Chapter 3

Pyrrha just stood there, motionless, her eyes fixed on the body in front of her, as she looked at the body everything just stopped, time seemed still and everything was silent, what had she done!? Sure Penny was a robot, but she had a life an aura and now it was gone, Pyrrha just killed someone, but what really disgusted Pyrrha is this felt familiar to her like she was use to it, she felt guilty taking an innocent life of course but she felt like it wasn't the first time and it scared her.

She didn't mean to kill Penny of course, but that vision came and made her use her Polarity much stronger than intended, that was the other thing, the visions she was seeing in her headaches, it all just seemed familiar to her somehow like she knew what everything she saw meant, what was happening to her!?

''Pyrrha! Pyrrha!''

Pyrrha blinked a couple of times as she heard someone calling for her and she started to return to the real world, she looked over to the stands for the person calling for her and she saw Jaune he was leaned over the railings calling for her, he looked like he was in a panic, Ren and Nora were there too, there expressions matched Jaune's.

''Screw it'' said Jaune jumping over the railings and running towards her, Nora calling after him, Pyrrha took a few steps back, she was scared of herself, of what she did, of what was happening to her and of what she could do to Jaune ''Pyrrha, it's going to-''

Suddenly a loud noise that sounded like glass shattering echoed through the arena and a Nevermore crashed into the ground of the arena, causing a shockwave to travel through the arena throwing Pyrrha, Jaune and Penny's body parts flying, before the Nevermore gave a loud cry and began to fly towards her eager to kill, Pyrrha didn't know what to do, she was unarmed and there was no way she could get out of this.

But before the Nevermore could reach her a red blur that had rose petals trailing behind it hit the Nevermore pushing it back in surprise before it landed in front of Pyrrha, it was Ruby carrying one of Penny's sword ''Ruby?'' Pyrrha said confused.

''Leave her alone!'' Ruby cried, pointing the sword towards the Nevermore.

The Nevermore gave another cry before taking off into the air and began to circle them before coming back around ready for another attack, but before it could do anything several rocket lockers crashed into it knocking it to the ground, as the rocket lockers began to open up Pyrrha just looked towards the ground where she saw a small piece of Penny's skin, she picked it up and began to look at it, which was where her focus remained as she heard the others fight the Nevermore.

When it ended Pyrrha looked up to see Ruby looking at her ''I-I'm sorry Ruby'' said Pyrrha tears welling up in her eyes, after all of this, the Maidens, her headaches and the visions they brought and now killing Penny, Pyrrha just couldn't help but cry, she just felt so overwhelmed by it all.

''I'm sorry too'' said Ruby looking down ''but it wasn't your fault''

''She's right'' said Jaune walking towards them, he was carrying Miló and Akoúo ''whoever was on the microphone, they're the ones who did this alright, they set this up and made sure it happened and we need to find them and stop them from doing anything like this ever again''

Jaune looked and sounded so serious, it was nothing like she was use to, she had only seen Jaune like this one other time and that was when he confronted Cardin, his words just reacher her and pulled her back from the edge, she nodded to Jaune with an expression that now matched his, she had done this and she'd have to live with it, but Jaune was right now they had to stop whoever had caused her to do it.

But there problems were far from over as they heard a loud roar and looked up to see Grimm gathering around the top of the colosseum, one type of Grimm in particular ''Griffons'' Ren said.

''Sun quick I need your scroll'' said Ruby, Sun quickly handed it over and Ruby, Ruby pressed a few buttons and another rocket locker crashed into the arena and opened up to reveal Ruby's weapon, Crescent Rose, but before she could grab it a Griffon landed on top of the locker, but before any of them could make a move a shot came out of nowhere hitting the Griffon and killing it.

They all turned around to see the two announcers of the tournament, short and rotund Professor Port and tall and lanky Doctor Oobleck, both of them with there weapons ''student, I think it would be best for you to leave'' Port said.

''But we can-''

''Miss Rose!'' Oobleck said harshly before adopting a gentler tone ''today is no doubt going to go down in the history of Remnant, I would prefer it if my students would be alive to tell about it''

Ruby just nodded, before grabbing Crescent Rose and ordering everyone to move out, Jaune turned to Pyrrha and gave gentle smile ''come on'' he said softly grabbing her hand, taking Pyrrha by surprise a little, Jaune had never done this with her before, she knew the situation called for them to be serious, but she couldn't help but smile as she felt a little warm inside.

The group of students ran through the hallways of the colosseum until they made there way out to the docking area's upper level, it looked like everyone had been evacuated from the colosseum, there were only two ships left an Air Bus and an Atlesian Dropship, which everyone assumed was Ironwoods ship.

''What's going on?'' Ruby asked.

''Grimm are crawling all over the city, the White Fang's invaded Beacon and to make matters worse and to make matters worse some… vagabond has seized one of my ships, until we regain command, the skies are out of control, so I'm going to take it back'' said Ironwood, turning around and heading towards his ship.

''And what should we do?'' Jaune asked.

Ironwood stopped and turned to the students ''you ave two choices, defend your kingdom and the school or save yourselves, nobody will fault you if you leave'' he said, he then turned around and proceeded to walk in the ship, afterwards it took off and flew towards the cruisers.

''Oh, come on'' Sun moaned.

''We can take that ship to Beacon'' said Jaune pointing to the Air Bus ''can anyone fly one of these?''

''I can'' said one of the competitors of the tournament, if Pyrrha remembered correctly her name was Reese.

''Alright then, you'll pilot this as for anyone else who's coming get in the ship'' Jaune ordered.

Once Jaune said that all of the students started to rush onto the ship, it made her happy to see Jaune taking command and acting like the leader she knew he could be, she was about to join everyone when she noticed that Ruby was just standing there ''Ruby, aren't you coming?'' Pyrrha asked confused.

''No, not yet, you guys go, I'll catch up with you, I promise'' said Ruby before running back into the colosseum.

''Ruby wait!-'' Pyrrha cried, she was about to chase after her when someone grabbed her by the arm, she turned to see Jaune.

''Come on'' he said.

''B-but what about Ruby?'' Pyrrha asked.

''She said she'll catch up, so she'll catch'' said Jaune ''listen, I don't know what Ruby's planning to do but we can't worry about that now we need to get back to Beacon and defend it, all we can do is have faith in our friend alright, you've shown me an amazing amount of faith alright, now show that faith to Ruby''

Pyrrha was stunned by his words, until tonight she'd never heard Jaune so serious, maybe it was because the situation called for him to be that he could be this serious, but it shocked Pyrrha that he could be this serious and whats more he was right, Pyrrha knew Ruby by now, they had spent a semester together as friends and she knew what Ruby was capable of now, she knew she'd be alright, Pyrrha nodded and Jaune nodded back, they then turned and entered the Air Bus as it began to take off and go towards Beacon Academy.

-LINE BREAK-

Half an hour later, due to the Air Bus's slow speed, the students were approaching Beacon Academy, looking at any of them you could tell they were nervous, they knew that they had never seen a fight like this before, sure they had been in Vale when the Grimm had gotten in, but they knew that would be nothing compared to this battle.

Pyrrha was sat down in the back row of the seats, she had to admit she was worried, not only because of the battle, but because of her visions, what if another vision came at the wrong time and somebody ended up being hurt because of it, maybe she'd ended up hurting someone again, she just couldn't shake the feeling, Pyrrha was suddenly jolted out of her thoughts as she felt a little nudge, she looked up to see Jaune ''Pyrrha are you ok?'' he asked.

''Y-yes, I'm ok'' said Pyrrha, but Jaune didn't seem convinced as he sat down in the seat next to hers.

''Ok, listen Pyrrha, I know something wrong, I don't know what it is, but I know it's something, if you don't want to tell me now that's alright, you don't have to tell me right now, but I want you to know I'm here for you alright and through the battle I'm going to be by your side the whole time'' said Jaune, Pyrrha had to admit it made her feel happy that her crush was acting this way for her, it was brought down a bit because she was afraid she might hurt him again, but this made her feel more confident in what she was doing ''but I need you to look me in the eyes and tell me your going to be alright''

''Jaune, I'm alright'' Pyrrha said looking him in the eye.

''Alright'' said Jaune smiling ''listen me and the leaders made up a bit of a plan ok, just a minute'' Jaune stood up and gestured to Ren for him to come there with Nora and they came over to them ''ok, now as I was saying to Pyrrha, me and the leaders of the other teams formed up a plan alright, now when we get to Beacon and that's going to be soon, we're all gonna go out guns blazing, the plan is to seperate into our teams in order to cover more ground and then push our way forwards until we get in front of the school building, because it'll give us more cover, after that the plan is essentially just fight everyone off, the Grimm, the White Fang and the Atlesian Knights, that's plan alright, it's not much I know but its the best we've got, once we're there stick together alright''

''Right'' they said nodding.

''Everyone, attention please!'' Reese called from the front ''we're gonna be landing soon, I'm gonna put us as close to the school as I can alright, get ready!'' once she said that all of the students drew out there weapons and stood at the back door waiting for it to open ''alright we're here, get ready and go!''

Once the door opened all of the students burst out running to the battlefield, all of them breaking off from one another but staying in there groups, she and Jaune were in the middle with Nora and Ren on the sides, Pyrrha and Jaune had there shields raised and there swords at the ready, Nora had Magnhild in grenade launcher mode and Ren had StormFlower pointed forwards, a huge mess of Grimm surrounded the school ground, hundreds of them.

Beowolves, Ursa's, Griffons, Boarbatusks, Creeps, name a Grimm and you'd most likely be seeing it at one point, Nora and Ren immediately started to fire at the Grimm Nora's Magnhild blowing away large and small Grimm as Ren's StormFlowers, while not doing as much damage, managed to down many of the smaller Grimm, when they reached the Grimm Pyrrha began to fight with all of her strength stabbing and slashing into the monsters, she gave a quick glimpse to Jaune to see he was doing just fine as he took down a Beowolf, Nora had switched Magnhild into hammer mode for close combat and Ren was not only shooting but also using StormFlowers blades.

Soon enough the students had broken through the Grimms lines and were now in front of the school building, so far the plan was working, the Grimm numbers were lowering significantly, but soon more and more came, but the students held there ground, they knew what they were doing and how to win, Ren Coco and Neptune all found cover and began btw prove covering fire for them as they continued to fight.

It was starting to look up, but then the ground gave a little tremor, causing the students and even the Grimm themselves to stop, there was another tremor much larger and then finally they all looked up to watch as Mount Glenn broke open like an egg, what broke it they couldn't tell it was too dark to see, but whatever it was it seemed to excite the Grimm as they all let out a unified roar and began to charge with a renewed energy and now the Atlesian Knights were joining them, before the Grimm considered them a threat because the Knights were attacking them, but now they weren't and so the Grimm saw no reason to destroy the Knights, whats more the Knights weren't living things another reason as to why the Grimm wouldn't attack them.

''Here comes another wave'' Ren sighed angrily.

''Oh no'' Nora moaned.

''Jaune, what do we do?'' Pyrrha asked.

Jaune gave a sigh as he looked over them ''we stick together, now form up'' he said.

Team JNPR all formed up and got into stance standing side by side, Team SSSN who was with them were also getting into formation right next to them, Jaune looked over to Pyrrha for a moment giving her brief smile, reminding her about what he said in the Air Bus making her happy, but Pyrrha just gave the smile back as she got into stance, but that smile fell as she saw Ozpin standing by one of the buildings, Pyrrha knew why he was there, she dropped stance and began to go to Ozpin.

Once she reached him he began to run, with Pyrrha trailing right behind him, they ran into Beacon Tower and Ozpin called the lift, when the lift got there the two of them got in the lift, but before the doors could close completely, someone held there hand out causing the door to open, the doors fully opened and revealed who it was ''J-Jaune, w-what are you doing here!?'' Pyrrha sputtered in surprise as she saw him.

''I saw you go off so I decided to follow you to see if I could help in anyways and to find out what you were doing, besides I told you that I was going to be by your side the whole time'' said Jaune ''so what's going on?''

While it did please Pyrrha that Jaune was committed to his word to her, she really didn't want Jaune to be here out of fear that he could get hurt, but before she could protest Ozpin said ''no time to explain Jaune, if you want to help get in now!'' Jaune quickly followed the order getting into the lift, which made Pyrrha feel worried that something bad would happen to Jaune, Ozpin quickly held up his cane and a scanner proceeded to scan the handle, when it was finished the lift started to move going down, as the lift went down everyone was silent not daring to make a noise.

When they reached the vault the doors opened and the three of them sprinted out into the vault, Jaune looked around, not really sure where he was or what was happening right now ''what is this place?'' he asked.

''It's a type of vault'' Pyrrha answered.

''You've been here before?'' Jaune asked.

Pyrrha just looked away, she felt really guilty about lying to him and not telling him about this place, but that wasn't her biggest problem right now, the feelings she had about being the Fall Maiden were returning, she was still torn between answering the call of duty or listening to the thing inside her telling her she didn't need the Maiden power.

''What would this school need to hide?'' Jaune asked, but his question was answered soon enough as they came up to the pods ''w-what…''

Pyrrha wanted to explain everything to Jaune in that moment, but before she could get a word out Ozpin was already barking out orders ''Pyrrha get to the pods, Jaune if you want to help you can stand guard'' Jaune nodded and turned around holding his shield up in defensive position, as Pyrrha hesitantly walked up to the second pod.

''Now what do we do?'' Pyrrha asked.

''We do nothing, you Miss Nikos, have a choice to make'' said Ozpin and as he said that it happen.

Another headache struck Pyrrha, this one was the most painful headache she had yet, the headache caused so much pain that she screamed out in pain and collapsed to the floor as she clutched her head writheing in agony, her eyes were clamps shut and she could barely make out anything going on around her anymore and then another vision passed through her mind.

In this vision she was standing in some kind of descent landscape, Pyrrha couldn't tell where she was suppose to be, but she could tell who was standing in front of her, it was one of the warriors from her previous vision, but wait didn't she have this vision already? But soon enough her view shifted downwards to show she was skewered, the warrior cried out to her and she suddenly heard someone speak in a familiar voice.

''You always have a choice, believe me I know''

Although she couldn't tell because of her headache and vision Jaune and Ozpin were crowded around Pyrrha to make sure she was ok, when she collapsed Jaune dropped guard and ran to her and Ozpin had ran to her as well when he saw something was wrong with her, but as they were they failed to notice the of high heeled shoes on the stone floor, but they did see an arrow fly through the air, break through the glass of the first pod and hit Amber in the chest killing her.

Amber's eyes opened and she gave a cry of pain, before falling back, dead, the powers of the Fall Maiden flowed out of her to form a glowing sphere before shot across the room to the person who shot the arrow, Cinder Fall, who absorbed the power with a big smirk across her face, Ozpin quickly stood up and got in front of Jaune and Pyrrha, holding his cane in a stance ready to fight ''Jaune, take Pyrrha and get out of here!'' Opine cried ''find Glynda! Qrow! Ironwood! Bring them here the tower cannot fall!''

But as he said that Pyrrha got up and said ''no Ozpin, your going to take Jaune and get out of here, while I deal with her'' this caused all attention to her, Cinder gave a laugh.

''You think you can take me now?'' Cinder questioned smirking.

''I don't think I can take you now'' said Pyrrha ''now that I remember, I know I can take you''

Pyrrha then thrust her arms out and a bright light burst from her* causing everyone to cover there eyes, when the light died down they all looked to Pyrrha and saw what had happened, she had changed a bit, standing there tall and proud her red hair was now free and flowing and red markings now adorned her face, her golden ringlet had changed into what looked to be some kind of golden crown with large wing adornments, she was now dressed in armour that only covered her chest, her arms were now completely covered in silver armour with gold shoulder armour, her skirt was still on her but now it had a belt as well as the red sash and her legs were now completely covered in armour and ribbons were wrapped all around her body and were floating in what seemed to be an invisible breeze**

Jaune and Ozpin looked amazed at what had happened, Cinder however began to laugh ''what is that suppose to scare m-'' but before she could finish, Pyrrha instantly appeared right in front of Cinder and punched her right in the face, sending her flying back.

Jaune started to walk towards Pyrrha, before stopping and blushing as he realised his partner was essentially wearing an armoured bikini top***, but he shook his head and continued to walk towards her ''Pyrrha, how did you- what- how-'' he sputtered trying to find his words.

''Jaune I know you must be confused, I know I would be too, but I can't explain now, you need to get out of here while I deal with her'' said Pyrrha.

''B-but Pyrrha, I can't let you face her a-'' Jaune protested but he was stopped when Pyrrha put her finger on his lips silencing him.

''Jaune, I've listened to you through this whole ordeal and your words have given me the strength I've needed to get through this, but now its time for you to listen to me, you have to go, I'm going to be fine don't worry, you told me to have faith in Ruby, now you need to have faith in me, I promise you, I will return to you'' said Pyrrha, she then took her finger away from his lips ''now go'' Jaune nodded and Pyrrha turned her attention to Ozpin glaring at him ''if anything happens to him, I will do the same to you, but it will be worse, do you understand me?'' she looked so dangerous that all Ozpin could do was swallow and nod before gesturing for Jaune to follow him.

Pyrrha then turned to face Cinder who had gotten up and was now growling at her, Pyrrha couldn't help but smirk and say ''well then, shall we get down to it?''

So there, that's the chapter, I hope you liked it, sorry this took a while, but yeah Pyrrha finally has her memories back and as such has taken on a more Angela form, from this point I'm going to try and mix Angela traits into Pyrrha and as I've said before if you can think of anything that I could do to improve the story just tell me.

*I looked back at Spawn issue 9 and that's how I think she changed into Angela but I might be wrong there.

**As I said before, she's more based on Marvel's version of Angela, so I gave her more of a Marvel appearance, this is more like her first appearance in the Marvel universe, I plan to change it to the Asguardians of the Galaxy armor at one point, but if you don't want me to just say.

***Sorry if any of you like her original costume, but you have to admit that's basically what her original costume looks like.