(2) 6 The Rain transformed
The ensuing battle... was Chaos. Chaos that neither side was prepared to handle, Chaos that is born from the battle of otherworlders.
Ruby, Blake, Yang, and eventually, Weiss, all watched in awe and horror. While, yes, their battles COULD get into this level of destruction, it's only in short bursts which could last only 5 minutes at best. The spectacle in front of them was equivalent to giving professional hunters an infinite ammo hack while also giving them the physical durability to no longer need aura.
"S-so this is Boboiboy unchained... looks like we finally have a chance at victory..." Yang comments, awestruck by the youngest member of the team. Blake nods, however, the two members of their team who have observed Boboiboy spar the most did not look to share that sentiment.
"Ruby? Weiss?" Yang asks concernedly.
Ruby is the first to speak up, saying, "No... h-he's not..."
Yang feels a foreboding feeling of fear, hearing this.
"W-what do you mean?" Yang asks only for Weiss to shout.
"Boboiboy, you dolt! Stop holding back! I don't know who they were to you, but you're already at a disadvantage against them, holding back is only going to worsen that disadvantage!"
As for the current state of the battle, Earth is repeatedly trying to trap Yaya with Earth bind, Water was currently trying to block and redirect the food blasts made by Gopal while also steering clear of melee range, lest his watch and powers get turned into food, and Lightning is barely eking out a few dodges using his lightning speed against time dilation.
Earth shouts, "Yaya! I know you're in there! Fight it" as he blocks another pair of gravity punches using his stone gloves, destroying them oncrocess.
Lightning groans as he strains his body to use lightning speed dash to jump back from a barrage of kicks aimed at him that was much too quick for even this form to react to individually.
Water struggles as he is forced to find a sweet spot wherein his opponent can't just touch his watch and destroy his power by turning it into food, but also not get sniped by the food barrage. "Why is Gopal of all people the scariest of the three?!"
The boy in green suddenly stops attacking before shouting at Boboiboy, "Who are you calling weak, huh?!" He then rushes Boboiboy Water, which tries to retaliate by firing a barrage of water-based bullets only for his green-clad friend to use his natural agility to casually dodge Water's attempts to throw at him.
Back with Earth, now in a strength contest much in the same way as Yaya was with Yang. But unlike Yang, he was now using the rocks around himself to support his body weight as well as help him push back against his former friend.
"Yaya! Snap out of it! This isn't you! Fight its influence!"
And despite trying to push against her with all his might, two words from her made the sturdy stone he used to support himself, crumble.
"Too late."
With a sudden burst of pink energy, Earth begins to hack out blood when the literal gravity of the situation crushes him.
Team RWBY screams out his name in horror which forces Lightning and Water to look. This lapse in awareness was enough to turn two stalemates into uphill battles as a kick from Ying dislocated Lightning's shoulder and a well-timed transformation beam transformed the water in front of Water Boboiboy into explosive dust which knocks him back.
This causes the dissipation of the clones back into Boboiboy, who, while not as badly injured as the three due to the transformation only taking the best out of all three samples, is still very much unable to move his body properly.
"Hmph, if you found us earlier and rescued us, we would still be in control of ourselves. She was right. This really was the best possible outcome..." Ying indignantly says while disdainfully glaring at Boboiboy's new friends.
"Instead he's been hanging out with these ladies. The nerve!" Gopal adds while kicking Boboiboy.
Yaya looks solemnly at Boboiboy muttering, "If only..." while nursing her fist over her chest before shaking her head. The soft expression her face made much earlier is once more replaced with a cold look as she says, "Gopal, since you can counter most of his attacks, you remain on standby while I take his watch. Ying, you watch our spectators. Make sure they don't try anything funny."
Gopal salutes before walking towards Boboiboy with a finger gun ready as Yaya begins to unlatch the watch off of Boboiboy's arm.
All the while, Boboiboy has a look of grief in his eyes. "I'm... sorry..." is all he could offer to Yaya who chooses not to look at Boboiboy's face instead. Boboiboy proceeds to pass out from the damage.
As this goes on, Torchwick then begins to clap while looking on. "Well done, children. You've done a marvelous job in taking that thorn outta my side! If we finish with this, we could even-"
Yaya keeps quiet until she finishes removing the watch. After finishing, she holds it up, before telling Roman, "Shut it, thief. We're only working with you until our goals are completed. Nothing more."
In an attempt to placate her, Torchwick holds his hands up, saying, "Alright, alright. I'm just giving options here. No need to be so hostile about it."
However, a loud clang then interrupts everyone as a bright blue bolt of energy knocks the orange watch off of Yaya's hands. Looking toward the source of the attack, the enemies see Neptune and Dove both apprehensively in their fighting stances.
"If it isn't two out of the three musketeers ready to save D'artagnan." Roman Torchwick quips amusedly.
"You won't be getting away with that watch." Dove declares as he grips his sword's handle and grits his teeth. While Neptune nods as well.
"I believe we already did." Torchwick confidently bites back. With that, he then snaps his finger, and Ying and Gopal begin making their way toward the two.
Torchwick then tells them, "Don't waste time. I can hear the police helicopters already above the skyway," before disappearing in the shatter of a mirror-like illusion.
The two nod before meeting their older opponents.
As Neptune takes a step forward, a shiver runs down his spine after hearing and feeling a familiar slosh. Water, why'd it have to be water? However, after his mind flashed back to how badly Sun was injured, and how panicked the paramedics were seeing him, Neptune gritted his teeth in rage.
While very much still hydrophobic, at the moment, his anger for his best friend's current state, helped him forget that fear, even just temporarily as water begins to rise around him.
Yang then forces her still recuperating body to move as she limps to the two, shouting, "Get out of here you two! This was a bad move! You'll just be dead weight!"
But Neptune was already rushing off, leaving Dove as the only one hearing this. Gritting his teeth, he pushes past her, shouting, "Shut up!"
He then rushes past her to aid Neptune.
Expectedly... both of them fell quite easily. While both possessed combat skills higher than any of the three in front of them, so did the four girls earlier and even they lost. Their opponents moved faster than them, countered their projectiles quite easily, and even Neptune's ability to control water was easily nullified when Gopal turned the water into cotton candy. Simply put, they were outgunned, outmanned, outnumbered... but not outplanned.
As despite both of them were being battered around as badly, if not worse due to a lack of number, they manage to distract the three superpowered children long enough for Ruby to see what they were planning to do.
She then raises an arm out as she says, "Cookie... go..."
From her outstretched arm, Cookie, who had enough time now to recover, flies forth in its miniature form at the watch which Dove managed to slap off of Yaya's hand with a well-timed bullet which only seems to sting her hand. Yaya then proceeds to retaliate by slamming Dove's head into the concrete below, having momentarily forgotten that the watch had dropped from her hand and on to the wet floor below.
Cookie manages to grab hold of it and flies towards Ruby... until a green orb of power hits Cookie knocking the watch out of its talons, and transforms the bird grimm into its namesake snack before falling into the floor, crumbling.
Ruby cries out, "NO!" A dark red smoke then rises from the broken biscuit before going back into her cape shortly after, much to her relief. But that relief is quickly replaced with horror as the three otherworlders turn towards Boboiboy's watch after catching on to their plan. Dove was bloodied and inside a crater, while Neptune was left curling on the side, while coughing blood out due to the various bruises from barrage of fists that struck him earlier.
Seeing the three super-powered otherworlders run towards the watch, Yang suddenly decides and shouts at Ruby, "Cover me."
"WHAT?!" The rest of her team goes only for her to answer, "We all know I can take the hardest beating out of the four of us here! So unless you three have a better idea, do it!"
Weighing everything, Ruby is forced into a heavy decision... but after remembering her talk with Ozpin about being a leader... she steels herself as she extends a hand at Yang. She then quickly gives out commands. "Weiss, boost. Blake, intercept."
As she says this, she then grabs hold of Yang before using her Petal Burst semblance to rush Yang to the watch, all while Weiss' glyphs boosts its already fast speed to stand any chance against the time manipulation ability of Ying. Gopal then begins to fire a barrage of his matter manipulation bullets which were intercepted by Blake who manages to throw her shadow clone at all the projectiles which proceeded to turn it completely into rice.
Sensing that her aura was about to run out, Ruby uses the momentum to throw Yang forward. Yang's hair lit aflame as she spun, turning her into fireball as she reaches out for the watch. Even still, to anyone looking on, one can definitely notice the lead which Yaya and Ying had over Yang.
That's until Dove and Neptune both gain second wind that is. With one pain-filled determined roar from both, Neptune grabs his blood and uses his hydrokinesis to shoot it while Dove raises Hallshot with his fractured arm before firing, fracturing it even more.
The bullet and the blood combine to become an even faster projectile which, while not strong enough to do more than bruise the three sturdy anomalies, was fast enough to knock them off balance long enough for Yang to grab the watch and roll to the side. With their second wind gone, the two pass out for real.
Yang then curls up from both the pain and so that she can protect the watch long enough to wear it and hopefully turn the tide of battle long enough for proper help to come through.
Wasting no time, the three friends of Boboiboy then rush towards her, but before they could touch her, a massive plume of clouds knock them back and covers the area.
Amidst the cumulus, a pair of glowing lilac eyes could be seen piercing through. The eyes begin to shift between lilac, light blue and deep red before settling on a partially heterochromatic combination of light blue and red as if the lilac has split into two. Another light then raises up showing the emblem for Boboiboy's watch which glitches out and transforms into the element for water... as well as Yang's own emblem before swirling both together before forming a new sign altogether.
From the fluffy fog, Yang's voice then quips, "Hoo wee! I feel like I'm in cloud nine!"
Seeing as their opponent didn't take the opportunity given by their surprise, the trio of Malaysians picks Yaya to test the waters.
With a quick burst of power, she then rushes into the fog with a fist clenched and aimed at where Yang's glowing eyes were... only to hit... nothing?
"Ya missed me. By a Xiao Longshot." Her voice jokes from behind Yaya who proceeds to punch accordingly only to miss once again.
"Hey now, don't get your head clouded up like that." Yang puns once more. This happens a bunch more times, each ending with a miss and each ending with a pun. Getting annoyed, Yaya's eyes and hands begin to glow a bright pink as she proceeds to swing both arms down, controlling the gravity of the clouds around them to crush the clouds into water, revealing Yang.
She no longer was as injured as she was earlier. Furthermore, her expression was a whole lot bubblier. Her looks also changed. Her large spiky main became softer and curlier, similar to the clouds she create. Her clothing also changed, now looking bluer and with a more flowy design. Lastly, was the striking addition of a layer of cloud which hangs around her neck like a Japanese hagoromo cloth.
"Ta-da! Whaddaya think? Pretty cool right?" She says while placing a hand below her chin in a check-mark shape while posing like a Jojo character.
However, instead of a reply, Yaya only continues to attack her quietly, to which she begins dodging and parrying. As she did though, she also continues to talk.
"Nothing? Really? I think it's a pretty cool design. Not my style, but hey it's better to expand my wardrobe right?"
"Why. Won't. You. Stop. Talking!" Despite under control, it seems that they really do have their faculties among them since Yaya is showing visible signs of frustration due to none of her punches landing and the tomfoolery Yang was doing.
"I dunno, doesn't fit your usual vibe." With that comment from Gopal, Ying and Yaya turn to him with a disbelieving expression.
Ying then shouts, "Ugh! Just hurry and shoot her!" before rushing to Yaya's aid.
Realizing that she might be trouble, Cloud Yang takes the opportunity Yaya's latest punch gave her and used it to yeet the Gravity wielder towards Ying.
"Y'see kiddies, the only reason you three were having such an easy time against us earlier was because you had semblances with none of the drawbacks? Now that I have one as well?" She then cocks her now blue Ember Celicas which chamber in a new glowing blue shell and punches forward, launching highspeed clouds in the shape of fists.
Ying catches Yaya and begins dodging the attacks while Gopal began firing at the cloud fist shells. However, much to their shock, the cloud fists begin to perform zig-zagging angles before 2/3rds began to move back towards Ying and Yaya, while the remaining third begins chasing after Gopal who promptly hastily dodges while shrieking in panic.
Ying, who was carrying Yaya, did not fare as well, despite her time manipulation power due to how sudden, sharp and unpredictable the angles of the attack were. This knocks both of them down, but they soon recover.
Yaya then shouts, "ENOUGH," and Yang is suddenly covered in a pink aura which soon begins to produce an oppressive downward force.
This forces the blue-clad blondie to grunt from the pressure.
Yaya then looks back to her friend, asking, "Ying, are you alright?" To which the girl in yellow nods while coughing. As they turn back, they look in shock to see Yang now floating in the air.
"How did-" Yaya blurts out in disbelief.
"Simple! More things to push down, less push on one single part!" Was Yang's cheery answer while covered in clouds which dispersed the pressure of Yaya's Gravity. With a growl, Yaya flies at her with Ying in tow.
"Oh crud! Uh... watch? Now would be a good time for you to give me a new tool to skedaddle with!"
As if hearing her request, clouds begin forming on her feet and instinctively feeling like she jas to jump , she then does so which launches her high into the air, making her exclaim, "Whoa!"
Seeing this, Yaya drops Ying off at the top of a building and gives chase with Ying following behind shortly after.
Music stops
Meanwhile, back with the rest of the crew at the ground, Gopal was just staring off into the sky before quickly helping team RWBY up and applying bandages to stem the bleeding on the two boys.
"Wait... what?" Ruby asks in confusion, to which Gopal responds with, "I'll explain after I've made sure none of you are gonna die here."
After finishing up the first aid of the wounds, he then sits down and explains.
"So before anything else, my name is Gopal Omar. I am a friend of Boboiboy over there." He says frowning at the site of Boboiboy's unconscious body.
"I don't have time to talk about how we got here... but the gist of how I'm still fine is this... unlike my friends, I... am a coward... for once... that helped me survive. I was more compliant with the big bad and so wasn't subjected to the despair they were..." he then shudders before saying, "and the gist for how I'm free is because the panic you all put me through made me 'accidentally' change that creepy beetle embedded into my neck into skin."
"So you're going to help us restrain your friends?" Weiss then suggests to which Gopal begins sweating buckets.
"Me? Oh no, no, no. That's too scary for me. Instead, I'll just say this... what you all are up against? Is someone worse than anyone even we've encountered and that's saying something..."
"Well then... what are you gonna do from here on out then?" Ruby asks, hoping he'd join.
Gopal looks down in thought for quite a while before looking back up with a heavy expression and saying, "I'm going back..."
Weiss squawks a "WHAT" in confusion. She then continues by shouting, "Didn't you just say you were terrified?! With Ozpin's protection you-"
However she is cut off when he shouts, "Even still, I'm more terrified of what she'll do to my friends if I escape!"
The outburst from the afroed boy silences the three up as said boy pants after.
With a sigh, he then turns to Blake who had been silent thus far. "Cat lady, shoot me."
Blake was about to ask him how he knew, but she soon realizes that her bow was knocked off her head in the previous battle. Her mind then moves to request, making her balk.
"W-what?! Why?!" Blake shouts, the expressions on the two others mirroring her own
"We don't have much time! Just trust me!" Gopal pleads out.
As this was happening, Boboiboy began to wake up. With a hoarse voice, he then calls out, "Go...pal..."
His best buddy then looks back at the hero in Orange and smiles a melancholic grin. He then says a line to familiar to him. "Save us, Boboiboy..."
A gunshot rings and Gopal falls to floor. This jolts Boboiboy awake as he shouts Gopal's name. As he stands back up, he groans from the pain but he soldiers through it to look at Gopal. Much to his relief, Gopal was only knocked out as the bullet dents on his skin, causing only surface-level injuries.
Boboiboy hugs his friend as he looks at Blake in anger, "Why?!" To which Weiss stands up to him, shouting back, "Because he told us to! He wants to keep an eye out for your other friends so he's pretending to be defeated!"
Boboiboy's eyes widen as he remembers that Ying and Yaya were still out there. He reaches for his right arm only to see that his watch was gone.
Meanwhile, back where the elemental watch was, Yang was in a life-or-death chase from the wielders of space and time. She was using the lightness that her new form permitted her to hop massive leaps and bounds from building to building, but while a wide grin was still plastered on her face, the bruises across her body and the aggressive way she was breathing shows the way she was actually feeling. She was on the verge herself.
With a frustrated groan, Yaya lunges at Yang while shouting, "You're weaker than either of us! Why are you so slippery?!"
Yang backflips over Yaya once more, this time shooting another fist-shaped cloudy projectile which does little more than stagger the gravity wielder physically, but mentally it was doing far more. It was keeping her pissed and unfocused.
However, she forgets one small thing... And that small thing comes in the form of a yellow blur that slams into her, the moment she neared a roof.
"Thousand consecutive kicks!" The voice angrily shouts as Yang gets pummeled repeatedly before getting sent into flying into a wall.
Yangs coughs out blood, the smile on her face not leaving once. However, this smile was no longer a facade. It was a smile of relief.
"I hope I got far away enough from everyone else..." she says, as she tries to crawl away despite Yaya slowly hovering above her with a car in her gravitational grasp.
"This is the end..." Yaya declares ominously before swinging her hand down and imbuing the car with more weight than it already had. However, a black aura then surrounds the car, contesting the gravity while a purple aura drags Yang to safety.
"What the-" Yaya exclaims only for her to narrowly dodge a green bladed pistol being thrown her way. Looking to the source she sees a man in a green robe, black hair and pink eyes smirking at her but as she calls out for Ying to handle the new addition, both girls hear the sound of a loud and high-pitched, "ALRIIIIGHT!"
Both hack out spit as a pair of hammers one golden and black, the other silver and pink, slam into both of them at the same time, shooting them into each other.
Looking up, they then see Jaune, Nora, Ochre, Pyrrha, Ren, and Glynda standing up on a rooftop. Pyrrha is seen visibly straining as she uses her Magnetic semblance to move the car away.
"Thank you for notifying us on such short notice, Mr. Arc." Ms. Goodwitch says sternly as she levitates Yang to her.
Jaune nods as Pyrrha sets the car down and pants heavily.
Yang powers down while smiling nervously at Glynda. "H-hey miss Goodwitch..." A stern look was her reply which Yang, wisely, shuts up to.
With that, Jaune then issues commands. "Pyrrha, Ms. Goodwitch, stand by in case of Gravity attack
Ochre, charge Nora up for the next hit. Ren, you're with me on reaction duty should the speedster try anything funny."
Ms. Goodwitch gives a pat on Jaune's back as she remarks, "You've grown," before readying her wand. As the five approach the two exhausted otherworlders from all sides, Goodwitch then says, "You two are under arrest. Come peacefully or we WILL use force."
Ying then looks to Yaya muttering her name quietly. Yaya in response, mutters, "on the count of three."
Seeing the two suddenly go quiet, Jaune hastens everyone approach towards the two, only for a blue bubble to appear, slowing everyone down. Overusing her power makes Ying pass out, but Yaya uses the opportunity to grab Ying and fly off while everyone else is trying to move out of the slowed time as if they were wallowing in tar.
Yaya glares at Yang before flying off with Ying. She then flies back to where Boboiboy and the rest of team RWBY, as well as Neptune, Dove and Gopal were at.
She flies over to find Gopal knocked out and Boboiboy crying over him. While her face scrunches up into an indecipherable emotion, she wastes no time and knocks Boboiboy back with a chunk of concrete near him before carrying Gopal with her power.
Boboiboy tries to go after in a desperate attempt to do so... but Ruby was there to stop him from doing something stupid. She felt her heart break seeing the usually upbeat and strong-willed Boboiboy so vulnerable, crying like the kid he actually is. Weiss and Blake could only watch in silence at this, unable to help and unable to react.
As they sat there, the steam formed by Boboiboy's and Yang's powers, as well as Neptune's effort condensates and rain begins pouring, covering the localized area with a brief downpour which is accompanied by the drowned sounds of police, fireman and ambulance sirens.
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