Gaara was a bit stunned. But then again, with the dimension shenanigans that happened with Kimimaro, he should have expected someone else, but not another Otsutsuki. Kaguya was enough, but now another one!
"Whoa," Pierce said, "What the hell happened here. It's almost as if some dude dropped a chunk of a tree on top of the road. Traffic jams, a 100% possibility."
Coco slid her glasses slightly off her nose to look at the wreckage, as if trying to confirm what she was seeing.
Fox piped up, "Do you think he is alright?"
"He certainly doesn't look the part," Hanzo said
"Hey, Gaara, what do you think of it?" Clarice asked, but when she had turned to him and asked, she saw that he was staring at the battered man with an intensity that she had never seen before.
"Gaara? Hey, Gaara! Earth to Gaara!" Clarice said
However, Gaara heard nothing that they said. He was trying to formulate a plan in his head, mainly because he knew that this Otsutsuki would be a merciless foe, and that if he didn't try to stop this Otsutsuki now, it could mean trouble later.
Gaara suddenly remembered that he had used that same mindset against Kimimaro, only to find out that he was wrong about Kimimaro. What if this Otsutsuki was different? After all, as the saying goes, 'There is always a first.'
Gaara held up his hand and said, "I'll check him out."
"Alright," Coco said, and she held up her scroll and said, "I'll get some help. ANd maybe call a cleanup crew."
Gaara nodded, and began to walk towards the man. He was still clutching his shoulder, his white clothes torn, and he was one one knee. However, his back was to Gaara
"Where….What the hell is this place?" Gaara heard the man say, and Gaara said, "You are in Remnant."
The man veered backward and turned his head towards Gaara. At first Gaara saw confusion on his face, but then that confusion turned to recognition, and then to rage.
"You! You're one of those damn lowlife's!" the man shouted, and suddenly he jumped straight to his feet, and said, "If it wasn't for you, I would have already attained the fruit! But no! You mortals just HAD to meddle!"
"What are you talking about?" Gaara asked, confused, "I don't even know you."
"Liar!" the man shouted, "It is because of you and your meddling mortals that I didn't accomplish what I was meant to do! How dare you defy me!"
Suddenly, the man's tone took a bad turn, and Gaara could feel what little chakra he had left begin to flare a little as the man's face contorted in anger, and he shouted, "You may not be the Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki, but I will drain every single bit of chakra from your pathetic, worthless body! And then I'll blast you till you are nothing but dust!"
"Well, so much for that," Gaara thought, as he crossed his arms and said, "In your condition, beating you should not be that difficult."
However, the comment just made the Otsutsuki member even more mad, and he shouted in rage, "HOW DARE YOU CALL ME WEAK! I AM MOMOSHIKI OTSUTSUKI! AND I WILL NOT LET A MERE LOWLIFE LIKE YOU LOOK DOWN ON ME!"
The Otsutsuki suddenly dashed forward at Gaara with a speed that Gaara didn't see coming, and Momoshiki grabbed Gaara by his neck and slammed him down into the ground.
Gaara felt the wind knocked out of him, and he gasped for air as Momoshiki began to cackle sadistically. Gaara didn't expect this person to be this fast, not in this condition.
Gaara grabbed Momoshiki's arm with one hand, and with the other one, he thrusted it out in front of him, his palm held open.
At first, Gaara thought it would hit, but the very second that his sand had snaked out of his gourd, Momoshiki released his grip and dashed backwards, avoiding the tendril of sand that had rose up and tried to smash him into the ground, the wood below them from giant roots cracking.
Gaara jumped back up onto his feet, and went into a crouching position, and looked at Momoshiki, who was no in an offensive stance. However, it was something on Momoshiki's palm that caught Gaara's eye
It looked like a red eye with the same design of a Rinnegon, but it was a Dojutsu that Gaara had not seen before.
"Whatever that is, it's probably trouble. I should be careful."
Gaara then growled at Momoshiki, "Alright, you pissed off the wrong Kage!"
Hanzo was the first to hear a resounding boom, and before the others could even begin to formulate what had just happened, Hanzo had already sprinted off, while drawing his Blue Sai's, which he had named Retribution.
Hanzo held the Sai in his left hand backwards, while the one in his right he held forward, as he dashed up the mangle, unattached, giant tree roots, jumping from root to root.
However, right as he reached the top, he heard the sound of a blow landing, and Gaara went flying backward over his head, and Hanzo barely had any time to duck.
Hanzo stabbed both of his Sai's to hang at the side of the top of the wood and root pile, when suddenly the man in white that he had seen earlier came leaping off the top, and charging towards Gaara, all the while giving a scream filled with rage.
"NEVER DISRESPECT A GOD!" Hanzo heard the man say as he dashed at Gaara
Gaara created a platform of sand below him as a landing pad, but when he saw Momoshiki charging at him, Gaara clapped his hands together, and more sand poured out of his gourd and quickly formed a sphere around Gaara, but it didn't fully form quick enough, because right as the last hole began to cover up Momoshiki punch his fist through it.
Luckily, his fist stopped within an inch from Gaara's face.
Gaara held up his arm, and clenched his fist, and suddenly the entire sand around him shot towards Momoshiki's arm, while some was left behind to be used as a platform for Gaara.
The sand wrapped around Momoshiki's arm, and once it had fully wrapped around it, Momoshiki gave a enraged scream, and tried to claw it off, when suddenly the sand moved as if it had a mind of its own, and Momoshiki went flying forward, and he was smashed into the roots below, and Momoshiki gave a shout of pain
Gaara swung his arm in an arc again, and the sand grabbing Momoshiki's arm heaved him around again, and once again smashed Momoshiki into the ground.
"Gagh!" Momoshiki screamed in pain, but his pained expression quickly turned into anger, and he growled as he then held out his right arm, and thrusted his open palm into the sand coating his entire left arm.
Momoshiki gave a sinister smile, and said, "So, you've infused your sand with chakra. Well, I'll be taking it now."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Gaara said, when suddenly he could almost feel the chakra being drained out of the sand coating Momoshiki's arm. Suddenly, the sand coating Momoshiki's arm fell off, and Gaara watched in astonishment.
"What the-" Gaara began to say when Momoshiki gave out a sadistic laugh, as he dashed towards Gaara, shouting, "Now it's time for YOUR chakra!"
Gaara held up his arms in a defensive position, but he knew that he would not be able to defend against this attack, when suddenly he felt the wind pressure around him begin to spin around, and that's when he knew, and he felt a sense of relief.
Right as Momoshiki was getting close, the wind that was spinning around Gaara gathered in front of him, and took form, and Hanzo materialized out of the air.
"What the-" Momoshiki managed to say before Hanzo landed a sweeping kick to Momoshiki's face, sending him flying off to the side, and he skidded across the roots, and after tumbling down the pile, he finally came to stop after landing hard into a thick root, and Hanzo landed atop another sand platform that Gaara made
"Thank you, Hanzo. I can take it from here" Gaara said, but Hanzo simply replied, "Thank me later, and remember what Clarice said? We're a team, and so we'll fight him as a team. Whether you like it or not."
At first Gaara was going to object, when he heard an enraged scream, and Gaara saw Momoshiki flying back upwards towards them.
Gaara and Hanzo both got ready to defend themselves, when suddenly a purple arrow whizzed towards them, and impaled itself into the back of Momoshiki's right shoulder
"Agh!" Momoshiki shouted, and he turned around to see who it was, and was enraged to see another mortal, Clarice, standing there, another arrow of purple energy ready to be fired.
"More ants! Argh, I'LL CRUSH YOU ALL!" Momoshiki shouted, when suddenly he heard someone say, "You talk too much."
He turned to his side, and was surprised when Pierce's fist bashed into his cheek, and Momoshiki was sent flying backward, when suddenly he felt something catch him by the back of his coat.
When he looked behind him, Yatsuhashi held him in his grip
"HRAGH!" Yatsuhashi shouted as he swung Momoshiki in an arc over his head, slamming him into the wooden, oversized roots behind him, before kicking him in his gut, sending him flying.
Meanwhile, right when Momoshiki was sent flying like a ragdoll by Yatsuhashi, Clarice fired her other purple arrow, and it went whizzing towards Momoshiki. Meanwhile, Momoshiki righted himself in the air, and began to hover in the air for a second, when another purple arrow went flying by his face, not only a inch from his nose.
"Wha-" Momoshiki managed to get out before Clarice detonated the arrow in front of his face, and the arrow exploded in a large burst of purple energy, sending Momoshiki plummeting to the earth below, and he crashed into the ground, and he kicked up a huge cloud of smoke.
Momoshiki slowly rose to his feet, clutching his arm, and began panting heavily.
While he had been down, Hanzo, Yatsuhashi, and Pierce had surrounded him, and the very second that Momoshiki stood up, Pierce, Hanzo, and Yatsuhashi charged at him. Yatsuhashi held his giant broadsword above his head with only one hand, and brought it down with great force, but Momoshiki managed to hop to the side, and avoid Yatsuhashi's blade, which slammed into the ground, and a large spider web of cracks appeared in the concrete.
Momoshiki countered by attacking with a hard backfist to Yatsuhashi's side, and then following up with a sideways kick that sent Yatsuhashi stumbling backward.
Pierce dashed forward, and he jumped up and over Momoshiki, stabbing downward with his trident, however, Momoshiki barely managed to parry the three, sharp prongs, and Pierce touched down behind Momoshiki.
Pierce spun around, spinning his trident skillfully, before spinning around and landing a backward thrusting kick to Momoshiki's stomach, who grunted at the hit, and Pierce followed up by holding his trident with the three prongs downard, and holding the trident above his head and jumping up, and when he came back down, he stabbed downward with his trident.
Momoshiki jumped backward, avoiding Pierce's trident, which stabbed into the ground, and when Pierce tried to pull it out, it was stuck too deeply in, and he couldn't pull it out.
Momoshiki gave out a sadistic laugh, as he then dashed towards Pierce to attack him, when suddenly Hanzo teleported in front of Momoshiki in a great burst of wind.
"Huh!" Momoshiki said, surprised, before Hanzo bashed his knee into Momoshiki's stomach, causing him to stumble backward, and Hanzo followed up by slashing one of his blue sai's, Retribution, across Momoshiki's chest.
At the last moment, Momoshiki jumped backward, but a little too late. The blue blade of Hanzo's sai slashed across Momoshiki's chest.
"Agh!" Momoshiki screamed before retreating backward a couple of feet, clutching his chest, which began to spurt blood.
Hanzo, however, could tell that the wound was a shallow one, and that it wouldn't kill this person. Momoshiki pressed his hand up to his wound, shock on his face.
"What! H-how?" Momoshiki suddenly looked up at Hanzo, and Pierce walked up to Hanzo's side, his trident dislodged from the ground.
"You! How dare you do this to me!" Momoshiki shouted in rage, "I'll-I'll kill you!"
"Not if I can help it!" Momoshiki heard someone shout, and when he turned around, he saw Fox behind him, and the Otsutsuki took a fist to his cheek. The force of the punch made Momoshiki stumble backward, and Pierce took this chance to dash forward, and he stabbed his trident into the ground, but not with as much force as last time, and he jumped up while holding onto the trident, which was partly impaled into the ground, and and he spun on the trident's pole, and use both of his feet to land a hard kick to Momoshiki's back, sending him stumbling back towards Fox, who then follow up by spinning around and landing a elbow to Momoshiki's face, and Hanzo teleported in a burst of wind next to Momoshiki, and Hanzo thrusted a open palm strike into Momoshiki's side, sending the Otsutsuki flying and skidding across the ground.
Momoshiki jumped back to his feet, growling and gritting his teeth in anger, and he screamed at the top of his lungs, "WHY?! WHY MUST YOU MORTALS ALWALY'S INTERFERE!?"
"Because, it's what we do," a voice said, and Momoshiki looked up to see Gaara hovering in the air, and standing atop a small platform of sand, "When a person's business includes hurting other people, we make it OUR responsibility to interfere. But you wouldn't understand."
"How about I flail you with your spine!" Momoshiki shouted, when suddenly a spray of gunfire rained down on Momoshiki, bullets hitting him in his shoulder, his chest, and his leg.
"GAGH!" Momoshiki screamed in pain before he fell onto his knee, and he looked up to see Coco, her bag gone but a minigun held in her hands, and she said, "You know, in your condition, it might be more of the other way around."
Velvet was behind Coco, and she looked pumped, when Coco said, "Velvet, we've got this. Don't use your semblance."
"Oh," Velvet said, a bit deflated, "Ok."
Momoshiki grinded his teeth, and said with a vengeance, "You all will pay! You will learn what happens when you defy a god! First those damn Kage fools interfere! Now all of you will suffer their coming fate! You all will become nothing but chakra for me to consume! Just like that blonde bastard!"
"Blonde?" Gaara said, and it was then that he just knew. For some reason, he just knew that this Otsutsuki was talking about his closest friend.
"Are you talking about Naruto?" Gaara asked, and even though Momoshiki didn't confirm it, Gaara felt anger well up in him, and Gaara unconsciously was not crossing his arms but was holding a fist up in front of him, and Gaara shouted with fury, "Don't you dare lay a finger on him! I'll crush you!"
Gaara held out an open hand towards Momoshiki, before snapping it closed, and shouting, "Giant Sand Burial!"
Suddenly, a giant wave of sand shot up out of the ground behind Momoshiki, and it towered almost 50 ft in the air, before it came thundering down.
However, without Gaara knowing, Momoshiki's lips curled into a smile.
The wave of sand came crashing down on Momoshiki with a thunderous boom, and kicked up a large cloud of sand and dust, and came rolling towards Team CFVY and Team GPHC, but stopped at the tip of their feet
"Whoa," Velvet said, "Awesome."
Pierce sneezed, and said to himself, "Well, that was a lot easier than I thought."
Clarice then shouted from the perch she was on, which was almost 30 ft away, "So are we done?!"
Gaara, meanwhile, gave a sigh of relief, and said to himself, "No one threatens my friends, and gets away with it."
Fox walked up to Pierce and Hanzo, and said, "Hey, you guys aren't too shabby. That was some pretty good fighting skills back there."
"Thanks," Pierce said, and Fox then turned to Hanzo and said, "You know, that semblance i s pretty good. Wind Teleportation?"
"No," Hanzo responded, "I simply like to call it 'Step of the Wind."
"Nice," Fox said
Gaara looked down from his sand platform, and saw his team, and couldn't help but feel a sense of pride. They had his back, and had it not been for them, he probably would have been killed.
Suddenly, Gaara felt something. He looked back at the giant pile of sand that was where Momoshiki used to be. Suddenly, he felt a sudden spike in chakra coming from the pile.
Gaara's eyes grew in alarm, and he shouted down to his team, "Everyone! Look ou-"
Suddenly, the giant pile of sand erupted in a giant burst and a loud clap, and everyone on the ground was sent flying backward, except for Clarice, who was a bit farther, however, the erupting force caused her to stumble and momentarily lose her footing.
Sand rained up into the sky, and came raining back down from the eruption, and Gaara had to make a tendril of sand to grab him and anchor him when the eruption took place.
"What just happened!?"
Gaara coughed, and looked back to where the explosion came from, and was shocked at what he saw.
Momoshiki stood in the very center, a smug smile on his face, and what made it even more shocking was that he no longer looked battered, and the bleeding wound he had earlier from Hanzo was gone.
"Impossible!" Gaara shouted, but Momoshiki simply replied, "Using your chakra infused sand to grind up more chakra? I must say, some of that chakra ended up transferring into the sand that you had just used now, enough for me to gain enough power to crush you."
Coco was the first one to stand up, and when she saw Momoshiki in his new state, she shouted, "What the hell is this guy!? How did he survive that?!"
Momoshiki gave a sadistic smile to Coco, and said, "Now, mortals, you shall pay for laying your grimy, disgusting hands on a divine being such as me."
Momoshiki gave a sinister chuckle, as he then pulled out something from his coat pocket, and held up a little red pill.
"What the hell?" Pierce said, a bit confused by the pill, "Who the hell is this guy? A drug addict?"
However, when Gaara saw Momoshiki begin to raise the pill to his mouth, he suddenly knew what would happen, and he reached out his hand and shouted, "STOP HIM! DON'T LET HIM EAT THAT!"
Coco heard him say it, and she raised the barrel of her minigun towards Momoshiki, and said, "Fine, I guess."
However, before she could pull the trigger, Momoshiki held up his left hand towards Coco, and said, "Wind Style: Gale Palm."
Suddenly, a small gale of wind came shooting from Momoshiki's open palm, and went shooting towards Coco.
"Guh!" Coco yelped in pain when the gale of wind hit her in her stomach, and sent her flying backwards towards Pierce, knocking him down like a domino.
"Futile," Momoshiki said, as he put the pill into his mouth.
However, right as he did, Clarice shot a purple, explosive arrow at Momoshiki. It darted towards Momoshiki, who then held up his right hand, and caught the arrow. However, it then seemed as if the purple arrow of energy suddenly deformed and turned into a pure purple aura, and was then absorbed into his palm.
Momoshiki then said with the pill in the side of his mouth, "So, you can create arrows out of multiple elements, hmm? Well, I can do it much better!"
Suddenly Momoshiki held out his left hand towards Clarice, and suddenly, three arrows formed and hovered in the air around Momoshiki, and he said, "Now perish."
The arrows went flying towards Clarice, and the last thing she was able to say was, "Well great."
The arrows exploded in a burst of purple energy near Clarice, and when Pierce saw it, his eyes widened in horror, and he screamed with a desperation that Gaara had never heard before, "NO! CLARICE!"
He quickly stood back up and ran towards Clarice, and Gaara, who had seen his teammate become blown up, suddenly felt anger begin to well up in him.
Momoshiki suddenly said, "Well, those food pills aren't exactly tasty, but I can handle that."
Gaara veered towards Momoshiki and shouted in anger, "How about you shut up! You are going to pay!"
"Oh," Momoshiki replied, before holding up his arms to his sides, and slightly bent forward, "Well then, Kazekage, I'm waiting."
"Tch!" Gaara just got angrier, and with a roar of anger, he jumped off his sand platform and held up his fist, and sailed towards Momoshiki.
"Rah!" Gaara roared as he came within range of Momoshiki, and sent his fist aimed for Momoshiki's face.
Momoshiki held up his right hand, and caught Gaara's fist, and said, "Hmph, fool."
Momoshiki suddenly countered by creating a sphere of pure red and black energy, and when Gaara saw it, he recognized its shape.
"A Rasengan?" Gaara managed to say to himself, before Momoshiki thrusted the small sphere into Gaara's stomach.
"GAGHHH!" Gaara screamed in pain, and was sent flying backward and skidding across the ground, before rolling to a stop at Velvet's feet, clutching his stomach.
"Gaara! Gaara, are you okay?" Velvet panicky asked as she went to his side, when suddenly a scream of anger rang out, and Pierce came darting towards Momoshiki, shouting, "I'M GONNA KILL YOU!"
Momoshiki smiled, as Pierce went running towards him.
Pierce leaped upward, and came sailing down towards Momoshiki
"You're dead!" Pierce shouted, as he stabbed downward at Momoshiki
The Otsutsuki simply sidestepped the attack, and Pierce landed in front of him and slid back on the ground a couple meters, before he went running back at Momoshiki
"RAH!" Pierce shouted as he stabbed at Momoshiki's face holding the trident with one hand, then tried to follow up by spinning around and slashing at Momoshiki's stomach and then spinning around again and trying to do a backwards thrusting kick aimed at Momoshiki's stomach.
Momoshiki leaned his head to the right and avoided the trident, and when Pierce tried to slash at his stomach, Momoshiki jumped backward, and he then caught Pierce's foot, before saying, "If you're done, then allow me to have a turn."
Suddenly, Momoshiki flew upwards, keeping his grip on Pierce's foot and taking him with him
"Wagh!" Pierce shouted, a bit startled when he was suspended upside down by Momoshiki, "Put me down you goddamn snow-man!"
"Put you down?" Momoshiki asked, "Alright then."
Momoshiki went flying down towards the ground, holding Pierce above him, and while laughing maniacally, he smashed Pierce into the ground
"AARRGH!" Pierce screamed in pain as his aura shattered, and he began to pant heavily
"Had enough, mortal?" Momoshiki stood above Pierce
"Go to hell!" Pierce shouted defiantly
"No? Well then," Momoshiki said, before he suddenly held up his foot and stomped hard on Pierce's head, knocking him unconscious, and leaving behind a bleeding wound on his head, "we can't have that, now can we?"
"Get off of him," Momoshiki heard someone say, and when he looked up, he saw Gaara standing up, his stomach looking like a spiderweb of cracks due to Gaara's sand armor, and Gaara said, "I'm not going to let you hurt my team."
"Hmph," Momoshiki scoffed, "You don't look like you can stop me."
Momoshiki then gave a small smile, and said, "You do know that I possess the Byakugan, right? Sneaking up on me is useless."
Suddenly, Hanzo came dashing from behind Momoshiki, his blue sai's held out, ready to attack.
Hanzo leaped forward and slashed at Momoshiki's back, and Momoshiki simply sidestepped the attack without even looking
"Huh?" Hanzo exclaimed in confusion, however, Momoshiki suddenly formed a chain made of red energy, and without even looking in Hanzo's direction, he threw it at Hanzo, and it wrapped around the boy, binding him
"Now take this!" Momoshiki said as he then pulled Hanzo forward. Momoshiki held up his left hand, and suddenly, a big ball of fire appeared and took form above him, and he shouted, "Now burn!"
Momoshiki sent the fireball flying at Hanzo, however, at the last moment, Hanzo disappeared in a burst of wind
Hanzo reappeared beside Pierce's unconscious body, and he quickly picked him up and dashed away as quickly as he could, and got to Gaara's side.
At first, Momoshiki was a bit confused about why Hanzo used that one moment where he was vulnerable to help the other mortal instead of attack, when he almost instantly realized why.
Momoshiki put a finger to his chin, and said, "Hehe, saving your friend instead of using that moment to land a decisive blow? Hah! You mortals are so predictable."
Hanzo growled, and said, "What!? You mean you don't have anyone you care about? No one that you consider a friend!? Not even your parents?!"
Momoshiki gave a sadistic grin, and said, "My father? Why, I would have killed him in an instant if it meant gaining more power from him. Not that he can do anything to stop me."
"You'd…..kill your father?" Velvet said in disbelief
"What kind of sick joke is this!?" Coco said, having recovered from the gale palm.
"It's not a joke," Momoshiki said, "It's just business."
Yatsuhashi pointed his sword at Momoshiki, and said, "Before this, I probably would have shown at least an ounce of mercy. But now, you are not going to be leaving this place spotless."
Momoshiki replied, "Would you like to prove that statement?"
"I will," a voice behind Momoshiki said, and Fox came barreling towards Momoshiki, the metal bands covering his forearms no longer just bands, but with red, large blades protruding out of them now.
Fox threw an elbow slash aimed at Momoshiki's side, however, without even turning to look behind him, Momoshiki jumped upwards, and spun around before landing a kick to Fox's head, making him stumble back.
Momoshiki held out his left palm, and Fox gasped in surprise when he saw the red Rinnegan in his palm.
"Now perish!" Momoshiki shouted as suddenly a bolt of blue lighting shot out and hit Fox in the chest, sending him flying backward and pummeling him into a nearby wall of an apartment building, his aura shattering from just one strong blast.
Yasuhashi gave out a battle cry, as he charged towards Momoshiki
Momoshiki chuckled a little, before he stood there, waiting for the giant boy to approach. Yatsuhashi charged forward, before slashing downward onto Momoshiki's head, but the Otsutsuki simply sidestepped the giant blade
Yatsuhashi quickly brought the blade back up, and slashed at Momoshiki's head, but the Otsutsuki ducked underneath it.
Momoshiki then gave a sadistic smile, as he then slammed a hard fist into Yatsuhashi's stomach, causing the boy to double over.
Momoshiki then swung his arm above him in a circular movement, before hitting Yatsuhashi in his face with a backfist, and then following up with open palms strike to Yatsuhashi's chest, sending the boy flying backwards and skidding across the ground a few meters away, until he hit a car, which stopped him.
Coco readied her minigun, but before she could pull the trigger, Momoshiki turned towards her, and threw forward a chain made of red chakra, before swinging it in a circle above his head, and the chain smacked both Coco, Gaara, and Hanzo in their faces, and sending all of them flying and onto their back.
Coco and Hanzo were both protected by their aura, but the chain had smashed Gaara's sand armor, leaving a spider web of cracks on his face. And Coco's and Hanzo's auras were both destroyed.
Velvet saw the three fall to her feet, and she began to feel fear build up within her, and then she heard a sadistic laugh, and when she looked up, she saw Momoshiki. She felt herself go numb, and a single bead of sweat slid down her head.
"Velvet," Velvet heard someone say weakly, and when she looked down, she saw Coco, "Velvet, it's now or never."
Velvet suddenly knew what she was talking about, and she nodded, responding, "Alright!"
Velvet looked up at Momoshiki, and the Otsutsuki laughed, and said, "Well, what is a timid, little rabbit going to do to me?"
Velvet suddenly felt anger rise up in her at the comment, and she asked furiously, "What did you just call me?!"
Velvet then suddenly dashed forward with unexpected speed, and threw forward a quick fist aimed for Momoshiki's face, which he had caught easily with his right hand
"First you hurt my friends! And now you're insulting the Faunus! I'm gonna make you pay!" Velvet shouted, and Momoshiki laughed, and said, "Really? And how do you plan on doing that?"
"Like this!" Velvet responded, and suddenly, light blue dust formed around Velvet's hand and wrist, before forming into one of Yang's shotgun gauntlets
Suddenly, she let a shotgun blast burst into Momoshiki's hand, and unknowingly, burned the red Rinnegan in his right hand
Suddenly, another shotgun gauntlet formed in her other wrist, and Velvet followed up with a uppercut to Momoshiki's chin, causing him to stumble backward
"Take this!" Velvet shouted as she then thrusted her fist forward into Momoshiki's gut.
"HAAAA!" Velvet shouted with effort as she hit Momoshiki with all her might, and at the same moment that her fist hit his gut, she fired a powerful shotgun blast at the same time, sending Momoshiki flying backward, but he managed to right himself and keep onto his feet.
Momoshiki clutched his stomach with his left hand, but when he looked at his right hand, he saw the red Rinnegan was burned
"Impossible!" Momoshiki thought, "Without this Rinnegan specifically, I won't be able to absorb any jutsu! That damn girl!"
Momoshiki looked up at Velvet, fury in his blank white eyes, "What have you done! WHAT DID YOU DO!?"
Velvet went into a combative stance, and said, "There's more where that came from!"
"You know what? I'm going to make you suffer! I will dangle you before your friends and make them watch you slowly suffer, and then I'll kill you!" Momoshiki screamed in age as he then charged at Velvet
Velvet began to get a bit startled when he began screaming, but when he charged at her in rage, it was then that she began to have second thoughts
Momoshiki formed a spear made of red chakra in his left hand, and he jumped into the air, and flew towards Velvet with such speed that she was caught off guard
It was almost as if it was in slow motion. She knew she would not be able to dodge this. She saw the spear's blade get closer and closer to her, 3 inches, 2 inches, 1 inch.
It was then that suddenly, a Velvet couldn't help but see a small butterfly with white, silk colored wings not far behind Momoshiki.
Momoshiki suddenly felt himself stop in midair. Almost as if something surrounded his body, and kept him suspended in the air, and his spear was only an inch away from the girl's face.
"No! I was so close!" Momoshiki thought
Suddenly, he felt something control his body, and suddenly felt his body slam into the ground with great force
"Gagh!" Momoshiki yelped, as suddenly, he felt his body moved forward, and he felt his face be drilled forward downward into the concrete, and he suddenly felt himself be dragged through the concrete, bulldozing right through the stone, and it went on like that for almost 6 meters, before finally, he felt whatever had grabbed him finally had enough, and he felt himself lifted up, and then, he was thrown.
Whatever had thrown him had used great force, because he went flying quite a way into the sky, when suddenly, he saw something open up in front of him. A circle, almost as if a giant gold ring formed and had laid suspended in the sky, and inside it, he saw the white of snow-covered fields.
Momoshiki went shooting through the ring, before he went torpedoing towards the ground, and crashed into the earth, bursting in a giant cloud of snow and dust.
Velvet blinked, as if trying to confirm what had just happened. She saw Momoshiki suddenly be smashed into the ground in front of her, and then drilled through concrete, before being flung into the sky. And the entire time, that white butterfly was following him.
Meanwhile, the blue, holographic-like shotgun gauntlets faded from her wrists
"Did the butterfly do that?"
Suddenly, she heard groaning, and she looked down to see Gaara groaning, and he was slowly forcing himself onto his feet.
"Gaara!" Velvet shouted, a bit startled that Gaara was still able to walk, "What are you doing!? You'll overdo it and hurt yourself!"
Velvet ran towards him, and grabbed him by his shoulders and practically forced him to sit down, and she had him lean back on a detached, giant root.
"What happened? Where is he?" Gaara asked, a bit weakly
"Well, some weird things happened, but he is gone. Hopefully for good," Velvet responded
"No," Gaara said, "He won't be gone forever. If anything, he'll come back stronger."
Velvet shushed him, and said, "Save your strength, Gaara."
"No," Gaara said, when he tried to force himself to get up, "I-I have to see Pierce. My team-they are-"
"Gaara, stop!" Velvet said, as she put her hands on his chest and pushed him back down, and Gaara was helpless to stop her in his condition, "If you keep trying to force yourself up, you'll end up killing yourself! What good is your team if they don't have a leader!?"
At that comment, Gaara stopped, and looked at Velvet for a good moment, before nodding, and stopped trying to get up.
"I'll go check on them," Velvet said, as she stood up and went to check on both her and Gaara's team.
After checking up on his and her team, she pulled out her scroll, and quickly called for help. After she called and put away her scroll, she went back to Gaara, and said, "They are all right. Pierce might have a nasty scar on his forehead, but it isn't too serious. Help should be on the way"
"Thank you," Gaara said, looking at her gratefully, but for some reason, when he thanked her, Velvet felt something stir inside of her. A feeling that she never felt before. She sat down next to Gaara, and for some reason, she couldn't stop thinking about how he kept trying to force himself up.
The fact that he was willing to push himself to his body's limit, and end up killing himself just to make sure that his team was alright proved that he was a good leader. But then, she thought about when she pushed him back down. When she had pushed him down, his chest felt hard and strong, and she even felt his heartbeat for a second.
She didn't know why, but she felt embarrassed by it.
Suddenly, she felt something land on her leg, and when she looked, the butterfly from before stood atop it.
"It's wings really do look like a silky white," Velvet noted
The butterfly suddenly turned towards Velvet, and looked at her. It stared at her with such a intensity that made Velvet feel uncomfortable
"Uhhh," Velvet said a bit unsurely, "Hi?"
It was then that the butterfly did something that shocked her. It nodded at her. It was then that the butterfly fluttered away, leaving Velvet in awe
Ozpin cupped his chin in his hand, as he watched the battle begin between this mysterious man. But once Gaara had been outed, Ozpin began to become a bit worried. He then turned towards Glynda, who was beside him watching the footage, and said, "They'll need some help. Send in an ambulance, and also any available huntsmen."
Glynda quickly nodded, and walked off.
Ozpin looked back at the monitor, and as the final stages of the battle began to take place, something strange happened. Suddenly, the man in white stopped, as if frozen in place, before he was then drilled into and through the ground, and then thrown into the air.
Ozpin was, to be honest, shocked by it. He didn't know what could have done it, but whatever it was, it must have been powerful to hold a monster like it.
Ozpin sat up and paced his large office, before he walked towards his desk, grabbed the phone and dialed in a number.
As soon as the other end picked up, Ozpin said, "Hello there, James, we need to talk. Now tell me, are you still secretly using that dimensional collider?"