Chapter 132 - 126 - Testing Grounds

The group hoped down into a pit since the walkway had ended and they could see that on one of the walls it reads Testing Grounds.

Merlot: [Speaker] "Welcome to the testing grounds, students. Why don't you go ahead and get acquainted with my test subject?. They could use the exercise."

Only mutated Grimm could be seen arriving along with the droids but these droids seemed different from the previous ones. These droids had a green accent that was similar to the Grimm that was there.

The droids placed their hands under the armpits of the opposite side pulling the hands-off and showing what looked like gun barrels underneath.

Yang: "He knows that bullets wouldn't do anything to us right?"

The droids released a green liquid that came from the wrist shooting towards them. Shallot raised a ki barrier around them thinking that a scientist wouldn't make something really pointless without any reason. The liquid hit the barrier hitting the ground and they could immediately see that it was eating through the ground dissolving what came in contact with it.

Shallot whistled seeing that.

Shallot: "That is definitely stronger than the last stuff from before. It might even be as strong as Fluoroantimonic acid."

Jaune: "Fluoro- what now?"

Shallot: "It can essentially eat through a body fairly quickly and one of the strongest acids to be known. There isn't much that can hold it except for Teflon... well I'll be damned."

Pyrrha: "What?"

Shallot: "Teflon is considered a metal but depending on the amount and placement used it wouldn't be magnetic which means your polarity semblance can't do anything. Most likely there is a large amount of acid inside so hand-to-hand combat isn't good."

Shallot dropped the barrier sending a small ki blast at its legs making it fall to the ground.

Shallot: "So the acid isn't stored from the bottom which means it's highly likely that it is store in the center area."

Shallot fired another shot but straight at the center and applied another barrier just incase it sprayed everywhere. The ki blast hit it opened the inside making the acid spill out destroying the droids from its own acid.

Ren: "That was anti-climatic."

The acid that spilled from it was bubbling on the ground with the Grimm walking around the acid puddle that was left there. The Grimm rushed to attack but were taken out by a rain of bullets from Team JNPR and Team CFVY firing tearing the Grimm apart.

Merlot:[Speaker] "Well... That didn't go according to plan. Let's make this more interesting. A little more effort, maybe? I thought this was my most potent batch of serum?!"

The doors up ahead opened with some more mutated Grimm coming through and before they could do anything a rain of bullets ended them. Blake blew on her Gombal Shrouds that were smoking from constant firing with Shallot looking slightly surprised that everyone just pulled.

Merlot: [Speakers] "I'm beginning to think I've made a huge mistake."

Shallot: "Damn that was like a scene from the mafia movie."

Ruby: "The what?"

Shallot: "Nothing."

Merlot: "No!! And so it has come to this... Fine, this will at least buy me some time."

The door that was opened was starting to shake as something big green and reptile came through. It was a mutated DeathStalker.

Shallot: 'I wonder if there is something similar to a DeathClaw in this world?'

Shallot was looking at it wondering how did Dr. Merlot manage to come up with the idea and make a chemical that could interact with Grimm. It seemed that Grimm didn't have intelligence but he was able to direct them.

Shallot: 'What exactly is in the stuff... well, I'll figure it out when I'm looking over the files later and maybe I can make something myself if I want to play mad scientist when I get bored. First however is letting Team JNPR get some more experience. For what coming up they will need it. The fall of Beacon won't happen but I'm pretty sure Cinder is still going to try to attack the maiden Ozpin has.'

Shallot: "Coco."

Shallot: "We should let Team JNPR deal with the Death Stalker so that they can get more experience and so that they can work on their teamwork."

Coco thought about it and agreed that out of everyone Team JNPR would need this experience the most. She knows that Pyrrha is the strongest on their team while the second strongest on their team would be Nora but the gap between them was quite large.

Coco: "Ok, we'll sit this one out but I got some question for you."

Shallot: "Sure, what questions do you have?"

Coco: "Even with the "ki" that you've taught Velvet it doesn't just make you stronger immediately. So how did you become so strong?"

Shallot: "That's pretty simple. I have different ways to train also I spare against them so that they can get used to people moving at higher speeds. If they are used to seeing people and can track people moving at higher speeds then the ones that are slower than me will appear slow to them."

Coco took a thinking pose before figuring that he wouldn't tell her immediately what he does to become stronger but she'll know once Velvet is finished being trained by him. It will be helpful for their team for their third year.

Coco turned to see Pyrrha using the iron dust to wrap around the Death Stalker's tail to guide its body while the others attack it from the side. She could see that they were working smoothly together to not use a lot of energy while also chipping away at its sturdy body.

It took them almost 15 minutes to kill it with them finally finishing. Shallot was doing handstand pushups while they were fighting. Shallot knew they had killed it when he heard Dr. Merlot complaining over the speakers.

Merlot: [Speakers] "No! Nooooo! My one of a kind specimen! This is inconceivable!"

Coco: "Flawless takedown."

Shallot: "3125... 3126... 3127... 3128... 3129... 3130."

Shallot pushed off his hands flipping forward landing on his feet while Weiss could be seen looking the entire time with some drool on the side of her mouth. Blake rubbed the drool from her mouth and smirked at Weiss. Weiss turned and could see a smug smirk on her lips making Weiss turn around.

They all had gathered back around when the Death Stalker was dead with them standing in front of the set of large double doors. They walked through and could see another smaller door off to the side. They went towards it and opened the door.

Inside the room was an elderly man with disheveled gray hair, a matching mustache and beard, and prominent eyebrows. His left eye is robotic and glows red and around it is noticeable claw marks, likely from his Grimm experiments. His right arm is also robotic and is dark and metallic and has red inner circuits.

As soon as Shallot saw the elderly man standing there he lifted his hand firing a ki blast. The body imploded with everyone widening their eyes at the body parts flying everywhere.

Coco: "Why did you kill him?"

Shallot: "That wasn't Merlot."

Shallot points at the separated body parts with them realizing that there was some oil leaking from the body parts.

Shallot: "I didn't feel any ki from it so I knew it wasn't him. Everybody has ki in them even if they don't know how to use it. I'm not wasting my time on a fake."

Blake wasn't paying attention as she was having craving for something to eat right now and walked over to Shallot and going through his bag to get something to eat. Shallot was ignoring it knowing that she has been taking some of his food now and then, but since he loves her he will share his food with her.

Shallot: "We should check if there are any files on where the real on went. It best we capture him alive so I can get myself a sla... prisoner of war to work for me."

Coco: 'Was he about to say what I think?'

They went searching through the area seeing a large number of monitors with one of them broken with a hand dripping oil sticking out from it. Shallot copied whatever he could that wasn't already copied. Seeing that the other information had been uploaded to the cloud server he has back on campus he knew that they were finished here.

Ozpin: [Comms] "You've done it! The airship should arrive any moment."

They all walked toward an exit that seemed to be connected to the outside but there was only water on the other side. This pipe that was connected to the outside just seemed like the exit point for where the chemical waste was dumped.

The airship with Professor Port was there waiting for them. He was standing by the door to welcome them back. Shallot was walking back with the head of Dr. Merlot's replica he left there.

Shallot: "I'm going to mount it and have it as a trophy until I can capture the real thing."

Weiss: "I don't think that's how hunting works.'

Shallot: "He doesn't have real Grimm propped up and only replica since they fade away. I'm just doing the same thing.

Coco: "But with a person?"

Shallot: "He may not be a person the next time seeing that he is experimenting on Grimm. He may experiment on himself in a time of desperation. Well, let's get back to school so I can sleep in a bed. I didn't stop traveling the world to end up sleeping in the wilderness again."

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