Origins
Over at the edge of the cliff facing the Emerald Forest, a large green horned creature was locked in battle against another green creature with bird and reptilian characteristics while ten teenage boys and ten teenage girls watched from a distance. Many of these teens were watching in stunned disbelief, one girl was on her knees as she started blankly at the fight, one of her friends tried to snap her out of her mental shut down but couldn't get a response.
"Come on Neb," Gwen called out to her team leader. "You got to pull yourself together," she shook the kneeling girl, but got no response.
"Just what is going on here!?" Scarlet asked out loud as he watched the larger beast throw the leaner one aside. "One minute that green haired guy's twitching, the next he turns into that!" he yelled as he tried to process all of this.
"Sho, you know what's happening, right?" Ruby asked the Guyver of Beacon Academy, turning to him. "What happened to Russel?" she asked, scared of what may happen next as the creature known as Russel jumped onto Aptom, knocking him down before trying to strike him with his bladed tail, but Aptom kicked him off and got back on his feet while Russel landed on his back.
"Russel Zoaformed," Sho answered without taking his eyes off Russel as the Zoanoid got back on his feet and rushed toward Aptom.
"What does that even mean!?" Ruby cried out as she threw her arms out towards the fight in front of her them. "Is that supposed to be his Semblance or something?" she asked.
"Who would have a Semblance that causes them to change into such a disgusting monster?" Weiss joined in, absolutely repulsed by the two Zoanoids continuing their fight.
"It's not a Semblance," Sho told the girls, which caught nearly everyone's attention. "That's…the next step in our overall design," he added.
"What are you talking about?" Blake asked, eyes widening at the sight of Aptom chucking a very large boulder at Russel, who ran under the thrown rock without a second thought.
"I'll explain later," Sho replied. "Right now, all of you need to see this," he told everyone. "This is what we are all designed for," he added bitterly as he remembered how he learned the origins of humans.
Russel was knocked away by Aptom once again, but the young Zoanoid recovered quickly just in time to see Aptom heading toward him. Every thought going through his brain was telling him to tear his opponent apart, to destroy him, to keep fighting until only one of them was left standing. These thoughts were so different from his usual thoughts of cutting his losses and fighting another day, yet the thought of killing his foe was so intoxicating that he didn't care. It was as if his mind was high, but instead of feeling a sense of pleasure and relaxation, Russel's mind was on overdrive as his senses were sharper, almost as if everything around him was in slow-motion while he was moving at regular speed.
He loved this feeling.
He dodged Aptom's charge at the last two seconds before plunging his left claw into his opponent's exposed back. However, Aptom turned around and caught Russel's arm before changing into his first composite form.
"You're fast but not fast enough kid," Aptom said before throwing Russel towards a nearby tree.
Russel hit the tree, causing it to snap and fall to the ground. The green reptilian-bird Zoanoid got back on his feet, glaring at Aptom before looking at another tree, this one was thinner than the one he crashed into, at least three feet thick. He dug his claws into the tree trunk and ripped it off, shocking everyone watching.
"Did Russel just rip that tree off the ground?" Dove asked, shocked at Russel's display of physical strength.
"No, it looked more like he ripped most of the tree off," Sky said. "I'm more scared that he did that so easily, and without any aura enhancing him," he added.
"Huh?" Dove replied, confused by Sky's statement.
"You know Russel's aura level is the lowest out of the four of us," Sky reminded Dove. "There is no way he has enough to give him the strength to do that at max aura level," he added, his eyes were still on Russel as he swung the tree over his head before trying to hit Aptom with it.
"I'm more surprised that he has that kind of strength given his body type," Sho commented as he watched Russel continue swinging the tree like club at Aptom.
"His body-type?" Sky noted.
"Yeah, most power-type Zoanoids are much bulkier than this," Sho explained. "Russel doesn't look anymore buff than Cardin or him," he continued while pointing at Sage. "If anything, Russel's more like a scout-type," he added as he vaguely remembered a Chronos soldier telling Sho how he was a Razell when he and Makashima snuck into Relic's Point with Mizuki dressed as Chronos soldiers.
"How do you know so much about these Zoanoid-things?" Weiss asked as she approached Sho, wanting an answer out of the Guyver for all of this madness.
"That's something I'll tell all of you when this is over," Sho replied as he watched Aptom changed into his Omega Blast form and leapt onto the tree Russel was swinging.
"You're pretty strong for such a scrawny Zoanoid," Aptom complimented the young Zoanoid. "But I have to say I'm a little disappointed in you kid," he added.
Russel didn't say anything, but he gave off a reptilian hiss in response before throwing the tree off the cliff while Aptom was still on it. Aptom simply jumped off the flying tree and landed behind the bird-like Zoanoid, his back to Russel's own.
"Don't feel too bad about it though," Aptom said. "It's not your fault you Remnant variants are so primitive," he added before elbowing Russel in the back of his neck.
The force of the blow knocked Russel forward as his body changed back into his human form before he hit the ground. Aptom stood there, waiting for the other students to make a move, yet none of them did. He was about to say something, but an arrow flew right at his head. Aptom let the arrow hit his head, only for it to bounce off before turning his head to see who fired the arrow.
Dew, Gwen, and Octavia had looks of horror on their faces as Nebula reloaded her crossbow before taking aim once again at the Battle Creature. The sight of Russel getting knocked out had snapped the indigo haired girl out of her stupor and she wasn't about to let Aptom hurt him again.
"YOU GET AWAY FROM HIM YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Nebula shouted, ready to fire her crossbow once again.
"Language!" Ruby cried out in disapproval of Nebula's vocabulary.
"Uh…Ruby," Jaune started to say to his friend. "I don't think she cares about that," he told the fifteen-year-old, not sure who scares him more; Aptom, Russel, or Nebula.
Aptom on the other hand, chuckled at how this girl believed she could do any damage to him with that toy of hers.
"At least one of you has some guts," Aptom said as he turned his attention to the remaining students. "But you all failed to act while I was distracted," he chastised them. "While it wouldn't have made a difference against me, it was still twenty to one," he continued. "While your teachers will probably fill your heads with all that honor, teamwork, and power of friendship bullshit…" he added.
Ruby was about to interrupt, but was cut off by Blake covering her mouth, allowing Aptom to continue.
"There is no denying that with odds like that, all of you would have stood a better chance in fighting me if you had capitalized on it," Aptom told them. "So why did all of you stand there like a bunch of statues while the only real fighter was swinging a tree at me?" he scolded them.
Yang let out an amused chuckle at hearing someone consider Russel a real fighter. To her, Russel was nothing more than a flunky who gets his ass handed to him. However, she had to stop herself when she saw Aptom and Nebula glare at her. Nebula's glare didn't bother her, but Aptom staring down at her in his Omega Blast form unnerved her. It was like how she felt when Sho's armor was facing her during the aftermath of that night. Like he was looking right into her soul and picking it apart.
"Did I say something funny?" Aptom asked the blonde girl while taking a step toward Yang. "Did I, little girl?" he said in a low tone.
"Uh, no sir," Yang answered, feeling sweat go down her neck as Aptom continued to glare at her.
Aptom would have continued his lecture, but he heard Russel groaning behind him as the boy tried to get back up.
"Russel!" Nebula cried out as she rushed to his side.
"W-what happened?" Russel asked as he tried to get off the ground, only to find himself enveloped in a hug by Nebula.
"You're okay," Nebula said softly as held Russel tightly. "You're okay," she repeated, her voice barely a whisper.
The young Zoanoid was confused by what Nebula was saying but he wrapped his arms around her just the same, rubbing her back once he felt her hold on him tighten.
Everyone else looked at the scene before them with mixed feelings. Most of the girls thought it was sweet to see the young couple embrace each other, except for Ruby who couldn't see any of this as Yang was covering her eyes since Russel was naked. A couple of the girls snuck a glance at the boys they were interested in, such as Pyrrha trying to be discreet as she looked at Jaune. Her teammate and friend, Nora, took a more direct approach with her object of affection.
"Ren!" the energetic carrot-top shouted before wrapping her arms around her friend. "This is so sweet, almost like pancakes," she said. "Which reminds me, can we have pancakes when we get back?" she asked.
"Of course, Nora," Ren replied, not putting any effort in telling her she had pancakes for breakfast already.
The guys on the other hand, were kind of weirded out that Russel was naked in front of all of them. The only guy who took this in stride was Sho, since he already knew about how any clothing a Zoanoid wore doesn't last long after transformation.
"Sky, how far can you teleport?" Sho asked the blue haired member of CRDL.
"About thirty feet," Sky answered. "Why?" he asked.
"I was hoping you could get Russel some clothes back in your team's dorm," Sho told Sky, but now that plan had hit a snag.
"I can still do that," Sky said. "It would just take a while to get there," he added.
"No, if you do that you might end up in the middle of a pack of Beowolves," Sho pointed out before stepping away from everyone. "I'll go get him some clothes," he added.
"And how are you going to do that?" Cardin asked.
"GUYVER!" Sho shouted as his armor appeared.
Now in his Guyver armor, Sho turned toward Cardin and held his hand out.
"Pretty much walked right into that one boss," Dove commented with a smirk on his face while Cardin glared at him in return.
"Just give me your scroll and I'll fly to your dorm," Sho explained to the mace wielding boy.
"Fine," Cardin replied as he handed his scroll to Sho. "So…every time he…" he tried to figure out what to say about his teammate's new-found ability but was still at a loss.
"Yes, Russel will tear through all of his clothes every time he transforms into his Zoanoid form," Sho told the CRDL leader as he began to levitate. "So, you guys will have to be sure he has an extra set of clothes every time you're out on missions or in any fights that require him to change forms," he instructed before heading off to the school.
As Sho flew off, Aptom turned his attention to Russel and Nebula, who were still on the ground. He slowly approached the couple, which Nebula noticed and moved her right hand toward her crossbow.
"Relax Cosmic…" Aptom started talking.
"Nebula," Nebula corrected the Battle Creature, her eyes not once leaving him while Russel tried to turn around to see Aptom.
"Whatever," Aptom disregarded the girl's name as he focused on the green haired boy. "A piece of advice kid; start wearing generic clothing from now on," he told Russel. "You don't look like the kind who has enough money to buy your usual outfit in bulk," he added.
"I'll keep that in mind," Russel replied, surprisingly not feeling embarrassed by the fact that he was currently naked and his girlfriend practically on top of him.
"Good, and don't be afraid to change during a battle," Aptom encouraged the boy. "After all, Zoanoids are made for fighting, it be a shame that you let that advantage go to waste," he added before turning invisible and leaving everyone.
Everyone was silent for quite a while as they all recounted their failed match against the Battle Creature known as Aptom. Well, a few were recounting their failure, some of the teens were still looking at the naked Russel. Mostly the girls, which Nebula noticed and wasn't happy in the slightest.
"You all have exactly ten seconds to look away before I start removing those eyes through your asses!" Nebula threatened large group in front of her and Russel.
"That doesn't seem physically possible," Blake remarked while averting her eyes anyway. The scene before may have reminded her of one of her many favorite parts of Ninjas of Love, but the fact that it was Russel who was naked made the moment less enjoyable. 'He does have a nice set of abs though,' she mentally said to herself before shaking her head after thinking it.
"You'll get used to her threats of severe and bizarre bodily harm," Gwen told the faunus girl, having long since become accustomed to her leader's mutilation preference.
Inside Ozpin's office
James and Glynda were silent after watching the live video feed. The two of them were shocked when they saw Russel turn into a large bipedal reptilian bird-creature. What shocked Glynda the most was how Russel's aura reserves hadn't changed throughout the fight. James on the other hand, his expression changed from to shock to impressed when he watched Russel continue fighting despite how obviously outclassed the boy was compared to Aptom.
"Amazing," James said softly before turning his attention to Zeus. "Tell us Olympus, what did we just see?" he asked the third Guyver.
Zeus was quite for a moment as he looked over the General, Headmaster, and Assistant-Headmistress. "Are all of you willing to listen when I say that the origin of humanity is not what you originally believed?" he asked the three of them.
The looks on two men and one woman was enough for Zeus to know he had their attention.
"Please explain Mr. Olympus," Ozpin told the young man that stood across from him.
"As you wish Professor…" Zeus said as he began to tell the three Remnant humans about the true origin of humanity.
Back at the Cliff
Roughly an hour went by before Sho had returned with a new set of clothes for Russel. The naked boy gratefully took the clothes and made his way toward a large tree to hide behind so that he could dress himself. Now fully dressed in an exact copy of his normal outfit, Russel made his way back to where everyone else was standing.
"Thanks, Sho," Russel said to the teal Guyver.
"Your welcome Russel," Sho said as he retracted his armor. "I think it's time that I start explaining everything," he addressed everyone.
"About fucking time," Russel remarked, tired that his friend had been putting this off for quite some time.
"Explain what?" Weiss asked in a serious tone. "What have you been hiding from us Sho Fukamachi?" she scolded the young man.
"I wasn't exactly trying to hide it," Sho replied. "I just haven't had the chance to tell all of you because we all have been either busy with classes, homework, or other activities," he retorted while stressing the word activities.
Team RWBY, Sun, and Neptune flinched when Sho made that retort. Scarlet, Sage, teams JNPR and NDGO were confused by what Sho meant but decided to wait until later to bring it up.
"Anyway, I wanted to tell everyone, but I didn't know if any of you would believe me without any proof to back it up," Sho continued talking.
"But now…?" Sky inquired.
"But now I have some proof," Sho said as he looked at Russel. "Russel, what you turned into was not some Semblance that you recently unlocked," he told the mohawked boy.
"Yeah, I know," Russel agreed, causing most of the students to look at him, surprised because they were willing to believe that this transformation was his Semblance. "My Semblance isn't anything special anyway," he added.
"What is your Semblance anyway?" Dove asked. "In all this time we've been on the same team, you never told us what it was," he pointed out.
"I can move on any solid surface such as walls and ceiling like a gecko or any type of bug," the green haired boy told his teammate. "It's really not that special," he added.
"You have a Semblance that you can use to attack an opponent from different angles, and you never bothered to use it in combat class," Cardin glared at Russel while stating this. "Why didn't you!?" he yelled.
Russel gave his leader a look of disbelief before answering.
"All the walls were outside the arena and I can't exactly jump up to the ceiling without wasting nearly all my Aura just to reach it Jackass," Russel retorted.
"Well then maybe next time I'll help you by smacking up there myself!" Cardin yelled in frustration over Russel giving him attitude.
"I like to see you try!" Russel taunted his leader.
Dove and Sky groaned as they knew what was happening. While the team of, former, bullies seemed to get along from the start of their formation, these boys had moments where they would argue with each other for various reason. The most common would be one of them insulting each other.
Luckily, Nebula smacked Russel to stop him from fighting with Cardin.
"Aw!" Russel yelled in pain as he grabbed the back of his head out of reflex. "The back of my head," he said before turning to Nebula "What was that for?" he complained.
"For being an idiot," Nebula told him, practically scolding the green haired boy. "Now let Sho tell us what he needs to tell all of us," she added.
Off to the side, Sage leaned toward Scarlet's ear.
"She's handling the fact that her boyfriend is a shapeshifting monster surprisingly well," Sage whispered to his friend.
"Yeah," Scarlet whispered back. "Vacuians are so weird," he added, much softer so that team NDGO and Sun wouldn't hear him.
"You want to say that again Pirate-boy," Russel said as he glared at Scarlet. "Because I need a good excuse to break in my new set of claws," he told the Haven student while twitching his left hand on scare him.
"No, I didn't say anything," Scarlet hit behind Sage.
"Anyway…" Sho interrupted. "Russel turning into a Zoanoid is not a Semblance born from within his soul, but is a part of his genetic makeup," he continued. "It is within everyone," he added.
"What!?" nearly everyone shouted at once.
"That's insane," Weiss said, finding this hard to believe.
Sho sighed, knowing that this was going to be harder than he thought.
"I'll start at the beginning," Sho told everyone as they all quiet down.
Sho's recounting:
Millions of years ago, a group of beings arrived on a backwater world. They were known as the Creators and as soon as they arrived, they began constructing life. Their goal was to create a lifeform that had high reproductive capabilities with a high success rate, capable of adapting to any environment, high level intelligence, and most importantly high combat potential. This lifeform would serve them as a living weapon that would be used in their wars. Through a long series of trial and error, the Creators had achieved that goal.
"And that lifeform was…?" Jaune wanted to finish his question but he feared that he already knew the answer.
"That lifeform was known as man," Sho answered.
"Wait, are you saying that all of us were created to be weapons?" Neptune asked, finding this hard to believe.
"Is it really that hard to imagine?" Sho asked. "All of us are here training to fight against monsters, a Faunus Rights group turned to violence without a second thought after settling things peacefully wasn't working, there was a war between humans and faunus not too long ago, and roughly eighty years ago all four kingdoms were at war against each other over something as trivial as art," he pointed out.
"Sho does bring up a good point though," Dove said, drawing everyone's attention. "We do fit those criteria's with how people have made homes in nearly every continent that most animals wouldn't survive, we've grown in large numbers, are collectively the most intelligence creatures on the world, and all the fighting that has been done," he pointed out causing a few of the students to consider Sho's words.
"Yes, but the Creators weren't done with their experiment," Sho continued his tale.
Once the Creators were satisfied with the results, they began a new phase in their experiment, the Zoanoid process. By manipulating the DNA within all humans, the Creators were able to create a secondary form that released their full potential, making a physically powerful creature that could fight any foe. The processing was a success which pleased the Creators that they had planned on processing all humans and had even created a new creature that would serve as their general, called the Zoalord.
"What exactly is this Zoalord?" Russel asked, feeling that this piece of information affected him the most.
"The Zoalord is a more advanced type of Zoaform with powers beyond that of any Zoanoid," Sho answered. "Their greatest power is the ability to control Zoanoids with just their thoughts much like the Creators," he added.
"So, this Zoalord can order me around with just his mind?" Russel asked, not liking the sound of this.
"Yes," Sho simply answered before continuing with his tale.
However, before the Creators could begin deploying their creations to the battlefields they were intended to fight in, the Creators became curious and conducted one final experiment that would change everything.
"What was this experiment?" Ren asked.
Sho was silent, which caused everyone to lean forward, intent on hearing the next thing to come out of his mouth.
"The Creators wanted to know what would happen when they combined a non-processed human with a semi-sentient organism that they used to allow themselves to adapt to hostile environments," Sho finally said. "The result…scared them into abandoning their experiment altogether," he told them.
The five teams were silent, the idea that whatever experiment these Creators conduction scared them so much that they would leave was shocking.
"What was it?" Pyrrha asked. "This result that would scare these Creators?" she clarified.
"The organism I mentioned increased the human's combat capabilities by a multiple of one hundred and gave the human weapons that were never a part of its design," Sho started to explain. "Abilities that the Creators never gained when they bonded with the organisms," he added. "The human that bonded with the bio-boosting organism was so powerful he was able to wipe out an army of Zoanoids with little effort and the Creators could not get him to obey them through their mental commands," he continued.
"It was out of their control," Blake said, realizing why these Creators were scared.
"Or in their language, Guyver," Sho told everyone.
Nearly everyone's jaws dropped after Sho told them that this out of control weapon shared the name of his armor.
"Was…that…?" Ruby stuttered while her mind tried to comprehend this.
"No, not me," Sho answered. "The first Guyver, we referred to as Guyver 0," he clarified to Ruby.
"Oh, that's a relief," Ruby said, feeling slightly better.
"Of course, he wouldn't be the one who went out of control," Weiss said, her attention directed at Ruby now. "He said all of this happened millions of years ago," she pointed out. "But I still don't believe any of this," she added, skeptical of the story Sho told them.
"Yeah, this sounds way too far fetched to me," Yang agreed, thinking Sho's making it up since the story was so outlandish.
"I believe him," Russel said as he walked up to Sho. "After seeing him summon his armor, those other guys who have the same kind of armor as him, that Aptom guy turning into a variety of monsters, and me transforming," he listed. "I find this a lot more believable than that fairytale about two Gods that created us after trying to kill each other's creations," he added.
"Yeah, and it sounds super awesome!" Nora agreed as she clenched her fists tightly and shut her eyes.
"Nora, what are you doing?" Jaune asked, noticing Nora's relatively odd behavior.
"Channeling my inner monster," Nora answered as she continued focusing. "If Russel can do it, then so can I!" she declared.
"I don't think that's how it works Nora," Ren told his longtime friend, while mentally praying she fails at transforming.
"Oh, it's possible that Nora is on the right track," Sho said as he watched the crazy member of team JNPR try to transform, with no success obviously. "But I don't think we'll know for sure," he added.
"What do you mean?" Dew asked, finding what Sho had told everyone to be quite fascinating, it was a more interesting story than what her parents told her when she was little.
"Well, for starters there is no clear way to tell if someone is a Zoanoid or not," Sho started to explain.
"But didn't you say that all of us are Zoanoids?" Sky asked, confused by Sho's contradiction.
Sho sighed for a moment before turning his attention to Sky.
"To more specific, everyone has the Zoanoid gene in them, but odds are they have become dormant during the years. Maybe even diminished as there may have been mutations that overwritten the Zoanoid gene," Sho explained. "Meaning that without being exposed to certain chemicals that could awaken the Zoanoid gene or coming from a family bloodline that has active Zoanoid genes, you wouldn't be any different from any other human or faunus," he finished.
"So, Russel comes from a family of Zoanoids," Dew said as she looked at her team leader's boyfriend.
"But does Russel even have a family?" Jaune asked, wondering about the young Zoanoid since he doesn't really know anything about him aside from how he would follow Cardin's orders in bullying others.
"I'm sure Russel does Jaune," Ren told his leader.
Russel kept silent at that point while Nebula held onto his left hand. He looked at the purple haired girl beside him as she gave his hand a reassuring squeeze, causing him to smile at her.
"How about we continue this conversation back in the school?" Neptune suggested, wanting to get out of the cliffside before any Grimm found them.
"Yeah, I'm starting to get hungry," Sun agreed as his stomach started growling.
The rest of the teams agreed and began to make their way back to Beacon Academy. During the trek back, Russel and Nebula walked up to Sho, who was near the front.
"Hey Sho, I got one more question," Russel said to the Guyver.
"What is it?" Sho asked as he continued walking forward.
"What would happen if I had bonded with one of those armor creatures?" the young Zoanoid asked. "You know, since I have my monster form," he added.
"Russel, you're not a monster," Nebula told Russel. "A moron that makes numerous mistakes ranging from dangerous stunts to insensitive remarks involving people's traits," she added on. "Like calling a faunus girl a freak just to get a rise out of her," she finished as her eyes narrowed at him.
Russel flinched, remembering that stupid moment of his as well as the beat down he got from Nebula when she found out.
"I tried to apologize to her," Russel, more or less, whimpered. "But it's not easy when her team leader started attacking me with her purse," he added.
"Her what?" Sho asked, finding the idea of a girl with a purse to be too ridiculous to scare off Russel.
"It turns into a minigun," Russel told Sho in all seriousness.
Sho had to stop for a moment just to let that statement sink in his mind as he tried to imagine HOW a purse could transform into a fully functional minigun with enough ammunition to fire, yet still be light enough to be carried with one hand.
"That…doesn't seem physically or structurally possible," Sho finally said.
"Says the guy who has a high-powered energy cannon for a torso," Russel retorted. "Which kind of goes back to my previous question," he added.
"You would probably have at least two forms if you were to bond with a Guyver unit," Sho told Russel. "One for your human form, which would be equal to me, and another for your Zoanoid form, which would increase your abilities even further than what I could as a standard Guyver," he added.
Russel started to imagine what he would look like as a Guyver while in his Zoanoid form, however he never saw what he looked like as a Zoanoid, so his mind pictured a generic monster with Sho's armor.
'I really need to see what I look like when I get back in the dorm,' Russel thought to himself.
White Fang hideout (Vale)
"So how much longer do we have to let this thing work with us?" one White Fang grunt asked his comrade.
"For as long as it takes for this operation to be complete," the other grunt answered as the two of them looked on.
The thing the first grunt was referring to was Lisker, in his Guyver armor, standing in the middle of the warehouse that the White Fang was using. Ever since finding out about Sho's Gigantic form, Lisker tried summoning the Gigantic Armor for at least a week. His Control Metal reached out to the Gigantic, but it did not come to him. At first, Lisker believed the Gigantic Armor was keyed to Fukamachi, but recently he discovered that was not the case.
He had discovered that there were two Gigantic units residing in the dimension that that Guyvers slip into when not needed.
'Focus Oswald,' Lisker mentally told himself as his Control Metal tried to connect to one of the Gigantic Armors. 'I just need to link up with one of them,' he reminded himself.
His Control Metal started to shine as a dark hole appeared above him. The sight of this hole shocked the White Fang grunts, causing them to stop what they were doing to watch.
"What is going on?" a smooth voice said as the leader of the Vale Branch entered the area, Adam Taurus.
Of all the members of the White Fang, Adam was the most infamous due to his skills on the battlefield and his ferocity while maintaining a level head. Yet the sight before him gave him pause as a large black metallic looking cocoon appeared from his mysterious hole before landing behind Guyver 2.
The cocoon started to open and engulfed the bronze colored Guyver before closing again with him inside. Once it had sealed itself, the black cocoon began to change its color to hunter green. Once the change of color was complete, the cocoon opened once again to reveal a giant Guyver that was the same color that the cocoon had changed into.
"By the Gods," Adams's lieutenant said beside him as he marveled at the new Gigantic Guyver.
Adam didn't say anything as he simply observed this new form that Lisker took. He watched as the new Gigantic flexed its right hand before Lisker let out a deep chuckle.
"I've done it," Lisker said as he felt the overwhelming power course through his body. "I have obtained power that is unrivaled," he continued as he began to laugh. "I have reached my apex," he added as his laughter grew louder. "I AM GIGANTIC APEX!" he proudly declared as the faunus around him felt a wave of fear go through them as they watched the laughing giant armored being.
Beacon Academy
"So, just so that we're all clear…" Jaune said as he and the large group of teammates/friends/bullies/acquaintances sat around a very long table in the school cafeteria. "You've pretty much told us that we were created by beings from another world…" he continued.
"An easier term would be aliens," Sho gave the blonde knight a simpler term to use.
"Do they pop out of people's chest?" Nora asked excitedly while imagining a slimly creature with an elongated head and a second set of teeth coming out of its tongue.
"Not now Nora," nearly everyone said to the excitable ginger.
"Anyway…these aliens created all of us to be living weapons to fight in their wars but abandoned us because one of their experiments went beyond their control," Jaune brought everyone back on track by continuing to talk.
"Yeah, and it does sound crazy," Sho admitted without missing a beat.
"Very crazy," Neptune said.
"Completely insane," Weiss said as well.
"Definitely," Blake agreed.
"Really out of this world," Yang added with a smile on her face while everyone groaned at her joke. "Oh, come on guys that was a good joke," she complained.
"No Yang, jokes are funny," Octavia said, causing the blonde brawler to glare at the red head Vacuian.
"But where do you fit into all of this Sho?" Pyrrha asked, wanting to avoid any unnecessary fights from occurring.
"My story began roughly two years ago…" Sho started to tell his tale.
Mt. Narisawa, Japan, Earth
After talking with Tetsuro about what he could do with his life, the two boys were about to head back to town when they heard a large explosion. Sho looked up to see smoke coming from over the hills. It was at that time he and Tetsuro saw a strange green disk-like object flying toward them before stopping a couple yards short of their location.
Tetsuro approached the object to examine it before picking it up to have a better look. Sho tried to tell his friend to put the thing down, but Tetsuro wanted to look over it more. Sho grabbed the object, unknowingly touching the metal orb in the middle. The object started to glow, which scared Tetsuro causing him to toss it away only for Sho to grab it.
It was at that time the creature within the object burst out of its confines and forced itself onto Sho Fukamachi, changing his life forever.
"You were attacked by a slim creature!" Ruby bolted up from her seat in horror, before closing her mouth with her hands when she realized that she caught the attention of nearly everyone in the cafeteria.
"Real subtle there, kid," Cardin said as the youngest student in Beacon Academy sat back down.
"Yeah, for a while I lost consciousness," Sho said. "during that time, Tetsuro was attacked by armed men and a Gregole," he continued.
"Gregole?" Sage repeated the name.
"The green Zoanoid Aptom turned into after Russel transformed," Sho answered. "From what Tetsuro told me, the Guyver armor acted on its own to protect itself and me. It broke Gregole's arms and crushed his head with little effort," he told everyone.
"Your armor…did that while you were unconscious?" Ren asked, quite shocked by this revelation.
"A living armor with a self defense protocol," Weiss whispered to herself.
"Yes, and after I regained consciousness, when I saw myself in the Guyver armor, I at first thought I had been turned into a monster," Sho continued talking about that day. "You can imagine how I reacted," he added.
"And that was the first time you used it," Blake said, wary of what Sho would tell them next.
"Yes, and after that I had found myself wrapped up in a battle against an organization intent on recovering the Guyver unit," Sho said as he reminisced on his past.
Old Cement Factory, Japan, Earth
Sho was held in place by a giant ape-like creature known as Ramotith, while the man impersonating a police officer demanded that Tetsuro tell him where the Guyver unit was or Ramotith would tear Sho's arm off. Tetsuro kept telling the man what he knew but the man didn't believe him. As for Sho, he focused on the word Guyver before his instincts kicked in.
"GUYVER!" Sho shouted in desperation.
An invisible barrier surrounded Sho and blew Ramotith into atoms while the Guyver armor latched onto him.
"What the Hell?" the man said as he and three others turned to look at Sho while the remains of Ramotith disintegrated.
"So, he had the Guyver," the man said while the other three transformed into more Ramotith Zoanoids. "Capture it," the man told the Zoanoids.
Sho was amazed as he was able to effortlessly kill the three Zoanoids. He punched one in its chest, piercing the body like it was made out of cardboard before performing a roundhouse kick at the second Ramotith, stunning it. After pulling back for a moment, Sho threw his right fist into the Zoanoid's head, killing it instantly like the first one. The last one, Sho got behind it and pulled its arms back before breaking the arms with enough force to kill the last Ramotith.
"Ah, now I see how Gregole was defeated so EASILY!" the man slowly shouted as he transformed into a different type of Zoanoid.
This new Zoanoid was reptilian with a light brown colored skin with large shoulders and long pointed ears.
"But I'm not like Gregole and Ramotith," the new Zoanoid, Vamore, declared. "I'm in a class of my own," he pointed out as his shoulders opened up before firing two laser beams.
Sho stood between the two beams as they passed by him. He was confused as to why Vamore didn't hit him directly before it dawned on him that Vamore was sent to capture the Guyver Unit.
As Vamore started to explain to Sho what kind of Zoanoid he was, the control metal started to feed Sho information on what could be used to defeat this Zoanoid.
The Mega Smasher.
Sho opened his chest plates, surprising Vamore as he was charging up his bio-lasers. Sho's Mega Smasher was charging up as well but Vamore was quicker to fire while Sho's fired a second latter. However, the higher output of the Mega Smasher overpowered Vamore's bio-lasers and the Bio-Blaster type Zoanoid was killed in a flash of destructive energy.
"For a while it continued like that, the organization known as Chronos would send Zoanoids after me and I would fight them off," Sho told everyone.
"But… that doesn't make sense," Weiss said, still not believing any of what Sho was saying. "How could this Chronos organization be in operation without any of the Huntsmen knowing?" she asked.
"I never said this happened on Remnant," Sho answered.
That sentence confused everyone until one of them made a shocking realization.
"SHO'S AN ALIEN FROM ANOTHER WORLD!" Nora shouted, very excited that she became friends with an alien.
The group of teens were silent for quite awhile after Nora's outburst. Sho looked at each one of them and saw their reactions. Most of them were looking at him in disbelief while a few were still in a state of shock. Finally, Yang approached Sho and placed her hand on his forehead.
"I don't have a fever Yang," Sho told the blonde as she checked his pulse. "And I'm not dead again," he added.
"Just making sure," Yang told Sho before his words registered. "Wait…what do you mean again?" she asked.
"Well, if any of you still want to hear my story without judging me as insane, you're going to have to hold all your questions and retorts until the end," Sho said while staring down at Weiss and Blake as he figured those two would be the most skeptical and judgmental of the whole group.
Once everyone calmed down, Sho closed his eyes and took in a quick breath as he mentally prepared himself to tell his group of, maybe, friends about his first death. If he could, Sho would have done everything he could to avoid telling them, but he had enough with keeping things secret from the people who placed their trust in him.
Mt. Narisawa, Japan, Earth
Sho and Tetsuro watched in horror as the man who claimed he was the former head of Chronos Japan transform into this massive hairy monster with large teeth and a long powerful tail with a large stinger on the tip. The two boys were freaked out that Chronos would send something like this after them.
"Tetsuro get back!" Sho yelled as he readied himself to fight this monster known as Enzyme. "GUYVER!"
As the Guyver equipped itself onto Sho, Enzyme charged at the boy, claw over its head before striking. Sho leapt over the massive Zoanoid, landing several feet away.
"You're the reason I've become this…" Enzyme growled out as he turned to face Sho. "DIE GUYVER!" he shouted as he made his way to Sho.
Sho fired a head beam at Enzyme's neck, but the enraged Zoanoid didn't even register the attack as he struck at Sho again, knocking the bio-boosted human back onto the ground. Sho picked himself up but noticed the deep claw marks on his chest plate and notice steam coming from the marks while his blood stopped flowing out of his chest.
"What the…?" Sho was alarmed by this, that he barely noticed Enzyme towering over him with his right claw aimed at his head.
Sensing the threat to its host, the Control Metal commanded the vibration blade on Sho's right arm to activate. Sho instinctively cut Enzyme's hand off while making his escape from the massive Zoanoid. However, Enzyme's blood ate through the vibration blade during the attack, which Sho barely noticed while Enzyme roared in angered pain while clutching his wrist as his blood sprayed out.
"YOU BASTARD!" Enzyme shouted as he chased after Sho.
"Damn it," Sho cursed as he hid behind a tree to recover. "How can I fight him if my weapons barely faze him?" he asked himself before jumping out of the way as Enzyme attacked him from behind the tree.
Enzyme used his tail to knock Sho down before plunging it into Sho's back. Before the tip reached him, Sho rolled to his left to avoid the attack and fired a pressure cannon shot into Enzyme's head. The gravity attack blew half of Enzyme's head apart, causing Enzyme to fall to the ground as Sho got back up.
"Amazing," Tetsuro said from behind the tree he used as cover during the fight.
Sho didn't say anything as he was exhausted and hoped that was the end of Enzyme. However, the massive Zoanoid refused to stay down as he lunged toward Sho and bit into his left arm. Sho cried out in pain as Enzyme pulled back and ripped his arm off. Desperate to finish this once and for all Sho opened his right chest plate to use his Mega Smasher.
However, Enzyme pierced the organic lens with his tail, impaling Sho. Sho cried out as Enzyme brought him closer. Sho could barely move, let alone retaliate as Enzyme slammed his left hand onto Sho's head and grabbed the Control Metal. His claws dug into Sho's skull as he forcefully pulled the Control Metal out.
"After that, all I felt was pain before nothing but darkness," Sho finished the story.
Everyone was horrified by what they heard. It was a gruesome if not flat out terrifying description of a battle to the death.
"From what Tetsuro told me, after the Control Metal was removed the Guyver went crazy because of a power overload resulting in the armor devouring me while trying to kill Enzyme," Sho picked back up where he left off.
"Please no more…" a tearful Ruby begged Sho. "I don't want to hear anymore," she whimpered while Yang hugged her.
Sho looked at Ruby, instead of the optimistic and cheerful huntress in training, he saw a scared little girl who was just told a scary story. He felt horrible for telling Ruby about how he died and was regretting his decision to tell everyone.
The rest were doing a bit better, but Sho could tell that they were also horrified by what he told them. When Sho looked at Russel, he could tell that the fledging Zoanoid was terrified of him since he just told everyone about how he fought other Zoanoids to the death and won with little effort. Jaune looked like he was about to throw up after hearing the graphic details of Sho's fight against Enzyme while Pyrrha tried rubbing the boy's back to help him. Sho could barely make out Pyrrha's blushed cheeks as she did this.
"I think that's enough for today," Sho told everyone as he stood up. "You all can either believe me or not, but it doesn't change anything about me," he said before turning to Weiss and Blake. "Do you two remembered what I said several weeks back?" he asked the monochrome duo.
"There is more blood on my hands than anyone else here, and I will continue to spill more blood"
Those words echoed in Weiss and Blake's heads as they looked at Sho. Whether they believed his story or not didn't matter anymore. The look in his eyes told them so much about him.
Sho Fukamachi wasn't a Huntsmen, he wasn't a warrior fighting for honor or a just cause like them. Sho had the eyes of a shell-shocked veteran, a soldier that was fighting his enemies to the death just to stay alive.
In a sense, Sho Fukamachi had more in common with an Atlesian soldier. A normal person with little training fighting against impossible odds just so that he could live.
While she found his story hard to believe, Weiss's respect for Sho had grown that day because despite all that power he had, Sho didn't turn out to be like the bronze Guyver that haunts her nightmares.
For Blake, in the story was true then Sho was someone who suffered far more than her kind could ever imagine. In a sense Sho may be a kindred spirit in how he faced off against an overwhelming force by himself, much like how she believed she was doing against the White Fang. However, that thought was crushed when she remembered how Sho tried to stop her. It made sense now as to why because despite all that power, Sho was still just one person going up against an organization with limitless resources and manpower. Yet she had to ask Sho this one question.
"What did Chronos do?" Blake asked.
The look on Sho's face was one of resignation, which Blake noticed.
"They won," Sho answered.
Author's Note: I'm back, baby!
Well now the Remnant students that Sho hangs out with now know that their friend is an alien and have learned the origins of humanity. Originally I was going to have it where Sho tells them more or less the whole story of his life as the Guyver, which I could have done it with 'Thus Sho tells his friends everything from the origin of life, the development of Zoanoids, how he found the Guyver unit and his fight against Chronos in graphic detail' but that didn't seem like a lot of fun so I had Sho tell them the generic version of how life was created and told them his first two fights against Chronos and his first death before it became too much for Ruby to handle.
I admittedly took some liberties in describing Sho's fight against Enzyme because there are three versions of that fight and I couldn't pick one because they were different enough from one another. In the original manga version, Sho didn't know how to use the vibration blades or the pressure cannon, the twelve-episode OVA version had Mizuki and three of the Hyper Zoanoid Five watching the fight, and the 2005 anime version, while better animated, wasn't as gory as I liked. So, I made my own version, though in my defense Sho has been fighting a lot of Zoanoids for at least two or three years, so he's not going to remember how he fought each one. Hell, at least four of his fights he wasn't even conscious which consist of his first time activating the unit and the other three were after he was resurrected.
Kind of funny how Kira Yamato from Gundam Seed was given the insulting nickname of Jesus Yamato because he cheated death three times thanks to plot armor, yet Sho has done the anime Jesus resurrection thing long before Kira was ever conceptualized. At least Sho has a valid excuse for cheating death.