A/N: What is up everyone! I am here with the eighth chapter of OOO! Remember, I will be following not only the RWBY episodes with some additions but also the OOO series (The Greeed, meeting Ankh, introducing Kougami, etc., but no Birth [Maybe]). Anyways enough talk, let us begin the chapter now shall we? Also tomorrow, Chapter 4 of Kamen Rider Dark Drive: Hyperdimension Road (Kamen Rider Drive x Hyperdimension Neptunia V) will be uploaded.
Henshin!
Third Person View
'Thought'
Greeed/Yummies
"Stop pandering to him Ozpin," a strong voice spoke up near the door. The headmaster need only to shift his eyes to regard an all too familiar acquaintance in white marching up to them.
"Ah, yes. Ankh, this is General James Ironwood, Headmaster of Atlas Academy as well one of their Kingdom's military leaders."
Ankh slackly tilted his head in a side glance to scrutinize the tall and intimidating figure, whose keen eyes had long been boring into the Greeed from the moment he entered the room.
Ironwood hinged his jaw to clear his throat, his expression tightening after sizing up the vagabond that Ozpin had the misjudgment to take in. "I am General James Ironwood. I'll skip the formalities for now because time is short. To be quite blunt 'Ankh', we need to talk."
"Why should I talk to you?" He questioned Ironwood. "Your 'military's' weapons won't affect the Greeed that hide, waiting for their chances to strike."
Ozpin then pressed a button on his desk in which a screen lowered behind him and Glynda before the video plays Team RWBY and Enrique fighting Gamel and the Bison Yummy.
"But you see that your plan nearly risked the lives of five students." Ozpin pointed out.
"Above all else, handing a student an item that was thought and supposed to be long forgotten." Ironwood added. "You do realize that you possibly caused another repeat of what the Multi-King did 800 years ago?" Ironwood was one of the other few other than Glynda and Ozpin who are aware of the ancient story of OOO.
"He couldn't even kill a Beowulf with ease." Ankh scoffed, remembering how Enrique was against the Beowulf during the initiation. "Like he would ever do what that greedy bastard did all those years ago."
"Yet you are one of those Greeed; much like the ones I have been hearing about for some time now." Ironwood argued. He has been secretly watching behind the scenes as well, having been sent footage of Ankh's previous exposition to RWBY and JNPR since he is obligated to know. "I don't trust you at all even if you are possessing a person. You are considered a dangerous element in need of heavy surveillance."
Ankh then stood up from his seat and got into Ironwood's face, creating more tension. "Like your soldiers can do that? Your soldiers died from two beings I am sure they can't do the same to the other Greeed knowing of our capabilities."
This made Ironwood glower at him. "And the only people that can solve the situation of the Greeed is me and Enrique. You humans can't hurt them; only me and him. Your choice of what your fate will be if you did send your soldiers into a suicide mission and even to put me under surveillance."
Ankh turns his head to Ozpin. "If that is all then I will be leaving." He said before he glowered at Ironwood and left, slamming the door hard, close to breaking it.
"And Ozpin, I know you are also aware of the story of OOO. Why continue to let a student use its power than confiscate it and destroyed?" Ironwood questioned him.
Ozpin took a sip from his mug before getting up from his seat and stare at the shattered moon from the window. "He's much different than the Multi-King, James." He answered but not informing him of Enrique's home origin. "If you met him and took a good look, you can see what he has been through and he shows promise as well." He turns to look at Ironwood. "He might be the only one that can stop this destruction from happening again. If we were to destroy the belt, what will our fates be when the Greeed bring total destruction to Remnant?"
Ironwood looked at him for a moment before he sighed in defeat. "You may have a point, Ozpin." He said. "I will try to tell the Council of this but if this gets much worse like it has already, I have no choice but to arrest 'Ankh'. And about your student who can become OOO..."
"What about him?"
"I can't find any public records on him, Ozpin." Ironwood said. "It puts his legitimacy here at Beacon into question."
This made Ozpin quiet.
Remnants of Desires
Chapter 8: Sharks and Bombs!? The Scorching Combo Arrives!
It has been a couple of days since the incident and Team RWBY was fully recovered from their injuries except Weiss who needs rest even though she was discharged from the infirmary; At least she is recovering though. But I was upset.
Okay, I was actually pissed. I was pissed off for what Ankh did since he nearly made us risk our lives just to beat Gamel and his Yummy. I remembered Ren's words coming back in my head.
Is Ren right? Can Ankh really be trusted?
As I continue my thoughts, I heard the door open in which I look to see who it was and saw Ankh entering the room. He still looked angry from whatever happened 3 days ago after seeing Ozpin.
"What gives them the right to judge me for my actions?" Ankh questioned himself.
I didn't say anything only to hear yet another one of his complaints. "All I did was right to attempt to take down Gamel and his Yummy." He continued. "So what if those three girls tried their best to beat him?"
My eye twitched from what he said.
"If they were trained harder than none of this would happen but they are only weak enough to handle the Grimm not the Yummys or the Greeed."
Ok, that's it! He crossed the line!"
"Shut up..." I muttered.
Ankh turned his head to look at me. "What?"
I got up from my bed to look at him. "Just shut up!" I shouted. "Why do you have to be like this Ankh!? All you do is not giving a damn about others; only for your stupid Core Medals and the Cell Medals!"
"You bet-"
"No! You listen!" I glowered,interrupting him from speaking. "Ren was right; the honest truth about you… you really are a distrustful person! You nearly cost my life and my friends! You don't give a damn about anything!" I continued. "And those innocent lives and soldiers that Gamel and his Yummy, God knows how many, they've claimed? What about them!? They possibly had families as well!"
I didn't care if my loud voice could be heard across the dorm, I wanted to set things straight with Ankh since he was being a total bastard since the start of my arrival in Remnant.
"Your friends? Tch, they are utterly useless against the Yummy and the Greeed." He scoffed and mocked making me more pissed. "Who cares?"
Now he really crossed the line. I grabbed him by the collar as his back was against the wall. "I care about the safety of my friends! You treat me like your damn puppet!" I shouted. "My life is already screwed up as it is after what happened to my family! I had nothing and I never wanted all this to happen since day one!"
He only gave me his usual expression. "I never wanted this at all! You are nothing but a selfish and heartless bastard, Ankh! Don't you get it?! I rather be back at my home world than be here and be treated like this!" My eyes welled up in moisture as his eyes now began to show signs of anger. "You are only an arrogant, distrustful, and selfish monster!"
He soon punched me in the face. He clenched his Greeed arm for a moment as if he has the urge to kill me. "You are lucky that I am not killing you." He growled. "Why should I care about your past? So what if you been through pain and misery?"
My eyes widen as if he has hurt me inside. I now wanted to beat him for saying that. He doesn't care about anything. "Cry me a river, Enrique. Just remember who helped you live from that Yummy on day one, who made you become OOO, who has been collecting Core Medals to assist your battles, and is giving you a chance to fight."
I only stormed out of the room and slammed the door shut. Now outside of the dorm room, I clenched my fist tighter before I punched the wall hard, leaving a small crack due to my Aura. "Why... Why me...?" I muttered.
I slid down from the wall until I fell in my rear as I stare at the ground before reaching in my pockets to look at the O-Driver and the four Core Medals that I held onto since the battle from couple of days ago: Lion, Tora, Taka, and Batta.
"What happened…?" a familiar voice asked..
I looked up and saw Ruby who looked concerned. "Why are you-"
"You and Ankh were arguing and I… overheard it when I was heading back to the dorm." she twiddled her fingers, showing she listened to the whole conversation and even my words to Ankh.
"I'm sorry you had to hear that Ruby…" I apologized. "It's just that Ankh is selfish and stubborn for who he is and no matter how hard I try to help him, nothing changes…"
I looked at the Taka, Tora, and Batta Core Medals. "I never wanted this to happen… Gamel and that Yummy claimed too many lives and they nearly killed you, Yang, Blake… and Weiss. It brings me pain to see you guys hurt and I don't want that to happen again." I muttered.
"But if you didn't arrive here, you wouldn't have met us and the Greeed would have took over already." Ruby countered.
I winced upon her words. She was right, if I didn't arrive in this world, Remnant would have already been under the control of the Greeed and I wouldn't have made friends. "Come on, I think a breath of fresh air would help you out." She suggested.
I looked up and saw her smile as she reached her hand out to me. "Alright..." I answered with a small smile curled on my lips. I got hold of her hand as she helps me up and the two of us walked out of the school, heading to Vale.
In Vale, a man wearing an Atlesian lab uniform was in a warehouse, looking at his items for his... experiments. He was once a scientist from the Atlesian Military who had been rejected for his research in creating bombs that were too costly and "weren't that effective" in their words. Now he wanted to use this 'experiments' to spite Ironwood than anyone else.
As he continues to work on his experiments, his Scroll went off in which he look to see who it was from. When he did, he saw it was a message from his 'unknown backer' informing him to set the charges in some vehicles.
He replied that he will set them but also for his experiments. Just as he was about to leave, he heard a giggle, making him look around. "Who's there?"
"My, my, you are certainly filled with desire." A female voice said. The figure walked out of the shadows only to reveal Mezool in her human form.
"Who are you?"
She smiled before going into her Greeed form and presented a Cell Medal in her hand. "Someone you won't remember seeing," She answered before inserting the Cell Medal into his forehead.
The scientist got his senses back, trying to remember what had just happened. He shook his head, probably guessing that his constant work was making him see things so he left the warehouse to continue his experiments but his eyes emanated a blue glow.
Once out of sight, Mezool shifted her form back to normal and trotted up to his desk. She tentatively scanned bundles upon bundles of papers riddled with a plethora of information: numbers, addresses, schematics, etc. Seeing value in them, she stacked and folded them altogether into an open briefcase by the table. "This takes me back."
The said scientist was in Vale as he was under one car planting a device that had a timer as well as a capsule that had water and a Dust crystal. Once planted, the pressed the switch but what he doesn't realize that in his warehouse, a beach ball-sized orb appeared on the wall, glowing as it was preparing for Yummys to be born.
Ruby and I were walking in the streets of Vale, exploring the city more. I guess she was right about getting fresh air. I needed it after my argument with Ankh.
"Hey Enrique." Ruby said, getting me out of my thoughts.
"Yes, Ruby?"
"What's your home world like?" She asked, curious.
"Well, my homeworld is called Earth," I answered.
She furrowed her brows. "Sounds like dirt."
I chuckled, "That's the actual name, there are seven continents with each one having their own countries and sets of languages. No kingdoms."
"What else?" Her eyes sparkled, wonderment crossed all over her features.
"There aren't any Faunus, just normal humans. Oh, and there aren't any Grimm either, just normal animals," I added.
"NO GRIMM?!" Ruby exclaimed out loud, prompting me to shush her down frantically.
She cupped her mouth with both hands and nodded, eliciting an exasperated sigh from me. "But...there IS still racism. Just...not with people having animal features," I faintly shook my head.
"What then?" Ruby asked.
"...skin color," as soon as the words left my mouth, Ruby burst out laughing.
"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! SKIN COLOR?! Are you kidding me?" she almost doubled over from her mirth, but my growing scowl soon put a stop to that.
"Sorry!" she pressed her lips tightly.
"It's not just skin color. There's...dissonance of cultures, values, language barriers, and social attitudes too." I blinked. "I guess...there really isn't that much to tell apart, is there?" I paused to wet my lips.
"Unfortunately, there's also terrorism. But I can bet a solid that the White Fang doesn't even come close to what the ones in my world do, or for what reasons...unless I could be wrong." I shifted uncomfortably, subtly being reminded of news detailing all their atrocities.
"Uh, like what...exactly?" I furrowed my brows at her shaken tone, seeing the discomfort emanating from her.
"Look, just forget it. I don't really want to talk about stuff like that right now." I ran a hand over my head to ease my growing tension. "Why don't I just treat you to a drink?"
A smile curled on her lips, making me smile back until I tripped on the pavement. "Ow..." I groaned.
"Are you okay?!" Ruby asked.
"I'm alright." I said before turning my head a bit but I noticed a blinking light under the car. Why would a car have that under it? I looked closely until my eyes widen in realization to what it was. "Ruby, move!" I shouted before I moved her away from the car as it exploded along with two other cars in the area. However and strangely, the explosion spilled water as well, making mine and Ruby's clothes soaked a bit.
We heard scream and some panic around the area as Ruby and I got up. "Are you okay, Ruby?"
"Y-yeah..." She muttered. "Just what was that?"
I looked back at the destroyed vehicles. "I think someone rigged them with bombs."
"At least no one else got hurt..." She said relieved. I nodded in agreement. It looks familiar since at my home world there had been incidents like this in other countries but for some other reason, this feels vaguely familiar. 'Why does this look so familiar?'
I mean, explosives that spill water as well? Wait a minute... explosives that spill water as well, you gotta be kidding me. This bomber's work is similar to the bomber from the series!
That meant a Yummy could be nearby!
Frantically looking around in search for the Yummy, I spotted a recognizable fin that was literally swimming in the road as if there is only water surrounding the fin. "Ruby..." I nudged her before pointing at the fin that is coming towards us.
"What is that?"
Our questions were answered when it jumped out of the water and shot some orbs that exploded, similar to the bombs that were set off, before diving to continue to swim around us.
Ruby got out her Crescent Rose while I got my O-Driver on, inserted Taka, Tora, and Batta, and scanned them. "Henshin!"
TAKA!
TORA!
BATTA!
TA-TO-BA! TATOBA! TA-TO-BA!
I was now in my King Combo as Ruby and I readied ourselves to fight what will pop out. When it dove out of the pavement, it revealed to be a shark-like humanoid.
The Shark Yummy. Terrific.
With a quick slip into her pocket, she brought out a cell medal and inserted it into the slot situated by the gun's scope of her Crescent Rose. "Let's make sushi outta this overgrown tuna!" Ruby declared.
"Uh, that's a shark," I corrected her. Her cheeks flushed pink. "Whatever, let's go!"
I used my left fist to deliver a strike to the Yummy, causing it to stumble back a bit in which Ruby took this chance as she strikes the Yummy across the chest in a diagonal angle, causing some Cell Medals to spill from its body before regeneration tended to its wounds.
It dove into the pavement again, moving faster once again before jumping out to deliver shots at us. Ruby used her Semblance to quickly dodge the attack while I was the one who got shot with one of the orbs which sent me to a car.
"Enrique!" Ruby called out, rushing towards me. "Are you okay?!"
"I-I'm alright." I answered, getting up.
We looked at the Yummy who it once again dove into the pavement, heading to the opposite direction. "Hey get back here!" I shouted at the Yummy before I made a jump and managed to catch it's fin. "Gotcha now!" I had a smirk behind my helmet, showing it was not escaping from me. Or so I thought.
It was dragging me along for the ride as I had water spilled onto my armor while being scraped across the pavement.
"Ow! Ow! Ow!" I cringed with each bump. Ruby was catching up with her semblance as she matched the Yummy's speed in swimming while I'm left to being dragged by the Yummy. Ruby took notice of something ahead. "Enrique! Up ah-"
Before she could finish, I came in contact with a streetlight, making Ruby cringe while I felt the impact to my helmet, making me release my grip on the Yummy's fin. Damn that hurts!
"Ow..." I groaned before getting my sense together. I slowly got up as we saw the Yummy's fin in the distance, showing it got away.
"Aw... It got away." Ruby pouted. "And I wanted to finish it with my Crescent Rose."
"Yeah but still..." I dispelled my armor. "We now have bigger problems. Remember the Piranha Yummy?"
She looked at me for a moment before her eyes widened in realization. "There'll be more of those things?! We have to tell the others!"
I nodded before Ruby and I scrunched our noses from the smell that came to our noses. "Bleh! We smell like fish!" Ruby gagged.
I held my nose, preventing the smell of fish from entering my nose. "Well, at least we have an excuse to take a bath since this morning. Some new duds wouldn't hurt either," I mused.
Mezool, who was in her human form, was combing her hair as she looks at the mirror, Uva with a glass along with two wine bottles he found around the mansion, and for Gamel… playing with his toys that he found in a room that once housed a child ages ago. For Kazari, he was nowhere to be found in the mansion and to their guess, traveling around the city due to the information he got from Mezool to confirm if the addresses are still current.
As she continues, she heard the familiar sounds of water moving, in which she looked above and saw the fin from one of her Yummys. "Welcome home." she mused with a smile, making the other two Greeed see her Yummy jump down from the ceiling.
They watched the Shark Yummy become a small bundle of cell medals, prompting the Greeed go into their actual forms as Gamel cheerfully grabbed a handful. "Thank you, Mezool!" he thanked her before absorbing some.
"Leave some for us, Gamel. Don't be selfish." Mezool informed.
"Okay…." Gamel pouted before moving some for the others to have.
"Any idea where that feline-punk is, Mezool?" Uva asked as he absorbed his stash of cell medals.
"Oh, why I asked him to do something for me while we gather medals."
With that said, Kazari, who was in Vale in his human form was searching for the address of one of the contacts. Despite searching for the address, he still wonders how the newbie-OOO got hold of one of his Core Medals. How did he get it? Who gave it to him?
'Could there be another group that is holding the Core Medals?' He thought. He then came to a stop when he found the address and to his surprise and interest, it was still current. He spied multiple numbers of soldiers in white, different from the military that Gamel pummeled, entering the place. Wondering who they were, he spotted a red symbol on the soldier's back. "So that's the so called White Fang." He mused lazily as he sat back, avoiding any detection as he watches.
Bored, he got up and walked away so he can continue to search for more of those addresses.
As night was coming to a close, the bomber secretly installed some bombs by the highway before setting the timers and looking at his records. He gave out a smile. "This will sure work!" He grinned before running away to head back to the warehouse.
However, in his warehouse, the orb released multiple counts of eggs with one of them now hatching, releasing another Shark Yummy into the city.
When we came back to Beacon, we headed back to the dorm but I didn't want to see Ankh yet after that argument. I guess the argument she overheard from me and Ankh created a lot of tension between us two. Ruby thought it would be more comfortable if I were to be in their dorm for the night since I am assigned to the team after all.
"Why do you two smell like fish?" Weiss asked from her bed.
"Well..." Ruby started.
"If you want to know why we smell like fish is because we had to deal with a Shark Yummy." I answered. "Remember how Mezool's Yummys appear?"
This made them remember the Piranha incident. "There will be more coming." Blake assumed. I nodded.
"Yeah and the way it attack was similar to the bombing from earlier." I added. "This Yummy was created from the desire to blow things up."
"Then we have to find the bomber." Yang said. "Knowing what almost happened to Coco, it will be the same for this bomber."
"Right, driven to the point where the host's mind withers." I agreed. "But I need to get rest, that Yummy already was a pain, it dragged me across the ground and made me hit a streetlight."
"Talk about stopping at a red light." Yang grinned.
The rest of us groaned from her pun. "Come on, that was funny." Yang pouted. "Speaking of Yummys, how come Ankh isn't with you?"
I lowered my head. "I... got into a big argument with him," I answered. "I was very angry at him for treating me like his mule and nearly risked our lives fighting Gamel and his Yummy."
"Can't say I blame you." Weiss agreed.
"I rather not see or talk to him for the rest of the day." I muttered before i got up. "Since Ankh is right now talking to Ozpin again, I'm gonna get myself cleaned up. And come back here."
"Wait you're sleeping in this dorm?!" Weiss exclaimed, uncomfortable that a boy like me will be sleeping in their dorm.
"Would you rather hear another loud argument or even a fight going on between Enrique and Ankh?" Ruby asked her.
This made Weiss quiet and proved a point. "Fine, but you better not get any funny ideas!" She said.
"I'm not that kind of person, Weiss." I deadpanned.
I left the room and walked to my dorm to get myself cleaned up and a fresh change of clothes. I was now wearing my pajamas and carrying a small pack of clothes along with a sleeping bag to Team RWBY's dorm.
When I went returned to their dorm, I laid out my sleeping bag on the ground before getting comfortable. I soon closed my eyes to sleep and ready for tomorrow.
Morning was up and I decided to change into my uniform in my dorm room and Ankh wasn't in the room either. I was thankful that Ruby allowed me to sleep in their dorm for the night. After finishing putting on my tie, Ruby barged in the dorm room. "Enrique! Check the news!"
Wondering why, I quickly grabbed my Scroll before putting up the news and saw what was going on. "More bombings!?" I exclaimed in shock upon hearing the news.
'This is the same bombing that was similar to the one from yesterday. Thankfully there has been no casualties. Police had revealed that this isn't the work of the White Fang. The bombings have been work of a former Atlesian Scientist according to police. His whereabouts are still unknown. If you have any information, please contact the Vale Police Department.'
I looked at Ruby who showed concern. "We'll stop the bombings, Ruby." I assured her. She nodded as her expression changes into a determined look.
We then went to combat class, in which I saw Ankh who was now wearing a black long-sleeved, collared shirt with the right sleeve being red with some small, thin chains pinned to it, a white shirt under it with the right sleeve being long and dyed in a red-lavender color with his pants being grey with a white belt that had a chain on the right side, and black shoes. Professor Goodwitch was here as well.
"Alright people, I want to begin this class so we can get this over with." Ank said before looking at each of us. "To start thing off is a duel and this time it will be against me."
This causes murmur among the class until Goodwitch snapped her crop to quiet them down. "Enrique." He called me.
I took a deep breath before walking to the arena as I got my O-Driver out but I looked at it for a moment, thinking if I should use it in the duel like I did before. I shook my head and put it back in my pocket before I unsheath Medajalibur.
Ankh got out one of his short swords before we got into our stances and waited as the timer counted down. When it signaled, i charged first but Ankh easily blocked my attack and delivered a knee to my gut, lowering my aura.
"You still need more work." He said before pushing me back.
I clenched my hands tighter onto the blade. "I have been trying my best but all you do is not see why I have been doing this, Ankh!" I countered before charging once more and struck his blade but he used his other blade and used its blunt end to hit my chest. "Yet you often get your ass handed to you by others. You can see why humans can be annoying and weak to the Greeed." He pointed out.
I gritted my teeth. "I don't care if I am weak! I have been like that as long as I can remember!" I struck his blade. "All I care about is to prevent people from getting hurt but you don't care! Even if I am weak, I made a promise that I will help others and save them!"
I hit his sword harder as he blocked the next attack. I barely manage to dodge one of his strike as it leaves a cut on my cheek but I suckerpunched him in the face. I breathed heavily as I look at Ankh. "You have to care about others eventually, Ankh. I don't care if you hate me or my friends. Like I said to you before. If it means fighting you just to fulfill a promise for my friends."
Ankh scoffed in time as the timer went off but Ankh was yet again the winner of the match. "I may have had the urge to kill you for those words from yesterday but it will be a problem if it happened." He said before tossing me the Cheetah Medal. "I heard about the Yummy; find the host and its nest and gather the cell medals. We'll discuss the terms of this... Teamwork with your friends to retrieve the medals." He scoffed.
I slowly nodded as I caught the Core Medal. I looked at Ruby with a small smile as we then heard the bell rang in which we left the classroom.
When we left the classroom, I looked at Ruby with a determined look. "Let's go find those Yummys." I said, determined. She nodded before we went to our respective dorms to change out of our uniforms and into our clothes before we departed to Vale in search for the bomber and the Yummy.
After making it to the city, Ruby and I began to look around in search for the Yummy. We both decided to send some Taka Candroids to search for the bomber while we find the Yummy. Continuing our search, we made it to the docks until Ruby nudged her elbow, catching my attention.
"What is it?"
She pointed at a certain direction and we saw a Yumny eating raw fish by the docks.
"Ew..." Ruby and I said in unison.
Our words caught its attention, making it look at us and growl.
I quickly got my O-Driver on to insert the King Combo and scanned them. "Henshin!"
TAKA!
TORA!
BATTA!
TA-TO-BA! TATOBA! TA-TO-BA!
I was back in the armor as I got the Tora Claws ready and Ruby got her weapon ready as it had a new Cell Medal in the mechanism.
"Time for round 2!"
We charged towards the Yummy as Ruby delivered the first strike while I deliver a kick to its side, knocking it to the side. Once it stumbled to the side, Ruby stabbed the blade of her scythe to the ground and spun herself in which she delivered a kick to the Yummy, knocking it down to the ground but it took that advantage to dive into the pavement and swim around us.
It dove out of the water and struck us wherever ever we try to move out of the way but it proved to be too fast for me but not for Ruby. Wait her semblance is speed, that's it!
I quickly grabbed the Batta Medal and switched it with Cheetah and scanned the Medals.
TAKA!
TORA!
CHEETAH!
Now equipped with Cheetah Legs, Ruby and I are now able to dodge with some ease but the Yummy proved to be a challenge for us both.
"Time to catch it!" Ruby declared as she used her Semblance and dug her Crescent Rose into the Yummy's fin and drag it out of the pavement. "Now, Enrique!"
I nodded as I was about to use the Medajalibur but I was shot with an orb of water, different from the Yummy. I rolled across the ground before I slowly stood up as Ruby stood by me.
"OOO-boya, that is my Yummy."
We both look and saw none other than Mezool. "Mezool."
Now we were screwed. Mezool has more experience than us both together.
"Why I haven't met you before," Mezool said, noticing Ruby. "Though I have business to attend to for I won't let you hurt my 'children'."
Her Yummy escaped due to this chance while Ruby and I now have to go against Mezool. Great.
Just as she was about to attack, she dodged some rounds, making us look to see who tried to shoot her. "Yang!?"
"Sorry I'm late." She grinned. "I thought you would need some help."
"And that is?"
"I will be fighting her." Yang said, catching us by surprise.
"Are you serious, Yang?!" Ruby exclaimed. "You remember how powerful Gamel and Kazari were!"
"Don't worry, after all, Ankh mentioned Mezool is a close combat and mid range fighter; I want to see how I can handle it." Yang assured.
I looked at her for a moment. "Be careful." I stated. She nodded as Ruby and I went after the Yummy.
"My, my, and I thought someone couldn't have more beauty as me." Mezool mused. "What is your name?"
"Yang Xaio Long." She answered. "And I'm gonna show you what happens when you Greeed hurt my little sister." She cracked her knuckles as her Ember Celica was now ready, powered with both Core Energy and Dust. She charged forward as Mezool was prepared for a fight.
Yang delivered the first attack but was blocked by Mezool before she countered it with a kick with her knee, making Yang stumble back.
"Certainly are an interesting fighter judging from the force of your punch."
Yang grinned before she punched the ground as her rounds created a firewall in front of Mezool.
Mezool 'smiled' as she used her water orb to douse the fire but didn't expect that Yang used that firewall to get close to her as Yang delivered a punch to Mezool's chest, spilling some cell medals. Mezool first thought that Yang's weapon would not make her spill cell medals but from whatever is powering the gauntlets is allowing her to.
"I figured you would do that for the fish you are." Yang said before delivering another punch with Mezool using her right arm to block it.
"Amusing." She said before she used both of her feet to kicked Yang back. "You certainly are a challenge, I wonder how you lost to Kazari?"
She continued to attack by delivering kicks and punches as Yang did her best to block them. Mezool ducked from the next attack as she swiped Yang's legs, causing her to fall back.
Yang noticed Mezool's foot, aimed at her face in which she dodged it by rolling over but the force from that stomp caused a small crack on the ground.
Checking the mechanism in her weapon, she saw that there still is some Core Energy within Ember Celica. She looked at Mezool who was charging towards her in which Yang was ready to deliver an attack.
If Mezool had a mouth, she would have smiled as she noticed the blonde's early signs of an attack being prepared. Just as Yang delivered the strike, Mezool turned her entire body into water upon instinct. "What-"
Before Yang could finish her sentence, Mezool reconstructed herself as she kicked Yang in the gut, causing a major depletion in her Aura. She then delivered another kick, sending Yang to the wall.
Yang endured the punches and kicks as she fell onto the ground but Mezool wasn't done just yet. She conjured water around the blonde before creating a dome that became a water bubble, lifting Yang; attempting to drown her.
The brawler did her best to hold her breath but water soon took over, as it tries to drown her to death with the Fish Greeed watching the scene unfold in front of her. 'Come on…' Yang thought, trying to plan on what to do against Mezool until an idea popped up in her head. 'That's it!'
She closed her eyes and relaxed all of her muscles, playing dead. Mezool noticed her limp opponent, showing she 'killed' her opponent to her amusement. She smiled before making the bubble vanish, making the latter fall onto the ground. Reverting to her human form, Mezool approached the blonde, nudging her shoulder to check if she is dead. With no movement, the Fish Greeed was victorious.
Or so she thought.
Yang opened her eyes before she delivered an even more brutal strike to Mezool, "Gotcha!" Yang rasped, the water in her throat doing nothing to hamper the moment. This took Mezool by shock and surprise. The blonde brawler faked her death in order to use that advantage to make Mezool revert to her human form, her vunerable form.
"W-What the?" Mezool cringed as she grasped the brawler's arm, in a desperate bid to remove her, hurt her, anything that would save her Cores, which she had no doubt that the blonde bitch was aiming for.
"Get...off-" she was cut off by Yang doing just that, the latter pulling out her arm with all the strength she still had. Her insides were caving in, but that didn't deter her from looking down at her prize. Four. Four Medals for the price of one. Yang smirked in triumph. "Looks like I got myself a fine catch." She smirked before looking at Mezool from a short distance.
With four Core Medals now gone, she felt her lovely Tako Boots bursts within her. She also felt her loss of power, leaving her to stay in human form. "Y-you haven't seen the last of me. Next time... You won't be lucky." She weakly vowed before retreating.
"I'll be ready for that!" She countered. She looked at her palm again and grinned. She could use the four Core Medals as leverage to Ankh if he acts like a jerk to her and the others. Putting them in her pocket, she quickly went to find Enrique and Ruby by getting on her motorcycle.
We continued to go after the Yummy that we were chasing but I saw the Taka Candroid flying towards us. "You found the bomber?"
It nodded, gesturing us follow it. As much we have to go after the Yummy, we have to find the bomber before his desire causes him to create casualties from the bombs.
We followed the Candroid until we came across a warehouse. Suddenly, we heard the sound of Yang's motorcycle in which we saw her getting off and walking towards us. Her clothes were a bit damp as if someone threw water at her.
"You alright?" I asked.
"I'm alright, I'll tell you what happened later." She assured before looking at the warehouse. "Is this where the bomber is?"
I nodded. "This is where the Candroids follow him to." I answered.
"Then let's stop him." Yang declared before busting the door down.
We ran inside and saw the man who was the former Atlesian scientist as he was placing a new set of bombs into his bag. "Stop right there!" I shouted.
The man looked at us. "Stop what you are doing and get away from those bombs." I informed.
"I have every right for my experiments! Ironwood said they were ineffective. I will show him how effective they are! I will show him more and more!" He responded.
He was going mad with this. "Ruby, get those bombs carefully with your Semblance, I'll use Cheetah legs to stop him." I whispered. "Yang apprehend him once we do."
The two nodded as Ruby and I use the speed as she snatched the bags out of the man's hand while I got hold of him as he was struggling in my grip before he punched my gut with his elbow, freeing himself.
He was gonna go after Ruby for taking his bombs but Yang pinned him to the ground.
"Those are my bombs! Give them back!" The scientist demanded.
"Not in your dreams." Yang said before I knocking the man out. "That takes care of that but wher-" a drop of water fell on her shoulder. Noticing the droplet, we slowly looked where the water droplet came from and were shocked to what we saw.
"Holy cow..." Yang muttered in shock.
There were at least 15 eggs, carrying the Shark Yummys. Ruby was about to shoot the orb that makes the eggs grow but we were too late, the Yummys immediately hatch, making us avoid from being stomped on.
Now we had to deal with 15 Shark Yummys. This is just great. They all stood up before looking at us like lunch for the Sharks they are. "Yang... Get on your motorcycle and get that scientist to the police." I informed. "Ruby, use your Semblance and run!" I shouted as we all retreated out of the warehouse.
When we got out, the Yummys jumped out of the windows and dove into the pavement and swam towards the city.
"They heading to the center of town! There's a lot of people there!" Ruby stated.
"Gotta think, gotta think.." I said walking back and forth until a lightbulb came up. "Ruby, I know a way for us to finish all 15 before they get to the center of the city." I presented the Lion Core Medal since I still have Tora and Cheetah equipped.
"Are you sure?"
I nodded. "It's better than doing nothing." I said before I became determined. "You ready Ruby?"
"Let's do it to it, Enrique!." Ruby proudly declared.
I switch Taka with Lion before I scanned them once more.
LION!
TORA!
CHEETAH!
RATA RATA…RATORA~TAH!
I was instantly donned in the all-yellow armor of the Ratoratah Combo, aka the Scorching Combo.
(Cue RaToraTah Combo - Ride On Right Time)
What the!?
Sweet Mother of GOD what a rush! This is definitely WAY different than the Gatakiriba Combo, it's like I just downed several GALLONS worth of coffee right now and my body is feeling PUMPED! UP!
This is unbelievable! Is this what Kazari feels when he's at full power? I feel like I can run all day - no - two days! Probably longer than that...wait...where was I?
"Enrique, the Yummies!" Ruby reminded.
"Oh yeah the Yummies." I said, getting out of my thinking.
I got into a stance before I began to run fast. REALLY fast! "Wooh!" I shouted in glee. This was the rush of a lifetime!
"No fair!" Ruby pouted as she went faster.
Our speed matched the Yummys as the Tora Claws were extended before I clawed each fin, making the Yummys get out of the pavement.
Ruby struck some of them, getting them out of the pavement before killing them while I was handling some of them as well. This was definitely a rush!
"Ruby get to cover! Things are about to heat up!" I said.
Ruby saw the Liondas glowing and swiftly sped away to take cover. She knew what the headpiece was capable of during a Random Combo and since I was using a Full Combo the effect should be even more devastating. Hearing the lion's roar, my helmet glowed as it began to emit an intense light that began to heat everything around me. The Yummys cowered as the heat was burning them, some into crisps. Even some of the light posts and streetlight began to melt.
Once the light died down, there was only one Shark Yummy remaining as parts of its body was burned badly. "Let's finish this!" I declared as I scanned the Medals.
SCANNING CHARGE!
Three yellow rings appeared in front of me in which I charged towards the Yummy, through the rings as the light increase more, burning the Yummy before I used the Tora claws and struck the Yummy in a cross strike, making it explode into Cell Medals.
(End Song)
Seeing all Yummyd gone and defeated, we were relieved that they didn't make it to the center of town. I was breathing heavily as I could barely move my arms but barely managed to tilt the buckle back to its original position, dispelling my armor. I fell on my knees until Ruby got hold of my shoulder, helping me up. "Thanks... Ruby." I thanked her weakly. "At least the people are safe... From the Shark Yummys."
"Let's get back to Beacon so you can rest." She said. I slowly nodded as she helped me walk back to the bullhead and back to Beacon.
Ozpin and Glynda watched the footage of the Shark Yummy fight as they watched Enrique yet again using another combo.
"The ability of incredible speed and burn things with heat as intense as the sun." Ozpin said. "Our student really has potential."
"Ironwood has been informed about the former scientist's arrest." Glynda informed him. "And the Council are gonna be backing off for now since Mister Alderete showed what he can do."
"At least he will understand why Ankh and Enrique are doing this." Ozpin muttered before taking a sip. "This young man might be the only hope to stop the Greeed from causing more destruction."
Meanwhile in the mansion, Kazari walked inside and noticed Mezool's condition, sensing her loss of power as well as Core Medals. Not to mention seeing in her human form. "I take it you lost your Core Medals." He chuckled.
Gamel glared at Kazari before tending to his sister/mommy due to her state. "Mezool, I will get your Core Medal back. I will make you proud."
"That's my Gamel." Mezool smiled as she gently rubbed his head, making Gamel smile bashfully.
"What brings you back, Kazari?" Uva questioned.
"Oh nothing. Except one of the addresses leads to a White Fang base." He answered catching their interest.
"The White Fang. A gold mine for all of us." Uva grinned. He can tell that the White Fang are brimmed with desires knowing of the crimes he heard that they committed.
"All those Faunus, filled with desires." Mezool smiled.
"Medals, medals, medals!" Gamel cheered.
"Then why not go for it?" Kazari suggested. "After all we are superior to the Faunus and they don't even know there origins of how they actually came to be. We will have more Cell Medals, soldiers to do the work for us, and... Weapons crafted just for us."
"Then it's settled. We attack their base once Mezool gets her strength back." Uva declared.
Kazari grinned but mentally, he's aware they have a leader in that organization and plans to do one thing: work together with the leader behind his fellow Greeeds' backs.
CURRENT MEDALS:
Taka (x1)
Lion (x1)
Tora (x2)
Cheetah (X1)
Kamakiri (x1)
Batta (x1)
Tako (x2)
Unagi (x2)
(NEXT TIME)
"This is the part where you lose." Cardin said to Jaune.
"Oh, I know! We'll break his legs!" Nora said with an insane smile. I swore Ankh had a smile of agreement upon hearing that.
'I have to stand up for myself...' I reminded myself in thought as I stare intensely at Cardin as he still had his grip on Velvet's ears while glaring at me.
Next Time: Jaunedice, Bullies, and Friends
A/N: I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter as well as the introduction of the Scorching Combo and Yang fighting Mezool with the reward of four Core Medals. The next chapter will be back on the RWBY storyline. Look forward to it and I will see you all later. Don't forget to check out my newest story, Reapers of the Black Bullet (Halo 5 x Black Bullet). Stay in the shadows everyone!