A loud explosion rocked the warehouse, blowing several large holes into the metal walls as fire, lightning and wind elements resonated and burned, electrocuted and shredded the building apart. Two figures stood atop a roof next to the now destroyed warehouse, one with gray hair, wearing black tactical gear, the other, a bipedal wolf Grimm with a long mane, white plate armor and armed with a high-tech rifle.
"Baldur." William spoke through a headset set up onto Baldur's ear.
"The redhead's alive. Her, Adam, Hatter, Siegfried, the ginger and the shorty. Damaged, but alive." Baldur stated gruffly.
"And the footsoldiers? Them, I expected. They have aura after all."
Seeing the amount of dead White Fang, Hatter thugs, Sieg's Dragonslayers and a smattering of Atlesian thugs, Baldur grunted.
"Yeah, all that remains are the ones with aura." Baldur answered as his scope hovered over Ryuko, who had stood up with an irritated expression.
Her clothes had taken some damage, being burnt and cut in various places. She tossed her overcoat aside and looked around.
"Wait, hold on. Someone else is there too." Baldur growled as he saw a young man stumble out of a metal crate with a scroll in hand.
"Nevermind him. I need you to kill off Hatter and Sieg before-" "Ha! No. I'm under orders to kill the redhead and adapt to my new form. And she's far scarier than you are. Deal with the rest using your own men." Baldur cut William off and turned off his communicator before putting the rifle into Mercury's hands.
"Riiiight then I guess I'll just-" *SWISH!* "-take the rest on.. haaah.." Mercury sighed as Baldur launched himself down, poised to strike at Ryuko.
"Mercury, take down the rest of their forces. Use my men and the equipment I sent with you as you deem fit." William spoke through his communicator.
"Aah fine.. You two!" Mercury pointed at two unique thugs with white and black hair, one male, one female.
"You're with me. We're taking Taurus and the Vale gang leaders. Rest of you? Take down the rogue mech and the.. ice cream girl." Mercury ordered before pulling down his black balaclava mask and descending down the roof with the two unique thugs following close behind him.
"Seems weird two Vale gang bosses are out on the front line but fuck it.." Mercury muttered as he descended to the ground, just in time to feel a powerful gust of wind hit not just him, but the forces he had with him.
The reason? Baldur had just clashed with Ryuko. His claws scraping along her gun barrels as the ground exploded outward from their position. And Baldur was pushing her back.
"You.. You're dangerous. My instincts are screaming at me to kill you!!" Baldur exclaimed as his mouth split in an eerie and -literally- wolfish grin.
Ryuko slid back after ducking under a swipe that would have taken even an average Huntsman's head off with ease. She quickly started firing while Baldur swung, thrusted and slashed his razor sharp claws at her in an exchange of pure speed.
"Now this is unexpected..! A talking Grimm?" Ryuko exclaimed as she fired two rounds into Baldur's chest, though they merely pinged off his aura.
"And with Aura too! Mommy looooves presents~" Ryuko grinned as she was forced on the defensive again.
Baldur spun on his heel and forced himself to dodge a roundhouse, then a tornado kick that ended with two gravity dust shots. His sheer speed allowing him to move faster than the bullets themselves. Baldur's lupine body shot forward and successfully tackled Ryuko straight through several metal crates until landing a quick, albeit sloppy kick to her gut that sent her flying back with her aura shimmering.
"Hehe... Not half bad, big bad wolf. But it's gonna take more than that to blow me down." Ryuko smirked as Baldur once more dashed at her.
Meanwhile..
"What in the hell did I get into..? A few thousand lien isn't enough for THIS.." The young man following everything with his scroll muttered as he took in the absolute chaos.
Ryuko was fighting a Grimm Beowolf on steroids. That was probably the highlight of the whole stream. But add in some gang war with mechs and a pissed off Adam Taurus, a blood-wielding gang boss, a hulking Faunus guy, a homicidal ice cream shorty and some Huntsman level gangsters? It was a bit too much for the guy who got a bit too hyped when he saw Ryuko.
"Man I gotta dip before I get shot in the ass-huh?"
[CoffeeLoverOz gifted you 2,000,000 lien!! Message attached: This is a great stream. Thank you for risking life and limb for this footage. Get to safety and try to continue perhaps?]
[P_J_Sch: Holy.. that was more lien than I'll ever seen in my life.. But the camera guy definitely deserves it for getting all this]
[Blade_Eclipse: The mech and the smol girl are under attack! Stinky give us that footage 🙏😭]
[Th1n_mint: Dude just became a millionaire lmao. Give him a sec to get over the shock]
While the comments were flooding in, Roman's mech moved, carrying Neo in it's large claw. Her aura had taken serious punishment and was on the verge of shattering. It was entirely thanks to Roman that she hadn't seriously been injured or worse. Neo grit her teeth, remembering Ryuko leaping out of the office and screaming at Roman to cover her before the explosion shook the warehouse. As they were closest to the exploding dust, they were in the most danger.
'These Motherfuckers!!' Neo grit her teeth, pushing the pain down as Roman cursed and quickly moved the damaged mech away from two attacking beast mechs who had been waiting outside.
"Hah! You look more pissed than I've ever seen you, shorty. But you need to focus. We got a two on two and we're not doing so hot. If we fuck up here, we die. Then our Boss? She's left in this world without a beautiful, charming and charismatic genius.. and you too, I guess." Neo huffed, feeling the egotistical grin he was giving her even through several tons of reinforced metal.
"And that won't do. So we're gonna mop the floor with these faggots and t-bag their fucking corpses when we're done!"
Strangely, despite his crass words, Neo felt herself get inspired. Neo stood up, still within the clawed hand of Roman's mech as he suddenly stopped moving and turned toward the two attacking mechs.
"Give 'em the slip, shorty." Roman said, before throwing the girl at one of the mechs.
Her body shimmered mid-flight, disappearing from view. Though that seemed inconsequential to the pilots, who saw Roman's mech rear back, in attack position.
"Careful! He's going to use the laser-" "Bye!" As the pilots were preparing for an attack, Roman backpedaled and started to run once again.
[Pathro: AYO ain't no way this dude pulled a 'Nigerundayo!' 😭]
[J-Arcus: Wow.. so even Huntsmen leaguers do that? I've been doing that for years!]
[Twatguy replying to J-Arcus: Yeah except they probably got skills and don't live in their parent's basement?]
[SunnyDragon: Aw man I just got back and I'm missing so much! I gotta visit the city soon if this is what's happening..]
[LStar_334: Hiya ❤️]
[Mirego1999: Bro what kinda lunatic looks at this carnage and gets hyped to join in..]
Getting over the shock of suddenly becoming a millionaire, the young man took a deep breath and kept recording while staying behind cover. Just to jump in place when the short girl with heterochromia and split color hair tapped him on the shoulder while shoving her scroll in his face.
She smiled though he knew it wasn't a true request. More like a polite threat. The young man coughed and looked under him, seeing about fifty kilos of refined hardlight dust sitting under him.
"Oh shiiiiit... this isn't explosive is it?"
Neo smirked and typed away as he got up, packing away the hardlight dust into a little duffle bag she took from one of the Atlesian gangsters.
[Not in the tradition BOOM-BOOM sorta way. Make sure to get my good side for this next part]
And just like that, her image shimmered and she disappeared again.
*BRATATATATATATATATATATATATA*
The beast mechs gave chase to Roman, who was looping around the warehouse to not only buy some time for himself, but to get a read of the situation. Adam, Sieg and Hatter were fighting a squad of spec-ops guys and three Huntsman-level combatants out in the industrial sector's streets while Ryuko was fighting a weird werewolf Grimm that could move at insane speeds and had aura.
"Fuck me jogging.. I knew taking over Vale's Underworld would be tough but this is insane. Ahh.. the things I do for financial gain..." Roman steered his mech onto a street, sliding to a stop right in front of the warehouse and stopping right before lasers and dust shrapnel cannons ripped apart the street before him.
"I got him. Keep on firing!" One of the Atlesian pilots ordered before closing in on Roman and rearing back one of its hardlight claws before swinging it down at full force.
Roman jerked his controls back, despite its mechanical groans of protest, making his hardlight claws slash upward in a bright clash of intense high-grade Dust. It only bought him a moment or two, as his mech started to screech from the hardlight blades searing into its arm before successfully cutting it off. Roman slammed into the back of his cockpit with a painful hiss as the Atlesian pilot swung once more, leaving him no time to react to the incoming attack.
"ANYTIIIME NOW!" Roman felt himself panic as the killing blow descended on him.
*Clak*
Just before his inevitable end, Roman saw a strange, sticky explosive device shoot into the Atlesian pilot's cockpit before..
*KSSSSSSSHHHHH!!*
Several beams of hardened light exploded from within the cockpit, skewering the pilit within and making the mech fall apart. The pilot who had been firing at Roman stopped, seeing his screen shimmer as Neo appeared, standing atop his own visor with an experimental explosive Dust launcher. She smirked evilly as she pointed the launcher directly at him, loaded with at least twenty kilos of high grade hardlight Dust.
"SHIT!" The pilot quickly moved, trying to swat and crush the girl against the mech before she could fire.
*CLANG!*
The pilot grunted as Roman's mech moved, its tail wrapping around its arm as Neo gave him the middle finger, leapt off the Atlesian pilot's mech and shot the hardlight payload into the restricted mech's cockpit.
*KSSSSSSSHHHHH*
Roman caught Neo in the mech's remaining, faltering arm as he moved them away, taking a shuddering sigh as he felt all his tension fade away.
"Holy crap.. I saw my life flash before my eyes. Good thinking, Sh-Neo." Roman admitted, looking down at the girl with a genuine smile.
Neo gave him a peace sign and let out a deep sigh of her own. Then, she looked between Ryuko, still fighting and the fights between gang leaders.
"Hah.. yeah, I got it. We should help those guys out. Ryuko can handle the Grimm. It even looks like she's having fun. C'mon, Neo. Let's wrap this up quick." Roman cracked his neck and started moving the mech toward the gang leaders.
Neo nodded, holding onto the metal beast and giving Ryuko a lingering glance before shaking her head and focusing on ending the fight.
*CLANG!* *CLANG!* *CLANG!* *CLANG!*
The flurry of claws on sleek gun metal rang out on the rooftop as Ryuko and Baldur escalated their fight. At first, it felt like a fun distraction. But the longer she fought, Ryuko realized Baldur was improving, fast. He was becoming way too fast to fight while still holding back.
*BANG!* *BANG!*
Ryuko kicked off the ground and used the recoil to carry her higher up. Her eyes narrowed as her body bent bavkward on instinct, letting Baldur's claw sail over her head, where her upper body used to be.
[Accelerate: Active]
*BANG!*
Ryuko spun in the air, shooting to allow the recoil to spin her mid-air, where she tornado kicked the back of Baldur's head before landing. Seeing his aura flash as he landed, hunched over.
"I think you may be the strongest human I've ever seen.." Baldur stated, feeling the back of his head with a wide, beastly grin.
"Aww~ Little old me?" Ryuko replied with a smirk, failing to hide her excitement.
"Hah! As if you don't already know. Okay, let's get serious now.." Baldur held out one claw in front of him as his aura surged.
Ryuko's eyes narrowed, feeling an ungodly amount of aura rising from within the Grimm. It was enough to put her aura to zero if she took a direct hit. Normally, she would have several ways to deal with it as Yin. But using Ignition would be a dead giveaway. And the mana platforms would definitely be questioned by anyone with any knowledge of magic, given they watched the stream that young man was doing below.
Thus, that left one particular magic.
*RUMBLE*
Ryuko aimed her revolver at Baldur, a black orb coalescing at the tip that made the surrounding area heavier. A ball of gravity magic forming at the tip of her revolver, ready to be fired as soon as she felt the aura attack go off.
And go off it did.
*BOOOOOOOOOM!!!*
A tsunami of raw, unrefined pure soul energy flew at Ryuko, shaking the surrounding buildings with just its power alone. Met by it, was the ball of gravity magic, shot out of the tip of Ryuko's revolver, flattening the remains of the warehouse nearby with its cosmic might.
Soul and Magic clashed in an extreme display of power. The scale of the clash widening to the entire Industrial sector. Many late night workers ducking into cover, suspecting an earthquake as the asphalt and concrete cracked and exploded around the clash until..
*KZZZT!*
The attacks canceled each other out, throwing both Ryuko and Baldur in opposite directions.
"Haaah.. Haha... so I was right to be cautious.. Good thing I'm not as arrogant anymore..~" Ryuko huffed, having slid along the street until she came to a stop. Watching the scale of destruction with a calculating gleam in her eyes.
"Grrr..." Baldur picked himself up, ready to pounce once again until he heard his communication earpiece turn on again.
"Fall back." Carmilla spoke, lacking her usual flirtatious tone or mirth.
Baldur wanted to argue, but he knew that was a bad idea. His instincts pleading at him to listen.
"...Fine. Fine..." Baldur grunted, quickly turning away and using his speed to flee the scene as he heard the distant sound of sirens.
Ryuko licked her lips, watching Baldur leave after giving her a particular look. One that said 'this is not over".
"Aaaah..~ This world is just so interesting..." Ryuko grinned, looking up at Remnant's shattered moon with a soft smile.
"I can't wait to make it worthy of you, Yang~"
[AN: Pics for Yin went up free on Pay-tree-on and Discord.]