Kuhaku Shiro, Abel Fulgurate, Gren Orchid vs. Goldilocks the Giant Iguana
White ears twitching Shiro cocked an eyebrow, detecting a large presence heading their way. Apparently, Scoot detected the same thing as he stood straight atop Shiro's white head of hair looking in the same direction. Before Shiro could get a good look at what approached, Scoot jumped off of his head and scrabbled away. Telepathically exclaiming "Fun! Food!" and running off in a random direction. Shocked at the idea of potentially losing his new friend, Shiro chased after him leaving the girls behind as he ducked into a random hallway after Scoot.
"Ah! Scoot! Where are you going! Get back here! I have to show you to my friends!" He cried out after Scoot, chasing after the tiny thing and having forgotten the two Faunus girls to whom he was speaking with earlier.
Gren ran down the hall, doing his best to try to avoid any more attention. While he hasn't seen any guardsmen yet, if the animals are released who knows what else would find him. He only knew about the big iguana; for all he could guess, there may be a whole zoo of super powered animals kept here. Gren continued to run through the halls when as he turned a corner he saw two faunas girls. One of them looked vaguely familiar, but he couldn't place it at the moment. But they froze like deer in headlights, particularly the deer faunus, and Gren himself paused a moment just to analyze their threat level. Which wasn't very high to be honest, but who knows what they might do. Or what they might know.
"Do you know where the security office on this level is?"The squirrel girl had already turned bushy tail to run, but her companion seized her by it. "Don't panic, we've already worked this out with Shiro." Her eyes flickered toward the snow tiger faunus, who stood only a couple meters away, though perhaps somewhat hidden by an outcropping of wall. Coral affixed Gren with a steely gaze. "It's back the way you came, I think. What did you do with my friends?"
Back towards the iguana? Gren was going to need to find an alternative path if that was the case. If the Iguana didn't find a way around the barrier and fire itself. Gren made it a point not to answer her about her friends however. He would either lie or tell her the truth, but since one of them mentioned Shiro, he guessed that they already spoke to him. Gren wasn't sure what Shiro would do, perhaps he would go find Sapphire and try to help her. Or try to stop her. Gren debated if he should go find him or continue with his mission. He knew he couldn't call him since he broke his SCROLL. So he turned to the girls once more.
"Where is Shiro?"With a barely-restrained anger fairly surprising for a woman her size, Coral indicated Shiro with a point of her finger. "Just...there. Take him and get out of our hair."
Shiro chased Scoot in a circle, low to the ground and not exactly focused on much else. Scoot enjoyed the little game and quickly did a 180 degree turn back toward the way they came. Shiro, unable to turn on a dime like Scoot, tripped over his own feet and faceplanted. Coughing up some dust, Shiro looked up at Scoot escaping and grinned. Doing a little butt wiggle, Shiro got into a pouncing position and tightened his leg muscles. With a powerful lunge, Shiro suddenly appeared out of the doorway with Scoot the ferret trying to leap away from him.
Time slowed and crawled to a near halt as Shiro emerged from the door way and relinked with the two Faunus girls still standing there along with Gren. Shiro only had enough time to process a single thought.
"Oh, hey! It's Gren!""Gr-..!"A sudden spike exploded from the ground right into Gren, rudely cutting off his speech. Due to his close proximity to Gren, Shiro's midair lunge was thrown off and he was sent flying/rolling into the nearest wall along with Scoot. His back and head slamming squarely against the wall, Shiro coughed and winced as he held the back of his skull together. Opening an eye, Shiro growled as got into his 'Combat mode'.
Nodding his head Gren called out to Shiro. Or at least he was, before a spike rammed out from the ground and into Gren. It sent him bouncing off the walls, ceiling, and onto the ground. There were cracks in his armor from the surprise attack, but as soon as he landed he activated his protective aura. Looking up he saw the iguana, not even scratched.
"Curses. Go! Get out of here!" Gren rolled off to the side as another spike emerged from below him, but what he didn't expect was for another one to grow at the same time. His Aura protected him from getting impaled, but still launched him into the ceiling. Activating his semblance to stick on the ceiling Gren got to his feet, The God Eater now in hand.
"Persistent bastard."As Shiro's eyes shifted to their ice-blue color and his body became marked by his 'stripes', His eyes followed Gren's movement but he quickly looked away as Abel's voice broke him from his focus.
"Holy cow, look at the size of that lizard," came a voice from behind Shiro. Abel, having heard the massive tumult, ran back through the corridor toward his teammates. "He's even bigger that the one I killed." Ampere in hand, he advanced until he stood by Shiro's side. The faunus girls, meanwhile, had fled, and their departure was heralded by a guttural grumbling sound from the oversized reptile.
Dusting himself off and standing, Shiro scooped up Scoot and brought him to his face.
"You should probably run off and find somewhere safe, little buddy. I'll introduce you to my friends later." Shiro petted the ferret and set him down, brandishing Kladenets and Perun.
The massive iguana charged at the nearest target, Gren, trying to bulldoze the cyborg beneath its weight and crumple him in his own armor.. Not close enough to help physically, Abel shifted his Ampere to Staff Mode and loosed a lightning bolt at the reptile's face, stinging enough to make it screw its eyes shut. If anything could be made out of this situation, it would be up to Gren to discover.
Shiro watched as the reptile began to charge at Gren, Abel interupting its attack with a bolt of lightning. Capitializing on this chance, Shiro peeled two Dust Shotshells from his belt and chambered them into Kladenets. Hopping onto Abel's back, Shiro used the large Hunter as a springboard -"uff!"- to launch himself forward at the iguana. With a squeeze of Kladenets' hidden trigger as he lunged, Shiro propelled himself forward even faster with the loud crack of gunfire to intercept the lizard's charge and landing right on its face.
The arrival of Abel and Shiro was greatly appreciated, and Gren captialized on it the best he could. Initally he braced himself for the iguana's charge, but since it was distracted by his other two partners Gren instead chose to cover the area in flames.
"Fire in the hole!"Gren blasted the Iguana with the sticky burning fluids of his flame thrower, but only aiming at the iguana's legs since he didn't want to catch Shiro with his fire. The fire also did it's job to corall the iguana and disaude it from any more charges. But the combined power of the iguana's aura and its natural scaley hide might be too much individually. So it was time for some team work.
Grinning, Shiro stood and waited for it to recover its vision before sticking his tongue out in its face and blowing a raspberry. Stopping, Shiro frowned and thought this lizard looked somewhat familiar. Placing his hands on his hips, Shiro shook his head and shrugged. Shoving Kladenets into Perun, his weapon transformed into its larger Great Axe form. Rearing the head of the massive axe back, Shiro did a little hop on the lizard's face before squeezing the trigger within the guard to thunderously slam the head of the axe straight downward into its head.
Shrieking, the reptile flailed around with the axe embedded in its head. Green blood spattered across the floor and onto Shiro's pristine white fur. It appeared that the iguana's earlier battle with Gren, as will as momentary chance fights with a few security guards, had been enough to weaken the creature's aura. A bath of flame and a Great Axe to the skull were enough to compromise its protection, and now the creature flung itself around in an insane frenzy, its death throes. The iguana had less than a minute before it bled out, but in that minute, knowing that it was already dead and therefore had nothing to hold back, it was the deadliest.
Abel yelled out a warning as the creature began to move, throwing itself erratically and senselessly around. The iguana smashed into a wall, creating a crater in the white concrete, and then dragged itself forward, ripping apart an entire length of the hallway. The guardian roared over the constant crashing and horrible reptillian gurgling, "It's done for, but it's gonna collapse something at this rate! We need to coordinate a finishing move!" Trying to think up one on his own, Abel recalled the fight with the giant robot in the train tunnel during the initiation ceremony, but with no giant robot arms nearby to throw, options were limited.
With the creatures on it's final legs, it was time to finish this. Focusing his Semblance through the walls, the ground, and onto the iguana, Gren rooted it to the ground. Then he positioned The God Eater in it's Terror mode, ready to swing. But he wasn't going to be the one to kill the creature.
"Abel, Shiro! Get ready for a Pile Bunker!""Whoa, nelly!" Shiro exclaimed as the beast began to thrash about. He was surprised his attack had done the amount of damage it did and partially felt sorry for having hurt it so gravely. He tried his best to hang onto his axe, but decided it would be better to bail. Grunting as he struggled to balance between removing his axe and from being thrown off. With a stomp, he freed the head of his axe just in time to be bucked off by the pissed off creature. Being flung off and towards Abel rather ungracefully.
"Incoming!" He flailed as his axe reverted back to its sword and shield form in midair. Landing on all fours, he skidded as his weapons landed with a clatter by his side.
Scooping up his sword and shield, Shiro shoved his sword into the shield and braced himself.
"Alright! One Pile Bunker, coming up! Gren, slick the ground! Abel, get ready for me!" Crouching low, Shiro settled into a runner's sprint form. Aimed directly at Abel, Shiro burst forward in a dead dash towards the guardian, bounding forward with his arms outstretched.
Abel sighed and waited until Shiro was in range before reaching out and grabbing him, not by his hands, but by his neck and his belt. With a grip closer to his teammate's center of gravity, less energy was wasted in applying force, and after spinning around once Abel threw Shiro in the iguana's direction, slow enough so that his impact and subsequent slide on the floor, though briskly quick, wasn't overly harmful.
With Abel's extra help, Shiro picked up speed. Touching down on the 'slicked' ground, Shiro brandished his sword and shield. Locking his sword into his shield, he performed an emergency speed reload to fill his sword to capacity with Dust Shotshells. Ripping his sword out, he squeezed the trigger of his to fire off a round, placing himself into a spin. Velocity, centrifugal force, and his total gross weight behind his shield. Shiro slammed himself across the face of the giant lizard. The impact of the attack forced some of the air out of Shiro himself, and he could swear he heard bone crack when the face of his shield connected with the reptile.
Shaking his head, Shiro recovered quickly. Slamming his sword into his shield, the weapon automatically reassembled itself into its Great Axe form. Rearing the axe back as far as he could twist his body, Shiro let out a loud roar as he squeezed the hidden trigger in his axe. With an eardrum shattering eruption, his Axe swung upwards in a wide blue-flame arc to knock the lizard's head upward. Following through with the swing, Shiro squeezed off another round to send him spiraling upwards into the air above the lizard's head.
"Abel, Ampere!" He yelled out to the guardian at the height of his boosted jump, reaching out with a gloved hand. Without delay, the weapon smacked into his hand, imparting a slight shock but retaining the vast majority of the charge given to it by Abel.
Landing on the stunned creature's head, Shiro buried the Ampere into what he perceived to be the center of the creature's skull.
"Gren, drive it home!"Gren slide on the ceiling towards the iguana, who was distracted by the Shiro and Abel's attacks. He was straining himself using his Semblance to both root the iguana in place as well as provide Shiro the slick he needed to build momentum. However once he finished his attack Gren could drop those in favor of simply using the Semblance on himself. So using the God Eater to propel him across the ceiling, Gren bolted above the Iguana. And then he dropped.
Using the God eater to make Gren spin rapidly through the air, Gren continued to whirl dizzingly until he was mere inches above the Ampere. And then, with timed precision, he smashed his full body weight and the momentum of three hundred plus pounds of spiral power right into the bottom hilt of the Ampere, spiking the weapon through the Iguana and into the ground. Gren hit the weapon with enough force to produce a shockwave, one powerful enough to slam the iguana's head into the ground as well. The resulting impact cracked the tiles, and the scaly flesh of the iguana rippled once before growing still for good. An electrified spear through the skull in less than a second had extinguished the creature's life instantly, with no more delay or pain than the turning-off of a light.
Abel exhaled lengthily and summoned the Ampere back to his hand. It took several vigorous shakes to cleanse it of green blood, not to mention the stomach-churning odor. Doing his best to ignore the smell, and standing at the back of the group, Abel was privy to a sound that the others were not: the loud shattering of glass. "More beasties?" He guessed unhappily as he looked toward the operating chamber.
Shiro hopped off of the now-recently-deceased lizard and tried his best to wipe himself off. Eyeing the dead beast sadly, Shiro walked over to where his axe had fallen. Removing it from the ground, he gave it one good swing and reverted it back to its standard form before slinging his equipment onto his back. Standing in front of the dead lizard, he couldn't help but feel a little sad for having executed it. It wasn't like the thing was a Grimm. Grimm, he had no issue with killing. But...
"Ah, well." Shiro heard the distant sound of shattering glass at the same time as the others, his ears twitching. Looking back down the hall towards Abel, Shiro's eyes scanned for Scoot.
"Scoot! Hey, Scoot buddy!" He shook his head as he looked toward Gren and Abel.
"We should get a move on, do any of you know what happened to Sapphire?" Looking both ways down either end of the hall, he saw the two Faunus girls had fled. He wasn't too keen on them being alone, nor Sapphire. But, Sapphire came first. Cupping his hands over his mouth, he called out for Scoot once more.
"Scoot, come on, buddy!" A scruffy head poked out of a stairwell doorway near where Abel's gaze had fallen.
"Fun, fun, fun! Here!" With that the ferret vanished, climbing its way up the stairs to the observation hall.
Expression brightening, Shiro briefly forgot his worries and immediately chased after the ferret. Leaving his teammates behind in a flurry of white tail and fur.
"Hey, Scoot! Wait up!"Gren looked at the ferret that... Spoke to him in his head.
"A creature with a telepathic semblance? Pretty cool." He saw Shiro chase after the creature towards the direction of glass shattering. If he had to guess, they were heading to where Sapphire was. Gren was tempted to chase after, but he had other ideas. Right now the situation has gone to hell, and he needed to spread his message throughout the entire building. Even if he could find the head honcho of this establishment, it may be too late to say what he needed to say.
"Abel, go with Shiro and help Sapphire. I'll be fine on my own, I need to find the security room." Gren didn't give Abel a chance to debate as he ran off in the direction the girls had previously pointed out to him. He noticed the spike wall that the iguana had made, largely untouched. It must have shrank in size after the fire died out and crawled through that way. Or found another way around, it didn't matter. Gren charged through the barrier with ease as he stomped towards the security room.