Team SYRA: Ametihtia Orestes

It’s ridiculous to say that ‘funny’ can be thought of as ‘silly',
because if you think about it, those crazy words come into play too often anyways.

On the roof of a tall building was a stage with bright lights lighting across its platform. As the people in front waited for the event, those in the back were making last-minute changes.

“Okay everyone, we going to be live soon, so hurry with the name and changes. Where is my superstar?”

“Right here!” A girl with brown hair and blonde highlights came up to the producer while wearing a purple blouse and black shorts. As the two rehearsed the upcoming performance, two men watched this scene in curiosity.

“Who’s the new chick?”

“Dunno,” said the other man. “But glad she’s here to be our replacement. After what she showed us, I think she’ll be better than the one we were expecting.”

“We’ll see. Let’s just hope nobody leaves tonight. It took us too long to get permission to use this place...lousy landlords.”

When the two men left, the performer was finally ready as she walked up towards her spot behind the curtains. After closing her eyes, she opened them to find herself facing a large crowd.

“Hey! This is Amy here, and I’ll be your singer for this show. So how is everyone doing today?” she yelled.

Silence filled the air as nobody expected to see this unknown performer. However, the singer didn’t let this stop her as she did a backflip onto a platform behind her.

Laughing, she said, “And I thought stage fright was supposed to happen to me! Well, don’t stop now! Let’s get this party started!”

The moment the music came on, the girl took out her two weapons and shot from both shotguns into the air. Jumping off with her body spinning, she did an impressive landing while her thrown weapons fell back into her hands. After firing another gun salute, the crowd cheered from this wild spectacle while the other dancers came out to join her.
...

“Thanks for the last-minute volunteer, miss. The show would have been a goner after our singer got a last-minute strep throat.”

Drinking a water bottle, the teenager put on a black jacket as a cool wind came across the rooftop. Feeling refreshed from her one hour performance, she looked around to see that the producer and the rest of his crew were getting ready to leave.

“No prob, I had a lot of fun singing in front of everyone else. If you ever need my help again, just call for Amy, okay?” After waving at the crewmen, she turned around to head towards the exit down the building.

When she saw the door, she also saw a male of her age waiting there with eyes looking down. As she approached, the stranger suddenly said, “Uh, hi. Um, you looked great out there today.”

“Thanks, I kinda thought so, too, you know, after everyone was screaming for an encore.” Upon closer examination, she could see that he was wearing a red sleeveless jacket over a plain white shirt and a pair of blue jeans. Aside from his white hair, the only unusual detail was the white bandana tied around his bare right arm.

“So...uh, well. Can you...uh.” Despite the awkward pauses, the girl’s smile never faded as she waited for the nervous teenager to find the right words. After taking a deep breath, he finally said, “You know, if you’re not busy, there’s a cool place that I want to show you. D-do you want to, I don’t know, go and check it out?”

“Well...I don’t really need to go anywhere, so sure. What’s this cool place we’re going to?”

Surprised to see her accept his offer, he opened the door next to him and said, “Uh, there’s this hangar inside this building that had a bunch of interesting gadgets inside there. I think I even saw some robots, so we might even have a chance to, I dunno, mess around with them or something.”

Happy to hear this, she went through the door before the boy came in and closed it behind him. As soon as the door clicked shut, a shadowy figure appeared around the corner and smirked from hearing the conversation.
...

“Wow, this place is pretty neat. Look, there are the robots you were talking about!”

After they arrived, the teenager ran into the spacious, storage-like room and exclaimed about everything that caught even a bit of her interest. The male teenager smiled as he listened to her adamant explanation about each item.

“Ohh, look! There’s even an EA-49 Bullhead back here! And so many steel containers! I wonder if this is a private air hangar or weapons cache?”

He was even happy to hear her explain the missile pods and heavy machine guns that were inside the aircraft’s compartments “Wait, what was that last part?”

“Enough of this part, check out this crate! Ohh, customized viper rifles! They even have a pink one!!!” As Amy took out a strange, pink sniper rifle from a box, the surprised boy watched as she swiftly took the magazine off of the gun. After she examined it and popped it back into place, she set the weapon back inside and gave the one who invited a wide grin.

“H-how do you know so much about guns? Are you like a Huntress or something?”

Shaking her head, she replied, “I might be one soon, but naw, I just happen to know these things thanks to my parents. It sure was fun talking to them about this stuff...at least, for as long as the fun lasted.”

The boy saw her face relax, but he wasn’t sure if it was out of sadness or relief. After a few seconds, her face brightened up as she went back to normal.

“So is there anything else that we can look at? Maybe we can look through these closed boxes and see if-.”

“W-wait! If you do that, I might get in trouble!”

Confused, the teen closed the box’s lid and asked, “Why would you get in trouble? You got us through that locked door, so you work here, right?”

The other kid scratched the back of his head as his mouth slowly twisted into a guilty frown. “I do...but, I’m just a janitor here so I can get some money for this school I’m going to. Now that I think about it, it was kind of lame to take you here when there’s nothing else to do, huh?” He sat on one of the boxes and said, “Well, you can leave. I’m sorry for wasting your time; I just thought it would have been nice to get to know you a bit more while we’re here.”

As he became depressed, his friend’s smile never faded as she did a handstand on the ground. “Aww, you don’t have to feel bad for doing this; it was nice to just see this place. If you want to know something, ask away! I’m never shy when I want people to know more about me!”

Amy’s cheery remark surprised her companion. “Y-you’re really okay with that? And this wasn’t a waste of your time?”

“I told you that I have some time to kill, but we should probably leave and hang out somewhere else soon. Ohh, maybe we can stop by an ice-cream store and order some stuff! Yeah, that sounds like a sweet idea!”

“O-okay, sure! Let me just put this stereo away and we can head out!” As he turned around to wheel the stereo away, he suddenly felt happy to know that he had someone who was willing to talk to him. “Maybe I can ask for her phone number later. It’s nice if I knew another person who’s going to Beacon too,” he thought as he wheeled the device near a set of boxes.

“Whoops.”

Turning around, he realized that the visitor accidentally pressed a red button on a nearby wall. Unsure of what it was for, he quickly looked around to see if something terrible was about  to happen.

For a few seconds, nothing happened, which made the boy relax. Sadly, a red light lit up the room a second later, placing the janitor under sheer panic. “What?! Oh come on!”

“Warning, warning, intruder alert, intruder alert,” blared a nearby intercom. “Activating security measures, deploying androids.” Suddenly, the red lines of the nearby robots hummed with energy as their bodies came to life. With heads aimed in the direction of the ‘intruders’, all of them got out of their containers and ran forward to carry out their directive.

“Oh no, I didn’t even bring my weapon! Amy,we need to get out of he-.”

Suddenly, large gunfire rang out as bullets struck the robots head-on.Looking beside him, the boy noticed that Amy had her two shotguns out with barrels smoking. While he looked at this in surprise, the girl raised one of her guns to blow the smoke off. “Wow, those AK androids weren’t so tough. I wonder if I had to waste bullets on them like that?”

The male of the two wasn’t sure why she was confused as he shocked by how fast she took them out. Just as his heart calmed down, the intercom came back to life to announce, “Warning, Level 1 security breach. Level 2 protocol initiated.”

“Wow, so it’s like a video game! Alright, bring it on! I’m ready to take anything you throw at me!” exclaimed the teen. While nearby steel containers were pulled by mechanical pulleys, the janitor came up to the trespasser and exclaimed, “C’mon Amy, we need to get out of here while we still can!”

“No can do,” she replied. “In this scenario, the doors behind us are probably locked, just like all video games would have it that way.”

When the boy turned around, he saw that she was right as blast doors came down to cover their only exit. Scared, he nervously looked for a way out while the warrior beside him raised her shotgun/axes at ready.

“Why don’t you stay behind one of those boxes and take cover? I’ll do the rest and take them out with a bang!”

The other teen didn’t want to leave her behind, but he didn’t have a choice since there was nothing he can do. After saying, “Be careful,” he ran to take cover right as the steel containers clicked into place. Inside, four large bulky robots with beige armor lumbered out of the containers. In place of their hands were wrecking balls, large round weapons that slightly bent the metal they leaned on. After their dome-shaped heads made a full rotation, blue lines appeared over their body with two slits appearing on their faces.

“Kirov Clunkers? Well, aren’t you guys lucky. You get to hear today’s encore while I go at it with my fellow dancers, Spark and Violetta. Now a one, and a two, and a three.” The girl shot a glance at the stereo near her and hopped to the beat as the music started.

I don't give a darn 'bout my reputation
You're living in the past, it's a new generation

Two of the robots ran forward with hands raised high. Right as their hands reached the highest point, the teen ran forward and slammed both axes right into the legs of the giants. Losing balance, the clumsy robots waved their arms and accidentally slammed them into the other.

Still running, she nimbly dodged to the side before another giant fist came crashing into the ground. Jumped onto the hand, she quickly ran up the arm while she swung one of her axes around by the chain. Reaching the head, she swung out her axe and had the blade slam full force into the robot’s eyes. With repeated strikes, she successfully made a deep indentation that destroyed the robot’s sight. Although blind, it was still able to raise its arm to swing at the girl standing near its head.


“Whoa, got to split,” Amy whistled right as she backflipped off of the head. The robot’s fist missed its target and instead pulverized its head deeper into its body. While the headless body continued to move, another robot pushed it out of the way and slowly ran with shoulder forward to slam it into the airborne girl.


Before it could reach her, she quickly threw her axe up to have it wrap itself onto a hanging pipe. Swinging up and out of reach, the teenager unhooked her tied weapon and landed right on top of the robot’s head. Tying her chain around its neck, she hung onto her two axes to hang her body over the robot’s back.


When Amy saw the other robots recover from their stumble, she yelled, “Look, my weapons can even do this, see?” Flipping a switch on both axes, the blades began to rotate like a beater, as if taunting the robots to come after her.

The robots seemed to react to this as they ran full speed with arms raised. Before they could reach her, the warrior’s ride suddenly walked backwards with upper body rotating by the waist. Now spinning like a top, the robot continued to try and get the girl and her chain off of its neck.

Unfortunately, the part-time singer only exclaimed how this was fun while the robot’s arms swung into its approaching comrades. Even when it noticed and stopped its spin, it was already too late as its attack crushed the others into pieces. While the pieces fell to the floor sparking, the girl quickly shimmied up and flung her legs over the robot’s shoulders.

“Aww, you hurt your friends. Sorry about your loss, but I gotta to end this now.”

With axes back in her hands, she aimed her shotguns at the robot’s face and shot two full rounds into it. The damage left the robot blind and stumbling around. Taking advantage of this, she jumped down and rapidly swung both axes into its legs. After several strikes, the legs buckled from the damage and made the robot topple over along with the force of its clumsy movements.


“And that’s that! How did that look? Pretty cool, huh?” said Amy as she walked away from the smoking robots. A small gear popped out of one and coincidentally landed on the ‘stop’ button of the stereo to end the song.

The spectator couldn’t believe what he saw. In mere minutes, she defeated all of those robots by herself with the most peculiar fighting style he’s ever seen.

Suddenly, the containers that held the robots blew apart and head towards the girl’s direction. She managed to jump up to avoid them, but couldn’t dodge a black long leg that came after the objects.

“Amy,” shouted the boy as the containers landed near him. While several slammed into the walls, he barely dodged another that ripped off a bunch of hanging electrical wires.

The girl fell beside him and sat up, slightly sore from the blow. When the two teenagers looked up, they noticed that they were staring at a familiar white and red mask.

“A-a Grimm? What’s a Grimm doing here this deep in town!?”

The Grimm, Tarantellam, turned out to be a huge tarantula that had a black body with eight legs. Screeching at its prey, the monster suddenly made a great leap forward and tried to ram its head into the teenagers.

Both managed to move out of the way, making the monster instead ram a container into the wall. After it recovered, the Grimm ran after the girl who was still in the middle of her retreat.

Now running forward, the markswoman was about to meet the monster head-on until she spun out of the way and ran beside it. She dodged each leg that tried to stomp into her while she used both axes to strike its body and legs.The attacks did nothing as the Grimm moved unfazed, turning around to chase after its prey.

While the girl dodged the charge, her friend wasn’t as fortunate when the Grimm slammed its leg down into his fear-ridden body. Before its fangs could sink into him, the markswoman came in and swung one axe down by the chain onto its head. After using shotgun blasts to blind the monster, she whacked the leg away and moved him to safety.

After running behind the cover of a container, the victim, whose arm was over her shoulder, said, “Just leave me and save yourself. There’s no way you can fight it if you have to carry me like this!”

“C’mon, I hate those kind of lines! Cut the cliche and just let me do this!”

“But that’s the problem,” exclaimed the skinny janitor, “You’re doing all the work while I’m just...just here getting in your way. Man, he was right in the end. My parents deserved a better kid than me.”

Suddenly, Amy dropped him to the ground. When he looked up to see what was wrong, he felt two hands simultaneously hit him on the cheeks. After the hands were pulled back,  he asked, “Ouch, what was that for?!” as he rubbed the sore skin.

The girl was looking at him with a serious expression, unusual for the time he has known her. “Stop being stupid by saying stuff like this! You got hands and feet like everyone else, so use them if you don’t want to fall behind!”

The exclamation made him nod his head as he slowly stood up, feeling strangely revitalized.  “O-okay, I think I can do something,but I’m not sure if it can really help us.”

With weapons out and peeking around the corner, she replied, “Hey, it’s better than nothing in this case. Make the most of it.”

The container was suddenly pushed away as the Grimm finally found its targets. Before it could move in to attack, the silver-haired kid threw both hands out to create a white mist that covered the area.

The monster quickly spun around as it used its many red eyes to look for its prey. When it saw a shadow move inside the fog, it quickly scurried forward to bite its fangs into it, giving it no quarter to escape. After injecting poison into it, the monster realized that it wasn’t biting into human flesh. Instead, it had the stereo from before in its fangs and sparking from the liquid poison.

When it tried to compose itself, it heard a machine and turned to see a steel container heading its way. The object slammed the monster into a nearby dented wall that broke from the force. The tarantula loudly screeched as it was forced out and over into the outside space.

On a nearby machine that operated the pulleys, Amy threw up another lever to pull back the container just used to attack the monster.

“Did you see that? Smack! I knew there was a Pullmaster 5000 somewhere. And good work, you did something awesome back there!”

Embarrassed from the compliment, the boy replied, “Aww, it wasn’t much. It only helps when I need to hide and-.”

“Are you kidding? That was some ninja trick you pulled there! You could have used a weapon to do some sneaking around against the bad guys just like the ones that do it in those movies!”

He gave her an incredulous look as she had no idea that she just explained his fighting style. Before he could explain, the Grimm suddenly came back through the hole before it jumped high into the air. Both humans ran out of the way as the monster’s landing destroyed the pulley control.

The Grimm screeched loudly as it went on a rampage, slamming every part of itself into whatever it can hit. Containers and weapons flew everywhere and one large object ended up hitting the running markswoman on her back.

She tripped from the contact and slid all the way near the hole. When she got up, she saw that the monster, with angry eyes, charged forward with fangs out to gnash them into its cornered prey.

Suddenly, a white mist appeared again and blinded the monster’s front view. Seeing that there was no way its prey could dodge, it kept going forward until its body was back outside the hole and in the air. While its body fell towards the ground, Amy hung tightly to her partner’s shoulders as they were hanging on the outside wall that was above the hole.

“Wow, you really are a ninja! You can do the wall-climbing stuff too!”

The kid nervously laughed as he did his best to keep his palm spikes firmly on the wall. When he looked down, his face changed to horror as he said, “Uh, Amy? You might want to hang on for a bit as I make this climb.”

She looked down to see that the monster was climbing up with its feet sticking to the walls. Looking down further, she saw that the container from earlier was open with an electric generator out in the open. “Hey, I never got your name. Can you tell me?”

The struggling climber replied, “It’s Ecru, but I’ll tell you more about it later. I can’t make it up, but if I can reach my backpack, I can use the wing glider inside to get us to safety.”

“Ecru,” said the girl in a sudden serious tone. “I can’t leave this Grimm alone like this. If it changes its mind and goes wild in the town, then it’s going to ruin a lot of people’s day.”

Unsure of why she said this, he answered, “We can call a Hunter to do that, so don’t try to do anything. I can make it, we can make it-.”

“I’ll see you around and it was fun. Try to have the confidence to see the good things in life, kay?”

The girl let go of her hold and turned the front of her falling body towards the oversized arachnid. As she heard Ecru cry out her name, she took out her weapons and grabbed one by the handle while she swung another one by the chain. Slamming her swung weapon into its head forced the Grimm off of two of its legs. Its body continued to bend backwards as its head was dragged back by the girl’s embedded blade.

Looking up as she hung onto her weapon, she found herself face-to-face with the giant spider’s horrendous face and the stereo still stuck onits fangs. Excited, she pressed the ‘play’ button to start the music again just as she reached for the handle of hers shotgun.
   

“Let’s tango!” Raising her other weapon, she shot a blast to its face and made it fling its head around in pain. When her weapon slipped off of its head, she quickly took hold of it before she landed and slammed both weapons into the monster’s back.

She quickly scaled up its back to the top and saw the rest of its legs stuck to the building’s walls. She shot both shotguns at each leg to make the monster lose most of its hold onto the wall. The monster quickly regained its balance and tried to reattach its legs from the support of its last two limbs.


Amy quickly used her weapon’s chain to tie it around the Grimm’s fang before it let off an electric discharge. The shock paralyzed the monster enough for its last two legs to let go of the wall. Both fell towards the electric generator at the bottom with the girl yelling in joy as she rode on top of the monster.


The stereo was destroyed the moment the monster made contact with the machine. A huge electric burst came from the resulting crash with lighting wildly dancing on the ground around it. Ecru quickly flew with his hangglider to the area near it, worried about the girl who was in this mess.

“Amy! Amy, where are you?! Answer me!”
When he landed, the Faunus looked around and still yelled, “Amy! Answer me, please! C’mon...let me know if you’re okay.”

“Hey, what’s all the yelling for?” Surprised, the boy turned around to see that the warrior was fine, although her hair was all over the place and her tattered clothes were sparking with electricity.

“Amy, you’re okay! Wait, you don’t...feel paralyzed or anything, do you?”

"Nah, but I do have this hairdo that I need to fix. Maybe I can fix this when we reach the ice-cream place.”

When the girl pulled on the his arm, he exclaimed, “Hey, aren’t we going to talk about what happened?!”

“Nope, I’m hungry, so I want my Orange Splash. Later, let’s go see what else is fun to do in town!”

Ignoring this abrupt end to their long battle, he decided to follow along and enjoy the rest of the day as the girl wanted to do so. Despite his frown, he was looking forward to it as he found someone who gave him the confidence he never knew he had.

While the two teenagers walked away, they never noticed that a figure was watching from the shadows of the hole back in the building’s upper floor. “So they’re still alive. Man, the kid would have been fine if he escaped and tattled that it was her fault for sitting on that button. I guess that Grimm alone wasn’t enough to take her down too. Stupid thing was already hard to put in its cage.”

Sighing, the figure turned to see that although the room was a mess, most of the weapons here are fine. Taking note that she’ll have to have this floor repaired, the woman slowly made her exit out of the room.

“Well, glad she never found out what this place was. Would have sucked if she had to report back to those pricks...that is, if she even talks to them anymore.”

The figure started to laugh as she made a reminder to report to her bosses. Although they may have lost the Grimm they tried to weaponize, it was only a small loss compared to the bigger plans they have in mind.