Sorry for the short chapter guys, but I'm not going to be able to release the next couple of days so I'm just going to post this.
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Chapter 24:
Turns out… a lot of stuff can go wrong when Tempest and Yang fight… A LOT…
The fight began with both of them sending really crappy puns at one another, then Tempest decided it would be a good idea to shoot at Yang and activate her semblance. He cocked both his shotguns and sprinted forward at full speed, yelling a war cry. Yang just laughed and waiting for him to arrive, getting into a brawler's stance. Tempest just happily laughed, but instead of firing his shotguns like literally every single person in the arena thought he would do… instead he pulled out a sash of grenades and lobbed them at Yang. She was a bit taken back by this… and completely forgot to dodge. The grenades contacted and sent her flying across the arena.
"I call that starting the fight with a 'Yang'…" Tempest joked, earning groans of pain from everyone.
"BOOO! GET OFF THE STAGE!" yelled Rosaline.
Tempest replied by flipping the bird and pulling off his two rocket launchers, aiming them at where Yang was, and firing them at the same time. Instead of waiting for them to hit again, he mag-locked them and pulled out two sidewinders from nowhere and firing them at Yang. The rockets hit and a barrage of micro-missiles smashed into her again. The resulting explosion covered the half of the arena that Yang was in with smoke, clouding everyone's view. After the clips ran dry of the sidewinders, Tempest dropped them and proceeded to grab two mag-launchers that were tied to his back… and then continued to fire. After that, he lobbed two arc grenades into the mass of smoke and dust coming from the area where Yang was, pulling out two Charge Rifles.
"These are laser pointers…" explained Tempest, charging the rifles as he spoke. "THAT POINT YOU INTO OBLIVION!"
With a sadistic grin, Tempest fired both charge rifles directly at Yang, creating a cloud of distorted, electrified dusts around her. Everyone was just standing there, mouths dropped in complete awe of the amount of firepower that had just been released. Much to Demon's enjoyment, when he looked to see Yang's aura gauge… it was still 1/3rd full.
Tempest seemed to be happy with his barrage of explosions and quickly took a screenshot on his helmet to save it for later. Then… he felt like everything he ever loved and met died at once… he saw a glowing gold fireball in the middle of the dust cloud.
Tempest looked to Demon with a look that said… 'I'm screwed aren't I?'… which Demon just replied by nodding slowly. Tempest pulled out two spare rockets and tried to re-load his rocket launchers, seeing Yang slowly walking out of the dust cloud.
"CRAP!" shouted Tempest, still quickly re-loading his twin Titanhammers.
When he was finished, he fired them at Yang, hitting her directly in the face… and she didn't even flinch. Tempest was now constantly streaming profanities from his mouth, trying to find a way to get out of this. He tried to activate his jump pack… but something strange happened. He jumped, pressing the keys to flare his parkour-kit, yet it didn't even activate. When he turned to check and found a small sticky note.
IOU – 1 parkour-kit… Jaeger…
Tempest just stared out into the audience and found Jaeger admiring his reflection on the chrome finish of the device.
"WHY!" he shouted, grabbing Jaegers attention. The pilot just responded by pulling out a comb and brushing his hair. When Tempest turned back, he was face-to-face with the red-flared eyes of Yang. Tempest held up his finger, stopping her, and pressed a few buttons on his wrist-screen. When he was finished, the song "Is it too late now to say sorry?" came on, Tempest smiling a bit as he did. Without a response, he heard another song come in from the bleachers. "It's too late to apologise…" he heard resonating around the arena, Yang's impossibly massive grin becoming even bigger. Tempest turned and saw Demon with hands hovering over the play button of a massive boom-box. Tempest gave him a 'do you want to die?' look before turning back to Yang with a guilty smile.
"Please be gentle…" he pleaded, holding his hands together as if in prayer.
"Ummm… nup…" she said before flicking him in the kneecap… and snapping his leg back. The sheer force of the blow caused every bone in his legs to break and the actual leg to turn into a L joint. Tempest just took it like a man and whimpered a bit when he collapsed to the floor. She bent down again, inspecting her work, before flicking his other kneecap… shattering the floor beneath it as well. Before Tempest collapsed into unconsciousness, he heard Nora shout from the audience.
"YAY! YOU BROKE HIS LEGS!"
Yang was a bit unhappy from not being able to vent all of the left-over energy from her Semblance… so she punched the floor and caused a small earthquake. Everyone in the audience was in complete shock, until Demon spoke.
"Sooo… that was a thing…"
"I should probably help him…" deadpanned Josh before jumping down and charging his gauntlet. He walked right over to where Tempest was and held out the gauntlet over his legs, allowing the nanobots get to work. The entire vial in the centre was drained this time, the grey goo covering Tempest's legs. Within a minute, they were back to normal and the grey goo was sucked back into his gauntlet, although the vial wasn't as full as last time.
"What happened to the goo?" Kira asked intently.
"Whenever I repair something major, e.g. Mauled legs, then I have to permanently leave nanobots in there until serious medical attention can be sought out"
"Oh…" Kira responded, still not grasping the subject.
It was at that time that Tempest came back into consciousness. His eyes fluttered a few times before looking down at his legs and smiling.
"So… worth it…" he spluttered out, collapsing back on the cold floor looking extremely stoned.
"Well then… what next?" Demon asked, still not sure what to do.
"Well… I'm not sure exactly but it's good that he managed to get his legs healed for the dance" Blake answered, reading a book that she pulled out of nowhere.
"DANCE!" Demon said in complete disbelief.
"Yea… didn't you hear that there would be another dance at the end of the term?" Ruby asked, tilting her head a bit in question.
"No one ever seems to tell me anything around here…" he replied a bit sadly.
"Well it's on tonight…"
"TONIGHT!" complained Demon.
Once Josh heard this, he walked over to a wall and began banging his head against it. Markus didn't seem to care that much, jotting down notes on his data-pad, while Jaeger just kept checking up on his hair every couple of seconds.
"Why does it have to be a dance?" Demon asked, still a bit annoyed about what was happening.
Tempest, for some reason, seemed to come back into full consciousness and answered the rhetorical question.
"Well one explanation would be that the writer was running out of ideas for filling his half-rate chapters so he has more words, so he used something that would provide a small amount of humour while progressing the story at the same time…" he stated a bit mindlessly. Everyone was just staring at him with various looks of confusion.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Demon asked, still processing the words.
"The writer… you know, the guy who's making us do everything…"
It was at that moment that a brick fell from the ceiling and hit Tempest in the head, not knocking him out though.
"HEY! Come on, you have to admit that adding another dance was just a crappy idea!" Tempest to no one in particular while looking above him. Another brick then decided to fall and hit him on the head, knocking him out.
"Ummm… what just happened?" Yang asked, completely and utterly confused.
"Why isn't anyone fighting!" Nora complained, pouting a bit.
"Umm… I think we should just listen to Nora before anyone's brain explodes" Demon reasoned, shaking his head to forget what just happened.
"Ok then… I vote Jaeger goes next!" Ruby answered, pointing to said sniper.
"Whoever I verse should know that it is an honour to be beaten by me" he stated, flicking his hair before putting his helmet on and heading into the arena, dropping Tempest's parkour-kit on a seat. Everyone looked to Josh asking for an answer to his behaviour but only received a shrug in response.
"Ok… how about a sniper battle! Rubes can battle him!" Yang happily exclaimed, scuffing her sister's hair.
"Ok then, it's settled. Ruby vs Jaeger in a sniper battle" Ren put in, taking Ruby's place as match starter and holding a pink flag in his hands.
Demon went over and hauled Tempest's limb body to the side of the arena and propped him up against a chair, the others who weren't fighting taking seats as well. Jaeger casually slipped a magazine into his DMR and waited for Ruby to get in position, seeming to be a bit impatient. Ruby jumped into the arena and pulled out Crescent Rose, shifting it into scythe mode and digging the point into the ground.
"Remember Sis, he has no aura… so try not to hit anything too vital" Demon put in, reminding Ruby that she could accidentally kill Jaeger.
"Got it" she replied, nodding as she acknowledged the statement.
"Ok then. Are both parties ready to begin the match?" asked Ren, holding his pink flag up high in the air, waiting for a response. Ruby eagerly nodded, while Jaeger just slightly upturned his head, keeping his eyes trained on Ruby.
"Ready… Begin!" Ren shouted, dropping the flag and jumping out of the way of the two fighters. Tempest woke up just in time to see the match begin… and a leaf float past his field of vision.
Stop breaking the 4th wall you 2nd rate character!
