Setting: Turquoise's Office
Silence engulfed the room. Everyone on Team VRSZ eyed Silver and vice versa. This continued for a good twenty-five seconds until Silver started to snicker.
"Hmm?" Turquoise groaned, looking at Silver with a bewildered look. How confident is he that he could beat his former allies?
His snickering transformed into laughter as he dropped his arms to hold his stomach. Violet started to laugh as well with Zelts shortly joining the fray and Remus had a goofy smile on his face. The serious silence was replaced with loving laughter and Turquoise couldn't understand why.
"You broke first," Violet said, cheerfully.
"Hey, the room was dead quiet and you were looking at me with that face. I couldn't hold it for long," Silver said, smiling.
The team continued their merriment, leaving Turquoise confused, but it was quickly replaced with irritation after figuring out what was going on. "You never betrayed them, did you?" she said, in a low, disappointed tone.
"Nah. They get on my nerves sometimes, but they're friends, it's their job."
"The feelings mutual," Violet said, earning a playful look from Silver.
"Before you ask how this happened, let me tell you the plan we implemented. Your former faunus friend was gracious enough to tell us where you live and I couldn't pass up abusing such juicy information." When Silver mentioned Blood betrayed her as well, Turquoise's anger grew.
"I spoke with Violet about the tracker she placed on me so we could use it on you. Late last night, we infiltrated your base and planted the tracker on you without waking you up. We needed to monitor your movements, but lucky for us, you sleep like you're six feet underground. While you were snoozing, we helped ourselves to the treasures of your facility. Violet found your massive dust collection on the third floor and replenished her own collection by stealing yours and then some."
"Not stole, liberated. I'm sure she stole all of it so it's fine to take from a thief."
"Of course boss, liberated. Where was I? Right, we helped ourselves to the food in your kitchen and hung out in the lounge room on the second floor playing video games, pool, and others stuff. I have to say, if I really did choose to work for you that would've been a sweet perk. Too bad we alerted the authorities to the location of your base with a simple text."
"YOU DID WHAT!" Turquoise finally got up from her chair, and when she did, the water in the walls and on the floor bubbled fiercely. This didn't go unnoticed by the others who were on guard for whatever was going to happen next.
"To be exact, we let everyone in Fortuna know where you live," Silver continued. "Now you'll probably have annoyances and work knocking at your front door. At first we did this to spite you, but Zelts showed us an update on your bounty, over $20,000, it pretty much doubled over night, so we couldn't waste this opportunity. However, Violet still needed some time to add the dust into her weapons, so she came up with this little act to keep you busy and contained so no one else could take your bounty. My messed up appearance, talking about the others, and convincing you that I wanted to betray them was all part of her plan. I told you didn't I? Violet's the most dangerous member of VRSZ."
Silver finished his lengthy account of events, but it did not quell the flame of Turquoise's rage.
"Thank you, Silver," Violet said, happy about the compliment and he playfully bowed.
"So you had no intention of working for me?" Turquoise began to stand before them with her surfboard in hand.
"Don't you remember what I said? I only work for the winning team." He tilted his head to his friends. "You're nothing more than fodder to my real target, Royal."
Turquoise reached her boiling point and all the water in the room was moving violently.
"Surrender now, Turquoise, you're outnumbered," Zelts said, with shield in hand.
"I may be outnumbered, but you're out of your league!"
Turquoise fiercely gripped her board and swung it at the glass. It broke through and she pulled it out, letting the water gush out of the opening and spread across the floor. She raised her hand, pointed it in the team's direction, and a torrent of water jet streamed toward them. Everyone moved out the way, but Turquoise moved her hand again and the water moved to Silver. The water hit him hard in the chest and the attack didn't let up. Turquoise ignored the others as she pinned him to the wall, hosing him down with her unrelenting attack. The force of the water kept him in place despite his semblance and with no source of oxygen, he was in a dangerous bind.
Too busy with getting her revenge on Silver, she forgot about the others. Remus jumped into the air, gripping his sword, Violet threw three knives her way, and Zelts got in the way of the water torrent, blocking it with his shield and saving Silver from drowning as he was on all fours and coughing water out of his lungs. Turquoise, with one hand still controlling the water, used her other one to grab and move her mechanical surfboard to block Remus' sword slash and Violet's knives that remained stuck onto the board.
"Remus, move!" Violet shouted and he did.
Two seconds after he moved, the knives glowed red and exploded. The force of the explosion knocked Turquoise back into the water wall which cracked again until it shattered. Water was gushing out of the new hole, but Turquoise could not be seen. Suddenly, the glass walls and floor were cracking, something was beginning to stir.
"Her semblance is obviously the ability to control water. And the fact that her whole home is a giant water tank puts at a great disadvantage," Violet thought, trying to assess the best way to combat their opponent.
"We need to get out of this building. Remus, can you teleport us outside?" she asked.
Remus looked around at the watery dome surrounding them. "Maybe? I can only teleport to places I can see and the water makes it...blurry."
"Give it a try," Violet requested, nicely, placing her hand on his shoulder so she would teleport with him.
"What's the worst that can happen, we end up in water? Just have to hold our breaths," Zelts said, putting his hand on Remus' back.
"Here's your first lesson about life, schoolboy, sometimes you gotta take a leap of faith," Silver said, bumping his fist on Remus' arm.
Remus concentrated on the area beyond the water. In a puff of blue smoke, the team vanished. The second after they disappeared, all the water broke through and flooded the room.
Outside the base, the team reappeared, but were falling from a five-story building. Remus looked at the ground and teleported them all again safely. Suddenly, all of the windows of Turquoise's base were spouting water from every floor. On the fifth floor, Turquoise emerged and she was riding her surfboard on a floating, massive, current of water that was amassing into a giant ball of water with her resting at the top. The orb slowly descended to the ground before the team, and with a swing of her arms, the water transformed into a giant wave with Turquoise riding toward her opponents.
Violet armed herself with some Vorpal Swords, but Zelts got in front of her and changed his shield to wingblades. He swung both of his blades and a powerful gale emerged, colliding with the wave. The powerful forces of nature came into contact and Zelts' attack was able to disrupt and destroy the wave, dispersing all the water. Turquoise used her surfboard to ride to the top and soar above the wave before it was hit. She moved her arms and the water changed from wave to flood as she tried to sweep and drown VRSZ. Remus teleported with Zelts out of the way as Violet wrapped her arm around Silver and he used his semblance to quickly jump high onto the surface of one of the rundown buildings near Turquoise's base. It took another leap for him to land on the roof of the building where their other two companions. They watched as the water began to swirl around the building like a giant whirlpool, and riding along the current was Turquoise, who unleashed another torrent of water on them.
Zelts used his shield to defend again, but Turquoise opened her palm causing the water to split apart, move around the shield, and hit Zelts, knocking him down. Before Violet could come up with a plan, Remus ran to Turquoise following the path the whirlpool took her. She launched several torrents of water at him but he swiftly sidestepped and dodged everyone of them. Keeping track of Turquoise, Remus teleported right front of her atop of her surfboard with sword in hand ready to cut her down. Not seeing any of this coming, Turquoise flinched with her arms up, trying to defend against the attack, but it never came. She chanced it and peeked to see why he didn't attack. Standing before her was a wobbly Remus who gave the impression that he was about to throw up from the bouncing and swaying of the surfboard.
This was Remus' first time experiencing seasickness. He fell to one knee with one hand covering his mouth.
"Oh, come on!" Silver yelled, as the glow from his semblance ceased.
Seeing this as an opportune moment, Turquoise conjured a small wave to roll onto the board and carry Remus underwater a good distance away from her. Following the current of the whirlpool and using her hands to control the water and keep him in place, her move was interrupted by her hands suddenly becoming frozen. She looked above her and saw Violet with Vorpal Swords in hand and she was glowing the same way Silver did when Gravity affected himself and others. With her hands incapacitated, the flow of water holding Remus ceased and he quickly swam to the surface, gasping for air while he was still caught in the flow of the whirlpool. His new predicament didn't mean he was out of danger. Turquoise stepped on a button on the surfboard and from the bottom of the mechanical contraption, a small torpedo was launched gunning straight for Remus who didn't notice it was coming his way. Wanting to save her friend, Violet quickly threw another knife in front of the missile's path as she tried to land on top of Turquoise, who was breaking the ice on her hands by hitting it against her board.
While this was happening, Silver and Zelts stood and watched until Zelts got tired of doing nothing for so long. "Silver, did you ever read Violet's notes on team attacks?" Zelts asked, but Silver remained silent, proving he didn't so Zelts continued. "I'm gonna tell you how to do ours. It's called Starfall."
Violet grabbed more ice knives from her bag. The ice knife she threw to intercept the torpedo was successful. It made contact with the surface of the water and created an iceberg large enough to not only protect Remus from the missile, but it also took the entire impact of the explosion. Upset that her attack was thwarted and her hands now free, Turquoise aimed for Violet who was descending on her. She sent two jets of water to assault Violet who threw her two knives directly at the vortexes freezing them on the spot. With a flick of her wrist, Turquoise sent another force of water to Violet using the water around the ice. Violet was about to grab another knife until she noticed something in the air.
Starfall: Silver uses his Gravity to lighten the weight of Zelts and himself to jump high into the air. Then uses his semblance to greatly increase Zelts' mass and hurl him to the ground to greatly damage all nearby enemies.
Silver hurled Zelts straight at Turquoise through her water attack. Zelts had his shield in front to protect himself from attacks and the metal weapon would cause greater damage. Violet aided by throwing one more knife at the water to freeze it and stop the incoming attack. Violet tucked her body to hasten her fall into the water in order to move out the way of Zelts. The speed and power of the team attack easily smashed through the ice and Zelts landed a few inches away from Turquoise. The impact caused a massive explosion of water as Zelts' body punched through the whirlpool, flinging Turquoise into the air. Zelts landed on the ground, creating a small crater. Without her concentration, the whirlpool ceased and fell to the ground. Remus was finally recomposed and teleported out of the water to the ground. Violet was in the water when it was falling, so she didn't think she could do anything at the moment until Remus teleported next to her, held her hand, and teleported back to the ground with Zelts running to them.
The great mass of water falling from the sky created heavy downpour that would've crushed and injured the others if Zelts didn't use his wingblades to muster a strong enough gust to cleave the water in half, keeping the area they were standing in clear as water fell all around them. Just as the water finished falling from the sky, Silver jumped from the top of a building, and with Gravity, his descent was slow as he softly landed near his friends.
"I think we're winning," Silver said knowing full well that they were still at a great disadvantage. Just then, the water that was up to their ankles was moving. All the water was converging to a single point, wherever Turquoise fell.
"Terra Cotta's weapon allowed him to manipulate earth while Turquoise's semblance allows her to manipulate water. Royal has some capable enforcers. The fact that people as strong as this work under him make me more worried about Royal himself," Zelts analyzed.
"Yeah, she's very strong." Remus said, complimenting his enemy, but Violet wasn't impressed.
"She's really not that strong," Violet retorted, with confidence, earning her a curious look from Silver and Zelts.
"You found a weakness in her semblance?" Zelts questioned, as he continued to watch the water surge. If Violet had an answer, she would have to say it now.
"She's a one trick pony, her semblance itself is a weakness."
"I don't follow. It seems pretty strong to me." Silver was not fully grasping the meaning of her words. Violet simply pointed into a direction and he looked to whatever she was pointing to. It was the mass of shattered ice Violet froze during battle.
"She's able to manipulate water to do her bidding, but that's it. Frozen water or ice is not within her capabilities, meaning she can only control water in its most basic form. When I froze her hands with my one of Vorpal Swords she couldn't move it with her semblance, she had to break it on her surfboard to get free. I noticed that but I wasn't sure yet, so when she sent a force of water my way I purposely froze it to see what she would do next. She couldn't control it anymore, she had to form the same attack with new water and go around it."
"Impressive, so we have to freeze all the water to leave her defenseless?" Zelts said, hoping he was right.
"Yes, but that could be a problem. We live in the desert, the ice I made right now is already melting, restoring her arsenal. To win, we need to freeze the water in one move and take her out quickly," Violet said, with resolve that told the other members of her team she already come up with a plan.