Chapter 22: Battle for the Relic
Last Time our heroes began training in preparation for the suspected attack on Haven Academy. But those suspicions turn true as Jason finds the White Fang hidden outside the city preparing themselves for the attack. Wanting to take out all the enemies in one fell swoop, he decided to not fight them. However unknown to everyone, Cooler has arrived at Remnant and is currently searching for Jason. What happens next now!
Haven CCT Tower...
Jason made quick work of everyone that came at him knocking them out with one single hit to the back of the neck. Everyone on Teams CFVY and SSSN were also making quick work of the White Fang members that approached them though not as fast as Jason. Before he could take out another member of the White Fang, he sensed stronger energy coming from behind him and quickly dodged the attack.
"You won't be getting in my way anymore, unlike the first time we met I'm strong and have battle experience. You may have powers that I don't, but that won't stop me from beating you!" Adam Taurus declared.
"Wait, have we met before?" Jason asked, not remembering at all where he had met the man before.
"You don't remember me well, I guess at the time when we first met, I couldn't make much of an impression, but I will now!" Adam yelled as he sliced several times at Jason. However, each time he attacked Jason dodged with ease, not even fazed by Adam.
Wanting to end the fight as soon as possible, Jason went in for an attack throwing a quick yet powerful punch at Adam, who managed to block it barely with his sword. Unknown to the two of them, a small crack formed in Adam's sword. Adam smiled as he backed up and charged the energy that he had obtained from Jason's attack and went for the kill.
With a large amount of energy, Adam charged and threw a barrage of strikes at Jason, who dodged them all except one which Adam did personally. Jason crossed his arms in front of him and blocked the attack though it pushed him back a way and cut his left arm guard in half.
"Oh man, I really liked these," Jason complained as he picked up the fallen piece of his arm guard and placed it in his pocket to have it repaired. Adam seethed in anger he thought that if he could get some energy from one of Jason's attacks, he could do some damage, but it did nothing to him.
"Are you invincible or something?" Adam questioned.
"No, I'm not. You're just not strong enough to deal any damage to me." Jason explained.
This made Adam even angrier than he was before, have all the years he spent training a waste he wanted to catch up to Jason ever since he saw his strength firsthand when he was fourteen, but the gap between them has only widened.
"I wanted to ask you something," Jason said, getting Adam's attention.
"What?" Adam asked.
"Is all this worth it? All this violence? Will, it really change anything for the better you're just making yourself look worse. As long as you keep doing this, the hatred against the faunus will never stop, so why continue?" Jason questioned.
"Says a faunus who's never had to experience the things I went through what the rest of us faunus went through someone as sheltered as you could never understand our plight!" Adam yelled.
"Now, I remember who you are. You were one of the two faunus of the White Fang that escaped from my friend and I a couple of years ago," Jason replied, recognizing Adam.
"But just so you know when I first met my best friend, who is a human, he hated me because of what I was, but over time we came to an understanding, and now I like to think of him as my brother. I may not have seen the terrible things humans have done to you, and I know that they are not forgivable, but if you do this, then you're no better than them." Jason explained.
"You're still just a preachy idiot nothing will change if we sit and do nothing but protest!" Adam replied, refusing to see the truth.
"Alright, then I'll stop trying to convince you, then I see that nothing will change your mind," Jason stated as he got back into fighting position.
Adam thought through his options in his current situation, he knew that he could never defeat Jason in a one on one fight, but he couldn't just abandon the mission. He looked at the bag that had the explosives that he had over his shoulder and came up with a plan.
"You won't be stopping me, fool!" Adam declared as he grabbed a handful of bombs and tossed them over towards the CCT, where Teams CFVY and SSSN were fighting off the White Fang.
"You'll have to stop that first!" Adam yelled. Jason was quick to act, and in a blink of an eye, he caught every one of the explosives and returned to face Adam.
"Predictable," Adam said as he activated the bombs that Jason had caught.
Jason threw the bombs quickly in the air, but the resulting blast sent him flying away, and Adam took that chance to run over to Haven Academy, for if he couldn't take out the CCT, he would at least destroy part of the academy. Jason got up and dusted himself off, the explosives didn't hurt him at all, but his shirt was a little torn.
"Damn, he's getting away." Jason cursed as he noticed Adam's energy moving towards the academy.
Before Jason could pursue him, large amounts of Grimm came from several dropships, and though at first look doesn't seem like it would be too much of a problem, he noticed that the Grimm seem mutated and seemed stronger than normal.
"These must be the special variants Salem had been making. Guess they're doing anything to try to slow us down." Jason thought.
"Shit now what do I do?" Jason questioned himself.
"I'll go after that guy if you can't, man." Sun offered.
"Alright, but be careful, he won't hesitate to go for the kill," Jason warned.
"Got it!" Sun replied, chasing after Adam.
Though Jason was worried that Sun would be in trouble, he had the feeling things would work out. Jason turned his attention on the Grimm that were heading towards them, he knew that his friends could handle whatever was left of the White Fang forces that remained around them.
Jason kicked the nearest Grimm in the gut, immediately killing it then moved to the next. The first few Grimm went down easily, but as he went on, the Grimm were stronger and kept Jason on his toes.
Though eventually, he managed to take them out, it took him a while due to their increased durability. As he finished, the new special Grimm normal Grimm came to take their place, making Jason have to fight them as well.
Once Jason had finished with the Grimm, having to use Ki to dispatch the last couple of Grimm, he turned to check on his friends who had just finished off the last of the White Fang members save a few stragglers who were detained by huntsmen.
"That was easier than expected," Coco commented as Jason rejoined the group.
"Yeah, should we go and help the others?" Sage asked.
"No, you guys to stay here and continue to guard the CCT in case anymore attempts on it occur. I'm going to go help Sun catch the guy who was leading all of this, so be alert while I'm gone." Jason answered. Though Jason said that he wanted to go to the main building and help his friends, but deep down, he knew that they would be okay as he went to help Sun.
Haven Main Hall...
Evan dispatched another Grimm just as easily as he did the first one. Whatever Salem was doing, it made them strong, though not as strong as Evan. However, they made that up in their durability, for it took Evan several strikes just to take one out.
"I guess these are that new special Grimm, but they seem so carbon copy as if whatever granted them new powers had a small effect on them, or they didn't get much of it. Maybe Salem's no longer concentrating on all of the Grimm." Evan thought. Evan jumped up and landed on the sword of Weiss's summon running up and over to attack a Grimm jumping at Jaune, who was attacking another Grimm.
"These Grimm are way more durable than normal!" Ren said as he cut up a Beowolf.
"Tell me about it. I can't make a dent in them." Jaune agreed.
"They're right. It's taking me several strikes just to take down one Grimm. This doesn't usually happen. In that case, I just have to use Ki." Evan thought as he prepared Palm Slicers in both of his hands. He began to cut through every Grimm he saw thinning the herd.
"Well, that helps," Pyrrha commented.
"Though it may just be a temporary solution." Blake pointed out as several more Grimm came through the hole in the wall. However, this group seemed to have less enhanced Grimm and more of the normal kind that everyone was used to.
"Well, it seems like we'll have an easier time with these," Weiss said as they continued the fight. Elsewhere Hazel threw a punch at Elias, but he easily caught the attack and pushed him away and into a wall. Brushing it off, Hazel dodged Elias's follow up attack and moving a good distance away from him.
"I'm surprised I put a lot of force into my attack the fact that you're not collapsed in pain is impressive." Elias complimented.
"My semblance makes me immune to pain, so nothing you do to me will keep me down," Hazel explained.
"Sounds like more of a detriment than a semblance," Elias commented.
"Then, I'll show you what it can do for me." Hazel declared as he took put two pairs of dust crystals, two fire, and two lightning. He then injected both sets into his arms, causing him to grow more muscular and his power to grow.
"Well, I didn't know humans could do such a thing. I am impressed, but it will not help you much in this fight." Elias affirmed as he took battle position.
"It'll have to do if we are to continue fighting," Hazel replied as he charged at Elias.
Even with his increase in strength, Elias had the upper hand due not only to being stronger but much faster. He was dodging every one of Hazel's attacks, not letting him land a single blow. Elias dodged Hazel's attack and grabbed his arm, throwing him over his shoulder and further in the hall.
"Just give up if at all possible, I would rather not have to fight you." Elias insisted.
"Sorry, but I cannot surrender my mistress would never forgive me." Hazel asserted as he got up.
Before Elias could go in for another attack, he sensed someone rapidly approaching him from behind. Acting quickly, he ducked under two blades thrown at him connected to chains and jumped away to avoid them once they retracted back to the owner.
"Don't tell me you still want revenge over Cinder Fall?" Elias asked as he spotted Emerald.
"Of course, she deserved better than to be killed by you and your brothers," Emerald replied.
"I told you last time that it was my brother Silas who killed her, and he's dead now I had little to do with her death," Elias explained.
"But I have to know one thing why do you care so much it's not like she cared about you?" Elias questioned.
"Shut up she did care!" Emerald yelled, going for another attack. However, she was stopped when Neo blindsided her, sending her away. Emerald stared at Neo, surprised that she was even there and fighting with the enemy.
"Why are you here and why are you fighting against us you're supposed to be on our side?" Emerald questioned. In response, Neo used her semblance to take the form of Roman Torchwick as she stared down at the green-haired girl.
"Is this about Roman? What about him? We didn't kill him. He died because of them, especially him." Emerald yelled, looking at Elias. Neo simply shook her head and pointed at Emerald, readying her Hush.
"I believe she is trying to say is that you abandoned the mission and in turn her and Roman, so you are partly to blame for his death that and my brothers, but they're dead," Elias explained. Neo nodded as she approached Emerald, who got to her feet, and the two began to fight. Elias turned back around to face Hazel, who patiently waited for Elias to finish his conversation.
"Thank you for waiting, shall we continue?" Elias asked.
"Yes, let us finish this," Hazel answered as the two reengaged in battle. Ruby and Nora were currently fighting with a crazed scorpion faunus who seemed to get great joy out of their struggles.
"This guy is hard to hit," Nora complained.
"We just need to fight harder think about all the training we did to prepare for today." Ruby encouraged.
"Yes, think about that and fight with me some more I would be so disappointed if I broke my new toys just as I got them, though I really wanted to fight those kids with the powers." Tyrian laughed as he attacked Ruby and Nora.
Ruby and Nora blocked his attacks with Ruby using her speed to get some hits on the man but not enough to faze him. Ruby thinking quickly used her semblance to move quickly around the area to keep Tyrian's attention.
As she did, Nora came from behind, landing a strong blow on Tyrian, sending him into a nearby wall. Tyrian pulled himself out of the wall laughing hysterically for all of this was just one big game to him. While he laughed uncontrollably, Ruby went in for an attack on the distracted man.
However, he was prepared immediately, smacking away her Crescent Rose, but he was surprised when Ruby landed a strong blow to his face with her fist. She followed it up by jumping up and kicking the crazed faunus in the gut before backing off and retrieving Crescent Rose.
"Looks like that training with Jason paid off!" Nora exclaimed.
"Yep!" Ruby smiled.
With a loud roar, Tyrian charged back at the two, but as he did, Nora shot several grenades at him exploding all around him as he dodged. Being blinded by the smoke of the exploding grenades, he did not see Ruby come from the left side, landing several strong blows on Tyrian before backing up.
"Well, this is becoming more and more fun!" Tyrian exclaimed as he attacked the two once again. Tyrian struck at the two simultaneously, attacking both front and back with his hands and tail. Ruby and Nora were barley able to block all of the attacks but were able to fend off Tyrian for the time being.
Getting a good distance away from Tyrian, the two girls shot at the man with a hail of bullets and grenades. Across from them, Yang was fighting against Mercury, the two exchanging blows to one another. However, Yang was once again having trouble keeping up with his movements just as she was with Neo during training, but she didn't let him get a hit in on her.
"What's wrong, Blondie too fast for you to hit?" Mercury mocked as he kicked at Yang, who blocked the attacks.
The comment made Yang angry as her eyes turned red as she furiously threw punches at Mercury, but as she did so, she remembered the purpose of her training for the past week. She began to take deep breaths and focused on the fight calming down and began to fight with her mind and body and not like an angry child.
Once she did, she struggled with more precision taking Mercury by surprise and landing a blow to his face. Yang chased after him and landed several more blows on him before he regained his composure.
"That is the last time you get a hit in," Mercury growled, wiping blood from his nose. The two went on fighting in equilibrium, neither giving the other an opening.
With Neo, she was going toe to toe with Emerald landing several blows on the green-haired thief with her Hush. Emerald circled Neo shooting her several times with her guns, but Neo blocked each of the bullets with her Hush. Emerald thought for a second and came up with a plan using her semblance she made Neo see an illusion of Roman.
But this only made Neo angry as she sensed Emerald's energy seeing through the illusion and hitting Emerald. Trying to change her approach, Emerald detached the blades from her guns and swung them with the chains at Neo, who nimbly dodged the attacks. Neo used the grip of Hush to hook onto one of the chains and grabbed onto it, pulling Emerald in landing a punch to her face.
Afterward, she landed several decisive blows on Emerald, sending her to the floor unconscious. Smiling, Neo slowly walked up to Emerald, pulling the hidden blade out of the handle of Hush and aimed it at Emerald's heart.
Just as she was going to kill Emerald, she hesitated and thought about Jason. If she did this, what would he think of her, would he hate her or begin to distrust her. As she was distracted, putting away the blade, Mercury spotted her, and after escaping, Yang kicked her away from Emerald going in to take out Neo. But before he could hit her, Yang slammed him into a nearby wall knocking him out for the count. She then walked up to Neo, staring down on the girl and offered her hand to help her up.
"I still don't fully trust you, but for now, seeing that we have to fight together, I will," Yang said as Neo accepted her hand. During this elsewhere in the building, Qrow and Amber fought against Raven and Vernal in a stalemate.
"Do you really think this is going to end well, Raven doing all of this?" Qrow questioned.
"If it gets me off of Salem's hit list, then yes, I do," Raven answered as she swung her sword at Qrow, who blocked the attack. The two clashed several times moving around the hall, and Amber tried to help Qrow she was prevented from doing so by Vernal.
"Sorry, but your fight is with me," Vernal said.
"I would surrender if I were you, you have no chance of beating me." Amber threatened.
"Oh, really, and why's that?" Vernal inquired, not believing Amber. In response, Amber unleashed the powers of the Fall Maiden, taking Vernal by surprise.
"So that's why," Vernal murmured as she was blasted away and frozen to a wall.
Amber joined Qrow, and the two proceeded to fight against Raven, who was being pushed back. Raven growled as she saw that she was going to have no choice but to use the powers of the spring maiden to fight against the two. But if she did that, then Salem's forces would know that she was the spring maiden and not Vernal.
She then noticed Watts finish unlocking the entrance to the vault and got an idea. In the end, she knew that there was no other choice, so she released the powers of the spring maiden blowing the two away. Once they were away, she ran and got Vernal out of her icy prison and entered the elevator to the vault breaking it so that it fell to the bottom.
"No, she's going for the relic!" Ruby gasped as she was momentarily distracted by the event. Seeing her distracted Tyrian went in for the kill, but as he attacked her, he was smacked away by a giant sword.
"Focus on your fight more, you dolt." Weiss scolded as Ruby rubbed the back of her head.
"Sorry." Ruby apologized. Soon they were joined by the rest of their group who had finished off the Grimm that invaded the hall.
"All right, let's finish this up," Elias stated as he threw an unconscious Hazel to the ground.
"This isn't good," Tyrian said.
"You think!" Watts shot back as he saw that the two of them were now outnumbered and outmatched.
"Nowhere to run now, so just surrender," Evan demanded.
"NEVER!" Tyrian yelled as he charged at the group. He was quickly knocked out by a chop to the back of his neck by Elias. Watts attempted to run off, but he was blocked by Qrow and Amber.
"We need to stop Raven from getting the relic someone go and stop her," Qrow ordered.
"I'll do it." Yang volunteered, walking to the elevator shaft.
"I'll go too to back you up," Evan said as he joined up with Yang.
"Alright, but you have to carry me as you fly down if you join." Yang teased, giving Evan a wink.
"I don't mind," Evan replied as he picked up Yang and jumped down the elevator shaft.
"Were they just flirting with one another?" Damian asked.
"I think they were, it's kinda weird," Ruby answered.
As this happened, Blake opted to check how things were outside, and once she got outside, she was met with the sight on Sun fighting Adam as they fell from above. Adam threw Sun away from him, and Blake ran over to check on her friend.
"Sun, are you okay?" Blake questioned.
"Yeah, but this guy's no joke," Sun answered.
"Well, I didn't think I'd see you here, Blake," Adam said.
"A…Adam." Blake stuttered.
She was at a loss for words she didn't know what to do or what to say. Blake had fought countless Grimm and even aliens wanting to enslave Remnant, but she was still afraid of Adam. She was afraid of facing him and what she had to do in that moment. As she stared at Adam, Jason landed next to her and helped Sun to his feet.
"Blake, are you okay?" Jason asked, snapping Blake out of her thoughts.
"I…I don't know," Blake answered.
"You're back to get in my way again?" Adam asked.
"Of course, if you're going to continue this pointless fight, then I'll stop you," Jason answered. Blake slowly stood up and drew her Gambol Shroud to fight against Adam.
"Do you really think you can fight against me, Blake? you were always weak ever since we were kids in the White Fang, so just put your weapon away and run like you always do." Adam insulted.
Blake started to shake all her memories with Adam coming back to her how could she beat him after all they've been through. She remembered their time's training where he would beat her to a pulp, saying it will make them both stronger and how he basically controlled her life.
"What do you know about her pal she's grown immensely strong in the time I've known her plus I can sense it too. Plus, you're not the boss of her. She's her own person." Jason shot back.
"Right, Blake?" Jason asked.
Blake looked at Jason and thought over his words, he was right. She was strong. She's just spent so many years listening to what Adam told her to do that she would believe what he said. She turned around and looked at all of her friends.
They were gathered in the main hall of Haven watching over Salem's minions. The sight made her smile, knowing that Jason was right. She was strong and had true friends to help her, something that Adam could never understand that.
She had people who actually supported her, and she was done listening to what Adam told her. Blake stood straight and strong as she looked Adam straight in his eyes, or at least where his eyes were under that mask.
"I'm not running, and I'm done listening to you Adam, you're sick and need help your hatred for humans have made you into worse of a person than they were to us and if you continue making the White Fang follow you in this madness then…then I'll stop you." Blake declared.
"What do you hear what you're saying, I'm just inflicting the same pain that the humans inflicted on us!" Adam snapped back.
"And what will that lead to more violence? You're just going to make an endless loop of hate that will consume the world, and I won't let that happen." Blake defended.
"I didn't kill Sienna Khan to become the high leader of the White Fang to be lectured by you, so if you won't run or understand me, then you'll die here!" Adam declared.
"Now, that's a confession!" Sun pointed out as he showed off his scroll.
"And I just recorded it all on tape." Sun bragged as he posted it to the web.
"Now, no faunus will join with you knowing what you've done," Sun stated.
"No no no no no no NO!" Adam yelled as he sprinted towards the three of them, preparing to attack.
But he was stopped when Blake countered his attack their blades clashing in a standoff. As Blake put more strength into her attack, she pushed Adam back until the crack created by Jason earlier snapped, and the sword broke.
Once the sword was gone, Blake's Gambol Shroud made full contact with Adam slicing him across the chest, damaging his aura. Taking this chance, Jason charged at Adam kicking him away and shattering his aura.
"Now, you have no more aura, and another attack may be fatal or cause severe damage, so give up," Jason stated as he, Blake, and Sun stared Adam down.
"How is this happening?! I should have never trusted those fools again. This entire plan was a failure, and that's all they can do is fail! I will not stop here, nor will I surrender!" Adam thought as he stood up.
He used the same tactic he used against Jason and threw the rest of the explosives, setting them off and running to the nearest bullhead and began to fly away. After Jason blocked the explosives from doing any damage, he shot out one of the bullheads engines causing it to crash right outside the kingdom.
"Why did you do that?" Blake questioned.
"What he was getting away, it's not like I killed him. He's still alive just outside the kingdom." Jason explained.
"But without aura, he's probably injured or unconscious, so for now, we should send a team of huntsmen to get him while we finish up here," Jason added.
"Alright, I hope that we'll be able to help him see what he's doing is wrong," Blake said.
"I wouldn't give your hopes up Blake people like him can't be stopped with words," Jason commented as they went inside the main hall.
Relic Vault
"You're not opening that door." Yang declared as she and Evan touched down at the bottom and approached her mother.
"Yang." Raven greeted.
"Mom," Yang replied as they stared at one another.
"So is there any chance we can just talk this out and maybe have a reuniting moment with mother and daughter, or are we just going to fight?" Evan asked.
"So, what are you doing here?" Raven questioned.
"What am I doing here?" Yang echoed.
"Thwarting my plans?" Raven asked.
"Thwarting your plans?" Yang questioned.
"ARE YOU?!" Raven challenged.
"Yes," Yang answered.
"Then I have no choice but to put you down my daughter," Raven replied.
"Don't act like you care that I'm your daughter, Mom, but I want to know one thing, why, why did you leave?" Yang asked.
"That is nothing you need to concern yourself with now Yang leave or…" Raven began hesitating a bit.
"…or die." Raven finished.
"Just try it see where that gets you!" Evan dared.
"You are one of the last people I wanted to see," Raven growled.
"Why are you even here?" Raven asked.
"Helping a friend," Evan answered.
"Maybe more if you play your cards right." Yang teased, giving Evan a wink.
"I thought I told you the way I see it. I always play my cards right." Evan smiled, getting into his fighting stance.
"You won't be stopping us! Ma'am take the relic I will hold them off." Vernal declared as she charged at Evan and Yang. Evan just rolled his eyes as he simply and quickly chopped at the back of Vernal's neck, knocking her out.
"No idea why she thought that was a good idea, but now it's just the three of us." Evan smiled.
"Then I'll just have to get through you both," Raven replied, activating the full power of the Spring Maiden.
"So, it's true you are the Spring Maiden," Yang commented.
"Who did you have to kill to get that power, Mom?" Yang questioned.
"None of your concern," Raven responded.
The three engaged each other with Evan taking the front holding Raven at bay as Yang attacked. Evan kneed Raven in the chin, flipping her over, and Yang came from above, punching her mother straight in the stomach and into the ground. Raven used the powers of the spring maiden to recover quickly and got behind the two of them and striking them several times. Evan managed to block the attacks aimed at both him and Yang much to Raven's discretion.
"You should've known that it would end like this after what happened last time." Evan pointed out.
"It never hurts to try," Raven argued as she kneeled down in defeat. There was nothing she could do, she thought she had a chance if she charged through, but the boy was too strong and fast she knew even if she tried further, she would lose.
"You have nowhere else to run Mom, so I want answers now!" Yang demanded.
"What do you want to know?" Raven asked.
"Why did you leave?" Yang questioned.
"Why because I'm not the mother type I'm the leader of a bandit tribe, and when I saw you when you were born, I didn't want you to end up like me," Raven answered.
"You didn't want me to end up like you, how would you have known I would if you stayed, we could have been a family!" Yang yelled.
"I think it was less about not wanting you to be like her and more of her not wanting to change who she thought she was from a bandit to a mother." Evan theorized.
"Maybe you're right I wouldn't know all I do know is that I believed that Yang was better off without me," Raven stated.
"Well, if you act selfishly like this all the time, I guess I can understand that," Evan commented.
"Evan!" Yang yelled.
"Sorry, I'm just saying." Evan apologized.
"So, the reason you left was because you were afraid I expected a more satisfying answer than that I'm very disappointed," Yang said as she walked up to her mother.
"Now, just come quietly, and maybe you'll get off easy," Yang ordered.
"Who knows, maybe you could use the time to reconnect with Yang? I'm sure there's a lot you want to say as her mother." Evan suggested.
"It's way too soon for that," Yang commented as she and Evan escorted her and picked up an unconscious Vernal back up to the main hall.
This took a while since Raven had broken the elevator, and Evan had to carry everyone back to the top. Once they reached the top, everyone else was waiting for them as they surrounded the rest of the captured enemy forces.
"Looks like you guys took care of things," Jason said.
"Yep, they gave up quickly once we double-teamed them plus knocked one out," Evan replied. Qrow walked up to Raven as she was set down and tied up for the authorities to take her and just gave her a quick glare.
"I hope it was worth it." Qrow sniffed.
"Don't patronize me," Raven replied. Emerald woke up from unconsciousness and immediately noticed that she was tied up quickly, struggling to get free.
"Don't bother, even if you got free. There would be nowhere you can go. You'll be recaptured easily." Elias warned.
"Even if I'm captured, I won't stop getting revenge for Cinder." Emerald hissed.
"You know I was like you once clinging to those who would give me the time of day or acknowledged me thinking that they cared, but I was wrong." Elias began causing Emerald to look at him, surprised.
"To my brothers, I was just a disposable asset too soft for their liking. When Jason offered me friendship, I felt for the first time what it meant to have someone care about me or accept me." Elias went on
"But you need to face reality. Cinder never cared for you. She just used you. People like her only associate with others to better themselves. To them, people like you just like me are disposable assets." Elias continued.
"I understand you may have had a hard life, but you are just clinging to the first person who gave you the time of day. If you want to heal the wound left from Cinder's absence, then you need to find people who will truly accept you and care for you. So if I were you the minute I was set free, I would leave this life you live and start over start helping people and maybe then you'll be happy once more." Elias explained.
"But that is just my two lien on the matter take it what you will." Elias finished as he turned and joined Jason and Evan, who were talking, leaving Emerald wide-eyed.
"So, what happens now?" Pyrrha asked.
"We wait for Ironwood to get here and detain them for questioning," Qrow answered.
"Alright, kick back and relax while making sure these guys don't escape for a few hours sound like a plan," Evan commented as he sat down next to a wall.
"Don't get too relaxed, Evan if one of them tries to escape, we are going to have to recapture them," Mura advised.
"Yeah, I know, but what's the worst that could….." Evan began but stopped mid-sentence going wide-eyed. Soon everyone that could sense energy did the same with some shacking in terror.
"Guys, what's wrong?" Ruby asked, growing concerned by her friend's sudden silence.
"What the hell…what the hell is this power?!" Evan questioned. Others, like Damian and Alex, fell to their knees from the pressure of the power.
"Guys, what's going on?" Yang asked.
"An impossibly large power just appeared near here," Jason answered, shaking a little from fear. Everyone was on edge seeing Jason scared for if someone or something could scare someone as strong as him, then it wasn't good.
"We need to leave now and move to a safer location in ca…." Mura began, but before he could finish, a beam came through the wall behind him, piercing him in the chest.
"MASTER!" Jason and Evan yelled simultaneously as they rushed to Mura's side. As they reached him, the wall exploded, and from the smoke, four figures emerged. But the one that caught everyone's attention was the one in the center an alien creature with pure purple and white skin and a long tail.
"Hello, monkey." The creature greeted.
"Elias, is that who I think it is?" Jason questioned as he held Mura up, who was barely clinging to life.
"Yeah, that…that's Frieza!" Elias announced, causing everyone who Elias explained the story of Frieza to become even more scared then they were.
"Okay, one minute on this filthy planet, and I'm already pissed off." The creature hissed.
"I am not Frieza. I am his elder brother Cooler." Cooler declared.
"Why the hell are you here?!" Evan questioned.
"Well, I came here to exterminate all life on this planet as I conquer it as my scouts were supposed to do a month ago, firstly." Cooler began.
"Guess you were wrong, Elias!" Damian yelled.
"What?! It was a fair assumption!" Elias shot back.
"But for the most part, I came here for the Saiyan." Cooler finished causing everyone to look at Jason.
"No, not again!" Jason thought as he started at Cooler.
"What business do you have with me?" Jason asked as he began to sweat from the very presence of Cooler.
"To restore my family's honor, you see as you should know, my little brother, enslaved you pathetic monkeys. But once he used you for all your worth, he decided to exterminate you by killing every last Saiyan when he blew up your homeworld Planet Vegeta." Cooler began.
"But it seems like he missed a few spots, and a Super Saiyan appeared killing my brother and my father, so now I am going to eradicate you monkeys once and for all to undo my family's failure starting with you." Cooler explained.
"What the hell is a Super Saiyan? And it's true what my dreams showed my home my entire race save me, and this Super Saiyan are gone," Jason thought.
"It took us a while to find you, Saiyan, but now it's time to die," Salza exclaimed.
As Jason stared at the new enemies in front of him, he sensed Mura's energy fading until it disappeared completely. He turned around as Evan already stared at Mura wide-eyed.
"He's…dead." Evan stammered, fighting back tears. Jason felt his anger build to unprecedented levels. He never felt like this before as his hair stood up a little until Elias put his hand on his shoulder.
"Just calm down we need to focus on the new enemies in front of us the last thing we need is you to lose your cool." Elias consoled.
Taking deep breaths, Jason nodded as he calmed down and stared at Cooler and his men. Salem's forces, the ones who awake that is, looked at the scene in shock fear written on their faces. Never had they been so scared since they first met Salem but now face with this creature a whole new level a fear was shot into them. Evan gently placed Mura down as he joined Jason and Elias, meeting Cooler and his men.
"What's the plan?" Evan asked.
"We need to take care of his henchmen and Cooler at the same time. I think I can take this guy on for a while alone if I go all out if you guys take care of them quickly." Jason suggested.
"Alright though I don't want to do it, I know there is no other choice. The others can't fight these guys like my brothers, and based on their power levels, they shouldn't be a problem if Evan and I work together." Elias agreed.
"Do you really believe you pests could fight against us with weak power levels like that?" Salza mocked.
"We hide our true power pal, so don't underestimate us!" Evan shot back as the three boys powered up, yelling loudly, each being surrounded by their energy.
"Huh…WHAT! Their powers just skyrocketed above ours!" Salza shouted.
"They're not a problem take care of the ones you fight I will take care of the Saiyan," Cooler ordered.
"Everyone hurry and leave get everyone to safety we'll try to take this battle as far away from the city as possible," Jason ordered.
"But, we can help." Jaune protested.
"No, you can't! Trust me, if you can feel energy like us, you would know that we're outclassed if we don't leave we'll die." Alex affirmed.
As everyone slowly began to leave Jason, Evan and Elias charged at the enemies ahead. While Evan and Elias were successful in knocking their opponents away, Jason's punch didn't even faze Cooler. Cooler smacked him away and slammed him to the ground pinning him there as he screamed in pain only to be silenced once Cooler covered his mouth.
"Would you like to know what death tastes like?" Cooler asked as he charged up an attack to blow off Jason's head. In retaliation, Jason finally took on his Primal State, getting Cooler off of him and punched him through the roof.
"What the how could a Saiyan do such a thing?!" Salza questioned as he tried to read Jason's power level on his scouter, but once he tried, it blew up.
"Pay attention to your opponent and not him fool!" Evan yelled as he clocked Salza straight in the face. Jason turned to look at his friends who were staring at him in awe of this development.
"Go now. You may not get the chance to later." Jason demanded. Everyone nodded and turned to leave except Neo who looked at Jason.
"Be careful, okay, and don't you dare die." She told Jason, who nodded in response. Jason then flew through the new hole in the roof and reengaged Cooler.
"So you decided to play some more monkey though I have to say I am curious about this form you have taken." Cooler stated as Jason reached his elevation.
"This is my Primal State. I am told by my friend down below that I am bringing out the power of my people's Oozaru transformation without having to transform." Jason explained.
"Interesting." Cooler replied.
"But since we're asking each other questions, I have to ask…what are you?" Jason asked.
"What am I? I'm an emperor, and soon I will rule over the universe." Cooler answered.
"No, I meant species." Jason clarified.
"Oh, that well, there are a lot of theories about that, but most say I'm a frost demon." Cooler explained.
"You don't look like a demon nor something that would be frosty." Jason pointed out.
"Well, that didn't stop a Namekian from believing he was, so why would it stop others from believing that I am one too." Cooler argued.
"Wait, how do you not know what species you are?" Jason asked.
"Well, my father never bothered to explain it to me. He was too busy playing favorites with Frieza." Cooler answered.
"It sounds like you have something against your brother," Jason commented.
"That is not important, but the time for talking is over simian. Now it's time to die!" Cooler declared as he charged at Jason, who, in turn, charged at him. As they got closer, Jason flipped over Cooler and blasted him in the back, sending him downwards.
"If anyone's dying today, it's you!" Jason yelled as he flew towards Cooler.
Cooler has arrived, and he has already claimed the life of Mura, now the fate of Remnant once again is in the hands of Jason and his friends, but will they have the power to defeat this foe find out Next Time!
Author's Note:
Hey guys I know I said last chapter that because of the move it would affect the schedule well that will happen I still have some time to write so since I uploaded a chapter so late instead on Tuesday, as well as short, I decided to write this one and upload it early. I know that the fights in this chapter may seem short, but as I said last chapter the fight was one-sided anyway, so there was no way that is was going to last long anyway if you think about it logically.
Also, I just want to point out the joke I just made about Cooler referencing Piccolo I don't have an explanation on why he knows about it. I don't think it really needs one because it's just a joke not to be taken seriously I just wanted to point that out for a similar joke was pointed out to be impossible to be known on Remnant. On another note in one of the upcoming chapters, I will have a little Omake about Mura's past like I did with Elias, but I haven't written it or planned it out but expect it in the next couple of chapters.
Also new cover art for the Cooler arc! I do hope you guys enjoyed the chapter especially now that Cooler is finally in the picture, the big fight begins next chapter hope you guys are as excited as I am for it see you next time!