Chapter 90 - Classification (1)

When the sludge attacked Shallot was already moving. He appeared next to Velvet and picked her up in a princess carry and dodge out of the way. From below the ground the head of the Beowolf that Shallot crushed appeared from the ground as if it didn't have its head smashed.

When Shallot was about to just fire a large ki beam at it and destroy it everyone could hear a voice come from what sounded like speakers from within the holes where the Grimm came from. The earpiece that everyone had was also producing white noise.

Shallot: "Seems like our communication has been interfered with.

???: "Well look at this. You all have managed to gather at one of my testing labs. It matters not, you all will make the perfect test subject since I had recently lost one due to an unfortunate event. My mind control Grimm went slightly haywire and wouldn't;t return with what it captured and now I've lost the chance to study something that could further my research."

Shallot was pretty sure this must be the one that was behind that Grimm that had taken control of Neo.

Shallot: "You must be Dr. Merlot. The mad scientist that brought the downfall of Mountain Glenn."

Dr. Merlot: "Indeed I am. You must be the one I have been searching for. I had managed to get some of your blood so many years ago but it is far different than what I am used to using. It however is what I need to further my evolution. It has been harder tracking someone that moves so much but when I found out that you were making moves around the White Fand it was the perfect opportunity."

Shallot: 'Does every villain in every universe have to monologue there great plan when there are people around. I swear they remind me of those people that would take about the darkness that would sleep inside their right hand or something.'

The head the was looking from the ground wasn't attacking and only watching seeming to be waiting for an order. Dr. Merlot continued to ramble on and go on about how Grimm was the next stage of evolution for the planet as they don't die of age due to the bodies never breaking down unless killed. He then went on to say that Shallot's blood was the ki to his and everyone's evolution and sacrifices had to be made.

At this point, Shallot had started to zone out and started thinking about what he wanted to eat later after he was finished with this while everyone else was listening to Dr. Merlot ramble over the comms and even the Grimm was standing there with a glazed look in his eyes before Shallot shook his head.

Shallot: "Why the hell am I listening to your entire life story. I couldn't really care less about your obsession but I don't condone the use of my blood by crazies."

That seemed to snap Dr. Merlot out of his speech and yelled into the speakers.

Dr. Merlot: "Aswang, change and deal with the pest and make sure to bring the body of the mutant monkey Faunus."

Shallot eyebrow twitched being called a mutant monkey Faunus.

Shallot: "I'm going to rip his head off when I find this doctor."

The Grimm that was sitting there let out a blood-curdling scream and started changing. The Grim that was a mostly all-white Alpha Grimm changed with its body elongating and its arms and legs getting skinner. The bone armor was coating the arms in a dense type of armor. Its posture was similar to that of a spider with what could only be assumed to be a thorax. This part had the densest amount of bone surrounding it like a rib cage.

The Grimm grew to the height of 12 feet and some type of black liquid was coming from the ground and pumping into it.

Shallot fired a ki blast mid-transformation at the ground beneath it attacking its legs. The legs were blown off with the body being launched into the air. It had landed back on the ground by the entrance of the cave they came into. Everybody else looked at the Grimm that was transforming and then looked at Shallot.

Ruby: "But it was transforming?"

Shallot: "Why should I wait for it to transform?"

Shallot then gathered a large amount of ki into his palm pointing it towards the stunned Grimm. Where it was at you could see some liquid underneath the ground connected to a pipe leading to somewhere else.

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[Inside a room filled with computer monitors]

An elderly man with a robotic eye was watching his finest creation get blasted into the air mid-transformation and hit his keyboard.

Dr. Merlot: "He couldn't even have the decency to let it transform. Doesn't he know the greatness of a creature that can transform. It's only right to let it transform and you see its evolution into a stronger creature where you will battle to the death. Does the monkey have no honor?"

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[Back with Shallot and the group]

Shallot had finished charging his attack and then it condensed as he made it smaller at the size of a baseball and got into a pitching position. He was standing with one foot forward and the other behind and standing there with both hands cupping around the energy ball.

He swung his left foot into the air starting his pitch and swung his foot back down outward away from him and followed through with the pitch. He threw the energy ball directly at the Grimm that wasn't expecting to be attacked so quickly and Shallot's right foot followed after landing on the side squaring his body completely.

The energy ball hit the Grimm and as soon as it made contact it was launched out of the cave and was carried into the sky. Everyone was watching the Grimm carried away into the sky when they finally heard and saw an explosion that looked like a miniature star with the air currents destroying a chunk of the forest outside. They could even feel the wind rushing into the cave bringing fresh air.

Everyone's jaw dropped seeing that and slowly turned to look seeing Shallot dusting off his hands and nodding at what he did.

Shallot: "I think I'll call that the star pitch."

Blake was even surprised seeing something like that thinking that Shallot is growing stronger far faster than she thought was possible. Shallot then went up to his device and saw that it was completed but also saw that there was a pipe that ran to another area.

Shallot: 'This must have been that lab he was talking about in his rant.

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[Inside a room filled with computer monitors]

Dr. Merlot had cameras placed in a large number of places so he could observe and when he could get a chance to take any lone Grimm, Faunus, or humans to experiment on for his evolution. He saw the explosion and saw what seemed like pure energy. Instead of being scared of what Shallot could do, he started laughing madly.

Dr. Merlot: "If I can capture him and use him as a power source then I would be able to do any experiment I want. Once I dissect him and figure out what makes him tick I can possibly recreate it. From the video, it seems that he can pass these abilities on to anyone he is in contact with or maybe it's some form of technique that has to be taught."

Dr. Merlot started rambling and grabbed a notebook writing hypotheses down then scribbling them out.

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Shallot looked at the area he fired his first blast and saw the pipe that the Grimm was draining to transform from and noticed that it just so happen to come from the same direction that the other Grimm came through in the walls.

Shallot started walking towards one of the holes in the wall and looked inside. He could see that it went on for quite a bit and then turned back towards everyone else.

Shallot: "Ruby, Yang, Weiss, and Blake. We should head in and check it out while Team JNPR and Team CFVY head back to the ship so that they can tell Professor Port about what happened since the comms were down. Also, see if there are any other places that the Doctor could be used to boost signals or if any other relays from Beacon are having issues."

Everyone just nodded their heads and followed Shallot's order since he was speaking with a commanding tone. Coco originally wanted to go against what he was saying since she was the senior but after seeing what Shallot could do up close and personal she knew that their team wasn't as strong as theirs.

Coco: 'We need to up our training if we don't want to be embarrassments at the Vital Festival.'

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