((Part 2 of the collab between Rex and Letter Bee.))
Seth continued to try and dodge the shield attacks. It seemed his attacks were getting faster as Seth tried to pinpoint where Kyros was. He heard the muffled steps and tried to dodge his next attack. However, part of his shield slammed into Seth’s midsection and he let out a gasp as all the air in Seth's lungs was sucked out. He flew through the air and slammed into the ground before he quickly got to his feet and tried opening his eyes. The blindness has gotten a little better, but he was still blind. He again tried to listen to where Kyros was. He hopped Kyros attack from his right as an accident and hoped he didn’t see his right ear was a handicap.
“Now I see,” Alex whispered to himself as a smile formed on his face. Looks like the fox has a small handicap and Kyros knows is. Alex thought to himself. He wouldn’t say a word since he didn’t want to give Seth’s ear away.
Too late; Kyros was now striking at Seth's right with his shield, careful to pull his punches, while reserving his other shield for defense. He was getting faster as well, trying to hit the Faunus as many times as possible without hurting him too much...[/quote]
Seth did his best to dodge, but it was clear Kyros found his weak spot. He tried to open his eyes, but still, the effect of the flash was keeping him from seeing clearly. Normal humans would have probably been able to see by now, but because of his heightened sight. It was lasting a lot longer and plus this was the first time he had seen a flash of any kind. Each strike kept Seth walking backward and one caused him to stumble back and fall to one knee. He dug his nails into the floor and knew this was a losing battle. Even if his sight did return he knew Kyros would cause another flash and cause him to go blind again.
‘I concede,” Seth said. He wasn’t one to feel ashamed to bow to a strong enemy, but he knew Alex was watching and knew he'd never hear the end of this. He gritted his teeth and waited for what came next.
Kyros gently laid down his shields on the floor, and said, "You fought well despite your disadvanatages, holding out long despite fighting an opponent who is best at defending."
He would then offer his hand and say, "Here, take my hand and get up. If you're seriously hurt, I'll take you to the infirmary."
Seth sniffed the air and went to grab Kyros’s hand. He missed once, but then took it and he was helped to his feet. She shook his head and said, “I’m fine, but the effects of that flash are somewhat in effect still. I’m getting gradually better. I could have tried to hold out, but I figured once my sight returned. You’d just use that flash again. I guess I’m not the Hunter I thought I was.”
“Nah, he just took your advantage away,” Alex spoke up before he continued, “If Kyros hadn’t blinded you. I’m pretty sure he’d be on the offensive.”
“No witty pet name?” Seth asked.
Alex just shrugged and said, “Nah, you’ve proven to be one of the good teammates However, I’ll need to come up with something to help you out with not being subjected to stuff like flash grenades. Kyros might have something already though.” Alex then sighed and added, “Although I would have loved to see what your Keyblade would have looked like since you're half human, half animal.”
Kyros smiled. "Well, Alex's world is more advanced than ours', but we do have sunglasses." Looking at Seth, he then said, "See, the Merc isn't so bad after all."
“Sunglasses should do nicely,” Alex said before he sighed, “I think that’s it for me. I’ve gotten all I needed.”
“What? You’re not going to fight Kyros?” Seth asked.
“Nah, I’ll pass. I just came down to see what I’m dealing with as far as teammates. I think I know what I’ll need to do as far as my share of the teamwork,” Alex said.
“Right,” Seth said not impressed by his response. He then asked,
“When will the Keyblade manifest by the way? I get the feeling that without it, I’ll be more of a burden than any sort of help.”
“Yeah, good question,” Alex said before he continued, “What are those who don’t have a Keyblade supposed to do? Since Heartless can only be defeated by keyblades. How can me or Seth actually help in battle?”
Giorgios Kyros responds, "Two things. One, Heartless can still be temporarily destroyed by Non-Keybladers, and Two, the Thirteen Seekers have plenty of Non-Heartless minions; Humans, mostly. The majority of their auxiliaries come from another version of Earth where Leo prevented a Nuclear War from occuring and replenished all natural resources, and now the people of that Earth serve him. Those people are armed with power armor, lasers, plasma weapons, railguns, and just ordinary guns."
He was speaking of Fallout: Apocalypse Averted. Then, Damnianos, not getting anything from Lilliana Lilliana, spoke up, turning to Alex. "People from your 'Chronos' might also be approached by the Seekers of Darkness. There's no hard evidence that they are, but they might still be."
"So we can fight the heartless," Seth said a little bit better now that he knew he could help out a little bit more.
“If they go after Chrono, they might try to get BTI on their side. If that happens we’re in for one hell of a fight since they’re the main manufactures of Robotics. However, my Zoo is one of a kind and therefore we won’t have to worry about fighting other Robotic animals. Even if they get other bounty hunters on their side, we can handle it. If we can get the king and queen to buy out their bounty hunters we can have spies among their ranks,” Alex said.
“Fighting other humans won’t be a problem for me. I’ve fought humanity for all of my life, but I’m not sure if I can kill a human. I was raised to not kill a human unless it’s necessary. Faunus don’t like to anger humanity. We know that will start an all-out war,” Seth said.
“Yes, but this is different. These aren’t your humans from your world so an all-out war against the Faunas won’t happen, but I’m wondering if these seekers will go after the Faunus.” Alex said.
“The Shadow Bloods might join them, but the others won’t. This is unless they have a Faunus already on their team, but I’m not sure if any Faunus would join them,” Seth said.
Damianos said, "They might offer the same promises we make...calming draughts are within their capabilities, as well as various apocalyptic plagues, weapons of mass destruction, and transformation spells that can permanently change the species of people."
Turning to Alex, the Wizard said, "Yes, undercutting BTI's bounty is within our power...hopefully."
“Some Faunus like the aspect of becoming Beasts. Many of them feel that becoming Beasts are the next evolution for Faunus. So it depends on who they ask and even if some of the Moon Bloods get offered. Jinx can see right through them. She might be an old wingnut, but she’s like a walking lie detector,” Seth said.
“And don’t worry about BTI’s robots. They might seem advanced, but there are easy ways to get around their AIs. They cut corners in software and therefore they’re easily hacked if you know where to look,” Alex said with a smile
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