking at Ruby. "Uhh...Okay."
They watched Ruby take another step...before shifting forward and, in a single instant, disappear in a blur of red and rose petals. This was soon followed by several mines exploding seconds after the blur ran over them-each explosion happening almost a second after the last.
The two of them stood at the end of the minefield, watching the sight unfold. As Ruby continued to clear out the minefield, Takaharu still remembered the moment a second ago-about the "Cheese-Trail incident." He looked over at Omiko. "So what happened with that little incident?"
Omiko's face flashed with irritation, before she looked away. "Everyone all agreed to never talk about it again."
"How did we pull that all off?"
"I threatened to tell everyone about their dirty little secrets...including that incident with gamagoori a week before that...remember?"
"Oh yeah...now I do…" He groaned as he remembered the feeling his ass was feeling for weeks. It's also the main reason why he followed Sanageyama more than the Disciplinary Committee head, considering how Sanageyama treated him better.
They were silent for a minute, when another thought crossed his mind.
"Remember when Jack Naito first came here a year back and had to do his first No-Late Day?"
"He kept getting smacked around by nearly every obstacle that he had to get past, and nearly fell into a pool of sharks…" Both of them grinned at that statement. The look on Naito's face at the time was priceless. Takaharu still remembered too-after all, he still had a picture of it on his phone.
After about a minute or two of discussion and small talk, the sounds of explosions began to die down, until it was almost silent. They both saw Ruby skid to a stop, look around, then turn toward them-waving her arm in the air. "Alright! All mines have been cleared out, it's safe to walk over now!"
"Alright...time to get a move on…" Takaharu said as he stretched his arms and took the first step.
Nothing seemed to happen when he stepped on the ground. He took another step, then another, and another until he found it to be otherwise safe. Breathing a sigh of relief, he took another step...and took a full face of dust and explosive as he stepped on the lone mine left.
For a minute, all three stood where they were in silence, looking at each other in shock. It was only after Takaharu looked over at Ruby with a face of indignation that the quiet was broken. "You left the last mine alone on purpose, didn't you!"
Ruby didn't say anything, and her face was almost like stone. Then Ruby looked away from Takaharu, attempting to hide the smirk plastered onto her face.
"SO YOU DID! WHY I OUGHT-a?" Takaharu started to quiet as he heard the sound of clicking.
He looked over at Omiko. Her hand was over her mouth, trying incredibly hard not to laugh her ass off at the soot covered Takaharu Fukuroda. In her hand-held outward toward him-was a small white and blue smartphone...that flashed as soon as he looked at her.
Takaharu grit his teeth, finally exploded-done with everything going on around him, and yelled. "NO PICTURES, DAMMIT!"
"So getting back on topic...when exactly does No-Late Day end?"
"When the first period of school comes around."
"Wait...when?" Ruby said, stopping in her tracks at the statement. The other two stopped with her as Omiko repeated what she said. "It ends when first period begins…"
Ruby paused. Her mind instantly went back to when she woke up-5:58AM. Looking over at Omiko, she asked a question. "Omiko...when does first period begin?"
She blinked, before answering straightly. "8:30AM, why?"
"Do you have a watch on you?"
She blinked once more, before nodding and pulling out a small watch strapped around her wrist. She looked down on it...and instantly had a sour expression as she looked down at it.
Takaharu felt the air grow heavier around them, unnerving him as he felt it. He watched the two girls before him, as they both started bending forward, saying the exact same thing. "It-It-it-it's-it's…"
They bolted up. "...IT'S 8:15!"
Panic became a norm among them instantly. "Why weren't you paying attention to the clock, I would've rushed myself much faster if you told me!?"
"That wasn't your fastest! Then what the hell have we been doing for the last two hours and twenty to fifteen minutes! Fooling about while we try to mess with each other!"
"MESS WITH EACH OTHER! YOU TWO WERE SCREWING AROUND WITH ME ALL DAY, YOU FUCKS!"
"YOU SHUT UP!" Both girls yelled at him, prompting him to retreat. As he did, the two turned back to each other, their eyes alight with fury as Omiko began to yell. "SO WHAT NOW, YOU GONNA JUST PICK US UP AND RUN US ALL OVER THE FINISH LINE AT BREAKNECK SPEEDS! HOPE WE GET TO THE FIRST CLASS IN TIME!"
"I DON'T KNOW, I'M STUCK HAVING TO MAKE A PLAN WITH ONLY FIFTEEN MINUTES ON THE CLOCK, I'M HIGHLY UNDER PRESSURE NOW!"
"THIRTEEN MINUTES!"
"WHATEVER!"
The two turned away and stood several feet away from each other-Omiko blowing steam from her ears, while Ruby's eyes seemed to glow in anger. The two stood there for three more minutes, as Takaharu stood there like a stone-unknown whether to feel anger over his impending expulsion or elation that he wouldn't have to deal with these two anymore.
Deciding to suck it up and keep himself strong, he looked at the next obstacle before them...and instantly deflated. A large wall stood between them and the next part of the course. The only way past said wall was none other than…
"...A large slingshot...We're doomed."
Ruby-standing in silence-paused as she heard the words. A slingshot? She turned and looked up at the obstacle before them. Instantly her mind went back to her entrance exam at Beacon-the fight with the Nevermore, her bonding with her team and all that stuff. And amongst it all...was the plan she had made in all that chaos. A plan involving…
"A slingshot...We're saved!"
"Where's your classroom?" Ruby said, as Omiko and Takaharu struggled with pulling the slingshot. Omiko looked up, and with obvious strain in her voice, started to speak. "It's...It's the one...on the far left...as soon as you enter through...the gate!" She pulled even harder, the two of them nearing the very edge of the path.
Ruby looked up towards Honnoji, easily spotting the window of the classroom. Looking back, she ran up to the slingshot, and looked at the angle...not right. "A little to the right!"
The two, through brute strength-moved slightly to the right, with Ruby following the angle. It was only after a fair change that she could see it perfectly lined up with the class. "Right there! Good...keep holding it."
She walked away from it, before turning back to the two of them. Reaching back, she drew out Crescent Rose. "So the plan is we're going to use the slingshot to shoot ourselves up towards Honnoji! Just the moment before we launch, I want you to grab onto Crescent Rose and hold on for dear life, understand!"
"Do we look like we have a choice?"
Ruby nodded, and looked back at the school. She only had five minutes to do this!
She looked at the slingshot and ran towards it. As soon as she was close enough, she jumped and landed the end of her scythe into the slingshot. Just as Crescent Rose landed, the two students grabbed onto her scythe, and shouted "ready."
"FIRE!"
The two let go, and soon the three of them were sailing through the sky at g-forces that would most likely break a normal man in half. Omiko screamed her head off as the two flew-and started screaming even louder as Ruby began to fire off Crescent Rose for more velocity. Takaharu, for his part, was having the time of his life...even pulling out his phone to take pictures of Omiko's screaming face in the process.
"DON'T TAKE PICTURES, YOU BALD LITTLE FUCKER!"
"CLASS HO!"
The two looked up, to see the academy more than a few feet away now. Ruby looked down at the two of them and yelled to them. "BRACE YOURSELVES!"
The two of them gripped Crescent Rose even tighter, with Omiko crying even more hysterically, as they closed in rapidly on the classroom.
The classroom was, for it's part, as dead and quiet as it could be. All the students sat in their desks-bored, tired, or just glad they survived No-Late Day-as they waited for the first period to begin.
Little did they know of the one final surprise waiting for them that day.
The window exploded. Students were sent flying into the wall as Ruby Rose came flying in with Omiko Hakodate and Takaharu Fukuroda in tow behind her.
She slammed Crescent Rose into the floor as the two let go of her baby. Omiko rolled onto the floor, skidding to a stop just in front of the pile of students on the other wall beside them. Takaharu, unfortunately, was not so lucky, as he flew right into the massive pile of students at breakneck speeds. The group exploded outward, sending students and desks flying everywhere.
As Omiko took cover, her desk fell right next to her. Soon, all the desks fell back into the places they originally were before, with the students following suit afterward. As Omiko sat kneeling on the ground, she looked back: the class-which had been a hive of chaos a second before-looked just like it had always been...save for the broken window and Takaharu's mangled body huddling next to the wall…
She looked over at the doorway. Ruby had smashed through the window, and smashed Crescent Rose into the ground to halt her advance in the process. It stopped just in time to have her body lurch upward and toward the wall, which she used to step upward and perform a flip before landing on her feet-nary a scratch on her.
Ruby grabbed Crescent Rose and furled it back into it's carry form, sheathing it behind around her waist. "Right, now to get to class myself!"
With a quick glance, she waved at Hakodate before bolting down the hall with her manic speed. Hakodate, still registering what had just happened, could only wave back meekly as she took a seat at her desk.
It was a second after this small moment that the teacher walked in and greeted everyone. "Hello students, how's it going todaaaauHOLY SHIT! THE WINDOW!" His head turned to the crumpled body of Takaharu, still lying near the wall where he was before. "And Mr. Fukuroda!? What happened! Are you all right!"
Takaharu, who had been motionless for most of the event, finally-with barely any strength left at all-raised his hand and spoke a single word.
"Present...ugh…"
One minute until it ends...where are they?
Aikuro Mikisugi stared down at his clock intensely. Today was No-Late Day...and neither Ryuko Matoi nor Ruby Rose had showed up to class yet.
He looked up at the class. Mankanshoku wasn't present either...that meant either they were lost...or searching for Mankanshou herself.
This is bad...if neither show up-
-His mind paused. He heard a sound in the distance that caught his attention and he looked out the window to see the steel cables of the school's luxury cable car moving rapidly on the system.
The cable car's only allow a certain speed, even on No-Late Day...so if it's running at that speed, then that means…
He smiled, just as he heard skidding near his desk. He looked over to see Ruby Rose hunched over, breathing heavily. He opened his mouth to say something, before Ruby raised a finger, then stood up fully-her body almost entirely listless in it's stance.
"Ah, Miss Rose. You've arrived just a minute before class starts, please take a seat." He said to her. Ruby looked over at the class...and couldn't find a single sign of either Ryuko or Mako.
She looked back at Mikisugi. "Where's Ryuko and Mako?"
"Oh don't worry…" He lowered his sunglasses slightly, allowing Ruby to see his blue eyes underneath. "They'll be here real soon."
Ruby looked at him...before sighing and walking over to her desk. Where were those two, they were going to be late?!
Come on, Ryuko! Mako!
...Little did Ruby know that, like Omiko and Takaharu's class, she was in for a very special surprise.
As she sat down, Aikuro pulled out a book and began rollcall. After a few names, he called the words she dreaded to hear that day. "Let's see, next up is...Matoi. Ryuko Matoi."
Oh no! RYUKO!
As her mind began to panic, though, she also started hearing a sound in the distance that got louder and louder the closer it got…
...Then that happened…
In an instant, a cable car smashed into the windowed wall of the classroom. Sending all-save for Mikisugi and Ruby herself-flying straight into the opposite wall before landing into a small pile of bodies and desks.
Ruby stared wide eyed at the sight, before looking at the cable car as it's door opened-revealing Ryuko Matoi with Mako Mankanshoku under her arms.
Ruby watched in astonishment, while Ryuko walked over-silently watched by Mikisugi-picked up two desks, and sat them down right next to her: sitting Mako in the one farthest from her before sitting in her own desk.
Ryuko looked at Ruby, her face still frozen in shock. "What?"
Aikuro, feeling relief inside, started to speak again. "Haaa...Ryuko Matoi?"
Ryuko sighed, before raising her hand and saying a single word.
"Present."
Fin.
Title Reference: Explosivo!-Tenacious D.
It's Alive...IT'S ALIVE! AHHAHAHAHAHA!
*cough* Excuse me...it's been awhile.
But anyway, Hello ladies and gentlemen! I'M BACK WITH A NEW CHAPTER! FINALLY! It's been far too long (I think around two to four months in fact) and let me tell you...I am not exactly a hundred percent sure on this chapter.
So first, let me give you an explanation on this one. Chapter five was pretty much based off of the events of episode three of Kill la Kill: Junketsu, which was a pretty action heavy episode (hint: it has Satsuki fight Ryuko) and so upon writing it, I wrote it with the strict intention to have an awesome fight between Satsuki and our two heroines.
Now...considering how much you guys seemed to love the first four chapters before that (which also had a large amount of action with say maybe one exception) I was pretty confident in writing a chapter based off of so much action-especially considering it's thirty-nine pages in Google Drive. So I wrote that one out, posted it to Fanfiction, and-looking from the few reviews of Chapter five-you ABSOLUTELY loved it…
So, with that in mind I had a dilemma. The next episode in Kill la Kill was episode four, and if you've seen KLK then you know right away that the episode is full on comedy from beginning to end! And you've probably heard me say it once before, but I'll just reiterate for those that haven't...I AM NOT CONFIDENT IN WRITING COMEDY OF THIS SCALE!
So I ran into several problems as a result. I was extremely nervous with how to do this chapter, I thought the writing was rather weak this time around (and I'm still not entirely sure about it all), and nothing just seemed to click with me. I ended up scrapping the original draft/chapter idea and decided to just rewrite it, started it up, and got off to a slow start with it before coming back here in June of all months…
...In layman's terms, it's like coffee. I came to work all hopped up and ready for anything, then three to five hours later I crash, and I'm sitting in my chair sleeping my ass off while my mind's screaming at me to get shit done.
Due to this, my mind felt right to make a decision-do I try and finish this chapter, or do I just scrap it entirely and move on to episode five, which I'm sure would fit me a lot better than the last. In the end, I decided against scrapping it, and finally got around to getting the chapter done in full and (hopefully) in a form that you, the reader, will enjoy.
As such, this chapter is coming out DREADFULLY late by three months. And as a result, I am INCREDIBLY SORRY! I'M NOT CONFIDENT, I'M JUST A HUMBLE FAN-FIC WRITER WHO WANTS TO WRITE STORIES HE LIKES, NOTHING MORE!
But now...it is here...for your reading pleasure. And by the gods! I hope it's good, I really hope it is.
So here we are, the first EXTRA chapter (I decided to rename them EXTRA's instead of omakes) following the events of episode four.
This one I'm just gonna want input from you guys. I'm just gonna watch how this one does for now and see how it goes about then. For now, I'm just gonna give input on what went into this chapter.
First: TAKAHARU FUKURODA AND OMIKO HAKODATE! Yes, I made them the side characters for this chapter. I found the series to do this frequently: introduce a new antagonist in the first half as soon as possible, then toss them aside until the second part comes along. I could understand it for a certain red-mohawk character of sorts (who will be introduced in the next chapter), especially as he becomes more prominent later in the series. But Takaharu and Hakodate just disappear entirely off the map once they are introduced. Two antagonists, who end up having some semblance of characterization-especially in comparison to a large amount of the other club leaders-and the best you'll see of them afterward is around the final battle of the series...COME ON TRIGGER.
So, I added them in as the additional side characters for this chapter. They probably won't appear often in the main storyline, but any future extras I'll do will most likely have them inserted in somewhere…
Next up: THE SEVERE LACK OF RYUKO AND MAKO! This is...more or less made up by the decision to scrap the first draft of the chapter, which would've included Ryuko, Mako, Maiko, Takaharu, and Hakodate. But this also indicated another problem: it was a fucking pain to see where I could include Ruby properly in all of this, much less Fukuroda and Omiko! Add in to the fact that the chapter wasn't connecting with me at all, and I pretty much gave up with the idea.
I started fresh, and decided to write a scenario that goes in line with Episode four's events, but simply follows Ruby's struggles to get to school on time instead (with Takaharu and Hakodate in tow). And while I'm not entirely confident about the chapter, I can safely say that this idea gave me some relief.
Third: THE OBSTACLES. The first one (tiger cage) is easy enough to describe, and is actually in the episode (specifically when Gamagoori shows us just what the obstacle course entails, there's a cage with a white cat-like creature surrounded by bones in the scene), so I thought...yeah, I'll do that.
The karaoke idea...well, I thought why not give Takaharu some depth beyond FUCKING SCREAMING! So I made him good at singing, and gave him a certain taste in music and movies (which is up for you to decide if it's good or not). The minefield was already in the show too, and again, I was going for some minor characterization with the other two, hence it's use. As for whether it's good...well…
...And finally: THE CHAPTER TITLE: I've said it before that there would be chapters that were significantly different from the rest, or that there would be Chapter titles more fitting but don't belong to the 70's or 80's METAL kind of cloth. This is one of those exceptions...and since it's a comedy chapter, why not base the name off a song from none other than TENACIOUS D! So yeah, there's the first exception to the chapter title...
...And many other things. I'm not confident in them all, and I fully admit that. It's more or less the input from everyone else I'd like more than anything else. That will be FAR better than simply pushing out this chapter and saying "It's better than nothing." (isn't that right, Inafune...or whoever it was that said that from Capcom, i don't know).
So with that in mind, I'm sorry once again for the long wait on this specific chapter, I really am!
Now, to move on from the chapter for a while. Let me say that I hate May now (I'm betting you were expecting me to say Mei there, BUT NO!). So, around the beginning of May, the open beta for Overwatch came out, and let me say that it hooked me like a Roadhog on Prom Night (yes, I'm making that joke). I instantly preordered it literally a day after playing, and haven't stopped playing it since. It's a really good game, and I'm enjoying the hell out of it (along with getting a few ideas every once in awhile).
In addition to Overwatch came out a game by the name of Stellaris (made by the same guys behind Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis), and I can say that I enjoyed that one...which also helps since I look at EU like it's the entirety of a foreign language.
To ADD TO THAT, Total War: Warhammer came out as well, and I...haven't really played it much really. Which is sad, because it's a rather good game.
But of course this all continued into June with E3 2016! So to give you my impression of it all…
EA: DULL. AS. FUCK! My god, EA! I'm happy for Battlefield 1 and all (especially with the hour long play session afterward) but GOOD GOD MAN! They focused waaaay too much on sports, and didn't even focus on what we really wanted-GOOD GAMES! Seriously EA, GET OFF THE FUCKING SPORTS GAMES, OR AT LEAST SEPARATE THEM INTO THEIR OWN CONFERENCE FOR FUCK'S SAKE. GOD, EA WAS AWFUL!
Bethesda: NEW QUAKE! NEW PREY (even though I haven't played the first one), My GOD! Let me say that I like how Bethesda does their conferences-showing us the new stuff first, giving us some updates on other games in the middle, then focusing on the one major project for this year (Dishonored 2). I like how they set it up. If this is how Bethesda does it's conferences (I think it did the same last year) then I'm completely fine with it-completely.
Ubisoft: It was alright...even though I know that 90% of it is gonna be terrible or the same as always. In my eyes, For Honor is the game I'm looking forward to the most, that's definitely one I want to try out…
...Also, South Park-best prank of E3 2016, Best prank!
PC Gaming: GAMES, GAMES, GAMES, GAMES, MORE GAMES, GAMES, GAMES, GAMES, GAMES, an occasional piece of PC hardware, GAMES, GAMES, GAMES, GAMES, more hardware, GAMES, AND A HOST SITTING AT A DESK LOOKING LIKE HE'S ABOUT READY TO GIVE US THE MORNING NEWS, THUMBS UP, GOOD SHOWING PC Gaming!
Microsoft: *crickets chirping in the background* I'm a Playstation fanboy, so...yeah…
...State of Decay 2 looks nice.
Sony: E3 OF DREAMS 2! E3 OF DREAMS 2! NORSE MYTHOLOGY GOD OF WAR (WITH DRAGONS...and son), A P.T. LIKE RESIDENT EVIL 7 (WITH A PLAYABLE DEMO!), CRASH IS COMING BACK, DAY'S GONE (looks alright) KOJIMA (FUCKONAMI), DEEAAATTHHH STTTRRRRANNNDDDIIIINNNNGGGG (FUCKONAMI, FUCKONAMI, FUCKONAMI, FUCKONAMI, FUCKONAMIIIIIIIIII-)
*CrazeStasis_exe. Has failed to respond. Rebooting.*
W-WHERE AM I!, Oh. I'm back, good. So yeah, E3 was good...it was very good.
Other than that. Yeah, I bought Pillars of Eternity. It's a good game, can't wait to play more. Saw the Warcraft movie-fuck the critics on this one, I liked it better than BVS: DoJ. And yeah...I'm also back to doing a Math class, and let me say that I hope it goes better than last time.
So here we are, the end of my discussion. With this, I'd like to remind you-REVIEW! And if you decide to, favorite or follow if you want. I appreciate any feedback, even the most critical kind.
Now, where's that chapter title...wait, that's right-it was on the last chapter…
Chapter 6: Searching, Seek and Destroy!
For Fun, Fedoras, and Insanity...peace.
-CrazeStasis