(Author Corner)
Duskrider: *Glares at Dusk and Rider*
Dusk and Rider: *Trying not to look him in the eye. *
Seryu: *Sitting in a corner trying to avoid this while looking over her cue cards. *
Summoner: *Deadpans* You lost your key.
Rider: Look I'm sorry okay!
Summoner: Not only that but you both lost your keys at least once so far. And now I must deal with putting not just Raven back together but having Seryu find the rest of Gendo's organs before they regenerate too much into Neo-Gendos.
Dusk: Hey how was I supposed to know I would get my pocket picked!
Duskrider: *Facepalms* Summoner your now in charge of getting new cast members.
Dusk: Wait a second, I though you summoned him to man the portal!
Duskrider: *Deadpan* I also made it so that he is connected to the portal room and can activate and deactivate it anywhere in the multiverse. If it is working here. He can be in and out in a matter of second.
Summoner: Yes sir *has a more twisted smile as a says* It will be my pleasure. *Seryu shivers wondering just how a heroine of justice got into this mess. *
Duskrider: NO MAIMING! I'm not dealing with the Multiverse Dimensional PETA again!
Summoner: PETA isn't that for animals?
Duskrider: *Deadpan* They consider humanity apart of the animal kingdom enough not to bother with a name change after the other species started making their own versions. It only got worse when one of them ended up crossing dimensions. (He thinks about a very drunk Rick introduced them to each other when one of the crab people field agents of PETA chase after him for using an endangered Pink Elephant Rhino thing in an unethical experiment.)
Dusk: Uh what about us?
Duskrider: You two will find Rider's keys while I try to let this medicine deal with the headache I have. If you two do not find it within the time it takes for me to finish my nap you will end up in the Pit of Plot Bunnies for the next Digimon Adventure equality to a year in there under those time acceleration effects.
Rider: But sir, that time effect would mean for every minute out here would be a day for us!
Duskrider: Indeed, for each, and every one of those 524,160 minutes that we would have out here, it would be a day for you. If I'm generous enough I might just set a timer rather than just assuming I will remember the date and time to get you out. Now get to it and find those keys or else.
Dusk and Rider: *Shiver and run off*. We're on its boss!
Summoner: They do know you wouldn't do that right?
Duskrider: Not until the story is finished at least. *Hands Summoner the List. * Now go get the next two on the list.
Summoner: *Looks it over raising an eyebrow* Velvet and Coco sir?
Duskrider: *Shrugs* I would want to wait a bit before getting them, but I think bringing them in too later would be rather boring. Plus having Velvet and Coco around shows at least two people (we know of) from Beacon's students that do not replace Jaune in this world. Plus seeing Rider try to ship Velvet and Jaune sounds like fun.
Summoner: Or Velvet and Coco?
Duskrider: *Shrugs* He ships everyone so yeah, I can see that happen.
Summoner: On it. *Leaves to his post. *
Duskrider: *Turns to the last person left* Now read.
Seryu: Disclaimer: Duskrider does not own either the following fanfic, or RWBY, Fate/Stay various routes, or any other series references such as me, Rick and Morty or any other shows that might appear.
Duskrider: Good job if you keep it up, I just might not smite you when the story ends.
Seryu: S-smite? *She asks nervous. *
Duskrider: Lightning bolts and all. Possibly using some giant dogs that spit lightning for some irony factor. So, do a good job and I will only smit Gendo (after we piece him back together), understood?
Seryu: *Whimpers. * Understood, Master.
Duskrider: *Red eyes* Never call me Master understood. Sir is good enough.
Seryu: YES, SIR! *Freaking out internally that this evil villain had captured the young plucky innocent heroine of justice! She will escape one day. *
Duskrider: Good. Oh, and if I ever catch you trying to escape, I will trap you in an infinite loop of the last few moments prior to your death for the rest of eternity.
(Not really but you have to let them know you are the boss. The worst that he will do is send them to the afterlife and not the more pleasant ones. Like the Vogon one where all their worst poets by an interdimensional standard go.)
Seryu: *"HE KNOWS!" She screams internally while trying not to let her panic show. * Well I better go fish out Ikari's kidney! *She runs off to do that. *
Duskrider: That's what I though. *Looks around and pulls out some cold sweet tea and rock n roll. * I'll give them an hour maybe 4 if I'm generous.
(Back to the Viewing Dimension)
"OK where did you leave your keys Rider?" Dusk asks wanting to get this over with.
"It I knew that than I wouldn't be trying to find them!" Rider shouts afraid of being sent to the pit.
"Let's retrace your steps what was the last time you saw them." Dusk tries to be calm about this. Hoping it was not lost during that Ice Cream run.
"Well…." Rider starts, "There was the portal room and I noticed they were gone after the viewing."
"OK let's check the…wait a second do you think they could have found those keys if they were in the viewing room?" They both pause at this looking at each other.
"O.O OH FUCK!" They run off to prevent the worst from happening.
(In the Portal Room)
"Come on work! Work you, stupid machine!" Weiss shouts slamming her fists against this machine in frustration.
After the story ended and everyone was dragged into a shouting machine between Winter and Qrow over the latter's transcripts. It ended after Penny went to her room, not wanting anything to do with them after her talk with Duskrider following the viewing.
Ruby did not take this well and it was midnight before she fell asleep crying. And they do not know what Duskrider said to Penny at all.
(Last Night)
"Salutations who are you." Penny asks a bit nervous about this seemingly normal sleep deprived man who controlled people able to capture her and the others easily. They were in a room that had nothing other than themselves.
"Come have a seat." Duskrider says as a comfy looking chair appears in front of Penny as he sat on thin air. Leaning back, "Now I am sure you are wondering why you are here?"
"I wonder why you would bring any of us here."
"No, I mean meeting me." Duskrider says waving his hand making a black cat appear in his lap. "You see while in this world of mine I have almost infinite power but to be frank other than a few cameos I have not made any big appearances to far. I prefer Dusk and Rider acting as the hosts rather than myself."
"Why is that?"
"For one thing having a single host would only give a single dimension to the way information is presented." Duskrider states petting the cat in his lap. "For another I just don't like talking to people if I can help it."
"You are anti-social?" Penny questions this confused. Looking at the cat that came into existence out of nothing.
"Meh I just don't like dealing with people too much. To be what I would need to be as a host would show too much of a contradiction. I cannot be both the voice of Order and that of Chaos at the same time." Duskrider states petting his purring cat, "Now on to the real reason I brought you here you see in the next chapter events will take place that will both disturb and, in a way, bring hope to you."
Penny shivers looking into his eyes seeing both hatred and amusement in them conflicting, "What kind of events?"
"You will know when the chapter ends as I will talk to you afterwards." Duskrider states, "You see I have an offer to give you at the end of the chapter coming up. Than I will want an answer to this offer when the story ends."
"Story?"
"Isn't that all life is a series of stories?" Duskrider smiles brightly before his eyes turn darker, "And all stories have an inevitable ending that might come too soon much like your own."
"My own ending?" Penny questions.
"You see the world you are looking at is only one of many possible ones." Duskrider looks older for a second, "In a more probable turn of events though you will not make it to the ending of the story alive. At least not the way you are now."
"And just what ending do you want my 'story' to be?" Penny questions not liking the implications of her death.
"A long and happy one." Duskrider answers, "But it will all depend on you. And though my coming offer might turn the tide in some ways it is still possible that you will make it to a happier ending the way you are now."
"Will you tell Friend Ruby just how unlikely this story is?" Penny questions having a feeling that this story is not a likely ending but a possible one.
"I don't need to." Duskrider states. "My choice to having this viewing changes the destiny of your world by showing another."
"Another world!?" Penny exclaims now knowing it was not their future they were seeing but that of another with events already come to pass.
"Yes, another. But Penny if you tell anyone this without permission than my offer will expire, and I will erase every second of this time from you CPU and then that of your own existence from the minds of others for these events." His eyes are hard before snipping his fingers making the cat in his lap turn to bones and then dust, "Remember I can do anything here at will. Including how I removed the programing that forces you to answer to anyone other than yourself," She checks her CPU and sees that the loyalty programing that forces her to obey the orders of the General and those with proper clearance have disappear. "Do we have an accord young woman?"
Penny swallows or at least mimics that motion seeing the dust where the cat was at collect and then reform into copy of herself. Right down to the freckles. "I understand."
"Good now do not tell anyone or…" At another snap the fake Penny's eyes bleed black tears and she smiles peacefully before turning to dust once more, "They will never remember."
Penny than leaves but how she will never know how, one moment there and then the next here. In her assigned room according to a message on the walls. She sinks to her knees and shivers wondering and dreading what will happen next. Trying to remove the image from her CPU does not work for some reason and plays the image of herself turning to dust. She is wondering just what 'ending' awaited not just her but the Penny being shown in this other world.
(Back to the Present with the Portal Room)
Weiss hates this place. She hates what it is doing to her friend and leader. Dealing with these insane hosts. This other dimension non-sense. Why them!? They were just trying to be huntresses and huntsmen! Why are they being roosted for something they have not done! Will not do!
She would have liked to have the others with her to figure out how to escape. But no, the others were far too tired, and she only has one shot before they learn she has the key to get in and use this portal room. She remembered Dusk and Rider using it and found the keyhole to open the hidden door.
Once she figures this out, she can leave and get the others and they can all escape.
Simple right? Wrong this thing does not make any sense! Even labeled it is like trying to decode something with out any codes! What kind of letter is a sideways M anyway? And why is their a picture of a lemon on another?
"What are you doing here little girl?" A purple eyed and red-haired man asked with a shirt saying, 'Number 1 Lovecraft Waifu' with a picture of a silver haired girl (Nyaruko from Crawling with Love), His kind and caring eyes twist into something darker, "Are you that stripper that Dusk got for my 'Hooray You're a Real Boy Party?' If so, I will have to tell him that this was in poor tastes as I am certainly not a pedophile." He recalls a joke that Dusk told him off screen but now he was not sure if Dusk was serious or not about the 'Welcome to Reality it Sucks but at least there is Cake Party'. But he thought strippers were supposed to be in the cake. "Where is the cake? Was the cake a lie? But what is a stripper without cake?" He mutters to himself.
"Pedophile!? I'm 17-year-old!" Weiss tries to ignore this insane man's ramblings but picked that part off and is insulted! Just because she has a smaller chest than Yang does not make her a child. Or Blake…or Ruby…No focus on escape!
"And I'm a day old but even I have fucking standards!" His aging process having been accelerated so that he was physically in his twenties. Than his eyes narrow, "What the fuck are you doing to the controls."
"O-oh well…You see there was a rather crazy party and I was passed out and forgot to leave. Could you please send me home?" She plays up the innocent little girl act and promises to stab him the first chance she gets. She ignores the day-old comment passing it off as more madness.
"Fine I – wait just a smeging second aren't you Wiess Sneeze of the cast?" As Summoner finally figures out just who she is. "Get away from my station!" He shouts running over to pull her away.
"Let go!"
"No, you let go! You, crazy wanker!"
"Summoner have you seen my k- oh never mind." Rider shouts entering the room to see Summoner wrestling Weiss, "Sorry for interrupting." He walks backwards out the door into Dusk.
Dusk smacks Rider upside the head, "No you romance addict this is not one of 'those' 'fight' scenes!"
"Oh." Rider says before running into the room again before they do something, but it is too late.
Just than Weiss or maybe Summoner hit something they shouldn't have.
Beep…Beep…Boop…BEEP.. !
"What the fuck?" Dusk questions wondering if he really heard that right. He thinks the portal system was not sentient. Unless the Allspark passed by again. The Toaster is still trying to romance the Fridge and it is just awkward to be around.
Than in a flash of light a set of portals started opening randomly.
"This is kind of trippy." Rider says seeing a Muppet on a bicycle ride from one portal to another. "Wait was that Rick!? And what-That drunken asshole!" Rider shouts seeing him stealing their fridge.
The Toaster hobbles after the Fridge transforming into a robot. "Baby come back! Don't leave me!" He jumps in after the Fridge.
Dusk deadpans seeing Deadpool appear from another portal.
"Oh, hey low budget OCs because the creator was too lazy to actually do his job for a reading fic. Is it time for my close up?" Deadpool asks before Dusk summons his shadow tentacles "oh tentacle hentai? Kinky." And shoves him into a random portal.
(With Deadpool)
Deadpool falls from the sky and lands in Japan. In front of a small child.
"Mister! Are you alright?" The young green haired lad questions seeing the man's body start to stitch back together. He looks like he is crying.
Oh, hell no this will not do.
"Don't worry kid I'm a Super (Anti-)Hero!" Deadpool says jumping up, trying to not make the child cry more. Seriously those tears must be a form of super power as they left his socks wet.
"OH my gosh you're a hero!" The 6-year-old pulls out his notebook and starts muttering a million questions. Ending with, "Can I be a hero too?"
Deadpool nods seeing a plot line anywhere, "Sure kid. I'll train you to be the best hero on this Earth (it is Earth, right?), or kill you trying!"
"Wat?" The Cinnamon Roll asks not knowing he was going to be damned to beyond hellish training.
Izuku's Voice Over: And that was the start of story of how I became the world's greatest (second most insane) (Anti-) Hero the world has ever known. Only getting better after the blood transfusion following a training (literal trains were involved) accident.
But that's not the story you want to see now so keep reading dear viewers. Oh, and leave a fucking comment if you want me to appear in a fic later this guy makes as I will not be appearing in this fic again.
Deadpool II, or Dekupool according to the fanfics signing out. End Voice Over.
(Author Corner)
"OH NO!" Summoner looks panicked, "The machine cannot support so many portals into the time space community!" He shoves Weiss away.
"Aaahhhh!" Weiss shouts as another portal opens and shallows her whole.
"WEISS!" Rider shouts.
"Well this is just great," Summoner says sarcastically, "the machine is going to overload in the next 5 minutes and now one of you have to go find W-, "He is cut off as another portal opens bellow the Duo who scream before falling in. "Fuck!" He knows what he must do. He dives in after Weiss to avoid his boss from killing him for losing a core cast member.
(With Weiss)
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Weiss screams through space and time before landing on a certain dunce who looks up wide eyed.
"Crap." B-Jaune is tackled to the ground by Weiss lips first.
Weiss' eyes widen as she takes in what is happening. She feels the warmth on her lips. Her hands on his shoulders. His shivers as his body locks up and his eyes widen in pure terror. Wait what?
Bleiss walks around the corner skipping excited to have some alone time with her blond stud, "Oh handsome~ I heard Pyrrha is in Vale want to fu-Who the hell is this Skank?!" She screams catching sight of Her man being kissed by another woman! The skank even has the sheer audacity to badly cosplay as herself!
She didn't send Pyrrha 'Four Fucking Time Champion' Nikos to the docks after knocking her and stuffing her in a locker get some fucking alone time just to get blue balled. Again!
"Wait there is a mistake! "Weiss sits up trying to explain only for her eyes to widen taking the other Weiss in or at least she thinks it is Weiss.
Which while freaky could explain the other 'future' she has been forced to watch being a different world. No what makes her question if this-this thing is her is the differences between them. Her hair was in a side ponytail on the left side, which was black for some reason. Her eyes were red. Blood Red with Murderous Intention. She had on a different dress than her, with the white being replaced with short black dress and jacket with the insides being a red that matches her eyes. 'What the hell is she thinking that dress is so short she is walking panty flash!' With it being lacy black with a yellow crescent moon of all things. "What on Remn-," She never finishes as she is tackled by Bleiss off of Jaune.
"Don't touch what isn't yours whore!" Bleiss shouts strangling this white-haired bitch whose looks remind her of her biological family from her bitchy ass whiny brat of a brother to her hard ass jackass with a stick up his ass father.
Weiss sees that if she doesn't fight back, she will die. Grabbing this crazy person's hair, she tries to turn the tables.
All the while Jaune looks on twitching with sheer panic as he processes what is going on. He runs off screaming, "There are two of them!" He must hide for his virginity's safety! Running to the panic room he built after the second time Bleiss came to his dorm drunk and tried to have her evil ways with him while carrying a fucking whip!
Summoner appears and see the fight of black and white Weiss and says, "Fuck I can't tell them apart!" Please note that while Summoner has seen all the multiverse a lot of stuff blended together. Most Black Weiss are either corrupted Weiss or just more vulgar and less bitchy Weiss. Not sure how a Weiss could be corrupted so easily but than again unstable portals tend to have side effects. "Screw it." He says before knocking them both out using the Vulcan Nerve Pinch.
He shouts, "Merry Break Down!" Summoning his Stand that takes the form of a rabbit with red hair, and a pair of red suspenders holding up patchworked red pants. It winks at the viewers before turning into a spiral staircase for him to reach the portal which was in the sky.
Thank goodness he grabbed the Arrow from that one Jojoverse while practicing using the portal yesterday. Than again Boss was pissed at him for doing so until he pointed out it could be useful for later.
He ignores the looks he is giving for walking up an invisible (to them) staircase.
He just hopes he is not too late to stop the overload!
Hopefully the other two made it back in time. Else they will be on Dusk Version 3.4 and Rider Version 1.2.
(The Usual Remnant)
*CRASH! THUD!*
"Oh, my head…" Rider groans having landed on his head.
"My everything…" Dusk says having belly flopped on the hard stone ground.
"Dusk?"
"Yeah Rider?"
"When we get back, we are so getting sent to the pit." Rider deadpans knowing they screwed up.
Dusk lays back down and says, "Maybe we should just stick around here till the portal gets fixed." Dusk considers this cold hard unforgiving stone floor a better alternative to the plot bunnies.
"That could take minutes or days." Rider does not have much faith in their luck.
"Maybe we can claim to be S.I.?" Dusk says.
Rider gets up and notices they were in a gothic castle. "Fuck we are in a castle."
"You didn't answer my question." Then Dusk notices and gets up heading for a door.
"Where are you going?" Rider asks trying to figure out where they are but does not recognize the place.
"Away from here before what ever monarch decides to cut off our heads for trespassing. For all we know this is Game of Thrones during the time that crazy asshole was burning people alive." Sees a hall way and goes down it with Rider following. After a few twists and turns they reach the end.
"And what's behind this door?" Dusk questions as 3 minutes have passed so far since arriving and only finding a door now.
Dusk opens the door and sees Salem on the other side.
"Who are-*Stab! **Thud! *"
"Dude!" Rider shouts shocked at that Dusk hit her with the knock out dart.
"What? I panicked ok!" Dusk tries to explain.
"Shit we need to hide the body till we can leave." Rider picks up Salem wondering where the broom closet was or the bathroom. Hell, with the later they might just pull off an Elves Presley impersonation using Salem. Well minus the whole her dying since they don't want to fuck up cannon. Besides this might be a good Salem story like 'White Sheep'.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO THE MISTRESS!" Tyrian shout.
Fuck why didn't they notice she came from the meeting room. Let's see Arthur Watts the Mustached Immoral Scientist, Hazel the Unable to feel Pain Ozpin Hater, and Tyrian the Crazed Salem Worshiping Scorpion Faunus. A minor note shows that this is not post Volume 4 as Tyrian still has his stinger.
And they just saw them after their mistress collapsed because they drugged her. Fuck.
"Dusk do something." Rider whispers trying to hold up Salem as a human shield to make them pause. Though Tyrian looks very temped to try and kill them as he pulls out his weapons.
"Ummm." Dusk pauses than light appears with an idea, "Tyrian!" He catches the Scorpion Faunus' attention. "Your mother smells of Elder Berries and your father was a Hamster!" He than legs it.
Rider is stunned for a few seconds then runs after him having seen Tyrian's pissed off expression. Not putting down Salem to use as a meat shield if need be.
"DIE!" Tyrian exclaims.
"Why did you do that!?" Rider shouts running having catch up to Dusk.
"Because I needed them distracted when we enter the portal!" Dusk exclaims before shouting over his solider, "Your sister was a whore who only passed because she sucked Ozpin's dick!" He hears Hazel's roar of rage as they run.
"Wait we're taking them into the portal!" Rider questions this plan.
"Well Boss did want more cast members! And these people are on the possible list for the future!" Dusk tries to explain while dodging a rock thrown at him.
"How do you know!?" Rider asks blocking a rock with Salem.
"Because I read the guest list!" Dusk exclaims dodging another projectile.
"We have a guest list!?" Rider is shocked at this fact.
"Yes! Watts' you're the poor man's Merlot! And Salem only picked you because he went into hiding before she could!" Dusk than thinks, 'Wow three out of three, not bad if that scream of fury said anything.'
"They are too fast!" Rider shouts as they head closer able to see portal flickering and knowing they will not make it with these three on their tail with Tyrian in front and Watts in the back. Way in the back. Wow the guy needs to work out more and not tinker with his toys as much.
"Got it!" Dusk shouts before pulling a bag of marbles out and dumping them on the ground.
Rider questions Dusk as those chasing them slipped and fell. "Why do you have those?"
"What? I have hobbies too you know." Dusk than shouts, "Did you know that your sister had a cosplay fetish? I think I saw her in Girls Gone Wild!"
"dddddiiieee"
"Holy crap he's starting to sound like a Servant Berserker! Stop bringing up his sister!" Rider shouts jumping to avoid the pillar that slams into place. Yes, he was now throwing pillars at them not even caring Salem is in the way!
"I can't! It's the only thing that will piss him off enough to follow!" Dusk shouts. Ducking as he recalls the overall most level-headed character of Salem's faction. Hell, he has an easier time pissing off Watts!
"Than focus on someone else!"
"Rider, your mother wears combat boots!"
"WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT EVEN MEAN!?" Rider shouts at this idiocy! They don't even have a Mother!
"I DON'T KNOW!? IT'S A LOONEY TOONS JOKE!" Dusk exclaims to his counterpart.
"And I meant focus on one Salem's other followers not me!"
"Fine. Hey Tyrian!" Catching the Faunus' attention before blowing a raspberry at him, "I fart in your general direction!"
"So, you make Monty Python jokes at the assassin, mock the intelligence of the scientist, and sister jokes with the guy whose sister is dead!" Rider shouts before they jump in the portal.
"I at least know I'm an asshole and don't try to act self-righteous. You're the dirty kidnapper here not me!"
"Fuck you!" Rider shouts jumping into the portal. "I wasn't the one who was trigger happy here!"
Hazel charges in roaring. Planning to remove this fucker's head from his fucking body! And put it in Ozpin's Bathroom as a fucking warning!
Tyrian plans to skin them alive for these insults!
Watts enters as the portal turns fuzzy for a second wondering, 'why am I following them into a unknown portal?' Feeling like this was out of character for him. Before it is gone.
(Portal Room)
"Oh, thank the creator we made it!" Dusk exclaims before being tackled by Hazel who chokes him.
"DDDDIIIIIEEEEE!"
"Shouldn't we do something?" Summoner asks knocking out Tyrian using his Stand in the form of a Frying Pan.
"No." Rider states firmly while wondering how Summoner used thin air to knock someone out.
"Why not?"
"You don't want to know or be associated with it." Rider says noticing that Dusk finally remembers he can turn back into living shadows and uses that to escape before knocking Hazel out.
"Quick get five memory erasers!" Dusk exclaims wanting to remove Hazel's memories along with the other members of Salem's faction and Weiss before the boss finds out.
"Wait five but Black Weiss does not need one." Summoner questions.
"Who the hell is-Oh good lord we are screwed." Dusk says finally noticing the knocked out Bleiss and Weiss.
"What do you mean five than?" Summoner starts to get worried.
"What do you mean can't you see Weiss, Salem, and three of her minions here. Wait…" Dusk looks around, "Where's Watts?"
(In Another Dimension)
"Where am I?" Arthur Watts questions looking around seeing nothing but white stone while an annoying song plays talking about a peace and love.
"Welcome to Lightrock if you are here and unable to cross the spiritual path that means your rehabilitation is required. I hope you enjoy your stay." A monk says before leaving.
Watts stares in disbelief trying to leave the way the monk did only to not be able to cross the invisible barrier. And did it start playing a talk show about 'Hope Conquering All?'
"Get used to it," A female teen says looking behind him noticing three punk girls. The one with the pale blue haired on talking to him. "Until they finish converting you, you never get out." Icy says.
"Converting?" Watts is suddenly worried he already joined one cult and does not think joining another will end well. Especially since the first one was full of insane murders following an Immortal Witch Queen.
"For there cult of goodie two shoes light users and fairy worshipers."
"Fairies?" Watts questions he knows magic is real but Fairies? Salem never mentioned those before.
The answer was cut off as they announced something. 'Hello, were going to show a new Earth program. It will teach you the value of friendship. Please thank our Intern Dave for researching new methods of purifying the soul on Earth.' Before they could respond the wall changed to a purple Dinosaur.
"Hey kids let's sing a song!" The Dinosaur starts, "You love me, I love you. ~"
"AAAAAWWWWWWWWWW! MAKE IT STOP!" Watts screams along with the punk girls.
But no matter how much they begged it would not end and only got louder!
(Back to Author Corner)
"Crap we have to find him don't we." Dusk says knowing they screwed up.
Summoner looks over the ruined conceal. "Bad news the machine is down, and I need to fix it before we can open a new portal or even start the search program."
"And the good news?" Rider questions.
Summoner smiles at them, "The good news is that we are not all dead." Than his smile turns positively demonic, "Or turned into S.I.s in a tentacle hentai universe." They all shudder at this though.
"Let's just start erasing their memories before Boss-"Dusk is cut off from doing so by the door slamming open.
"Before I what?" Duskrider walks in with a glare in his eyes, "Now tell me what happened here while I was taking my break!"
The concepts all look at each other and know they are screwed.
(Time Skip)
It was that time again that everyone appeared in their seats to a sight they did not expect to see.
Weiss, who had gone missing that morning, was glaring at a pallet swapped version of herself who was glaring back.
Salem was siting with Tyrian while Hazel was trying to get around the barrier and kill Dusk. He was telling 'Yo Sister' jokes to Hazel's increasing frustration and wrath.
Duskrider was siting to the side appearing to have a headache while Rider sat nervously nearby him and another unknown who looked equally as nervous though smiling randomly for no reason and making a comment to an increasingly pale Rider.
Strangely enough no sound escaped them even as it appeared that Weiss and Black Weiss were screaming at each other.
Duskrider notices their arrival and snaps his fingers returning sound.
"-I bet you can use the pole shoved up your ass to travel to the fucking moon!" Bleiss says.
"You barbarian! You look like something out of one of Blake's porn books! Constantly flashing to anyone that can see!" Weiss retorts.
"Bitch please your just jealous of my legs." Bleiss states before leaning forward, "And my assets."
"We are the same size!"
"Bitch please like your tiny tits could match my magnificence." Bleiss folds her arms pushing her breasts up making them look bigger.
"Yo sister was soooo slutty that Ozpin had to be tested for-"Dusk is cut off.
"JUST DIE ALREADY!" Hazel screams trying to strangle this fucker. Only going on raw rage, hatred, and pain immunity.
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!" Glynda exclaims getting them to shut up. Dusk teleports back to his chair while Hazel tries to scream as he is transported and restrained in his chair with a gag covering his mouth.
Well most of them, "Hey nice to see you Goodbitch. Still a BDSM fan in this world?" Bleiss asks stunning the others as Ozpin chokes on his coffee and Glynda turns red, before Bleiss licks her lips, "I still need to get some tips for a few stronger knots to catch my stud with. Or are you a sub in this world?" Bleiss grins at the thought of this as everyone blushes.
"Wow who is Weiss' evil clone?" Yang jokingly questions.
"Her alternative universe doubleganger." Duskrider states holding his head before gesturing to her, "This is Bleiss Schnee, the much cruder and bitcher, Jaune obsessed version of Weiss."
"Oh, that's a good boy sucking my lady boner." Bleiss says as everyone that has seen Weiss so far just looks on stunned, many chokings on their spit.
"What?" O.O Duskrider asks stunned.
"Oh, don't mind me I always talk dirty when someone trying to suck my clit." Bleiss states not pussyfooting around.
"Wait Jaune obsessed?" Pyrrha asks not liking where this is going.
"What's it to you champ?" Bleiss asks already knowing the answer.
"To be frank it is more surprising as Weiss would not give Jaune the time of the day let alone a date despite him getting on his knees to try and play her a spontaneous song." Rider states.
"Wait what!?" Bleiss exclaims. "If my stud did that than I would have dragged him to bed right then and they're for a steamy make out at very least! I'd wait till after to bring him back and show him a good time." Other start to blush.
"WHAT!?" Weiss exclaims, "What about your team mates!"
"What about them? So long as they know to look only and not touch, they can stick around as long as they like." Bleiss says winking at Ruby who turns bright red and stutters as images appear in her mind. 'Aw it is always fun teasing Little Red. Even if it is a different version of her.' Though she makes note of Blake's nosebleed and wonders if she can steal some of her books for ideas for later. That one about the knight and countess was particularly inspiring. ~
"Do you have any shame!?" Weiss shrieks at her doubleganger
"And do you ever stop being a bitch, slut?" Bleiss replies, "What I do with tall, blond, and fuckable is my business alone!"
"Ozpin." Salem says with Ozpin looking over to finally see her. He did not notice before due to being distracted by an alternative version of his student.
"Salem."
"Wait that's Salem?" Qrow questions.
"It seems like your students are far more…crude and free with their bodies than I would expect from a prude like you." Salem continuous making Ozpin choke on air once again at this remark.
"Bitch please. I only give out for my hubby." Bleiss counters.
"I understand what you mean." Salem states, "But Ozpin was always shy and tried to enforce rules to keep people from…expressing themselves like you do."
"His loss."
"Indeed."
"Oh god." Ozpin recalls a bit more of his *cough* relationship with Salem from after they were married. There was a reason why they had four daughters.
"Is it freaking anyone else out that Bleiss is getting along more with Salem than the counterparts of people she knows?" Rider asks getting a nod from Dusk, "Oh good it's not just me."
Duskrider claps his hands getting Salem and Bleiss to stop talking while the others watched on in morbid fascination and shock. "It seems like it is time for me to explain just why Bleiss is here." He turns to Summoner, "This is Summoner another being that follows me that I brought from the abyss to aid with these chapters."
"It is nice to meet you all." Summoner smiles brightly than turns more sinister, "Your reactions to the coming chapter are going to be like honey to me."
"What the fuck was that!?" Yang states startled by his mood change and blatant sadism.
"It is indeed unnerving to witness such an extreme change in temperament." Penny states siting by the Type Moon group who is watching on.
"He's a bit insane." Duskrider states.
"A bit insane!?" Rider exclaims, "He ate the plot bunnies in the entertainment room!" He tries not to remember what happened after telling him to clear them out of the entertainment room. He picked them up and started eating them faster than Garfield the Cat at an All You Can Eat Buffet! And like the food in that restraint there were no survivors…
"Wait there is an entertainment room?" Nora picks up on this fact questioning this. The others perk up having been bored with nothing to do other than talk with each other for the last few days. Thankfully Shirou and Sakura liked to cook and invited them over to eat before these readings or she would be bored and hungry.
Rider says, "Yes, we were going to tell you this anyway." It took him all night to get rid of the blood stains. And to fix the X-Box after one clump of bloody fur got into the system.
"Anyway!" Duskrider cuts off, "He was in charge and linked to the interdimensional portal system and thanks to the actions of both him and Weiss this is now broken. Meaning we cannot leave or return anyone home even if we wanted to."
"YOU DID WHAT!?" Rin shouts having to be retrained by Shirou and Saber not to strangle the bitch!
"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DID THIS MS. SCHNEE!" Glynda exclaims.
"WEISS!" Winter and Ruby shout.
"I'M STUCK HERE WITHOUT MY STUD!" Bleiss exclaims.
"Enough!" Duskrider cuts them off, "We still have more to say. Not only were Dusk and Rider taken to your world and ended up taking both Salem and three of her loyal followers with them. They ended up with one sent to who knows where."
(Lightrock)
"Where's Swiper? Do you see him?"
"He's right there! Turn the fuck around already!" Stormy shouts at the screen.
"Get me out of here! Please just let me leave." Watts pleaded.
"Sorry no such luck," Darcy says, "The magics of this place do not let people leave or even die until they 'atone' for their 'sins.' "
"Fuck!" Watts just knows he will never escape. Oh, why did he have to join a cult following a Queen of Darkness again? Oh yeah resources after being cut off for immoral experiments. Immoral his ass they just didn't want any more bad press after the test subjects kept dying! It's not his fault they were all so weak.
(Viewing Room)
"Not only this but since Summoner had to get Weiss quickly and ended up picking up Bleiss as well."
At the looks Bleiss is given she waves with a smirk, "What's up bitches?" She greets them knowing this will be fun every with the prissy bitcher version of her around. A new Ruby to tease and corrupt. The only thing missing is her stud.
"Bleiss is another world version of Weiss different from yours. Now due to events and people being so different the events shown have absolutely no chance of happening in her world. Now since you are all stuck here until we fixed the portal, we will all be viewing these events. Questions?"
"Yes, why didn't you let me erase their minds of how they got here?" Dusk asks feeling Hazel's hateful glare at him. Thank goodness he was tied up or this would be more of the same. And he only had so many yo sister jokes before Hazel finally notices Ozpin was around. Then again in his rage he might not notice if he started reusing the old jokes.
"Part of your punishment." Duskrider states firmly.
"For what!? Summoner and Weiss broke it and Weiss got in because Rider lost his keys!" Dusk tries to shift the blame.
"Simple you took things way too far with your distraction." Duskrider is firm on this point knowing Hazel's backstory well enough to know just how fucked up this was.
"Well I…Actually that is a fair point." Dusk admits.
"Now any real questions?" Dusk asks the rest.
"I got one." Bleiss asks, "What are we reading and why is Jaune not around?" This makes some people nervous.
"Well we are reading a possible future for everyone else in this room that is from Remnant that stars Jaune as the main character."
"OK I can stick around for this." Bleiss states still wondering why a Jaune was not here. Now that is a thought multiverse means multiple Jaunes for the taking.
(Across the multiverse Jaunes of all shapes and sizes, and alignments shivered in terror as one. Feeling an unholy evil has just looked upon them. Those with Bleiss of their own though are passing it off as Bleiss thinking of them again.)
Nah she'll stick to the one she has almost trained. Though…the possibilities. *Insert nosebleed*.
"OK now Dusk will read this chapter as part of his punishment while Summoner works on the portal and I take a nap." Duskrider says feeling a head cold starting to act up.
Dusk picks up the book and opens to the newest chapter thankful that the new setting in the room prevented anyone from harming others. Especially him since Hazel looks like he is trying to eat the gag in his mouth to bite his way out of the ropes. The Red Lanterns would love to have him around.
Chapter 4 – Electric Rage and Cold Blood
Ruby lay curled up in a ball on her partner's bed, just like she had since Penny had called her. The robotic girl's accusations ringing in her ears.
"Accusations?" Bleiss wonders about this and, "Wait Penny's a robot?"
"A robot with a soul." Dusk answers which captures the interest of others in the room. Especially Salem who wonders how this bit of information slipped her information network. Souls are delicate at the best of times and messing with them is a formula for disaster. Though this does speak of possibilities.
"So…She can be reprogrammed to do anything else?" Bleiss starts thinking of the possibilities. A grin from her that would not look out of place on a shark causes them to shiver.
Ironwood makes note to update Penny's software and hardware defense systems as soon as they get home.
Penny feels terror for the first time in her existence.
Ruby glares at Bleiss not liking the idea of someone reprograming her friend. Even if Penny hates her now.
Her team was surrounding her, trying to comfort their young leader.
"Hey, Sis come on. All you need to do is explain things to Penny, make her hear your side." Ruby looked up at Yang with teary eyes, her lips quivering.
"Not likely." Penny mutters still feeling the sting of how easy it would be for Ruby to betray her.
Ruby looks away as Bleiss raises an eyebrow. Knowing how close those two are in her world this is a surprise. Hell, she was considering locking them in a closet together to see how that worked out. And make sure Little Red would not become a challenger for her stud.
"I… I tried but her partner answered and said she was on a mission that she needed rep … rest before she could talk." Inwardly Ruby cursed herself for her near slip, knowing that spilling her secret would only drive Penny further away. Her partner's voice drew her out of her thoughts.
The others worry for her remembering last chapter where she was deactivated after her run in with a Spirit that had possessed her creator.
"Sir is it possible that she... "Winter trails off not liking the though of the quirky robot girl dying.
"I will investigate this matter personally when we return home." Ironwood answers his Specialist knowing the possibility that Penny's watcher could be compromised is too much.
Penny wonders just who she can trust. Ruby has the capability to betray her like she has done to Jaune. Her father has deactivated her and is an immoral being. She worries just how much of her mind is her own. She tries to investigate any blank spots in her CPU, but they just tell her it was during a system update. Is that even true though?
"Come on Ruby, you and I both know that Penny is … social stunted?" Weiss looked at her uncertain but Ruby nodded. She was socially awkward, Penny was stunted by her lack of general knowledge. "She probably just misunderstood something, did she say how she found out?" Ruby shook her head, the conversation still playing vividly in her head. "Then she probably found out on a social media page or something. Believe me when I saw everything gets twisted around on one of those." Ruby looked up, hearing the words but not believing them.
"A social fucking media page?" Bleiss questions not seeing how Weiss could believe that malarkey. From what little she has seen of the robot girl; Penny was smart enough to be able to tell fact from fiction at very least.
"Must you curse so much?" Weiss asks.
"Not my fault your pussyfooting around so much and not telling it how it is." Bleiss replies making Weiss look away in shame.
"I don't know gu…. Ow." Ruby clutched her head as a spike of pain lanced through it.
Ruby pays attention to this bit.
Penny makes note of this.
"Wait is it just me or did Little Red feel pain the second she started trying to do some fucking thinking for herself?" Bleiss worries about this. While this was not her team or leader this was still a similar Little Red. And the idea of someone messing with her friend was not a pleasant one.
"It's not just you." Ozpin's eyes narrow.
Salem sees this and has a bad feeling about this. It reminds her of some manipulations she has seen and done in the past when altering a person's memories and though process. These never end well. For anyone involved.
Yang was sitting beside her and looking her up and down within a second.
"Rubes, you okay?" Ruby nodded right before knock on the door caught their attention. Alistair's voice following soon after.
"Who the fuck is Alistair?" Bleiss questions wanting to know where tall, blond, and fuckable was already. He is the main character so why isn't he here?
"The guy they replaced Jaune with." Dusk states bluntly with all the delicate touch of a sledgehammer in brain surgery.
"WHAT!" Bleiss exclaims!
"Wait what about spoilers!?" Weiss shouts seeing Bleiss' eyes shine with rage and feeling phantom pain from when she tired to chock her out.
"Meh." Dusk says not in the mood to hide that.
"Just keep listening to what happens next before deciding what to do Bleiss." Rider says.
Bleiss tries to curse the fucker out for telling her what to do only to not be able to make any sound or even move her body. What the literal fuck!?
"Anyone else feel like she is cursing up a storm?" Sakura asks.
Penny uses her software to read lips and if she could blush, she would. "She is currently cursing our collective intelligence, ancestry, if we preform sexual actions with our an-."
"That's enough Penny!" Ironwood exclaims not wanting to know more.
"Understood General." Penny listens because she is used to doing so. Still not used to her full range of freedom at this point.
"Team RWBY, Nora wants an eating contest again. You girls ready to lose again." Blake opened the door to reveal the former transfer student standing there with a grin on his face, the grin dropping when he saw Ruby. "What's up with Ruby?" Blake looked back at her leader and the young girl gave Blake a nod.
"A friend of hers decided she didn't want to be friends with her anymore." Ruby hid her face behind her hands, a fresh wave of sorrow hitting her.
"She thought I was going to replace her, she thinks I replaced Jaune with you." With all the attention on Ruby the all-female team missed the smirk that crossed Alistair's face for a second before concern replaced it.
"Wait did he just smirk!?" Ruby exclaims.
Rider removes the mute from Bleiss and sees that she was paying attention. Her eyes narrow at this fucker. 'Just who the fuck is this assclown?'
"There indeed seems to be more going on with this unknown than we though." Ozpin states.
Ironwood's eyes narrow at this unknown. The second he returns home he will investigate this Alistair's background. Have they mentioned a last name yet? He will need to talk to Ozpin about this.
"Come on Ruby you know that wasn't true." The reaper looked up at the black-haired boy and after getting permission he walked in and took a seat on the other side of Ruby. "You were still friends with Jaune when he left and if you guys ever met up again, you'd still be friends. I don't know how this friend of yours heard about this but clearly she is misunderstanding what happened." Ruby rubbed her eyes before looking towards the newest member of PRAN.
"PRAN? that's a stupid name." Nora states.
"Shush." Pyrrha states wanting to know more along with the others.
"But you …" Ruby trailed off, partially because she didn't want to think about how Jaune was removed from his team and partially because another bout of pain, this one much milder, shot through her head.
"Another bout of pain…" Penny's eyes narrow making sure to bookmark this unknown person's face into her memory banks.
"He's controlling me!" Ruby shouts as the pieces come together clicking into place!
"Now we don't know that for sure yet." Rin states, "It does look like something is going on that we need to read the rest of this to know for sure." She does not mention how much this looks like hypnosis that a Magus can use.
Alistair rubbed the back of his head at her unspoken words.
"Yeah, maybe that could have been handled better but it was for the best. Arc was just going to get himself hurt." Ruby saw her team nod at his words, agreeing with what he had to say. Ruby grimaced at the thought of Jaune getting hurt or worse dying.
'Maybe, maybe he's right. I mean Jaune was so far behind but on the other hand he was catching up so fast.' Before Ruby could think on it more Alistair spoke up again.
"Now come on, Nora won't wait forever to show you up again." Ruby couldn't even react before Yang snatched her up.
"No way am I losing again. Come on Ruby, you gotta cheer me on!" Yang rushed out the door with Ruby over her shoulder, their partners chasing after them and Alistair behind them. The male stayed back for a second to close the door and the girls rounded a corner. When they were out of sight Alistair's let out a sigh.
'Thank you WBY for being so easy, if I had to bother with the three of you this would be so much harder.' Alistair smirked as he made his way to the cafeteria, happy in the fact his position was secure and wouldn't be questioned again.
"That mother fucking cunt!?"
"Ruby!?" Yang exclaims in shock.
"Not now Yang!" Ruby shouts seeing herself being controlled by this…this monster! Who took her friend away from her! Who turned her into this! This oblivious little girl who could not see her Best Friend was hurt by her actions. That could not even begin to understand why Penny was upset or know about what happened!
"'Thank you WBY for being so easy'?" Bleiss quotes glaring at them, "You bitches."
"Hey that's not-." Weiss is cut off by Bleiss.
"Oh, shut up you cock sucking prissy whore." Bleiss states before turning to the raging Ruby, "It seems like only Little Red is confirmed here as actually being manipulated by this limp dicked fucker."
"Ruby…" Penny whispers seeing how enraged Ruby is for all this time thinking she becomes a horrible friend to her best friend.
"Does this mean…?" Pyrrha starts to feel hope for her future along with despair.
"Sorry no spoilers. But it is possible." Rider states not knowing himself just how much or how little Alistair has to do with her other's actions. For all he knows he could have just seduced her rather than playing with her brain like with Ruby.
"Well it looks like since Little Red is the only one that cares about Jaune I'll just take your version with me when I return home." Bleiss states causing cries of shout to happen.
"Over my dead body!?" Pyrrha exclaims.
"You won't take him from me!" Ruby exclaims her eyes shinnying Silver. Salem makes note of this and plans to remove this girl if possible. Or just tearing out her eyes since she is rather feisty depending on how deep Ozpin's hooks were in this girl.
"Don't worry I'll take you with Little Red." Bleiss says smiling lewdly, "Oh the things that I could do with two blond studs. And a little puppy tied to the foot of my bed."
Ruby blushes bright red while Yang holds her sister glaring her red eyes at this bitch.
"Puppy?" Penny questions imagining a dog faunus Ruby. It is a cute image.
"With little ears and a tail." Bleiss states grinning, "If you're a good doggy I might even let your Jaune you out for walkies." She knows that she will never give away her own Jaune, but the possibilities of the multiverse might leave her a bit more open to sharing the others.
(Jaune everywhere and when in the multiverse feel the urge to create a panic room to last them a good 100 possibly 200 years. This feeling like the shiver from before only far eviler and lewd. Those with Bleiss go into the panic rooms if they have them fearing she finally got Goodwitch to agree to give her some tips.)
Ruby tries not to picture this in her head. Blood rushes to her head as she fails.
"Ruby your nose is bleeding." Penny points out knowing she will have to talk with Ruby after this is over but still fearing the sting of last chapter. And she wants to know what happened to her here.
"Start reading already!" Ruby shouts at Dusk.
"On it, puppy!" Dusk states grinning loving having Bleiss around.
"Don't call me that!"
Qrow meanwhile has a drink. Or a dozen.
Glynda plans to enforce a stricter system at Beacon to prevent any adult activities.
'Maybe I should shove this silver eyed warrior in after this Bleiss to her own world.' Salem thinks 'One less threat to my rule.' Not caring about her other self in that world, every Queen of Darkness for themselves.
Pyrrha's eyes narrow at both Bleiss and Ruby. Knowing these are threats to her dream of being with Jaune. This will not stand. She needs to up her game.
Penny is mentally photoshopping Ruby giving her a pair of dog ears and tail in her data base and if she could blush, she would.
Ironwood makes note to have Winter give Penny the birds and the bees talk to aid her in fitting in. It was becoming clear the Doctor never will.
Winter gains the strangest urge to sock the General in the jaw.
Rider was mentally waving the shipping flags feeling the shipping side of the Force acting up. He holds his custom lightsaber for the Love Side in his hidden pocket. 'Soon…soon…'
Fate/Deck of Heroes
Dreams, the untold price he paid for accepting the Class Cards. Ever since he had taken those Class Cards his dreams were not flights of fancy or his subconscious making itself known; instead he spent each night learning about his Heroic Spirits.
"Heroic Spirits? Class Cards?" Salem questions.
Dusk twitches annoyed they would have to explain this a Fourth Fucking Time! "Screw that!" He exclaims snapping his fingers giving the newest guests a brief summary of what Heroic Spirits are and Class Cards into their brains directly.
"Oh, that is so exciting!" Tyrian exclaims, "So many warrior and killers to fight and defeat." This gets him looks due to his less than sane look in his eyes.
"Possible warriors for our forces." Salem wonders about this.
Ozpin worries having heard this and wonders if he should investigate gathering class cards when they appear. Mr. Arc already show potential with many of them and he could gather them to be locked away for safety of the world.
Jaune embraced these visions, eager to learn more about the people that had sworn their aid to him. This time two sets of dreams came to him.
"So, does this mean he unlocked two more spirits?" Yang questions at this convent turn of events.
"Pretty much." Dusk says.
"Well that is convenient." Winter says not believing his luck to unlock them after being captured.
The first were filled with pain. A young girl, a patchwork of other people's body parts, brought to life as the Eve of a new species.
"What the fuck!?" Bleiss shouts.
"Yeah Magus tend to lean more towards mad scientist than more traditional magic user stereotypes." Dusk states not recalling any other than Zelretch that used so much as one magical girl themed inspired mystic code before. Hell almost no one uses a wand or staff or at least he cannot recall any one using those.
"No, I mean why is most of his spirits female!" Bleiss exclaims making note that so far, every spirit except three from the information download were women! Hot women at that!
Dusk kind of shrugs, "To be frank while some of the male servants could fit in with Jaune as you know him, this one has experienced betrayal that shapes him even now. Sure, you could toss in some like Heracules, but others would not work nearly as well. They have also been done to death in other worlds." He thinks of Archer EMIYA and Gilgamesh who are constantly used. "And it could be worse for you."
"How so?" Bleiss questions.
"He could have ended up summoning emperor whose skirt is see through white and a fox girl who wants to be her master's ultimate wife." Dusk deadpans.
Bleiss' eyes narrow at this though. Making note to make sure to review any class cards her stud could end up getting in her world. Than again the though of him in a see-through white dress…*insert nosebleed. *
In Jaune's opinion her creator was filth, he expected the girl to be perfect from the get-go, planning to impregnate her himself to produce the Adam.
"OK that is messed up!" Qrow exclaims at the creator planning to have sex with what is essentially a new born child! Not even going into the whole made of different body parts thing.
Salem makes note of this and plans to hunt down and kill any who are like this man. She has had enough of this shit back when she first rebelled against the gods.
Ruby looks green and tries to not throw up at this part.
Penny looks disturbed seeing some similarities as they were both created the only difference is that her creator did not use her for that. At least she hopes not thinking of this version and how immoral he is. If she could she would vomit at the thought of this.
Yet when she failed to meet his standards, when her childlike wonder and misunderstandings terrified him, he tore her to pieces and threw her away. Yet she persevered, she put herself back together and hunted him down.
"That is some dedication." Bleiss comments impressed.
Qrow, "Creepy if you ask me."
"Why would he do that to her?" Penny questions a bit more shaken and for reasons she cannot comprehend afraid.
"Some people are just like that," Bleiss states, "they want everything to work the first time. And if it does not, they throw it away. Like my folks did me." She takes a sip of some-wait where did she get that gin!?
"You're disowned?" Weiss asks stunned. Winter is making a similar face. While this version of Weiss was very…different she cannot picture any version of her sister taking that so well.
"Oh, don't give me that look. I made sure to grab enough evidence that the sperm donor and his ass puppet cannot fight my claim for when I do take over." She grins to herself, "violently."
"You really hate your father and sibling don't you." Rin states not surprised by this at all. Knowing if she could she would have smacked her father for giving Sakura away in the first place.
"Oh, I mean literal sperm donor with the old fucker since he cannot get his dick up long enough to actually do anything. Found that little fact out from mom's diary." Bleiss grins as the others turn green.
"TMI!" Yang shouts not wanting to hear this.
"Hey, turn around is fair play when the fucker used DNA tests to try to prove I was not his daughter." Bleiss takes a sip of her-serious how did she get around the system filter! - sex on a beach.
"How is she getting around the filter!?" Rider mentally exclaims.
Dusk shrugs, "Must be because we only set the filter up for those from their world in the first place than adjusted it for a certain age limit."
Rider facepalms for not realizing this fact.
"Thank goodness. I do not want to deal with her more sober antics." Dusk states, "I already set up a system to prevent her from getting fully intoxicated and just lightly buzzed."
"Dusk!"
"What it's true! You've seen Bleisses before." Dusk thinks of some of the more…extreme examples he has seen in the multiverse archives.
"He tried to get you a DNA test to prove you were not his daughter!" Ruby exclaims.
"Yep, found that bit out from mom's diary." Bleiss states.
"Just how much of mom's diary did you read?" Weiss asks morbidly curious.
"Enough to know of some fantasies she had about a certain 'dusty old crow'." Bleiss grins seeing Qrow start to choke on his whiskey. That will teach the bastard to get between her and her stud again. The asshat just had to untie him while she was getting the porn to set the mood!
"Qrow do you want to explain…." Winter gives Qrow a glare mentally setting is flammable ass on fire.
"Read please just read!" Qrow exclaims not wanting to bring up too much information that may or may not increase the possibility that he may or may not be Ice Queen's dad in a different dimension!
Dusk takes pity on Qrow's soul. Not because of mercy but because they need to keep reading or else this will never end.
She demanded one like her, one to become her mate and was denied.
"Aww." Ruby says feeling sad for her.
Penny starts to wonder if there are more like her that are being made. This was both pleasant and unpleasant as they could be her siblings or replacements. Not a boyfriend or girlfriend though as she does not like the idea of getting together with someone just because they are robotic in origin like herself.
She killed and killed and killed, hunting down her creators loved ones to deny him the companionship he denied her.
"Wow. I'm starting to understand why she is a berserker." Yang states.
"It's like the plot of one of Blake's books." Bleiss points out, "Only without the spicy sex scenes."
Blake blushes at the looks she is given from others around her. "What do you know about my books?"
"I tend to flip through them to get some kinky ideas for when I finally catch my stud." Bleiss shrugs, "I just need stronger ropes next time."
Dusk keeps reading trying to ignore this.
When he fled, she chased him down, and when he died to deny her a mate, she burned herself on a pyre to escape a life of solitude.
"That is a bit extreme!" Qrow exclaims seeing the image on screen of a horned girl in the pyre being burned alive.
"No, I think I understand why she did it." Bleiss states knowing that if she lost her blond stud than she would feel much emptier. Like she was before Beacon started having just been disowned by her family and with no where else to go.
Hell she would have gone with her original plan of taking over after fast tracking to get her huntress license to properly, 'investigate' and arrest the sperm donor.
The cruelest part from Jaune's perspective was the fact she wore a wedding dress from the moment she put her body back together till her death, a physical image of her desire for companionship and love that would never be fulfilled.
"That's rather depressing." Salem says feeling some empathy for the young girl. Her glances at Ozpin are noticed by him and he cannot help but remember the girl he meets locked away in her tower. A part of him wonders where that young woman went?
"So that's why we could not see a full image of her before." Bleiss says, "Those fuckers playing with our emotions." She tries not to cry because she is a bad ass bitch, and bad asses do not cry.
"Are you crying?" Ruby asks noticing the liquid in her eyes.
"No! I've just had too much to drink." Bleiss lies pouring out the rest of her whiskey.
"Hey, don't do that to the floor!" Dusk exclaims.
"Bite my smoking hot ass." Bleiss replies making another appear in her hand only to poor it out.
"You bitch." Dusk says as Rider waves his hand making the cleaning bots enter the room. They were great for stains, but they always fainted around blood. Yes, the V.I.s controlling them faint at the sight of blood it was an odd quirk he found out yesterday.
Death, death was the only way to describe the second set of memories. From the boy killing his father for turning their home into a den of Dead Apostles to innocents that had the misfortune of being in the blast radius.
"Dad?" Shirou questions stunned seeing the young version of his father deal with the shock of being in the middle of a den of Dead Apostles to him killing his own father.
"That's your dad!?" Rin exclaims seeing the infamous Magus Killer start his line of work.
"Sempai…" Sakura states worried about having Shirou see this.
"Kiritsugu…" Saber states still bitter from their time together during the 4th Grail War. While she now understands somehow, he known about the creature lurking in the Grail their relationship never developed into anything positive. The only thing she thanks him for would be the time spent with Irisaviel during the war and later with the man that Shirou became despite him being raised by Kiritsugu.
"Your father is rather intense, isn't he?" Qrow states having seen some fucked up childhoods but this takes the cake.
"Oh, you have no idea." Dusk says. He than makes trashcans appear nearby them. "You might need these for the rest of the chapter."
The man he watched spent his life killing over and over, not a week going by without a corpse dropping. That was how he spent his life, alone and surrounded by death as hunted down Magi that delved into forbidden practices. He became the boogeyman of Magi, the Magus Killer that haunted the shadow.
"Oh, my Oum!?" Ruby exclaims before vomiting in trashcan close to her. That automatically transports it to the trash dimension. At least these still work.
Everyone looks shaken seeing all the corpses and death that appear around him.
Including a good look at the emotionally dead man as he walked in the snow with the bodies of Magus all around him dyeing the snow red with blood.
"Is this what you meant?" Shirou wonders if this is what he meant when Kiritsugu said he could not be a Hero of Justice all those years ago before he died.
In the end he died cold and alone in an alley, bleeding out and struck with the knowledge that he had changed almost nothing in the long run.
"WHAT!?" Shirou exclaims standing up, "That's not how dad died!" Seeing the image of his father parish alone in the cold dark alley.
"Oh, your dad did not die this way." Dusk states, "This version never became your father. He never found you in the cursed fires that would still happen even without him around. He never summoned Saber, nor did Ilya ever become born at least not the one that you knew."
There is silence at this statement. Some of them contemplating that they were never born in a different world but understanding that it was a possibility.
"How…"
Rider starts, "You see in this world the Einzberns never contacted an outsider for the War. Because of this he never meets his wife and thus his heart remained hard until the very end of his days. And that is how he died, cold and alone with nothing left in his heart and soul. An easy target for one that wanted a heroic spirit like this for a certain kind of work." This causes many to shiver and for Shirou and others to realize just how he became a Heroic Spirit. "All because he never meets his wife and thus never had a daughter that he loved so much that he wanted to give a better world to her rather than this one who gave up."
"Dad…" Shirou states saddened by how this version of his father meet his end.
"Don't feel bad kid. This is not your father." Dusk starts, "And you made some of your father's last days his happiest." The tries to comfort the kid. But it looks like this will need more time to bounce back from the shock. At least he will have his lovers with him to help him out.
"What happened to the Shirou Emiya of that world?" Qrow asks having gotten that Shirou was the adopted son this guy.
Rider looks at Dusk who shrugs, "He was born but never Shirou Emiya."
"What does that even mean!" Qrow exclaims.
"It's complicated." Rider says firmly, "Shirou Emiya is a unique soul any way you put it. It does not matter who he was before only what eh choses to do after he is forged."
"Forged?" Ruby questions.
"I am the bone of my sword." Dusk states, "It is a part of a quote about what and who Shirou Emiya is across the multiverse."
"Let's move on before we spend the rest of the chapter going into what being Shirou Emiya means." Rider says wanting to cut this off before they go too far into that. And he did not want to bring up how the boy that would have become Shirou Emiya was one of Bluebeard's sacrifices. Or how Saber got her wish and sent that world to hell with the cursed fires burning down Fuyiki and England and remaking Camelot in a twisted cursed image. Thankfully Clocktower did its job but the overwork caused by a lack of oversight on Magus is what lead to Magus Killer's death.
Magi, magi were monsters was the main takeaway that Jaune took from this.
"All too true." Rin states recalling many that would gladly dissect her if they could get away with it to learn even a hint of the Second Magic to reach the Root with.
"Not to be a downer but your world sounds like a shitfest." Bleiss states.
"You have no idea." Sakura says with a glint in her eyes knowing all too well the evils of Magecraft and the Magus that use it.
Seeing the others sake their heads no Bleiss decides to just shut her mouth and find out the details from Little Red later. Something tells her it would be very bad judging from the paling and slightly green faces around.
So many horrid acts, so many stomach-turning sights, so many people sacrificed for their own advancement, so many children violated and abused for the sake of the 'family'.
Sakura winces at this reminder of what happened to her. Thankfully her Sempai holds her hand seeking comfort in one another.
Bleiss makes note of this happy that no more girls will try to get her stud. Though uneased from her reaction as it seemed more personal than she would like to know.
Rider knows what she is thinking and is trying to resist the urge to show a Shirou Arc or Jaune Emiya from some of the other crossover worlds. Hey, he may love shipping, but trolling is also fun at times. Though catching the latter half of her thoughts helps prevent him from doing so.
Was it any wonder this man became the way he was?
No one could blame him for this and even Saber came out with a better understanding of this man.
Though she does not seem to understand just what he prevented by destroying the grail all those years ago. While she likely concluded the grail was corrupted even back than she does not know just how close the world came to be drowning in the fires of sin that day.
"Gah!" Jaune awoke with a start, laying on a cold metal floor. A single bulb lit the room he found himself in, no windows, one door.
"Where the fuck is, he…" Bleiss' eyes narrow.
"He is currently captured by an immoral Magus who is Penny's creator." Dusk answers making Penny wince even knowing this is a different world it is still hard to think that her father could become like this.
Bleiss' glare does not lessen even as she pulls out a note pad. Where the fuck did that come from!?
"What are you doing Bleiss?" Ruby asks.
"Making notes in my List of Enemies." Bleiss states.
"You have a list of your enemies?" Weiss questions as she never did this.
"You don't?" Bleiss is more shocked by this than how prissy her counterpart is. "How do you keep track on getting revenge on those that wrong you?"
"I don't."
"Oh, you're a poor foolish little bitch." Bleiss states in pity of this poor soul.
"Hey!"
"If you don't have a List to keep track than some of them might slip through the crack. How else will I remember to make sure Pyrrha is sent to Forever Fall so I can get my nookie with tall, blond, and fuckable?" Bleiss asks unknown to her on screen an image of her chloroforming Pyrrha and dragging her into a locker to be sent to Forever Fall before Bleiss skips off appearing on screen, "Or which members of the board have pissed me off so that I can remember to publicly ruin them when I take over. How else would I keep track of my to do list?"
This statement stuns and frightens most of everyone especially Pyrrha who is kind of scared of what this version of Weiss might do to her counterpart. Especially after what she saw on screen.
"Ice Queen." Qrow starts.
"Yes drunkard?" Winter replies still stunned.
"Your other sister is kind of fucked up." Qrow states.
"She does have a point." Sakura says wondering if she should start one herself.
"Agreed." Rin and Salem agree with this statement. All the while Shirou becomes more and more pale along with Saber at the though of Rin and Sakura keeping track of all their grievances. Especially the Tsundere.
Meanwhile on both Earth and Remnant there is a shiver down the spines of multiple people across the worlds. Though a certain blond magus looks up and says to the sky, bring it on bitch.
"I'll just start reading." Dusk says not bringing up how he and the other concepts have a list of their own with Raven being featured on Rider's List. While Lionheart is on his own.
"Guys!" no answer, Jaune tore into his pockets and found the cards that he could install gone. Berserker, Assassin, and Avenger remained, however. 'Why did that guy not take these three?'
"Because many Magus are prideful and never consider the possibility that things can challenge their assumptions." Rin states having meet many such Magus in Clocktower.
"Is that true, because that sounds very arrogant." Bleiss questions.
Rin sighs, "Unfortunately."
"Hmmm." Bleiss makes sure to remember this just in case.
"Uuhh." Jaune paused and looked to see the faintest bit of light emerging from the Berserker and Assassin cards.
"Why can't she speak?" Pyrrha asks.
Dusk shrugs, "It's either due to high madness or the fact that the Doctor that made her did not put together the vocal cords correctly either accidently or on purpose. Heck it could even be due to her never being taught how to speak."
Bleiss adds this guy to her list just incase she comes across his double in her world. "That is fucked up."
"I know." Even Dusk agrees that this guy is beyond fucked up in the head. There is a reason why this version of Doctor Frankenstein enters the concepts' Hate List. He's not even funny like the one from Frankenthumb.
"Hmph, finally awake. Consider yourself lucky this Caster was a Magus in life, arrogance is a facet of their very being. Since we weren't connected to you, he simply assumed you couldn't use us and left us here." Jaune stood up and began to stretch, working the stiffness out of his body.
"Looks like we got an echo here." Yang teases Rin who simply shrugs it off. Not her fault she was right.
"Aren't you a Magus?"
"That's secondary to anything else. Magi are fools content to watch the world pass by and cling to magecraft. You've seen my memories; how many did I kill because they thought themselves above a gun?" Jaune smirks, the faces of those people were hilarious to him after seeing their crimes.
"Oh dear." Ozpin takes note of this and worries about how the cards are affecting Jaune.
Ironwood's eyes narrow as he considers just how the Class Cards are turning this young man into something that he is not. "Winter make a note never to mess with these things."
"Understood sir." A surprised but relieved Winter states. Now that Ironwood finally agrees that somethings should never be messed with, they can move on to some of the more disturbing information they have come across here.
Salem makes not only to use Grimm for these tests along with some of the more disposable pawns she uses. Perhaps Lionheart might have some use in testing these after all. And people go missing all the time in the frontier towns and mines.
"Wow you bitches fucked up." Bleiss states not liking how her more innocent stud has become more twisted. But at the same time finding it hot.
"Oh, shut it you whore." Weiss shots back.
"I'm only planning to give it to my stud so I'm a virgin thank you very much." Bleiss is only slightly offended known her reputation for causing trouble and how rumors exploded for just why she was disowned. The idea that she was pregnant with a child from a night of drinking was one such theory the media feed the sheeple.
"You're a virgin? Bullshit." Yang states.
"No oddly enough that bit is pretty much universal among Bleiss that have yet to get their Jaune." Rider states.
"Of course, that does not count Weiss Alter but she is different than Bleiss." Dusk states.
"Weiss Alter?" Ruby asks with a hint of dread in her tone.
Rider snaps his fingers showing a Corrupted Weiss with yellow eyes, black vanes and a more corrupted version of her usual attire jumping out of a pit of darkness after having been pushed in as a normal Weiss. What caught everyone's attention was the sheer MADNESS in her eyes and HATE as she smiles mockingly to the world. "You don't want to know." Even as she smiles in hate as an Alter Servant, a few recognize as a certain blue Lancer, this scene impales Whitey.
"Alters on principal tend to be the most twisted versions of beings from Servants to Masters and even normal people with just some bad luck." Dusk says as a quick image of Alter Saber, Alter EMIYA, even a Alter Jaune laughing like a manic as Vale burns around him with a twisted smile on his face.
Weiss is even paler at this and does not resist Ruby hugging her for comfort and to show that she was here for her even if she was still pissed.
"Is that?" Sakura asks recognizing it from her nightmares and link with a certain God of Evil.
Rider nods solemnly. While she was able to avoid the Heaven's Feel Route in this world, she still almost fell to the Shadows of All of The World's Evils. If Shirou had not been touched by Archer's Reality Marble than they would have not been able to free her.
"Good point, so you and Berserker are willing to work with me now?" A crackle of electricity fills Jaune's ears at his question.
"Uhhh!"
"I've been willing to work with you since the beginning, you merely had no use for my skills before. Since this guy is using Golems, I'll be the best one to fight him. Save me until then." Jaune nods, remembering Assassin's trump card and its power. At the same time, he takes note of the near robotic tone Assassin uses, no emotion present in his tone.
"He is the same as back then." Saber notes.
"He is different from my father." Shirou says having to remember that like Archer EMIYA the link between his father and this Assassin EMIYA is only cross dimensional identity. That's all.
"No." Dusk counters, "He is from before your father grew into the man that he became when he wanted to be the best person, he can be for you."
"Alright, let's go find the others."
"I… Frankenstein… Berserker… swear… follow … Master."
"She can talk!?" Dusk exclaims not remembering this part.
"Why are you so surprised?" Rider asks knowing that they had read up to chapter 6 already.
"Sorry I just forgot. It feels like weeks since we started doing this." Dusk says breaking the 4th wall a little.
"Week? It has only been a few days." Ren says.
"Oyo, don't argue with me about this ninja boy." Dusk says.
"Ninja?" Blake questions catching the word with some interest.
"Yeah he usually is the closest thing you have to a ninja while you are the closest thing to a kunoichi." Dusk points out. "Well other than the various ninja Jaune."
"Ninja Jaune?" Blake asks.
Dusk points at the screen making various versions of Jaune appear. From one in orange with whisker marks on his face. To another with cold blue eyes that turns to ice when impaled by Adam's sword and then teleporting behind him to go in for the kill. Even one in a stereotypical ninja outfit roof hoping. "Multiverse."
Blake does not notice Bleiss' glare trying to stop her nosebleed.
"I, Kiritsugu Emiya, servant of the Assassin class, swear to follow you Master. Let us eliminate the evil of the world together." Jaune holds up the Berserker Class card and green electricity begins to surround the card and him.
"You know, Frankenstein doesn't suit you Berserker."
"Oh boy…" Bleiss mutters sarcastically knowing what this means.
"Is he really doing this now?" Rin asks in disbelief.
"Uh?"
"That is the name of a monster, not a term I'd use to describe you. No, I'm going to call you something else. Fran, close enough to your origin while being separate from it. A cute name for a cute girl, do you like it?"
"God fucking damnit!" Bleiss exclaims knowing there is ANOTHER love rival now.
"He really is better at flirting when he is not trying." Yang comments.
"Oh, like you wouldn't believe." Bleiss replies. "It is because of shit like this I have my Pyrrha and a few girls from around the school sniffing around on my stud."
"How many?" Ruby asks morbidly curious.
"Less now that I have talked them out of messing around with my man." Bleiss says in a sweet semi-demonic tone. "Fair warning Red if you ever get back your Jaune and I don't get the chance to snatch him on the way out the door you will have to deal with new love rivals of the week showing up every so often. It is fucking annoying."
"Sounds a bit like a harem story plot." Rider states knowing this plot anywhere.
"Like hell I'd let any of those bitches take my man. Only reason I consider this Little Red is because having two might be too much even for me." Bleiss states.
"What?" Pyrrha asks blushing.
"Hey if your Jaune is anything like mine than he will have enough stamina that even after hours of training he will still somehow out run me." Bleiss remembers one of her earlier attempts after finding out he was training with Pyrrha to get her man. "I'm positive this will transfer over to the bedroom."
"Oh, it will." Rider says grinning, "Jaune Arc is one of the Harem Kings of the Multiverse for a version. Like Shirou here." Much to the embarrassment of the Emiya, "Oh and Ren sometimes."
"WHAT!?" Nora exclaims while Ren turns red and pales.
"Yeah sometimes a Blake ends up in a Harem situation as well now that I think of it. Same with Rubys."
"WHAT!? OH, HELL NO!" Yang exclaims with fire in her hair and red eyes, along side Qrow whose eyes darken.
Blake face palms having a bad feeling about this while Ruby blushes bright red.
"I said some." Rider deadpans knowing this was not potential Harem Queen Ruby or else his shipping charts would need to expand again. "Not this one, I think."
"Wait how do you know so much about our potential love lives…" Blake's eyes narrow making Rider sweet as others start to connect the dots.
He has watched them and versions of them in far more, personal situations.
"OHLOOKATTHATSUMMONERNEEDSSOMEHELPBYE!" Rider vanishes in a gust of pure speed to the lab to get away.
At the looks he is given Dusk shrugs, "He pays far more attention to potential relationships and other worlds than he should. But he usually skips any lemons or limes."
"Usually?" Sakura asks not liking the sound of this.
"Some of the stuff does not have a warning system." Dusk blushes before continuing not looking them in the eyes.
"Uhhhh!" Jaune smiled as he heard the joy in her voice, happy that she took the new name.
"Glad to hear it. Install Berserker!" Alarms went off as a pillar green electricity surrounded Jaune, flower petals began to spray out and swirl around the silhouette of the man inside the energy. With a blast of power, the energy and flower petals vanished leaving only Jaune Arc in the room.
Sprouting from his forehead was a metal spike, two metal cylinders stuck out of the sides of his head, one blue eye was now a piercing yellow. A pure white tuxedo replaced his clothes, the boots fully made of metal, white gloves now covered his hands, a pink rose adorned his lapel as a boutonniere, hanging from his belt a large gold sphere rests. A giant battle mace forms in his hands, a brown sphere on the end. The sphere expanded, green electricity rolling across its surface.
"Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine..." Bleiss mutters with a blush and nosebleed in a daze as her mind is filled with desires and fantasy.
Weiss has a blush and tries not to imagine what it would be like if this Jaune has song to her. Quickly she hides a small nosebleed.
"Damn he can pull of a suit nicely." Yang says blushing a little. Blake nods in agreement.
Ruby is having a fantasy meanwhile including her and this sharp dressed Jaune during a wedding.
Error. Error. Pyrrha EXE has crashed please reboot.
"Oh my." Penny says if she could she would blush. She is taking multiple images of this to save to her personal data base.
"Guy looks like a what if Tuxedo Mask was not such a little bitch." Rin comments. Shirou must agree remembering looking the guy up when trying to find heroes of justice. He came up short of Shirou's standards.
Sakura meanwhile is imagining what her Sempai would look like in that suit. While Saber can imagine Irisviel making her wear a suit like that.
Nora is imagining Ren in the same suit and is blushing up a storm.
Winter blushes at this strapping young man.
Glynda is blushing lightly which Ironwood notices and makes a note to get fit for a suit. Asap.
Salem sees this and starts to think of her own wedding so many years ago. It was so long that she has trouble remembering. While she is not looking for a new husband a woman does have her needs.
Ozpin notes Salem's looks and plans to upgrade security when they return to keep Jaune safe. Looking at his students he makes note to do it as fast as possible or else they might need to use the daycare program.
Dusk grins at the reactions making a mental note to see if he could sell similar suits to them before they return home. Maybe some plushies while he was at it.
'What don't look at me like that Kandic Bars don't come cheap. And that asshole Rick stole the fridge and the toaster ran way!' Dusk thinks to the audience.
This is Bridal Chest, the 'heart' of Fran.
"Wait a second 'Heart'?" Bleiss comments snapping out of her fantasy. Wanting to know what this meant.
This catches the others attention as well.
"Well it is part of her very being." Dusk shrugs, "Her heart is her noble phantasm by giving Jaune the ability to Install her, she has literally given him her heart. It's kind of romantic."
Bleiss sighs and reminds herself that this was not her stud. Though she makes note to make sure he never gets a Berserker Class Card if they show up.
(And thus, a potential timeline opens in the future with Fran Berserker Bleiss comes into battle the forces that keep her nookie away from her all the while Jaune hides in his bunker as the World Burns.)
The other girls without their own Jaune separate get a bit jealous of how romantic this gestor was.
Ruby wonders just how symbolic these weapons are with the Servants.
Rin wonders if that was part of a design feature that her creator made on purpose. It seems rather impractical for what was not meant for a combat model.
Blake found it a bit romantic in a twisted way.
Others were weirded out by this bit of information.
Penny wonders if she should make a heart to give Jaune when she returns home to better understand romance.
As for Pyrrha…. she was still rebooting.
"Uahhh!" With a thrust forward the door went flying, slamming into the other side of the hallway. Stepping out Jaune found three guards facing him, circuit like patterns appearing on the parts of their faces that their helmets didn't cover. Jaune's eyes narrowed in anger at the sight of magic circuits and the knowledge of how they obtained them.
"It would appear the Doctor chose to give them this power rather than keep it them himself." Ozpin notes.
Ironwood meanwhile is trying to recognize any person they see here to see how many possible moles he will have to deal with.
Winter is making notes on the soldiers she sees following this manic for later to review this information.
"Die!" Jaune rushed forward, ignoring the bullets and magic blasts that slammed into him. Swinging the mace sideways he swatted all three into the wall, blood splattered upon impact and the sound of bones breaking rang through the hallway.
"Holly shit!" Bleiss exclaims having never seen anything like this outside of the movies.
Tyrian smiles widely, "Oh yes that is a good hit! More blood and gore!"
"Tyrian control yourself." Salem says not in the mood.
"Yes, Mistress." He sits down still smiling a wide psychopathic smile. Creeping everyone out who sees him. He plans to look up this kid after he could be useful for the Mistress.
Saber makes note of him and plans to take him down if he starts trying to attack. She has seen similar madness in Caster of the 4th War. To an extant in the various Berserkers she has faced in the past though their madness was less malicious than this one's.
"Is he always like this?" Bleiss asks Salem with a raised eyebrow.
"Unfortunately." Salem replies that Tyrian does not notices being enthralled by the carnage on screen.
"My condolences." Bleiss replies.
"Thank you." Salem says.
The two cylinders on the sides of Jaune's head popped out and magical energy began to pour from their bodies into them. Jaune's eyes closed as his body began to patch itself back up using the power it just absorbed, Fran's durability and regenerative capabilities only enhanced by his own. Walking down the hallway he kept coming across more guards with Circuits active. Try as they might he crushed them all.
"Woho!" Tyrian exclaims loving the blood and carnage on screen.
"Jaune…" Pyrrha worries about how much Jaune is changing with these heroic spirits being involved. He was becoming a bloodied warrior and not caring for those that he is slaughtering.
Ozpin sips his drink wondering just how much a few little things can change a person so much over the course of a few months.
Hazel makes note of the power of these cards and heroic spirits. Perhaps within them lay a way to remove Ozpin's soul from this plane of existence. Permanently. Perhaps a way to get rid of that asshole Dusk as well. The only reason he has yet to speak at this point is that his gag was still in the way.
"I will have to look into this Jaune Arc sometime soon." Salem notes knowing that he has potential for so much more.
"Indeed Mistress. It will be grand to teach him how to serve you." Tyrian states grinning wildly knowing that together they will bath the world in an ocean of blood of those that would stand in his Mistress' path to divinity. Maybe even getting some Ice Cream while they are out after a long day's work. It would be nice comparing methods with a fellow artist. Wonder if he likes Blood Orange too?
Qrow's eyes narrow and at a glance at the others from the Inner Circle they all agree that they need to step up the watch on Jaune to prevent that from happening. There have been far too many hunters being converted to Salem's Faction.
"Plea..please no! I have a family!" Jaune glared at the last guard that crawled away, his weapon crackling with electricity as he walked towards the downed man. Hefting the mace, he lifted it above his head, the pleading speeding up.
"Is Jaune going to…." Ruby trails off not liking where this is going.
"Oh yes." Dusk states grinning savagely. While he is order he does understand that order is more than the laws written by people. Order includes the laws of nature and reality itself. There are reasons why he cannot change his form freely outside of this little spot in the multiverse. And one rule he follows is that if you are willing to kill that means you must be willing to accept that others will do the same to you if given the chance.
"But he has a family." Pyrrha says not liking where this is going.
"Than he should have thought of the families he slaughtered serving under this manic." Qrow states firmly.
"Indeed," Salem starts, "If the situation was reversed than Jaune would have been killed by the hand of this man without any guilt or hesitation."
This makes Pyrrha bit her tongue not wanting him to die or kill someone.
"Oh, Oum no, have mercy!" Jaune swung down. "Gha! M..m..mercy!" One more swing and the pleading stopped. Jaune rested the head of the mace on the ground as he absorbed the magic from the corpses around him.
"Wait absorbing magic from the corpses!" Qrow exclaims with wide eyes.
Even Salem looks disturbed by this little fact. Worried that these spirits could try to hunt her down for her own magical energy.
Rin shrugs, "Some spirits are more willing to do that than others. And if I had to guess Jaune is running on fumes at this point with the threat of a real Magus doing who knows what with the other cards I don't see him or them holding back."
"True and from what I recall Fran is one of the spirits that does not really care what side she is one as long as she is with someone she loves or feels she could love." Dusk states recalling how the Berserker of Black acted in a certain world. Then again, a lot of spirits in that world got the short stick compared to her.
Fran's growling filling his ears.
"Grrrhhhh!"
"Yeah, so willing to plead for mer…" Jaune stopped talking as another voice reached him.
"M..ma..master.. AHHH!" Jaune's eyes widened as he heard Mordred's voice.
"Mordred!" Saber exclaims in worry getting some looks form others that do not know her relationship with the Saber of Red.
Shirou holds her hand, "It will work out. If she can talk to talk to Jaune that means she is resisting what is happening to her. She just has to hold out a little bit longer."
Saber is still worried. While Mordred betrayed Camelot she still cared for her former knight. Even if any personal relationship between them is complicate at best.
"Mordred!?" Screams were his only answer, the other four soon joining her.
"What is he doing to them!?" Ironwood exclaims unnerved by the screaming showing just how painful it is for them. Even without a body that would mean that the Doctor is torturing their souls. A rather unnerving notion.
"You'll see soon." Dusk states before he keeps reading ideally wondering what is going on with the portal that Summoner is working on.
Jaune walked a few steps forward, their cries getting minutely louder with each step. Breaking into a charge he rushed forward, following trusting that the rise in volume meant he was getting closer. As he rounded a corner several Atlas droids popped from the walls as well as multiple golems.
"You need to upgrade the tracking software on those things Jimmy." Qrow deadpans seeing yet another person having taken control of his little tin soldiers.
"Noted." James states frustrated by this as well. He was more worried about just how many his Mechs are being used for purposes outside of what is meant for them. The moment he returns their will be a massive overhaul of the Military and upgrades to the software of these machines.
Penny is getting worried having yet to see even a hint of her other so far. When the chapter started, she expected to be reprogramed and used as a deterrent to Jaune and possibly forced to fight him. She accepted this was another her. Though the second possibility that she is being used to synched with these Heroic Spirits is a far more disturbing one. If it was the first than she would at least be easier to stop even if she did not like the idea of facing Fran Install Jaune.
"Intrud.." the droid didn't even get to finish Jaune plowing straight through it.
"Out of my way!" As he spoke Jaune swung the mace down into a golem, shattering the construct to pieces before rising and pointing the mace forwards as electricity swirled around it. "Uwahhh!" With a cry several bolts of lightning shot forward, decimating every creation, be they mechanical or magical, in its path. His path clear Jaune charged forward once more, the energy of the golem's trailing behind him as it was absorbed.
"It would seem that these Mechs need to be upgraded." Ironwood makes note. If these Heroic spirits start to appear than it would be better to prepare than to be left trying to play catch up with them.
Qrow snorts that that, "Please I don't think anything you can pull will be able to stop these Servants. They are real monsters."
"Hey!" Saber says offended.
"No offense." Qrow quickly says.
"Wait she is a Heroic Spirit?" Bleiss questions having not heard that bit of information yet. More shocking since they are close half way though the story at this point.
"Yes, she is, and can we just move on from that point." Dusk says a bit annoyed by how this plot point was constantly being repeated.
"What crawled up your ass and died?" Bleiss says.
Dusk sighs out. "It's been a long day and I usually have Rider around to play nice host most of the time, so this is not my day to put it bluntly. The only way it could get better at this point is if Weiss spontaneous combusts."
"Don't you mean worse?" Ruby asks nervous while Weiss pales at this bit.
"No, I definitely mean better, Ms. Oh I Will Just Play with The Portals and Screw Everyone Else OVER!" Dusk shouts still pissed about this.
"Don't talk to my sister like that! If you had not kidnap us, then none of this would ever happen!" Winter shouts.
"If I didn't do this than these events would be more likely to actually happen in your world by a full 0.5%!" Dusk shouts before realizing what he just said.
This stuns the others that picked up this little fact.
"Wait just a second you mean to tell me the only reason why we are here is to lower the chance of this happening. By less than a percent?" Glynda says stunned.
"Hey, it's huge when remaining percent for this universe and events usually have a percent of around 0.000001% happening more or less with a margin of error of 0.00001 plus or minus." Dusk states.
"So, you and your boss took us to prevent these events from happening in our world?" Ozpin questions.
"Wrong." Dusk says, "It is to keep them from repeating again in your world."
"Again, as in…" Ruby is not liking where this is going.
"It has already happened or is happening in another world." Dusk says knowing the jig was up. He just hopes that Duskrider does not send him to the Abyss the moment this information gets out.
"What possible reason could you have in preventing these events from happening in another world." Salem questions this knowing that beings like himself never do things for free or the goodness of their heart.
Dusk shrugs, "My Boss was asked to by Jauneforever the being that recorded these events that happened in one of the worlds he watches over. We respect him as he usually has watched over the worlds that in multiple ways have something or another go wrong, and he tries to ensure similar events in different worlds do not happen." Recalling several stories of Jauneforever where different people went into the past to prevent certain events. Such as the explosion semblance Jaune's suicidal final stand against Cinder and her Minions in the Tower of Beacon. Those stories he likes as he can respect the reason why those Jaunes faced death so willingly knowing they had the best chance of making even a minor difference. Even if they had no chance of surviving.
"So, these events will not happen in our world?" Ruby says relieved to a level.
Dusk shrugs, "No clue."
"BUT YOU JUST SAID SO!" Ruby shouts worried once more.
"No, I said this reduces the CHANCE of it happening. For all I know the Boss will order me to return you all home without your memory of these events meaning I made no difference." Dusk lies through his teeth not that they know that. While he knows that most if not all of the villainous characters will be taken and have their memories removed, he also knows at least a few of the more heroic aligned will keep their memory.
Hell, they will likely do nothing to Bleiss. Since her knowing this has no impact on her world other than an increase in attempts to get with her own Jaune. It's not like she has a way to travel the multiverse and she is addicted to her Jaune enough she will not chance another version of herself taking her own Jaune.
He should send B-Jaune a gift basket to help him out with his stress. Maybe even a gift card to get some better defenses around his panic room. Once Bleiss leaves after this she will be even more relentless.
"That just is not fair." Ruby says not liking this at all. If she wants to prevent this from happening, she needs to remember about Alistair at very least and remain suspicious of those coming into the team like that guy.
Penny is meanwhile wondering if Host Dusk is lying about this chance as it goes against what Duskrider said earlier. She will have to talk with him once more to get more information.
Salem makes note of this and knows that it is likely that they will not remember these events. Beings like these tend to not value mortals.
Ozpin notes that while Dusk does not know for sure he doubts that anyone would go through the trouble of manipulating events in another world only to undo their progress. And there was no mention of their own world in which time has gone by.
Dusk really wishes that Rider was here. He was always the better people person between the two of them. The asshole could lie straight to the face of an S.I. type OC and tell them they were the chosen one destined to change the world before tossing them in with minor memory loss and a locked storage system that requires the names to unlock. All of this because they had to get rid of the evidence after dropping a giant bag of Kandic Bars and accidently crushing his spine, skull, computer and rest of his house. Thankfully the guy was alone as the rest of the family was out getting the cat looked at in the vet.
Speaking of they need to check the recording of that for the next Last Sunday of the Month for the normal time they update everything else.
Oh well back to reading this story before anyone notices he has been staring into space for the last 2 minutes while they think of this stuff.
"Close the door!" Jaune growled as a wall of guards formed in his path electricity began to form around him, a sphere of green lightning coming into being as he picked up the pace. Every bullet shot at him was stopped in its tracks as it hit the shell of lightning. The guards emptied their clips, trying to buy time as the heavy doors behind them shut down. Jaune's growling grew deeper, a red tinge forming in the electricity around him as his anger soared.
"Red lightning?" Qrow questions having never seen this.
Dusk shrugs, "Magic."
"That answers nothing!" Qrow exclaims.
Dusk takes a sip of his coffee.
"Oh, don't you pull that crap either!" Qrow shouts having dealt with that enough times from Ozpin.
Meanwhile Ozpin takes a sip of his coffee.
"Move!" The smell of burning flesh filled the air as he rushed right through the guards, the lightning lashing out at them as he passed and killing them all. Right before the door closed Jaune rushed through, sliding to a stop with the sound of screeching metal as his boots slid across the floor. Looking around at his surroundings Jaune finds the place to be an extremely large laboratory, easily able to fit two or three Goliaths with room to spare.
"Such failures, I had hoped they would buy me some more time." Jaune's glare focused in on the masked man from before.
"Father…" Penny whispers hating to see her father like this. Even alternative versions of him.
"The Doctor…" Ironwood questions if he is trustworthy in his own world. The second he gets back he needs to investigate the Doctor and find out just how Penny has a soul.
The other five cards were in containers attached to a machine, energy seeming to flow from them and into the device.
"Just what is that thing?" Ozpin asks not liking the look of it at all.
"From what little I know it is something similar to what is in your basement." Dusk starts, "A machine meant to transfer energy and souls." This leaves everyone stunned especially those that did not know about this.
"You- "Salem starts, and pauses trying to process this and find the right words, "You dared mess with the soul!" She shouts. She understands this is a little hypocritical of her after what Cinder has done but that was all for the goal of getting the Relics to change the world. Everything for this is an acceptable loss.
"Oy! Don't get all high and mighty with us if your minion hadn't hurt Amber than none of that would be necessary!" Qrow exclaims hating how things happened and how he found Amber all those months ago. Scared, dying, in agony as her soul was torn in chunks from her body!
"Don't talk to the Mistress like that!" Tyrian shouts pointing his tail at Qrow.
No one notices Dusk holding his head getting a message from his other.
"Yet another atrocity at your hands Ozpin." Hazel spits out his name like a curse. Having finally eaten his gag he is ready to make himself know.
"You have no room to judge Hazel considering how many innocent huntsmen you have killed." Ironwood says with narrowed eyes.
"Just more pawns that your King cannot make use of." Hazel says sweeping his arm out towards the students of Beacon who were watching not sure how to feel about this all. "That is all you see General just like your Master. Pawn, tools, and sacrifices that are necessary. If it is the choice between even a minor goal and the life of them, we both know which you would choose in a heartbeat. Just like how my sister died. A sacrificial lamb for the slaughter." Thinking of how he found out the truth behind how his sister died all those years ago. Looking into everything only to find it was all the fault of the man before him that was playing God. While he knows he is not the hero of this story at least he was not a Monstrous Tyrant playing Puppet Master from the Shadows like Ozpin. And anyone can slay monsters with enough prep work.
"Now see here-" Glynda is cut off.
"NO! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING AT ALL! YOU'RE ALL JUST PIGS GETTING FAT AND JUCIEY FOR THE SLAUGHTER!" Hazel exclaims, "I SWARE THAT I WILL KILL YOU OZPIN EACH AND EVERY LI-"He is suddenly silenced as both he and Tyrian fall over with darts in their butts.
Looking around for the source for this was easy as Dusk walks up holding a dart gun.
"What? Just got orders to bring two people over to Summoner to use to test the portals with. And frankly the brought nothing to the table here so…" He snaps his fingers making them both disappear. "Yeah."
"What the fuck man!?" Bleiss exclaims, "That was just getting good!" This gets her looks from the others, "What? It's true the guy's rant was finally getting good after having sat on his ass gagged since before, we started reading this chapter." They admit she does have a point.
"Hey, don't hate the delivery boy. Beside the sooner that they successfully crossover once we have the machine up and running the sooner, we can send you all home." Dusk shrugs not really caring. Personally, wanting to get rid of both before Hazel tried to kill him and Ozpin in their sleep. Or Tyrian killing everyone else left in their sleep. Which ever happened first.
It was a win, win for him.
Jaune's teeth clenched when his vision was drawn to what was hanging up behind him. "I had hoped I could at least try and fix my failure of a daughter."
Penny winces at this feeling like a sword was run through her heart at these words.
"She is not a failure!" Ruby shouts at the screen.
"Ruby." Dusk cuts her off from saying more, "You're going to want to let me read this next part." He is unusually serious and sober at this. It makes everyone's worry start to raise.
Penny's body was hanging from the wall, the entirety of her lower body gone and wire spilling from her chest. Her eyes were still dead, the life in them gone.
Penny gasps and recoils form the image on the screen. Seeing her own corpse.
"Penny…" Ruby's eyes are wide with shock and looks like she is starting to tear up.
"This is fucked up." Bleiss says knowing that Penny was an android was one thing. Seeing her robotic corpse left out to rust like this. It was just too much.
"You said it." Yang agrees with Bleiss.
Salem's eyes narrow wondering just how this puppet girl was made. This has potential. Though she keeps this to herself knowing that her allies were taken as a warning to not try anything or else.
"I think I'm going to be sick." Nora says a bit green. Ren rubs her back in comfort.
Pyrrha winces at the site having a strange feeling of dread the sight before her. "This is wrong."
"Very wrong." Shirou says knowing that this was the standard treatment that Magus would have towards their creations, yet it was still wrong.
Ozpin's teeth grind together as he tries to remain calm not knowing for sure if the young girl was alive or dead.
The others were sickened and horrified by the sight before them for different reasons.
Sakura felt both pity and empathy with the puppet on the screen. Knowing just what it is like to be under the thumb of an uncaring Magus.
"Why would he do this to her?" Ironwood wonders knowing that the Doctor was many things but immoral and heartless was not one of them. From what he knew about the Doctor he loved Penny.
"Many Magus are like this." Rin says getting their attention. "They care not for the lives they ruin or even create. Rather they do it all for the goal they have in mind. From reaching the Root to simply creating a perfect spell or mastering a technique. They do not care how many lines they cross but rather the result of it all."
"Magus sound like real monsters." Bleiss notes.
"And for many that is true." Rin says knowing she was not part of the majority that was swept up in a singular focused and single-minded goal. Even when she went into the Grail War it was less about the wish for the Root and more about proving herself. Not that she had a choice in the matter since she was the only one of her family that was capable of participating.
Jaune's glare turned back to the fellow Card user, slamming the butt of his mace into the ground.
"Why? Why do all this?"
"Why you ask? Isn't it obvious? Humans, faunus, all of them are absolute failures!" Jaune stared at the man in shock
Everyone looks at this man in shock at his statement.
It was rather frightening for some just how matter of fact this was.
The only ones not shocked or frightened are Rin, Shirou, Sakura, Saber, Salem, Tyrian, and Ozpin. Each of them having heard and seen far worse to be truly affected by this.
"He is wrong." Shirou states firmly. "Humans and faunus are not failures they are all people doing their best in what ever life that they live." He understands this better than anyone knowing fully well that everyone has their origin and while you can go against it to an extent you can never truly escape it.
"The Spirit .."
"Avicebron had nothing to do with my opinions.
"Oh yeah that's who he is." Dusk remembers.
"You know the spirit possessing him?" Penny questions wondering just how different this version of her father is.
"Kind of." Dusk says making an iffy motion with his right hand, "Rider is more of the one that remembers this stuff. Let's see what I can recall though. He is also known as Solomon ibn Gabirol, a twelfth-century poet and philosopher."
"Wait he's a poet!?" Yang exclaims in shock.
"Don't you know?" Dusk asks, "Writers are some of the people that are most likely to think about the world and find flaws in it that others just accept. Let's see he was the father of an entire thaumaturgical system, Kabbalah. He was a figure who helped start the process leading up to the European Renaissance through bringing Greco-Arabic and Jewish lore and enlightenment to the popular cultural of Europe. And there was something about a skin disease, not sure if that transferred due to the card's influence."
"How does this transfer to how he can wield magic as a Caster?" Ozpin questions.
"It is the fact he made a Thaumaturgical system meaning a whole branch of magic. Along with his desire." Dusk says.
"And what desire is that?" Ironwood says not liking where this is going.
"The completion of his Noble Phantasm, Golem Keter Malkuth."
"He just wants to make a Golem?" Qrow asks, "Well mission completed!" Gesturing to the screen where multiple Golems have appeared.
"Oh, not like that." Dusk starts, "You see this Golem he wanted to complete in life was not simple doll. No, his goal was to bring forth a copy of God's or in your Remnant's case the Brother's work."
"You mean he wanted to create life?" Ozpin questions knowing the legends well about how the Brothers together created life and even knows the truth behind this.
This also catches Salem's attention having been there when Humanity was reborn.
"Yep his goal could be called the Primordial Human, Adam. Which in multiple mythologies was the very first Human to ever be created."
"That's insane." Pyrrha says.
"Please like every Servant's goal is reasonable and perfectly sane?" Dusk glances at Saber who knows he is talking about her. Frowning at this statement she does not give him any satisfaction in this jab towards her by reacting.
No one gives an answer to this having not found out much about the goals of the servants so far including those in the cards. At least not any long-term goals and plans.
I hated them long before then and he shared my views to a T. I built Penny with the idea of enhancing upon humans, she was supposed to rise above them. Instead she was shackled down and for some reason wanted to be more like them. So many chances I gave her and every time she failed."
Penny winces at this knowing that this was not her father but still wondering just why he made her in the first place.
Ironwood wonders the same. Just why did the doctor want to create Penny. What is her goal back on Remnant? It seems the more time spent here the more uneasy that he becomes.
"He does not understand." Sakura states now knowing what he is thinking.
"Doesn't understand what purple?" Bleiss questions.
"That Penny is far more human than this Magus ever will be." Sakura states.
Penny looks surprised at these words and questions them, "But I-I am android how can I be human?"
"It is not the organic matter that makes a human." Sakura states to say, "It is the heart and soul along with the choices that one makes that makes them human."
"I agree with Sakura. In many ways you are more human than I am." Shirou says to others surprise.
"Wait if you're not human than what are you?" Ruby asks surprised not understanding this.
Shirou smiles, "I am a sword."
"Huh?" This statement is the most baffling that those from Remnant have ever heard.
"I'll explain later." Rin says knowing what Shirou means as an incarnation but unwilling you give away the truth behind his Reality Marble to these unknowns not trusting any with that secret just yet.
"Grrrhahhh!"
"Why enhance humans with Magecraft if you hate them so much then?" Jaune tried to figure out what the man's plan was. He couldn't strike just yet, not when more people could be behind this.
"Smart move." Ironwood states liking his ability to think critically in such a situation.
"Indeed. There is a reason why I made him Leader of Team JNPR." Ozpin states drinking his coffee.
"It will work at least it usually will." Shirou says.
"Why is that?" Ozpin wonders at his confidence.
"It is because most Magus are proud of their plans and work. You can often get information from them and stall with the right question." Shirou states knowing form his line of work hunting down Rouge Magus for Clock Tower as the Second Magus Killer. While he may not disappear for weeks at a time, he does take the odd job to help fund his and his lovers' way of life.
"I had to distract Ironwood somehow while I worked on my own plans, as far as that war-hawk is aware its merely a new way to channel aura. The fool doesn't even realize I'm behind some of the deaths, he probably wouldn't even care if he knew so long as it strengthened his troops.
Ironwood's teeth grit in silent fury. While he is happy his other did not willingly follow along with this plan to hear how he was tricked and used like this strikes far too close to home. There is a reason why he needed to replace multiple body parts and misinformation was a major factor in that. Both deliberate and otherwise.
"Sir?" Winter is also angry but notices Ironwood's rage.
"The second we return we are investigating every scrap of information in our army. Understood Specialist." Ironwood says
"Yes, Sir!" She salutes her superior.
"So, it looks like your getting off your ass and doing something about your shit army." Qrow says taking a swing of whiskey. "It's about damn time Jimmy."
"Now see here you drunkard b- "Winter starts up only to be cut off.
"That's enough Specialist." Ironwood cuts her off, "As much as it pains me to say it Qrow has a point." And he really did look like someone shot him in the nuts to admit this. "I should have kept a closer eye on things going on with the Army otherwise that miscreant Torchwick would have never gained one of our Paladins."
He is the one that called for a device to be built to rip a soul out of someone, I was just glad he didn't mind me using it for my own ends. That is the kind of people you are protecting, a bunch of violent, back-stabbing sociopaths." Jaune stared up at Penny in horror.
Penny leans forward not liking where this is going but she needs to know.
"He didn't…" Ironwood mumbles finally accepting just where Penny got her soul having been told it was a volunteer who was dying in a coma. Now though…
"Oh, but he did Jimmy-boi." Dusk says mocking him. "Too you long enough to put the pieces together they were staring you in the face like a B-Movie plot device.
"Where did he get my soul?" Penny asks wanting to know for sure though dreading what she knows is the truth. Ironwood who looks away from her.
"I'll be frank." Dusk starts, "In your world we don't know for sure, but we have seen some possibilities." He gestors to the screen. "This is one of them."
The others lean forward wanting to know for sure just how Penny got her soul.
"Penny's soul, where did you get it?" The man waved him off, so dismissively it took everything Jaune had to force himself not to charge right then.
"Some petty thief from the Slums, no-one that would be missed. Just another faunus lost in the mines as far as anyone in power was concerned."
*Thud! *
"PENNY!" Ruby shouts rushing over to her friend who collapsed off the side of the chair.
"Stolen…" Penny whispers her eyes not seeing anything as her files repeat what was just side. "Just another faunus lost in the mines. No-one that would be missed…"
"Shit she is in shock." Dusk says letting Ruby cross the room and reach Penny and hold her.
"No-one that would be missed…" If she could cry than she would. But the aching in her soul could not be solved by tears left unshed.
Dusk considers things here and considers just taking a break for now. "OK everyone let's take a small 5-minute break." He claps his hands sending a message to his Boss and fellow Concepts.
"I think this is going to take more than 5 fucking minutes." Bleiss states looking at Penny who is still in shock with pity in her eyes. Making a note to be a bit nicer to her own when she gets back. If she must deal with this shit as well than it is no wonder, she has such a big fake grin on her face all the time.
Glynda turns to Ironwood, "Did you know?"
"I was told that the soul given to Penny was a donor who was dying in a coma." Ironwood admits, "Now I do not know for sure."
Glynda looks at him in the eyes and says, "I wish I could believe you." She turns away to talk with Ozpin about the ramifications of this. Though even he does not know.
Ozpin is lost in thought being horrified at what his choices have brought forth. If he had not requested such a machine being created to transfer Amber's soul and the powers of the Spring Maiden to a new vessel than this would never have happened. He cannot help but feel disgusted with himself and wonders just where his world's Penny's soul came from. He grips his drink crushing the mug not caring or noticing the burning liquid and shards in his grip. The room already starting to heal this even as Glynda hurries over noticing this after having come to talk about these events.
Salem looks at Penny in disgust. Not in what she is or even who she is. Rather in how she was created. To transport the soul of one being and put it in another was a sickening though. She ideally wonders if that was how Ozma's new incarnations felt whenever his soul searched and took over yet another in a long line of bodies.
And people call her the monster.
Dusk sits by Penny who is in shock, "Oy, are you just going to sit there like a lump?"
"Hey, don't talk to Penny li-!" Ruby is cut off as Dusk waves a hand making her mouth disappear. While not a Servant or God he is a Concept and in this domain, he is still very powerful.
"Quiet Red I'm doing what needs to be done." He remotely hacks into her system forcing Penny to pay attention to the present events. "You do know that this is an unlikely event in your world, right?"
"What?" Penny questions.
"In your world the Doctor is a caring man." Dusk starts, "The likely hood that the soul in your chest was taken unwillingly is less than 5%."
"It is still a chance."
Dusk shrugs, "Hey infinite possibilities out there. Point it that there is a higher chance of Jaune turning out to be a faunus in hiding than there is for your soul to be stole."
"Higher chance of WHAT!?" Weiss exclaims in shock along with Blake.
"Than the likely hood that my soul was willingly given is…?" Penny asks.
"95%." Dusk answers lying through his teeth once more. Sometimes they do not need to know the real odds of things. "The only way to know for sure is to look into things in your world."
"Than you can find out for sure?" Penny asks with widened eyes as Ruby looks on.
"I'll see what I can do." Dusk says not giving a yes or a no at this point not knowing the real answer. "Feel better?"
"Yes."
"Good now I'm going to give everyone a minute to get back to their seats before I start the next chapter. Oh and Ruby here is your mouth back." Dusk waves his hand making Ruby's lips appear.
"That was disturbing." Ruby comments feeling her lips happy she can speak once more.
After everyone is seated making note that Penny was siting by Ruby once more having forgiven her for what might happen and has happened in this other world.
It is good to see her back with her first friend. Hopefully the Ruby of the world they are Reading will not fuck it up even more.
He makes a ship flag appear above their heads out of their line of sight but visible to others.
'I just know Rider would have done that if he was still here.' Dusk thinks to himself. Than he gets back to the reading.
A ding went off from the machine and a slot opened up, a card levitating from the machine. "I believe this is where we part, you can keep your cards and this failure of mine; if you survive." A door opens behind him and he runs through, two Golems popping up behind him as he goes to block the way. Jaune's gets in a battle-ready position as a body forms from the card. A white-haired, pale-skinned woman appears, armored patterned after ice forming on her limbs and stomach, a black dress and skirt covering her body underneath the armor. A large spear, the end made of purple crystal and made to look like a very deadly heart formed in her hands. The black marks of corruption formed on her skin. Her eyes met Jaune's, purple staring into yellow and blue.
"Oh, fuck this will not end well." Dusk states.
"You know her?" Rin questions.
"I have a very good idea." Dusk says I just need one more bit of information.
"SIGURD!" A blast of blue energy slammed into Jaune, sending him flying through the door and into the hallway. Landing on his back Jaune rolled to the side as the spear sank into the ground where he once lay. "Sigurd!"
"Yep it's her." Dusk deadpans.
"Wait is that?" Rin figures out who she was after she said the name Sigurd.
"Yep."
"Who is it!?" Weiss shouts tired of this vague non-sense.
Dusk flips through the pages quickly and says, "It says who she is in a bit. So, I'll let the book handle the introduction."
"Than what are you waiting for keep reading!" Weiss shouts.
"Oh, shut up you crazy bint or I'll turn you into a newt!" Dusk threatens making her shut up. "What's I thought."
"Dusk is a bit scary." Penny notes unnerved by his transformation from a kind person that helped comfort her to more bitter old man in personality.
"He really is." Ruby whispers not wanting to get his attention after he took her mouth.
'Just who is he!' Rin thinks to herself as no Heroes or Villains of Legend could do all the things that Dusk does casually. Manipulation of shadows could fall under Caster but combined with his clear ability to modify organic matter is a rare combination even among Casters. And he calls himself Dusk is that a nickname to throw them off or is it a class name? Could he be a creature of the night perhaps? That is a rather frightening though. Rin considers this as the chapter is continued.
"What the hell!?" Jaune swatted aside the lance again with his mace and kicked out, his foot slamming into her stomach and sending her flying back; giving him some breathing room. "What's with this chick?!"
"Plenty of Heroic Spirits are insane without being Berserkers and I don't think this is solely the corruption. This Sigurd must be a fixation for her, someone so important to her that even now he haunts her." Jaune sent a blast of lightning at the woman who countered with another blast of energy from her spear.
"Speaking from personal experience?"
"It's … it's complicated."
"Oh dad." Shirou wonders just who he is talking about.
"Looks like your father has similar luck as you do." Dusk teases the Emiya.
"What do you mean?"
"Well he is clearly either talking about a girl that liked him so much that she would likely destroy the world to see them together," Sakura gives him a glare for this remark, "OR he is talking about himself."
"Why is that?"
"Because you both have similar shit luck with it comes to a lot of things."
"Just keep reading the chapter!" Rin shouts getting what he is implying.
"Fine." Dusk replies having had his fun with this tasteless joke.
Jaune let it drop as he dropped to ground to keep from being impaled but made note of the fact that was the first time any emotion entered Emiya's voice. He rolled to his feet and his mace clashed against the spear.
"Sigurd, Sigurd, Sigurd, WHY,WHY, WHY! Why did you leave me!" Jaune was sent flying back from the sheer force of the power she expelled.
"That's it, Brynhild. The Valkyrie who drowned in madness after the one she loved, Sigurd, was tricked into forgetting her by a brother and sister duo who further used to him to make Brynhild marry the brother. In her rage and sorrow killed not only Sigurd but the magi family that tricked him before killing herself, supposedly her love never died until the end." Jaune felt his rage rise once more, the thought that this woman was torn from the one she loved because of the selfishness of some magus.
"THAT IS FUCKED UP AND THOSE LOOSE CUNT FUCKERS DESERVED WHAT THEY GOT!" Bleiss shouts in raged at seeing love denied! "I SWARE IF I SEE THEM I WILL-"She is cut off as Dusk mutes her not that she notices.
"Wow she is really picking up steam," Qrow notes seeing her making chocking motions and punching something.
Meanwhile Ozpin and Salem think of just who Brynhild and Sigurd are. They cannot help but find some similarities between the two. Torn apart by forces outside of their control. Causing the death of one even if he did come back.
The hardest part for Salem is something she hates to admit. That she is like Brynhild in that for a long time she loved Ozma. Even after all these years she still longs for the past from before they started fighting. This does not mean she will stop killing him, but she can feel empathy with Brynhild. Unlike Brynhild though she will never forgive the man who is the reason why her daughters died for nothing. She needs to remove the reminder of her past and obstacle for her future.
For Ozpin he feels a slight empathy with Sigurd having been forced to go against his former love due to outside factors. Those days are long since over though.
"What is she saying?" Ruby asks.
"You don't want to know." Dusk deadpans being the only one that can see the subtitles when she was talking. Though he does take some notes on her ideas. He might not be into torture but sometimes you need the right threats to get the job done. Like getting telemarketers to leave you the hell alone.
"She's not wrong this is messed up." Pyrrha states not liking how similar this sounds to her counterpart who was seduced from her partner and friend's side by an unknown that was likely using mind control on her and her friends.
Others agree with this statement while Dusk keeps unlocks the mute.
"AND THAN I WILL PEAL HIS DICK LIKE A FUCKING BANNANA WITH RED'S SCYTHE!"
"Don't you dare do anything like that with my baby!" Ruby shouts not wanting her child to touch such a place.
"Anyway!" Dusk cuts off this before it goes too far, no matter how much he would love to see where this goes, they are on a tight schedule. "We have a little over six pages before the end of the chapter. Want to see what happens next?"
Bleiss spits out, "Fine."
"Good." Dusk starts reading again.
"Huahhh!" Jaune threw his mace to the side where it hangs in the air, Brynhild charging at the opening. Her lance piercing right through Jaune who wrapped his arms around her.
"JAUNE!" Ruby, Pyrrha, and Penny shout.
"THAT FUCKING BITCH!" Any pity Bleiss felt just died.
"Why did he take the blow?" Ozpin questions.
"Wait took the fucking blow!" Bleiss asks with Dusk rereading that part for her. "Why!?"
"You'll find out soon." Dusk states.
"Than keep reading!" Bleiss shouts.
"Why Jaune?" Ruby asks wanting to know just why.
"Hey, have you noticed that Penny has been getting more and more concerned about Jaune?" Qrow asks his fellow members of the inner circle.
"Indeed, it seems almost like she is falling for him." Glynda says.
"Impossible! They haven't even meet before!" Ironwood exclaims.
"Oh, you are a fool if you think crushes are so simple." Glynda says thinking to herself 'There is a reason why we broke up.'
"What's that's supposed to mean!?"
"Oh, shut up Ironwoody and let me read!" Dusk exclaims getting them to shut up. "Thank you."
Bleiss laughs internally 'Ironwoody. Haha!'
"Sigurd! Why, why betray me?" Jaune gritted his teeth as she struggled in his grip, putting everything into holding her still as his weapon charged.
'Magi, Magi can never be allowed in this world. We have enough problems already.'
"I have to agree with this statement." Ozpin sips his coffee. "This world is not ready for the return of magic much less the less than moral users of said power."
"Agreed." Salem states though she knows if she could she would use their power in a heart beat to tip the balance. Just as she knows Ozpin would have for his own side. Neither choses to admit this hypocrisy.
"I don't know. They could be useful if they side with us." Ironwood states caring more for the results that could be for the good of Remnant.
"That is not a good idea." Sakura states flatly, "You are more likely to end up with a more immortal Magus such as this doctor."
"I would not hire someone that is so morally bankrupt." Iron states firmly.
"Than explain what happened here." Sakura points out blankly.
Ironwood can only look away in defeat at this point.
"Typical." Qrow mutters under his breath. Knowing that this will not be the last time that he hears about this both in meetings with Jimmy and out of them.
Brynhild fought against his grip, trying to free herself from his embrace. Jaune ignores that, keeping her still until he felt that Bridal Chest had fully charged.
"How does that work?" Ruby asks wanting to know more about this Noble Phantasm.
Dusk takes out some notes and reads them over. "OK the Bridal Chest: A Maiden's Chastity, contains her reactor core, her heart. It has the primary ability to absorb magical energy from the environment. And that leads to the activation of Galvanism function that converts the energy into other forms."
"Such as?" Yang asks.
"It will give an example soon." Dusk smiles reading this part over. Oh, this is gonna be good.
Shoving her back, her lance being torn from his body with her he grabs the Noble Phantasm, the weapon sending energy left behind from Brynhild's attacks into him to fix him back up. Rushing Brynhild he slams his mace down on her, forcing her to a knee as she uses her lance to block it.
"Blasted Tree!" Green lightning shot up, piercing through the ceiling and spreading out, forming the shape of a tree.
"That's so Epic!" Nora shouts.
"I know!" Ruby says.
"So, lightning?" Yang asks.
"Not just lightning." Dusk starts to read again, "it is defined as the unrestricted conversion and accumulation of magical energy and bio-electric energy, thaumaturgical attacks involving no material existence. This covers examples of wind manipulation, energy bullets, beam attacks, conversion into electricity, and many others. According to these notes this falls under Alchemy."
"The old idea that you can turn lead into gold?" Blake questions.
"Oh, there is so much more than that." Dusk states remembering a certain series where everyone was looking for and trying to make a philosopher's stone to reach a goal that the exchange could not work with. It might have some nightmare fuel moments, but it was a good show when he watched it as a kid.
"Such as?" Ozpin asks.
"Ask the Magus we brought over to answer the questions from their world. They are here for a reason. But ask after this we are almost done here." Dusk states.
The fallen Valkyrie cried out as she was caught in the heart of the attack. When the attack was finished and the electricity gone all that was left in the hallway was a few charred bodies, Jaune, and a Lancer Class Card.
"Hmmm." Salem makes note of how the destruction of the Servant lead to the Class Card being left behind. This could be useful in finding and gathering more servants if they appear in her world.
"Shit we got to catch that guy!" Jaune stumbled into the lab and found the golems still blocking his path.
"Switch to me." Jaune doesn't even answer, too exhausted from fighting Brynhild to waste time. Uninstalling Fran, he pulled out the Assassin card and held it out.
"Why does he do that?" Bleiss questions.
"I guess he was just tired and did not want to fight the Assassin." Yang states.
"No, I mean why not change between forms without uninstalling?" Bleiss asks.
No one had an answer and looked at Dusk for this. He shrugs, "I have no fucking idea. This is more of Rider's area of specialty."
"Install Assassin." Unlike the others there was no flash, no show of force. Instead shadows surrounded him for a few seconds before disappearing; when they were gone his form had changed. His skin had darkened, what hair was visible under a red hood was pure white. Grey bandages covered the lower part of his face, black body armor covered the rest of his body. Holstered on the left and right side of his waist were a gun and knife respectively. Drawing the gun Jaune pointed it at the lead Golem, his eyes showing no emotion. When he spoke his voice, a mixture of Kiritsugu and his own, was dry and lifeless.
Shirou stares in shock, "He looks like Archer…."
"Archer?" Ruby asks having caught that.
"Archer EMIYA his alternative future self that tried to kill him." Dusk states knowing this much.
"WHAT!?" Shouts out those not in the know which everyone is pretty much not from the Type Moon universe.
"He really wanted to die or at least make sure that no Shirou Emiya would become him. He hoped that by doing such an action a major glitch would happen that would remove his existence from reality." Dusk states while Shirou looks uncomfortable about this.
"Why would he try to himself like that?" Ruby questions trying to understand this. He had to be a hero to be summoned from the throne, right?
"It was because he was a Counter Guardian." Shirou states not really paying attention to anything around him.
"Yep." Dusk answers.
"And just what is a Counter Guardian?" Salem questions feeling a chill from the name yet not knowing why?
"A Counter Guardian is a being that in life made a deal with a being that personified humanity's will to survive. These tend to be legendary heroes that did great deeds or actions due in part to this deal that is offered to save people. After they die, they are turned into Counter Guardians." Dusk states, "Now for Archer EMIYA this was the worst possible thing to happen to him. And I say this knowing of versions of Shirou Emiya that became Dead Ancestors or something of the like."
"Becoming a Vampire was not as bad as this for him?" Pyrrha asks.
"Vampire!?" Bleiss exclaims.
"Oh yes at least as a Dead Ancestor he could pick who he killed." Dusk's answer turns the room cold.
"Kill!?" Ruby exclaims.
"You see when ever a being in one way or another endangers humanity such as by reaching the Root than Counter Guardians are sent out to prevent this. Usually by the will of humanity, which is called Alayla who is the split personality that represents the Earth with the other side known as Gaia really hating humans for polluting the world and misusing her resources. By the way she called out into Space for help getting rid of them leading to a Vampire from the Moon appearing and starting the spread of Vampirism even after he, Crimson Moon, was long dead."
"Will you stop dropping so many bombs on us casually and get to the fucking point!" Bleiss exclaims.
"Oh yeah there is a reason why Rider is usually the one that does this stuff." Dusk brings up. "Any way Alayla usually takes full control of the Counter Guardians and summoning them from across space and time itself to eliminate the source of the disturbance. Which usually left thousands of dead at a time at least."
"Thousands!" Many exclaim knowing that Remnant only has a few Million people living on it.
"At least! Sometimes it is closer to Millions." Dusk replies, "Anyway now that Shirou Emiya Counter Guardian has experienced this afterlife for so long that time losses it's meaning it is understandable that they tend to go a little insane."
"They?" Rin questions catching this part.
"Yes they. You really think only ONE Shirou Emiya made a deal? Heck there is not even just one version of Rin, Ruby, or Jaune that has taken a similar deal." This makes both Rin and Ruby pale at the thought of being Counter Guardians. Shirou grips Rin's hand tighter not wanting her to experience that hell. And Penny holds Ruby's hand trying to comfort her.
"And why does he look so much like Archer?" Shirou asks the original questions once more.
Dusk shrugs, "I think it has to do with the stress of being a Counter Guardian along with how the fame of Shirou and Archer EMIYA could influence any Heroic Spirit with the name of Emiya. Also, Archer ends up looking the way he does due to the stress and damage that his Magecraft does to him. Before he dies."
"Wait does that mean…" Shirou trails off.
"Yes, you have a hell of growth spirt in your future along with going silver early along with a tan form your circuits burning you from the inside."
"Burns him inside out!" Ironwood exclaims.
"Yeah Shirou was a bit of an idiot and ended up damaging his circuits early in life up until recently. A Magus walks alongside death after all." Dusk states.
"Great…" Shirou says sarcastically not noticing the thoughts of his lovers that start to blush a little at the thought of a taller Shirou and how it would affect him down below.
"Run as far as you like, hide wherever you may, there is no escape. This is the end of your twisted desire." Jaune pulled the trigger, striking the Golem right on the purple crystal in the center of his chest. As the golem collapsed, he fired into the chest of the second one, it meeting the same fate followed by the third and final one. "Target eliminated." Jaune uninstalled the card and clutched his head.
"Wait when he says target eliminated does, he means what I think he means?" Qrow questions having heard similar in the past form various assassins and bounty hunters after they killed their mark.
"Yes, the Doctor is now dead." Dusk states.
"How!?" Weiss exclaims not understand how shooting a Golem can kill someone.
"You see it is part of his Noble Phantasm that I will explain after I read this next sentence. If that is alright with everyone?" Dusk asks seeing the nods he reads the next part.
"You made those bullets out of your own ribs, that's just taking the saying 'a weapon is an extension of yourself' too far"
"WHAT!?" Many exclaim even Ruby the weapon lover does along with Shirou who did not know about this part of his father's life as well as he would like at times.
"Yep he made bullets form his own rib bones using them to make a unique set of bullets. Having them surgically removed from his body as a young man by his mater they made full use of his duel origin."
"Origin?" Ozpin questions thinking that this term meant something unique to the Magus rather than the storybook one.
Dusk gestures to Rin to explain who does, "Every person has a unique set of Origin and Element that helps them use Magecraft better in some forms than in others. There are 5 standard Elements though the fifth differs from East to West. And origin tells what a person is in life and helps describe who they are. It is possible for people to have multiple Elements and Origins though the later is rare. I do not know what Kiritsugu's origin would be though learning he has a duel origin does explain why he would avoid catching the attention of Clocktower. They would have Magus that would want to experiment on him to understand this better." This makes others start to turn green at the though of being experimented on for something you were born with.
"Yep and Kiritsugu's origin was Cutting and Binding." Dusk starts to explain, "Now when it hits a Magus user or something that their circuits are tied to than it can cut and then tie their circuits leading to either death or a long and painful agony on their systems since their circuits are a part of their soul and act as a second set of nerves at times." He pulls out a string and cuts it than ties it together making sure they see the small knot. "Just imagine this happening to your blood vessels and you can image what it would be like for a Magus. Whose circuits are like blood vessels when you compare the two. Even if they survive they will never be able to use Magic again. And even with Magic you would need a literal miracle to heal them and even divine actions might not be enough." He thinks of a certain Master of Lancer from the 4th War who was left crippled by a shoot of this bullet and only lived because his fiancé was skilled in healing. Even than the guy was wheelchair bound for the rest of his life and in extreme pain every waking moment.
"My God." Glynda mutters turning green at the image.
"There is no chance that F-The Doctor survived is there?" Penny asks.
"Yep. He made sure to double tape and he had no access to anyone or thing that could help him and prevent his death." Dusk states not bringing up how long or short this was as he never found out for sure.
Penny looks down at this as while this man was not her father and was a monster. He was still her father.
"It's kind of funny." Bleiss starts, "If he did not leave behind the goals to escape than he would likely still be alive. This is what he gets for throwing them away like they are all just tools."
Others agree with her statement.
Though Salem wonders if she should start altering the connection, she has with some of the Grimm she controls to make sure that it cannot be used against her like this. And she wonders if she could use the body of Ozma's newest incarnation to destroy the soul. Perhaps aim to destroy the connection before it is fully established. More to think about for later. She lacks the current means and knowledge in how to test this.
For now at least.
Jaune walked over to the machine and punched through the glass containers, eagerly taking the Class Cards back. "Sorry I'm late everyone, are you okay?"
"Just fine Master, nothing the Knight of Treachery can't bounce back from."
"Yeah, just give me a bit of time before you decide to use my card again Master."
"I apologize Master, I'll need some time before my bow is yours once more."
"Please forgive me Master but I need to rest."
"I'm fine Master, as a Caster I have plenty of magical energy. Since that accursed machine was draining all five of us equally, I'm left with plenty to spare."
"Well good for you Witch!" Jaune smiles, glad to have them all back.
"He is close to them." Pyrrha notes feeling jealousy bubble in her heart.
"Yes, they are almost like family." Dusk notes knowing what he is doing here.
"Family…" Ren thinks about this statement and makes note to make sure that his family is never separated like it is here. He feels Nora holding her hand. Yes, he will make sure his family is never destoried again.
His gaze turns to Penny's body; unsure of what to do with it.
The mood grows sober once more the reminder of how this Penny died. Before anyone can speak Dusk continues.
"Master, what do you plan to do with the puppet? Are we going to kill her?" Jaune's eyes widen at Kiritsugu's question.
Eyes wide many shout, "She's alive!?"
Ruby hugs Penny who is just as surprised. "You're alive!"
"I'm alive?" Penny knew that she could survive certain situations like this one, but she thought this counterpart of her father had extracted her soul and left her to rust.
Ironwood smiles, "She's alive."
"Yeah but for how long?" Bleiss asks the question that none of the others want to bring up.
This gets the others attention and they turn to Dusk to keep reading.
"She's alive!?"
"Wow talks about an echo." Dusk teases.
A few blushes at this.
"Who cares keep reading!" Ruby shouts wanting to know what happened to her friend.
Dusk grins and keeps reading. None of them notice Duskrider fade into existence behind them invisible and intangible. Waiting for the end of the chapter to make his offer.
Medea is the one to answer.
"Yes, its faint but the soul still clings to the shell. Master install me and bring her body down. I want to get a better sense of her."
"Why would she want to have a better look at me?" Penny asks a bit unnerved and still not knowing what to feel.
"I don't know." Saber states not liking this either remembering her time spent as a captive of Medea all too well.
Jaune's mental look at Medea prompts her to elaborate. "She… interests me. I want to see how they did it, how a machine is able to hold a soul."
"Okay, Install Caster." The cloak now covering him Jaune points his finger towards Penny and her body begins to disconnect from the wall. Gently he lowers her down and lets Medea guide him through the process of diagnostic magecraft.
"Hmm, this is impressive for a first-try with machinery."
"Medea?"
"Oh, don't worry Master, I'm not taking notes for our own use. I simply find it interesting that the soul survived what was essentially it being knocked out with a hammer and stuffed into another container like it was stuffing in a toy.
Penny shivers at this description not liking the imagery.
Believe me anyone who participated in this has a special place in the Underworld when they die."
Ironwood and his allies' wince at the look they are given from the others. Even Ruby looking at him like he committed a grave sin. "I never knew that he would do this to an unwilling participant."
"Willing or not you manipulated the souls of the living to create a weapon." Salem states harshly making Ozpin wince at this truth. "I may have done many things, but I have never done something so vile."
"And to think these are the good guys out to save your world." Dusk states deadpanned to the students who shiver at this thought.
"You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain." Blake quotes one of her books.
Ruby worries more and more of just how wrong the world around her is. In less than a week it is flipped on its head and she gained more answers to facts she did not know before than she ever questioned. While she wondered why Penny had a soul, she did not care at the time having found out her friend was a robot and remaining in shock.
Penny worries about this. Wondering if she is a monster herself. Just who did her soul belong to?
Jaune nodded while he sent two wooden dolls to go grab the Class Cards; unwillingly to leave them laying out of sight for too long. "I do believe we can give this girl a new body."
"They can!" Penny exclaims.
"How can they?" Ironwood questions wanting to know. If it was possible than this could lead to a whole new chance for the future.
Ozpin leans forward paying attention. This could change everything with the plan and it could save Amber. If they can replicate this that is.
"Really?"
"Yes, call up a Dragontooth Warrior and have it go find a female corpse in relatively good condition." Jaune followed Medea's instructions, sending the bone-construct off before turning his attention back to Penny.
"Necromancy?" Rin questions.
"Not quiet." Dusk states not fulling understanding what Medea does in this chapter but knowing that it is not the more limited Magecraft version that she is thinking of as Medea was from a different time with a different set of magic at work in the world. While today Necromancy such as this could be replicated to an extant by anyone who knows the basics science behind a device to restart a heart it does not consume everything. Especially not the soul which modern medicine cannot affect.
"What is Necromancy?" Penny asks not liking the implications of it.
"It is a field of magic that deals with the dead, such as reanimation of the dead." Dusk states.
"What!?" Ruby and others exclaim.
Dusk shrugs, "Hey this is the best way to save your friend so just pay attention to what comes next."
"Now we need to remove whatever his holding her soul and her brain once the Warrior returns. For now …" Medea paused in her instructions and Jaune winced as two symbols were burned into his mind. "Start scratching these out into the floor." Jaune constructed a knife and began to carve away into the floor, Medea helping him along.
"You're making her a homunculus body."
"A homunculus body…" Rin mutters thinking that it makes sense. Since Penny's soul is still here than it is possible to bring the soul back in control of a body. They just need a body.
The others are focused and spellbound to see how this turns out.
Ruby grips Penny's hand wanting to see this work and for her friend to live.
Ironwood wonders if cloning might have been the better option but with medicine the way it is he doubts they could clone the body of Amber and transfer her soul to it. Looking at his hands and knowing how much he has lost he wonders if they should look into it anyway. While he is used to his body with multiple parts replaced by metal there are others that hate this.
"I'm surprised you know the procedure."
"I am one and spent my early years with Morgana; of course, I know how to create those weaklings." Jaune stopped carving, the second symbol down. His full attention now devoted to Mordred.
"Mordred, is this going to hurt Penny in the long run?"
This question catches the others attention. Especially Artoria who never found out how Mordred felt about this.
"The Witch knows her stuff, this body might not be as great as mine, but it will far surpass any normal person. I'm talking about their spirits, homunculi are generally pansy-ass wimps that can't do jack shit for themselves. The cowards are willing to let anyone walk right on them even though if they wanted to them could crush a Magus easily if they weren't stupid about it. It's sickening." Jaune just accepts the answer; knowing that explanation touched upon more of Mordred's past then the knight cared to think about. Luckily the Warrior returned as well as the two Dolls he sent to fetch the cards.
"Huh, we'll have to remember to go grab the rest of my stuff once we're done here." Jaune took a deep breath before starting the next step; taking his knife he began to cut away at Penny's body.
Penny winces at this and looks away. Not wanting to see how Jaune's knife carves into her body. It is rather uncomfortable to look upon.
Slowly he spread her chest and head open to get a look at her insides. Her creator must have had a sick sense of humor because the soul container was actually in the shape of a heart while her brain was an orb with wires sticking out of it.
If Penny could turn green, she would have at this information.
"General did the Doctor make my own to resemble…" Penny trails off uncomfortable.
"I will have to look into it to know for sure when we get back." Ironwood states knowing that this is hard for her. He understands the feeling having been awake during more than a fair share of his own surgery in the field. And not from an outside perspective either.
After figuring out what connected the 'heart' to the 'brain' he carefully removing those two objects after severing all the other wires, making sure to keep them connected the whole time he placed them in one symbol while the Warrior stripped the corpse and placed it in the other. Its task done Jaune then ripped the warrior's head off and placed the remaining bones inside the symbol with Penny's heart and brain.
Many flinches at the image of Jaune ripping the skull from the warrior when its task was done.
Jaune couldn't describe what came out of his mouth following that, Medea was simply using him as a megaphone really.
Both Salem and Ozpin are disappointed that the words are not shared in this. Wondering just how different the magics between these worlds are.
Everyone watches the screen as Dusk reads wanting to know if this will work.
The fact she was speaking at all was a sign of how heavy-duty this Magecraft was if High-Speed Divine Words wasn't applicable. It was fascinating to watch however as the corpse's flesh began to dissolve and move over to the other symbol; wrapping around the bones, 'heart', and 'mind' while the Warrior's bones begin to alter themselves to the proportions that Penny once had. Soon the flesh begins return to normal, fitting itself around the other parts and altering itself look like Penny. When he finally stopped chanting, Penny was laying there on the ground, looking just like when he met her except for one thing.
"Oh my!" Pyrrha exclaims.
"Don't look Ren!" Nora tries to cover his eyes.
Ozpin looks away along with the other adult men feeling the glares of their female counterparts.
Shirou looks away blushing while Rin glares at him for looking.
Ruby blushes getting a better look at her friend's body than she though she ever world.
"Ruby why is everyone blushing?" Penny questions not understanding the nudity taboo having been taught more to make sure she does not remove clothing to prevent others form seeing anything unusual about her appearance. And whenever the she asked her Father about why people wear clothing he would always blush and stutter out ("I'll tell you when your o-older!)
"Why is this not censored!" Weiss shouts at Dusk.
Bleiss looks over Penny on screen, "I'm not complaining but she has a point. Little Red's 15 after all."
Dusk shrugs, "It's a Rated M story."
"Wait this is rated M!" Yang exclaims looking worried at Ruby.
"Don't worry this is not MA just M." Dusk says not really getting what they are fussing about. Organic are weird like that.
Duskrider meanwhile facepalms for forgetting to add in the nudity filter and hopes that he does not get in trouble with Jauneforever. Not that anyone can see or hear him being invisible and intangible.
"Nope, nope!" Jaune quickly covered his eyes and took of his cloak, handing it to the Dolls to cover her with.
"Good boy." Bleiss smirks liking how well trained Jaune is. Though she wishes that her Jaune would be willing to look at her goods more.
Something to think about for later.
Pyrrha sighs in relief seeing her crush cover Penny up.
Ruby sighs in relief at this as well though feeling oddly disappointed as well. Not understanding why.
Duskrider is just thankful that he might not get sued after all for having a pre-teen girl appear nude on screen. "Fuck I need to make a lawyer just incase don't I." Yet another task that he needs to do along with finding a contractor for Dimensional Portals. Summoner was made to run the system and peer into the multiverse itself not act as the Portal Repairman. Making a mental note to look and around finding the nearest blood sucking parasite and giving it human intellect and a briefcase will have to wait though till after he talks to Penny.
Penny is still clueless.
Dusk than looks at Penny wondering why she did not react than remembers how innocent Penny is in the multiverse, "Fuck does this mean I have to give her the talk!?"
Once he was sure he was safe Jaune removed his hand from over his eyes and promptly collapsed.
"JAUNE!" Pyrrha, Ruby, Penny, and Bleiss exclaim.
"What happened to him!?" Pyrrha exclaims worried.
"I think Medea used too much power." Rin states.
"What!? But I though she was alright!" Ruby exclaims.
"She might have overestimated herself." Rin says.
"Sorry Master, it appears I overestimated myself."
"Called it." Rin states.
"Hmpf, Prideful Witch."
"Shut it Snake!"
"Excellent work Jaune." Jaune turned to the side to see Zelretch holding all three Class Cards he had recovered and a tray of glowing orange beakers. "I didn't think you'd get all three so quickly. Take a load off and I'll get you and the girl out of here." Zelretch looked at Penny with a frown. The last thing Jaune heard before falling asleep was something about War Dolls.
"War Dolls?" Penny asks questioning this statement.
Dusk shrugs, "I have no idea. It's Zelretch. The guy has been around the block long before there was a block."
"So, this is Zelretch." Salem notes.
"Yep a multidimensional troll that usually is on humanity's side." Dusk says.
"Usually?" She questions wondering if he could be a potential ally.
"It really depends on the humanity itself and how much or little they are scum like." Dusk states before deadpanning, "In other words when he shows up in your world it usually against your side. Or sending someone else to deal with the mess."
"Like dropping cards off to someone?" Ozpin wonders this.
"Or dropping some poor sucker into your world." Dusk says knowing many worlds with both events happening because Zelretch was bored. "Hell, this is usually either Shirou or EMIYA."
"WHAT!?" Sakura exclaims at this.
"Yeah one of Zelretch's go to fixer upper methods is dropping Shirou or EMIYA off in a world and see them fix things up." Dusk says.
Saber, Rin, and Sakura hold onto Shirou possessively even as the boy pales at the thought of being one of the poor suckers sent to other worlds.
"Don't worry this usually only happens in worlds he is alone in." Dusk says knowing fully well after that statement that Shirou will never have any alone time ever again. At least not for the next few years. Might lead to him valuing his own life to keep the girls happy at least.
He ignores the look of betrayal that Shirou sends him feeling the girl's grips tighten on him.
Surprisingly there were no memories, a first for Jaune in a long time. Instead it was just peaceful darkness until he woke up. Then he found Zelretch smiling at him right in his face and the peace vanished.
"Shit!" Jaune lashed out with a fist and Zelretch stepped out of its path.
"Quite the reaction." Qrow laughs.
"Can't blame him. If Zelretch did that to me I would lash out as well." Dusk says knowingly. "There is a reason why there is a barrier preventing people from coming or going without a portal or ship."
"Wait you have a ship to leave as well?" Weiss questions.
"They are for emergencies only." Dusk states deadpan, "And unless one of us unlocks the code for the ships they have orders to shoot on sight."
"Isn't that a little extreme." Weiss asks not liking the look he is giving her.
"No, it is rather generous." Dusk says not liking her right now. "And when the Boss gives word, we will be returning Bleiss home that way."
"Why return me so soon?" Bleiss asks.
"Because you were not on the guest list we had from BEFORE the portal was destoried. Understand it's nothing personal."
"Oh, I understand." Bleiss says with a smile thinking of an idea.
Looking around Jaune didn't recognize his surroundings, the view outside told him they weren't in Atlas, slums or capital, anymore. On top of that he had been stripped down to his boxers, the rest of his clothes sitting on a chair in the corner of the room with the rest of his things.
"Oh my." Pyrrha nosebleeds again at the sight of the mostly naked Jaune. Other girls blush or nosebleed as well at this site.
"Yep the right diet and exercise can lead to people getting into better shape." Dusk states.
"I never did thank Pyrrha for helping Jaune train." Bleiss says grinning widely, "I might send her a video of our 5th time." This causes Pyrrha to turn red in both arousal and anger.
"Why!?" Weiss exclaims.
"Because the first time is personal, and it will take me at least another 4 after that before Jaune is willing to let me spice things up a little." Bleiss states than looks at Ruby's and Penny's glare, "Don't worry I'll send you a copy too." This makes them blush (if able to) and look away.
"Where did you take us?"
"Argus, lovely city by the way." Jaune's eyes widened and he looked out the window, the architecture making it clear they were in the city. This could be a problem, Saphron and Terra still lived here, and he hadn't been in contact since leaving Beacon.
"Saphron and Terra?" Bleiss questions the names not recalling who they are but they sounded familiar.
"Jaune's sister and her wife." Ruby answers.
"Oh, thank you for letting me know." Bleiss writes a note to visit Argus and get visit some of her future in laws.
"Figured I'd wait for you to wake up before heading out, plus this works better when you're awake."
"Wait what?" Jaune's sight goes dark as Zelretch's hand covers his eyes as the vampire grips his skull. Jaune was no stranger to pain, he had just been impaled earlier after all, but this hurt like nothing else. His mind was on fire, his nerves crying out in agony.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS HE DOING TO MY HUBBY!" Bleiss shouts while Penny, Pyrrha, and Ruby wonder the same but know of Zelretch enough at this point to know he will not kill Jaune. At least not on purpose. They are worried about him.
"Just let me keep reading to find out." Dusk states deadpan.
"THAN GET READING YOU LIMPED DIC-" She is cut off as Dusk removes her ability to speak again.
"You'll get that back later." He states deadpanned.
Screaming was beyond him; hell, complex thought was out of his reach. When it ended, he collapsed to his knees, shaking and sweating from whatever Zelretch had done to him.
"What in the hell did you just do to me!?" Jaune's glare only intensified when a fanged grin was sent his way.
"A surprise for later, I think you'll like it. I asked young Penny to wait for us to talk before she came in; oh, don't look so surprised it wasn't like we could leave her in Atlas." Jaune just continued to stare at him, unbelieving he did anything out of the goodness of his heart. "You wound an old man young Arc, even I have my moments." Zelretch made to leave at that but Jaune stopped him, getting up and grabbing him by the shoulder.
"Zelretch, Kiritsugu's memories had a lot of nasty stuff. I'm sure I buried a lot more of it to stay sane, you're the only Magus that can travel dimensions, right?" Zelretch sighed and turned to face his entertainment/helper.
This catches the others attention. While Rin knows the foundational work and it is possible for her to travel between dimensions it is a challenge for her and she was still learning.
"Is it possible that other Magus can travel between dimension?" Ruby asks.
Even Bleiss pays attention stopping her silent curing at Dusk.
"Magician, I'm the only Magician. I never explained that quite right, I use true magic and therefore am a Magician. What I do can never be replicated by science. However, a few Magi can jump between dimensions but there are certain variables that affect every stage of the process." Zelretch's eyes darkened and Jaune took a step back. "Sadly, the Ainsworth are one of the families to often come across this ability. If you should ever heed any of my advice this is one piece you would be wise to listen to." Jaune gulped as a hardness overtook Zelretch, no this was hatred. Zelretch, he truly despised these Ainsworths. "Should an Ainsworth ever arrive in this world; kill them. No matter the reason they come, no matter the cost that must be paid, slit their throats and burn the corpse. That goes doubly so if one of them is a boy named Julian Ainsworth."
This chills everyone to the bone.
"Wait is he…?" Rin trails off gesturing to Ruby who was not looking her way and her head.
"I'm not a 100% certain." Dusk says having not found out yet if Alistair was a Magus or not. He could simply be a creepy asshole with a powerful semblance. It was not the first time that someone had a semblance that manipulated the mind.
Then he notices that Bleiss still could not speak and undoes it.
"-AND ANOTHER THING-"
"I unmuted you so stop shouting!" Dusk exclaims before she can continue.
"Oh, it's about fucking time." Bleiss says happy to be able to speak once more.
Dusk is silent feeling like he got played and choses just to start reading.
"Zelretch?"
"There are a great many monsters in human skin among Magi but one of the worst among them is that boy, he has no morals, no line he won't cross in his path seeking destruction and he has the power to back it up."
Many of them shivers at this thought. Even Salem does.
"He sounds like the worst Magus possible." Rin states.
"Just who is he and what did he do?" Ruby asks having a very bad feeling about this.
Dusk states, "No Spoliers." This gives everyone a chill as this means that he thinks that later he will be apart of the story or be involved some way or another.
Zelretch looks towards the door and the darker emotions leaves his face. "What you did with that girl, I might be calling upon you to do it again."
"Again?" Glynda questions.
"I don't know what he means. Penny is the only one of her kind." Ironwood states at the looks her is given.
"You forget. Multiverse." Dusk states.
"Meaning there are more like me out there." Penny states.
Dusk nods and continues reading.
"Penny?"
"Yes, she isn't the only puppet that deserves to have her strings cut. No offense to the young woman outside that door but who I have in mind deserves it even more so. I'll come to a decision at some point, the dimension these events will occur is reaching the critical point where I'll know if you can or not." Jaune doesn't press for more, a sinking feeling in his gut.
"The critical point…" Ozpin trails off in worry.
Salem looks at this in worry as well. Cinder's plans should have started already if she understands the timeframe correctly. Meaning it is only a matter of time before her counterpart becomes involved. The thought of facing multi-dimensional beings is not one that she relishes.
"Does this mean that Jaune will be in the middle of these events alone?" Penny asks worried catching the others attention.
Dusk thinks for a second before answering, "He is not alone. He has his Servants with him and will gain more allies in the future. For now, just have faith."
Penny is not satisfied by this answer but choses to wait.
Magi could reach Remnant; they could reach this world. Jaune knew what would come if they ever did. Death, destruction, enslavement, all that and ending with Remnant's people reduced to spare parts for their monstrous experiments or currency for trading with demons.
"Rather dark thoughts." Salem comments.
"Jaune." Ruby whispers under her breath worried. There was only so much darkness that he could take, and he was changing to better deal with this.
Bleiss is writing more notes making sure that when she returns home, she will be able to prepare. She wonders idly if she could bargain Pyrrha to leave her nookie time alone and train Jaune if she finds another for her to have fun with.
"We need to be ready for this to come." Ironwood turns to Qrow, "The second we get back you have my full backing to investigate every inch of the Atlas Army to prevent any worms getting by."
"General!?" Winter exclaims in shock.
Qrow narrows his eyes taking a swig of some gin to see Jimmy was serious. "Sure James I'll help out but don't think I'll lay off of giving you shit for way things turn out."
"Noted." Ironwood says.
"Wait is Uncle Qrow some kind of super spy!?" Ruby exclaims in shock.
Qrow winces at this and gestors for Dusk to keep reading.
"Hello friend Jaune." Penny's voice drags him out of his thoughts, the young woman now wearing a green nightdress and smiling with far more life than before. "I thank you for saving me." Her eyes darken and her shoulders droop, her body slumping as her mood dropped. "I was 'awake' for everything."
"My god." Salem curses.
Everyone's blood runs cold at this thought.
"The fucker didn't die slow enough." Bleiss says.
"Agreed." Ruby states furious.
Penny almost shuts down at this though. Being trapped in her own body, unable to stop what was happening. Seeing how much a monster her father was. She didn't think she could take it. She feels pity for her alternative counterpart.
She feels Ruby hugging her to both comfort her and to reassure herself that Penny was still here.
"Qrow," Ironwood says through gritted teeth, "Investigate the Doctor first and if he even hints at being like this one. Take him out. Permanently."
"No argument their Jimmy." Qrow says looking at his niece and how worried she was after hearing about this. Worried, and furious. He would have done it even if Jimmy didn't give permission.
Sakura looks at Penny in pity having thought that this might have been the case. It was something her grandfather would have done if she failed him.
Dusk looks at her I pity before starting again knowing that they needed to finish these last two pages.
Jaune's mind stopped at that, unable to comprehend the sheer terror she must have felt. "Fa…father said it was my punishment, to be awake as he took me apart and erased my mind. I was going to be conscious as he deleted me piece by piece; then there was learning my soul wasn't from a dying, comatose girl."
Ruby holds Penny and cries against her. Hating the though of anyone experiencing this. Bleiss comes over and gives her a hug as well feeling sorry for the emotionally drained robot girl. Rin and Sakura going over to join in. Nora pulls Ren into it as well while Pyrrha and WBY looking on awkwardly before being pulled in by the others.
Dusk looks at them in pity not knowing how to help here. Rider was always the one that understood emotions better. He makes note to get revenge on him as soon as the chapter ends for leaving him here for this emotional roller coaster.
He sees James grip his chair almost breaking the metal. Winter glaring at the though of this happening to Penny. Qrow looking upset as well as glaring hating the thought of human experimentation. Ozpin had crushed his coffee cup again while Glynda was trying to remain strong and not cry at the thought of a child having gone through such hardships.
Shirou having a rare look of fury in his eyes. Saber matching if not exceeding that with her own rage at this injustice.
Dusk keeps reading knowing they need to hear the next part.
A smile came to her face again, smaller then before but it was better than a frown. "But now I'm practically a real girl now, I have a pulse, I can feel pain, I can taste. So, thank you for saving me and for giving me this life." Jaune smiled at her, extending a hand out.
"Happy to help." Penny took his hand but rather than shake it pulled him into a hug.
"Aww." Multiple people finding this scene cute.
Penny smiling at the thought of being a real girl.
Jaune blushes, being half-naked in front of her was one thing but this, her nightgown wasn't transparent, but it wasn't thick either.
And cue the blushes. At this point they are too tired to really react or care.
"Um, Penny. We're kind of underdressed." Penny backs away from Jaune and tilts her head, her own cheeks red.
"Sorry, I just wanted to feel another person." The former robot pokes her own cheek. "And is this a blush, its tingly." Jaune swore that if he ever learned how to raise the dead he would bring back the bastard who made Penny and make him beg for Hell. Wanting to feel, taste, every word just painted a disturbing picture and made him wish he had just chased after the scientist. Kiritsugu had plenty of methods for 'information extraction' that could have been put to good use.
Bleiss grins at this though sadistically.
A few of them pale but more because of how Jaune is changing than any real desire to save that piece of human filth. Oddly enough one of the ones not paling was Ruby.
"Haaaa. Oh, so that is a yawn. I wonder if I'll get to experience dreaming for the first time." Oblivion would be too good for the bastard.
"Agreed." Ruby, Bleiss, Sakura, and Salem said.
"Great now she is getting along with my niece." Qrow mutters under his breath taking another swig of whiskey knowing that he will need it.
"Master I do have some necromancy we could call upon, but we'd need at least a bone of the target." So very tempting.
"Put a pin in it for now Medea."
"Aw…" Ruby, Bleiss, Sakura, and Salem are disappointed by this.
Qrow ditches the cup and goes for the bottle. Maybe the moonshine will help.
"So where is your bed Penny?" The girl pointed at the one behind him. "Huh, oh sorry, I'll go get another.
"But that's the only bed." Jaune felt his eye begin to twitch. Of course, Zelretch only got a one room bed.
Bleiss' eye twitches. "That shipping vampire asshole."
"It can't be that bad. I'm sure there is a couch." Winter tries to sooth her alternative sister's temper.
Bleiss breaths out and says, "Yes you're right."
"Then I'll take the couch."
"It's not one designed for sleeping on."
"Did vampires regrow their fangs?" Bleiss says with her hand twitching feeling the urge to knock the fucker's teeth out.
Did vampires regrow their fangs? On second thought did Jaune really care.
"Wow talks about an echo." Dusk tries to tease her.
"That just shows that even across the multiverse me and hubby are in synch." Bleiss grins proudly.
"Why is it such a big deal that me and Jaune are sleeping together?" Penny asks.
Cue the spit take of Qrow and Ozpin.
"It is only because you do not know the meaning of what you are saying that I do not do anything extreme." Bleiss states bluntly with a twitching eye.
Dusk sighs, "Fine I'll give her the talk after this is over." He admits defeat to the universe.
Unknown to him Ironwood breaths a sigh of relief at this.
"Wait don't you think that it would be better for a girl to give this talk?" Winter says.
Dusk raises an eyebrow and turns into a Black Winter version with her clothing being black and red, and her hair being black. Her eyes glow red dispassionately. "Your point?"
"Turn back to normal!" Winter shouts not liking that he took the shape of her body for this.
"I don't know." Bleiss states looking at her and then Dusk. "I need to take some notes first on this for when I get back home." She starts writing some observations only for Dusk to take a picture appear in her hands.
At the questioning look Bleiss gives Dusk as he changes into a female version of his normal appearance, "It will take less time and last longer."
"Thanks." Bleiss says tucking into her bra.
Winter feels dread for her alternative.
"Doesn't matter." Jaune was going to run the Magician through the next time he saw him; see how immortal he was with Gae Buidhe sticking out of his gut.
"Wait, Mr. Zelretch told me I should have you repair my body before I go to sleep."
"Repair her body? Is there something wrong with her!?" Ruby shouts out worried.
Fem Dusk looks forward and starts to grin and then laugh.
"Is that a good sign?" Penny questions.
"I don't know." Ruby now knows it is not at least fatal since he no she was laughing.
"By the way how are you so comfortable changing your gender?" Qrow asks a little weirded out.
"Simple I was born from literal shadows. I have no gender other than a mental image. I usually go with male to avoid anyone trying to ship me with my co-host." Dusk says being firmly asexual did not want to deal with that mess.
Medea did not take kindly to that request.
"Repair! That body is effectively a work of art. I ensured that no flaws, what could she have done so far that requires healing beyond her aura!?" Jaune wondered as well but he was much more concerned rather than upset.
"What happened?" Penny pointed at her groin, bringing another blush to Jaune's face that soon vanished.
"I began to bleed from here and I feel some slight pain here as well." Jaune just paled while Penny said all this with an innocent face.
The guys blush and then turned pale.
The girls blush and then turned pale.
Penny just looks confused with an innocent expression.
Dusk starts to laugh at their expressions.
"Will you stop that!" A flustered Weiss exclaims.
"Hahahah! I can't help it!" Dusk laughs.
"You do know you now have to teach her sex ed right?" Yang asks.
Dusk pales at the though looking at the innocently confused look on Penny's face. He did not think things through earlier. Wait a second! "Oh, I'll just have Rider teach her." Dusk turns back to his normal male form.
"Isn't that a bit mean?" Penny asks not wanting to be a burden.
"He deserves it for leaving me alone."
"Nope." Duskrider appears in view tired of this non-sense.
"B-Boss!" Dusk exclaims.
"I will hire a tutor to teach her about this properly." Duskrider says, "But only AFTER I made my offer later."
"Offer?" Ironwood questions nervous around this being.
"It's a private deal between me and her. Only she gets a choice in how things go." Duskrider states. "Though I may bring Ruby with."
"Why me?" Ruby asks.
"Simple being taught sex ed by a stranger would be awkward I think she will need the support of a friend during this. And Ruby can be trusted to keep her mouth shut but only if Penny lets her stick around during this conversation." Duskrider ignores the much redder faced Ruby to face Penny.
"It is alright with me to have Ruby around." Penny states having forgiven her for the events of earlier understanding they were not her fault.
"Very well." Duskrider nods before turning to a much more nervous Dusk, "And we will talk about EVERYTHING that has happened later. Including how that one OC S.I. you thought about. Keep reading for now."
'HOW DOES HE KNOW!' Dusk exclaims mentally never knowing that Duskrider read the story as it was being written up to the point of his arrival earlier to prevent himself form missing any more details like what has been happening recently.
"Ah, Gaia's monthly gift."
"Gift, what the hell are you calling a gift, Kitty."
"Huh, I do better work then I thought."
'Zelretch, I am going to skin you alive, bath you in holy water, and create some Black Keys just so I can shove them up your ass!'
"I don't envy him at all." Qrow states firmly.
"Just what are Black Keys?" Ozpin questions.
Dusk summaries quickly, "They are weapons used by the church. They are blessed and have strong anti-demon and anti-undead properties." Shows the image of a ghoul being burned when hit by one of these weapons. "Also, if they are stuck in your shadow than that person is unable to move." Shows an image of a certain priest wielding them. "As you can see, they can be wielded between the fingers of a person and can be used for as a projectile weapon as well as a close range one."
Ruby and others wonder if this would be affected against Grimm.
"Well that is a good ending to the chapter now excuse me while I go out and get my stud." Bleiss tries to stand only to be pushed back into her seat by an invisible force.
Duskrider states grimly, "It's not over yet." Gestors for Dusk to read.
The others feel a chill seeing how serious he has become in an instant.
Fate/ Deck of Heroes
Salem looked at Watts with interest. His report more than capturing it after hearing about a new form of magic popping up over Remnant.
"It appears my other has found out." Salem states having a bad feeling that without the information she has gleamed so far that this will only end in tragedy.
"And these cards also affect Grimm? They must be responsible for those odd feelings I've had lately. I couldn't place what was happening." She might control the Grimm, but it wasn't like she had a hive mind with them, that would probably make her go brain dead regardless of the curses laid upon her.
"Wait you control the Grimm!?" Bleiss exclaims in surprise.
Salem shrugs, "It's part of my curse."
"Curse?" Rin questions.
"Spoilers." Dusk cuts off.
"Still the fact that one person controls the Grimm is rather chilling." Pyrrha states.
Dusk shrugs, "Its various world to world how this goes."
"Yes, Hazel and Tyrian have rounded up the few we've found while I had people seek out the cards themselves. I found four so far, here you go." Salem took the cards from him, one with the picture of an assassin, one a knight, and two with a chained figure on them. All four of them felt warm to the touch. "I can't tell if there is any specific stimulus, they need but so far it seems like they emerge at random." Salem smirks at Watts, his faith in science had never left him since he joined her despite the stuff, he has seen her do.
"Now that I think of it what happened to Watts and the others form before." Bleiss asks.
Duskrider shrugs, "Watts was missing from before this happened in an unknown world. Tyrian will be used to test how stable the portal is later. And Hazel will in theory be the first one sent to their home Remnant by portal."
(Lightrock)
Watts was currently trying to build a bomb to escape with using his portion of supper, the plumbing, and other asserted items.
"You know this will not work right?" Darcy questions the mad scientist.
"It must work! I will not sit through another hour of the Teletubbies!" Watts exclaims trying not to look at the walls playing said program.
"I know what you mean it has already caused my sisters to retreat into their own minds." Darcy points to the siting and drooling Stormy and Icy not looking at anything.
"That was fast." Watts says blinking in surprise.
Darcy shrugs, "We are working in shifts as it requires one of us being awake while the others are out cold. It's part of a hypnosis spell."
"Greetings reform students of Lightrock in another hour after the Teletubbies marathon we will be playing a Barney Movie. Have a lovely day."
"What do you need for that bomb?" Darcy questions starting to look around. If they are lucky, they might be able to destroy the walls at very least. Even if the magic will prevent them from leaving.
(Back at the Viewing Room)
"That seems a little extreme." Weiss says nervous.
"It will take at least a day before we can even reopen a new portal. From there it will take a while to recalibrate everything." Duskrider says. "Beside none of us really care where Tyrian ends up and we can always bring him back later."
"Will they survive?" Salem asks not wanting her minions to all die.
"Yes." Duskrider says.
"Alright than take your time." Salem knows that she has no choice in this matter. Better them than her.
"Leave me Watts, you do not want to be in the blast zone while I test a few theories." Watts bows and quickly leaves the room. Salem looks down at the cards with interest, able to feel the souls inside them; resonating with her own. That must be it, if each card has a soul, they have preferences. Perhaps the Grimm's form is the reason or maybe they seek darkness, either way these cards are already lapping at her magic. Perhaps if she gave them some energy.
"Let's see, this one." Choosing one of the duplicate cards Salem feeds energy into it and when she feels a limit be reached, she tosses it across the room. Energy spills out of the card and begins to form a body, a huge, towering one at that. Salem grins at the sight. "I do believe I'll need a bigger door.
"AWWWOHHHHH!"
"The End." Dusk states.
"Dusk tell our guests about the Entertainment Room. After that check to make sure that Raven is healing properly. Than report to my office for your punishment." Duskrider than snaps his fingers making himself, Penny, and Ruby disappear.
"WAIT YOU MEAN THIS WASN'T MY PUNISHMENT!" Dusk shouts into thin air in panic.
