Looking down the barrel of a gun tonfa was a weird experience. I'd looked down the barrel of almost every gun imaginable thanks to caps experiences and my training against my father and Aero. But a tonfa gun was a new one for me~ but still, the way to handle it was the same.
The guy holding them was far to close to me for using a gun, a quick slap to the weapon pushed it out of lethal distance. His next move was predictable, he pushed the second tonfa towards to fire. I noticed the red lining on the second weapon that wasn't present on the first.
I leaned back matrix style pushing my wushu training to the limit. I watched as a stream of fire shot from the barrel of the second gun tonfa. It's also a flamethrower?!?! Well this is the rwby verse, their catchphrase is "it's also a gun".
I snapped back to my feet and wrapped my legs around his neck by using the stretches out arm as a vault. As I rolled to get him onto the ground the stream of fire was still active and was infecting people.
Screams echoed out as some people's dust pouches containing their ammo went off and other people's clothes caught fire. Maybe cramming 80 teens armed to the teeth wasn't a smart idea after all. The announcers froze and weren't sure what to say.
One guy panicked and shot himself with an ice dust bullet basically ending his whole career. He shot himself on the crotch which was where the flames were the most intense. He definitely rubbed some oil on his balls or something for it to be that flammable.
After knocking out the tonfa arsonist I got onto my feet and rushed out of the epicentre towards some of the people not on fire. 80 people has dropped down to 12 and they've all began fighting each other or bailing cause of the flames.
"Oh looks like Arc is rushing towards the fan fav Bani Qawiun! This wonder wolf faunus should give Arc a run for his money!" Called out the announcer as I rushed towards the guy with the largest aura reserves. Before someone complains, aura count is displayed on all the screens around the arena plus I can check by just focusing aura to my eyes.
Bani had a weapon that was feared last year as he made it to the semi finals. He wield two kopesh that combine into a gun sceptre. The best part is that when in sceptre mode he can choose to shoot bullets or channel his semblance through it.
He's a wolf faunus and his semblance is related to that. As I rushed towards him he put the two swords together and pointed the configuration towards me. He screamed "BACK OFF!!!!!" And it was fired as a stream of impactive sound waves. Yeah his semblance is called Howler, he can scream real loud. His weapon basically functions as a bullhorn that aims it.
The two guys that were about to sneak attack me were blasted away by the wave into the flaming inferno. The pro-huntsman will pull them out once their aura hits the red. The actual attack though is hitting me directly, my ears are screaming due to it.
The force was also nothing to scoff at, I was forced to take a knee as the screaming increased. Aura wasn't going to help me right now so I had nothing but brute force. I would chuckle to myself if I could because I'm about to copy the Hulks strategy for when he was caught in a sound cannon.
I'd watched the movie and cap has seen the footage so I grasped Atreus and hurled it at the weapon as hard as I could. The shield jammed into the sceptre causing the sound waves being funnelled through it to blast our in every direction incapacitating most off the other contestants.
Bani Qawiun didn't stop using his semblance though so I had to take a much bigger and more dispersed attack. So I pumped my aura into my legs and amplified its strengthening properties before bounding over the sound wave. I smacked him on the face with the back of my hand. It knocked his aura down a fair bit.
When he turned around he was greeted with the sight of a gun in his face. I pulled Cayde-6 which is my handy revolve on him. I then quipped "you got a nice bark, how's your bite?" Before pulling the trigger. The bullet hit him square in the head knocking him into his ass. His Aura shattered as it absorbed the blow while he went unconscious. It more from the shock that I would have shot him in the head than the damage. Good thing I used rubber bullets today. I bolstered my gun and walked calmly to a different position.
My ears were ringing as I travelled while attempting to see who else was left. I saw one massive 7ft tall guy rivalling Yatsuhashi marching toward me. He was built like a fortress and had brass knuckles as his weapon. I didn't spot the gun mode but I'm actually just wanting to get this over with.
So I walked towards the guy, his name read as Pepel Kirpich which I think is Russian. Honestly the whole naming your kids after colours thing gets old quick. When he arrived in front of me he snorted while looking down on me. Clearly he missed what I've done to the others who got in the way.
So I just cracked him one on the jaw as hard as I could without applying my semblance. What followed was him toppling over like a house of cards. Clearly his size was an overcompensation. When he hit the ground I walked over and kicked my shield back up to my forearm then placed it over my back. I tapped my ears as if to regain a sense of feeling to them.
When my hearing returned I was greeted by the roars of the audience and the announcer christening me with the sobriquet "super soldier". I smiled and raised my fist in triumph causing the crowd to go wild as they took my action as acceptance over the name.
It's better than "invincible girl" that's for damn sure. Plus it actually fits me, more or less. The announcer screamed that I'll be fighting a single opponent in four hours from one of the other districts. If I win that I'm in the quart finals, they really don't have that many districts and I'm a little upset it's not a worldwide type thing.
So after going for a check up with the nurse I was gifted a cream for the mild burns and an ear phone like casing to equip over my ringing ears. What followed was a soothing feeling as the tech got to work healing me up. Remnant invested heavily in medical care for the hunters. It's mainly for Grimm related injuries, bullet wounds and even poisoning so it's not useful for people like the Atlesian faunus being trapped in the mines.
I'll be doing something about that in the future but right now I'm reviewing who my opponent is. My jaw dropped when I saw who I'm fighting. I was also confused about how different they are compared to what I saw before. I sighed in mild disgust before popping a protein bar and drinking a glass of water.
To pass the time I did some maintenance on Atreus to make sure he's in top condition then checked my armour. By the time I was finished the buzzer sounded meaning I'm moving on to fight.
Walking up the steps to the better quality arena I got to see my opponent huff to get up the stairs. I hid my grimace looking at it, when it finally stood infront of me it pointed at me. "You! I've waiting a long time for this!" And then pulled out two trench knives before rushing towards me... as fast as it could go.
The buzzer sounded and the announcer screamed out "let's get down to business, on the right we have the super soldier Jaune Arc and on the left we have the Pasta Power Pista Chio!!!! The lean mean fighting machine vs the two tonne juggernaut" and then went on to describe a vast variety of other terms to describe the difference between us.
Yup I'm fighting Pistachio, the kid I beat and got kicked out of the dojo a few years ago. We had a 2-3 year gap so while I'm 13 he should be about 15-16. Though he seems to have changed drastically, his disgusting green hair Is even greasier and slicked back. But the worst is his physique, he change from a slightly tubby teen to resemble the blob from X-men origins.
I responded with "keep waiting bitch" then threw my shield at his flabby hands. He raised his knives to block only for them to shatter and him to stumble back as the shield returned to my hand. Watching him struggle to stay on his feet was more disgusting than entertaining. So I blasted forward and drove a punch into his massive overflowing gut.
The feeling of my fist getting smothered in his flab was horrendous but the fact that the famialir iron texture was there kept me on my toes. I stamped his engorged foot and pulled my fist out as he yelps. When I gained some distance he pulled a hang gun that was much to small for his chubby fingers so he ended up firing slowly and missing most of his shots that I simply remained still for.
The entire time he was screaming about how my actions forced his family to move and their reputation plummeted. He turned to food as comfort but decided to fight to make money. Though he clearly stopped lifting weights and started lifting dinner plates instead.
While the audience was relating or unrelating to his monologue I decided to take a page from wolverines book. His semblance makes his body turn to iron and now that he has more to cover it means I can't hit precisely. So I ran up and slammed Atreus into his head. A gong like noise echoed out as he tried to turn his head to steel.
But that wouldn't work as I discovered from the Arc family records that the shield was forged using metals from a meteorite. It's basically the same as the original cap shield but with rwby world laws. Those being that it can turn into a weapon as king as you can work a mechashift into the design and forge it with aura.
As Humpty Dumpty fell down unconscious just like the blob I walked away to begin reviewing the footage of my opponent tomorrow in the quarter finals. Her fight was before mine, her name is Fiore De Velenoso.
She's garbed in black leather and has a whip mixed with a dessert eagle. She also has a body manipulation type semblance based on what the experts deduced which completes the whole dominated schtick. Tomorrow will be interesting~