Worlds Collide

Chapter 3: An Earthly Transition

We pick up roughly two weeks after the tournament, the protagonists (and Moto) were relaxing in the cave home: Kojiro and Kitiara were watching TV, Sarah was fiddling with the piano, Midiki and Tempetes were arm-wrestling  and Moto was resting against a wall with a subtly shaky breath, all was fairly calm...until Kitiara's phone rang. "Yo...uh huh, uh huh-wait what?? NANITE KOTODA ARIGATO!!" She answered and replied with extreme joy, HEAVILY confusing the other 5 people in the room with her. "What's gotten you so excited Dear?" Kojiro asked as his girlfriend just shook in pure eagerness. "That was the academy You, me and Sarah trained at, they want US to be teachers!! ALL OF US!!" she exclaimed with a mile wide smile on her face, as her friends all made various sounds of surprise and joy, Moto could only think to himself. 'Me? Out of absolutely everyone in the world, I'm going to teach people?, What am I supposed to teach, how to get nearly beat by the enemy?' he thought dourly as a portal opened. "C'MON MOTO! THIS IS GONNA BE SWEET!" Sarah exclaimed as the man slowly and subtly staggered his way through the portal, the 6 appearing in front of a colossal campus. "Ahh, I can't believe this is happening, helped us learn everyway possible to deal with the Phantoms, no offense Tempetes." Kojiro said, nervously side-eyeing the teams Phantom ally. "No offense taken, 'sides I've been meaning to visit this place...after I helped build the damn place." Tempetes reassured and revealed to the group, catching the humans and Midiki off guard would be a bit of an understatement. "WAIT WHAT??!?" they all yelled as Tempetes fixed his ears. "Yeah, apparently turning on my people wasn't enough for some people so I was told to help build this thing, petty as I am I built it alright...but better than they had envisioned!! HA! SUCE-LE TOI INGRATES!!" He yelled to the air as we cut over to Midiki and Moto, where we see Midiki trying to hand an 8ft staff to Moto. "Just take the walking stick you peismataris Tavros,  your injuries clearly are not going to be healed anytime soon so the best we can do for now is give you my copy of the staff of Asclepius, only mine is superior." the Greek man explained as Moto started projecting his voice into Midiki's head 'No you listen to me Midiki, I'm more than capable of handling my own wounded self without that glorified bo-staff.' Midiki was more than irritated not just at the voice projection but also his 'friends' stubbornness, but both were interrupted from continuing their argument as a truck pulled up and out hopped six people in leather jackets wearing tiger masks. "Uh...who're you?" Kitiara asked as the 6 masked men suddenly attacked, which went like this: Kojiro locked his opponent in a headlock to make him pass out, Kitiara struck her targets pressure points at the speed of sound, leaving him standing and paralyzed at the same time, Sarah dealt a thunderous side-kick, eliciting an X-ray shot of the guys ribs shattering as he fell to the ground, Midiki and Tempetes both socked their guys in the nose, making the back of their heads bash together, meanwhile Moto was sluggishly dodging his preys attacks, 'I can feel the portal weakened me far from what I was, but let's see by how much.' He thought as he judo threw his opponent towards the truck, reducing the vehicle to scraps as he kept flying until he hit one of the campus walls back first with a gruesome sounding *CRACK SNAP*, making his prey fall to the ground, limp, yet alive. As the masked individuals were tied up (the one who got his back snapped was tied separately) a car pulled up and out ran a middle-aged man in a suit. "Thank you, thank you all!, these people have been vandalising our fine establishment for weeks and we haven't been able to stop them!" He exclaimed while Kojiro, Kitiara and Sarah were taking the thanks, we see in the background that Midiki and Tempetes were still trying to get Moto to decide to use the healing staff. "Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Simo Huhta, I would like to welcome you all to Paradisus Defensio Academia, we're all welcome to have you." He welcome warmly as they all walked through the door (Moto now using the staff as a cane) as they all entered an enormous gymnasium. "This is the main teaching room for all our students, the entire room, much like all the buildings on Arcadia, is made of an automatic regenerating material that we replaced the old materials with after the war, now the only thing that could destroy this material would be complete disintegration." He explained to Midiki and Moto as Tempetes was on a tour with the others. 'ikidiM llew oot lla siht wonk dlouw uoy, elbataebnu naem yllacitamotua t'nseod noitareneger yas tsum I esuaceB ?staerht eht  eldnah ylurt nac ecalp siht niatrec ew era.'  Moto projected the thoughts into Midiki's head as his Greek friend rolled his eyes at his pals words as their team entered the gym. "And this is where-" "It was already explained tempo." Midiki cut Tempetes off, irking the Phantom for a second before Kitiara ran around the room, Simo could see only afterimages as Kojiro caught his girlfriend mid-run as Sarah laughed at her bestfriends sheer ecstasy at the new teaching job, though the smile on her face implied she was just as thrilled as she was. "Now *AHEM* that everyone is here, I would like to assign everyone their teaching rolls: Mr. Abimbola, you will be assigned to teach the students the ways of the blade and how to use it effectively, Ms. Hirano, you will educate them on the 18 disciplines of Ninjutsu, make them into truly formidable opponents, Ms. Jewel, you must train their aim and limb strength, make them accurate as a God, and stronger than steel, Mr...oh according to this you lack a last name, Midiki, you are the combat medic, our students focusing on healing will have much to learn on how to follow you, Mr. Roi, your knowledge on what makes a Phantom tic, not to mention your control of storms will make you valuable to our teachings, and lastly Mr...also no last name, Moto...you shall be primarily a sparing partner that teaches people how to fight to their full potential." Simo explained to the 6, each content and happy with their roll...until Kojiro decided to rib Moto on his roll in the campus. "So the 'Greatest warrior Arcadias ever seen' reduced to basically being used as a stepping stone for everyone else's progress, I can't lie this does feel a bit cathartic." He said in a cocky tone as Moto just started chuckling through his sore jaw, a grim, mirthless chuckle, echoing through the gym. "Don't make a fool of yourself, ssabmud, you're only teaching people how to use blades, I'm teaching people how to go past their limits in a fight, take away your weapons, and you're a Dead. Man. Walking." Moto stated, eyes glaring at his teammate as Kojiro's eyes flared in anger, Kitiaras shared the rage at her boyfriend getting so blatantly insulted, and Sarah...just wanted to see what would happen next. "How about this? you four fight in front of the students as a way to show them what to expect from their new teachers." Midiki suggested, to which they agreed. An hour later we see the gyms bleachers filled with the students, cheering as we see in the middle of the room the four on their own side, the 3 on the left, Moto on the right, Midiki and Tempetes taking the roll of commentators. "Good evening folks welcome to the main event of the night, my name is Midiki and with me is my friend, Tempetes, we have quite the battle about to take place as the three top graduates of this campus are about to take on a friend of ours in a three on one handicapped match." He started as Tempetes followed up. "That's right ol' friend and what a fight this'll be indeed, now to restate the rules: NO KILLING, and that's it, at the sound of the bell the fight'll start." He explained as Kojiro cracked his knuckles, Kitiara stretched her arms, Sarah stretched her legs, and Moto cracked his neck, with that, the bell went off. Sarah dashed at Moto, aiming a kick for his chest, only for him to dodge, but that kick was a setup for a sword slash from Kojiro, which Moto blocked with his staff, only do narrowly dodge a distracting kunai from Kitiara, as Sarah stomped her foot on the ground, launching up a boulder that she kicked at Moto's head so fast it caught fire, yet Moto would strike the boulder with his prosthetic, yet in that moment Kojiro and Kitiara would land their hit: a punch to Moto's stomach and a kick to the back of his neck, opening him for Sarah to unleash a series of bicycle kicks to the mans head, sending him sliding back a bit as he caught his balance, scuffed but not showing any serious signs of damage. "OH AND A FIERCE TEAMWORK FILLED COMBO ATTACK! LOOKS LIKE THIS WILL NOT BE A MIA VOLTA STO PARKO" Midiki said through the microphone, as Moto shook over the after-effects from that quick beating. "My turn". He stated as he seemingly vanished, before grunts were heard behind the two women as they turned and saw Kojiro getting the hell beaten out of him. "You failed to follow up when i was dazed, now PAY ITS PRICE LATROM" He said in an increased volume, as he leapt into the air to dodge an arrow to his blind-spot, as he landed smoke and dust suddenly started rising around him. 'Hidden pressure weight activated smoke bombs? interesting.' Moto thought as he heard the distinct *TWANG* of a bowstring, seeing Sarah's silhouette through the smoke pointing her bow upwards, as if on pure instinct Moto would start dodging rapidly, evading the 1,000 falling arrows as he leapt out of the smoke. 'How the hell'd he dodge sky death?? That's impossible!!' Sarah thought in alarm as Moto's fist suddenly appeared in front of her face, only for the flesh to be stabbed by a Wakizashi from Kitiara as swiftly afterwards she would unload a volley of hits to Moto's pressure points, only for them to not be working. "My kind have no pressure points, nice try though." Moto said with a dry tone as he leapt back from a sneak attack from Kojiro and ripped the Wakizashi from his hand as the flesh swiftly healed, taking that brief second Moto would suddenly appear behind the three, as bruises and cuts suddenly appeared on them, staggering the lot as he stood straight, giving the crowd a cold glare. "Haven't seen him do that since that siege at the Outback district in 1224." Tempetes whispered to Midiki, who nodded slowly, not looking excited at where this fight might go, the battle would continue, when suddenly a pile of ice shot from the ground, trapping Moto's leg as he grunted in confusion at the sudden ice, Kojiro readied a strike. "SONNIKKUSURASSHU." He exclaimed as all sound in the room suddenly dispersing as Moto's body was covered in a hundred slashes, Kojiro would sheath his sword as sound returned, as Moto's body healed from the damage a low sweeping kick from Kitiara shattered the ice as Moto grabbed the leg of the oncoming Sarah and used her like Nun-chucks, sending her friends flying back as he tossed her towards them. As Sarah regained her footing the three grouped back up to try and brainstorm a plan. "Ok, he's basically eating our hits and dishing them out even faster, anyone got an idea?" Sarah asked slightly out of breath as Kojiro groaned, both in pain from a cracked rib and from the idea he had. "Yeah, and I really hate suggesting it...we fuse our fighting spirits." He said with a sigh as Kitiara gave him a look of shock. "Honey are you nuts?? We don't even know if it'll be strong enough!" she said in worry as Kojiro just sighed in defeat. "We haven't another chance, I'll make it up to you dear, lets do this." He said as their eyes began to glow as their bodies then floated into the air and slammed together in an explosion of light, landing on the ground was a different beast entirely: Watua. The 20ft tall fusion roared in laughter, its voice like all three at once. "This is the thing I was brought out for? PATHETIC!! LOOK AT YOU! STRUGGLING TO STAND FROM THAT PHANTOM THEY KEPT TALKING ABOUT, I'LL PUT YOU OUT OF OUR MISERY!" It roared as Moto grimaced at the display. "What disgusting arrogance, maybe I'll rip it out through your forehead." Moto blandly threatened as Watua lunged forward with a punch, only for moto to leap over the fist and slam the cane into its neck, then before his foe could make another move he dropped his knee right onto where he just struck, knocking Watua down and leaping off the fusions back, landing gracefully. Watua slowly stood up, growling in rage and just kept swinging fist after fist, each one failing to connect as Moto actually started copying the punches, eventually landing a combo onto his target of the same punches Watua failed to land, finishing up with a roundhouse kick to the sternum, cracking it as Watua struggled to regain some footing. "DAMN YOU, DAMN YOU TO HELL!! WE DON'T NEED YOU! WE NEVER NEEDED YOU BEFORE! WE'RE PERFECT, I'M PERFECT, YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A MONSTER WHOSE TAKEN MORE LIVES THAN WE HAVE!!!" Watua roared out in a room shaking amount of blind rage as it just kept attacking more ferociously, before stopping to catch its breath. "Enough of this nonsense, you're acting like you have all the power you need to stop me, acting like you could've gone forever, I'm ending this, now." Moto stated with a glare as he dashed in front of Watua, but the beast swung an arm, slicing Moto at the waist. "AHAHAAH!! I'VE WON!!" The beast howled in success...only for it to be revealed it actually sliced an afterimage, in that instant Watua was overcome by sheer, raw terror as it slowly turned around and saw what looked like a metal skeleton fist rocketing towards it, a feeling of automatic DEATH washing over them, but we cut to outside it's perspective as we see Moto stopping his prosthetic fist JUST shy of Watuas head, the force and air pressure going through a portal Midiki quickly opened to Mars, rending the planets terrain. As the portal closed, Moto quickly smacked Watua across the face, returning it to the three people who made it, as they landed Midiki ran over to heal them as the crowd cheered at them, ignoring the winner entirely as if he never existed in the first place. We see Moto space out, entering a flashback to a very similar scene, similar people, yet a more enraged looking Moto, before it could continue Tempetes snapped him out of his flashback, leaving his friend to storm off with a hand in his pocket and a staff helping his limp, as Simo yelled out over the crowd to the 6. "WELCOME TO PARADISUS DEFENSIO ACADEMIA!!" As the screen cut to black, ending chapter three.