Author's Note: Hello everyone! Welcome to part two of RWBY: Desertion! (To those who have accidentally clicked on this, go read the first part. It's on my profile and there's sixty chapters... so yeah..)

This part will be the prologue. The view into a recurring dream that Gage has been having since his... accident. That is the basis for this part. This is just the beginning. And we are far from the end. And I hope that you all will be there to see it.

Gage's new world will lie far ahead of him and Yang…. Along with the rest of Team RWBY and those of Beacon…. And The Collectors….. and maybe even another unworldly being.

Warning: This is a rated M story. Blood, Violence, harsh language, sexual content (smut, lemons, etc.), and feels are included. The whole package!

Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY. Just the OC. The entirety of RWBY belongs to Monty Oum, (God bless his soul), Gray Haddock, Miles Luna, and Kerry Shawcross.

Enjoy.

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He was having that... dream again. The one he's been having every night for the last three weeks that he's been in the hospital.

And it was the same as usual.

All he could see was... darkness. Darkness with a small circle of light in the middle of it, but... this time... it was different.

The orb of light... expanded. And a voice came from it. A familiar voice to Gage's ears.

It was the ghost again, Summer Rose. Her name was. She was the woman that Gage met in the (apparent) afterlife or unwordly realm that he visited

And she was the mother of his close friend, Ruby Rose, and the stepmother of his lover, Yang Xiao Long, and to be honest, Gage thought he wouldn't even be alive right now because of her.

He didn't know how, but... she was able to bring him back to life. And...

...She then started to... speak to him.

"...I was killed only a few Years after my daughter Ruby was born, and I was forced to watch as everything collapsed around her, and had decided that I... would do anything to see her again... and say that I was sorry. But, then I would have to wait until the day that she would pass over to... my world. But... now I won't have to. Thanks to you Gage."

He didn't know what was happening. It was... just insane, but somehow, her voice soothed and calmed him, and somehow made him feel... normal.

"Gage."

"Y...Yes?"

"...What do you think a legend is?"

"I don't know... stories scattered throughout time... about men and women who are smart, and swift, and brave, and protected the ones they love. Sometimes even giving their lives up... just for people that they may not even fully know..."

"Then... do you think that your life could become a story? Maybe even a legend?"

"...No. My life... isn't just some story. Because no one would remember it. No one will. I'll just go down as some ghost that had great luck... something like that..."

He heard her snicker, and chuckle as the orb of light exploded and formed... what looked like... a galaxy.

"Hmhm... I knew you would say that. I've always known. Ever since I first saw you through my daughter's eyes... that is why I picked you Gage. Why I saved you..."

"How did you do that anyway?" He asked.

"A single life is never forgotten Gage. Maybe how they look, or how they sound, but never their own life. They always leave an impact on someone, and throughout that memory of them, their spirit, and Aura is still bound to their family, friends, and their home. Our home. Remnant..."

He looked as he saw millions of stars form, and a few planets fly past him. Ones he didn't even know existed, and it made him think. How was he seeing this? It didn't even feel like he was inside his own body. It just felt like he was apart of the cosmos...

"And I have been watching you. How you've taught Ruby and entertainment her, and how you've made Yang become happy time and time again, so I couldn't have let you leave them. And luckily, unlike most people... you had something that they didn't."

He laughed, "What? Luck?"

"That... and your semblance. Transparency. You were born with a gift, not to phase through solid objects, but to phase between dimensions. Between the world of the living and the world of the dead. So you see Gage, you always were what you called yourself. A ghost."

He watched as he moved throughout the galaxy, and looked as a familiar green, white, and blue planet came into view.

It was Remnant.

"But, like many have told you before, you will have to fight for what you love. And who you love. We will have to fight for them."

"W…...We?" he asked.

"Yes. By now, I know you cannot do everything yourself, even if you are or are not human, you will face unbeatable odds and come back time and time again…. So I will have to help you. But first….. I must have your free will. And it will not be an easy path to take if there's two of us in your mind….."

"You're not making any sense."

"...I know." Summer huffed. "But you will understand… in time."

His dream all began to turn into a bright and burning white light, and he knew what was happening.

He was waking up.

…

"*Gasp!*

Gage opened his eyes as he stared down at a puddle and gasped and began to cough up a little bit of blood as he tried to raise himself off of the concrete ground.

He looked down at his own image that was still visible in the puddle.

His eyes….. were red. Not bloodshot. No. His irises were no longer turquoise, but a bright and bloody red. Almost like Yang's eyes when she was enraged. And, he had small blood trails coming down from his eyes sockets, and a small trail flowing down from his lips as well.

"*Huff* *Huff* W-WHAT…WHAT THE-"

Gage began to hyperventilate and tasted more blood in his mouth before all his memories began to flood back to him.

"Fuck… FUCK! The Collectors, McCree, The White Fang, The…." he felt more blood begin to drip out of his tear sockets while he felt a burning sensation come from his heart. "The… THE SYNDICATE! I-I…. I have to-"

He looked back down at the puddle and could see…. Everything. Everything that has happened to him and his body

Gage was wearing his usual Black shirt and Brown pants….. but his shirt was torn with three claw marks across his chest….. and his left arm was gone….. and replaced with a sage-colored bionic arm.

He finally got up from the ground and saw that he was on the side of an old abandoned road that lead straight into Vale.

"No…"

He looked up towards the city, and could see black smoke clouds rise right into the air as he heard distant gunshots and screaming.

"Damn it. McCree!"

Gage looked down and picked up Mistletoe which was lying on the ground next to where he was lying down.

As soon as he picked it up, Gage began to sprint as fast as he could towards the city of Vale as multiple Atlas military ships flew above him and a convoy of police trucks sped past on the road next to him.

But all it did was make him bare his teeth, and snarl as he ran faster with his shotgun in one of his hands, and, he began to hear multiple voices began to emanate inside his head. Some of them were his… and some were Yang's…..

"I…..Thought that… that you were *sniffle* actually going to…"

"Hey..... I'll always be here when you wake up…."

"I TRUSTED YOU!"

"You said that you wanted to spend the rest of your life with me! *sniffle* So how can I just forget you when I love you!"

"I…*sniffle*... I just want to be human…."

These all went through his head as tears and drops of blood began to form in his eyes, but he still ran down the road of gravel and towards the burning city….. and he still had one lingering thought on his mind. One thing he wish he could say to his lover…. Who was now most likely being forced to hunt him down.

"Y….Yang… I'm sorry. I'm so sorry…."

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"Gage Sim may be a remarkable student even despite his current…. Situation. But he is not responding to us and is... starting things that he himself will not be able to control."

"We brought him here. So we're responsible if we can't control his actions. And now he's recruiting others to join him. *sigh* The only thing worse than taking down a madman is watching his followers turn against us."

"So now, the official story is that…. The Ghost of Remnant, Gage Sim, is dead. But, you Team RWBY, are the unofficial story. Your mission….. is to end this. Now go."

Team RWBY's combat airship finally touched down into the distraught city of Vale. And once Ironwood's message was done, the four girls all hesitantly readied their weapons… Yang more slowly than the others.

Then, a second Team of students, from Atlas lined up behind the bay door of the Bulkhead with their weapons drawn before a mechanical hiss was heard and the leader spoke aggressively to everyone,

"Let's Hunt him down."

The team then moved out of the ship and into Vale while Team RWBY followed behind them slowly, all while Yang wiped a tear from her eyes as she saw the blinding light of the sun and….. and willingly followed.

(*Sudden black screen*)

Welcome to,

Desertion: Part Two