Amvmaster: Another short but hey at least I kinda keep my promise in posting… Did I make a promise? Who cares, let's get on with the chapter Jericho!
Jericho:Dumbass meets weapon manic in their natural habitat, and has a bitch fit
Chapter 2
You know I haven't been on a nature walk for a long time, so this was rather refreshing or it fucking would be if I wasn't wrestling a damn werewolf looking mofo that was trying bite my head off.
Asshole had the damn gull to ambush me, swipe my rifle outta my hand and was mounting me like… I am not going to finish the line of thought.
"Ruby, where are you!?" I called out as I had my arm in its mouth acting as a chew toy. "Ruby? Ruby!?" I called out another two times before letting out an annoyed growl and reached up and wrapped my free arm around its head and with a quick tug a loud snap of the neck I quickly pushed the dead monster off me.
Stepping back my eyes narrowed as I quickly counted the rest of the werewolves that were left over and found it to be rather… disappointing.
"Six, fuck me I've been killing robots that are more annoying that you shit heads." I expressed reaching over my shoulder and grabbing my binary sword's hilt.
Pulling the long sword off my back I rolled my neck and let out an audible sigh before pulling my bandana over my nose, and readied myself by pointing my sword at the closest charging werewolf that leapt up into the air.
Its jaw wide open ready to bite into my flesh and its claws held in front to dig into my flesh but was quickly met by the swipe of my sword quickly bisecting it's head from its body causing the rest of it to collapse onto the ground in a near ragdoll effect.
Seeing the next coming to me instead of waiting for it I threw myself right into the the path of the werewolf and quickly jumped up and chucked both my legs up drop kicking the thing in it's body sending the both of us in opposite directions with the werewolf shooting right through the otherside of the clearing while I quickly flipped back over onto my feet and skidded against the ground until I came to a stop right next to my rifle I had dropped beforehand.
Because of the ambush I had unexpectedly been a part of I had lost my rifle but now that I had it right in front of me I quickly stabbed my sword into the ground, picked up my rifle and with less than three seconds later I quickly sighted my rifle on the closest werewolf and fired.
a single pull was all I need as a single shot of non-existence exploded out of my rifle, the suppressor doing it's job and the ammo doing twice the needed work as it hit one in the chest and the explosive caused it's body to topple over with a good sized chunk of blacken flesh flying all over the place.
Sighting the next werewolf I continued to single fire mow down these things, that is if you counted mowing down the last three werewolves to non existence.
When all was said and done I slowly stood back up, my eyes darted around the place as I tried to find anything that could clue me in on the teenager that had up and left me to deal with these… whatever the hell these things were.
BANG!
Hearing the crack my body turned, gun raised as I saw another werewolf had managed to sneak behind me but instead of pulling the trigger like I usual did when I was flanked a familiar tone of a red blur shot right passed the thing and seemingly stopped to reveal Ruby in a crouched position, in her hands held a rather large and in charge red Scythe that made me step back as it's length had my immediate attention.
But just as I was distracted by Ruby I watched as the werewolf that flanked me dropped to the ground, their body bisected in two pieces. Jesus, that thing had to be on some level of sharpness to do this.
Then again my Binary blade wasn't something to scoff at either but damn this surprised me.
"Heeeeey, uh sorry for leaving you there, I figured you'd want to take the front and all." Ruby said as she had quickly turned from something of a rather stoic figure to that of an embarrassed teenager.
Pulling my free hand up I just started to rub my temples to stave off the future brain ache I was going to be feeling in the next minute.
"Uh Jackson?" I could just hear the sweet worry from the girl as I stopped my massaging and addressed the girl in front of me, she had the gall to even look embarrassed as she hugged her scythe closer to herself as a way of anchoring herself down, something I was guilty of doing as well from time to time but now was not the time for reminiscing.
"So you had a scythe and you decided to show me this now?" I asked, well it probably came off as sarcastic but either or it seemed to do the job as Ruby continued to look more guilty by the second.
"I'm sorry, I should've told you and-"
"And you should've communicated with me." I quickly jumped in, my tone was filled with disappointment as I tried to give my best impression of a disappointed dad/brother/Person-in-Charge(you try being in charge of a Mercenary company and not act like a disappointed commander when one of your own does something stupid).
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be," I quickly exclaimed, extracting my sword out of the ground and quickly putting it back on my back. "Be better, if you're going to be my… partner, you're gonna make mistakes I get that just do better."
I tried to channel my own inner Kratos as Ruby looked at me with wide eyes and quickly shifted her expression from one of sad guilt to one of determination.
"Right, well we better go before another pack of Beowolves comes to us, uh no offence but I don't think either of us were being too quiet not to be heard from everyone in the forest." Ruby said, her scythe quickly shifting to form a large rectangle box that she quickly slipped onto the back of her waist.
"Lead the way." I said with a nod double checking my Rifle's magazine to see if I needed to either switch the magazine for a fuller mag or if I needed to be prepared to swap for another on the fly.
"Right." Ruby said as the two of us quietly marched through the forest, my knowledge of those Beowolves fresh on my mind as I had watched them slowly disintegrate into black smoke, another pain flashed through my head but I quickly pushed through the pain as I slid my mag back into my rifle with a satisfying click that indicated that it wasn't going anywhere.
"You were pretty good out there, I nearly thought I didn't need to jump in." Ruby spoke up as I shook my head.
"Too soon Ruby a little too soon." I said, shaking my head, this girl is worse than me when it comes to awkward silence.
We continued walking in silence, through brush the two of us continued our trek.
Little was said between us but I never really cared to think about it seeing as my attention focused on the forest as it now held monsters, it would be rather surreal if not for my previous or I guess my current occupations profile.
Zed's were a dime in a dozen in the outlands so wolves were not something that had me too worried, but it didn't mean I wasn't cautious, Abominations weren't something I worried about but their speed had me on the ropes many times.
double checking my guns now became a regular occurance as we walked, something that seemed to catch my partner's attention.
"Why are you constantly checking your weapon?" Ruby asked, her eyes looking back every now and again towards me and then my gun.
"Nervous tick." I exclaimed, the excuse was quick and should more than explain it.
"Well can you stop, who knows what you're doing to his internals." His?
"You know… you did the same with my pistol." I pointed out watching how Ruby seemed to frown at me.
"What?"
"You, giving genders to my guns, I mean I get it, give your guns personality and all but why are you doing it?" I asked.
"W-well I don't do it to just guns I do it to all weapons and it isn't weird my sister called Ember Celica her girls and I called Cresent Rose my Baby cause your weapons aren't just your weapons, they are extension of yourself it's not like a third arm but like an additional part of your soul, it's like the small mission piece to make you whole." Ruby's voice grew in volume as she seemingly was impassioned by her own words. "So yeah I gave your weapons 'genders' because they are a part of you and if you can't see that then you don't deserve them, in fact you shouldn't have them in general!"
Oh boy, I set her off by accident.
"She's dying for a cleaning as she is absolutely filthy it's frankly amazing how she hasn't discharged by accident or fallen apart and with how you brutally smack your magazine against him is frankly scary and he looks to also be in the same state as her and don't get me started on your sword, who in the everloving fluffer knuckle just allows their sword to be chipped and not fix it!?"
While Ruby continued her tirade my attention was quickly pulled away as I heard something shake in the air, the trees seemingly were pushed around as my eyes turned upwards and widened in horror.
"And another thing-!"
"DOWN!" I cried out lunging forwards as I pushed Ruby down before I felt giant talons quickly grab me around my chest. "Shit!" Force behind the large talons forced me to the ground and with it my grip of my rifle.
Trying to reach down to grab it I was instead met with my body being pulled away just before I could grab my rifle.
"Jackson!" Hearing Ruby's cry I watched her quickly grab my rifle and with a burst of blurring red shot through the air and I saw her quickly grab onto the leg of the giant black raven as it had quickly taken off back into the air.
"Ruby what the fuck is this thing!?" I roared over the air as I quickly adjusted my hat so it didn't fall off my head because of my impromptu flight.
"It's a Nevermore! A big one too!" Ruby cried out as I felt the things feet slowly start crushing me. "I didn't think there would be any in the Emerald Forest!"
Not wanting to touch that new subject I quickly started to use my arms to pry this thing's foot off, but unfortunately for the first time I could feel my cybernetics actually struggle against this bird's grip.
So instead I quickly changed tactics from pushing myself free I latched onto the thing's feet, as my fingers grabbed onto it's scaly flesh.
Fine if you weren't going let me go then let me return the fucking favour.
the things skin immediately was ripped under my gloved finger tips, pain I had caused it quickly gave me freedom and instead of dropping from probably a thousand feet into the forest I quickly grabbed it's feet and with a mighty pull I climbed myself up it's leg it's feathers thankfully strong enough to hold my weight as I found myself hanging on right next to Ruby.
"Now what!?" I called out.
"I dunno but I think I can see the temple we're supposed to go to!" I just barely heard Ruby yell, turning my head down.
I too found the supposed temple she had seen, wait why the hell does she need to know where a temple is?
"Jump!" Just before I could ask, Ruby yelled out and pushed off the giant bird and began freefalling through the air.
"Wait… what!?" I yelled out my eyes bugged out of my eye sockets while my sunglasses drooped down.
Looking down I watched with bated breath as the younger teen fell right through the air and in panic I nearly pushed off to chase after her but instead just as she was getting closer to the ground a black and small yellow object crashed right into her.
"What the… FUCK IS GOING ON HERE!?" I finally roared out pushing my sunglasses upwards as I was actually reaching my limit.
CAW!
Hearing the Raven finally cry out I decided that enough was enough, grabbing onto their feathers I proceeded to pull myself up the bird's body my aim was to it's back and neck, it banked around from left to right forcing my climbing to pause as I saw it's head move around showing it's double set eyes, but instead of looking at me I could see it's attention was pulled downwards.
Following their eyes I saw they had quickly focused a slow growing group of people, uncertainty washed over my face as I was unsure if they too were teenagers like Ruby but the assumption was quick as I felt my eyes widen as I saw a giant scorpion exploded right into the clearing below.
"Oh come on, what next a fucking Ratholos comes flying in or no maybe a fucking T-rex." I muttered under my breath as I saw a familiar spec of red travel along the ground towards. "OH HELL NO!"
seeing where Ruby was going my body moved pulling my legs up and I kicked off the bird full force.
CAW!
"fuck you too tweedie bird!" I yelled back as I dropped right through the air, arms against my body while my legs held together as I fell to ground at 'Literal' neck breaking speed.
My destination was the ground as I tried to aim for the scorpion but it was clear I wasn't going to make it.
Quick thinking had been something I learned as I reached into my leg holster and pulled my pistol out, kicking my legs forwards I pulled shoulders backwards and flipped backwards, mid flip I quickly grabbed my pistol's slide and pulled it back loading a fresh one in the chamber as I fired in the direction of the giant scorpion.
Seven pulls of the trigger and seven bullets shot through the air and smacked against the insectoid's exoskeleton as they seemingly did nothing to it.
Gritting my teeth I chose to ignore this new problem and instead focus on my imminent fall.
"Shiiiiit!" I cried out as I readied myself for either a world of new pain or probably my death, here's to hoping it's a quick one!
"Jackson!"
"Wha-whoa!" Quickly as I heard my name I suddenly felt my body tackle through the air, confusion quickly settled as my entire being quickly turned into an absolute blur before I felt my back come crashing down against the ground as I rolled for a good while or so.
My arms immediately instinctively wrapped around what I recognized was another person but instead of focusing on what I was holding my mind was pulled to the pain in my shoulders and back.
When it finally came to an end though, the rolling I mean my eyes stared up to the sky as the blurred vision cleared up but by the pain I was feeling had me staying in place.
"Urgh, should've asked for the Doc to shut off my pain receptors." I mumbled as the pain I felt in my body was for real but I could at the very least say for certain that my nanobots were at the very least doing their civic duty of fixing me up but in the most pain-filled way possible.
Crack!
Bone! that was absolutely a-
Crack!
Ah! another one, oh god this is not going to-
CRACK!
"ARGH!" Ok that one made me make a noise, fuck I really should've of damn well told Doc to shut my damn pain receptor's!
"C-can you let go now!" Hearing a new voice my head turned down as I saw myself holding onto… ew gross a dude.
I grit my teeth in new pain as I let go and pushed this person off me, something the guy seemed thankful for or I think he was, the new pain had me laying my head back down against the ground.
Hold on… where the fuck was I again?
Clang!
Hearing the sound of metal meeting something I pulled my up, tilting it just enough for my eyes catch a familiar red themed teen in the distance, while a large Scorpion bashed their claws towards her.
"Oh yeah that's where I was." I spoke under my breath dropping my head back down, with newfound determination my teeth clenched against each other as I pushed myself onto my side, damn nanobots, could you be any faster?
huffing and puffing I slowly climbed onto my hands and knees before I felt a pair of hands on me.
"Whoa hey, here let me help-"
CLANG!
Head snapped in the direction towards Ruby as I saw her standing there with what I think was a look of disbelief, why disbelief? Trailing further along had answered that question as a familiar scythe laid on the ground a good thirty or so meters away.
"Ruby, get out of there!" Hearing another cry from behind me I watched as my… partner was forced to flee, meanwhile I was lying here on the ground.
CAW!
Looking up at the sky my eye's near bulge as the bir-Nevermore came flying back and with a giant flap of their wings I watched in horror as it launch it's own feathers off their wings and like a hail of javelins they impaled the ground it one of them unfortunately hit Ruby's Cloak.
My eyes went back to the scorpion and I saw it moving to Ruby, oh hell no!
Pushing whoever was pulling me off I pushed myself onto my feet and quickly pulled my hat and bandana off, my sunglasses had already been thrown off but I took no care of it as I reached over my shoulder and pulled out my Binary sword.
Getting onto my feet I glared right at the scorpion.
"HEY!" I roared at the top of my lungs the scorpion seemingly paused as it's body turned to face. "YEAH YOU DISCOUNT FUCKING SPIDER CUNT"
"COME GET SOME!" I continued flipping my sword around in my hand. I raised my sword and with a mighty heave I threw it full force like a spear and like I hoped it sailed true as the blade stabbed into the giant insect's body.
Trailing off I slowly started to pull my things off, starting with my bag that uselessly dropped to the ground with an audible thump, pulling my vest off I took a second to drop it alongside my coat.
"COME ON THEN WHAT'S TAKING YOU SO LONG!" I called out to the Scorpion as my right hand went to my left arm as I quickly pulled a part backwards revealing a tiny compartment.
Inside sat five small red syringes the size of my palm.
Grabbing one I took a second before stabbing the needle right into my neck and injected the contents into my bloodstream, closing the compartment I watched as the Scorpion scuttled towards me while the contents of the syringe did their job.
"What's this compartment for?" I heard my voice echo as I felt my breath quicken.
"It's for these unique supplements, think of them as boosters of sorts but instead of boosting one's own immune system these boost your Nanobots efficiency." Doc explained.
My vision started to get fuzzy but also cleared up
"The hell does that mean?"
I could feel my pain wash away as my body felt warm
"Just think of it as a last resort, with this your nanobots will increase your healing factor threefold."
Screw warm, it felt hot.
"Damn that's cool… what else will it do?"
I was boiling at this point and I could feel my back was on fire.
"Well it's a last resort so if needed you could either overload your cybernetics and go into overclock mode which will turn your already insane strength and speed godly."
It wasn't just my back either I could feel in my arms.
"Cooooool but overclocking also means overheating though"
Hell, my legs weren't saved from this heat either.
"Indeed, that's why it's a last resort because it could cause a mild case of immediate death."
Suddenly the heat seemed to die down but just a smidge and I let out a chuckle.
"Oof that sucks-But damn is it worth it." I exclaimed with a wild grin on my face.
BRRRRAAAAAW!
Hearing the Scorpion give out it's own battle cry I couldn't help but wonder to myself
CRUNCH!
Who was going to die first?
Chapter 2 end