Nexus: Heroes Will Rise

by tmb1112

Universal borders have been erased and beings from thousands of universes now live on the same world: Nexus. In the first Saga of Nexus, Awul was saved, but the mysteries of Nexus remain. Now our heroes sail across the sea to Aebrith to search for lost loved ones and save the world. MCs from DBZ, KH, Soul Eater, FT, Blue Exorcist, Bleach, 7DS, OP, Ben 10, SAO, HxH, and many more!

113. Nexus HWR 16-5 Let the Training Begin

A/N Hey guys. Sorry it's been such a long time. Got really stuck trying to write this chapter. Wound up starting a different fanfic... then writing 650,000 words for that other one while still procrastinating here. Anyway here we go, hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the movies, anime, books, comics, video games, tv shows, etc. that the characters from Nexus come from.

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Nexus HWR 16.5 Let the Training Begin:

"Help me!"

"Get over there! Karin needs your help!"

"Sasuke!"

"Retreat is the only option."

"Itachi?!"

"We're your friends, right?"

"It's obvious, isn't it?"

"It's because…"

"I'm your friend."

Beep-beep-beep-beep-bee- Sasuke Uchiha tapped a button on the alarm clock on his left wrist. He looked down at his all-purpose watch and checked the time, then he rose his gaze up his forearm to the PB-6 resting there. He reached over and adjusted it a little, but the Power Blockers were made to be comfortable so he never had to do much. Knowing that he could be called into action or an incident could occur at any time, he kept his PB on even while he slept at the Power-Blocked HQ so as not to waste even a moment in an emergency when he would have to leave the base. He sat up and put his legs off the side of his full-size bed, but he sat there for longer than usual instead of getting right up. He had a sink to his left at the foot of his bed, and a small bathroom next to it that even included a shower despite how small his room was. He preferred it small though, despite having been offered a larger room when he arrived at the base.

Naruto, Sasuke thought. He rose his right hand and stared down at his palm, then he put it up against his forehead and closed his eyes for a few seconds. Killing everyone in Konoha? That's too, way too sad. Sasuke pulled his hand from his face and shook his head around. His long black hair covered up most of the left side of his face, and though his right eye was its normal black color, his left with the Rinnegan in it was hidden behind his long hair. He stood up and started getting ready.

It was early in the morning, but as a Commander of the Resistance he had responsibilities. He stared in the mirror after putting some clothes on. Sleep evaded me until late last night. Getting more would only tire me out though, those dreams were too restless.

Sasuke headed out into the base. He often did a patrol before breakfast, and he kept a close eye on those he saw awake at as early hours as him. The Resistance sent out enough spies that he knew how to spot them himself, and sneaking around in early hours when there were few people around would be a good opportunity for them. Sasuke Uchiha walked down hallways, marched through open hangars, checked on groups of engineers doing maintenance on mechs and vehicles. He went down to the Vibranium mine, an area he had to get past several security measures just to check on. He had to go through all those checks though because of the high risk of it being a target, but a quick walk-through of the mine and he felt satisfied that their security was working.

The Vibranium is sparse, he thought on his way back up the elevator. Only two mines in Resistance territory, and this is definitely the one with less in it. The other's too close to the border though, and the raids there are much more frequent. If it were less of a target, more Vibranium could have been sent around the Resistance instead of being used to fortify the mining city… Sakura. Sasuke's expression darkened at his distracted thoughts, and he lifted a hand to rub his forehead. If the ones responsible for that, are the reason Gray stayed behind on Awul, then I accept that excuse for why he didn't return. Kirito told me that Sora killed the one responsible too, so I should thank him for that when he returns… damn it.

Sasuke left the mine and headed to the top floor of the Resistance Headquarters. He walked outside it and checked on the outer defenses on the top of the castle, then he jumped off the wall down a few hundred feet to some training grounds extending out of the north side of the fortress. He walked around, glancing at the turrets at the edge of the wide training fields that were set up right at the drops to the next level down. He glanced at soldiers training themselves in weapons and combat while out in the sun in one of the few nice days they felt they had left, and it was still chilly despite it.

He went back inside and made for the main cafeteria to get breakfast. On his way walking towards the central gap in the HQ where he could drop from his high elevation all the way into the basement with ease, he walked past a shorter man with just as dark black hair. The other man's hair spiked up in a single spike over his head though, and the two walked past each other without saying a word. Both Hiei and Sasuke had swords at their sides, dark cloaks over their bodies, and they were both Commanders of the Resistance. They continued on their ways without speaking to each other.

Sasuke dropped into the gap in the center of the fortress and landed on top of the black roof of the main part of Headquarters. The main base's roof extended for dozens of miles to his north, less than that to either side of him, and the huge agricultural dome was to his back. He walked forward on the black base and was going to walk straight to a nearby elevator that only connected to the top of this base and not all the way to the surface. He had to go below the largest first basement floor of the Headquarters below him in order to reach the cafeteria. The mega-cafeteria of the HQ's "basement" took up too much space to be put on the same floor as so many of the barracks, various types of guild halls, and armories on the floor just below him. It also did not need to be as tall, (there was a different place for giants to eat), but it did need to be an enormous place for the instances where all the lower basements would be filled with evacuated citizens, as well as just for the normal personnel of HQ.

How much longer will I be here? Sasuke thought as he made his way for the elevator. I understand wanting to lower our presence on the western border, in order to gain an element of surprise when Gray does hit in full force. Yet, I do not like how I will not be going with him. "If there are spies- and we know there are, then we cannot have it known when Commanders are not going to be in the interior." Our defenses are weak enough as it is. We can't hold off assaults, which is why our borders keep shrinking. Not being willing to risk defense in exchange for a stronger offense, can we really succeed using this strategy? It's the strategy they're… that they're crediting him for using the best.

Sasuke slowed down as he saw a younger man walking towards him who made the ninja frown. Naruto, Sakura, he thought, then he grimaced again as he was reminded of things he did not want to think on. It was impossible not to think on it though, as the teen who told him that horrible truth only the day before stood before him now. "Kirito," Sasuke said to the teen who looked like he had something he wanted to say to him. He defeated Ra's al Ghul. It was confirmed by Class 3-E's report. And he joined the Resistance, unlike any of the others. Attacking the League just him and Gray, it was stupid and reckless, but a small force that does not bring cause for alarm, it's what they've been doing successfully since they arrived. If any of the Lords or enemies they've faced so far had called in reinforcements for a group of their size, smaller for most of their victories except Dressrosa, then their allies would have seen them as weak. It's another reason the assault on the Emperor is not going to be led by a Commander, in order to prevent them from calling in foreign support.

"Sasuke," Kirito began. Sasuke stared at the teen oddly as the thing that looked to be on his own mind also seemed to be stressing Kirito out, but the teen's conflicted look finally vanished in place of resolve. Kirito bowed and Sasuke lifted his eyebrows, then his eyes widened as Kirito said, "Please, train me."

Is he… "I don't have the time-" Sasuke began.

"As much as you can spare," Kirito continued, keeping himself prostrated though while clenching his teeth at how strange this felt to him. He knew what he wanted to do though, he knew who he wanted to help him, but asking for it was coming very hard to him. Naruto trained me so I wouldn't let what happened to Asuna happen again. Marco and Sting and the others in Konoha, either Naruto asked them to do it, or they just offered their help on their own. And Akuma, he trained everyone at our base… Asking Goku was not hard either, but, after what I told Sasuke. After seeing what he's fighting against, and learning that he's one of the ones in charge of making sure they win, to still ask him his help even knowing all that! "Please," Kirito said, and he lifted up his head before adding, "My chakra has a strong affinity for Fire nature." Sasuke looked at the teen right in his eyes as Kirito said that. "I can also use Earth Release techniques," he added.

Sasuke examined Kirito closely, Fire and Earth. Fire's weak against Water, but Earth makes up for that weakness. He can use Naruto's Rasengan too. "Meet me in training room number ten in an hour."

Kirito's eyes opened wide, then Sasuke continued while walking forward towards the elevator, "I did not agree to train you. As a Commander of the Resistance, and your superior now that you've joined us, I need to assess your skills in order to utilize your presence most effectively."

Long winded, but I get it. "I'll see you there then," Kirito said to the Commander's back. It's time to see how strong Resistance Commanders really…

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Kirito lay on his back in a large amount of pain. His swords lay past the tips of his fingers at his sides where his arms were outstretched, and he had burns and cuts all over his body, while the Commander he had just fought against did not have a scratch on him. Then again, Kirito could barely consider what they just did as fighting. Too fast. Too strong. Too, skilled. Kirito's teeth clenched to stop from panting and because of the frustration at how impossible it was for him to even damage the other ninja.

That's a crazy gap, between Gray's strength as a General and Sasuke's as a Commander. Are all the Commanders that strong? I didn't feel like the Klaus guy who fought Goku was this, this strong, Kirito struggled to press his palms down on the floor at his sides.

He's trying to get up after that? Sasuke thought. He watched as Kirito bent his arms, then struggled forward before rolling over onto his stomach to make it easier to get to his knees. He curled up, then lifted his back and let out a gasp at how much just that exhausted him. "You did not have powers before arriving on this world?" Sasuke questioned.

Kirito looked at Sasuke oddly as he kept panting while on his knees. He closed his mouth and took a deep breath through his nose, then he replied, "No."

He was using too many of Naruto's jutsu, and he doesn't seem to be from my world. Those other things, they're all half-strengths. Poor magic, I won't say weak Haki, but… Sasuke's eyes lowered back to the swords on Kirito's sides. His biggest strength would be those. "I won't train you," Sasuke said, turning his back to the younger man on his knees.

Sasuke walked for the door to the white training room, then he heard a groan behind him and came to a stop. He turned his head and looked back, to see Kirito back on both feet staring towards him with an intense expression. "Look for Lexa," Sasuke said. Kirito froze with his mouth partially open, ready to tell Sasuke he could keep going to try and impress him and get him to stay. The ninja who wore a Hidden Leaf headband looked at the younger man who was trying hard not to show his exhaustion despite the way his body looked. Sasuke continued to him while turning away and walking for the door, "I will ask her if she will spare time to train you."

Kirito watched as Sasuke walked right out the door, then he collapsed backwards and flat on his back again. He winced in pain from hitting the back of his head, but his whole body was already in pain anyway. "Damn it," he muttered, as his plan to get Sasuke to train him had completely failed. Lexa? Who is that? He lifted an arm and put it over his forehead while staring up at the pure white ceiling. In the room with 100 by 100 by 100 foot dimensions, Kirito lay close to the center and stared straight up at the glowing panel in the center of the ceiling that gave off the same amount of light as every other square panel. It was as if the color of the panels was not white but a glowing white, since there did not look to be any artificial lights in the room, yet it was still very bright. Kirito squinted at the center panel as if to look through at whatever could be behind it that was making the glow, then he sighed and dragged his arm down over his face, wincing in pain as he did. If Sasuke suggested it, it's probably because she's compatible with me. Her powers, or techniques. He wouldn't just send me off for no reason. I think I showed him I'm enough of a resource not to do that.

"Well," Kirito grunted, leaning back up again and pushing himself to his feet. "No time to sit around," he muttered. Three days in, and I still haven't learned a thing. Still haven't gotten any stronger. A tenth of the- no, don't do that. Just get as much as you can in, while you can. He grabbed his swords and started slowly for the door. I've never had a female teacher, he thought. Not really, I guess. Though Sakura, and Hinata, and I know Asuna taught me so many… He shook his head around and tried to push sentimental thoughts out of his head. I'm here to train. To get stronger. To help the Resistance. To free slaves. To stop the Cooperative. All of this, to make up for what I've done. Angel, Naruto, Konohamaru, Marco, and so many others… I need to make things right. Kirito clenched his fists at his sides, ignoring the pain it caused and regaining his determined expression. Who knows. Maybe this Lexa, is even stronger than Sasuke.

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"I'm winning!"

"We don't need any more lone wolves. There are enough of them already."

"They killed my-"

"Everyone, has lost people. Do you think you're any different from them? This war isn't about you."

"I never said it was. I'm going though. To crush them all."

"Sasuke, I know you're upset. Jugo, Karin, I know it's hard. Just the other day, Shisui…"

"Itachi…"

"But this world is different from ours, little brother. Do you not think it's strange that I am the one telling you not to be a lone wolf, after all you know I did? It's because this world, it doesn't need more people putting themselves on the dark path, going off alone for the sake of others. You know what it needs? It needs leaders. Strong people, who will lead. Which is why, I've become a Commander of the Resistance."

"What?"

"And Sasuke, you should too…"

Sasuke opened his eyes as he sat at a table in the center of the Resistance HQ main cafeteria. The cafeteria that took up an entire floor of the main headquarters in the basement, it was packed full of people at midday. Thousands of people and Resistance members were sitting around eating, talking to their comrades, or going up to get more food. Headquarters never had less than five thousand personnel on hand at any time, but the majority of the time there were between twelve and twenty thousand people stationed there. Sasuke's table was empty except for him, even though it was a large round table in the center of the room with many empty seats around it.

That table was only empty for a few more seconds though, as the reason Sasuke opened his eyes just walked towards him. He had been thinking deeply on Konoha, the Hidden Leaf, and other things from his past all morning, even during his light spar with Kirito (at least that's what their fight felt like to him). Sasuke Uchiha stared forward at the man with big spikes of black hair sticking out of his head and curving a bit to the right at the top, and more spikes farther back that extended left but lower down his head. The man wore an orange gi with a blue belt, blue wristguards, a blue undershirt, and black boots. Son Goku sat down on the seat right next to Sasuke's while mumbling with a mouth full of food, "Iths thiths stheat open?" Goku swallowed his food before dropping the trays in his hands, and then reaching up and quickly taking off all the other trays he had stacked on top to place them around the table. It was a good thing the table was mostly empty, as his trays spread out into where everyone else would have been sitting.

Sasuke looked to his left where Goku just sat. The ninja did not want to say anything about it, but it felt weird to him that Goku would choose there out of all the empty seats at the table. "Hey Sasuke," Goku began while he chowed down. He stopped for a second while swallowing, then he turned to his right with a glint in his coal black eyes, and Goku said, "You want to go a round after lunch?"

"You're serious?" Sasuke questioned. At the expression on Goku's face though, he could tell the Saiyan was. Sasuke's plate was almost empty anyway, and the Resistance Commander was about to leave to go continue on with his self-given duties for the afternoon. Fight, Son Goku? That's, not something I thought I would be doing today when I woke up this morning. "What is the reason for this?" Sasuke asked.

"I want to see how strong you've gotten," Goku replied. Sasuke looked at him closer, wondering if there was some hidden meaning behind Goku's words. The man's voice sounded sincere though, and his competitive grin gave him a more child-like demeanor than Sasuke expected or wanted to see on the Legendary Super Saiyan's face.

"Alright then," Sasuke finally replied.

30 Minutes Later

"You take too long to eat," Sasuke muttered while he and Goku stood in an elevator dropping through the Resistance HQ.

They had already been in the basement, but they were still going far down into the ground and Goku was surprised as he saw the numbers dropping higher and higher in the negative numbers. It had taken him a couple of days to figure out how those numbers worked, but he stared at them in surprise again as they reached over -200. "Why aren't we going to the training rooms?" Goku wondered, since Sasuke had just told him to follow, yet the ninja was not bringing him to the same place he fought against Klaus the other day.

"We are," Sasuke replied. "But those rooms are not big enough, or powerful enough, to hold in certain fights." The elevator finally came to a stop, and Sasuke said as the doors started opening, "This room is an entire floor made for a single spar. Sometimes we have mock battles in here, and the white panels around the room can create any environment." Goku looked around in amazement, but Sasuke continued as they headed in, "We'll just fight with the room as is."

Goku frowned, as he wanted to see some of the cool places this room could transform into. He shrugged though and smiled again as the thought of fighting Sasuke right now made him too excited. Goku leapt up in the air and across the room in a few dozen front flips. He landed and spun around, then he started bouncing on one foot and then the other, doing some arm stretches over his head. "Alright," Goku said, grinning and coming to a stop. His hair shot up into a golden spike and his teal eyes narrowed down at the dark-haired younger man who looked surprised as Goku went Super Saiyan from the start.

I have never fought this man, Sasuke thought while staring coldly over into Goku's eyes. But there is no holding back. I will use everything I have, and determine whether or not he is what people claim he is. The Resistance's trump card. Sasuke's right iris turned red with a strange black pattern in the middle of it, while his black hair moved out of the way of his face and revealed his Rinnegan to the man facing him.

"Let's do it," Goku said. He kicked off the ground and shot towards Sasuke.

"Amaterasu," Sasuke said, his right eye widening. Black flames surrounded Son Goku's body, then Sasuke's eyes both widened as the golden aura surrounding Goku fell behind him with all the black flames surrounding it. As Goku flew right out of the falling black flames, an entirely new golden aura surrounded his body. He flew at Sasuke too fast for the surprised ninja who pulled his sword out in front of him to try and block, but the leg he saw swinging at him passed straight through his body. Sasuke's eyes darted to the side as he saw Goku's body going past his back, then they darted back as Goku was right in front of him punching forward, slamming Sasuke in the face.

Sasuke had been turning back, and the fist hit him in the left cheek and lifted him off the ground while his head snapped to the side. He spun out while flying off the ground, then he made a dozen hand signs and put his hands to his mouth as he was finishing one of his spins. A massive fireball shot at Goku and the Super Saiyan once again flew straight through the flames, but this time as he reached the other side, his head snapped to the left in an instant, dodging the sword covered in lightning chakra that was flying at the back of the fiery explosion.

Goku grinned as the sword passed by the side of his head, then he did a three-sixty spin in midair and grabbed the hilt of the sword before it got too far. He spun and threw the sword back at Sasuke so fast that the ninja snapped his body backwards and botched the landing he was about to make. Just as he started leaning up, Goku appeared on his left side while in mid-kick. Sasuke's right hand was already crossing over his leaning-up body though, and he blocked Goku's foot with it. The force from the kick was so strong however, that Sasuke's feet were lifted off the ground and the kick sent him flying a few hundred feet up into the ceiling. Sasuke landed on his feet on the ceiling though, and the white panels pushed in a little to cushion the blow on his legs. He barely felt it anyway though, and he continued standing upside-down on the ceiling while glaring down towards Goku who stared straight back up and into his eyes.

The Super Saiyan started flying up again, then as he punched towards Sasuke, the younger man he tried to hit disappeared into a flock of black crows. Goku got confused as the crows surrounding him completely in blackness, then he started spinning his head left and right while struggling, trying to move off of the cross he was suddenly pinned to. Sasuke appeared in front of him while the realm Goku was in tinted red and everything around him got covered in blood. Goku stopped struggling as much, turning back to Sasuke and giving him a small grin as the ninja walked towards him with his sword extended. "As soon as I feel you attack outside of the genjutsu," Goku began.

"Then I'll keep you in here," Sasuke replied. Goku frowned at that tactic, and he struggled a bit more against the cross, but he did not have his strength in this void.

"Hmm," Goku hummed as Sasuke neared him with his sword outstretched. Sasuke opened his mouth to say something, but Goku started frowning deeply at him and the ninja froze. "Naruto was brought back to life," Goku said. "By Orochimaru-" BAM! Sasuke got a fist in his face and he flew backwards across the room and into a wall.

Forgot to not make eye contact, Goku thought, lifting a hand and scratching the back of his head. He started frowning again as he looked back towards the wall that Sasuke had slammed so hard into Goku thought it might even crack, but once again he was amazed by how strong the Resistance made these rooms.

He disrupted my chakra flow so easily. Was he lying? No, no he wouldn't have known… Sasuke stood up and he glared towards Goku, but the Super Saiyan looked back towards him without making eye contact, doubting that would work a second time. "What you just said about Naruto-"

"He was sealed," Goku assured. "Let's continue," he added, as he only brought that up to break Sasuke's concentration and give him the opportunity he needed to shatter the genjutsu. He did not like the method, but he also did not like the use of genjutsu at all during a fight. Goku rose his hands into a fighting stance again, then he shot forward like a rocket towards Sasuke, raising his hands and forming balls of ki in them as he attacked.

Goku threw the energy balls, then a huge purple aura emerged from Sasuke's body. It started with a long purple arm that smacked one way and threw Goku's first attack to the side, then smacked the other way and redirected the blast right back towards Goku. Goku clapped his hands in front of his body as the energy sphere flew his way, and the energy dissipated without exploding. He continued flying without breaking his speed, and he ducked under the arm and started punching both fists over and over into the chest of the huge Susano'o that just appeared.

Huge wings shot out the back of the Susano'o that Sasuke floated in the center of. Sasuke glared out at Goku who continuously punched against his chest without letting up, his punches getting stronger every second. He can't break it, Sasuke thought, while swinging his arms in and flapping his wings down. He slammed his fists together in front of his body where Goku was going in for another punch, then the ninja's eyes darted up and he slammed both pressed-together fists after the man who had escaped leaving an after-image behind. Goku was fast, but Sasuke's Sharingan saw through his movements. He punched towards Goku who eased his body to one side and dodged the arms pushing past the side of his body. He put his hands down at his right side as he moved closer to Sasuke, "Kaameee…"

Sasuke leapt backwards and flapped his wings to gain a huge distance between him and Goku. He shot a quarter of a mile away in an instant, then Goku landed down on the ground and started sprinting after him while yelling, "HaaaMEEEEE…"

Sasuke lifted his arms and created a bow out of glowing purple blue energy. A giant arrow of lightning chakra formed on the bow that he was pulling back, while his wings flapped the other way to stop his retreat. He pulled back even farther as Goku started sprinting twice the speed as before. The Super Saiyan jumped up and slammed both hands forward, letting out a yell of, "HAAAAA!" Sasuke released his arrow towards the end of the Kamehameha Wave. Bu-DOOOOOM! A massive eruption blew apart in the center of their attacks between Goku and Sasuke. Sasuke leaned back from the bright light of the explosion, then his eyes opened wide and he crossed his arms as well as brought his wings in front of his body crossed for protection.

The end of the Kamehameha that had blown Sasuke's arrow apart kept flying, and it slammed into Susano'o while Sasuke focused all of his energy in front of his body for protection. His eyes darted to the right and he lifted his right arm on the inside of his aura, right as Goku broke a hole through the edge of Susano'o's glowing aura. Goku's eyes opened wide as the Rinnegan in Sasuke's left eye narrowed, and the Super Saiyan felt a huge force slam against him and throw him right back out of that aura and across the room. As Goku was dropping though, his eyes darted around as he noticed all the strings shooting after him and attempting to wrap around his body.

Just like Doflamingo, Goku thought, and he weaved through the wires as he dropped, before grinning as the wires were not very accurate anyway. Sasuke had to focus on the Kamehameha that slammed into his body anyway, breaking through his wings and the arms of his Susano'o after a bit of struggle. Sasuke rose both arms in front of him, right as the edge of the beam passed through the front of Susano'o's chest. The beam touched his hands, and then the end of the Kamehameha Wave started to shrink. Susano's side shattered as a sphere of yellow light crashed into it. Sasuke spun towards the smoke on his right and removed one hand from the energy wave, wincing as trying to suck it all in with only one hand was nearly impossible.

He stared towards the smoke with a hand lifting to stop Goku again, but two feet slammed into the back of his body and bent him over them. Sasuke flew down into the ground and bounced twice hard before slamming hard front-first into a wall. He started leaning off of it and turning his head, only for his face to be slammed by a fist. Or at least, he thought the fist was about to hit him in the face as he turned to it with eyes growing huge. Then, in the instant before the fist hit him, an elbow took its place and the momentum had changed directions. Sasuke was thrown high into the air where Goku already flew up faster, spinning around both of his arms with his hands held together. A Borg surrounded Sasuke and his back turned black with Haki, and then both of Goku's spinning arms slammed into the position where Sasuke's Haki was hardest, still making the ninja gasp out in pain before he was slammed into the ground so hard that the floor cracked out around him.

Goku lowered out of the air towards the younger man below. He was still smiling, but he did not look as intense as a minute ago, and Sasuke frowned at the idea that Son Goku already thought himself victorious. Sasuke stood up and glared towards Goku, and the Super Saiyan who just lowered to hover ten feet off the ground and twenty feet in front of Sasuke looked in surprise at Sasuke's face. He watched as a cut on the nineteen year old's face sealed up with some steam coming out as it closed. Sasuke then lifted his right hand and his katana appeared instantly into his grasp. Goku stared at the hilt of the weapon and knew for a fact that it did not just fly to Sasuke too fast for him to see.

Sasuke crossed his left hand over his right and Goku's blond eyebrows lifted up. Goku turned his head and looked around him as five Shadow Clones appeared in a circle with Sasuke around him. Then, all at the same time, the Shadow Clones created Susano'os. Their huge auras rose over sixty feet off the ground, but this time wings did not sprout from their backs. For a second Goku thought he was trying to conserve some chakra, then Goku's mouth curved back up more intensely as each of the Susano'os lifted up in the air with white auras flaring around them. Three of them rose up bows and created arrows of chakra in each of them, while two others charged forward while pulling their arms to the sides with giant purple swords held in them.

The final Susano'o that the original Sasuke was in lifted both arms up, and huge swords appeared in the hands he had lifted. Then, two more arms sprouted out of his sides beneath the lifted ones, and swords came out of those hands too. Sasuke charged forward as Goku did a spin to allow both of the slashing Susano'os to slash their swords at him, one just above his horizontal body and the other just below. Then Goku yelled out and his golden aura pulsed around him, slamming the sword passing over the top of his body straight up, while knocking the other one into the ground that it tore straight into. The yell was to pulse his aura against the arrows though, all of which were fired into the small gap that Goku had cornered himself in with his dodge. All of the arrows exploded prematurely with Goku caught in the middle of their explosion, then the Saiyan rose his arms in the smoke and caught two swords that slashed down at him.

The other two swords that Sasuke's Susano'o created slashed in from the sides towards Goku's body. Goku saw them cut through the smoke on his sides, and he released a breath as he held onto the first two. He could not let go or the first ones would slash down on him with all the pressure he felt Sasuke still putting into them. But he could not just let those other two massive chakra blades connect. At least, not as he was at the moment. Goku's blond hair shot up spikier and lightning flashed out of his golden aura that suddenly doubled in size, and then the two huge blades connected with his sides. Sasuke had blown all the smoke away when he slashed in, and his eyes opened huge at the sight of his Susano'o's blades shattering against Son Goku's sides. Imposs- Goku twisted his hands that were still holding Sasuke's first attacks, and he shattered those blades as well.

Five Susano'os charged at Goku at once. He ignored every one of them. He flew towards the original Sasuke who did not do anything to hide himself among the others. Goku slammed his fist into the chest of the Susano'o, and eight huge cracks shot out around the collision. Sasuke tried putting it back together fast while flying backwards, the other Susano'os still flying at Goku's back. Goku chased him though, and he slammed another fist into the Susano'o and shattered it completely this time, even though Sasuke had finished repairing it. The aura shattered out to the sides, then Goku shed a golden aura that was starting to get covered in black flames. Kamui! The air swirled around behind Sasuke and he flew right back into an alternate dimension, one that Goku was too fast not to follow him into. Sasuke tried closing the gate fast behind him, only for Goku to be right on top of him and slamming a fist down into Sasuke's chest.

Shit, Sasuke thought after hitting the hard ground. Four of his Shadow Clones on the outside world disappeared to return him a large portion of his chakra that he was now wasting with them all out of the fight. Goku looked around while floating in the air of the Kamui Dimension. He stared at all the huge gray cubes that made up the floor in this realm, and he looked into the darkness that made up the gaps between those blocks. "What a strange place," Goku said, before turning back to look down at Sasuke who was making this fight more interesting every second.

Unfortunately, even though Goku was getting more interested and having more fun, Sasuke was feeling his chakra drain fast. I've been going all out from the start. As strong as I could be. I never have to- I haven't fought like this, in months. Actually, even in the Third War of the Gods, I never got in a fight against an opponent who could beat me. Sasuke stood back up and he glared towards Goku again. But before I could even confirm that… Sasuke glared at the glowing man, and he stopped his heavy breathing to instead take a deep breath in. He is simple, Sasuke thought, right as the man above him started flying down.

Sasuke rose up his right hand, and Goku's eyes opened huge while they darted to his left side. Sasuke was shocked Goku's eyes had time to turn, but he was beyond stunned as the Saiyan even started to turn and cross his arms. The huge glowing blue arrow larger than any Sasuke's Susano'os had fired earlier appeared out of thin air in front of Goku. It exploded in that instant it appeared, but the Super Saiyan 2 was too fast and got his guard up, only being blown backwards and off course from Sasuke by his final clone's arrow. Sasuke's Rinnegan started to give him a headache, and a trail of blood came out of the outer corner of his purple eye. Transporting objects through Space-Time is a strain, but teleporting that much chakra and into another dimension… only for him to dodge it. Sasuke had to bite down hard and jump backwards, as the man blown back by his explosion did not say a word before correcting his course and flying at Sasuke again.

"Kamui," Sasuke said while Goku was still farther off. He vanished and reappeared out in the training room again, and this time he was quick enough to close the exit of that realm before Goku could follow. He saw Goku's hand reaching at the last second, but he was glad the Saiyan did not shove his arm through only to get it cut off. Sasuke stood there panting harder than ever during the fight. He stared at the air in front of him where he had closed off the Kamui Dimension. What will he do now? If his only power is brute strength, and his martial arts, then he will not be able to escape from Kamui. If this was a battle, I just- Sasuke's bottom lip lowered and his eyes opened huge, while the air in front of him cracked.

"aaaaAAAAAAHHHHH! AAAAAHHHHHHH!" Sasuke took a step back, as the shouting through that crack got even louder and the air shattered more around it. Bright golden light shone through the cracks in the air, and Sasuke had to leap backwards at how powerful that energy was.

What is this?! It's impossible! He's, he's- "RRAAAAAAAAAAAA!" CHHHH The air shattered like glass where the cracks were, and a huge swirling hole into the Kamui Dimension was left in its place. Sasuke could not stop himself from dropping his jaw, while the man on the other side stopped screaming and flew forward through that hole. It closed a few seconds after he made it through, while the man who got out of the realm took a few deep breaths and then narrowed his gaze at Sasuke.

Sasuke did not recognize the person in front of him. The man was wearing the same outfit that Son Goku had on, but his entire appearance was different. His eyebrows had vanished, the skin over his eyes made up of muscles instead now that had narrowed inwards at the ninja. His entire body had bulked up, pushing against even his loose orange gi like he might rip through it. The man's jaw structure had changed to be squarer, and his hair did not just spike up this time, but it got many times longer and thicker as it stretched down his entire back. Goku's aura was violent, huge and golden with lightning bolts sparking through the air around him. The ground shook as Goku took a step forward, but Sasuke realized it was not just the ground, but the entire floor around him. He wondered just how many floors in the basement felt that single step.

Then Goku stopped looking so intense, and his hair shrank back while he clenched his teeth in a bit of pain. His muscles lost some of their bulk, his golden hair spiked shorter above the top of his head, and he started panting heavily once he reverted back into a Super Saiyan 2. Goku took a deep breath this time though, then he opened his eyes and had a grin on his face as he said, "Thought that might work."

He didn't even know what he was doing?! Sasuke thought, though he managed to finally shut his mouth. He just, broke through dimensional walls, with a shout. He's so, strong. The ninja grimaced deeper, a look of anger on his face as he once again rose his arms. Goku appeared in front of him though, and Sasuke's eyes opened wide as neither of them were able to follow his movements. Goku slammed an elbow towards Sasuke's face, then the ninja felt a knee in his solar plexus that bent his body over it. The elbow connected as Sasuke's body started bending forward over the knee, snapping his body the other way, only for Goku to reach out and grab Sasuke by a leg before he could fly too far off. Goku started spinning around, and he released Sasuke towards a nearby wall.

Sasuke flew towards the wall while still reeling from the loss of breath from the initial knee, though the follow-up elbow made it impossible to try and breathe in a fresh breath. He still managed to prepared himself for slamming into the wall, but he never wound up doing that as Goku popped up behind him and slammed both hands down on top of Sasuke's skull. The breath he was trying to take in cut off short as his teeth were slammed together and his eyes rolled back, blood splashing between his teeth. Sasuke slammed into the ground so hard that he bounced off, then slammed back down again and broke apart the white tiles beneath him, leaving a crater in the steel below. People on the floor below them stared up at the ceiling with dropped jaws as the ceiling dented down towards them; they were especially shocked because they were in a training room just like the one above and they did not understand how it had just gotten damaged like that.

The Resistance Commander who just hit the ground was finally able to start breathing, but he was gasping for breath as he lay broken on his back. He tried to get up just as he had all the other times, but that combo was devastating and he felt several broken bones in different parts of his body. Goku dropped down in front of Sasuke's feet, and the Saiyan winced sympathetically before losing his golden aura and the single spike over his head. "Oops," Goku said, scratching the back of his spiky black hair as he stared at the bloody figure who did not look able to move. I might have gotten a little carried away. I tried holding back. Super Saiyan 2 might have been too much though-

Sasuke's eyes shot open and blood came out the corners of both as he glared towards Goku. Goku got yanked off his feet towards Sasuke, and a spike of black flames shot out of the ground and towards the Saiyan. Goku covered his right palm in white aura and smacked across the front of his body into the spike of Amaterasu, then as his swipe's wind blew all the flames after that aura that they had connected onto, Goku clenched his left fist and he came down towards Sasuke's face where his bleeding eyes opened even wider. He had pulled the Saiyan towards him himself using the Rinnegan, but Goku added his own speed on top of that and there was no time to start and defensive measures. BANG! Goku's fist slammed into the ground next to Sasuke's head, ripping a hole through the ground beneath the destroyed white panels this time, as his hair shot up golden in the last second and his eyes turned teal again.

Sasuke stared up with huge eyes into the icy teal ones of his opponent. Goku held his right fist over Sasuke's face, the wind from the half punch pushing the ninja's head harder into the ground below him. The sight of Goku's extended left arm that tore through the ground at his side was a clear indicator that if the man wanted to, he could have just crushed Sasuke's head instead. Goku did not need the other fist up in front of Sasuke's face, the younger man already knew. "I lose," Sasuke said. Goku's cold teal eyes turned black again, and he lifted up from where he was floating horizontally over Sasuke's body, preparing to slam his fist down to knock Sasuke unconscious if he would not be reasonable and try using another jutsu.

The Saiyan man landed next to where Sasuke was laying, and Sasuke grit his teeth as he saw Goku looking down at him. The irony was not lost on him, that this was the exact situation he was in with Kirito only a few hours before. And just like then, he did not see a scratch on Son Goku. It must have been frustrating for him, Sasuke thought.

"You've gotten strong," Goku said, grinning down at the teenager who despite his injuries started to get up. He winced as he put weight on his right leg that Goku had grabbed hard before when he was about to fly off, the one Goku used to swing him towards the wall, and which felt like it may have been broken. "You're stronger than when you fought Naruto," Goku added, but then he continued, "But not by that much."

Sasuke started frowning deeply at the Saiyan in front of him who lost his smile to a straight lip instead. "Have you, been training?" Goku asked.

"Of course I have," Sasuke responded, more angered by that question than the defeat itself. He bared his teeth and then spat some blood to his side, before attempting to calm himself as he stated, "But I've also been fighting a war for a long time. And not all parts of a war involve just strength training and getting more powerful." Like my Nen ability. I couldn't use it on you, but for the war… Sasuke lost track of that thought as Goku hummed at him and shrugged at that response. Sasuke's eyes narrowed down, and he could not hold it back. "Why did you not come back?" Sasuke asked. Goku looked into the younger man's eyes, his right black now as it had lost the Sharingan. "Why didn't you stay and help us fight?"

Goku could see a lot of anger on Sasuke's face, so he kept his lips flat and took the younger man seriously. "Did you hear about Awul and what happened there?"

"I know about the Underworld," Sasuke responded. "I heard things from Gray and Kirito about them. But that still doesn't explain where you were all that time before the fight started. Where Son Goku, the legendary hero, was while we have all been fighting this war."

Goku started frowning at Sasuke, then he lowered his gaze for a second, before lifting it and giving the other man a small smile. "I have a wife, and two sons," Goku started. Sasuke's eyes both opened wide, and Goku continued, "I became the Mayor of my town, and I still fought villains from time to time, but mainly I was training, and staying with my family. Things I loved doing." Goku's smile lowered back down and he continued, "Then a man, and his Underworld, took that away from me. He killed ChiChi, my wife, and he killed many of my friends too." Sasuke grimaced at this response, but his angry expression lifted a little when the older man continued. Goku had taken a pause, then he continued, "But, the ones who killed my wife and friends, did not care that they killed them. I learned later on in that war, that it was myself who was the target of the attack. And Vegeta, and Gohan," he added softly. "They tried to kill me, and instead they wound up killing my wife and the others close to me."

Sasuke's eyes grew wide, and he started staring at the man in front of him in shock. "…and two sons." "Is that why," Sasuke began. "Is that why you came back to Aebrith? Why did you leave Awul in the first place?"

Goku's gaze was far off, looking at a far-off wall with a stern and distant expression. Sasuke stared closer, then Goku turned his gaze back to him and smiled. "I just came because it sounded like a fun adventure." Sasuke lost his shocked look and frowned again, though he also sweatdropped at the response. "Anyway, you should go get those injuries checked out," Goku suggested. His hair turned golden again, and he continued while looking around the giant empty floor, "I'm going to start training here."

Don't just make that decision on your own, Sasuke thought, though he kept it to himself. These floors are not usually empty. I knew this one was right now, because I checked. But I'll have to move around some others who have this place scheduled for later. "Do as you please," Sasuke said, turning away from the Saiyan and starting for the exit, albeit slowly despite his attempts at trying to hide his limp. I'll have to do that before I get in a recovery tank. "I have a wife…" A face appeared in Sasuke's mind, a girl with shoulder-length pink hair whose eyes were closed and who was smiling at him with her head tilted a bit. Is that really, what Son Goku chose? Sasuke thought, glancing behind him again towards the man who was rising his power higher and higher now that he found what seemed like the best area to train in so far. He chose family, over a war. If I had made that choice, if I was in Konoha when Naruto… Sasuke ground his teeth and clenched his fists at his sides. No. It's his choice that was selfish. He may have chosen to have a family, but so many others who wanted to make the same decision were forced to fight, because he wouldn't. He didn't even though he enjoys this, and people had to fight who hate it. …And yet, he is always there, when we need him the most. Right when it seemed like there was nothing to prevent us from losing this war, he returns.

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This is bull, Kirito walked down a white hallway and he tapped on another computer next to an occupied training room door. Couldn't Sasuke have been any more specific than to "look for" this Lexa person? This base is enormous. And finding out that she's training doesn't narrow it down much when this place has a thousand different training facilities, rooms, and entire floors. It's already been a few hours, though I guess that gave me some time to recover from Sasuke's beatdown. Though, not much, he added to himself and rolled his right shoulder a few times that still ached despite the health potion he took on his way past a recovery point near the directory he had to use to look up Lexa's location.

People have seen her around here at least, Kirito thought, while walking to the adjacent training room after seeing only one person, who was a guy, training in the last one. He tapped a button on the next computer and looked around the training room that had eight people in it. Though there were eight however, Kirito's eyes widened a bit as he saw smaller figures in the room floating at next to the helmets of the soldiers on one side of the room. What are those things?

"Church, run a simulation."

"Put your little guy away Carolina," Michael Creed said. The man in a white suit of armor wore a helmet with a yellow visor covering the entire thing. He lifted up a gun with a blade curving out the bottom of it, and he spoke in a deep voice while looking to the other side of the room and the one person not in any armor. "We don't need it."

"I agree with Mongol," Lavernius Tucker said. He stepped up on the left side of the bald man in a white suit of armor, in a suit that looked similar but was teal and had a darker red visor covering the whole helmet. He lifted his left hand and snapped it to the side with a hilt in it, and out from that hilt extended an Energy Sword that Kirito's eyes narrowed at from the other side of the wall, as he had seen one of its kind before.

The Covenant had those kinds of-

"Hold on there, Sangheili," a man in purple armor said, and he lifted his left hand to make another tiny glowing figure appear in the air. His was small and glowed pinkish-purple, and the tiny translucent figure wore the same purple armor as the soldier who just made him appear there. "What do you think Theta? We have a chance?"

"I don't know, she's pretty scary," Theta said, turning his head and glancing across the room before spinning back quickly. "She's giving us a lot of time to plan. So she must be really confident."

"Theta is correct," a glowing green tiny figure floating near a man in dark yellow armor said. "If we only look at the numerical advantage, it is clear where York's money would lie. However the Commander is quite terrifying."

Are those things AI? Just like that Ritsu girl. How many worlds did AI's exist in? And if they can travel between worlds, then couldn't… wait, Commander? Kirito's gaze shifted to the other side of the screen he was looking at. Her?! He looked at the woman who did not look much older than him. Then again, neither is Sasuke, he thought, calming down a bit as he decided not to judge as quickly as he almost had. She was shorter than him, had long brown hair falling straight behind her though it got curlier farther down her back, she had on a black tank top pulled tight to her body, and a pair of tight black pants on as well. Might not actually be her, he realized as he looked the girl in her early twenties up and down.

"Sure you want to do this Lexa?" Kirito frowned as his suspicions were confirmed at what the woman in cyan armor who had a floating white AI next to her head said. She walked forward between the ones with visors over most of their helmets, who Kirito had heard been called Mongol and Sangheili. Her armor was closer to the men in purple and gold armor, and he finally recognized where he had seen the design from before. Grif wore armor like that. And that sword is from the Covenant, just like the name Sangheili. That's what the Elites were called, their real race name I think. Doubt one of those aliens could fit in that armor though.

"Um, Carolina," the AI next to the woman in the middle's head started. It was white which made it look more translucent than the others, and it had a somewhat nervous voice as it continued, "Are you sure we want to do this?"

"Oh come on Church," the guy in teal on their left said. "We've got this. We got this, right?"

"Yeah, I'm not too sure about that," Church said. The AI lifted his own translucent rifle as he glanced to the right through his visor towards the patiently awaiting Commander. The young woman had her eyes closed, she had black face paint in two lines under each eye, and a small decorative circle between her eyebrows that seemed to have sentimental meaning to her. Lexa's eyes opened and she lifted both arms at her sides, pulling out a pair of curved blades she had in hilts at her waist. "Yeah I don't have a plan for this. Carolina, get ready. I think she's about to-"

"Everybody forward!" Carolina shouted. The woman in cyan armor lifted up both hands and pulled out a pair of plasma rifles she fired without hesitation, firing streams of almost constant glowing blue beams towards the younger woman who just started charging the indecisive soldiers.

"This is not going to go well," the guy in gold armor started. "D, give me a sit-rep. Any weak points you can find."

"As Epsilon is unable to deduce one, I am afraid none of us will be able to give you a course of action for a hundred percent victory. I give our current chances of victory, telling from the Commander's speed and position, sixteen percent."

"Oh, that's not so bad," the man said, pulling a pistol off his side and jogging forward, while the man in purple on his left lifted up his sniper rifle and was aiming down the scope towards where Lexa and Carolina just collided. The man in gold ran with his green AI, Delta, up behind Mongol and Sangheili, firing between them towards where Carolina leaned back and let his bullets fly past her towards where Lexa was slashing forwards. Lexa's blades looking to be aimed at Carolina's armor however, did not change directions at all, making the woman in cyan armor go wide-eyed from behind her visor as Lexa's blades sliced each of her comrade's bullets into pieces.

Tucker slammed on the breaks and leaned back with his energy sword as he saw that. "Oh man, that's fast," he said, and he reached down his free hand and grabbed a frag grenade from his side. He ripped the pin and tossed it forward, yelling, "Grenade!"

"Speed boost!" Carolina called out.

"Got it!" Church, or the AI- Epsilon, floating next to her head shouted in response. Carolina's legs bent down as she came out of a dodge-roll away from Lexa's follow-up slash to cutting the bullets. Her bent legs put on more pressure, then she shot forward so fast she left a trail behind her blurry body. She sprinted to the side wall and glanced to her side to see Lexa chasing right after her. Carolina hit the wall and did not slow down, sprinting straight up it while turning her body sideways and firing her plasma rifles at the chasing Commander.

She doesn't need to cut any of them, Kirito thought, as he watched Lexa keep up her speed while easily weaving left and right between all the glowing bullets. That soldier is good too though. Carolina, she's keeping on the offensive even as she backs away from Lexa's chase- Kirito's eyes widened more as Lexa picked up the speed, but only picked it up as a fake since she slashed her right arm at the same time. A slash flew off of her sword and cut through the outside of Carolina's armor, throwing her off the wall letting out a yell. As Lexa finished her slash, she yanked her sword up, and a bullet trail passed under her blade millimeters from hitting it.

Across the room, the man in purple armor tssked, while Theta leaned forward over his left shoulder and their sniper barrel and exclaimed, "She dodged that?! So close!"

"I got you!" The man in golden armor ran beneath where Carolina was falling, only for the redhead in cyan to flip over and press the bottom of her heavy boots on her comrade's shoulders. She pressed down hard, and the Epsilon AI worked the armor enhancements both Church and Carolina were thinking of. She blasted back up in the air, pushing the man in gold into the floor and rolling backwards. Four more sniper bullet trails flew through the air on her sides, keeping Lexa boxed-in, or so Carolina and her comrade in purple had hoped. Lexa was suddenly on the ground though, an elbow slammed into the chest of the man in white armor who was pointing his Brute Shot up towards Lexa's now-fading image.

"Mongol!" Tucker shouted, spinning towards where the other man was bouncing. He spun back quickly though while slashing his blue sword out in front of his body. Lexa's eyes widened for a second, and Tucker smirked behind his dark red visor as he cut towards where she was appearing. "Sorry hot stuff, I don't get distracted that-" his Energy Sword was about to hit her in the side, and he was going to slow it down so he did not cut into her, but her eyebrows narrowed in while she lifted the left corner of her mouth into a smirk. Her pupils dilated and small white circles formed inside them, and a pulse of aura blasted out from her so hard that Tucker's glowing blue sword started shaking in his arm that stopped moving, and then the blade retracted. Tucker fell down to a knee, coughing and muttering, "What just-"

Lexa lifted a knee into the man's visor and smashed through it, red glass flying up in the air as he flew backwards. "Surprised you managed not to pass out, all of you," Lexa said, turning from the dark-skinned man with a bloodied face who fell flat on his back behind her now. Mongol was struggling back to his feet a few feet to the left of where Carolina landed, rubbing his left arm over his chest where there was a dent in his armor, but that dent buffed out and he snapped his left hand to the Brute Shot he lifted back up. He turned to Carolina and gave her a single nod and a grunt, and then the two of them started rushing at Lexa together, while the Commander slashed a sword to her side without looking that way and cut through a sniper round.

"Tucker! You alright?" A guy in gray armor with yellow highlights on the shoulders and knees who had been standing back with another soldier in all black called out. David started running forward, and the woman in black behind him watched him go for a second, before turning back and staring across the room towards Carolina who was on her own again as Mongol got thrown backwards. The brute in white armor was staggering back up again though, and he let out a loud growl before just pointing his Brute Shot forward and firing a half dozen rounds in succession. Each round exploded around the two women who were fighting from close range, Carolina occasionally using her guns to push away a sword slashing at her, and firing with it at the same time.

Lavernius Tucker stayed flat on his back for a few more seconds, then he leaned up right as his friend was getting to his side. "Here, I've got a healing unit," David said, dropping a small metal device on the floor that glowed green light and surrounded them in it.

"This fucking sucks," Tucker said, crouching next to the man who came to his aid. "Thanks Wash," he added after a second as he felt the pounding headache and busted nose feeling a bit better.

"Viken now, try and keep up," his teammate said before spinning back towards their Commander.

"York, I suggest we regroup with the others while Carolina holds off the Commander. She does not seem to need your immediate help," Delta said to the man in gold armor standing up next to him.

"Yeah, you got that right," he said, feeling pain in his shoulders after Carolina used him as a launching point to attack Lexa a minute ago. He started jogging back towards the soldier in black armor who the man in purple was backing up towards while firing off a few more sniper rounds in Carolina and Lexa's direction. The man in gold snapped his head back to the side before reaching though and he said, "Hey! How many times I have to tell you D? It's Mayan now. We got rid of those state names."

"It is strange. I updated your designation in my databanks, but I still just see you as York," the green AI said in an interested tone. "Perhaps if Carolina were to follow in the trend with the rest of you, it would stick better."

"You're just making excuses," Mayan, formerly the Freelancer Agent York, said. "Now, have you thought anything up yet?"

"I keep running simulations in my head, but our success rate is only declining the more of the Commander's abilities I see. At this point, our likelihood of success is below eight percent."

"Damn it D," an annoyed voice snapped from the black suit of armor in front of where Mayan was running. Next to the armor appeared a full sized soldier in silver armor holding a transparent assault rifle, and he snapped in the same voice as the Epsilon AI Carolina was using, "Why'd I even save your useless hide if you can't give us a decent strategy?"

"As I am only a fragment of yourself, Alpha, you should have been able to come up with the same best strategy that I-"

"It's Church!" Alpha snapped. "I'm the original. Stop calling Epsilon my name!"

"Technically Church, you're still just the first copy of the Director," a female voice came from the black armor the Alpha's body was being projected out of. She started walking forward, and she cracked her neck to one side and then the other, "Get ready, we're going out there."

"Really Cleo?" Mayan said in surprise. "Thought you'd give my girl more of a shot."

"She's about to lose," Cleo replied, while the Alpha AI's translucent body vanished and popped back into her helmet.

Carolina pulled the trigger on both of her weapons as she panted facing the Commander, to no response from the guns. She growled as they were out of fuel, then she snapped her arms to the sides and threw them away. She rose her fists up in a fighting stance, but Lexa noticed something behind Carolina that made her grin. "Deciding to step in now? Shouldn't have waited for half of your team to go down first," Lexa said.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Cleo began, lifting her hands and cracking her knuckles one fist at a time. "My team's in peak condition. Get up Mongol!" She called out after that, while Tucker was finishing up getting to his feet himself, shaking his head around and snapping his Energy Sword back out in front of him. Tucker's helmet was broken, but he rose his right arm and wiped under his nose, getting his blue armor a little red even as he gained a serious look on his face. Lexa darted her eyes over to the man in white armor who seemed down for the count for sure, but he curled up on the ground with his face pointed down through the yellow visor. He lifted both hands up and then slammed his fists down below him in a furious way, then his head snapped inwards towards the young Commander.

"I can do this!" Carolina shouted, snapping her head back forward after looking sideways and back to the woman in black armor.

"Move back Carolina," Cleo said. "I gave you a chance. We'll work on it together now."

Carolina bared her teeth, and Epsilon popped up next to her head and said, "Maybe we should go back. She's kind of kicking our-"

"Put everything into the speed booster Church," Carolina said.

"Oh!" Church exclaimed in panic, disappearing back into Carolina's helmet as her legs were bending and her entire body tensing up.

The Alpha popped back out of Cleo's armor and called forward, "Don't do it honey. Listen to your mother!"

Carolina bared her teeth even harder in her helmet, then a more furious look formed on her face at the laughter in her own head. "Sorry," Epsilon said as he laughed at the joke his own original program thought was funny enough to say. "Kuh kah, all ready," Church said, telling Carolina they were set for action.

"Roman," Cleo said, turning her head left and calling to the man in purple armor who had moved up but stayed behind her with his sniper risen. The former Freelancer agent North Dakota glanced towards their team leader, and she held up an open palm, then extended her arm with that palm pointed towards Tucker and Wash. In only their helmets, including Tucker's that the comms still worked in even with a shattered visor, Cleo's voice came through, "Don't fuck this up. Beta's officially disbanded, so this is our one shot at making it as an Elite Squad. Let's get it. Roman run up behind Viken and Sangheili. She can't dodge or cut a sniper round from point blank."

"Sounds good and all, but aren't we trying to use these shots just to make her stay on the defensive?" Roman asked as he jogged towards his other two comrades on Cleo's left. "Don't want to kill the little lady now do-"

Lexa started walking in a circle. Carolina was about to sprint at her full speed, but the redhead in cyan armor snapped her head back and forth as Lexa's started appearing all around her. They walked in a circle around her, the edge of the circle not far from where Mongol just got back up on his feet. The brute in white armor spun in anger towards one of the girls walking around Carolina with the same facial expression, and he swung a heavy fist at her. He stumbled forward as his punch went straight through her, then a hand grabbed him by the back of his armor. Lexa swung Mongol's body in to her right, directly in the path of Carolina who found the real body and shot off to it without hesitating.

"Oh shit!" Church shouted in Carolina's head, trying to slam on the breaks as his controller did. They still slammed into Mongol even if they managed to pull their punch, and Carolina and her comrade tumbled towards the wall. While Carolina was in mid-roll though, Lexa grabbed her by the helmet and lower down on the armor at the same time. She spun, lifting Carolina up, which made Roman yank his sniper up as he had almost pulled the trigger right there. As Lexa spun Carolina, she pulled down on the older woman's armor and up on her helmet, ripping one off of the other.

"Whoa! Hey what're you-" Church started shouting, only for Lexa to throw the armored soldier to the side as Carolina tried kicking backwards, then she dropped the helmet that Church's small translucent body came out of, and she punted it towards Tucker who was the closest person to reaching her now. "Look out!" Church shouted, and Tucker ducked right before his best friend would have hit him in his unprotected face. Tucker heard a grunt behind him and spun to see Wash's head snapping back with the helmet bouncing off of him.

Tucker, codename: Sangheili, felt a footstep right next to him and he started turning his head back while saying, "Shi-" Lexa's elbow hit him in the head and a tooth flew out while his eyes rolled back, and he got thrown into Wash, or Viken, right as he was lowering his head from getting hit by the helmet. Tucker hit Wash and they both flew back, and Roman dove forward while extending his sniper out in front of him. Bang! Bang! Bang! He fired three times as he was mid-dive, but Lexa backflipped, one of the bullets passing between her arms, another sliding right under her back, another just past her left side that she curved in. Roman landed on his stomach and pulled the trigger again. Click. Oh fuck- He suddenly no longer felt the need to be worried about the Commander, since said girl kicked him in the side of the helmet so hard that he barrel-rolled away before stopping flat on his stomach again, though this time his helmet was bowed too.

As Lexa's foot was still extended in the kick, her eyes darted back and forth spotting two people jumping at her from different sides. One was the man in golden armor, and the other was the woman in cyan who no longer had her helmet but looked a lot more pissed-off now. Carolina missed her punch down as Lexa spun to the side, but Carolina's left leg snapped back behind her and then kicked the direction Lexa dodged. Lexa lifted an arm and blocked with the hilt of her sword she just slid back out of her sheath, then she slid it right back down and brought that free hand to Carolina's foot before she could kick it again. Lexa ducked down under Mayan's punching fist, then she spun Carolina around and into her comrade so hard they both gasped.

Lexa spun around and lifted both arms, blocking the weapon slammed down at her. The invisible figure behind her shimmered into view in her black armor, as did the rifle she slammed down into Lexa's crossed arms. She planned on firing that rifle after it was blocked, if it was, but Lexa's arms where they crossed had turned black at the last second. She uncrossed her arms in a single movement and sliced the rifle in two, then she slammed a kick out only for the other woman in black to turn her body sideways fast enough that Lexa's foot passed by her front. "Activating all weapons' systems. You've got thirty seconds, Allison," Alpha said in the black helmet of the squad leader.

"Thanks Church," she replied, right before her body started glowing blue. She turned the other way and Lexa's other leg she just jumped and kicked out with passed by her other side, then she snapped her body back and let the extended leg spin around the top of her body. Right after it passed over her, Lexa froze still and Cleo moved fast. She snapped out of her bowed position and jumped up in the air, slamming a fist forward before the time distortion wore off, which happened right as her fist connected. Lexa's head snapped back while there was an armored fist in her face, but when she hit the ground on her back she instantly flipped up and slashed both swords out from the sheaths at her sides, creating large but precise flying slashes aimed straight for Cleo who was using the same speed boost as Carolina before to sprint towards her. The slashes both hit Cleo head-on, but each time they hit, Cleo's body seemed to split in two and the part of her that was hit faded away while the other one kept running forward.

Lexa landed and sprinted forward, slashing both swords faster than Cleo was moving in her fastest state. She tried blocking with her armored arms for a few seconds, and she drew a knife from her waist to block as well, but Lexa's swords were Haki-coated and cut through her armor fast despite its strength. As Lexa slashed forward again though, she let go of the sword in her right hand. It was just in time too, as a Bubble Shield emerged out of Cleo's body and expelled fast, hitting Lexa and pushing her back, but only a few feet before Lexa pushed through the outside of the barrier. Cleo leapt backwards out of the stationary Bubble Shield though, dropping two grenades behind her right as she left the yellow domed barrier. BAN-BANG! The grenades went off and filled the dome with explosions, and everyone leaned forward hoping to see Lexa injured inside it.

The bubble shield fell while still full of smoke, and then the smoke pulled out in Cleo's direction. Cleo rose a sidearm and fired twice fast into the smoke pulling her way. Bullets flew through the smoke and hit nothing, and the woman in black armor lifted her head at the sight of Lexa flipping high above her. Lexa had both of her swords drawn, no damage at all on her body, and she landed behind Cleo who started spinning and slashing a knife in her free hand. Lexa ducked down under the knife while swinging both of her swords around her body at full speed.

Kirito leaned forward and dropped his jaw in shock. The other soldiers all in the room called out in panic too, as Lexa sliced both of her swords through the middle of Cleo's black armor and cut her in half at the waist. The swords were a little separated from each other where they hit the armored woman's body, so it really ripped apart the middle of her torso. The woman's top half lifting in the air gasped out in pain, and her voice came out as she fell, "Well shit-"

This is crazy! Did she just- Kirito froze and stared blankly towards the heap of armor on the ground. A figure stood up out of the armor looking a lot like the armored figure in black had, except translucent now. Next to her appeared a similar ghostly figure only in silver armor, and he started scratching the back of his head while looking down at their armor suit. Is everyone here an AI? Kirito looked around but saw a bunch of the other humans already had their visors smashed or helmets taken off. She, must have known… right?

"Tex!" Viken called out, helping Tucker up to his feet but looking over in panic as their team leader got cut apart. "Oh yeah," he said after shouting it in panic. "My bad, Cleo," the soldier formerly known as Wash said as the AI turned and glared his direction.

"Carolina," Cleo said, glancing towards the redhead in cyan armor who was the only one still standing to face Lexa. Carolina was all alone, but she had her helmet back on. A small white AI looking like the full-sized one next to Cleo popped up over Carolina's right shoulder. Cleo's ghostly AI body shook her head and said, "You can't."

"Don't tell me what I can't do," Carolina started, her fists clenching at her sides. "Church," Carolina started, and the Epsilon AI next to her head stepped back nervously in the air over her shoulder. "All power into the speed boost." Carolina bent her knees and she felt her muscles tensing up until the help of her AI gave her the support to run those armor systems. "More," she whispered, while pulling out a pair of knives from her waist and holding them up glaring towards the Commander.

"A team member who won't even listen to orders," Lexa stood straight up and slid her swords down into her sheaths. Carolina's eyes opened huge behind her visor as the Commander turned her back to her. Lexa turned towards Cleo and said, "Your request to become the new Beta Squad is denied, Cleo. Get your team in order. They're a mess," Lexa glanced around with a glare at certain members in the room who leaned back at that look. She glared hardest at Carolina who was shaking as she stood hunched in her ready-to-sprint position. "You lost."

"Stand down," Cleo said harshly. "Epsilon," she growled, and Carolina's AI 'eep'ed before cutting off his soldier's armor systems.

"Sorry Carolina," Epsilon whispered in the cyan helmet.

Carolina shook in anger as she stood back up straight, before turning and throwing the knife in her right hand at the wall behind her in fury. Her eyes shot open huge as she released the blade, only to stare forward wide-eyed as the man who was standing behind her rose his right hand and caught the knife by the blade. Lexa was already looking that way, but everyone else in the room looked over as Carolina stood back straight up and stared at the teenager who caught her knife.

The black haired teen tossed the blade up and caught it by the hilt, then he tossed it back towards Carolina before turning away from the armored woman. "Mind if I give it a go?" Kirito asked. He stood wearing all black training clothes, and he had his two sword hilts sticking out over the tops of his shoulders.

"You?" Lexa asked, lifting her eyebrows up as she faced the younger man. She started walking towards him, and she said, "Do you think because of that fight I may be winded, and you might have a chance to beat me?" Lexa sprinted forward, pulling both of her curved swords out of her sheaths and darting left and right faster than she had moved in her entire fight against the squad just fighting her. Kirito reached his hands up to his swords fast and slashed them down right as Lexa slashed up at him.

"Whoa! What's going on?" Sangheili shook his head around and shrugged off Viken's helping arm to stand on his own. He stared forward while running his tongue between his teeth where he no longer felt a tooth that should have been there, but that was not processing very well as he saw the guy who just came in start slashing swipe for swipe with the Commander. The boy was about to be slashed across the face, but when one of Lexa's blades was inches away, Kirito's eyes darted towards it and his head pulled millimeters out of the way.

"This kid," Cleo started, the AI realizing something. The Alpha next to her realized it simultaneously, as did the other AIs in the room who all searched their systems and found who they were staring at so they could tell the soldiers with them.

Kirito leapt back and Lexa sprinted towards where he was going to come down. "AHH!" Kirito yelled at her, and the air in front of his body rippled from the shout and stopped her in place. Then with the extra second he had as he landed, Kirito stomped down both feet onto the floor and cracked it straight towards Lexa who snapped her gaze down with widened eyes for the first time. The white floor of the Resistance training rooms could handle a lot thrown at it, so being cracked that easily made Lexa know it was some strange power causing it. She dodged by side-stepping to the left, then she sprinted straight at Kirito again and sliced across her body towards his.

Kirito rose his swords, but Lexa released hers right as they were about to hit his. She then extended her right arm between his blades he was blocking with, grabbed him by the front of his black shirt, and she yanked him forward and down towards the floor. She brought her knee up as his head passed down between his arms that were turning his blades, and as he stumbled back with his eyes closed, Lexa caught her two blades being knocked backwards. Kirito snapped his eyes open, but Lexa was gone. A sword wrapped around his neck and the sharp blade covered in Haki pressed into his throat.

Lexa stood behind him and said, "If you're going to interrupt, then you better make a better show of it than that. I expected more." The figure she was speaking to exploded in a puff of smoke. The door opened behind Lexa and she turned towards it again, and this time when she saw him enter, the right corner of her lip actually lifted up a bit. "The rest of you, out," Lexa said.

Kirito wondered how he was going to do as he walked farther into the room. I only made one Shadow Clone. I meant to do better before coming in myself. She wasn't as interested as Ra's was in talking though.

"Yo! You took down Ra's al Ghul?" Sangheili wasn't far from where Kirito was walking in, and the teen glanced the older man's way as he called that out. "That's crazy! Nice job."

Cleo glanced over towards Lexa as Sangheili got Kirito's attention, and the AI frowned at the sight of the short Commander's expression. "Everyone. Let's get out of here. We can watch from outside and go over what went wrong."

"Need to get you a new body too," Viken mentioned while heading towards the door himself. He walked behind the teen who he glanced at closer when he was near him. He's young.

"Think we'll finally get our new orders?" Alpha wondered as he started walking towards the door his translucent self.

Kirito was staying focused on Lexa as the team who had been fighting her gathered up their unconscious members and started leaving. He caught bits and pieces of what they were saying while he stared at his opponent who was looking straight back in his eyes now. They just came back, from the southeast it sounds like. New orders from HQ… Kirito started frowning more but he steadied his expression and drew his swords from his sheaths when the room was almost empty.

Carolina walked out of the room slowly, but Mayan walked up at her side and said, "Don't take it too hard, C." The man in gold armor patted a hand onto her back and rubbed it up and down for a second. "I think you could'a taken her."

Delta popped up next to Mayan's helmet, and the small green AI said, "The probability of success for Carolina to defeat the Commander was actually ze-"

"Let's get this off," Mayan took his helmet off and tucked it down below his right arm, cutting off Delta mid-sentence too. The light-skinned man ran his other hand up through his brown hair to spike it up, and then he turned to the girl next to him as they headed through the door, "Cheer up. Not everything's a competition you know?"

Carolina growled at him without turning her head, and Mayan held up a hand defensively to show he meant nothing by it. "I'm looking forward to seeing this guy in action though," he said, changing the subject quickly while walking to the side of the door to the computer they'd be able to spectate from.

"Yeah me too," Sangheili said as Mayan walked up to him. The black man in teal armor had short even darker black hair over his head, and a lot of blood on his face as he looked at the screen.

"Tucker," Carolina said, turning her helmet to him a little. "Go sit in a recovery tank. You look like battered shit."

"No way am I missing this!" Tucker exclaimed back at her right as the last of their group came out of the room dragging an unconscious Roman with him. "It's gonna be- holy crap! Whoa!" Tucker leaned away from the screen and then started grinning after a second while the others who came out all turned to it as well. As soon as the door closed behind Mongol and Roman, the two thin figures inside the training room sprinted at each other.

"Could use a guy like that on my team," Cleo said, lifting a hand and scratching her translucent helmet's chin.

"Wonder what he's fighting the Commander for?" Mayan said thoughtfully, then his eyes widened huge as forty more of the dark-haired teenager just appeared all over that room.

Still tired from facing Sasuke, but that's why it was good she got in a fight already. Did Sasuke tell her about me yet? Kiritos sprinted in at Lexa from all sides, slashing at her with the dual-wielded swords that she was dodging seemingly with ease. Faster still? Kirito thought when she sped up more than she had in her fight against those soldiers that she was going as fast as she could, but the girl in between three of his clones suddenly shot straight up to the ceiling faster than any of the Kiritos could follow.

"Cleo," a voice called down the hallway to the translucent female AI in black armor. The group staring closely at the television on the wall turned their heads, and the man walking their way gave the ghostly leader of the team an annoyed look, "Why aren't you in a body suit? I was told you had…" Gray Fullbuster trailed off as he glanced at the screen the others had been staring at. He stared at the screen while Cleo started responding to him with an apology for losing the armor, not mentioning that Lexa had destroyed it in her report.

Gray's eyes focused in on the screen, but he said while looking at it, "I'm calling a meeting with all the gathered team leaders. Twenty minutes in hangar bay C. All mission personnel are to meet in Auditorium A-01 at 20:00 for a briefing report."

"It's about time," Tucker said, turning towards Gray again since he had looked back at the screen right after the younger man called to them the first time.

Gray glanced around at the group in front of him, then back to Cleo and said, "Get yourself a new body, and the rest of you get healed up. We're moving out fast as soon as I give out the mission details. Don't expect to stay here tonight."

"Understood," the soldiers in front of him said, and finally they all got to jogging away. Some of them had more to do than others in the time they had until their mission briefing, while Cleo just glanced next to her at Church and nodded. The Alpha and Beta AIs disappeared into the television they had been watching and moved out through the base's system, saying 'hi' to Ritsu on their way up to get Cleo a new body, and Church argued he wanted one of his own too after losing his body on the last mission.

Gray stayed behind after the others had all run off. He stared at the screen and inside the training room where a Commander he did not know well was facing off against Kirito in a heated battle. I know all your moves. We've fought together, and I know just how strong you are. Would you come if I asked? Gray stared closer at the teen who flipped backwards while making hand-signs, as the woman who had somehow located him through all his Shadow Clones was getting too close. Kirito blew a fireball at Lexa who sprinted fast to the right to dodge it after feigning dodging left, making Kirito miss by a long shot with a jutsu that cost him some chakra. One of the Shadow Clones he threw was the other direction in case it was a misdirection though, and that one crossed its hands and created two others who it threw ahead at the girl who stopped short.

Gray grinned and leaned closer with a growing look of excitement as Lexa slashed one of the clones apart, only to be tackled backwards by the second one whose main goal was to cover her eyes. As Lexa started countering Kirito's attempt though, Gray stopped smiling so much at the aspect of his comrade beating a Resistance Commander in combat. "You were going to kill me. Not six hours ago. You were going to kill me…" Gray clenched his teeth hard while looking at the intense teen in the next room who was continuing on the assault even as his last two moves fell through with Lexa seeing through his strategies. "You are no longer my comrade."

Outside the training room, Gray turned from the screen and started marching off. His unsteady look got so frustrated at the thoughts he was having. The night they saved Juvia, right after they brought her back, he couldn't get what Kirito told him out of his mind. "I'll stay with you on our way back to Pon-Gatso, solely to protect Juvia. Once we are there, we're done." I can't call to him. I can't let the others see how little he trusts me. Gray's look started to steady and get more serious. He lowered his head a bit and stared underneath the rim of the General's hat he was wearing, and he clenched his one fist under the navy-blue cloak he had been given. I've already gathered my forces. Made my plan. There's no time to change it now. Gray walked forward staring down the hall and much farther, Now, is the time for action.

Back inside the room Gray just walked away from, Kirito hit the ground on his back and tried rolling to the side. He found it difficult though, as a knee pressed into his chest and a blade up against his throat. His eyes bulged and all the Shadow Clones running towards him froze where they were. There were only twelve of them left, but one had a Rasengan in hand and another was in the middle of doing hand signs for a different jutsu despite how depleted on chakra Kirito was. He still felt like he could keep going, but even if he was not completely exhausted yet, Lexa had beaten him.

She knelt harder into his lungs and pressed her blade across the real Kirito's throat harder, and he said as a drop of blood trickled down his neck, "How'd you know, which was me?" She had kept chasing the real one no matter how many times he split with more Shadow Clones or made sure he had left her sight.

"It wasn't a certain energy or anything," Lexa said while looking down into his eyes from only a foot up where her head was leaning. The slightly older woman glared into Kirito's gaze that was steady even as she held a sword to his neck. "You just gave it away yourself, which was the real you." Kirito's eyes widened a bit, as he thought there must have been some sort of trick or something. She just, guessed? And she guessed right all those times? It wasn't like I was hiding my real body. How? Could I do-

Lexa pulled her sword off of Kirito's neck and stood up at his side. She slid her swords down into her sheaths, then she extended a hand down to the boy whose eyes widened even more as he was not expecting this. He grabbed her hand while letting go of the sword in his right hand, and she pulled him up to his feet and said, "I'll train you." Kirito finally did not go wider-eyed this time, returning his gaze to normal instead at what she said to him. "Sasuke asked me to," she continued while releasing Kirito's hand and taking a step back. "But I wasn't going to do it. Not unless you came up to me yourself and asked. I like your way better though," she added, since Kirito had not technically asked her to train him at all.

He's not bad. The look in his eyes is not that of a warrior though. Lexa's gaze got angrier at Kirito's look after what she just said to him, "Unless you have better things to do?"

"Oh, um, thank you," Kirito did not know what she had been waiting for from him, so he bowed his head a little bit as he said it. What kind of world was she from? She just kicked the shit out of those super soldiers with AI enhancements and guns, and she just has swords. She didn't use any jutsu, didn't fly or use ki blasts. She's just, strong. "Please, train me," Kirito requested.

"Hmph," Lexa grunted and glared at the top of his messy black hair. All of Kirito's Shadow Clones disappeared in puffs of smoke when he rose his head back up, and he leaned back a bit as she glared straight into his eyes as angrily as she was doing before. "Just one thing. Why? Why do you want to train here? What purpose do you have in getting stronger?"

Kirito stared straight back into Lexa's eyes and responded truthfully, "To help the Resistance. That's it."

Lexa glared harder at him at that answer. That's not all, her eyes examined his for another second, then she turned and started for the exit of the room. Kirito watched her start going in some confusion and surprise as he thought their training would start right now. "Be in here by five tomorrow morning," she said. "That shouldn't be too hard for the boy who killed Ra's al Ghul, should it?"

Kirito glared at her back for a second, but he immediately lightened his expression when she turned and stared at him as if daring him to continue that glare. "Five's fine," Kirito replied. Not like I'll be having a late night tonight anyway. I need to pass out right now. He kept his eyes open their normal size though, at least until Lexa turned around again.

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A/N Thanks for reading! Once again sorry about the long wait. A whole lot of battle scenes this chapter. Sasuke vs Goku was a really fun fight to write, and after I finished that is where I got caught in my couple month break. Anyway, the new Commander this chapter is Lexa from The 100 who I really liked in that show. She's pretty awesome and the show as a whole is one of my favorites right now. The people she was fighting are all from Red vs Blue, and I'll make it a little easier here to figure out who they were since I changed up their codenames (though I did mention it in the story too).

Viken: Wash

Sangheili: Tucker

Cleo: Tex

Mongol: Maine

Roman: North Dakota

Mayan: York

-So that's a whole squad of RvB guys in there, as well as with a bunch of AIs. Kirito notices there are AIs all around again, we'll see if anything comes of that later... He starts his training with a Resistance Commander while Goku proves to Sasuke that he's the Resistance's trump card still. Gray prepares to set off on his invasion of the Sith. Everyone's got their missions. Everyone's starting their month breaks in full now. Couple more parts before the end of this chapter and the start of one of the many arcs for our separated heroes. Try guessing which group/individual gets HWR 17 in a review below! Hope you enjoyed the chapter!

Espada-001 chapter 112 . Jun 8

Hello again! Man you really make it hard to make a review for each individual chapter since you release them back to back. Not complaining about the updates just maken it a bit hard for a person with limited computer access at times lol.

Well I guess I fixed that problem... by not updating for a few months... Yeah sorry about that. Your review's pretty long so just gonna respond to the rest of it here. Who could the magician be the girls and Timmy are searching out? How will Ben get Zodd to help him? Which will we see first? What about the other Kryptonians? What about the Sith?! So many questions, so many arcs set up now so the answers will come in time! With the RWBY world characters handling shotgun shells even if they haven't been trained very well, I'd say that shows there's likely something different about RWBY characters' bodies and those from other shows. Like everyone showing up on Nexus didn't instantly give everyone Quirks, or special powers when there are worlds where everyone has these things. So maybe unlocking Auras is possible, we haven't seen it yet, but we have seen people who've unlocked Nen so I won't say it can't happen. Anyway doubt these new Resistance members are giving any more hope towards someone who can take on Meruem, though there's some more mention of Kirito and AIs this chapter. Haven't seen MAR, but checked it out and maybe will watch sometime and add them in. Thanks for the long review, and I hope you're still into Nexus despite the hiatus!

Limit-Breaking chapter 112 . Jun 10

Hey here is a question for you when will sebatian from black butler make an apperance in this story we need to see more of him and i really do hope he can play a cool role in this story. If you do not know black butler then you should be ashamed of not watching the show at all.

Have not seen Black Butler ;(. Sorry for such a long hiatus (and the disappointing response to a character you seem to be really into). Hope you liked the chapter though, and thanks for reviewing!

Guest chapter 112 . Jun 12

and now stan has joined the dark side, cant wait to see what happens next, and did anyone else see that new kingdom hearts trailer it was cool.

Stan's going down a dark path... especially with Gray about to invade the Sith! And hell yeah I saw all the KH trailers, I'm really excited. Thanks for the review!

Smlluffy67 chapter 112 . Jun 18

I really want to get to talk about the few chapters I read so let's just get this one thing out of the way right now AQUA NOOOOOOO and make new outfit oh and jump force all right the last few chapters have been good and it looks like the characters are doing anything else besides training except for Goku

Well Kirito's out there training too. I have a feeling Aqua's not as evil as the trailer gave away, or at least I hope... I pray! I never read Marvel comics myself, so it's mainly going to be MCU marvel characters though I do look them up and try using powers/backstories from comics too based on their wikipedias.

flo463 chapter 112 . Jun 18

Kirito joins the rebellion. surprising because I thought he was pretty much the type to isolate himself from others after the acts he committed.
the part about the ias was interesting,
Kabaya's knowledge could prove useful since he created Yui and Strea (Strea is a character who only appears in Infinity Moment and Hollow Fragment games and is a mental-health program, similar to Yui, we can say that she is Yui's sister in a sense)
Sora who runs away just to find Kairi knowing that he is probably heading into a trap, after the others have elected him leader of the group, not very glorious. I do not know how others will react because they tend to act egoistement, but if I were them I would hardly give my trust after that.
I can see the Resistance High Command reacting badly if he learns that Sora has fled, I will not trust anyone who runs away from his responsibilities as leader.
I thought that the group would start acting like a real group, each helping each other instead of acting and thinking first of all about themselves, this is unfortunately not the case, each acting according to his personal interests. it would be maybe time when somebody to talk some sense them and to teach them to act as a real group and not their own
do you intend to add Highschool DXD by chance?

Kirito's seen some of the work the Resistance is doing by now, and really he pretty much went on this trip to Aebrith solely to join up with the Resistance and help them. It's what Goku asked him to do, and now he and Goku are pretty much the only ones there training at Resistance HQ, though I guess Gray's there too, for now. May add Yui and I've been hinting at more AI stuff now, but I never read the light novels so a probably not on the Strea. Sora heads out for love over duty, though he was pretty specific about everyone meeting up on Day 30, so hopefully he can make it back, the rest of them too in time to join back up together. And no I haven't seen DXD, tried getting into it a couple of times because I know there's some good action, but I just wasn't into the premise. Anyway, sorry for the couple month wait, but I hope you liked the new chapter! Thanks for the review!

cyber chapter 112 . Aug 8

man I saw some awesome ass cinematics of Warcraft, well since you did add Warcraft, I wonder where sylvanas is

Haven't played WOW in a while now, but I'm def planning on adding some more WOW stuff into this considering that's just such a huge world and has a lot to offer. Don't know if Sylvanas will appear... no spoilers after all! Thanks for the review! And once again everyone, sorry for the long wait. I hope you all enjoyed! And as always, 'till next time!