Who Needs A Bang When You Got A Yang?

Chapter 22

Izuku and Weiss had returned to the dorms as they had explained to the others what they had gotten themselves into.

"So let me see if I heard that right. Mirko wants to fight us in a week because she got pissy because you two unintentionally made her spill her drink, did I get that right?" Ren asked as Izuku and Weiss as they nodded their heads in unison.

"Ok, I'm convinced we all killed someone in past lives because the world likes to bend us over and find us in the alps." Jaune said as he placed his hands onto his face before sighing.

"Least we have a week to prepare for this, not like we'll need it anyway." Yang remarked.

"Better safe then sorry Yang. After all, we can't expect to get by in battle relying on raw power." Weiss said as she placed Eri on her lap.

"You're sounding like my dad right now Weiss. You have no idea how many times he told me that to hammer that point." Yang said with a chuckle while Blake was playing Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake with Momo watching her as Blake as at the ending battle against Big Boss.

"Big Boss, you're. . . . . alive?"

"Snake, welcome to Zanzibar Land. I knew you'd come back to me."

"I came to get rid of the nightmares I've been having for the past three years."

"The nightmares? They never go away, Snake. Once you've been on the battlefield, tasted the exhilaration, the tension, it all becomes part of you. Once you've awakened the warrior within, it never sleeps again. You crave even better tensions, even bigger thrills. As a mercenary, I thought you would have realized that by now."

"Sad thing is, Big Boss does a point. Once you've felt the thrill of battle, it's pretty hard to feel satisfaction from anything else." Blake said as Momo looked over her shoulder towards Yang.

"I mean, I can see that with Bakugo, but Yang's the brawler of our group yet she seems to get satisfaction from things outside of battle." Momo said before realizing the implications of what Blake had said, as she looked around before looking back at Blake.

"Blake, are you trying to say that. . ."

"Yes, when I left the White Fang, I'll admit that I had some problems finding satisfaction from normal things. Though thankfully I had people to help me with that." Blake said as she looked at her team and Izuku, whom she gave a loving smile to.

"I hate to imagine what I'd be like if it weren't for you all." Blake said as she placed her focus back onto the game.

"You care nothing for power, money or even sex. The only thing that satisfies your cravings is WAR! All I've done is given you a place for it, I've given you a reason to live."

"I never would have made you for such a hypocrite, Big Boss."

"You saw all those children, didn't you? Every one is a victim of a war somewhere in the world, and they'll make fine soldiers in the next war. Start a war, fan it's flames, create victims, then save them, train them, and feed them back onto the battlefield. It's a perfectly logical system. In this world of ours, conflict never ends. And neither does our purpose."

Blake cringed a bit upon reading that, having it hit a bit too close to home for the faunus girl.

"So there's plenty of job opportunities, is that what you're trying to say?"

"On the battlefield, you and I are valuable commodities but back 'home', we're nothing but deadweight. If we're lucky, we'll catch the attention of some two bit journalist from some cheap tabloid. You and I are doomed to remain here until we die like dogs on the battlefield."

"I've got one more fight left. To free myself from your grip, to rid myself of these nightmares. Big Boss, I will defeat you!"

"It doesn't matter who wins here, our fight will continue. The loser will be liberated from the battlefield and the winner will remain, and the survivor will carry out the rest of his days as a soldier."

"It doesn't have to be that way, I'm not like you! I love life!"

"Very well, Snake. I'll release you from your suffering. As your former commander, I'll do you one last favor and put you out of your misery."

"I don't need anymore favors from you!"

"Really? And how do you expect to defeat me in your current condition? With no weapon?"

"Never give up, fight until the end. Always believe you will succeed even when the odds are against you. Those are your words."

"Even I make mistakes from time to time. Snake, this will be our final battle! Let's end this once and for all!"

"So what exactly will we do for the training? Sure a week is a decent amount of time for training but at the same time, bit of a restrictive time limit." Ren mentioned as they all took a moment to think how they'd handle their training for the fight.

"We'll train immediately after class is over until dinner, take a little break before continuing for a bit until bed, then we keep at until the day before so we can rest." Izuku said as the others agreed to it as Weiss patted Eri on the head.

"You all can do this, Papa." Eri said with a smile as Izuku and Weiss hugged her.

"Thank you for the encouragement Eri." Erza said as she gave Eri a hug.

"Mirko should be thanking her lucky stars Gray isn't here, otherwise there wouldn't be a fight in the first place. . . . least against her at least." Natsu said with a sheepish look on his face.

"Hey, least you admitted you and Gray have a problem with picking the most inconvenient times to argue and fight." Ruby said as Natsu knew he couldn't retort as they looked at Winter and Willow just relaxing, which made Weiss smile.

"You know Weiss, your mom could really pull off a Sindel cosplay." Yang said as Weiss looked at her with a deadpan look.

"Really Yang, seriously?" Weiss asked.

"What? She basically already has the look and the build to pull it off. With some tweaks, boom, she looks exactly like her." Yang said as Weiss didn't want to admit it outloud.

"I can see where Yang's coming from." Izuku admitted, making Weiss a bit embarrassed while Eri was too innocent and naive to know what they were talking about and just ignored it.

"God, this is going to be a mess when the rest find out about this." Pyrrha remarked as they looked over at Blake, seeing her having assumed the makeshift flamer thrower and used it to set Big Boss on fire.

"That's one way to do it I guess, bit brutal though if you ask me." Momo said as she and Blake watched Big Boss burn to death, as much as you could get away with in an 8-bit game.

"Yet his body was in tact by the time of Shadow Moses." Blake said before she and Momo chuckled as the others began thinking of a training regime for them to follow for the week's time that they have.

'This is going to be one hell of a fight.' Izuku thought to himself.