Opening File: High Frequency Technology
By creating a powerful current through sharp weapons like a blade that vibrates at intense speeds, this creates a weapon that can weaken its target's molecular bonds, forcibly slicing through almost anything.
Even the bodies of people who cannot be hurt by conventional weaponry.
Close File
Xxx
"Swords, clubs, axes, and spears. These are but a handful of weapons that have been invented since the beginning they served well in all wars and battles. But the thing you have to remember about progress is that with the right creativity even the oldest fashioned weapon can be remade from something old and useless into something new and better. It's a little called upcycling." TOM said as the file closed. "Rather different from recycling but still a way to keep things from going to waste."
Xxx
"Grimm Slayer…"
The Digimon stopped in the middle of the empty street, hearing a voice whispering his name. An ominous chill(no pun intended) was felt and he summoned his sword. Looking around he could only snow and…
Red eyes in the dark
Omnimon took off down the streets.
His instincts screamed at him that there was something dangerous nearby.
And he had really good idea who it was.
A blast of fire shot at him just as he ran around the corner…
"BRAVE SHIELD!"
His Semblance activated, creating a white barrier around him that blocked the incoming blast of fire. Once the flames extinguished the Royal Knight got a good look at his attacker.
It was a Grimm.
But this was no ordinary Grimm.
It was tall, imposing, resembling a muscular man with hand shaped wings sprouting from its back, a glowing sphere under the torso where the legs would be and a dangerous, malevolent aura surrounding it that sent a chill through the Digimon's soul.
Omnimon knew it was dangerous just by looking at it and that it was here for him.
He would gladly oblige.
As soon as the barrier was down, the Terra-Claw lunged at him, starting out with using its fists.
Omnimon summoned his sword and swung it. "Grey Sword!"
Only just as it came into contact with the Terra-Claw, its body split in two connected by ropes of mist, leaving the sword to pass through it.
"Wha-"
The Terra-Claw reassembled itself and punched Omnimon right in the face, sending him flying back. The Digimon grunted as he slammed into the ground, his Aura shimmering. He had never seen a Grimm do that before. As he got up, felt heat underneath his body and only his reflexes saved him as the ground beneath him turned to lava.
As he jumped back he aimed his Garurumon head/arm at the Grimm and shouted his attack. "Garuru Cannon!"
He fired a barrage of yellow bolts at the Terra-Claw who calmly held up one hand…and created a shield made entirely of manipulated air that knocked the energy bolts away. The Terra-Claw then shot forward, moving at amazing speed at the surprised Omnimon and wrapped both arms around him before emitting electricity from its body. Omnimon screamed in pain from the electricity coursing through his body. His Aura was straining to protect him as he reared back and slammed his head into the Terra-Claw's face over and over again until it finally released him.
Omnimon then slugged in the torso with his free hand then swung his sword to decapitate it. However just as he swung his body was suddenly lifted off the ground and the Terra-Claw literally blew up into the sky. Omnimon looked down at himself and saw a purple gravity field surrounding him.
It used a gravity field to lighten him enough to send him literally flying!
Omnimon looked back down and spotted the Terra-Claw flying straight up at him, gathering energy into its fist. Knowing what would happen if it hit him the Royal Knight summoned his Brave Shield just in time as the Terra-Claw swung its fist.
BOOM!
The resulting explosion sent Omnimon flying up into the air and across the sky of London. Omnimon grunted as he struggled to keep the shield up against the force of the attack.
Then suddenly he fell to the Earth like a comet, impacting the ground…hard.
Only his Brave Shield had kept him safe from having his entire body possibly shattered. Grunting Omnimon looked up as the Terra-Claw flew down and realized it had reversed the gravity field it had placed on him to make him float off the ground. This Grimm was stronger than any Grimm he had ever encountered before and so far it was winning their fight.
He couldn't afford to hold back.
"Supreme Cannon!"
From his Garuru head/arm came a beam of blue light that was in fact icy blue energy that froze whatever it made contact with down to zero degrees Kelvin. However the Terra-Claw seemed prepared as it raised both hands as its body pulsed with energy and released a blast of fiery orange light that collided with the blast and cancelled it out!
Omnimon's eyes widened as he felt the heat from the attack. 'That attack was as hot as my Supreme Cannon was cold!'
In the short fight the Royal Knight had with this Grimm he had made some startling and disturbing discoveries.
This Grimm could conjure a shocking array of powers that could match and even outwit his own.
It was adaptive and more intelligent than any Grimm he encountered.
It was giving him the hardest fight he had since Blue Diamond.
And worst of all: it wasn't slowing down a single bit.
"By the prickling of our thumb, something wicked this way comes!" The Grimm opened its mouth and sang, a growling demonic voice that sounded every bit as evil as any dark Digimon Omnimon had encountered. "RRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
From its mouth came a sonic blast that collided head on with Omnimon as he hastily raised his Brave Shield, managing to block the attack even as he slid back. The Digimon grunted as he felt the sonic vibrations attempting to shatter his shield and his own ears were ringing from the sound of the attack which was the same as the sonic attack used by the horse-like Grimm he had encountered in his first few months of being here. Once the attack ended Omnimon charged, moving as fast as he could to end the Grimm before it could recover.
He raised his sword…
The Terra-Claw held out its hand as if to make a slashing motion.
"TRANSCENDENT SWORD!"
The Terra-Claw swung its arm to meet Omnimon's…
SLASH!
"GAAH!"
Xxx
"It's true being an unknown factor has worked to my advantage, but that advantage was always temporary at best. Besides for too long I've been regarded as nothing but an afterthought or pawn, too long! It's time to truly join this game and establish myself as a player." Nyx exclaimed with mad laughter as she levitated and started wildly spinning in a circle with her arms spread apart to the sky, holding the chest to her tightly.
Xxx
"Professor, we're home!" Blossom and Bubbles called out as they entered the Utonium home, hoping that the Professor and Tsuranuki were home and that dinner was almost ready. "Professor?"
"Girls!" The Professor shouted from the basement.
Alerted by the urgency in his voice the girls rushed down to the laboratory basement, spotting the Professor and Tsuranuki on their knees bound with purple energy around their arms and legs. Nearby was a woman with long purple hair, holding a chest that was open with a purple cloth.
"Professor!" The girls shouted, ready to attack.
"Uh-huh-uh!" The woman waved a hand, conjuring a purple energy barrier. "No need for power punches here!"
"Who are you?" Blossom demanded, her eyes glowing with a prepared heat vision.
"Just a fan, interested in doing a report on your own personal history." Nyx held up the chest for them to see.
"Put…that…down!" Bubbles glared angrily.
"Why? It's just a cloth." Nyx retorted with a dark grin. "Or is it so much more?"
"I said put it down!" Bubbles screamed, releasing a sonic blast at Nyx who disappeared in a flash of purple smoke and then reappeared next to the Professor and Tsuranuki.
"Try that again." Nyx knelt down between the two, looking at Bubbles with a taunting smirk. "I dare you."
Blossom quickly got in front of Bubbles. "What do you want?"
"Ah, finally. Asking the right questions." Nyx chuckled, conjuring an energy blade in front of the Professor and Tsuranuki. "I want your Chemical X in the next five seconds or I'll be taking another batch of less powerful blood. Five…four…three-"
"Okay we'll give you the Chemical X, just don't hurt them please!" Blossom said, angrily glaring. "And give us back the chest; what's inside is worthless to you."
Pericles fluttered in front of the glaring sisters. "On the Contrary I'm afraid that your hidden sin is quite valuable to us, perhaps even just as much your creators precious Chemical X."
Nyx chuckle darkly with a smile that was anything but amused. "Yes I must say I thought June's old bosses and my teacher were bad but you two...oh you two and your sis take the cake." Nyx smirked at the two. "I wonder what the people would really think of their precious Powerpuff Girls, if they found out about the skeletons lurking in your closet."
Nyx looked over at the box with her look softening. "After all Elmer Sglue wasn't the first or last innocent the heroic Powerpuff Girls had hurt was he?"
Xxx
"And I promise you, MY DEBUT PARTY WILL SET THE WHOLE WORLD ON FIRE! I'll be joining the ranks of the Omega level threats! The very mention of my name will fill people with respect and fear, and everyone, EVERYONE!" Nyx clenched her fists together with a dark look on her face. "Will know the price of even thinking about crossing me and mine."
Xxx
"Increasing speed!"
The drill containing the Crystal Gems and their allies dove into the ground, digging deeply as it traversed.
"Alright. Bracing for impact." Steven said, closing his hands into first.
"It's actually two more hours to the cluster." Peridot pointed out the sound of the drilling was muted.
"Oh." Steven tapped his knees. "Wish I'd brought some tunes."
Peridot pressed a button that turned on some elevator music.
"Uh, thanks." Steven said awkwardly.
"Seriously, you picked elevator music?" Amethyst asked deadpanned. "Why not come to me for some tunes?"
"I think the elevator would be safer in your case." Pearl rolled her eyes.
"I like it." Garnet said calmly.
They all remained silent as the drill continued to dig further downwards. Steven's eyes were filled with anguish as he watched the layers of rock pass by.
He shut his eyes tightly, shaking his head and began talking to Peridot as a distraction. "It's kinda... freaky down here, huh?"
"Why's that?" Peridot asked.
"It's just dark, and cramped... Ngah, I can't even, gah, stretch out." Steven groaned.
The compartment rumbles momentarily, and Steven, Connie and the Gems looked around in worry.
"So... what is the plan?" Steven asked curiously.
"We have a drill. We're going to drill." Peridot answered.
"…Sounds like a plan to me." Amethyst shrugged.
"Get ready - we're about to penetrate the asthenosphere!"
"The what-whoa!" Amethyst exclaimed as the drill broke through the crust and the window was engulfed with something other than rock.
"Whoa, it's all lava!" Steven gasped as the cockpit was engulfed in a bright orange hue from the surrounding magma.
"Looks like the outer hull is holding." Pearl said, looking at her own calculations. "Those scientists at DexLabs were really prepared."
"Lava is what comes out of volcanoes. That's super-heated peridotite." Peridot corrected Steven in the meantime.
"Peridot...ite?" Steven looked over at the green Gem.
"Yeah. It's made of the same stuff as Peridots." Peridot said with a fond smile.
"Something as awesome as underground lava made a bunch of annoying green Gem nerds?" Amethyst snickered.
"You were made on Homeworld, right?" Steven asked.
Peridot nodded. "Mmhmm."
"What was it like?"
"I didn't exist. Then I did. I don't have memories of it, just feelings." Peridot sighed. "Of course it is likely I can never go back to Homeworld."
"Why is that?" Steven asked.
"Because I am committing treason to help you stop the Cluster." Peridot answered, throwing a look at Steven. "Not that I expect you to understand but it's hard. Not to have some feelings for where you came from. If I go back now and they find out I helped stop the Cluster I would be at best demoted to a cleaning drone, harvested or at worse shattered once the trial was over."
Connie looked out the window. "I wonder they would even do to me. No organic in the Special Zone has ever committed treason like this before."
Steven stared at Peridot, spotting a tear welling in the corner of her eye. She then quickly wiped it away.
"Why not stay here?" Steven asked them both and they stared back at him. "You don't have to go back if that's what will happen."
"Just stay here? Come on, Steven." Connie sighed and shook her head. "We're not like you rebels. We didn't defy Homeworld because we wanted to. We did it to survive. That's extremely different from you."
"She is right, Steven." Peridot agreed. "Traitors we may be but it wasn't by choice."
"But you just said what might happen to you both. Don't you know it's wrong?" Steven asked, unable to understand their loyalty.
"And who are you to decide what is wrong?" Peridot asked, looking at him and then at the other Crystal Gems. "Who are any of you to decide what is wrong? You may think rebelling was the right thing to do but there are just as many Gems in the Empire who disagree with you on that."
"It was because Rose Quartz saw beauty in the life on this planet." Pearl narrowed her eyes.
"So you keep saying but she's not here to explain her actions herself." Connie retorted. "All you have is her example. She wanted this, she wanted that, she didn't want this or didn't want that. Did you really rebel because you actually wanted to or because she was the one doing it?"
That seemed to stop Pearl cold but before she could say anything Amethyst jumped in. "Yo, enough with this arguing. You guys keep fighting about who was right and who was wrong about a war that's been over for centuries. Sing a different tune already."
That seemed to stop the arguing for a bit, just as a strange sound was heard.
Steven looked up fearfully. "What's that sound?"
A red hand suddenly pushed against the cockpit glass, causing Steven to back away in shock. "A Gem mutant!"
"They must've buried some prototypes with the Cluster." Peridot realized.
More banging were heard outside the compartment.
"They're all over us! They're attacking the drill! What do we do?" Steven asked frantically.
Peridot pressed a button on the panel and a weaponized CCTV camera popped out from atop the cockpit, knocking a Gem mutant away. "Pearl didn't think it was necessary, but I never leave home without a blast cannon." She handed a video game controller to Steven.
Live footage of the Gem mutants was displayed on the panel as an aiming guide.
"All right! Something fun!" Amethyst cheered.
Steven began controlling the cannon with the controller, blasting away the Gem mutants off the drill. "Something doesn't feel right about this."
"Then use the D-pad." Peridot suggested.
"No, it's just... ngah. These things. We can't just leave their gems out there. They're going to form again later. If I could just bubble them, then, they'd be safe."
A Gem mutant arm, climbing atop the drill, loosens its grip and falls off into the magma.
"C'mon! We've gotta help them."
Peridot shook her head. "There is no helping them. They're too broken. The beings who used to be in those shards are so shattered, they don't know who they are, or what's happening around them. They just seek out other gems, looking for the missing pieces of themselves. Trying to make themselves whole."
A red Gem mutant hand tried to reach out to the camera, and Steven blasted it away.
"These early experiments only combine two or three shards. The cluster will be a billion times bigger. An inseparable fusion capable of destroying worlds, starting with this one."
The drill eventually hit a layer of dense rock and begins to shake.
"We're hitting some denser rock! This is it!" Peridot called out.
The drill pierced through the ceiling of a huge opening and stops. Peridot looked around the opening with mobile binoculars with a flashlight attached to it.
"Recovery depth achieved. Target found."
"Is that..." Steven trailed off, stunned beyond words.
"The Cluster." Peridot finished, her voice a mere whisper and almost barely heard.
Xxx
Preston shot a smirking at Nyx who sent him a dark look in response. "Well well so these are the pathetic riff raff you've managed to sucker into being your followers," His tone took a sarcastic mocking tone followed by laughter. "Congratulations you've managed to actually surprise me, because they're even more pathetic than I expected."
Preston's chuckles mockingly as Nyx and her group all glare and in certain cases growl or reach for their weapons. "And believe me my expectations of your perspective "recruits'" . Preston's tone took on a heavy sarcastic tone where you could practically feel the finger quotes. "Was already low to begin with."
Preston than gestured toward first Pericles perched on Nyx's shoulder. "After all your first two followers were a flying vermin who pretends to be a scientist, and the pathetic failure of a magical guardian who's nothing more than a weak willed child."
Preston laughed to himself. "Then again I suppose that's why you recruited her, since you've both got that in common. Acting all big but nothing but weak children in the end."
Nyx's eyes were now glowing fiercely purple with her hands clenched into fists and sparking with energy, and those gathered around her aren't any better with a number of them like Pericles and the Metallikats glaring at Preston with looks alone that could kill.
However before any of them any of them can speak or violence can start, the air is pierced by the voice of a new arrival.
"Enough!"
All those gathered stop and turn toward where the voice originates seeing a pair of demoniac yellow catlike flashing in the shadows that put some of those gathered on guard. The form that the eyes belonged to walked out of the shadows revealing a young blond haired girl and those gathered could tell she's dangerous.
The girl's eyes flash demonically one last time before they assume their human appearance, as the girl sighed while rubbing her head than glared and began to reprimand Preston in a reproachful tone. "Preston you're forgetting yourself that is no way to welcome our new allies into the fold."
Preston merely 'hmphed'. "Allies? Ha! As if this rabble that Klarion's brat has picked up could be considered equal to me, much less worthy of serving the Great One." He looked ready to go on an entire tirade but a look from Pacifica silenced him.
"Silence Preston! Nyx has been proving herself and then some, and after the disappointing performance of those Blind Eye suck ups." Here she glanced over at Bud Gleeful who nervously sweated, shifted, and pulled at the collar of his shirt. "My father not only needs new blood that can actually," She puts emphasis there. "Get the job done, but are worthier of serving out his will. So as to Nyx's recruits and new followers I for one have no problem in those she has gathered, if she sees potential in them than I do too. So keep whatever complaints you have about her or her chosen to yourself, am I understood?"
Pacifica's eyes turn Cipher as she gave Preston a powerful commanding look with that last order.
Before Preston who now carried a slightly nervous look could respond they hear the sounds of laughter coming from Nyx who was now smirking at Preston. "Thank you Pacifica, though there's no reason to speak up in my defense." She gestured toward those around all. "After all the results will more than speak for themselves I promise, besides there's no need to bother yourself with the petty jealousy of others."
Preston was steaming in response. "Jeal...JEALOUSY!?"
Nyx's smirk widened. "You heard me you stand there talking big and mocking me, but we both know that between the two of us who holds not only greater powers, but will also hold greater influence in coming new era. And that just drives you crazy doesn't it? The fact that Klarion's little brat of an apprentice, or as you put it the weak willed little girl you looked down upon and saw only as a tool, has risen so far above you. But will also continue to rise to greater heights of power that you can't even dream of, while you will remain nothing but the arrogant suck up lackey hungering for more."
Pacifica turned her attention too and began to address all those gathered in the room and gave a polite bow with her eyes turning Cipher as she raised her head and a mad smile formed on her face, over the course of her speech.
"Greetings one and all for those who don't know me, I am Pacifica Cipher daughter and herald of Bill Cipher, your new master and the entity that will bring about a era unlike any other in our reality! All of you have been gathered here because you have been deemed worthy enough of not only serving my father with the chance to help bring about this new era. But also enjoying and basking in all the power and prestige it will bring!"
Pacifica grinned at Nyx. "I must say I was surprised and very amused when I learned that you managed to open the Te Xuan Ze's eyes to the truth, and convert her loyalty." She giggled at the memory. "My father was still having a practical laughing fit along with Klarion when I found out; they were quite impressed at not just your accomplishment but the fact that she was smart enough to join the winning team."
"Trust me, it's only the beginning." Nyx said as she and Pacifica walked of through the hallway of the Northwest Mansion. "When I am good and ready, even Sammael himself will be trembling before me."
"Oh? And why is that?" Pacifica raised an eyebrow.
"Let's just say, I'll be helping Pericles dig up some old artifacts." Nyx said with a mysterious smile.
Xxx
Betty was holding the unknown device that carried a red emblem on its back that many across the world would recognize as the emblem of an infamous individual Omega Threat.
Betty sighed but put on a determined look. "I had hoped that wouldn't ever of had to use this, but I almost lost you once Hoagie and if things are really this dangerous than you're going to need more help than just mom."
As she stared at the device she can't help but think back to the day she received it, after her husband's funeral.
Xxx
Betty stared silently at the grave of her husband standing alone in the graveyard, all the funeral guests having left and having sent her mother home with her boys, while opting to stay behind for some time alone.
She just stood there staring at the grave as it hits her all over again that her husband truly is gone and isn't coming back, and to add insult to their loss there was barely anything left of her husband to bury because of that damn bombing!
Before she could start another round of tears and despair she stars sound of a voice one she recognized despite not having heard it for quite some time, since her wedding. After all the voice was her husband's best man, what better role for the grooms brother.
"It truly was a beautiful service."
Betty sighed. "Thank you that means a lot." She stared at the grave not turning to the voice just yet. "I had a feeling you two were hiding somewhere, but thank you I know it's risky for you two to be here, so thank you for coming. I know despite everything he would have wanted you to be here."
She turned around finding what she already expected in the familiar form of two individuals standing her, two people she recognized quite well as her husband's brother and the other their uncle. Though much to Betty's sadness many across the world would recognize and fear the latter, as he's one of the main reasons why her husband choose to take her family name when they married.
Xxx
"Tambry!"
Tambry paused her rant and turned around, seeing Hoagie at the door with Sky hiding behind him. "…Who are you?"
"Hoagie?" Dipper and Mabel gaped.
"Hoagie?" Tambry narrowed her eyes. "So you're him…"
"Don't blame them for not knowing in time. We all know the person you are really angry with…" Hoagie started, facing his love's older sister. "Is me."
Tambry was silent as she looked at the man and then noticed the girl behind him.
Her face…
It looked just like…
Nyx.
The same scared face her baby sister made she was little.
On this girl's face.
"Tambry, please. Look, we all are worried about Nyx and we want to find her and save her." Hoagie started, taking a step forward. "They're the ones you should be angry with."
"Oh and who should I be angry with?" Tambry took a step forward as well. "The so-called mad cult that erases memories? The one eyed demon haunting this town? Or maybe…" She looked up and glared him in the eye. "It should be you like you said. Since you knocked up my sister in some alternate universe and had the nerve to come back without her!"
"Tam-"
"Save it!" Tambry shoved past Hoagie and marched out the door. "I don't want to see any of you!"
SLAM!
Everyone just stared at the now broken door.
"So…does this mean we get the day off?" Soos asked.
Xxx
After White Tiger and his friends left, Ajax continued sipping his banana smoothie. In the years that had gone by since he had left the Satyra and Team Chimera Ajax had developed an eating disorder in an attempt to forget about everything. Yeah, it led to him gaining a few…dozen pounds but everyone coped in their own way.
Why should he go back into the game?
He never liked Bagheera or White Tiger anyway.
The door opened as Ajax put the smoothie down. "We're closed! Get lost!"
"Put a little weight since last time, Ajax?"
The gorilla Faunus froze and slowly turned around, seeing tall blond haired Faunus walk and approach the boxing ring. "…P-Pardus."
Pardus jumped up and landed in the ring, grinning at the now shaking Ajax. "I see Dwayne's been letting you work out here to try and stay in shape…Maybe I can help." From his wrists came the signature red retractable blades of his weapon. "Just a few rounds, pal. I promise I'll cut some of the fat off."
Xxx
"So is this the place?"
Dwayne looked at a note with the address written on it. "Yup, this is the place."
"So... Umm... What exactly did this individual do again?" Artemis asked.
"*Sigh*... Well Ajax told me that Zimos illegally trafficked Dust, weapons, drugs, racketeering, theft, and... being a pimp- Okay let's go." White Tiger said as the group walked forward again.
In front of the slaughterhouses old doors behind the primary large metal fence around the building, was two Satyra guards. As the two were sitting on boxes with their Grimm masks on, looking out for any trouble makers. But as the two continued their conversation, the two heard the metal fence door in front of them open. They looked forward as the fence door opened up as Superboy walked in with his hands up and a big smile on his face. The two Satyra guard raised their weapons as they aimed them at the Human/Kryptonian hybrid.
"Hey! You! Stop or we'll shoot!" Yelled the first guard.
"On the ground now with your hands behind your back!" Yelled the second guard as Superboy kept walking forward with a big smile on his face.
"Stop or we WILL SHOOT!" Yelled the first guard, as Superboy finally stopped walking and only stood a few feet away from the antler Faunus and the bird Faunus with blue bird wings on his back.
"Go ahead and try. I'll give you the first thirty shots." Superboy dared them.
The two guards were unamused as they kept their guns trained on Superboy. But before either of the two could've responded, a green blur fell from the sky above the two and knocked down the antler Faunus. As the guard looked down he saw it was an arrow with a green boxing glove that knocked out his partner. Before he could've fired Superboy rushed up him and hit him in the head, knocking him out as well.
"That takes care of the guards." Superboy said as Dwayne, Kazemon, Lowemon, Artemis and White Tiger walked in from the gate as they all assembled and stood in front of the door.
"Is it safe to go in?" Kazemon asked.
"Oh no way." White Tiger as his ears moved around, detecting the sound waves from what's behind the door. "About twenty guards... *Sniff* *Sniff*... And they already have their weapons ready for us."
"Very well then, I suppose we will just greet them the old fashion way." Superboy as he cracked his knuckles.
On the inside of the slaughter house, about twenty Satyra guards had their weapons drawn as they had them pointed at the door in front of them. Each one of them had their fingers hovering over the triggers, ready for whatever or whoever made their way through that door. A few more moments of nothingness happened... As the guards glanced at once another. Thinking that whoever or whatever knocked the front guards out, might've left.
But as the Satyra soldiers still had this train of thought. It was lost as the door burst open with the two doors flying to the sides as the guards ducked and covered, and shielded their eyes.
CRASH!
But as all the Satyra soldiers looked back up, they saw a young man walk forward, wearing a simple black shirt with a red 'S' and black hair. He flashed an innocent smile at all the Satyra members, as the members stood back up with their weapons drawn and aimed at him.
"FIRE! FIRE!" Yelled one of the soldiers as each one of them began to fire one the girl.
However instead of the bullets ripping through him, bullets actually bounced off his skin. Yet, this didn't stop the soldiers from firing, as they just kept firing.
Superboy simply walked forward through the hail of bullets unharmed. "Oh, is it my turn?"
He shot forward and started knocking Satyra members back and all around the room, causing them to hit the walls, smash through walls, smash through boxes, and smash through pieces of slaughterhouse machinery.
But the Satyra soldiers were determined as they still fired at him, of course, to no use. After nineteen of the guards were beat up and knocked down and out, Superboy looked around with a satisfied nod. But apparently didn't notice one Satyra member stood up and raised the butt of his gun to knock Superboy on the head, but was instantly stopped as there was a banging sound, causing Superboy to turn around to see the Satyra member, with a frozen goofy expression on his face from the blow as he fell forward, revealing Artemis standing there with her bow in its staff form and a smile on her face.
"Good work, Artemis." Superboy said as Artemis laid the pole on one of his shoulders and made a heroic pose.
"Nothin' much." She said as White Tiger walked past her.
"Quit screwing around." Dwayne and Lowemon followed White Tiger as Kazemon stopped and looked at Artemis.
"Oh, and Artemis... I believe Superboy should be the one making the heroic pose here." Kazemon as she followed the others.
"Hey! I still knocked out a goon!" Artemis jokingly protested.
"Yes, one out of twenty." Superboy snickered a bit, making Artemis roll her eyes.
As the group kept walking, they eventually entered a baron meat locker room with many of the frozen cow torsos that usually hang by the hooks, all taken down.
Except for one guy who was hanging by one of the hooks by his legs.
The man was a dark skinned zebra Faunus with black and white stripped hair, black sunglasses, and had zebra ears. He had a short mustache on his face, and was down to his underwear with a piece of duct tape over his mouth.
"MMMHHHH! MMMUMMMMM! MUUUUUMMMMMHHHH! MUMUM! MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!" The Faunus muffled through the duct tape as he thrashed around as everyone blocked their eyes from the Faunus' mostly naked body.
"Zimos Equus?" Asked White Tiger still avoiding his eyes away from Zimos as the man thrashed around.
"MMMMMNNNNNNN! MMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNNN! MMMMMMMHHHHHHHHHHHHH! NNNNNNNMMMMMMMM!" Zimos muffled as he still thrashed around angrily.
"Okay, look... do you have any clothes they took from you?" Lowemon asked as Zimos gestured his head to a suit case in the corner of the room.
"Dwayne, get the suitcase." Said White Tiger as Dwayne walked over to the suit case as Lowemon walked up to the man and ripped the duct tape off his face.
"Ugh! Finally I can speak!" Zimos yelled as he looked at his rescuers. "And YES! I am freaking Zimos!"
"Wow, what did you do to make the Satyra so mad at you?" Superboy asked.
"Nothin'!" Yelled Zimos as Lowemon and Kazemon crossed their arms and waited for Zimos to tell the truth. "Okay! I sold weapons to the Satyra! But they got angry when I demanded more Technos! And I... Might've groped their boss last time I saw her."
Kazemon threw her hands up in a gesture of disbelief as Lowemon pinched the bridge of his nose and shook his head.
"Now can ya'll kindly LET ME DOWN!?" Yelled Zimos as he still thrashed around while Superboy looked at Artemis.
"Guess we should." Artemis nodded and fired one of her arrows, quickly slashing through the chains around Zimos' hands and feet as he fell from the chain and hit the floor.
Zimos stood back up as the open suitcase was thrown at him, leaving his clothes draped all over him. Zimos put on his tight pants as he looked up at White Tiger.
"So... Why exactly did ya'll save me? This ain't an elaborate setup for a gang bang, right?" Asked Zimos as White Tiger glared at him while Zimos glanced at Artemis and Superboy.
"At least ya'll got the strippers!" Zimos then glanced at Kazemon and Lowemon. "Wahoo! Ya'll even got the little fairy and an archer girl... Now you KNOW the fairies are always into nasty stuff!"
Kazemon looked absolutely horrified as she stepped behind Lowemon and instinctively blurted. "I have a boyfriend!"
"Oh... I'm cool with that." Zimos simple said.
"... Shut up before I kill you by buttoning the top of those pants." Threatened White Tiger as Zimos looked down at his extremely tight pants.
"Alright, so why'd ya'll save me then?" Zimos asked as he continued to dress.
"Look... I'm White Tiger. This is Dwayne Procyon, Artemis, Superboy, Lowemon and Kazemon. A former member of the Satyra is on the loose and we were told you could help us find him. I know you want revenge, so can you use your power and influence to provide us with information?" White Tiger asked.
Zimos chuckled. "Hah! Dude, I get tied up and gagged every Friday night."
Zimos finished putting on his purple hat, black coat with white and black stripes, and a purple button up shirt underneath it.
"This guy is probably going to kill a great many people, will you help us?" Dwayne asked in a serious tone of voice.
"Alright! Chill! I'll help ya'll... I'll tell my gang the Zebras to listen in to any valuable Satyra activity, we will provide you with state-of-the-art weapons... And I will provide ya'll with the Zebra's man power and full support." Said Zimos.
"Okay, thank you. You will save countless lives." White Tiger said, glad to be getting help.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever! You can pay me back by leading me out of this damn slaughterhouse." Replied Zimos.
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"Well, that was a bit of let down." Artemis said once they parted ways with Zimo. "Letting a criminal walk away."
"For the time being." White Tiger replied as they made their way back to Dwayne' boxing gym. "We just need to know what he hears about Pardus and the Satyra."
"About that…" Superboy stopped and pointed forward. "Would it be something like that?"
The group looked forward and spotted police cars and an ambulance parked right in front of Dwyane's gym, alarming both him and White Tiger.
"No…No, no, no!" Dwayne shouted as he ran forward.
"Dwayne!"
He didn't stop as police tried to hold him back, using his Semblance to phase through their bodies and rushed into the gym, hoping desperately to find his friend.
Only did he find him he wished he hadn't.
"Ajax…" Dwayne whispered in absolute grief, seeing the bloody mess in the center of the boxing ring.
White Tiger rushed in, followed by the others and all of them froze and paled at the sight of the body. Near the body, there was a message on the floor written in blood.
COME BY THE OLD ZOO AND WE CAN HAVE A DRINK
White Tiger snarled at the message. "…PARDUS!"
He turned and rushed out the door, ignoring the cries of his teammates telling him to stop.
"Where's he going?" Lowemon spun and looked at Dwayne who stood up from kneeling next to the body of Ajax. "Dwayne?"
"The Zoo is the name of a bar Team Chimera used to hang out at when we had some down time." Dwayne answered, clenching his fists. "He wants to get together like the old days."
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"You really know how to get into people's heads, don't you? Well, I hate to break it to you, but I'm not about to let you into my head again!"
Sammael chuckled as he watched the fight between Dracon and his Terra-Claw. The great Dragon of Denver may not want to admit but he already had someone else in his head and it wasn't Sammael.
'As long as your hate and anger towards the major for his perceived abandonment remains, he'll always be in your head.' The Fallen thought, watching the battle.
"Hope you like fighting blind!"
The Dragon of Denver was skilled and he showed as he fought against the Terra-Claw, even managing to blind the Seer that prevented Sammael from seeing most of the battle.
A minor inconvenience.
Besides Dracon seemed to have forgotten that Grimm could sense negative emotions.
And right now, the Gundam was leaking out negativity that was impossible to be hidden.
'A Terra-Claw is augmented by the power of almost every form of Dust in existence.' Sammael thought as the image returned and he watched his Terra-Claw catch Dracon's Hyper Beam Sword in its bare hand. 'The reason why is simple…They were made to kill heroes as powerful as the Justice Friends…Even Major Glory.'
Sammael's smirk widened as Dracon let out a scream as the Terra-Claw electrocuted him. The Dragon of Denver was powerful but the Terra-Claw was adapting to his strategies, anticipating his moves and even managed to surprise him by separating its body into two when Dracon tried stabbing it with his tonfa.
Dracon was experienced and skilled and his body made him a walking armory.
But even he was not prepared for the kind of Grimm created to kill beings and heroes as powerful as Major Glory and the other Justice Friends.
SLASH!
"GAAH!"
Sammael changed the image from the fight with Dracon to other fight against the Grimm Slayer, Omnimon and smirked. "A valiant effort…"
Xxx
"But in vain."
Omnimon had no idea how it happened.
Just when he swung sword, it suddenly shattered and his Aura was broken by an invisible attack that left a deep scar in his armor.
"By now you realized that a Terra-Claw is gifted with the many useful powers supplied by Dust but thanks to a little experimentation it can do so much more."
Omnimon glanced up, recognizing that voice. "…Sammael."
"One useful ability is to combine Wind and Fire Dust, heating the air used in the wind attack to the point the air is ionized, thus creating plasma to counter your ice based attacks."
Xxx
Sammael chuckled. "The other one is the ability to absorb all air around its hands or even absorbing the air in an imaginary blade as you swing, causing a destructive implosion and creating a vacuum. I call this technique 'Secret Sword'."
Xxx
'A vacuum? That explains it! It absorbed the air as it swung at my sword to create a vacuum and released the air into a single slash that cut through my sword and Aura!' Omnimon realized as he fell on his knees. 'I've never seen anyone here utilize Wind Dust in such a manner.'
Xxx
Sammael was grinning now as he saw the Dragon of Denver pinned to the ground by a gravity field, broken and heavily damaged and the Grimm Slayer injured from a single slash. Both were highly skilled and dangerous opponents that he knew he would have to contend with sooner or later.
But still, he was slightly disappointed to see they were defeated by just one Terra-Claw. "I suppose it can't be helped when you come prepared."
Sammael then gave the order to finish them and watched as both prepared to deliver the final blow.
Only for something to happen.
Both Terra-Claws quickly dodged strikes from unexpected opponents who had appeared just in the nick of time to save them.
Major Glory stood between Dracon and his would be killer.
And Big Ben managed to pull Omnimon out of the way before his Terra-Claw could finish him off.
The big heroes of London and America coming to the rescue at the last second.
Sammael's grin widened slightly. "Now things are getting interesting…"