Nexus HWR 9.1 Scarab:
"How far out are we Gray?" Natsu asked the black haired wizard walking a few paces in front of him.
The ice mage looked back at his pink haired friend and then glanced left and right across the field of red grass. This was a nice change of scenery after the tar pits, lava fields, and canyons they had to travel through over the past week. "I don't know," Gray finally replied, turning back around and looking off towards a cluster of tall hills up ahead of them. The hills looked red until they got a little farther back where they grew taller, and blacker. "You don't understand how big Aebrith is," the mage continued as he started walking forward again. "If what Meliodas said was true, and my friends have lost over three quarters of our territory since the last time I was here, there would still be hundreds of miles worth of terrain to cover. Maybe thousands."
"Uggghh," Natsu groaned, but the Fire Dragon Slayer kept walking, not going to complain for too long as long as Gray wasn't either. He looked over his shoulder with a pouty expression, "Come on Juv-" the pink haired man stopped and sighed at the sight of the blue haired woman walking forward in a blue rain coat because a storm cloud was above her head raining down buckets.
Natsu opened his mouth to say something, but he was actually getting thirsty out here in the suns, so he walked over instead and just stuck his tongue out under Juvia's rain cloud.
Ben walked over as well from where he was walking in the back. He lifted up his canteen and let it fill up all the way to the top before drinking some. "What's, glug glug, wrong Juvia?" Ben asked, chugging some of his water as he did and then refilling right away before closing the cap.
"Sn sn," Juvia sniffled. "Juvia misses Nami-san," she whispered. "And Sanji-san, and Franky-san, and Luf-"
"Lalalala!" Natsu covered his ears, making the other two look at him. "I don't want to hear that bastard's name." Natsu started storming off ahead after Gray who had a twenty yard lead on the three of them. He mumbled under his breath the whole time he stormed off, "Damn pirate thinks he's so cool. Leaving randomly like that. I would do something like that too, but only after my friends were okay first. That rubber bastard's probably already gotten eaten by some giant monster without us there," he started chuckling and grinned his sharp teeth evilly. "That's right, without us there he'd be toast. Guess it's just too bad," the young man shrugged to himself and then oofed as he slammed right into Gray's back.
"Watch where you're walking," Gray growled behind him. Natsu opened his mouth to growl back, but Gray lifted up a finger to him to shh, and then looked back at the rest of the group and made the same motion.
A girl with dark red hair walking forward with her sweatshirt tied around her waist, and a pink tank-top on, stopped where she was on the right side of the group. Kairi stood still and stared ahead at Gray who was looking forward at the upcoming red hills carefully. "Hmm," Kairi hummed to herself, then started bouncing from foot to foot with a smile on her face.
Dash was in the back of their group and the little blond boy was feeling as down as Juvia, only he didn't have a raincloud to cover him and show it. He was standing a few feet behind and to the right of Kirito, their last and most quiet member. The kid heard a low humming a little further to his right and looked over to see Kairi nodding her head back and forth to a tune.
He raced over and was next to her in a second. "Are you happy?" the boy asked, somewhat annoyed, though also really curious as to how she could be at a time like this. There was no reason to mention why he was even asking the question, or to explain all the reasons why she shouldn't be happy right now. They were all pretty obvious.
"Mmm? Mm," Kairi hummed and shrugged her shoulders, though she did smile as she made the noises. She lifted up her left hand a little and looked at the beautiful diamond ring on one of her fingers. Just like you left me this, I know you still have my good luck charm Sora. It will help you find me again.
"But," Dash mumbled, "but everyone's gone." The kid thought he was speaking pretty quietly, but the black haired eighteen year old to his left and the blue haired Rain Woman in front of him both heard him as well. "I thought, well, I mean Ben's here with me, and the wizards have each other. I thought, you would probably have it worst off, you know, 'cause your friends aren't here."
Kairi lost her smile and gained a confused look on her face, tilting her head at Dash. Kirito and Juvia each looked over and saw her confused reaction, which only confused them more as they had been thinking the same thing as Dash. Why did Kairi look so, content? "What do you mean?" Kairi asked. "My friends are all around me," she leaned down to the short boy and poked him in the nose, "even right here."
Dash couldn't help it and a smile came to the kid's face, but he quickly wiped it away with a blurry quick shake of his head. He couldn't shake away the red tint to his face though and just turned away crossing his arms in his blue t-shirt. Juvia smiled at Kairi's answer and the dark cloud above her faded away.
Kirito grunted at the girl's response and then kept walking forward to where Natsu and Gray were standing still. 'All around me?' Haha, actually thought she was going to go on one of those friends are in your heart speeches. I kind of liked her answer better though... friends. He glanced back at her, and saw she was smiling up towards him, making him smile too.
"Crap," Gray whispered, and Kirito was close enough to hear it, making him spin back and see the ice mage and fire mage muttering to each other quietly. The teenager walked over to the two older, but shorter men who continued muttering.
"We could take it," Natsu said, punching his fists together. "I'm not afraid."
"Don't say that," Gray growled. "We have Blockers on. If we can hide, we should. Neither Goku nor Timmy would be able to sense it if we were dying."
"You think they're going to kill us?" Natsu asked with a scoff. "Where's your faith? Coward."
The ice mage ground his teeth but ignored his comrade from Fairy Tail. "I only caught a glimpse of it over the hills," Gray muttered, looking away from Natsu and to the teen he felt approach. Kirito looked around at the hills and tried to catch a glimpse of it as well while Gray continued talking, speaking loud enough for the others behind to hear without them moving up. "Looked like a Scarab. Chances are it's not one of ours, I doubt any of ours remain up here, and if they did they would not stray far from a base."
"Scarab?" Kirito whispered, and then he saw a piece of it. It bounced in the distance, as if it was taking a step. A large purple head, though the head looked like it was made of metal, like a piece of a ship.
"Covenant tech," Gray explained, "like those aliens in Metropolis. Pretty sure the original owners of the tech here were killed a long time ago though. I never saw any of those aliens from Metropolis back when I was first on Aebrith, so they were most likely wiped out."
"Ha, you were just talking about how big the continent is, and now you're saying things like if you haven't seen them then they're probably wiped out?" Natsu asked, making fun of the holes in his friend's story.
Gray frowned deeply, "I just automatically assume most people here have been wiped out." Natsu stopped laughing at that and followed Gray's gaze into the distance, where a large thick metal leg a hundred feet tall stepped up on top of a hill. Gray muttered loud enough for his group to hear, "Get down," and crouched low. Natsu frowned that his teammate was telling him what to do, but he finally followed the rest of their examples and crouched down.
They all watched as the metal leg unbent and another leg stepped up on the side of the hill, before two more behind it moved up as well. Then the first two legs were able to move again, and the Scarab Tank looked to be moving in a straight line. Gray sighed in relief seeing its path would take it at least two miles to the east of them before it would cross from the hills into the flatter area covered in red grass. "I think we're good," Gray whispered, standing up a little as the large metal head on the top of the tank was pointed directly towards the east, not the southeast where they were heading. Inland and south, that's all Gray told them, but they were as good of directions as any on this barren landscape.
Ben Tennyson un-crouched, and as he stood up fully he stared out at the Scarab walking away. "You know, I kind of wish we knew who was piloting that thing. Now we'll never know."
Everyone stared over at the distant four-legged tank, and then the steel head on top spun almost a hundred and eighty degrees and looked their direction. The top purple head thing had a green bar in the middle that started to glow. "You just had to say something Ben," Natsu yelled over at his friend.
"Maybe it doesn't see us," Kirito suggested, crouching back down a little as maybe the beast of a machine just turned around randomly, or something.
All four of the legs started lifting back up and then down, turning the Scarab in their direction. The front of it was sloped up from the space between its fore legs, to the large top head piece. It had slanted edges on either side of the middle torso section, and holes on the sides of those edges that got blocked by the top of the legs when they lifted up making them only partially visible.
"Okay, it definitely sees us," Dash said, jumping up and down all jittery.
"Good, I've been itching for a fight," Natsu punched his fists together and flames rippled out around them.
Gray shook his head fast and was looking around for a way out of this.
"Well, it is slow," Kairi offered as a positive. "So, maybe we can just run and hide." She watched as it lifted back up its front right leg, and then lowered it to the ground, only this time it did not stop when the knee was bent at a normal height. Both of the long front steel legs bent far down, and its torso in the back crouched all the way to the ground while the back knees stayed high.
Natsu sweatdropped and muttered, "Does that thing remind anyone else of a cat about to-"
The Scarab's legs unbent and it shot forward insanely fast. Its legs slammed down on the ground over and over, one after the other, shaking the ground beneath the heroes feet. "Okay, not slow!" Kairi exclaimed, bouncing off the ground every time one of its feet hit the ground, which was every second now. "Def-in-ite-ly not slo-o-o-o-oow!"
"Prepare for battle," Gray announced, punching his right fist into his open left hand. Everyone bouncing off the ground looked over to see him planted firmly on the ground, ice sticking out from his feet and planting him there.
Ben smirked and was about to transform into one of his many alien creatures which had wings, when he thought back on Dressrosa. I have to be able to fight as long as I can without my aliens. And I need to figure out their weaknesses first before I transform, that way I know exactly which of the ten thousand is best for the job! The thirteen year old crossed his arms and the next time he bounced off the ground, he just stayed floating in midair.
Natsu turned his head for a second and went even wider eyed at Ben's white aura than he was about the charging Scarab Tank. "Kamehameha Wave and an aura?!" Natsu exclaimed, having seen the boy do something crazy back in the Great Ocean near Atlantis in his fight against Kyogre, and now again he was amazed at his younger friend. "Maybe you are a Saiyan," Natsu joked.
"I could turn into one if you want," Ben offered. The kid smirked as Natsu's eyes widened and he thought back to something he saw back in the Forever Kingdom. During the battle in Metropolis, when they all fought Luthor together, most of Natsu's vision was red and all he could really focus on was Luthor. He did not really remember much about his allies fighting by his sides during the battle. But fighting Driscoll, Natsu recalled Ben had gotten stronger than he had ever seen him before.
"You guys are too distracted," Gray growled at them as if they were his own team. "The people on this tank could be normal grunts, they could be robots. Or there could be a monster on here who we won't be able to defeat."
"Worst comes to worst we could always take off the PB-4's," Dash suggested. "Then Goku can come and-"
Gray snapped his head to the smaller boy behind him as the ground was shaking even worse now, the large tank less than half a mile away, looking bigger than ever as it tore over the hills. "Not under any circumstances," Gray growled, interrupting him. "We have no idea what else lurks in these hills, or underneath our very feet right now. There's a greater chance of one of the enemy's hunters to get to you long before Goku, and they'll strap another PB-4 on your neck so we can't chase after you, and they'll drag you away and make you tell them everything they want to know about us."
"I would never talk," Dash exclaimed.
"Everyone talks," Gray replied in a monotone voice, looking back now at the Scarab which had decided to slow down in front of them instead of running them over. "It isn't a matter of willpower. The torture is just for fun, they don't need to do it to find out what they need to know. There are machines or spells to do that for them."
Everyone tried to skip right over the whole "torture for fun" thing and get back to the task at hand. The task was currently standing in front of them, all four legs extending to full length and making the tank's bottom hover high above them. Its front two feet slammed pretty hard down into the ground ahead of them, but as Kirito looked closer he noticed the feet were not making any footprints, despite being so heavy considering the mass of the monster they were carrying. How does it do that?
The giant Scarab backed up, its feet taking a few steps backwards, and then all four moved to the left a couple meters. The seven people watching from down below and in front of it stared up in a little bit of confusion, with some sweat dripping down their faces. Finally, the front two legs started bending down, revealing the front of the large body up top.
"Uhh," Ben started, taking a step back, "that guy wasn't there before, was he?"
They all stared up at the top of the Scarab, where standing directly on the edge was a large white wolf. On top of the wolf was a man, who even from this distance they could tell was very muscular. The wolf was huge, snarling its razor sharp teeth down at them, and the man on top did not look any nicer
"He doesn't have any weapons," Gray said, taking a step back.
Juvia looked at her boyfriend who was slowly stepping back in her direction. "Isn't that a good thing?" the Rain Woman asked him.
"No," Gray replied. "Not at all."
"Here he comes!" Dash exclaimed, seeing it before the rest of them as the man opened his mouth to speak. The kid was right in his call as the man must have told his wolf to move forward.
The beast took one step and leaped down off of the front of the Scarab. Gray's mind was working fast, He sees that we don't have weapons either. One man going against five others without weapons is either stupid or confident in his abilities. And there are no more stupid people left. Gray glanced to his right at the pink haired Dragon Slayer who was not backing up, and instead covered his whole body in fire and leapt up in the air.
"No you idiot!" he yelled, instantly taking back what he just thought about no more stupid people.
Natsu ignored Gray and pulled back his right fist far as he flew up to meet their enemy. "Fire Dragon's, Iron Fist!" he punched forward and for a second his whole body looked like it was surrounded by the aura of a dragon.
The wolf falling did not stand a chance, and the man on top of it knew. He stood up and jumped off of the white wolf's back, punching down towards the young wizard rising towards him. The two of their fists collided in the air, and everyone stared up in awe for a split second at the shockwave, before dropping their jaws as Natsu's arm bent back and he was sent flying out of the air so fast that he hit the ground fifty yards to their left before they could even look down.
The wolf landed twenty yards in front of Gray, but the man who punched Natsu only landed five yards away. He landed with a fist down on the ground, his knee bent next to it, and the floor reverberated around his collision, rippling out like a wave in every direction. The man had short black hair, a chiseled chin, broad shoulders, and his tight black shirt showed off the rest of his huge muscles as well. He snapped his head up and glared into the ice mage's eyes, but Gray was not just standing around.
As his enemy looked up at him, Gray's arms covered in ice from his elbows down to his hands, where long swords formed in both grips. "Ice Make: Gladiator!" Down his entire back, spikes of ice shot out, and a helmet of ice covered his head while armor surrounded his torso and his legs from the knees down. Gray spun his ice broadswords around, then held the one in his right hand forward at around his head level and the other near his waist on his left side.
"RaaaAAA!" the muscular man charged Gray, punching his right fist forward, then his left as Gray jumped backwards. The man was fast, and strong, but Gray continued to dodge around and the mage quickly noticed his foe did not have any long-range attacks. Unfortunately, his strength alone was a long-range attack. The guy stomped his right foot down on the ground as Gray was stepping away from another punch, and the ground broke apart in a line towards Gray before blasting up and sending the ice wizard flying with it.
Gray ground his teeth and then did a backflip in the air as his enemy jumped up towards him. Midway through the flip, all of the spikes on his back shot out, and two of them slammed into the man jumping towards him. "Oof," the guy grunted as he was slammed out of the air.
Good, I can hurt him, Gray finished his flip and spun around, forming a large bow made of ice. "Ice Make: Triple Shot!" Three arrows of ice formed on the bow and he aimed carefully at the man who got back up and started charging at him.
Right as Gray fired his arrows, the man started to dodge. He put his feet down hard to push off the ground to his right, but when he tried lifting them back up he found it difficult. He looked down just in time to see two hands sticking out of the ground and holding him by the ankles, right before all three arrows hit him in the chest and shattered, though making him roar out in pain before they did.
"Damn, can't break the skin," Gray growled. "What is this guy made of?"
"You don't need to break the skin," Ben told the wizard as he walked up to him. Gray looked down to see the thirteen year old walking forward, cracking his knuckles. "I don't know why you're so intent on killing the guy. We just met him."
"He's trying to kill us!" Gray yelled at the immature boy.
Ben shrugged his shoulders, "Well you're trying to kill him." The boy spoke and then ran towards the guy in the black shirt who reached down for his feet.
Their opponent grabbed one of the hands on his ankles and tore up, ripping the teen with messy black hair right out of the ground. Kirito had a shocked look on his face as he got yanked up in front of their strong enemy, the dirt tearing apart around them. The guy with the chiseled jaw pulled back a fist and let it fly, but right before it hit he saw the teen lose the shocked look and start smirking. His fist hit the kid in the chest, and then the kid was gone and in his place was a log.
Before the man's eyes could even go wide, he felt a blade against the front of his neck. "I sharpened it this morning," Kirito said, keeping calm as he held a Kunai knife against their foe's throat. "I don't want to-" the taller more muscular man slammed his neck into the blade, and his neck skin shattered the knife.
"Hm," Kirito mumbled, then leapt backwards as the guy spun and punched at him. While he was on his way up though, he saw a white blur on his right side and went wide-eyed as he had forgotten about the wolf.
"Raa!" Ben yelled, a larger, blue wolf with human-like legs and some rags on his waist. He tackled the white wolf out of the air before it hit Kirito, and as he landed he howled up in the air, "Benwolf!" The older teen let out a deep breath seeing Ben had the wolf handled, before focusing back on the enemy coming for him.
Kirito landed next to Gray and the two of them charged back forward, right as the big guy pressed his knees down to propel himself at them quickly. "Water Lock!" Juvia shouted, and a ball of water surrounded the muscular dude. He started swinging his fists around inside the ball, flailing madly trying to get out, but soon he was just clenching at his throat, and then sitting still in the ball of water.
"Nice Juvia," Kairi called to her friend and Juvia smiled at the compliment.
"Well," Ben started in a low growl, as he lay on top of the white wolf and pinned it down with his muscular blue-furred arms. "That wasn't so bad was it?"
They were all panting, but each of them started laughing at that. Juvia released her Water Lock, and Kirito and Gray walked over to the man who collapsed on the wet ground. Now that they got a better look at him he really did not look much older than the young mage and ninja.
Ben had to keep holding down the wolf as it was trying hard to break free and go help its master, but he suddenly noticed something. "Hey, where's Dash?"
"Ahhh!" a voice screamed from above them.
They all looked up and watched as a figure dressed in all blue was falling out of the air, his butterfly-like wings all messed up. An explosion suddenly blew a hole in the wall on the right side of the machine's torso, and then four figures went flying out the back of the tank, falling a hundred feet towards the ground.
"We're all dead!" one of them shouted, a man in yellow full-body armor.
"If only we had scouted before attacking. Proper preparations always lead to victory."
"Thank you Captain Hindsight!" the woman falling next to that man shouted. "Now use your fucking flying powers to catch us!"
"If only I had thought of it earlier, we may have all survived," he began. The man in the yellow costume kept falling for a few seconds, then flew around and caught the other three people before landing safely on the ground. He looked a little troubled, and he turned and started walking away as soon as they landed below the Scarab.
"Where's he going?" the guy in yellow armor who was panting heavily beneath his helmet muttered.
"Does it really matter?" the guy next to him who had been screaming in fear the whole way down replied, hands on his knees with sweat all over his face. He had hair in the shape of a large number 3 above his head, a pretty weird hairstyle to say the least.
"Well, yeah, kind of," the guy in yellow armor started, pointing his hand over to the other side of the Scarab. The man with the number three hairstyle had on a blue and white vertical-striped shirt, and the blonde woman next to him in all black leather had a black mask and black leggings to match. The man wearing armor pointed over at the front of the Scarab where a bunch of people were looking at them, and where there were two unconscious forms near the front legs. "Uhh, aren't those two supposed to be our best guys?" He muttered while looking at the crumpled blue butterfly guy and the muscular young man next to him.
"These punks?" Ben growled over, making the guy in yellow jump seeing the blue werewolf talk. The kid did not want his watch running out on him so he jumped off the white wolf he had pinned down and his body flashed green, turning him back into a kid. As this happened, Gray looked over and froze the ground around the white wolf, right as it got up to its paws. Now it was mostly off the floor, but still frozen stuck in place.
"Okay," the woman in black leather began. She looked through her small black mask that only covered her eyes over at the unconscious young man in a black shirt near their enemies. Then she shifted her gaze to the beaten up moaning blue figure a little closer to her, and then the frozen stuck white wolf. She kept her cool despite their situation and took a step towards her fallen comrades and their enemies, "I'm going to need to ask you to give us back our friends."
"Not until you tell us-"
"Sure," Ben interrupted Gray who was starting up an intimidating speech.
Gray looked at the kid and the woman in all black looked at him in surprise too. "What?" Gray asked the boy. "No, we have to question them and find out why-"
"It doesn't really matter," Ben said with a shrug of his shoulders. He looked at Gray who was glaring at him intensely. "Dude," Ben began, speaking in a voice that showed he was really tired of this. "Ever since we've gotten here, all you do is talk about how everything is different. Why can't it just be the same? We're the good guys," Ben looked back at the older woman with blonde hair, "if we give you your friends back, can you tell us where to find his friends?"
The woman saw the kid motion towards the taller, more aggravated man who was taking this thing a lot more seriously than the others. She was noticing at the same time that the girl with blue hair just looked a little depressed, the black-haired teenager standing next to their unconscious muscular man in black looked somewhat, bored? That kid who was a wolf a second ago had a carefree look on his face, and the girl with red hair in the back was actually humming!
"Who are you people?" the woman asked.
"You tell us first!" Gray growled back, and glared at Ben who was about to open his mouth to answer her.
Ben closed his mouth and frowned thinking that Gray was just being a worry-wart, but then started thinking about it closer. If she tells us first, even if we aren't on her side, we can pretend to be if they captured Gray's friends. That way she'll lead us right to them. If we told her first, she might not tell us. Good thinking Gray. The kid nodded at Gray who looked back at the woman, who was having a similar conversation in her own head.
"How fast could you get back into the tank?" the woman muttered in a low voice.
The man in yellow armor on her back left stammered, "Uhh uh, I don't know. I forgot to fuel up my jetpack before I-"
"Imbecile," the woman growled, making the two men behind her jump back.
Suddenly standing behind all three of them was the man who caught them when they were falling a minute ago. He had black hair and was wearing a yellow and red costume, red gloves, and a red cape. "If you had brought your jetpack along, you would have been able to get back up to the pilot's seat much faster Grif."
"I know that Captain Hindsight," the armored man grumbled.
"Well then, Captain Hindsight, away!" he lifted up a fist and flew off, while the guy in yellow armor named Grif jumped on his back. "Huh? What are you doing?" the man asked in slight annoyance as the soldier positioned himself better.
"You know, I think, I forgot to turn on the parking brakes," Grif yelled, not-so-subtly making an excuse for the man to fly him up there. Captain Hindsight flew up to the to of the Scarab fast, in order to lecture Grif on how he could have done his parking job better.
"Why did we even bring him along?" the guy with a 3 on his head mumbled.
The woman in black did not respond, staring confusedly at the group in front of her who did not move to stop their two escaping members. "You know," Ben started, smiling at the woman a little, "our friend is still up there." Ben pointed up and the woman in the black mask lowered her bottom lip a little as she had become too focused by these people that she forgot to warn the other two about their trip back up.
"...And that's why you should always put on the parking brake," Captain Hindsight finished, while he and Grif lay dazed with their backs against the wall. All around the inner cabin of the Scarab were unconscious figures along with ones just moaning and groaning.
Dash started laughing, "I thought this was actually going to be hard." The fast kid moved a little to his left and dodged a beam coming down from up and behind him. "That was a close one," he admitted, but then raced up to the second floor of the area and chopped a Korean sniper on the back of his neck. "But another one for the Dash-meister!"
Down below the Scarab tank there was a face-off between the two groups. "Okay," Ben began, walking towards the woman and her friend with the strange hair. "So what are your names? We aren't working for the King," the mention of the King made the other two back up a little. "I said are not working for him. Jeez, you guys are so uptight."
"What base are you from?" the woman asked the kid.
"Star in Sector 562," Gray responded without hesitation.
The woman turned over to the young man, and then she narrowed her eyes at him. "Liars," she snarled at them.
"It's the truth!" Gray yelled back at her.
"If you really weren't working for the King, you would know," she said, shaking her head, "that entire Sector is gone."
Everyone became silent for a few seconds, and then Gray spoke in a grim tone, his black hair shadowing his eyes. "Did anyone escape?"
The blonde woman almost let down her guard seeing the way he looked after hearing about this. "I hear a few made it out in time," she admitted. "I wouldn't know, we're far from. Which leads to the question, how did you get all the way out here? And why didn't you know about your base getting destroyed?" she regained a suspicious look towards him.
"I got teleported away by a magical fairy four months ago and wound up on the other side of the fucking world." He finished his sentence and did not care about how ridiculous it sounded. It sounded idiotic to him too, he just hoped they could see he wasn't lying.
"That's stupid," the guy with his hair up in a three muttered.
"Your hair is stupid," Gray retorted, making the man gasp.
The woman with blonde hair started laughing though. "Whatever, we'll find out soon enough if you are who you say. Your record probably has you marked down as deceased, but you'll still be on file. What was you name?"
"Yeah, nice try," Gray replied.
The woman sighed, and finally responded to his original question, "I'm Black Canary. This is Galdino, but you can just call him Three. We all do."
"Please don't," the man in the striped shirt moaned in annoyance.
"The guy in the red cape who was here before was Captain Hindsight, and the guy in the yellow armor was our pilot, Grif." The Black Canary continued. "And those guys over there, are Blue Beetle," she motioned at the mumbling blue man who was rolling around in pain on the ground, "Wolf," she motioned towards the... wolf. "And looks like you're about to be re-introduced to him yourself," she said, talking about the last member.
Kirito looked next to him and barely jumped back in time to dodge the fist coming for his face. He calmed himself down fast as he landed ten feet away, but the muscular guy looked like he was about to charge anyway. "SB, stand down," the woman in black told him, making the muscular guy look her direction. "They aren't hostiles. We were wrong to assume."
"They could have seen us and reported back," the guy replied, then turned to glare at the group in front of him, "and they could have tricked you into believing whatever lies they told."
"Raaa!" a voice yelled behind the guy in black. He and everyone else there looked behind him towards a charging red light.
"Natsu!" Gray yelled. "Stop, they're not our enemies."
The pink haired mage slowed himself down, but kept glaring intensely at the man he was charging, who sure looked like an enemy the way he was glaring back. Natsu growled out, "I need to pay him back for that lucky shot."
"'Lucky shot?'" the man asked sarcastically. "You're the one who's lucky I didn't take your head off."
Natsu opened his mouth to respond, when he froze and just stood there staring at the guy in front of him, and specifically his black shirt. He did not notice it before considering the situation, but the shirt was not completely black. Right in the center of the shirt, was the shape of a shield, a red shield, with a large letter 'S' written on it in a strange, but familiar font. "I've seen that S before," Natsu whispered.
"What? This?" the guy looked down at his shirt, then back up at the shorter man who could use fire magic. "Where did you see it?" he started marching towards Natsu with a look of passion on his face. "Tell me!"
"Superman's S," Juvia whispered, seeing it now too.
"Superman?" Gray asked, remembering hearing that name a lot after teleporting to Awul.
Ben frowned at the name, and the red haired girl stopped humming from behind them. Kirito put his hands down in his shorts' pockets, while the muscular young man charged over to Natsu who looked away.
"Where did you see this? You know Superman?"
"Have you seen Superman on this world?" Black Canary asked the group.
"Yeah," Ben replied, remembering a video he watched back in Metropolis a couple of months earlier. "He, he was killed." The man marching towards Natsu froze, then spun and faced the thirteen year old kid who looked his direction with a sad expression on his face. "Luthor cut his head off," he continued.
"Lex, Luthor?" Canary asked, the woman wearing black getting all the more confused by the second. She turned to the ice wizard again, "Where did you say that... magic fairy, teleported you again?"
"I'm telling you, across the world. Wasn't even on Aebrith anymore. A smaller continent called Awul" Gray replied.
"So that's where Superman was," the woman whispered, shaking her head sadly. "He's really dead?" she asked, not able to believe it.
The other figure who already knew who Superman was couldn't believe it more. "Impossible!" he shouted. "There's no way-"
"They filled the room with Kryptonite beforehand," Natsu began, having seen the assassination take place on video during the battle of Metropolis. "Luthor's blade cut through his skin easily when none of Supes' powers were working."
"Where is Luthor now?" the man in black asked, turning back towards Natsu with a look of fury in his eyes.
"What's it matter to you?" Natsu asked.
The young man with a red S on his chest narrowed his eyes at Natsu, "Everything. Superman was, my father." Superboy stated, and he got a shocked reaction of just about everyone there. He wasn't going into his whole life story with these people he just met, so he just turned and walked away.
Galdino just gawked as the muscular man walked past him. His jaw dropped even more as a boy with short blond hair suddenly appeared in front of him, smirking wide while looking at him. "Looks like I don't have to knock you all out after all. Sorry about that," Dash scratched the back of his head and laughed.
Dinah Drake, the original Black Canary, looked around as the group of people she just met gathered around in front of her. They stood up to Superboy, and that kid knocked us all out of the ship before I could even see him. He was like the Flash.
"Did we make it Gray?" Juvia asked the boy she walked up to. "Are you finally back?"
Gray looked closer at the woman in front of him, trying to judge if he could trust her or not. Superboy's reaction sure seemed real enough upon hearing his father had been offed, and she looked nice enough. "What Sector are we in?" Gray asked.
Black Canary glanced around once more at the group in front of her. "Don't do it boss. We still don't know if they are-"
Ignoring the man with his hair shaped oddly as a 3, Canary replied, "541."
"Ahh! You told them!" the strange man exclaimed.
"541, 541? 541?!" Gray almost shouted it the last time. "Is Hiei still in command?" Now most doubt in Black Canary's mind was gone at how excited he looked, and she nodded her head at an apparent comrade. "That's great," Gray said, seriously sounding grateful to the woman. He turned and looked at the group with him, "Hiei knows Kuwabara. I'm sure he'll know what happened to my squad the day I vanished."
"So we actually made it?" Natsu asked, almost sounding disappointed that the trip was over.
"Well I'm glad," Kirito admitted, leaning back and putting his arms behind his head. "There better be some beds at this five forty-one place."
"Wahooo!" Dash exclaimed, running in little circles around and around again. "I bet we found our goal before they found theirs!"
"Haha, me too," Gray agreed, feeling great in the moment. He looked up at the sky above him, the bright blue sky. Kuwabara, Gon, Mario, Rambo, Cloud, Soul, Black Star, Tsubaki, Kiba, Akamaru, Axel. I finally made it back you guys. Please, still be alive.
A/N Hope you enjoyed! Thanks for reading! The Resistance is finally found, through a small group of people riding a Scarab tank in Aebrith's wilderness. Here's a quick list of characters I don't own:
DBZ: Goku
Incredibles: Dash
Ben 10: Ben
SAO: Kirito
Young Justice: Superboy, Wolf, Blue Beetle, Superman, Black Canary (Dinah Drake)
Soul Eater: Soul, Black Star, Tsubaki
Nintendo: Mario
Rambo: Rambo
Naruto: Kiba, Akamaru
South Park: Captain Hindsight
Red vs Blue: Grif
One Piece: Sanji, Nami, Robin, Usopp, Luffy, Zoro, Franky, Mr. 3 (Galdino)
Fairy Tail: Natsu, Gray, Juvia
Yu Yu Hakusho: Hiei, Kuwabara
Hunter x Hunter: Killua, Gon
Kingdom Hearts: Sora, Kairi, Riku, Axel
Final Fantasy VII: Cloud
joebob323 chapter 48 . 22h ago
Cool chap, as always. I like the part with Goku, but poor Timmy... I predict that Goku will be facing King veggie, not the King of the continent. I may be wrong, But I don't think that Saiyans would bow down to others, rather they will fight to the end. Wasn't Bora part of Bardock's team? is Bardock still alive? Last question, are the rest of the resistance members that Gon thinks are dead, really dead?
Goku and Timmy are still alive it seems, but who is the King Goku will be facing? What are the Saiyans up to on Aebrith? Are they part of the Cooperative? Are they good, evil, who knows? Bora was not one of Bardock's team members, though when I looked it up to check if I did that on accident, it turns out there was a DBZ character named Bora, the guy at the base of Korin's tower who Goku wished back to life once. And for the final question, Gon was thinking about all of his friends, even ones that were alive, though there were some he knew were dead, some he didn't know about. Anyway, thanks for the review! Thanks to everyone who read and as always, 'till next time!