"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

- Dr. Martin Luther King jr.

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RWBY: Volatile Spaces

In the dead of night, nine figures walked the streets of Mistral City, heading to Haven Academy, per the request of it's very own Headmaster, Leonardo Lionheart. Each had their own feelings about what was about to go down. Most where exited, but oblivious. Only three had became very weary of what was going on. Wyatt Ward, Qrow Branwen, and Ozpin's conscious all had their guards up. The news Lionheart gave them was immensely different than the first time he saw them, and because Wyatt didn't trust him, Qrow and Ozpin had their own doubts as well. Nonetheless, Leo was one their friends, and they'd come to him when he called. Wyatt felt as if he was either a) hiding something, b) baiting them, or c) actually found something out and really wanted to hep them.

Wyatt had seen all those types of people. He saw everything, and everyone through the USG Ishimura's surveillance system when he went with the crew to the ship. Lucky him, he didn't have to face many of the crazy people or monsters first hand. Sitting up on bridge with Hammond, helping Isaac through his radio and hologram calls. He thought it was boring at first, but he was surely thankful later on. He did have to see some bad things when he had to help Isaac load the Marker onto a shuttle and travel down to Aegis VII. That was when he had to deal with Daniels, help Isaac kill that Hive-mind, and leave the Marker on the planet as some rock Isaac never told him about collided with the planet. God...he sure hated to deal with things like that, especially people.

Everyone packed their own heat, all carrying their various weapons. Wyatt, however, packed every single weapon he could carry. He had the Marker Shard hidden in a secure pocket, 3 incendiary grenades made with fire dust, Motorized Pulse Rifle, and finally, his Plasma Cutter. Hell, Wyatt even had Weiss help him recharge his Kinesis module with Gravity dust. Wyatt smiled to himself. Dust was an incredible thing, but too bad it only worked on planet. He would have to modify his weapons and resort to dust soon, as his normal ammunition and Plasma clips where getting low. He thought about when Weiss taught him all about dust. He looked back to Weiss, who was admiring the scenery of the Academy at night. Weiss was a nice girl.

They all walked through the academy grounds, reaching the main entrance, where Wyatt strode in front of everyone, opening the large door. He held it open and waited for everyone to enter, before his closed it with a heavy slam. Wyatt caught up with the group, making it to the front again. Wyatt looked up to see Professor Lionheart had his eyes focused on Wyatt, looking at each individual symbol he had engraved onto his suit. Wyatt frowned under his helmet, and snapped his fingers out enough that the sound echoes throughout the empty halls and corridors. This pulled Professor Lionheart out of his trance, and he remained standing at the top of the double staircase, announcing his welcome.

"Why hello." Lionheart said, his voice filled with hidden emotions. "Thank you for, uh...coming. There...seems to be more of you than last time."

Lionheart chuckled, but also stuttered a bit, his voice began cracking. Now, nobody else really noticed this except Wyatt. Wyatt didn't know Lionheart at all, so he was keen to pick up anything he hid. Wyatt wasn't too trusting of new people, but seeing that the rest of teams JNPR, RWBY, Qrow, and Ozpin didn't mention anything about it, he wouldn't either. Wyatt shrugged, guessing this was just a part of his personality. However, he'd like to be the one to speak first, and so he did.

"Well, Professor, you know what they say." Wyatt said, activating his helmet so it would fold down into his suit, revealing his face. "The more the merrier."

Professor Lionheart's eyes lit up, and his jaw dropped slightly when he saw Waytt Ward for the first time. He's heard so many devastating things about him from Doctor Watts, and Raven, but...to see him up close...and to see he was so young. He shook his head, getting back into his right mind. He looked to Wyatt and spoke.

"You...have silver eyes." He said, staring deeply into Wyatt's gleaming silver orbs. Wyatt shrugged, "Yeah I get that a lot."

Before anymore conversation could go on between the two, Qrow piped in, wanting to hurry this up. He had waited all day to be able to come here, and if the information was as important as Leo said it would be, he didn't want to wait for it any longer.

"So what's going on with the Council?" Qrow asked, causing Lionheart to look around nervously, fumbling to find the words he was looking for. Wyatt noticed this, and slowly felt his thigh, feeling his holstered Plasma Cutter. Just in case...just in case.

"Why...did you bring your weapons." Lionheart croaked, placing his hands behind his back to hide his own weapon which was fully loaded.

"What?" Qrow said, raising his hands form his pockets. "Leo, we're Huntsmen...are you okay?"

"Of course! Of course...sorry." Lionheart said, trying to cut that question off. Lionheart began to fumble for words. "Just haven't had my evening coffee."

"Look it's nice to see you, but we got work to do." Qrow said, trying to make Lionheart feel a bit comfortable, as he began to see something was wrong. He wasn't the only one to notice, as Wyatt looked around the room, trying to see if there was anything there that could be a problem. Sure enough, Yang grabbed his arm, motioning her head to the second-floor railing. Wyatt looked up with Yang, and saw a familiar black Raven, with red eyes, staring down at them. Wyatt realized exactly who this was, and so did Yang. However, their emotions varies as she spoke.

"RAVEN!"

"Mom?"

Lionheart gasped, looking directly at the railing where Raven was perched up at, while Qrow disconnected his sword, and shot a high-velocity .50 caliber bullet at the railing, as Raven flew from the railing, dodging it and squawking. She flew away from the splintered hole in the wooden railing, and zipped being Lionheart, transforming back into her human form as she came out from behind him. Wyatt immediately drew his Plasma Cutter, aiming at Raven, with all three blue-lasers hitting her torso and neck. Basically three built-in laser sights to help with aiming.

Raven stood next to Professor Lionheart, he face covered by her helmet. Qrow and Wyatt both had their weapons drawn, while everyone behind them stood shocked. Ruby turned her head to the ground and, mumbling Raven's name, obviously mad. That was when Nora took two steps back, and her eyes widened as she spoke.

"They...they really are magic!" Nora softly exclaimed, looking up with fear, confusion, yet excitement as well. Real magic truly took a toll on the ones who never truly believed in it.

Raven took off her helmet, and hooked it to her belt. Her red eyes staring directly down onto Qrow and Wyatt.

"If you're going to shoot me, shoot m-." Raven's dialogue was interrupted when she pulled out her Odachi, and blocked the incoming Plasma rounds which Wyatt unleashed on her. He squeezed the trigger over and over until his Cutter finally ran out of ammo in his first Plasma Clip. The loud crack of the Plasma exiting the barrel echoed throughout the empty room, amplifying it.

Raven stood still, her Odachi glowing hot as the Plasma heated up the unknown metal her large sword was made out of. She sheathed it once more, and placed her hand on her hip, staring directly at Wyatt now.

"That was insulting." She said, her rude attitude coming off like a bullet.

"Showing your face is insulting, Raven." Wyatt shot back, spitting out Raven's name as if it were poison. Qrow started to grind his teeth together, seeing how his sister just showed up to Haven Academy unannounced, and was now belittling them.

"What are you doing here!?" Qrow grunted, raising his sword while gripping onto its handle tighter than he ever before. His veins literally popping out of his head and hands. Raven turned and started to walk down the left staircase, looking over to the group.

"I could ask you the same thing." Raven said, grinning smugly. "You've been scheming little brother."

There was a pause as she stepped off the staircase, and started to walk to the statue which rested in between both staircases, and held up the small balcony Lionheart stood on.

"Planning to attack your own sister..."

"Leo!" Qrow grunted. "What have you done!?"

"I-..."

"Leo what any sane person would in his position." Raven interrupted, standing before Qrow's entire group. Professor Lionheart only looked down in shame, his eyes becoming watery. "He looked at all the information he had in front of him, assessed the situation, and made a choice..."

..."And it seems you all have too."

Yang growled, getting in a fighting stance, while Wyatt stepped in front of Qrow, loading another Plasma clip into his Cutter, and gripping onto it tightly. Wyatt paced side to side, staring at raven for a moment before he came to speak.

"You have the Spring Maiden." Wyatt growled, his silver orbs filled with red hot fire.

"I do."

"Hand her over, and let's work together. We can beat Salem, damn it!"

"All that time Qrow spent spying for Ozpin and he still has no idea what he's dealing with! He's dragging you all into this. There is no beating Salem!" Raven exclaimed, staring Wyatt dead in the eye before they all heard a voice from the back. A soft one filled with hope.

"You're wrong." Ruby Rose said, as she took a step forward. Wyatt took a few steps back, standing next to Ruby, making sure Raven wouldn't try anything stupid. Ruby deserved to speak her opinion now, they've all spoken theirs.

"We've done things that most people would call impossible! And I know the only reason we where able to do it is because we didn't do it alone! We have people to teach us, people to help us, we had each other!" Ruby had ranted, causing Raven's face to contort with various emotions. Ruby extended her hand towards Raven. "Work with us...at least I know we'll have a better chance if we try together...please."

The small silence held when Raven's face turned back into a deep frown. She gripped her Odachi, and spoke to Ruby.

"You sound just like your mother...!" Raven quickly unsheathed her Odachi, and sliced it next to her vertically. A red portal immediately opened up, and a fireball came shooting out towards Ruby. Wyatt immediately noticed this, and pushed her out of the way, the fireball making direct contact with his chest, hitting him with such force that it knocked him on his back.

"Wyatt!" Weiss shouted, as she ran over to Wyatt, who was slowly getting up. He dropped to his knee, and finally got up when Weiss pulled him from the ground. He stumbled to the front of the group again, nodding to Weiss who stood in the back. His entire suit was still 100% intact except for the small scorch mark which was right next to his holographic display, covering his right right and shoulder.

"Hello boys and girls." Said a voice as it came through the portal.

Wyatt breathed heavily as he watched four people come out of the red portal. Cinder Fall, along with Mercury, Emerald, and Vernal, all walked through the portal, standing side by side as it closed.

"Cinder." Ruby breathed, her voice filled with anger.

Most people gasped, but Wyatt stared at Cinder with hate-filled eyes. He had heard all about the Battle of Beacon, and how Team JNPR lost their teammate to that woman. How she weaseled her way through Beacon and the Vytal festival with her two little pawns. Wyatt started to see the Marker symbols appear in the room, and heard small whispering as he clutched his Plasma Cutter his body visibly shaking.

"Come on guys. Is that any way to greet your old friends." Mercury said, his face plastered with smile only a delinquent could pull off so well. Yang growled, but Qrow stopped her, and spoke.

"Everybody stay calm!" Qrow ordered, but Wyatt didn't adhere to it, as all he could hear was the voices, and Marker symbols appearing.

That was when the large entrance doors opened up behind Qrow's group, and everyone looked back. Wyatt could only hear Oscar whisper 'Oh no', before the large, burly man slammed the doors shut, and looked to everyone before speaking.

"The White Fang is prepping demolition, and securing the school grounds." The man said, fulling turning around, and started to walk down the hall. "No ones getting in, and no ones getting out."

"This was all just a trap?" Weiss asked.

"It appears so." Ren said, answering the demoralizing question.

The atmosphere was made even worse when Wyatt started to laugh. He jabbed his finger at Raven, keeping his Cutter by his side.

"So bitch. Tell me, how long have you been with Dorthy and her heartless, cowardly, and brainless scum who call themselves her followers?" Wyatt laughed, pointing to Mercury, Emerald, and Hazel, the man who had just locked the doors shut.

"Wh-Who are you?!" Mercury asked, raising his fists to Wyatt. Wyatt stopped laughing, and looked up, wiping a tear from his eye, and stared directly into Mercury's.

"Just the man who is laughing at your pitiful display of strength and fear." Wyatt said, mocking Cinder's disciple. "Like, seriously, I've seen dead fetuses that are scarier than you could ever hope to be."

Wyatt looked back to Raven now, the intention to kill her right when shit hits the fan.

"Answer me...how long have you been with these villain wannabes?"

Raven didn't get a chance to speak, as Cinder stepped forward, and answered for her. Cinder looked directly to Wyatt, who had just switched his Plasma Cuter to alt-fire, the mechanical whirring of the machinery twisting the vertical barrel horizontal so it can cover a wider area, and take out more than two people at once. Cinder stepped up, coming back with her own mockery.

"Aw, you don't have to take it personally. She was only a recent addition." Cinder said mockingly. "The lion on the other hand...well, entrance into the Vytal Festival was a real treat. Little Leonardo has been sending Salem all sorts of information for a very, very long time. Isn't that right, professor?"

"Stop it."

"It was you. You sit on the Mistral Council. You have information on every Huntsmen and Huntress in the kingdom...and you gave it all to her! Qrow exclaimed, extremely hurt by Lionheart's betrayal. However, Wyatt stood there, staring into Cinder's eye. Wyatt saw through Cinder's facade, and his little outbreak he just had was the first step to cracking her open. All he needed was a fight to break out...that's all her needed.

make us whole...

Cinder would be brought down, and Wyatt would be the one to break every single one of her bones. He wouldn't kill her, oh no, he'd let her suffer, for everyone she made suffer before this. He slowly reached into his pocket, and pulled out the Marker Shard, its sharp tip still covered with dried blood. He clenched it tight as Qrow cut off Lionheart and spoke again.

"I..-"

"I couldn't find any of them!" Qrow yelled. "Because you let her kill them!"

Professor Lionheart's features dropped, as he looked back. His hand started to shake as he was contemplating what he had just done. He was the reason so many good Hunters and Huntresses where killed in cold blood. Some that even went to his school, and he knew personally...dead! All because of him. He darted his eyes left to right, before Cinder's soft voice came to calm him down.

"Oh don't beat yourself about it Lionheart. I'm sure Tyrian and Hazel would've found them on their own eventually." Cinder said, bragging about her group, and ensuring the deaths those good people, one way or another. She didn't relish in their suffering for long, however, as Jaune broke down and finally released his anger.

"What is wrong with you!" Jaune screamed, getting everyone's attention, even Wyatt's. "How can you be so broken inside? To take so many lives and then come here and rub it in our faces like it's something to be proud of!"

"Jaune...?" Wyatt said, looking back with genuine concern. He had never seen him break down like this, but Wyatt was pretty sure he knew why. Pyrrha Nikkos...Jaune's teammate was killed by Cinder atop Beacon tower during the Battle of Beacon. Jaune felt so bad, his anger welled up, and he missed Pyrrha. Wyatt felt really bad for Jaune, seeing as he lost someone he loved, and is now facing the woman who killed her. Deep down inside, however, Wyatt was hoping Jaune would snap. He needed someone to instigate this fight sooner or later.

"ALL WITH THAT DAMN SMILE ON YOUR FACE!" Jaune roared, tears streaming down his eyes as he looked to Cinder, who looked amused. Everyone took out their weapons, and activated them, while Wyatt only placed the Marker Shard back into his coat pocket, activating his helmet so it would fold over his head, and cover it again. Qrow didn't like this though.

"Everybody! Stay. Calm." Qrow urged, putting his hands out. He looked to Wyatt for help, but only got a shake from Wyatt's head. Wyatt wanted this fight, and he wanted it bad. Qrow saw that this was bad...REALLY BAD.

"I'm gonna make you pay for what you did!" Jaune screamed, grabbing his sword handle, and unsheathing his weapon. "Do you hear me!? WELL, SAY SOMETHING"

Cinder stared at Jaune, with her own Disciples looking to their master, seeing what she'd say to the boy. Cinder rose her eyebrow, and just dissed Jaune completely.

"Who are you again?" She asked, holding a perfect poker face. This shocked Jaune at first, but he growled, and charged Cinder, who had crated her own sword out of flames. Jaune swung as hard as he could, the sword came in a blur, and...

CLANG

Cinder stood there, smiling as she blocked Jaune's sword strike with one hand. Emerald quickly extended the blades on her Kusarigamas, but Ruby was coming to Jaune's aid.

"Jaune!" Ruby exclaimed, using her Scythe to shoot her up into the air, aiming for Cinder. However, Emerald's chains had wrapped around her, pulling her to the floor, hard. Ruby hit the floor with a thud, and grimaced.

"You're not getting near her." Emerald said, smirking.

"BUT I AM!" Roared Wyatt as he ran up to Cinder, and punched her jaw so hard, the audible pop was actually heard by everyone in the room. This caused everyone to get enraged, and the entire battle broke out.

Raven spoke to Vernal, but quickly held her sword up in defense, as her brother, Qrow, slammed his large blade into hers, aiming for her head. Qrow stared at her with hate-filled eyes, and spoke through their sword-lock.

"Running away is one thing, but this! You've crossed the line!" Qrow exclaimed, pushing down with all of his might.

"Sorry brother." Raven grunted. "Sometimes family disappoints you like that!"

"We're not family anymore!"

"Where we ever?" Raven's answer hit Qrow emotionally as hard a truck. He shook it out of his head, his hate starting to overflow and come out with a killing urge.

"I thought so." He said, twisting his sword, and trying to strike his enemy once more. "But I guess I was wrong!"

Wyatt had kept Jaune behind him most of the time, and he kept parrying blows with Cinder, using the combat knife he kept on his boot for about the first time in what felt like ages. He pressed the advantage on Cinder using his knife to cut chucks of Cinder's aura. He quickly stomped on Cinder's heel, causing her to stagger in pain, and he headbutted her with his helmet, knocking her to the ground.

Cinder looked up to see a boot coming for her head, and she dodged it by rolling away, sweeping Wyatt's feet. Wyatt fell back, and Cinder rose her sword above his head to impale him, but her strike was blocked by Jaune who used Crocea Mors to block her strike. Cinder looked up to see Jaune swipe his sword up, overpowering her, throwing her back. Wyatt grabbed Juane's hand, and got up, taking his Cutter that he dropped onto the ground, and aimed at Cinder. He fired his entire clip at her body, but Cinder roared, raising her hand up, creating a wall of fire which the Plasma shots impacted with.

"GOD DAMN IT." Wyatt cursed, as he holstered his Cutter, and ran towards the wall.

Cinder pushed the wall with her hand, and it came in contact with Wyatt. However, his Witness Suit's synthetic fibers reflected the fire with its flame adhesive. Wyatt ran through and grabbed Cinder by her waist, and slammed her against the ground as hard as he could. Cinder gasped for air as her breathe was knocked out of her. In a desperate attempt, she threw up both hands, and spiraling flames shot out, making contact with Wyatt's helmet, shooing him fifteen feet back.

Wyatt laid down on his back, as his helmet deactivated and folded back into his armor. He gasped for breathe as the impact he made with the floor cracked one of his ribs. He didn't look up, but could hear the clashing of swords, and the echoes of bullets firing throughout the halls. He slowly looked up, and saw Cinder knock Jaune to the floor with her sword, pointing at him and taunting him.

"I'm starting to remember you." Cinder laughed. "You're the dense one who can't tell when he's out of his league."

Wyatt grunted, and got up, coughing up a small amount of blood before he wiped his mouth. Suddenly, he heard a sharp scream, and everyone stopped to see Weiss, who had just gotten her Aura broken by Vernal. She slumped to her knees, and started to breathe heavily. Wyatt shot up, and screamed, quickly slinging his Pulse Rifle over his shoulder and fired an entire clip into Vernal, breaking her aura and sending a bullet into her shoulder. Vernal screamed in pain as blood ran down her tattooed arm. Wyatt looked back to Cinder, who was about to charge head-on with Jaune, intending to kill this time. Wyatt grunted, and stood up.

His eyes started to light up with a strange feeling he had never felt before. However, he heard Ruby scream, and a white light quickly engulfed everyone, but only for a second as she was knocked unconscious by Emerald. Wyatt reloaded his Pulse Rifle, and went to aim at Emerald when out of the corner of his eye, he saw Cinder drop instantly, grunting as her powers failed her all the sudden. Wyatt clenched his teeth, and went to shoot Cinder when Jaune shot straight forward, aiming to stab her head, but missed by mere centimeters, a he slit the side of her mask, and stumbled forward, too tired to fight anymore.

Cinder's eye was flaming, as she walked to Jaune, and stomped on his chest plate.

"Did you think you actually had a chance against me!? YOU!" She screamed, digging her heel into Jaune's abdomen. "You're just a failure with a death wish."

Juane grunted, looking up to Cinder and spoke.

"If I die buying them time, it'll be worth it." Jaune said, looking to Cinder, and motioning towards all of his friends who where fighting. "They're the ones that matter."

Cinder looked at him for a moment, before looking to see if Wyatt was still down. Lucky for her, he was crawling towards her slowly, throwing out every curse in the book. She smiled, and looked back down to Jaune.

"You think so?" She said, turning to Weiss, who was thrown across the room by an enraged Vernal with a bleeding arm. Weiss could only get to her knees, as she stood there, not moving.

Cinder slowly walked away from Jaune, raising her hand to form a fire spear. Her female disciple, Emerald, watched as Cinder rose the spear, aiming for Weiss. Wyatt's eyed widened, as Jaune could only scream.

"NOOO!"

Cinder threw the spear as Weiss rose her head. Suddenly, the sharp, flying object impaled her abdomen, causing her to gasp in pain, looking up. She slowly looked down to her abdomen, to see the spear that impaled her evaporate into thin air, leaving a bloody hole. She took sharp breathes, and twitched as she tried to feel her abdomen. Her twitching slowly stopped as everyone ended their fights abruptly, to look at the dying girl. She stopped breathing, fell forward, and stopped moving.

Cinder didn't enjoy that victory for long, as she heard Wyatt stand up, and scream her name.

"CINDERRRRRRR!" Wyatt roared, causing everyone to look at him.

"NOW YOU FUCKED UP!"

Cinder's eye widened as Wyatt's gleaming silver-eyes burst forth a powerful white light, and the energy surrounding it froze her. She tried to scream but was silenced when a powerful fist collided with her face, causing a huge explosion that engulfed everyone.

All there was for anyone to see was...

A bright light, a blood red symbol from Wyatt's suit, and three words which shot their way through everyody's minds.

MAKE US WHOLE