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"What did I ever do to deserve this bad luck?" A boy, who was currently sprawled on the floor, asked himself.
Bobby refused to open his eyes, knowing he'd have to face whatever it was that hit him. He actually considered feigning unconsciousness when whatever was on top of him started to stir. Hearing a soft groan of pain, he immediately knew who it was.
'Oh no...' Bobby groaned as he opened his eyes slowly. He was greeted with a pair of bright, silver concerned eyes.
"Sorry! Are you okay?" A girl with black hair and red highlights asked Bobby, who just gave her a bored look.
This was then followed by an unending string of pointless apologies, much to the conduit's annoyance.
"I'm fine," he replied. He was starting to wish that he got knocked out instead but unfortunately, he didn't.
"Aww, that's so sweet!" Yang teased the pair, clasping her hands together as stars appeared in her eyes. Ruby's cheeks immediately flamed up by the blonde's teasing as she stumbled to get up, immediately avoiding eye contact with the gray-eyed boy. Bobby merely sighed and closed his eyes.
Yang, on the other hand, snickered at their reactions.
As if the situation couldn't get any weirder, a certain blond boy from earlier also fell from the sky. Except this time, he was falling sideways.
All everyone could do at that time was wince at the sound of his back cracking against a tree, instantly knocking him out cold.
Before anyone could even say a word, an Ursa came crashing through the trees ahead then it suddenly...fell over dead?
"What the-" Bobby muttered to himself as an orange-haired girl revealed herself, her signature weapon in hand.
"Aww it's broken, Ren..." She sadly groaned before immediately dashing onto its neck to inspect the dead Grimm.
Her partner, now known as Ren, caught up to the hammer-wielding girl apparently pleading her not ride another Grimm again. Upon finishing his sentence, did he realise that the girl had ran off.
"Nora!" Ren called her from where he stood, said girl skipping back to him with a chess piece in hand.
"Well at least it couldn't get any weirder than this..." Bobby voiced his thoughts, loud enough for Yang to hear him.
As usual, things didn't usually went his way as a certain red head came out from the trees, Death Stalker hot on her heels. Bobby didn't need to look twice to tell that it was the famous Pyrrha Nikos.
"Jaune!" The first thing she noticed after her unceremonious entry was Jaune's unconscious form leaning against a tree.
"..." Bobby just decided to keep his mouth shut, hoping that whatever force was screwing with him right now would stop.
Yang wasn't doing very well either.
Watching her body increasingly shake from her possibly growing frustration, Bobby just stood back and braced himself for what's to come. Erupting in a small burst of flame with her eyes red with rage, she finally exploded.
"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! CAN EVERYONE JUST CHILL OUT FOR TWO SECONDS BEFORE SOMETHING CRAZY HAPPENS AGAIN?!" The sounds of a ticking clock could be heard as everyone froze in place.
After two seconds went past Ruby tugged on her sister's sleeve, pointing towards the sky much to Yang's annoyance.
"How could you leave me?!" Bobby shuddered when he heard the very familiar voice.
"I said 'jump'!" Ruby retorted, cupping her hands around her mouth to amplify her voice.
"She's gonna fall!" Nora exclaimed in her usual chirpy voice.
"She'll be fine." Ruby replied, sounding calm about the whole situation.
"She's falling" Nora's partner, Ren, stated the obvious in an also calm manner.
Bobby could only cover his face with his hand and sigh as he thought to himself, 'Why do I always end up doing things like this?'
Running towards a thick tree, he placed one foot on it and sprang off just in time to catch the white-haired female, now known as Weiss Schnee, bridal style.
Weiss was surprised at her unexpected saviour when she then remembered the unbreakable laws of gravity. Bobby didn't seemed a little worried about it though. Finally starting to fall, Weiss was sure they'd at least break a bone if her screams were any indication.
Landing in a crouch, Bobby casually let go of the surprised Weiss as she fell with an 'oomph'. Dusting his hands as he walked away, he heard Weiss call out to him.
"I could've done that myself you know!" Weiss spoke loud enough for everyone to hear.
"You're welcome, Princess." Bobby replied nonchalantly, not even bothered to look back at her. He could almost feel her burn a hole into his back with those cold, light-blue eyes of hers.
As Bobby made his way back to the group, who just stared at him in awe at his show of skill, Pyrrha landed on her side in front of everyone.
"Great, the gang's all here! Now we can die together!" Yang shouted in mock excitement.
"Not if I can help it!" Ruby immediately transformed her Crescent Rose into its scythe form and charged forward with a battlecry, determined to prove herself.
"Foolish girl." Bobby sighed under his breath.
And it was true. Charging straight into a beast at least five times the size you were didn't seem like the best plan no matter what the situation was.
Ignoring her sister's attempt at stopping her, she fired Crescent Rose into its nearly impenetrable defences and attempted to swipe at its body. Unexpectedly she was swatted away like a fly being hit by newspaper, weakening her significantly.
"Do-Don't worry..." Ruby tried to painfully stand back up as she waved her hand. "...Totally fine!"
Determined to prove herself, or show off depending on how you look at it, she went for a second attempt at the oversized scorpion. When the realisation that she was no match for the oversized scorpion hit her, she fired one last shot at its face in hopes that it'd at least get stunned.
The shot merely bounced off its shell as it started to head towards her.
Upon seeing this, Ruby immediately sheathed her scythe knowing that whatever she does would be of no use. Doing a 180, she ran as fast as her legs could carry her. As if the situation couldn't get any worse, the same Nevermore from earlier cawed overhead and suddenly decided to fire a barrage of sharp feathers at her.
Unfortunately for Ruby, her cape got caught under one of the projectiles.
"Ruby, get out of there!" Yang frantically warns her sister when she noticed the Death Stalker covering the distance between it and Ruby.
"I'm trying!" Ruby desperately attempts to pull her cloak from under the spike but it was in vain.
'Is this it?' Ruby thought as she closed her eyes, bracing for the pain to come. It never came. She waited and waited but still nothing. Cracking one of her eyes open, she was greeted with the Death Stalker's stinger centimetres away from her face.
"Wha-" Ruby started in her confusion but was immediately cut off by a familiar voice.
"This thing isn't going to hold it forever you know." Bobby cut her off as he stood in front of the Grimm, sword in hand.
During Ruby's supposedly final moments, Bobby had 'borrowed' a sword from the unconscious blond hunter and stabbed it into the abomination's eye before him. Seeing the hidden message behind his sentence Ruby snapped out of her confusion, pulled her cape forcefully from under the feather, ripping it a little bit, and ran towards Yang, the latter embracing her in a bone-crushing hug.
"So happy you're okay!" Yang exclaimed, relieved that her sister was safe.
Unbeknown to everyone, the reason Bobby was not being pierced by the giant stinger was because he was channeling electricity into the beast via the sword. As long as he did this, the beast will be paralysed the entire time. He couldn't just electrocute it to death because that would raise questions about his identity and he didn't want to put up with that.
Not yet at least. They were bound to find out sooner or later. The most he could do now was incapacitate it for awhile. Sending a jolt of electricity into the Death Stalker, the Grimm shook violently for a split second before slumping back down, temporarily paralysed.
"You are so childish!" Pulling out the sword, Bobby noticed Weiss suddenly appeared out of seemingly nowhere and starts berating the scythe-wielder. This went on for a few minutes until...
"And you!" Weiss suddenly snaps her head towards Bobby who gave her a 'what did I do?' look, "You could've gotten yourself killed, you dunce!"
"Cold..." Bobby remarked shivering mockingly, much to the Schnee heiress's ire.
Just when Weiss was about to retort, a certain blonde groaned as he woke up from his little 'nap'.
"What did I miss..?" Jaune groggily stands up as he looked around, then up. "Err, guys?"
Everyone's head snapped up when they saw Jaune pointing upwards. Apparently, the Nevermore hasn't given up just yet.
"Look, there's no sense in dilly-dallying. Our objective is right in front of us." Weiss tried to make the group see reason when they got into a fighting stance, causing everyone to stare at the relics.
"She's right. Our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back to the Cliffs. There's no point in fighting these things." Ruby explained, everyone nodding their heads.
Bobby finally walked back to the group as he tossed the weapon he 'borrowed' back to its owner. He estimated that it would be paralysed for ten minutes at most.
"Is it dead?" The spartan-like hunter suddenly asked Bobby, the latter putting on his jacket that seemed to hinder his movements noticeably when in combat.
"No, just paralysed for a few minutes..." The group just gave him a questioning look until Jaune asked the question on everyone's mind.
"How did you do that?"
"I, erm...weak point?" Bobby lied, hoping they'd buy it. Fortunately for him, they did if their expressions of 'ah's were any indication.
Bobby and Ruby were walking side by side behind the group of eight as they entered an area full of abandoned structures. Bobby was reading his book when the younger girl beside him broke his concentration.
"Hey, thanks for saving me back there." Ruby voiced her appreciation towards her saviour, who seemed really engrossed in his book.
"Hm? Oh sure. Just don't be so reckless next time." He replied, glancing once at her then immediately returning to his book. Ruby just chuckled sheepishly as she rubbed the back of her head.
He was once again lost in his own little world when out of nowhere...
"CAW!"
Sighing at the interruption, he put his book into his bag and looked up with a bored, and slightly annoyed, look. There was one thing he hated more than anything and that was being interrupted when he was doing something.
Everybody, except the obviously bored and annoyed conduit, got into their own stances when the same Death Stalker from before decided to show up. This was really starting to grind on the conduit's nerves. Deciding to split up, Yang, Ruby and Weiss was left to fight the Nevermore while everyone else in the group, except Bobby, went ahead to fight the scorpion-like Grimm.
Swooping down to attack them, Yang fired Ember Celica into its face, hoping to disorient it but to no avail. Seeing this, Ruby made her own attempt at shooting the oversized bird but as expected, it didn't faze it one bit.
The only thing that they achieved was making it angry.
Jumping back at a safe distance, Ruby came up with a quick plan.
Determination on their faces, they nodded at each other and pulled off the supposedly brilliant plan of theirs. Bobby, on the other hand, decided to hang back and observe. There was barely anything he could do without revealing too much. He wanted to keep his true self a secret for as long as he could.
Forever if possible, but he highly doubted that.
Yang launched herself at the Nevermore's face and fired shot after shot into its opened beak, hoping that it would stun the bird for awhile. Fortunately it did, but only for a few seconds. She jumped back, prompting the other two girls to proceed with the second part of the plan.
During those few precious seconds, Weiss summoned one of her glyphs on the ground, creating a launchpad for Ruby to jump on. Firing a few more rounds into its face, she aimed Crescent Rose at the monstrosity's eye in hopes of blinding it to provide an opening for a finisher.
Unfortunately, those few seconds ran out as she got batted away by its wing. She was sent flying off to the side, hitting her back on a tree. Hard. Ruby tried to stand back up but immediately fell back down.
There was barely anything she could do anyway.
"Ruby, I don't think this plan of yours is working!" Yang shouted from where she stood as she continued firing at the Nevermore.
Upon realising that their plan of theirs wasn't going to work, Bobby started to get a little worried. Should he do it? What if he couldn't pull it off?
At this point, Yang was still trying to hurt the beast when suddenly...
"Click, click..." The sounds of an empty clip could be heard from the blonde's weapon as she gets hit by the Nevermore, activating her Aura just before impact. Yang, unscathed from activating her Aura, was completely surprised and frustrated that her weapon ran out of ammo.
'That was my last clip too...' She thought as she slowly stood back up. 'Maybe I shouldn't have wasted so much ammo on the way down haha...' She thought sheepishly, remembering the amount of ammo she used to propel herself forward when entering the forest.
Seeing as there was nothing much the blonde could do, Weiss used her rapier to summon ice at the Nevermore in hopes of slowing it down. Following this, she summoned her glyphs all around the bird, using them to spontaneously jump around, confusing the seemingly unbeatable Grimm.
Her slash and kicks were in vain though when the Nevermore decided to flap its wings, causing her to lose her concentration as she was sent reeling back. She tried to stand back up when a sharp pain suddenly came from her ankle, realising that she had sprained it. It's safe to say that she won't be going for another attempt at taking the Nevermore down.
"Hey!" Said boy snapped his head towards the downed Schnee, who had a look of frustration plastered on her face, "Don't just stand there! Do something!"
Bobby really didn't like this right now. He shifted his eyes between the slowly approaching Nevermore and the three girls, wondering if he should do it. There was a chance that this could potentially kill him if he wasn't careful.
In short, he was in a serious dilemma.
On one hand, he could just don't do anything and wait for the other team to save them, keeping his secret safe but the people before him would risk getting seriously injured.
Or worse yet, death.
On the other hand, he could use an ability he has never used before and possibly kill the oversized bird before him, revealing his status as a conduit and risked being shunned by everyone.
After a moment of frustration, Bobby finally came to a decision.
'Well, it wasn't like I had any friends to begin with...' he thought as he prepared his move.
Concentrating, he gathered his remaining energy and brought his arms up. Groaning from the strain he finally brought his arms down, unleashing a torrent of lightning from above. He felt like his eardrums were going to burst from the booming sound of thunder as the Nevermore was burned from the inside.
This lasted for a few seconds before he ran out of juice.
"Heheh...Looks like it worked..." Everyone that was present could only stare in silence and shock at the unexpected revelation. Glancing towards the other group, he noticed the giant scorpion-like Grimm from before dissolving with its stinger embedded in its head.
Bobby's head suddenly felt like lead as his legs started to get weak. The last thing he managed to do was chuckle lightly as he noticed the expressions that clearly said 'you've got some explaining to do' before the severely drained conduit's vision became dim, unconsciousness embracing him.
-Beacon Infirmary-
Bobby felt horrible and sore all over. It wasn't just his muscles that were sore. He could feel every cell in his body drained of all energy. He tried to get up but was immediately pushed back down by a hand onto something soft but it didn't ease his soreness. He cracked his eyes open as the light blinded him momentarily.
"Woah slow down, you're going to get yourself hurt." He heard a soft voice and saw a silhouette of a lady.
"Mum?" Bobby whispered just loud enough for the figure in front of him to hear.
Fully opening his eyes, he was greeted with a blond haired female, her signature golden gauntlets on her arms. An awkward look was on her face, indicating that she heard him. Upon realising who it was, Bobby slumped back on the bed, his face showing a hint of disappointment and sadness.
"Hey, you're finally awake. Ren and Jaune carried you back to Beacon after you blacked out. Just thought I'd come here to see how you were doing." Yang explained the situation to the conduit. The latter merely rolled to the side, facing away from her.
"Well I better tell the nurse that you're awake." Yang said over her shoulder, approaching the door. "Listen, whatever you did earlier doesn't change what I think of you..."
Bobby seemed to visibly flinch at her unexpected statement, causing Yang to smile a little.
"...I guess I'll see you later then..." Yang was about to leave when she remembered something.
"Oh, by the way, you were assigned a team earlier today." Yang smirked a little when she heard a soft, disapproving groan come from Bobby, "Be sure to come over to our dorm when you're feeling better. I'm sure Weiss and Ruby would like to see how you're doing."
Yang quickly rushed out the door, giggling, when a pillow was sent flying her way, courtesy of Bobby.
He slumped back down, as a warm feeling in his chest welled up. It was a feeling he hadn't felt in a long time since that 'incident' happened. What he felt was acceptance and surprise. Surprised that people like Yang existed. Most people would have shunned him by now, thinking that conduits only knew how to destroy everything around them. The corners of his lips twitched up as the ice encasing his heart started to thaw, letting sleep embrace him once more.
This time, however, without the nightmares he always had.
"It looks like things are shaping up to be an...interesting year." Professor Ozpin muttered to himself as he observed Bobby via a camera from his office.
Ooo~ Looks like he was put in Team RWBY! I really hope you enjoyed this chapter and I apologise if the fight scene wasn't very good...
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