Battle of the Guyvers
Inside Goodwitch's combat class, there was a four against one match with several students watching as the single fighter was basically dominating the four-person team. Many would think this was a match between Pyrrha Nikos and Team CRDL.
Well those people would be wrong, because this was a match between Sho and Team RWBY.
Weiss was striking at Sho with her Myrtenaster, but her strikes were blocked by the vibration blades on Sho's arms. The Schnee heiress should consider herself lucky that Sho didn't activate the vibration blades, or she would have lost her sword in the first strike. Weiss thrust her sword towards Sho's chest, but the bio-boosted human sidestepped her attack, grabbed her arm and threw her out of the ring with little effort.
"Weiss!" Ruby screamed out her partner's name while watching her hit the floor with a thud.
As for Sho, his head sensors picked up on Blake using her Gambol Shroud in its kusarigama-like form to attack Sho from a distance. However, the Guyver turned around and caught the weapon by its blade. Sho grabbed the pistol part and started swinging Blake around instead.
Blake screamed as she found herself holding on for dear life as Sho continued to spin the poor faunus girl around before letting go. Poor Blake got acquainted with the wall behind the other students, causing many to wince at her plight.
"I am sooo happy we aren't going up against him," one student said to his teammate.
"Oh yeah," the teammate agreed.
Back on the platform, the last two members of team RWBY were trying to team up on Sho. However, Ruby and Yang could barely land a hit on Sho as he dodged Ruby's swings and blocked Yang's punches. Yang was getting more and more frustrated that Sho was blocking her attacks and was able to take them with no signs of injury. While Yang continued to attack Sho, Ruby got behind the Guyver with Crescent Rose ready.
"Yang!" Ruby called out to her still attacking sister. "Flare Blitz!" she shouted out before charging at Sho.
"Wait…what?" Yang stopped, wondering what her baby sister was talking about.
Since Yang was distracted, Sho jumped out of the way allowing Ruby to crash into her sister, resulting in both girls to hit the floor.
"You know, shouting out the name of your attacks only works in anime and videogames," Sho said to the two girls as they got back up.
"Okay, let's try this again," Ruby said as she and Yang charged at Sho once again.
This time, Ruby moved ahead by using her semblance to rush past Sho and got ready to attack him from behind again.
"Flare Blitz!" Ruby called out the attack once again.
Sho waited until both girls were close before using his gravity controller to launch himself into the air, leaving both girls facing each other. Yang had just thrown her punch, which missed Sho, but was right on its mark on Ruby's face.
Yang's punch had sent her sister flying out of the ring, into a wall, and out cold.
"Ruby!" Yang screamed in panic as she rushed to her little sister.
Once she reached her, Yang tried to shake her sister awake.
"Ruby, speak to me," Yang said, worried that she may had hurt her sister more than she thought.
Ruby slowly opened her eyes, seeing mini-Beowolves running around her head.
"That…was…the worst team attack ever," Ruby muttered slowly. "Of all time," she added before passing out again.
"Medic!" Russel called out causing several students to look at him like he was coming up with a bad joke. "No, seriously where's the medic?" he asked looking around for the school nurse or someone with medical training. "We really need to have one on standby whenever Sho and Yang are going up against each other," he pointed out sincerely.
"Well, he's not wrong," Pyrrha found herself agreeing with the bully, much to her discomfort.
Once the class had finished, the students made their way to their next classes. Yang had to help guide Ruby out of the classroom, as the youngest of team RWBY had difficulty walking in a straight line.
"Why won't the flying Beowolves leave me alone?" Ruby asked her sister while still feeling out of it.
"Just ignore them Ruby," Yang told Ruby while keeping a hold of her little sister's hand. "They'll get bored soon enough," she added, not bothering to tell her there weren't any flying Beowolves.
"I can't believe you're our leader," Weiss complained while walking ahead of her teammates.
Sho followed behind before noticing that a member of team RWBY was missing.
"Uh…where's Blake?" Sho asked.
Back in Glynda's classroom
"I'm in pain, I'm in real pain," Blake muttered in a muffled voice as she was still on the wall. "Pain, pain, pain, pain," she chanted as she slid off the wall.
After classes
Once the final bell had rung, the students of Beacon Academy were free to do as they pleased. For Sho, he was heading to the library with Ren to work on his reading in order to help Sho with his reading problem. As they made their way to the library, the two oriental boys spotted Jaune with team CRDL heading outside.
"Why is Jaune hanging out with Cardin and his team?" Sho asked Ren.
"I'm not sure, he hasn't told us why," Ren answered. "But, I am worried," he added.
Sho stayed silent as he thought about what he saw and considered asking Cardin directly. However, he would have to wait until later to ask because he and Ren needed to go through his tutor session first. Once the two of them entered the library, they looked to find a table to sit at to begin the session.
Inside Ozpin's office
The enigmatic headmaster was sitting at his desk going over footage of team RWBY's defeat at the hands of Sho that was on his scroll.
"This young man's skills are in many ways unremarkable, yet he is clearly more experienced than the other first year students," Ozpin said to himself as he took a sip of his coffee. "And that armor of his…just what is it?" he wondered as he stopped the video and brought up a hologram image of Sho's Guyver armor.
Throughout the past couple of weeks, Ozpin had made sure that his hidden cameras would be on Sho whenever he was in his sparring matches so as to discover the secrets of the boy's armor. From what little he could gather, Ozpin was able to figure out that the armor boosted Sho's strength, speed, and reflexes without any Aura being used, which was good as Glynda wasn't able to unlock the boy's aura. It was if the armor was suppressing it, or the possibility that Sho simply doesn't have an aura. He was also surprised when it was revealed that this armor was not composed of metal, but was instead organic. He had also seen the footage of when Sho sparred against Yang, and saw the boy fire a laser beam and produce sound waves that destroyed the girl's shotgun rounds.
"I can't help but feel that Mr. Fukamachi hasn't shown us the full extent of his armor's abilities," Ozpin lamented before looking over a list of names, names of all the female students in his school.
Later that night
After his tutor session with Ren, Sho had returned to his dorm room to change out of his school uniform before heading to the cafeteria to eat dinner. After having his fill, Sho was on his way to his room until he spotted Jaune standing in front of his team's room.
"Is something wrong Jaune?" Sho asked the blonde huntsman in training.
Jaune stiffened a bit before turning to face Sho.
"What?" Jaune started to say. "No, nothing's wrong," he continued talking. "Just standing here thinking," he told Sho.
Sho didn't look convinced in the slightest, and he was never that good at being convincing either.
"Something's wrong," Sho said while staring at the young Arc.
Jaune sighed before giving in.
"I…messed up," Jaune finally told Sho. "I did something I shouldn't have, and now Cardin knows and has me on a leash, and Pyrrha won't talk to me…" he continued as he slowly slid to the floor. "I'm such a screw-up," he finished.
"So, what did you do that you shouldn't have done?" Sho asked as he sat next to Jaune.
"Oh, why not, I might as well tell you too," Jaune said bitterly. "I'm sure Cardin will just tell everyone anyway when he's had his fill of having me do his crap," he added. "I faked my transcripts to get into Beacon," he finally said.
"So, you got into this school illegally?" Sho asked evenly.
"When you put that way, yeah, I did," Jaune agreed, not seeing any point to defend himself. "You must think I'm scum," he added.
"Not really," Sho replied. "I never even applied for this school," he told the blonde boy.
"What!?" Jaune yelled slightly in shock. "But your one of the best students in our class," he said. "How did you even get in?" he asked.
"Jaune, how I got here, even I don't know," Sho said. "All I remembered was waking up in the forest in front of you, the rest of your team and team RWBY," he explained. "After dealing with those Grimm and meeting Ozpin-sensei, he simply decided to enroll me in his school," he continued.
"Wait, he just let you in despite not even applying?" Jaune asked in disbelief.
"Yeah, and I think he also knows that your transcripts are fake," Sho said.
Jaune's eyes widen at Sho's claim before looking down again.
"I should have expected that," Jaune lamented. "I mean, he's a veteran Huntsman. Of course, he would know if someone cheated their way into his school," he added sadly.
"Yet, he's letting the both of us stay in his school," Sho pointed out, much to Jaune's confusion. "I don't know why he's letting us stay, but he must have a reason," he said. "So, either prove to everyone that you belong here, or continue to let Cardin walk all over you," he told Jaune.
Before Jaune could say anything, his scroll buzzed. He took it out to see a message from Cardin. Jaune sighed before playing it to see what Cardin wanted.
"Hey! It's your buddy Cardin! I know you're probably busy with that Dust project I gave you, buuuut I'm gonna need you to go out and get me a bag of rapier wasps."
Jaune gulped after hearing what kind of wasps Cardin wanted.
"R-rapier wasps…" Jaune stuttered.
"That's bad, isn't it?" Sho asked, confused as to why Jaune was freaking out.
Jaune nodded his head, not saying anything.
"And make sure they've got some really big stingers! It's important, so don't screw this up!"
With that, the message ended, leaving both boys to look at each other.
"So, what will you do Jaune?" Sho asked.
"What?" Jaune replied.
"This is something you have to decide on," Sho told Jaune. "Are you going to do what he said, or are you going to stand up to him?" he asked.
Jaune didn't answer Sho, instead Jaune walked down the hall and was apparently going to do as Cardin asked.
Sho watched Jaune leave and felt really bad for the guy.
"Jaune, I really hope you make the right choice tomorrow," Sho said to himself. "Because this is hurting your team more than you think," he added before heading into his dorm room.
The next day
Due to Glynda covering for Professor Peach, who had planned for her class to go into the Forever Fall forest to collect sap, her combat class was canceled. Since Sho didn't have Professor Peach's class, he had a bit of free time. He decided to spend out in the school yard, looking at the statue in front of the school.
'A school dedicated to hunting down monsters, people with auras that defy logic, and abilities based on the characteristics of the person using them,' Sho thought to himself. 'I'm starting to think that there is more to this world than what everyone believes,' he continued thinking.
Sho's thoughts were interrupted when he saw a flash of light out of the corner of his eye. He turned to see that rabbit faunus girl, that team CRDL picked on, taking pictures. He watched for a moment before going back to looking at the statue before him.
"Uh…excuse me," a female voice called out to Sho.
Sho turned to see the faunus girl standing next to him, holding her camera.
"Yes?" Sho replied, not expecting her to talk to him suddenly.
"I just wanted to say thank you for helping me out in the cafeteria a couple of days ago," the girl told Sho. "My name is Velvet Scarlatina," she introduced herself.
"I'm Sho Fukamachi," Sho introduced himself to Velvet.
"I've heard about you," Velvet said. "A lot of the first-year students mentioned about the student with this armor semblance," she added.
"Yeah…that's me," Sho said weakly, not really liking the sudden popularity he seemed to have gained.
"Can I see it?" Velvet asked while holding up her camera. "I love to take a picture of it," she told him.
Sho thought about it for a bit, he knew that his Guyver armor would draw in a lot of attention. Before, he would do whatever he could to keep it a secret because of how Chronos would mercilessly kill anyone who had seen the Guyver back on Earth. However, as far as Sho could tell, he was no longer on Earth and there was no Chronos.
"I guess it won't hurt to have at least one picture taken," Sho finally agreed. "But you might want to step back a bit," he told the faunus girl.
"Oh, okay," Velvet agreed while backing away a couple of steps.
Once she had moved back, Sho took a deep breath before shouting.
"Guyver!" Sho yelled out causing several other students to look at his direction.
All the students outside were treated to the sight of the Guyver armor appearing behind Sho before attaching itself to his body.
Velvet's jaw practically dropped at the sight of this armor that she heard rumors about appearing before her. She wasn't the only one as many other students were just as awestruck seeing the Guyver armor with their own eyes.
"That's the guy with the armor semblance," one student said while pointing at Sho.
"That is one sick looking armor," another student said.
As more students began to talk about Sho's armor, Velvet snapped out of her stupor and started taking pictures of the Guyver. Sho stood still while he let the rabbit faunus continue taking pictures of him. However, his attention was diverted when the head sensors started moving, causing Sho to start looking around the school yard.
"Uh…Sho?" Velvet started to ask. "What's wrong?" she asked.
"I thought I sensed something," Sho answered while his head sensors continued to search for something.
The head sensors finally stopped as Sho turned around to look at a tree. It was faint, but his sensors picked up the electromagnetic waves of what he was looking for. He couldn't actually see it, but Sho felt that this unseen presence was familiar.
"Could it be?" Sho whispered to himself as he continued looking at the tree.
Velvet walked up to the Guyver and tried to look for what he was seeing.
"Uh…Sho," Velvet called out. "What are you looking at?" she asked.
Sho was silent for a moment before retracting his armor, which cause Velvet to jump away a bit before turning around to see the armor sink into the ground behind them.
"A friend," Sho finally answered with a small smile on his face. "He's just a little shy around others," he added cryptically.
Velvet didn't say anything as she continued looking at the tree. After a few seconds, she gasped after noticing several leaves move upwards like something brushed past them. She looked back at Sho after seeing that.
"Your friend has a semblance that lets him turn invisible?" Velvet asked, trying to calm herself down.
"You could say that," Sho replied. "But he's capable of a lot more than that," he added before heading back into the school. It was comforting to Sho, to know that he wasn't truly alone in this strange new world.
The next day
The weekend had finally come, and many students were enjoying the day. Sho found himself wandering the streets of Vale, taking in the sights as he saw the citizens getting prepared for the upcoming Vytal Festival. From what he was told by Ren, the Vytal Festival was a celebration of the end of the Great War between the four kingdoms and was held every two years. There were dances, food stands, and the biggest event was the Vytal tournament.
'Even during times of peace, we humans still seek conflict,' Sho thought bitterly, remembering how the Creator ship showed him the true history of humanity as well as what his former ally Masaki Murakami told him.
"The Vytal Festival!" a familiar female voice shouted out cheerfully, causing Sho to jump.
Sho turned around to see team RWBY walking towards him. He heard Ruby express some concern over Weiss, the Ice Queen of Beacon, being so cheery. Yang spotted Sho and waved towards her, kind of, rival since she never won a match against him.
"Hey Sho!" Yang called out, drawing the attention of the rest of her team.
"Sho!" Ruby greeted very happily.
"Hi girls," Sho greeted the all-female team. "Why are you all here near the docks?" he asked.
"That's something I want to know too, Weiss," Yang said, looking at the Schnee heiress.
"Ugh, smells like fish," Ruby complain while pinching her nose.
Blake didn't say anything but there was a bit of a glazed look in her eye when Ruby said fish.
"I heard that students from Vacuo will be arriving by ship today," Weiss answered. "And as a representative of Beacon, I feel that…" she continued.
"She wants to spy on the competition before the tournament starts," Blake interrupted Weiss's long-winded speech.
"You can't prove that!" Weiss yelled out.
"I see…" Sho replied after getting his answer.
"What about you Sho?" Ruby asked. "Are you here for the same reason?" she continued asking.
"No, just looking around," Sho answered and was about to leave the girls until he spotted something down the street. "What the?" he said aloud, getting the attention of team RWBY.
The five teens saw a Dust shop that was trashed, they made their way towards the building to see it was also blocked off as police investigated the store.
"A robbery," Sho figured as he looked.
"That's terrible," Yang said, feeling bad for the store owner.
As the five teens looked on, a police officer exited the store to report his findings to his superior.
"They left all the money behind again," the officer said.
"This doesn't make sense, who would steal all that Dust but leave the money?" the superior wondered aloud.
"You thinkin' it's the White Fang?" the officer asked.
"I'm thinkin' we got get paid enough for that," the superior retorted, not exactly happy with the idea of the crime being committed by the White Fang.
"The White Fang?" Sho wondered to himself. He had heard about them, and managed to read up about them, though it took a lot of effort as he was slowly getting the hang of what he figured was English. In the beginning, he could empathize with them, but once he read about how they turned into violent terrorists, Sho felt that their goals were no longer about equality.
"The White Fang, what a bunch of awful degenerates," Weiss said in an angered tone, catching her teammates' attention.
"What is your problem!?" Blake yelled in annoyance.
"My problem?" Weiss replied, finding change in Blake's tone odd. "I simply don't care for the criminally insane," she defended herself.
"The White Fang are hardly a bunch of psychopaths!" Blake yelled in defense of the faunus group. "They're a collection of misguided faunus!" she added.
"Misguided!?" Weiss yelled in shock at what Blake said. "They want to wipe humanity off the face of the planet!" she pointed out.
"So, they're very misguided!" Blake retorted, apparently not seeing Weiss's point.
"Honestly, I would have to side with Weiss here," Sho interrupted after hearing all of this. "When a race calls for the extermination of another race, you can't really call them misguided," he pointed out.
"Thank you Sho," Weiss said to the bio-boosted human. "At least Sho understands that the White Fang are nothing but a bunch of scum," she added.
Blake wanted to say something in defense of the White Fang, but she was interrupted when a someone shouted.
"Hey, stop that Faunus!"
The five teens' attention was now directed towards the docks and saw a couple of sailors chasing after a tan-skinned, blonde haired, male monkey faunus jumping out of the ship. The sailors and faunus had a bit of an exchange of words before the faunus boy ran off and brushed past team RWBY and Sho. The monkey faunus slowed down for a bit to wink at Blake before running off.
"Well Weiss, you wanted to check out the competition, and there he goes," Yang joked.
"Quick, we have to observe him!" Weiss shouted before giving chase.
The rest of team RWBY followed while Sho stayed behind, still trying to understand what he just saw.
"This is too weird," Sho muttered. "Even for me," he added before deciding to head back.
However, as Sho was about return to the school, he sensed a familiar presence.
"It can't be…" Sho said to himself as he looked around. "There's another Guyver here," he muttered as he continued to look. "But who?" he wondered. "It can't be Makashima," he continued.
Sho searched the area with his eyes until he finally spotted a blonde-haired man wearing a tan shirt and black pants. His eyes widened as he recognized the man instantly.
"It's impossible…" Sho muttered to himself in disbelief as he watched the man head towards a warehouse near the docks. "Lisker," he whispered the man's name. "But how? He's dead," he said before deciding to follow him from a distance.
Sho followed the man for about ten minutes until they reached the warehouse and the man turned around to face him.
"I was wondering if you were going to follow me or not," the man said as he faced the boy. "It's been a while Guyver 1," he added.
That was more than enough to prove to Sho that this man was indeed Lisker, Guyver 2.
"How are you still alive Lisker?" Sho asked the older Guyver. "Your control medal was damaged and removed," he continued. "I saw your armor devour you on top of Chronos Japan HQ," he added.
"That is correct Sho," Lisker confirmed Sho's claim. "I did indeed die, and I have no idea how I came back from the dead, not that I'm complaining," he added. "After all, someone with power like us should never die so gruesomely," he continued talking.
Sho stayed silent as he stared down Lisker, but the older male simply smiled at him.
"You know in a way, I'm happy to see that you're here too," Lisker said. "Finding yourself in a whole other world that is so much like Earth but different at the same time is so odd, that a familiar face makes it more bearable," he told Sho. "But being in a new world also gives me a chance to Adapt!" he suddenly shouted.
Sho's eyes widened for a moment before he pulled himself back together to bio-boost.
"Guyver!" Sho shouted.
Two barriers appeared around the two humans as their respective armors equipped themselves onto them. This caused several people who were working in the area to look at what was going on while the two Guyvers stared each other down. Sho noticed that Lisker's control medal didn't have the dent it had caused by the explosion back on Mount Narisawa before Chronos operatives recovered it.
"Your control medal, it's…" Sho started.
"Yes, whoever it was the resurrected me, also repaired my control medal," Lisker told Sho before walking towards him. "Which means, I cannot die as easily as before," he added.
"Still means that you can die like anyone else," Sho retorted before getting into a combat stance.
"Then let's see if you've actually improved since our last encounter," Lisker said as he fired his head beam at Sho.
Sho jumped out of the way of the beam and landed on top of one of the cranes. Lisker also jumped up to the same crane that Sho was on.
"Running away Guyver 1?" Lisker taunted. "I was hoping for more," he added smugly.
"Oh, I'll show you more," Sho replied as he activated his vibration blades.
"This should be good," Lisker remarked as Sho charged at him.
Once Sho had reached Lisker, the younger Guyver started striking him with his vibration blades, but the older Guyver dodged his attacks with ease.
"Is this some sort of sad joke!?" Lisker yelled in annoyance. "You're trying that strategy again!" he shouted in disbelief at how sloppy Sho was attacking him.
Guyver 1 swung his right arm at Guyver 2, but the bronze Guyver grabbed his arm and spun around for a bit before throwing Sho towards one of the buildings away from the docks. Once the teal Guyver crashed on top of the building, the bronze Guyver activated his gravity controller and flew towards that building to continue the fight.
On the building, Sho picked himself back up and prepared himself to continue his fight against Lisker.
'That was stupid of me to attack him like that,' Sho mentally chastised himself. 'That's the kind of stupid actions I did back in the beginning,' he continued berating himself.
"Pay attention boy!" Guyver 2 shouted from above before landing in front of Sho.
"Huh!?" Guyver 1 shouted before getting hit in the stomach by Guyver 2.
"You can't leave yourself open like that," Lisker berated Sho before hitting him with an uppercut to the jaw.
Sho was five feet in the air due to the force behind Lisker's punch, which thanks to the Guyver armor increased his strength by a hundred-fold. Lisker followed up on his attack by kicking Sho off the building and onto the street below.
Down on the street, team RWBY was in the misted of the continued argument between Weiss and Blake about the White Fang. Prior to their argument, they had lost sight of the monkey faunus and met a strange girl named Penny, who somehow became Ruby's new friend, which led to a weird conversation that stereotyped teenage girls before Weiss asked Penny if she knew the faunus boy, then started belittling said boy, leading to Blake getting angry thus restarting their argument.
"I don't understand why this is causing such a problem!" Weiss complained.
"That IS the problem!" Blake yelled in anger.
Before either could continue, the window to a store that was on the other side of the street broke, drawing their attention as the patrons of the store ran out of it.
"What was that!?" Ruby screamed out in shock.
The leader of team RWBY got her answer as Sho stepped out of the store in his Guyver armor.
"Sho?" Weiss said in confusion.
"Why is he in his armor?" Yang asked.
Yang's question was answered when someone in bronze armor similar to Sho's landed between them and the teal Guyver.
"Are you done making a fool out of yourself Guyver 1?" Guyver 2 asked his foe.
"Damn you!" Sho yelled as he attacked Guyver 2 in front of team RWBY.
"Guyver 1?" Ruby wondered aloud.
"Not exactly creative," Yang commented on the names.
"Be quiet you two," Weiss told the two sisters. "We might be able to figure out something from this," she added, thinking this new comer was here for the Vytal Tournament.
"Is now really the time to be thinking about how to beat someone?" Blake berated Weiss, briefly forgetting about their argument.
Back to the fight, Sho was giving his all as he threw two punches at Lisker before following up with a roundhouse kick, but Lisker blocked the punches, then grabbed his leg.
"I'm really disappointed in you Sho," Lisker taunted the younger Guyver before flipping him over his shoulder, slamming him into the street. "You're even worse than before," he told the boy.
The four girls winced the impact when Sho broke through the pavement, thanks to the other Guyver.
"You better shape up or I'll just kill you right here and now," Lisker told Sho, causing the girls to react in shock when they heard that.
"Oh no you don't!" Yang yelled as she as she charged at Lisker, much to the shock and frustration of her team.
"N-N-NO!" Sho yelled at Yang as he got back up. "Stay out of this Yang!" he told the blonde brawler.
But Yang didn't listen as she tried to punch Lisker, but the older Guyver grabbed the girl's fist and threw her back to her team with little effort.
"Yang!" Ruby cried out to her sister, only to see Sho catch Yang before she hit the front of the store she was flying towards.
"Yang, I told you to say out of this," Sho told the blonde as he set her down. "This is my fight," he said as he turned to face Lisker again.
"Well…at least the years I've been dead hasn't made you into a coward, I'll give you that," Lisker said, slightly impressed with the younger Guyver's resolve.
"Did he just say he was dead?" Ruby asked, not understanding what this new Guyver was talking about.
"Cut the crap Lisker and get ready," Sho said in a low tone before glaring down his foe. "Because…I'M GONNA SEND YOU BACK TO HELL, EVEN IF I HAVE TO DRAG YOU THERE MYSELF!" he roared out as he charged at the bronze Guyver.
Team RWBY watched in confusion as Sho attacked this new Guyver with such ferocity they never knew he had. Sho threw a punch that Lisker dodged, but followed up with a roundhouse kick that Lisker leaned away from before throwing a roundhouse kick of his own. Sho blocked the kick with his left arm before managing to push his foe's leg away so that he could counter with a shot from his head beam. The infra-red laser hit Guyver 2 in the chest, but the shot barely did anything to the bio-booster armor.
"You and I both know that is the weakest of our weapons kid," Lisker told Sho before punching him in the chest.
The force of Lisker's punch was enough to send Sho flying towards an incoming car. The teal Guyver crashed onto the hood of the car and crushed the front. The person driving the car stopped the vehicle and got out of it to get away from the fight. While Sho struggled to get off the damaged, Lisker leapt into the air and dived at Sho with a flying side kick. Sho managed to free himself in time to jump out of the way of Likser's kick. The car was easily destroyed by Lisker's kick while the bronze Guyver stood up before turning to face Sho once again.
"At least, you've gotten better at dodging," Lisker said as he placed his left arm forward, generating a black hole in front of his palm.
"Shit!" Sho cursed when he realized that Lisker figured out how to use the pressure cannon.
"Watch your Language!" Ruby yelled from the sidelines, as she does not like it when people curse.
"Not now Ruby!" Weiss chastised her team leader.
The two Guyvers ignored the girls as Guyver 2 fired his pressure canon at Guyver 1. Guyver 1 sidestepped the attack, so the palm sized black hole ended up hitting a mailbox. The girls watched in shock as the mailbox was crushed by the gravity attack before a portion of it was compressed and phased out of existence.
"He just fired a black hole," Blake said in disbelief at what she had just witnessed.
"A black hole?" Ruby replied in awe.
"Not just that, but it happened so fast," Weiss said. "We can't even get a Gravity Dust crystal to do that," she added.
"Look, they're going at it with those elbow blades now," Yang pointed out.
"Oooh, those are my favorite!" Ruby cheered as she eager watched the fight continue.
Indeed, Yang was right as the Guyver were now fighting with their vibration blades. The girls noticed that the bronze Guyver's blades were much broader than Sho's blades. However, none of them expected what would happen when the opposing blades came in contact.
The clashing of two vibration blades caused a high frequency feedback that caused the girls and everyone else watching to cover their ears as the audio feedback was like a sudden explosion of high pitched sounds. This was especially bad for Blake as her hidden cat ears were not protected from the feedback, resulting in her pulling off her ribbon so that she could cover them while sticking her thumbs into her human ears.
The two Guyvers pulled their blades away from each other, but Lisker took this chance to grab Sho by the throat.
"It's time to end this Sho," Lisker told the younger Guyver as he grabbed a hold on one of his chest plates.
"NOOOOOO!" Sho yelled as he struggled to avoid Lisker's Mega Smasher.
The next thing anyone saw was a massive flash of particle energy tearing through the street and towards the docks. Sho had managed to break free of Lisker's hold at the last second and used his gravity controller to send him flying into the air. Once the particle weapon's blast dissipated, the humans and faunus that were watching this fight, gasped in horror at the long trench on the street and the bronze Guyver looking up at the floating Guyver.
"Impressive," Lisker said before using his gravity controller to float up to his opponent. "You really have mastered the art of dodging," he taunted the boy before rushing at Sho with his vibration blades activated again.
Sho activated his vibration blades, ready to strike Lisker once he got close, but the bronze Guyver came in too fast, and was lower than he should be. In a matter of seconds, Sho realized that Lisker wasn't going for his head, but his legs. He tried to move out of the way, but Lisker managed to slice off Sho's right leg. Sho yelled in pain as his right leg fell to the ground below them, blood spraying out of his severed thigh and falling onto the ground below.
"I say that's enough for today," Lisker said as he flew off, leaving Sho to descend to the ground below to retrieve his leg.
Back on ground level, team RWBY were stunned by what they just saw during the fight as well as Sho's severed leg land in front of them. All four girls felt sick at the sight of said leg in front of them. They weren't the only ones as many civilians had no idea of what just happened, they were all shocked and terrified at what they just witnessed. The girls looked away from the scene and turned to each other. Ruby, Weiss, and Yang were shocked to see Blake with cat ears.
"Blake…" Ruby said softly while pointing at her ears. "You…have cat ears," she told the faunus girl.
Blake's eyes widened when she heard what Ruby said and realized that she took her ribbon off during the vibration blade clash.
"Is that why you're so adamant about defending the White Fang?" Weiss asked. "Because you believe in their genocidal crusade," she said angrily.
Blake didn't say anything and was about to run off, but the team's attention was diverted when they heard a thud behind them. They turned to see Sho on the ground, a pool of blood around him, and severed his right leg and he was bleeding out from the wound he received from Lisker.
"Sho!" Ruby and Yang screamed as they rushed towards their friend's aid.
"Oh God, your bleeding!" Yang shouted as she tried to help Sho.
Ruby covered her eyes, not wanting to see so much blood coming out of her friend.
"I'll…be okay," Sho tried to reassure them. "I just need to get to my leg," he told the sisters.
"No, we need to get you to a hospital," Yang told Sho. "Someone call for an ambulance!" she yelled at everyone.
"No, Yang," Sho said to the blonde girl. "Just bring me to my leg and I'll be fine," he told her.
"What good will that do?" Ruby asked, panicking over her friend possibly dying of blood loss.
Seeing how neither girl was going to do as he said, Sho used his gravity controller to lift himself up, away from Yang, and floated towards severed leg. Everyone watched in horror and awe as Sho picked up his leg and placed it to wear the cut was made that severed the limb.
The bio-booster tissue reacted immediately as the tissues reconnected to each other, restoring Sho's connection to his leg and healed instantly. Everyone watched as Sho lifted his leg and bent his knee, testing to be sure his leg was fully reconnected and functioning properly.
"Amazing…" Ruby said softly as she watched Sho retract his armor.
"Increased strength, a sound wave attack that destroys incoming projectiles, energy beams out of his head and chest, elbow blades that vibrate, can create a black hole, and high healing capabilities," Weiss listed softly off what Sho's armor could do that she had seen so far. "Just what is Sho's semblance, or is it even a semblance at all?" she wondered to herself.
None of team RWBY knew what to think as the police finally reached them to figure out what had just happened.
Inside Roman's temporary hideout
Lisker stood in front of Roman and Neo, the latter of which was eating an ice cream cone while Roman didn't look very happy with what happened outside.
"Do you mind telling me what just happened out there?" Roman asked his employee.
"I was spotted by a familiar face," Lisker answered. "I decided to confront him to keep him away from our operation," he explained.
"And was all that mayhem necessary?" Roman asked.
"No, it wasn't, but it was better than him finding out about us," Lisker pointed out.
"Well, next time try to be a little more discreet," Roman told Lisker. "This little operation Cinder is trying to pull requires us to not attract attention," he added.
"Won't be easy since I was up against another Guyver," Lisker replied.
"Another Guyver?" Roman repeated. "You mean, another like you?" he asked.
"Yes, and this makes me a very valuable asset to the plan," Lisker pointed out. "Everything I can do, the other Guyver can do as well," he said.
Roman and Neo looked at each other and shared a look of worry. They had seen what Lisker can do, so the idea of there being someone with the same powers as Lisker was terrifying.
"So how many did you say there was of you Guyvers?" Roman asked.
"Three," Lisker answered.
"And there are two of you in Vale," Roman mused as he took a seat. "This isn't going to please Cinder," he said.
"The operation can still continue," Lisker said as he looked at his boss. "Whenever he appears, I'll keep him busy," he told Roman. "That should make things more manageable for you," he added.
Author's note: Man, this chapter has been edited at least three times, and I still find myself wanting to add more to it. Mainly more blood, mutilations, violence, and deaths. I am a very disturbed person for wanting to kill characters so early in the story.
Also, I've been having issues the site with this error type 2 that is preventing me from uploading new chapters. To work around it, I copied the chapter over one of my previous chapters. This is a temporary solution and I really hope this issue gets resolved.