Hello once again and once more my ever lovely peeps!
Once more, here we go again for a new chapter and we get to see the beat down of a life time. Sort of, i don't know, all i know for certain is that this chapter will probably be the shortest out of the entire story and mostly about the Ace Ops getting their asses handed to them on a sliver plater.
So, no words of wisdom or anything, let's just jump right into it. As always i own nothing.
So please read, review and "What the fuc-BOOM"
Chapter 18: THE STRENGTH OF A MAGUS:
GRIMM REAPER VS. ACE-OPS PART 2
(Play: Fight by All Good Things)
"DIE!"
"Is she always this slow?"
Xero couldn't help but smile behind his mask, as he smoothly dodge each and every punch sent his way. It was kinda sad in a way but then again, the weakest dogs are the ones to bark the est after all and this was proving to be true.
Left, right, duck, lean back, left, right, duck, lean back, left, right, duck, lean back, left-
Oh you get the point.
"HOLD THE FUCK STILL!"
She did too apparently, getting angier and angier as he easily dodge all her attacks. Harriet tried, she really did but it seemed like the moment her fist would come into contact with Xero's stupid mask, he moved at the very last second, as if to mock her.
Which he was!
"Okay."
Xero suddenly jumped back, after dodging a kick from Harriet, landing gracefully a couple of feet away, before he spread his arms out,"Since i'm such a nice guy, i'll let you get one hit in. But i'll warn you, if you don't do nothing to hurt me-"
BAM
Harriet's metal fist connected with his mask, creating a small shock wave, kicking up air as smoke came from the fist and mask connecting, much to her shock. Xero didn't budge an inch, just standing there as the fist tried to smash his face in, did nothing at all.
"W-what the hell are you?!"
"...Then i'm going to make you regret it."
Harriet backed away, eyes widen in shock and fear, much to Xero dark amusement. Oh how he loved seeing jackholes like her suddenly realize just how outclassed they really were, never failed to get him a pleasurable chill up his spine. Cracking his neck and checking to make sure his Reinforcement was holding up, Xero cracked his knuckles next,"My turn."
Harriet didn't even have time blink, before Xero was upon her and sent a devastating punch to her face, rocketing her back several feet back and into her teammates!
"Ack, ohh femk mu nise! Yui fuakigg bioke mt nise!"
Harriet groaned, feeling blood leak from her nose, as her aura took a nose dive from 100 to 61%. That fucker hit hard!
"For fuck sake Harriet, get ahold of yourself!"
Clover scolded her, helping her to her feet,"Now we need to make a plan. Without Marrow here, we-"
"Do you really think i'll let you plan? That i'll just wait for you to make a plan to beat me, like some sort of arrogant idiot?"
Clover froze, as Xero's cloaked form appeared behind him, his hooded form and gleaming red eye making him look just like a real, true demon,"Sorry to say, but i plan to break you in ever way possible, namely your little friend. But to do that, i need you GONE!"
Clover barely had time to raise Kingfisher up to block an iron/ice covered fist, sending the leader of the Ace-Ops flying!
"Oh you son of a bitch!"
Elm switched her weapon to hammer form and tried to smash his skull in.
"..."
Only for "Xero" to vanish, revealing-
"After imaging is certainly a useful skill, even though in my clan it's called the Phantom technique. Too bad you'll never learn it."
Elm cursed under her breath, looking behind her with wide eyes.
SLAM
Only to feel the wind get knocked out of her, causing her to cough up spit as the same covered fist that sent Clover flying entered her own gut. Gritting her teeth, using her semblance to stay intact on the ground, Elm brought her war hammer up.
"RRAAGGGHHH!"
Letting out a war cry, Elm brought her mighty Timber down on Xero's head.
BOOM/CRACK
Only to hit air, as Xero used his lighting to speed away from the woman's attack, just in time to dodge the earth shattering attack. Her attack created several spider cracks on the golden, tiles on the ground. Elm sucked in some air, feeling her aura drop a lot but was unable to see how much, as she gripped her aching stomach with one hand, glaring at Xero.
"Ow! Fuck me, that hurt! What the hell does this kid eat?! Jet fuel? Jackhammers?!"
Vine, seeing his teammates being torn apart, attempted to restrain Xero by using his own semblance. Standing a few feet away, Vine sent his semblance coated arms moved to grab Xero and WAS ABLE TO GRAB HIM.
"I got him! Clover, Harriet now-"
"I don't think so."
Vine's eyes widen, as Xero's restrained long arms, grabbed his glowing, yellowish ones and lighting sparked around them, causing his eyes to widen. Oh no, don't tell-
"DISCHARGE!"
He was.
Red and black coated lighting raced from Xero's body, up Vine's semblance and right back to him!
CRACK
"AAAAGGGGHHHH!"
Vine screamed, feeling the lighting striking his body, his aura barely blocking the lighting from cooking him raw, as he felt his aura drop like a rock! Even when his semblance let go, Xero didn't, as he moved his arms around, wrapping them around the semblance created limbs,"Should have known better twigy boy, lighting conducts just about anything, including aura. The only men i allow to touch me are my husbands and anyone else, gets FRIED!"
"AAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!"
Vine continued to scream as his aura kept dropping at an alarming rate, causing a recovered Harriet to race towards Xero,"Brothers damnit, stop!"
Already seeing her coming, Xero tighten his grip on the very tall man and swung him around, slamming him into the running Harriet. Which caused the duo to slam into the bounded field. Harriet was forced to use Vine as a cushion, causing the tall man to slam face first into the magical barrier and landing atop Harriet. His body twitched and small pops were heard but otherwise, he didn't get up.
Vine: SHOCK THERAPY!
Aura level: 3%
"One down, three to go."
"Do i do it now mommy?"
"Not yet Jack. Be patient and i'll reward you later okay?"
"Okay!"
"Bastard!"
Elm roared, her anger getting the better of her, seeing her teammate and friend go down in such a disgraceful manner. Seeing this, caused her to grab her war hammer tightly and launched towards the teen with a war cry.
"Elm don't!"
Which Clover tried to stop but it was too late, as Xero moved towards her and slide down word, sliding across the floor much to Elm's shock, as he got behind her. Without stopping, Xero slammed a hand on the ground, twisting his body turning his upper body to lay closer to the ground as his lower half went upward, twisting around as he delivered an ice infused leg to Elm's head, barely having time to turn around before his kick connected with her head.
WACK
"Urk!"
Elm felt a bruise form on her face, as she staggered once again barely having time to react, as Xero crouched down, lighting coating his fist, as he delivered an upper cut to the large woman jaw!
"..."
Elm's entire body went flying upward, as she screamed a wordless scream as his lighting ran through her body in a similar way it did to Vine. But just before it finished coursing through her body, she slammed onto the ground with a heavy "Thud", defeated.
Elm: LIGHTING FIST KNOCK OUT!
Aura level: 0%
"And then there were two."
Xero smirked under his mask, as Clover and Harriet regrouped, unable to believe what they were seeing, just how strong was this kid?!
"How the fuck are you this strong?!"
Harriet of course, couldn't help but voice those thoughts, as her pride said it was impossible but her mind and eyes told her otherwise. She had snapped her nose back into place just in time to see the kid all but destroy two of her teammates. How the fuck was it possible?!
No one, not even general Ironwood or Winter couldn't have taken them apart so quickly and so easily!
Just...just how?!
"Like i told you, unlike you lot and your precious Atlas, who all fly over head of everyone else, looking down on everyone else for being 'unclothed' we had to grow strong because of it. While blood and states do mean a lot in the Magus world, it doesn't change the fact i had to put in the work to get as strong as i am now. Unlike you, i've continuously pushed myself to get stronger, mastering my Force States to the point i can use them in an instant. Had to, if nothing else to get stronger in order to defeat the Six Dark Purveyors, then it is to protect my family. And what have you and those Atlas fuck done? Sit on your ass, getting lazy while all your machines do all the work for you? Letting your ego swell to the point it's out of control? Tell me, how does it feel to be knocked back down to Earth or Remnant if you want to get technically, with the rest of us mere mortals? Hmm?"
"Shut up, shut up, JUST SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH FREAK! YOU ARE NOTHING, JUST A FREAK OF NATURE THAT SHOULD HAVE DIED YEARS AGO! NOW I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU JUST HOW WORTHLESS YOU REALLY ARE!"
"Some people just never learn, do they? Just where is all this anger coming from?"
Xero idly thought to himself, as Harriet raced towards him, Fast Knuckles deployed, completely ignoring Clover at this point, who was shouting at her to stop. Using his Yoki, Xero easily dodge all of Harriet's attacks, kicks and punches, till he just zipped over to Clover in the blink of an eye and asked,"Tell me, why are you fighting with someone like her? One that'll just drag you all down with her?"
The dark skinned woman almost lost her balance, as she suddenly realized she was pushing an afterimage, as Clover just sighed but answered never the less.
"Harriet's angry has always been a problem, as well as her pride. I was hoping that this fight would get that out of her system but clearly i was wrong. If nothing else, Hare's arrogance and pride is just as my fault as it is Atlas's. As her team leader, it was my job to look out for her and to kept her from getting this bad, as pride is often the downfall of many. If she dies because she got arrogant or prideful or any of our teammates die because of it, then it's my fault as well. General Ironwood and I allowed this fight to happen, to show Harriet what happens when you pick fight a clearly superior opponent but i honestly had no idea it was this bad. Now i and all of Atlas will pay for it, pay for our hubris."
Harriet actually stopped herself from rushing Xero, staring at her leader in shock, as Clover sighed deeply, while Xero titled his head before speaking,"And your not fighting back because?"
He questioned, as Clover merely shrugged, sheathing Kingfisher, much to Harriet's shock,"Why should i fight an unwinnable fight? Even if we won, it won't matter in the long run as the damage is done. There's just no point in fighting anymore. All i ask, is that you don't hurt Harriet beyond healing, even with what she said, Atlas won't dismiss her from the army. Demounted by the general no doubt but actually fired? No. As i'm sure you're already of Atlas's policy of never being wrong, to fire Harriet would say they were wrong to hire her and Atlas will never admit we're wrong. Even if the whole world is burning, they still won't admit. Too much stubborn pride."
"Shame but you didn't answer my question?"
"I won't fight, simply because i see no reason to do so. You're clearly stronger then us, so-"
"LIKE HELL HE IS!"
Xero smoothly jumped back, as Harriet's fist smashed on the ground, creating a small dent in it, as she glared at Clover,"The fuck is wrong with you Clover?! We can win this, so what if Marrow quit?! He's a loser and clearly a coward, just like i always knew he was-"
"Harriet that is enough!"
Harriet snorted, glaring at Xero, as she readied her fist,"Fuck you boss. If you won't take this home, i will!"
Clover: WISELY FORFIT
Aura: 100%
"You are going to pay for what you've done freak!"
"You mean how i exposed a fatal flaw in how Atlas does things, show off just how narrow minded you all are and showed the world how expandable Faunus are to you people? Or maybe, how about how i beat Atlas's so called 'best soldiers' with just one attack?"
"RAGH!"
Harriet's semblance went into overdrive, as she raced to him, as Xero stayed still, till-
WOOSH
Ducked at the last second to dodge Harriet wild haymaker and with practiced ease, smashed his leg into Harriet's.
C-CRACK
"AGH!"
Breaking her leg, on his ICE infused leg.
Harriet went spinning across the arena, landing several feet away from him, groaning her now broken leg,"Oh fuck, fucking son of a b-"
"I wonder what would break first."
Harriet's eyes widen, as Xero suddenly appeared before her and grabbed her by her waist and neck, lifting her up,"Your spirit..."
Realizing just what he planned to do, Harriet frantically shook her head "No" and did the one thing she swore to never do:
Beg.
"W-wait, please don't-"
"OR YOUR BODY!"
CRACK/SNAP
"Ooooooohhhhhhhh."
And brought her body down on his knee, resulting in a deafening, SNAP, for all to hear.
(Song End)
"..."
Harriet wordless gasped, feeling a whole new level of pain course though her body, as Xero dropped her on the ground, letting her cultch her back in pain, tears gathering in her eyes as she tried to crawl away.
CRACK
"AGH!"
Harriet let out a blood-curdling scream, as Xero stomped on her other, now very much broken leg as he rubbed his steel toe boot into it.
"W-why are you doing this? Isn't beating me enough?"
Xero just glared at her, as he said simply,"Shouldn't have said shit about my mother."
Harriet: BROKEN BEYOND BELEIF
Aura: 0%
WINNER:
GRIMM REAPER
Casting a glare to everyone else, as he stomped on Harriet's prone form, Xero spoke out loud.
"LET THIS BE A LEASSON TO YOU ALL! TO ALL THOSE WHO DISRESPECT MY MOTHER, ATTACK THOSE I LOVE OR DARE TO DO ANYTHING VIOLATE OUR SANCTUARY, THIS WILL BE THE PRICE YOU PAY FOR YOUR ARROGANCE!"
No one said anything.
Nothing left could be said, Atlas's best team, the Ace-Ops lost.
Horribly.
"Mommy! You didn't let me help you!"
Well, almost everyone.
Done.
And damn, double update in the spam of just one to two days, not a bad record but this was easy as this was a fight chapter. Now, maybe we can get back to our regularly schedule program in the next chapter or shall we see the aftermath of these events?
Who knows, i haven't decided yet.
Devil out!