Of Bulls and Mechs (Part 2)
Back at the Argus Military Base, dozens of soldiers sat around a screen that had a solid view of the battle. Currently Cordovan was pre-occupied trying to swat away Maria and Oscar who were still flying the transport. "You just couldn't keep this rivalry between us could you Calavera?" Cordovan said through comms which the soldiers could hear, "You had to go and rope in children to fail with you!" On the monitor Cordovan was seen firing a large beam of Ice Dust, just narrowly missing Maria and Oscar. Despite the miss the guards still cheered all the same.
While the guards were all distracted, Neo, still on her mission to slow down Cinder but also stay close to Deadpool, did the best she could to pull up any documents that may be beneficial to her. Specifically she was pulling up blueprints for an Atlas Transport Ship, like what Maria had commandeered. She couldn't exactly steal one. She COULD but that would mean she could easily give away her location. All they had to do was track the ships number the moment it got within radar. So her plan was to imitate the look of the ship by disguising a ship she and Cinder had stolen to look like an Atlas Transport.
As Neo typed away and began printing out blueprints she heard a faint beeping sound. Looking behind her she could see a red mark indicating a large Grimm was approaching the shore. Ah crap. she looked up to see Cordovan still trying to shoot the transport out of the air. Better hurry up guys...you got some trouble coming.
Peter...
Back with Peter and the others, they stood and watched as Maria and Oscar tried to buy them some time to rest. Maria was able to avoid getting shot down for this long, but Peter knew that couldn't last forever. "Is everyone okay?" Oscar asked over comms.
"Hey, maybe focus on not getting shot down before worrying about us, huh?" Peter suggested, "What happened to 'laying low'?"
"I know, I know. Sorry." Oscar replied, "But I think I found a weakness!"
The group all looked around to each other with confused expression, "Well, we're all ears." Nora said with a groan as she and Ren helped Jaune walk back to the group.
"Right," Oscar continued as he and Maria flew overhead and avoided getting shot down by another one of Cordovan's blasts."Listen, the cylinder on Cordo's cannon rotates and locks in a giant Dust cartridge every time she changes attack styles."
"Right, and because they are so massive and takes a while to reload the cartridge it's faster to switch to a new style after every blast." Peter pointed out.
"Right. But the missile launcher doesn't lock in. It pops out!" Oscar said excitedly, "Which means that with her shields down, one well placed shot could detonate the missiles while they are still in the launcher!"
Jaune looked up and smiled, "We could destroy the entire cannon. Oscar that's brilliant!"
Nora frowned, a sign showing that she wasn't quite sure, "Can...Can you even make that kind of shot?" she asked while looking at Ruby.
Ruby frowned. Behind her were Weiss and Qrow who looked at each other with unsure expressions on their face. "It won't be easy." Ruby said seriously, "I'd have to basically be staring down the barrel of her cannon." Peter clenched his fists, he wasn't exactly too keen on the idea of Ruby having to be put in harms way just to stop a decrepit old woman on the verge of her death bed.
"Don't worry, Ruby." Maria called on the comms, "I think I have a way to guarantee that." Maria pulled the transport down to the edge of the cliff. With a determined expression, Ruby ran forward to jump on the transport.
"Ruby, what are you doing?" Qrow asked with a worried tone. Qrow then looked over to Peter with a serious expression, "Peter..."
"She won't get hurt. I promise." And before Qrow could even finish asking Peter shot a webline to the side of the transport and stuck to the side as it took off towards Cordovan. Better stay to the side of the ship. Don't want to give away Ruby's position. Peter felt the wind against his mask as the ship got closer and closer to the mech.
In the transport, Ruby closed the door and walked towards the cockpit where she saw Maria smirking. Maria tapped a few buttons on the Transport's interface and made a direct call to Cordovan. "Hey, Cordo!" Maria yelled, now doubt causing Cordovan to cover her ears from how loud she was, "I've got one missile left and I know exactly where I'm going to stick it!"
"Hahaha." Cordovan chuckled on the other line, "One missile you say? That's such a shame, Maria because I HAVE PLENTY!" Maria smirked as her plan worked perfectly as the mech opened up its missile silo.
"ARE YOU INSANE!?" Oscar yelled out as Maria was flying right to the missile silo.
"Sometimes the best approach is the most direct one!" Maria replied with an almost maniacal laugh. Maria continued to fly and Ruby opened the doors and looked out the side. Ruby cocked Crescent Rose and took a deep breath as she aimed at one of the missiles. Just drown out the noise. Ruby thought as she tried to ignore Oscar's screaming and Maria's laughter. Ruby took a deep breath and fired, the bullet traveled and looked to be on a direct course...until it wasn't.
Cordovan had become wise as to what Maria was planning and closed her missile silo almost as quickly as she opened it. The result was Ruby's bullet just narrowly missing the missiles and instead hit the cap of the silo. "Damn." Ruby mumbled.
"You thought you could fool me!?" Cordovan yelled out as she held up her cannon and switched to lighting Dust. The blast charged and fired forward. Maria tried to pull up, but she was grazed by the blast causing the ship to short circuit. Because his Spider Sense went off, Peter jumped off the ship and landed on the cannon of the mech. After just grazing the ship the blast continued to the shore line where it narrowly hit the rest of the group who came out with only light scratches.
The ship itself, however, couldn't recover as easily as it began to slowly descent back towards the forest. Maria had no control of the ship and it was up to Oscar to save them. Eventually, the ship crashed, but thankfully in a clearing in the forest. Oscar looked up after having shut his eyes when they landed, he looked around and felt his body making sure he was in one piece, "We...We're still in one piece!" he said, a slight smile.
Ruby, not having been strapped in like Oscar or Maria, had taken a bit of a fall in the bay area of the ship. She slowly got to her feet and limped out of the ship using Crescent Rose as support. When she was finally on solid ground she fell to her knees in pain. "Very clever." Cordovan stated over intercom causing Ruby to gasp, "But even the smartest apes can't compete with the intellect of man."
Ruby stood up and she looked to Maria who was desperately trying to fix her already messed up eyes. Ruby growled as she looked to Cordovan and she began walking towards the mech, which was now right next to the cliffside, so she could give her a piece of her mind. "Ruby, stop!" Qrow called out as he reached out and grabbed his niece's hand.
Ruby looked back and the expression she showed Qrow was one he wasn't sure he'd ever really see. To him, it was the look of a true huntress. "Uncle Qrow...just trust me." Qrow nodded slowly and Ruby began approaching Cordovan in her mech. Ruby looked up at the mech as it towered over her.
"Surrender for your crimes and accept your punishment." Cordovan ordered as she pointed the mech's hand at Ruby.
"No." Ruby said defiantly as she slammed the pointed end of Crescent Rose into the ground, "We are going to Atlas. Bigger people than you have tried to stop us and have failed, but we're supposed to be on the same side." she explained, "We, as huntsman, have a great power and it is our responsibility to protect people who can't protect themselves. But you...you are selfish! You only use your power for your benefit! To look down on everyone you are supposed to be helping. We didn't want to steal from you, we did it because you gave us no other choice!" Ruby took a deep breath before gripping Crescent Rose, "Now we're giving you one last chance to hear us out."
The air was silent for some time before Cordovan began moving her cannon, "I'm done listening to you."
"PETER NOW!" Ruby shouted.
"'Bout damn time!" Peter shouted as he, with Ero, stuck to the opening of the missile silo and began to force it open.
"What!?" Cordovan yelled out.
"I just noticed you had a little stowaway on you Cordo." Ruby laughed. Peter started stressing himself, but with the help of Ero lifting as well, the two were able to force the missile silo open. Ero continued to lift up the silo as Peter continuously sprayed webbing to the silo to force it to stay open.
"Hey, Cordovan, you left your door open! Haha!" Peter taunted, "Ruby, now's the time." Cordovan began moving the cannon arm so it couldn't be hit, but Peter was a step ahead of her and shot a web line to Ruby and tossed her into the air. "Take the shot, Rubes!" Ruby took a deep breath and fired hitting a missile in the middle of the silo. The resulting explosion resonated through the cannon and caused a chain reaction making the Dust rounds go off and cover the cannon in earth, and ice while it was electrocuted, became heavier and heated up.
Peter not wanting to get hit by the chain reaction jumped off the cannon arm and began to fall. Luckily Weiss set out her solid black glyphs allowing for Peter to shoot weblines back to the cliff side. As he was swinging he launched himself in the air and webbed Ruby towards him before he landed. "See, Uncle Qrow. Totally under control." Ruby chuckled.
The students looked on to Cordovan as the weight added to her cannon essentially stopped her completely. And, after all the problems they had went through, some actual good luck came their way as the Transport actually started back up again. "Can we get the hell outta here now?" Nora asked.
Deadpool...
Deadpool and Adam stood face-to-face, neither making the first move yet. Deadpool looked down and saw Adam begin to slide his foot to the side. Deadpool then did the same making sure to keep his feet spread out and balanced. The two slowly strafed around each other before coming to a stop. The two swordsman tensed their grips on their blades. Nothing seemed to matter, the two couldn't hear anything else around them just the sound of their steps and their breathing.
Finally, in one swift motion both Adam and Deadpool moved forward to attack. Adam pulled Wilt from Blush and went for a quick horizontal strike while Deadpool opted for an overhead slash. Both combatants clashed quickly before standing in opposite areas of where they began. Adam smirked as he flicked the blood off his sword and sheathed it. "Damn." Deadpool groaned, "He got a good hit on me." Deadpool gripped his side as blood dripped out of him, "But...I got you too, huh?" Adam's eyes widened in surprise as he felt a pain shoot through his arm. It had a cut go from the inside of his shoulder to the outside of his elbow. "You know, you aren't that bad. You just haven't gone against someone who's just as good."
Adam growled and made a quick 180 turn firing Blush. To his surprise, Deadpool was able to turn quickly and block the blast with his sword before getting back into his stance. "Hmph, truth be told I didn't think you'd be that fast." Adam chuckled, "Enjoy the small attack you landed. It will be your last." Adam's teeth clenched in anger as Deadpool approached him with his sword in the air going for an overhead strike. He quickly parried with a horizontal slash and followed up by rolling to his right and going for a stab. Deadpool then quickly turned his sword and held it over his shoulder and watched as Wilt glided across the blade, just narrowly missing Deadpool.
Deadpool then quickly spun to escape and sent a back fist to Adam's jaw as he did so. Deadpool readied his sword again going for a overhead slash as Adam stumbled back, but Adam grabbed Blush off his hip and fired a couple of rounds into Deadpool's chest which sent the mercenary rolling across the ground. Adam let out a couple heavy breaths as he looked at what seemed to be the lifeless form of Deadpool, blood forming around his body in a puddle. "Good riddance." Adam spat. "Trash of a mercenary such as yourself should have known your place. You have no idea what I've been through. The people I've sacrificed...the battles I've lost...all to get my revenge on the humans! Not you, nor Blake or even Spider-Man will stand in my way."
Adam used his left hand to wipe some blood from his mouth, he then ran that hand through his hair to fix it. "Now...where were we?" he asked as he began pointing his sword at Yang.
"We...were in the middle of a fight." Adam's eyes widened in shock as he turned around to see Deadpool slowly getting up, using his sword as leverage. Deadpool finally stood up completely, slightly stumbling as he felt one of his organs detach from inside his body and just dangle, "I didn't hear no bell." he laughed doing his best Rocky Balboa impersonation. Adam gritted his teeth and held up Blush as he began to fire shell after shell. Deadpool stood his ground and began blocking the shots with his sword. Deadpool then took a few quick steps forward before sliding on the ground and spinning his body so that he would spin with his sword coming up to strike Adam.
Adam stood his ground and began to parry Deadpool with each spin he did. After Deadpool finished spinning and he lied on the dirt using his hand to support his head, Adam grabbed Blush and went to fire but missed when Deadpool quickly kicked his foot up causing the faunus to fire in the air. Deadpool then quickly jumped up and went for an air slash. Adam quickly blocked Deadpool's initial attack, but he couldn't block the kick that came to his face as Deadpool used his head as a stepping stool to get to his flank.
Adam quickly blocked behind him to avoid getting cut before turning on his heel and facing Deadpool again. The two then began to go back and forth at each other, rapidly sending slash after slash, each swordsman trying to break the other's guard. Adam began to stagger back from Deadpool's surprising strength. Adam performed a back handspring to gain some distance from the mercenary, firing a shell at Deadpool's face as he did so. Deadpool had leaned to his left and just narrowly dodged the shell, watching as it flew past him and made a massive hole in the side of a tree.
Adam quickly sheathed Wilt and waited for Deadpool to get closer before fired it out, having the hilt nail Deadpool in his eye, "OW! What the fu--Damn it, I can't say that. Pete took it already." Deadpool slumped his shoulders and rubbed his eyes, "Your girl must be disappointed if you're blowing your load THAT EARLY, SPIDEY!" he complained. We aren't even half way through the story yet and he wasted our one F-Bomb. What a joke.
While Deadpool was distracted with his senseless bitching, Adam took initiative and charged forward sending a flurry of slashes across Deadpool's chest before he launched himself forward, sending one more slash before sliding across the ground behind Deadpool and sheathing Wilt. Adam was on a knee now after his slide and he looked up to Deadpool with a smirk as he watched the mercenary's right arm come off and fall to the ground. "Foolish and pathetic." Adam chuckled, "You should have known, Deadpool, I am not easily deterred. My motivation to gain my revenge is beyond even a veteran such as yourself."
"Yeah, about that..." Deadpool started as picked up his arm and began to reattach it to his elbow causing Adam's eyes to widen as he saw that Deadpool's ability allows him to reattach limbs, "What is your whole revenge plot anyway? Was your village destroyed by the humans during the Human-Faunus War?"
"No." Adam growled.
"Was your whole clan wiped out by a rival clan and now you are seeking revenge against them?"
"No..." Adam seethed, his eye starting to twitch as he got more irritated that Deadpool couldn't figure out his motives just by looking at his face.
Deadpool scratched the back of his head in deep thought, "Yeah, I can't really think of any reason why you have such a massive grudge against people. I mean, I'm all for killing people, I'm no saint, but in your case you don't seem to have a motive for why you're trying to destroy the human race."
Adam gripped the hilt of his sword so tightly that the whites of his knuckles became visible, "DO YOU NOT GET IT!" he shouted, "No...I guess you wouldn't. JUST LOOK AT ME!" he shouted, this time pointing to his left eye, "Do you see this mark! What they did to me!" Adam clenched his teeth and aggressively swung his sword to make a point, "They humiliated me, treated me like I was less than trash! I'll have my revenge. I'll kill everyone that stands in my way, I'll kill the Schnees and then I'll kill all the humans on this wretched speck of dirt! The faunus will rise to their true place as rulers of this world!"
Deadpool let out a long exasperated sigh, "Really? That's your motivation?" he cringed, "Like...at least compared to Belladonna, Sienna Khan at least had true motivation. But your whole revenge schtick is...it's kinda lame. No search for power because you weren't strong enough to protect your faunus brethren? No...No...No need to defeat those who have a different ideal because they don't follow the Government/Corporation that wants to rule people 'for their best interest'?" Deadpool smacked his face and let out a frustrated yell, "Your telling me that your based off Vergil, Sephiroth, and extreme activist groups and you didn't get ANY of their redeeming qualities? This whole time you were just some whiny bitch because your face got messed up? Guess what, news flash buddy, YOU AREN'T THE ONLY ONE!" Deadpool removed his mask to show his heavily scarred face, which led to Blake cringing as she had never seen the mercenary without his mask before.
Adam recoiled back slightly at the sight of Deadpool's horribly scarred face, "You see this face. This is the face of a man who gave everything. I risked my life fighting in the Special Forces, doing covert ops and killing high priority targets all for the sake of 'safety'." he growled, "This is the face of a man who got cancer and was promised a potential cure if I helped the government out again. Instead I was betrayed and they were going to sell me off to the highest bidder. They made me a FREAK! I lost my wife, I lost my friend, I can't even see my daughter. All because some shady organization went and started sticking some smelly dog's DNA in my veins. Did I want revenge? HELL YEAH I DID!" Deadpool took a deep breath and let it out, "But the difference between you and me is that I know it wasn't an entire race of people that did this to me, but a bunch of corrupt, money hungry, narcissistic assholes. Yeah, I killed them...but at least I stopped them from doing it to others. If that was your argument maybe...MAYBE I'd understand and feel sympathetic. But you are just so petty. Your anger has taken over so much of your mind that you aren't looking at the guy who pulled the trigger but the guy who manufactured the shell casing. It wasn't his fault you got your eye taken out, that wasn't the intention (probably)." Deadpool sighed, "God...I'm just so disappointed, I had such high hopes for you, but I realize now that you are too far gone. Nothing but an irredeemable jackass." Deadpool held up his katana and pointed it at Adam before getting into a fighting stance, "Now come on! Let's finish this!"
"Fine." Adam growled, "Nobody is invincible. Somehow, someway, I'll kill you here and now. Even if it means cutting you up into pieces and scattering you into the ocean! Then nothing will get in my way." Adam dashed forward and rapid speeds and began his first attack. Deadpool took a slight step backward to reposition himself so he'd have more solid footing and he blocked the first attack. After the parry, Deadpool tried for an attack himself which was also blocked by Adam. However, Deadpool only used his sword as a distraction as he sent a swift kick to Adam's gonads before sending a vicious roundhouse across the Faunus' face. Adam rolled across the ground several times before sliding on one knee. "I will not lose to insolent scum like you!" Adam dashed forward again and the two got into a sword struggle, both staring into each other's eyes as they tried to push each other back. Adam had the look of a feral animal ready to lose control while Deadpool's usual maniacal look had formed into a very rare scowl. The two pushed each other back and they slid several feet before stopping into a ready stance.
Music Queue: Carry On -- Avenged Sevenfold
Deadpool tossed his katana in the air and ran a few feet before jumping with a spin and catching his blade in a reverse grip. Adam saw his chance and immediately began to open fire on the falling mercenary. However, Deadpool was able to block a few shots before landing on one knee. He then quickly ran towards Adam, his sword still in a reverse grip, and once he was close enough, Deadpool slid on the ground and began spinning trying to cut Adam low. Adam jumped out of the way, using Blush as leverage as he fired another round at Deadpool to gain some distance from the mercenary.
When Adam landed again he started to exclusively fire at Deadpool, hoping he could slow him down so he could move in for another attack. Deadpool, however, seemed to move faster than usual as he dashed forward and blocked the projectiles before throwing his sword up in the air. "WHAT?" Adam asked in surprise as Deadpool didn't attack, but instead used the Faunus' body as a stepping stool. Deadpool kicked Adam in the back of the head as he jumped off him before grabbing his sword while it was in air and slicing across Adam's back. "AGH!" Adam growled as he and Deadpool began to exchange blows back and forth once more. This time Adam began adding his scabbard into the mix of attacks like he was doing Kali. This technique proved quite difficult to deal with, especially with Adam adding the gunshots to the mix.
Deadpool and Adam clashed again, but this time Adam used his free hand to bash Blush against the side of Deadpool's head, causing him to leave the struggle in a stumble. Deadpool took a few steps and caught himself from falling. "Damn, bast--" Deadpool stopped as he turned around and took a round point blank in the chest, "SONUVA--" Adam continued firing round after round, a smile forming on his face before he broke out into laughter. Deadpool swung his sword to cut Adam's face, but he missed allowing Adam to shoot Deadpool's katana out of his hand on his backswing.
Deadpool looked back as his sword slid across the ground, he clicked his tongue a few times before turning back to Adam with a frown. "You shouldn't have done that." Deadpool warned as he began getting in a fighting stance. He slid his left foot forward slightly and his right foot back half an inch. He then brought his right hand up and formed a fist in front of his heart while his left hand balled into a fist at his belt. "Now you've awakened...THE DRAGON OF WEAPON-X!" Deadpool yelled out as a red, fiery like aura, became visible on his body.
"Is...is he going to fight Adam...unarmed???" Blake asked in utter bewilderment.
"That's what your focused on?" Yang asked, "Not the fact he all of the sudden has an aura and a white dragon design just MAGICALLY appeared on the back of his suit?!?"
Deadpool took a deep breath and slowly approached Adam. Adam scoffed at Deadpool's cockiness and fired another round at him, only to his surprise Deadpool had sidestepped and avoided the shot entirely, "WHAT!?" Adam grunted in frustration. Before he knew it, the mercenary was in close. Adam went for a slash, but Deadpool sent a ferocious straight counter to his gut; the force of the blow caused Adam to keel over slightly and nearly puke. He had this sort of strength? Adam thought. While Adam was staggered, Deadpool quickly ran up to him and used his two fists to slam into Adam's temples and clamp onto his head. Deadpool then jumped backwards and landed on a knee before he brought Adam's face against it.
"What's wrong Adam? Need me to put a bandaid over your mouth? I don't have any currently, but I'll be more than willing to give you my sweaty jock strap." Deadpool taunted, giving a creepy grin that looked much more eager than the girls hoped.
Adam spat out the blood from his mouth and chuckled slightly, "Why am I not surprised that fighting you would be MORE annoying than fighting the spider?" Adam stood up and flicked the blood off his blade, "But that doesn't mean you'll actually defeat me." Adam got in a ready stance again before dashing forward Deadpool ducked the slash and went for a punch, but stopped when he saw Adam aiming Blush at him. Deadpool quickly opened his palm and covered the barrel of the gun as Adam fired, creating a hole in his hand. Deadpool then slid his hand down, causing the barrel of the gun to go through the hole in his hand, he slid all the way down until he could grip Adam's hand that was resting on the trigger of Blush. Deadpool then grabbed Adam's right hand and forced the faunus to shove Wilt through Deadpool's abdomen until it was at the hilt. "What are you doing?" Adam asked with a frustrated tone. With Adam effectively stuck, Deadpool began to relentlessly pummel the faunus with his free hand, eventually making Adam's face a bloody mess with a broken nose.
Finally, Adam mustered up his strength and pushed Deadpool off him before sending a straight kick to Deadpool's belt. The resulting force caused the belt to spark and sputter slightly before activating for the first time since Beacon and teleport Deadpool back a few feet to his sword. "Really? Now you activate? Eight-months-plus with just sputtering and now you activate just to send me back three feet?" in response his belt sputter again before shorting out and the center piece cracking and bursting. Yeah, guess we aren't getting any hope of teleportation for the rest of the story either.
Deadpool picked up his katana and looked at Adam and grinned. "Okay. The author has let this fight go on for half a normal chapter. Effectively making this the longest fight scene done yet." Until the Fast Times finale, probably. "Shut up."
Adam sheathed Wilt into Blush and smirked, "Finish this? Fine. Let this be your last stand Deadpool!"
"I didn't like Last Stand. I was more of an X2: X-Men United kinda guy." Deadpool quiped.
The two got ready before launching forward. Deadpool decided to play defensive and parried Adam's slash, which proved to be smart as it gave him ample time to quickly move his sword and hit Blush with the blunt side of his blade to divert Adam's aim so the blast didn't hit Deadpool. Adam clenched his teeth as Deadpool then went on the offensive and slashed downward. Adam went to parry, but as he did so his sword chipped and cracked. "Damn!" Adam held up Blush, but Deadpool grabbed the barrel and quickly twisted Adam's arm and forced a disarm.
Adam stumbled forward and rolled to catch himself, when he turned around he saw Deadpool twirl Blush once before firing it. Adam held up Wilt and blocked the shot. Deadpool fired again and again, each shot being blocked by Adam. Adam smirked as Wilt began to glow a brilliant red hue. "You're finished." he said with a determined tone. "Now die, SCUM!" Adam launched forward and began sending a Moon Slice. When he thought he connected with Deadpool he had, in fact, connected with Deadpool's katana. Standing his ground and having the gall to parry what Blake and Yang saw as an unparriable attack, he did the impossible and broke Adam's offense.
Adam's eyes widened in disbelief as his Moon Slice not only didn't succeed in splitting Deadpool apart, but also lead to his sword shattering on impact, leaving him with just a hilt with a small piece of Wilt left. Deadpool lifted up Blush and fired at Adam's hand making him drop what remained of Wilt. Adam looked down to see the blade to Gambul Shroud. Adam picked it up and charged at the mercenary only for Deadpool to lazily sidestep away and slice down. Not cutting off Adam's hand...but instead slicing off his fingers. "AAAAGH!" Adam yelled out in pain, going to a knee and holding his hand as it became covered in blood. Adam looked up and saw the tip of Deadpool's katana mere inches from his face.
Deadpool let out a disappointed sigh as he pressed his sword against Adam's cheek, "God...you could have been a really cool character if you just didn't have your head so far up your ass." Deadpool looked over his shoulder to the two girls who had pretty indifferent expressions, "You've sacrificed hundreds of faunus lives, promising them a better life. Never once getting your hands dirty if it looked things could go belly up. You staged a coup against your leader because she wasn't radical enough for you, you helped destroy Beacon, cut off Yang's arm, stabbed Blake, nearly destroyed Peter's leg and almost killed him, and you're so petty after losing you followed us all the way to Argus just so you could kill Blake. You've come this far. Are you willing to change your ways? Come on. Do it. Give me a good reason why I shouldn't strike you down where you stand." Deadpool growled.
Adam laughed, "Strike me down?" he asked, "Don't be foolish. That isn't the hero way your friends like to exude, is it? You seem to want to be in good graces with Peter. So tell me, is killing me really the right thing to do? Is it something Peter would approve?" What a dick.
Deadpool frowned and he dropped his katana. "Yeah, I guess you're right. A real hero wouldn't kill someone. Would he? Peter would probably shun me." Adam smirked, but that smirk quickly turned to a frown as Deadpool chuckled, "But Peter isn't here right now...is he?"
"Wha--?" Before Adam could even ask what Deadpool meant the mercenary held Blush up to Adam's face. Blake dug her face into Yang's chest, and Yang winced as the two heard a gunshot followed by Deadpool kicking Adam to the roaring rapids bellow.
Deadpool looked at Blush and tossed it to the ground before picking up his katana and mask. "Come on, kids." Deadpool called out as he put the mask back on his face, "Something tells me it's time we get back to our friends." The two girls looked to each other and nodded before walking over to the mercenary and surprising him with a hug, "Woah, woah, woah. What the ass? What's this for?"
"Thank you." Blake said softly, "Despite everything he's done to me...to us. If it came down to it...I don't know if I'd actually be able to do it."
"We probably would have let him go." Yang added, "Not because we'd want to but...well...like Peter said, it isn't really right for us to choose who lives and who dies."
Deadpool chuckled, "Don't worry. You kids will be fine. Besides, I'm no hero. I crossed that line a long time ago." Deadpool put his hand just above his eyes to shield them from the sun as he looked over the horizon, he could see some smoke towards where the others were dealing with the mech, "I take it the bike is trashed?"
"Majorly." Yang replied with a nod.
"Welp, better get walking then." With that, and after Deadpool picked up the rest of his items, the trio began their trek back to the others.
Peter...
The group began to walk to the Transport when they heard grunting and yelling coming from Cordovan who was still desperately trying to lift the cannon arm out of the water. "Hey, looks like the weight of your consequences is finally starting to pull you down, eh, Cordo?" Peter taunted with a laugh.
"No, no, no, no, NO!" Cordovan yelled like a child throwing a tantrum causing Peter to roll his eyes from behind his lenses. "You are never getting Atlas, do you hear me!? NEVER!" there was a slight pause before Cordovan got on what seemed to be open comms, "All forces, converge on my position! Eliminate these pests at once!""Oh crap!" Oscar yelled out.
"Everyone get on board, they're sending the calvary after us." Maria warned.
"Hold on, what about Blake, Yang and Wade? We can't leave them." Peter mentioned.
Before the group could get on the Transport to leave another call came in, "Um...ma'am," the voice was a man, another guard was the best guest, "We've been trying to contact you. Argus is in trouble." The group looked up to see hundreds of flying Grimm come from the forest and began to converge out in the ocean. The group looked out in disbelief at what was probably the biggest Grimm most of them had seen. It was large, easily the size of the mech if not a little bigger. It was bipedal, had tucked in arms with long claws, had a long head shape with a snout, and a webbed spine similar to what you'd see on some lizards, as well as a long spiked tail. "It's a leviathan! It began its approach during your battle, ma'am. We need you!"
The group all began to inhale sharply through their teeth as they turned to Cordovan to see what was probably the city's only defense a Grimm this massive was officially immobilized for an indeterminate amount of time. "Yeah...I knew that it wouldn't be that easy." Peter said as he let out a long exasperated sigh.
To be continued...A/N: Hey guys...long time no see. Last you heard of me I had just gotten over COVID. So that was a month ago, fuck me, right? What happened? Well...a factor of things. I was writing the Deadpool x Adam fight and I didn't like it, like...at all. So I scrapped it and became very VERY unmotivated to write. When I had COVID I finished Yakuza 0 and moved on to Yakuza Kiwami after I was getting over it. From that time, meaning from about a day or two before I made that update, until sometime last week, at the end of May, I had played and finished both Yakuza Kiwami 1 and Kiwami 2. If it wasn't work, school, or Yakuza I just didn't care. When I finished Kiwami 2 and started 3 I got to writing again, and eventually I wrote...about 500 words for the Deadpool x Adam fight.
Then, I started gaining motivation again and in two days I wrote not only 4k words for just the Deadpool section, but I also finished the rest of the chapter the next day. So now, hopefully because I'm feeling motivated again I'll have the next chapter out much faster.
But man, speaking of, that Deadpool section was so much harder to write than anything else. Like, I know that my fight scenes aren't the best, so I was really trying to make this last a good chunk of time. I wanted it to feel impactful and have stages you know? And I feel I actually did it with this one. I also contemplated for a long time how the fight was going to end. I mean, it was always going to be Deadpool offing Adam, but one of my draft ideas was to go into gruesome detail like the top half of Adam's head was going to be completely blown off. But I realized this is not a Mature rated story, so it was best to go with the implied kill. Like, the blast is still there, but Deadpool just gets rid of the body without describing anything.
Peter's section was easy but...man, do I hate this mech fight. I at least changed it a little bit because no shot should Ruby have survived if she blew up the cannon from the inside. I don't care how strong her aura was she was way too close to the initial blast for that to at least not do more damage.
Okay, next chapter should be the last chapter for Volume 6 stuff, so I finish that off and I'm going to take a break on this story and go to Fast Times for a bit. mangadex has been down for like 3 months or more, I've been away from that story for too long (like ten chapters when I finish Volume 6) so I'm just gonna man up, grab a different manga site and I'll continue the story that way.
Okay, and before I go, let's do some quick reviews:
Yakuza Kiwami 1: Fun game, similar to 0. Gameplay doesn't feel as tight at times, but it's still fun with a great story.
Yakuza Kiwami 2: Super fun...awkward engine. Dragon Engine is weird and makes the fighting mechanics feel slower. Also a whole ass side mission is based around mahjong. But aside from what issues I have with it, I was glad there was scenes added that made references too, and even gave closure to Yakuza 0.
Okay, that's all I have to say for now. I'll see you all next chapter. Again, hopefully sooner than two months this time.