Justice Hero Scootaloo

The entire group was heading towards the site of an abandoned City Block.

"Hey Rob? Some guy showed up at the UNA HQ." Gerneral Hightop said.

"Jester? What the heck are you doing here?" Expert suddenly said.

"Been a while, I know. Besides, I've been a bit busy." A new male voice said over the radios.

"Jester, what the heck? We've haven't seen you since well...you know." Rob said.

"What do you think? I've been tracking the movements of that no good Manipulator." The voice identified as Jester said. Scootaloo had no idea what he looked like right now, but she could tell he was acting rather cold.

"We encountered him at one of the Dark Core factories. But we don't know where he went from there." Aaron said.

"Well lucky for you, I know where he's heading: A deep forest located not too far from your current location." Jester said.

"If the UNA can take him in, we'd be that much closer to getting rid of Condescending Consequence once and for all!" Expert said.

"Condescending Consequence? Who's that?" Jester asked.

"You've missed a lot. Don't worry, I'll fill him in." General Hightop said. "But what did you mean he hasn't been seen since a certain period of time?" He asked.

"Manipulator was the one who caused events that led to the death of Tellma." Expert said.

"And I have a score to settle with that guy. For Tellma's sake." Rob said. "Besides, I have a plan; if the Manipulator is going to pull what I believe he's going to pull." He added.

"You have a plan? What sort of plan?" Jester asked.

"I'll tell you later." Rob said as the group arrived to the forest said. "Aaron, activate your helmet's feed and set it to record. Just trust me." He added.

This is going to be good... Scootaloo thought to herself.

As the group enetered a clearing, there stood a lone male human, who just looked like your typical normal everyday human. Scootaloo recognized him as being the Manipulator. Go figure, behind that normal everyday looking exterior, lies the mind of a classic manipulator. Scootaloo thought to herself.

"Well, look whose here. Didn't expect you to come looking for me all too soon." The Manipulator said.

"End of the line for your tricks Manipulator." Rob said and branded a sword at the opposing male. "This time, you won't be getting away with them." Rob added.

"A sword huh? Interesting. I didn't think you'd need one with all your fancy smacy powers." The Manipulator said.

"I don't need my powers to defeat you. And I'll prove it too. Time to stop hiding behind your manipulation tactics. You and me are going to fight, one on one. And I'm going to state upfront, I won't be using any of my powers to defeat you." Rob said.

"Putting a handicap on yourself huh? Fine by me. Let's see how you fight like everybody else then!" The Manipulator said.

Ruthless & Cunning
The Manipulator

Rob and the Manipulator quickly started to battle, and the Manipulator was being quite the fighter despite seemingly having no powers: The manipulator was using everything from throwing knives, to using them to attack, to even just running very fast.

However, no matter how fast The Manipulator ran, Rob ran just as fast. "Hey, you said no powers." The Manipulator said.

"Did you think I spent all my free time between Hoenn and Johto just sitting on my ass? I didn't. I started training my body and making it go beyond it's natural limits. So, I hardly need to unleash my inner potiential with magic now." Rob said.

"It's true. Rob has trained his body to match the output he gets when he unleashes his body's inner potential." Expert said.

"...Not going to lie, that's actually clever." The Manipulator said before the battle continued. Rob was only using that sword of his to attack, not even using anything else.

"I'm definantly seeing Aaron's Helmet feed here, and dear lord. I didn't think it'd be possible for someone to do this without magic. Yet here we are." General Hightop said.

"That's Rob for you: He always looks to impress." Zapper said.

"Hmph. Not going to lie, this is fun to watch." Shadow Rob said.

"Being a bit envious huh?" Rachet teased.

"Shut up." Shadow Rob countered quickly.

Suddenly out of nowhere, the Manipulator started to fly after Rob knocked him into the air.

"He can do that?!" Jester exclaimed.

"...Um...Oops?" The Manipulator said. "Not that it matters. Rob would have to use his powers to reach me up here. So, I win." He added.

"Wrong. I was planning on you revealing you had powers this whole time." Rob said.

"You were? But how on earth are you going to continue the fight?" The Manipulator asked.

"Not continue; finish it!" Rob said before throwing his sword up into the sky.

"What the..." The Manipulator said.

"Now to time it right..." Rob put on some kind of grapple gun.

"Hey, isn't that the grapple device you got from Octograpple?" Crusader asked.

"Yep. I just made a minor tweek." Rob said before he fired it. Suddenly, he went zooming up towards his sword, and then grabbed it by it's hilt; the inertia carried him all the way up to The Manipulator.

"Sir, are you seeing this?!" Aaron exclaimed.

"He's using the basic concepts of force to get up to Manipulator!" General Hightop said.

"WHAT THE FU--" The Manipulator said before Rob suddenly combo sword slashed him and then started falling down hard with The Manipulator with one final sword strike.

The two impacted the ground, leaving quite the creator. "Oof...never doing that again..." Rob said, getting up; he got hurt, but not badly.

The same could not be said for The Manipulator though, he was pretty badly hurt from the experience. "You...you beat me...you actually beat me without using any powers whatsoever...I don't understand..." The Manipulator said.

"Yeah. And you wanna know the best part? I had Aaron record the whole thing. So basically Manipulator, I just manipulated you into revealing you had powers yourself. And I someone who uses powers, was able to beat you without using my own." Rob said.

"You...you mean you manipulated me? Me? The guy who's known to do that to others?!" The Manipulator said.

"That's right. That was for Tellma." Rob said. "Sure, I have powers, but I don't need them to beat anyone. I don't even need them to save anyone either." He added. "I once saved this female Anubian Jackal without using any powers. I just grabbed her hand and pulled her to safety. Didn't need any powers to do that. So I decided to prove once and for all that I don't need powers to be a Justice Hero." Rob said.

"You...your going to pay for this, your going to--" The Manipulator was suddenly thrown away by a massive hand. "But...why?!" He yelled out as he went flying.

"Condescending Consequence..." Rob said.

"Your smarter then you look Rob Snowden. I can't wait to tangle with the likes of you." Condescending Consequence said from what sounded like everywhere. "But our battle will come later. For now, enjoy your victory today." He added.