Well lookie here! I have your chapter for you as promised!
I've been working long and hard for this so hopefully you enjoy it! The second to last set of chapters in this mini-saga in Atlas, this episode we'll going over what happens when you make L angry. A fair warning, don't do it. This chapter may bring feelings of intense suspense/anxiety or excitement for those of you who are adrenaline junkies.
(Psst, hey! I may have snuck in some Bumblebee in here! :3 L's glaring at me now..I'll just let you read before I get shot at.)
"Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society." - Patrick J. Kennedy
And a recent note, RIP Evan Wallace aka e-dubble November 1st 1982 - February 15th 2017, an influential part of my life as I've been dealing with my problems, may this hip hop God rest in peace, it has genuinely made me cry that this guy has passed away, not L, he hasn't got any tear ducts...or at least I don't think he does.
If you haven't heard of this guy, his Youtube channel, Soundcloud or just search him up on Google or Bing or AskJeeves still has all of his tracks (But who uses Jeeves?), or at least 99% of them, I recommend tracks in his Freestyle Friday series that he did waaay back in 2010 and 2013, the single Changed my Mind or even What it Do. Worked wonders for the times I felt very down, my respects and prayers go out to his family and the rest of his grieving fans and friends in Baltimore and the rest of the States or around the world, enjoy the chapter!
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! L-look! I'll give you everything we have! Just, c-calm down!" The teller says to a typical thug in a leather jacket with a brown wolfs head on the back, a gang logo, all of the members wore the same jacket and a clown mask.
"You better! Or I'll blast your brains out!" He says threateningly with a hidden smirk, his compatriots spread out through the foyer of the bank they stood in, weapons aimed at the rounded up civilians, one of them is standing on a table above the hostages giving out a speech.
"Ladies and Gentlemen please remain calm, I know you must feel confused with all that is happening right now, yes we are robbing this bank, but don't worry, your money is insured, you will be payed back within a seven day period I think it is now, I don't remember, anyway, we will let you all free soon and you will all be unharmed. Do not try to be a hero in this situation, think about your family and friends. Thank you for your time and please remember: Don' Ac' Dum'." (Bonus points and a free high five for people who get that reference.)
Soon enough he hopped off the table and checked up on the progress of wiring the funds from the bank. "Progress?" "5 minutes." his clown masked counterpart responded immediately.
Back in the area the hostages sat in however a certain bombastic blonde lay partially unconscious until she yawned loudly and stood up, the men responding by shouting at her to get on the goddamn ground. Which they stopped doing and just sighed at as Yang started stumbling about in a drunken manner whilst talking to herself.
"Greeeeaaaat, a drunk one, someone put her on the floor." One of the three thugs says as the one closest to her starts walking over to her calmly. "Alright come on, have a lie down." He says as he places a hand on her shoulder, Yang's mumbling getting a little louder.
"I can't understand you." He says which then elicits Yang to look at him with an annoyed expression, still barely keeping on her feet. "That's because you're not listening!" She says hotly making the guy blink at her until she then added.
"Also, I need to borwow you fur a moment." "Wait wha-" He barely has time to respond as he suddenly finds himself flying towards one of his team mates, both of which being knocked out by the force of being thrown into another person.
The final and third thug turning around to find a table slamming into his face before he can react. Yang began stumbling over to the thug she'd tossed and spoke to the unconscious thug.
"Thanks!" She says before moving up the staircase where one of the thugs is stuffing a bag filled with money, which promptly became the last thing he saw before he fell unconscious from having his face slammed into bullet proof glass.
"It's okay...I'm a Huntwess...sorta...kinda...hehe..." Yang babbled and giggled to the stunned bank teller who just shook his head, no longer capable of evening at this point, he just wants to drink himself to sleep.
Yang started going upstairs to the offices much to the tellers disapproval, but Yang couldn't hear him as she was stuck in her own little world, not even noticing that she has Ember Celica active and armed.
"Hey! Shouldn't you be with the hostages?" A thug asks Yang, standing directly behind her before she twirls around and uppercuts him into the ceiling as Yang yelps.
"I'm sorry...yah scurd meh..." Yang says with a completely innocent expression, another couple of thugs coming to see what all the commotion is all about before opening fire on Yang who dives, more like falls, behind a water cooler.
Entering a more serious mode as her body cranks up the adrenaline. "Reloading!" The thugs shout as they stop firing allowing Yang to charge at the pair faster than lightning, punching one straight in the face, sending him spiralling down the corridor.
The other thug had already reloaded and began firing at where Yang was, Yang is currently bent backwards to avoid getting shot before throwing a punch towards the rectangular lights above the thug making it drop on him, using this to her advantage Yang uppercutted the guy before grabbing him by the ankles and slamming him into the ground.
Yang started checking each office for more thugs as she began to retake partial control of her motor skills. "Here Goldilocks..." the voice of the thug who gave the speech earlier says as Yang turns in time to see a rocket propelled grenade heading her direction.
"Aw fu-" She says before the area fills with smoke from the explosion, the thug coughing to himself and waving his hand around to try to clear the smoke a bit more. Once it did clear however, the thugs jaw dropped as he saw a Yang standing there with a flake of her hair falling in front of her. And it was at this moment, that he knew, he fucked up. (Sorry, but you've got to put it that way.)
A purple tear inside reality opened in the centre of the foyer of the bank Yang was currently pummelling inside. L and Blake looked over the recovering hostages and the unconscious thugs, looking to each other and nodding.
Blake instantly set to work on checking up on the hostages, L making sure that each of the three men and one by the teller are definitely unconscious, slightly regretting he'd changed back to his regular clothes before everyone's attention was turned to a flaming blonde who came crashing through a wall and landing on her feet, sliding next to her brother.
L didn't question it as they both got into stance, L rolling his shoulders with a satisfying pop. "How many?" "Two." "Two?" L asked incredulously. But soon enough he saw why Yang was having a small bit of trouble with the first one.
The once rocket wielding idiot had turned quiet possibly the closest you'll ever get to a Bane look alike. The man is bald and held an ugly scar going down the right side of his face. His clothing is hanging in drabs off of him as his muscular structure had increased in density by quiet a bit.
Other than that he looked completely human, no obvious injection sites or sign of drugs besides the obvious adrenaline. "Some Semblance." L comments with an odd tone, his expression mirroring that of a disappointed father for a split second. But this disappears as Blake steps onto Yang's right drawing Gambol Shroud in the process.
"Let's take out the trash." Yang says with a grin as the trio and the towering Bane lookalike charged at each other, L catching his two fists as he attempts to crush the three, much to the thugs surprise, the floor cracking underneath L as he used his Aura to enhance his resistance to the physical force of the blow.
Yang instantly took this chance to give the brute a left hook to the face, stunning him as Blake runs up the wall behind the thug and jumps off, launching herself downward and into the titans chest, causing a Psionic shockwave to knock him back into the hole in the wall from whence he came.
The brute however started getting up once again, this time a lot more angrier. "Well now we know that this guy is as durable as hard as he hits." L comments. "Any ideas?" Yang asks. "We have to restrict his movement and disable his Aura." Blake says. "Stasis won't work on this guy and if I use it on him we won't be able to hit him." L says before each of them have to dodge a piece of the wall being thrown at them.
"Hey Leanardo!" Yang shouts to L as he jumps to the ceiling to dodge a punch by the brute, however Yang continued to shout to him anyway. "Remember the MAC Cannon you showed me once!?" "Yang that's a bit overkill!" Yang sighs and face-palms. "I may be drunk but it shouldn't be that hard to understand what I'm saying." Yang mutters to herself.
"She wants you to fling her at him!" Blake shouts to L as she gains the monsters attention by shooting at it. Succeeding in doing so, she found herself having to dodge a giant fist. L landed opposite the brute and began steadily charging up the means to firing something with enough kinetic energy to cut the Eiffel Tower in half perfectly like a hot knife through butter.
Yang and Blake nodded to each other as Blake suppressed the thing along with Yang, the bane lookalike unknowingly punching a smirking Yang into the fist of a charging L, making sure to put herself into a position she can use his fist as a launchpad.
And as Sir Isaac Newton once said: Every object persists in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless it is compelled to change that state by forces implied on it. And the Force of said object is equal to the change of momentum per change in time.
In this case, Yang is lucky her Aura can stand enough Force to be knocked up to the stratosphere and back down again and be almost completely unscathed. Otherwise lets just say that she'll be having a bad day.
And she's going to hit someone at these Forces.
She springs straight into the giant harder than a hurricane making a massive boom in the process as the sound barrier is shattered to a million pieces, quiet possibly deafening a couple of people nearby in the process.
The Brute became dazed and confused as it found itself on the ground shrinking back to his normal size, only suddenly to find Yang pummelling his face in harder and harder as the floor under the monsters head began to get more and more cracked, she only stopped when she felt the hand of L on her shoulder, making her stop for a moment.
"He touched my hair." "Oh, then by all means." L says as Yang brings her fists up to continue punching the unconscious ex-brute, if he's even alive. "L..." Blake says with a scolding tone.
"Fine, Yang let's go I'm sure the police are dying to get this mess cleaned up." At this Yang sighs and nods as an acknowledgement, feeling like she didn't get enough pummeling out of her system, standing up once again, she kicked him in the side of the head instead.
"I didn't punch him." Neither L or Blake respond to Yang as the Atlas police forces move in to secure the bank, only having to subdue one computer nerd.
The three exited the bank as they gave witness statements and received thanks from each of the hostages, the bank teller apparently being already drunk on White Wine, the final robber being secured easily in the back and the transfer of money stopped, seeing as how the computer nerd was unarmed and untrained.
"So...who's your girlfriend?" Yang asks with a completely casual tone, Blake blushing whilst looking down. "Oh you have a girlfriend? Why didn't you tell me you two knew each other?" L re-directs the teasing back towards Yang and Blake who both slap him in sync, one cheek each, though both of them are blushing which didn't help their case.
"Awwwww you two would be adorable together, the out of control motherly figure and book worm ninja." Both Blake and Yang narrowed their eyes at L, his laughter echoing down the still busy streets of sub-Atlas as L calls it, the two girls cheeks turned ever the more redder, Blake's bow going backwards on her head as well as they give him a death glare which elicits him to close his mouth, though it still emitted a muffled noise.
"I'm going to shut up now before I lose the ability to breed." L declares as he opens a portal. "Yang this is Blake a good friend of mine, Blake this is Yang my sister, she'll be staying with us for a while, I'll leave you two alone. Ciao!" "Wai-" Blake says as she reaches out for L but it's too late as he'd already disappeared into the portal with the biggest grin she'd ever seen him wear and an evil cackle fit for the history books.
Blake slowly turns around to face Yang who is stood there glaring at where the portal was until she noticed Blake looking at her at which point she started smiling and walking back to the Hotel with Blake.
Turns out the two didn't have that bad of a start despite first meeting during a bank robbery. Blake found it hard to believe that Yang was drunk at the time and still is but Yang waved it off as adrenaline overriding the alcohol, insisting that she's fine.
"So, how'd you meet my bro?" Yang asks at which point Blake starts internally screaming that she doesn't know whether or not she can trust the information to Yang and that she doesn't have a backstory readily prepared for this scenario.
"Ummmm...We...met in Forever Fall." Well, she wasn't lying so far. "Uh huh and what were both of you doing in Forever Fall?" Yang asked with curiosity, Blake getting flashbacks to how they were overwhelmed by two of the best Agents of the Network.
"I was out for a walk...aaand...L saved me from a few Ursai." (Ursai is plural in the RWBY universe apparently despite it being "Ursae" in traditional Latin that the name was based off, weird huh?) Blake hoped that sounded convincing, which it didn't, but Yang didn't pry further, besides she could just ask L whilst he was day dreaming, that was when she always got answers out of him because he was the most vulnerable at that point. Evil Yang is evil.
"Uh huh. Weeell, I for one wasn't aware that L had any friends to begin with, even at his 'work'." The way Yang said 'work' insinuated that she knew what L does for a living, or at the very least is aware that he works in that sort of business.
"There are a lot of things about L no one knows." Blake answers distantly which Yang nods to in agreement. "I wish he wouldn't take on everything alone, I like it when he smiles and I mean a Smile, not the façade that says 'I'll be alright even though I'm not right now.'" Blake frowns to herself at this. Is that what L meant by 'I've worn that look a lot before.' She thinks to herself.
"Hey, Remnant to Blake, ya in there friend?" Yang asks as she slowly waves a hand in front of Blake's face eliciting her to snap out of her own musings. "Sorry, just fazed out for a second there." Blake responded politely.
"No probs, pretty sure it's two in the morning or something, you should get some sleep!" Yang says as she crouches down. "What are you-" "Hop on!" At this Blake stares at Yang in silence for a full minute with a mixture of confusion and indecisiveness.
"What?..." Yang not loosing any of her upbeat nature in the process responds immediately. "Hop on! I'll carry you back to the penthouse whilst you sleep." At this Blake's blush intensifies.
"No t-thank you!" Blake raises her hands and shakes them in denial, her face in an expression of pure embarrassment before yawning. Really Not helping your case there Kitten.
"Come on, you're not that fragile Rosie, despite what your cheeks say." Yang says with a grin as she tugs on Blake's cheeks making her sigh in defeat, also making Blake want to grit her teeth in embarrassment and slight frustration of her less than favourable situation.
(Free piggy back ride whilst you sleep, who else thinks this is a good deal? Though there's the possibility of being kidnapped because you did something to Yang's hair whilst unconscious. Let me know what you think about her options.)
(L: But for the sake of appeasing the shippers and Kei's lack of story telling potential we'll go with the obvious one.)
(Hehe he's pouting now, he loves the ship as much as I do, really.)
"Fine..." Blake responds as Yang simply gives off a 'whoop!' before picking up Blake and placing her legs over Yang's shoulders, Blake having to hold onto Yang's head to stop herself from falling off.
"Careful of my hair up there!" Yang says as she starts walking, Blake yawning once again as response eliciting Yang to just giggle at her cuteness making Blake blush even more, she didn't know it, but Yang is also blushing in embarrassment, but she was much better at this sort of thing than our socially awkward kitten. (*hits the boat with a bottle* aaaaand off it goes.)
After 10 minutes of walking, Blake eventually fell asleep, her chin resting on top of Yang's head as she snoozed quietly, Yang being Yang, thinking of new material to make everyone groan/laugh, depends on the situation. Elsewhere however things were getting interesting. Not just because of Taiyang and Qrows laughter outside the Combat Simulator.
A Ruined City-Scape, the Combat Simulator.
"I said I'm sorry!" L says before letting out a yelp and dodging a shinny blade being hurled at L from someones weapon. "You're still a boy, you shouldn't go out on your own." Summer responded as she continued her slow approach towards L, said person letting out a curse before speedily teleporting to a random location on the ruinous place. "I heard that mister!" Summer shouted as she noticed he'd teleported.
(The blades are about the size and look of the blades, not the hilt, of iron swords from Skyrim. Only more shiny :D)
"Well...You don't know how Evil you can get until someone upsets your kids." He says to himself before squinting slightly as he realised how irrelevant that metaphor is since not only the fact he is Summer's child but SHE'S attacking HIM because he went out at stupid o'clock without permission. I have weird parents. L thought to himself.
He was brought out of his musings by another blade suddenly protruding from the wall he's taking cover in, directly in front of his face. "Huh, you have good hearing." He says before charging out of the window beside him in a blur as he attempted to lose his mother in the maze of holographic ruins.
Summer is using her Aura to increase her speed to barely keep up with L who is constantly deflecting the blades Summer launches at L from her wrist blades that protrude from gauntlets on her arms. This was the case until she realised that she'd been chasing a Psionic clone which disappeared as the wall beside her exploded outwards in milliseconds, L springing forth as he kicks Summer a hundred meters away into a ruined gas station.
"You know I can take care of myself, you've seen my memories and know what I can do, you don't need to be concerned." He tries to reason only to let out a short yelp and have to instantly form up a Wakizashi from nothing as he rapidly deflects an incoming barrage of blades before barely managing blocking a downwards strike from Summer's two wrist mounted blades sitting in a temporary lock of blades, L managing the strength to push her away, Summer standing opposite L now. "I know, I want you to prove it to me." Summer says in a calm voice eliciting L to straighten up slightly.
"You challenge me?" L asks with slight scepticism, his voice changing in a way Summer couldn't describe in any other way than prideful. Summer then smiles and nods, a playful expression donning her face, L starting to mimic the expression in his own slightly psychotic way. He stretches, letting his limbs give off a satisfying pop in response.
"Don't do that it's bad for your joints." "Okay okay." L says as he puts his hands up. "Say the words please." L says before he gets into a slightly more lax version of his martial arts stance, the Wakizashi disappearing. Summer smiles more and says. "Take it at lest a bit easy on me I'm a little rusty. I challenge thee." Summer says in a mock medieval voice, pointing her left blade at L, making him roll his eyes.
"Then let's get some ground rules straightened out." The familiar voice of Taiyang speaks as he appears beside Summer gradually getting into his own martial arts stance, Qrow doing the same on Summer's left as he grabs his clockwork sword/scythe. "Rule #1. There are no rules." Qrow says with his own brand of amusement, taking a gulp from his flask.
Everyone smiles as L quips. "That about covers it, don't go easy on me, I wanna see what the best Team of Beacon academy in your time has to offer someone like me." L's voice turned to one of anticipation as he spins a fully formed Vengeance in a circle and pointed at the three...'available' members of Team STRQ.
"You won't beat us, but even still, you'll likely be head of your Year." Taiyang says as everyone besides L gets into a serious stance. "I know. Ozpin said I'd probably get that luck." At this the three paused but soon grouped up as they noticed L's afterimage disappear, now he could be anywhere.
"He's faster than I remember." Qrow quips. "Well he did say not to go easy on him so I doubt he's going to go very easy on us, despite me telling him otherwise." Summer says before Taiyang shouts. "UP!" Each of them rolling out of the way just in time to avoid becoming crushed by L, however the shockwave of his landing threw each of them off, but the Professional Hunters and Huntress showed great skill in recovering mid-step through the air.
L started to focus down the weakest link. Tai. Or so he thought. Both Summer and Qrow coming in to support Taiyang as he barely managed to dodge or block each strike from the long and surprisingly hard blade, trying to figure out a pattern whilst letting his instincts guide him, but each swipe is an unrecognisable blur as L held a cold expression of a calculative and combat savvy being.
Tai manged to find an opening, taking it by launching a swift strike to his side as he managed to backflip away from L also catching his chin with his foot making him stumble backwards half an inch.
Qrow took this chance to engage from behind as he began striking only to find L matching each strike despite facing away from Qrow, though Qrow buckled slightly from the force behind each hit, he was assisted by Summer as she threw as many blades at him as she could at a time.
L somehow still managed to block each blade being launched at him and match Qrow's strikes at his fastest, right up until Qrow felt something different, he was starting to be beaten back.
L's face held one of pure concentration. But it was only added to when Taiyang started throwing in his own surprisingly hard and fast strikes in front of him using his spare hand to block each fist or foot, not like the times L had sparred with him, in a way he was impressed with his father for surprising him.
As L managed to get a seconds worth of break from Summers blades, he blocked another strike from Qrow, using that chance to allow Taiyang to get a couple of hits in, but faster than he could react, L's foot shot out to drag out Taiyang's knee which he used to step up and kick-flip Tai's face and launch himself over Qrow.
Prematurely accelerating his own heart rate, he launched himself forwards incredibly fast right as he landed, pushing Qrow into the air by taking out his legs from under him and kneeing Taiyang in the face before once again using him as a lift to spin-kick Qrow away in the air still, the foot landing on Qrow's sword but still making him go flying some distance from the force of the hit.
L landed slightly wrong on his ankle, dislocating it, which repaired a few seconds after the injury was recognised by his body, or in other words, a flick of his foot in a perfect angle and it snapped back in place like a magnet, the pain being negligible at this point from overwhelming amounts of adrenaline filling his body. Summer started coming in for the assault tactic instead of trying to overwhelm L from afar.
As quickly as his sword was there, it was replaced by a pair of Escrima with quiet shocking tips that sparked each time they made contact with Summers blades, with each time Summer struck, she could never make contact, only just being swatted away by those annoying batons.
She noticed that she'd left a hole in her defense as she swung overhead, allowing L to duck under her and jab the shocking end of the stick into her gut making her wince at the pain before being uppercutted into the air and before she knew she was even in the air, she was swatted down by a staff that L was making do cartwheels.
This allowed L to get off a lot of hits on Summer until Qrow managed to get him to move away from Summer as he started firing at L which drew his immediate attention, Taiyang coming for a vengeance as he swept the legs out from under him from behind whilst L was concentrating on deflecting the bullets.
He grabbed Summer and jumped back next to Qrow as he strengthened their Aura's along with their physical strength and stamina, Summer taking out her Scroll to see that L has barely even got a dent in his Aura making her eyes widen in shock as well as being impressed that her boy is so powerful, though slightly jealous over the fact that all that effort was basically for nought.
"Well, looks like plan A won't work." Taiyang quips. "Summer, it's time for chains, let's see if distance does anything, Tai you know what to do." At this they each nod as Qrow suppresses L trying to keep him in place as Summer charges straight for him. During this time, L had gathered a lot of information on each of them, their combat styles as well as methods of team work.
"Qrow is fast but heavy handed, likely a more defensive player until he's pushed, even still his tenacity is making him annoying. Summer is very fast and multi-role, her weapons are unique in that manner. Taiyang appears to be able to bolster Aura and stamina. That leaves the fourth member to likely be their Dust Support member, but obviously she isn't here. Much like the probability of you winning once the other two get here." A female voice sounded in his head. His only response was 'Hm.' That sounded slightly annoyed at the A.I.'s sarcastic remark at the end. In a split second decision, L made his combined Escrima disappear, instead replacing them with a pair of Pantheon's.
The handle to each gun being made of spruce wood, the rest of the weapons gleaming their gun-metal colour have a temporary feeling of nostalgia before being refocused.
L tensed his legs in preparation for his mothers assault as he subconsciously remembered to dodge each low calibre bullet headed his direction, though he couldn't see Taiyang, which elicited him to give off a knowing smirk.
With a well timed back flip L managed to avoid having his feet swept from under him making Taiyang's eyes widen slightly as the words Uh oh. Formed inside his head before having his wife charge past him.
Summer let out a tiny smirk as L is still in mid-air and with his back to her. "Get over here!" Summer shouted as she launched a blade on a chain from her right gauntlet at him with absolute pinpoint accuracy only to see the blade shoot through what she now realised was his after image. "oh..." was Summers reaction before being uppercutted mid-air and then spin kicked into Qrow in the distance.
Taiyang managed to dropkick L into the floor and start launching strikes at him, each one managing to get in but something felt odd, there wasn't that much of an impact, sure there was the usual sting and fire in his fists but it didn't feel like a person or Aura, the reason became obvious to him as he managed to spot a purple barrier appear when each of his strikes were about to land, though it didn't look like Aura.
"Times up." L murmurs as he catches the next fist Tai launches, kicking him into the air, only to end up start firing multiple shots to match each blade being shot at him as well as dodging bullets from an older scythe wielding individual.
"Remember our team attack?" Qrow says to Summer, at which point she nods as the two start charging towards L who is now firing at the two only to find each bullet meeting equal metal from either Summers one handed blades or Qrows clockwork sword. L's eyes narrowed slightly before he switched out one revolver for Vengeance.
Summer let out a roar which made L wince as his ear drums started hurting, so he reduced his reliance on his hearing by increasing the power to his Psionics rather than the specific sense which he used to keep tabs on surprise attacks from Taiyang, making his eyes now glow like searchlights.
During this time however he failed to notice that the ground had become littered with fire, Qrow huffing and puffing as he runs around L, each strike or bullet L threw being deflected. He didn't like this situation.
Soon enough he found out the reason why Qrow was doing what he was doing as he felt a draft pick up around him. Unbeknowst to L, Summer is using both Fire and Air Dust to bring up a gradually growing larger and faster fire tornado that began forming larger than a skyscraper.
Qrow jumped away as the flaming tornado came into full effect, Taiyang launching a few lightning bolts from Dust inside, electrifying the fire dust inside the flaming tornado, also adding to the deadly usage of Dust.
Each of them smirked at their handiwork, L inside the flaming and electrifying tornado had both flames disintegrating and lightning shocking as well as the tornado twirling, removing the oxygen inside the small centre. "That should do it!" Qrow says with a smirk. How about this oh so untouchable warrior.
As the giant twister calmed down and dissipated, each of the three had a relaxed stance, waiting for the dust to clear out, finding that there's a crater with a teenage boy standing in the centre of it, flames scattered around the crater as well as inside it.
Said teen having nothing but charred rags that barely protected his decency. He let out a breathe as he let his hands spread out to palms, raising his arms out in a cocky manner. "You'll eat those words Qrow." He says with a smirk as the trio's eyes widened in shock. No one's Aura had ever survived Fire Storm, his Aura is damn close to broken, sure but it seemed impossible.
"I'll admit, I'm impressed, this is the biggest beating I've taken on Remnant." L says with actual joy, clothes forming around L once again as his weapons faded. "I'll go as far to say that you put a dent in my Aura, but I'm not cruel enough to hit each of you with my hardest." "Incoming message, it's Ozpin, finish the match, now. Your sister is 30 meters from the door by the way." At this he stops in his tracks as his face goes back to cold and calculative, the present members of Team STRQ preparing for battle.
Resistance is Futile.
Outside the simulation.
Yang opened the front door quietly, being careful not to repeat the same mistake she made in the elevator and duck so that Blake didn't hit her head on the frame.
As she entered she noticed four individuals in the room, three of which are unconscious. L puts a finger to his lips, Yang nodding as L carried Taiyang and Summer into their room with Ruby and put them to bed, Yang placing Blake in her own bed and walking back into the living room, finding Qrow asleep or unconscious on the couch, there wasn't that much of a difference, along with L staring out to the view.
As she stood next to him, they stared out to a whole other world together, finding solace and calm in the bright lights of a city that never sleeps. "It's beautiful, isn't it?" Yang asks quietly, L not responding. "It's a shame the world is filled with so much bad when so much beauty comes from it." At this L smiles sadly at the words but perks up.
"You sound like Ruby, and you're looking at your own reflection." L says with a smirk. "I know, I'm just saying that I look Yangtastic." She puns her way into the situation, L giving off a light chuckle in response.
"Well, underneath all beauty are ugly things no one likes to see after all." "What are you saying?..." "Well, you know, some people find your puns are a little over the top-" "Over the top?...Seriously?...You literally crack a psychotic smile in the face of danger." L shrugs. "Your hair sets on fire." "Yours is always on fire." "Was that a ginger joke?" Both Yang and L tried their best to keep their laughter to a minimum but couldn't help themselves as they used each other as a means of staying upright.
Ruby stared at her big sister and big brother with a light smile, before silently closing her door. Eventually they started to calm down, L giving Yang a tap on the shoulder. "Get some sleep, its been a long night." Yang nods and lays on the couch opposite Qrow.
"Enjoy the hangover and over-excited Ruby." L smirks as he walks by her eliciting Yang to groan as she remembered she was not only drunk but also going to have to stick with Ruby for the YCON event later today.
L sat on the couch in front of the overly large TV screen that could be considered overkill but, hey, as the saying goes: Overkill is Underrated.
After a few seconds of L's eyes turning blue, the screen changed to the appearance of a familiar man with grey hair and a bottomless cup of liquid. "Good morning Headmaster, what can I do for you?" L greets as Ozpin gives off his signature smile. "Long day?" L gives off a slight chuckle. "How'd you know?" He responds with sarcasm.
Ignoring the sarcasm, Ozpin proceeded to get to the point. "Not long until the next season starts. Are you sure you're ready to come to Beacon?" At this L smirks in amusement. "You do realise that I'm actually eager, right?" At this Ozpin raises an eyebrow slightly in surprise. "You couldn't tell? That's...surprising." L automatically reads from his expression before it turns back to a monotone.
"How are things in Atlas?" L gives off a distant hum in response. "Tricky. Evidence shows that Mr. Taurus's White Fang are mounting for an attack inside Atlas, I'd advise Ironwood to mobilise his forces but of course he wouldn't listen to 'a pre-schooler'." L says in quotations.
Ozpin nods in understanding. "I'll warn him, I'm still surprised you've managed to keep it all under wraps thus far. This is a large operation you're running." L chuckles. "Ozzie you know I have a lot of experience in this business, it's how I figured out to go to you before you could get too curious about me."
He smirks. "Indeed. Is there anything else?" "Weiss Schnee is still in the custody of the White Fang, the information we received came in a little late. But we have a lead, they were using Miles Medical trucks to transport equipment to the camp." Ozpin's brow furrowed at this as he started thinking up scenarios.
"Not fakes?" "No, they were definitely registered to the company, serial numbers matched." "Then we're either looking at a sympathiser in the companies higher ups or a front that grew too large." L nods. "I was thinking the same thing, I've already got Agents looking into it, maybe we can find out the truth by tomorrow." Ozpin nods.
"Anything else?" "I need a favour on your end." Ozpin raises an eyebrow slightly. "And that would be?" "I'm going to be recommending a student, a damn good one." L's eyes remained blue as he sent over an enrollment form for one Blake Belladonna.
"I'll see what I can do." Ozpin says with a light smile. "Thank you. Is there anything else?" "Not for now, enjoy a good nights rest Mr. Stason." "You to Professor." The screen flickers off to reveal transparent glass and a plum coloured wall behind it.
"This penthouse seriously has the wrong colour scheme." He comments to himself before opening a portal to a cell with a Faunus individual in an orange jumpsuit. He sits opposite him with a calmness that could only be described as disturbing as the portal closed behind him.
"So, I'm going to ask you nicely erste. But if you don't antworten, I'm afraid you'll nicht survive the next minute." L's quiet voice showed his seriousness as his eyes turned a deep and dark purple, unfortunately the Faunus looked into them and found himself staring into an abyss. Blackened are the Pupils of his eyes to mar the reflection of the passage of fear into the heart of the now ex-White Fang member.
7:00 AM Penthouse of the Chariots Grande Hotel.
"Yang wake up! wake up! wake up! wake up! wake uuuuuuuup!" The familiar high pitched sing-a-song voice of Ruby sounded as she jumped and hopped around Yang, eliciting her sister to groan and throw a punch in every which direction Ruby sang the 'wake up' song from. Ruby being very experienced in dodging these lazily thrown punches simply danced around them, still singing.
"Ruby, let Yang at least get to the bathroom before you set her off." Summer giggled as Yang fell off the comfort of the couch as she threw one punch with a little too much force. Qrow instantly sat up at the sound of the thud before sighing and rubbing his eyes and being tackled by an over-excited Ruby with a light smirk on his face.
"Get off, I'm not nearly drunk enough to deal with you yet." Qrow says in his usual joking manner, Ruby giggling and still hugging her uncle as Taiyang exits the bathroom.
"Next!" He says before tripping and falling flat on his face, a look of slight frustration donning his face aimed at Qrow as it happens. Summer helping her husband to his feet as he rubs his nose, and like mother like daughter, the two of them are giggling their heads off.
"Where's Leanardo?" Yang asks as she exits her own room with a look of slight concern. "He was here last night, he put you two to bed." Yang points at Summer and Taiyang who both give off a light concerned frown. Taiyang's looked more annoyed though, I wonder why. (Sarcasm.)
"L will be L, he disappears every night to go off to do something anyway." Qrow waves off the concern for him, both Summer and Taiyang giving Qrow a stare which makes him pause. "Explain." Qrow slowly edges backwards as the mother bear side of Summer slowly opens up.
"I don't know what he does, all I know is that he's been doing it for the past 9 years." Qrow says whilst putting his hands up slightly in surrender. "He's probably meditating on the roof." A tired Blake idly comments as she locks the bathroom door behind her, each and every single person in the room besides Yang staring at the bathroom door in confusion.
"Who was that?" Ruby asks as she subconsciously munches on the cookies from the cookie jar.
"That's Blake, I'll introduce her once she comes out of the bathroom." Yang says with her usual smile. Everyone now staring at Yang.
Bathroom. 'Nuff said.
Blake sighed as she hung up the towel she used neatly and got dressed into the exact same pair of clothes she wore yesterday, only been through a scrubbing.
"Blake I need some help." She paused and looked around before noticing the slight echo in L's voice signifying that its telepathy.
"What is it?" Blake asked whilst beginning to brush her teeth.
"I may or may not be hanging off the side of the building." Blake pauses with furrowed brows as she 'heard' that sentence.
"You're what?..." "It's not my fault! There was a bird that was trying to steal my chips!" "And why are you on the roof with a bag full of chips?" "The bird took the chips." Blake sighed intensely, the air almost coming out of her ears.
"You're a child." "I know, just saying that i'd like to be intact, you know, remain with all limbs attached to the body with no holes in it, or dents, you know, the normal, basic survival mechanism." His 'voice' dripped with sarcasm.
"I'll be there in a second, I'm brushing my teeth." "Oh...well, can you come get me then continue brushing your teeth?..." Blake paused as her left eye twitched.
This is the second occasion this had happened and in both of these occasions it had happened in the morning and she felt more like his mother than his student, but she supposed it was due to the fact they're teens that SOMETHING stupid, SOMEHOW, happens.
Blake finished brushing her teeth, much to L's annoyance and exited the bathroom.
Yang gave off a bright smile as Blake exited the bathroom, as she talked she didn't notice Blake having an annoyed expression and grabbing Gambol Shroud due to Yang having her back turned to her facing her family members.
"So, everyone, this is Blake!" Blake had opened the window and jumped out, using Gambol Shroud like a grappling hook to swing onto the roof, everyone's eyes widening as she did so, besides Yang who remained blissfully unaware.
"Blake?..." Yang turned around to find the window open and remained confused until L came crashing through the ceiling and into the center of the room, raising a thumbs up. "Thank you!"
Blake then landed on L's chest feet first, L giving off no reaction besides a grunt as Blake walked away and sat down on a couch.
Everyone stared at the two with a mixture of expressions, which changed as L got up and brushed himself off, repairing the roof and floor using Blue Shift energy.
He then turned to everyone else with an incredibly happy expression, despite what had happened. "Hi guys!" His voice also showed equally extreme levels of happiness considering what just happened.
"L...why did you just come crashing through the roof?..." Yang asked.
L rubbed the back of his neck, a faint blush appearing on his cheeks in embarrassment. "Eh, heh heh...that's a bit of a story." He sits down beside Blake who had began reading her book whilst everyone's attention was focussed on L.
He explained that every morning when he wakes up he completes his routine by meditating somewhere serine and peaceful, which happened to be the roof in this case, he was hungry so he opened a portal to a chip shop and bought a bag of chips.
Whilst eating his chips on the roof, as you do, birds attempted to grab them from him, as he continued to have a tug of war match with several birds, he found himself hanging off the edge of the roof for the past hour.
Then he could hear Ruby's giggling, which meant everyone was awake, so he got Blake to get him down, not in the way he expected but it worked nonetheless. "Oh, by the way, this is Blake Belladonna, she's a friend of mine that I thought could use a holiday." Blake raises an eyebrow at L at his wording of that sentence.
"Friend huh?" Blake and L sighed in unison whilst Yang and Ruby smirked. "Yes. Friend. Yang don't you go there we had this conversation last night." At this Ruby appeared all around L whilst singing. "Leanardo and Blake sitting in a tre-" She found herself unable to move and speak as L's eyes glowed purple. Despite being in mid-air.
"Leanardo, take Ruby out of Stasis...now." Summer says as she crosses her arms, Qrow already in the bar to fix his brains ability to process anymore information whilst Taiyang examined the two like a couple'o'meter in the background.
L snapped his fingers and Ruby fell to the floor with a yelp. "You two would make a cute couple though." Summer says as L and Blake maintain the exact same shade on their faces, Yang in the background, mumbling something incoherent, except for the two Faunus in the room, it was as if she'd said something under her breath. L smirking as ammunition has now been loaded for his very own comeback.
"I think Yang and Blake would make a cuter couple." His smirk could reach his forehead if Yang could blush anymore. Summer gasped as she saw Yang's expression eliciting Ruby and L to start laughing, L more evilly so as his student started covering her face with her book. Facebook...I'm sorry I had to.
A few minutes of teasing, breakfast and preparations later.
The daytime in the underground is surprisingly realistic if you look at it, including the blue sky which also looked realistic, well, not to L, because he can spot literally anything wrong in anything and he can be a stickler for getting things right, something about Rayleigh scattering.
Mr. Blue Sky started playing on L's scroll as they each strolled to The Oval, a giant set of three buildings often used for events like YCON. As you can probably tell at the very least, one of the buildings is shaped like an oval and that would be the main building where the event is primarily held.
The other two buildings contained things that were often considered added bonuses to the events as a whole. An area for celebrities to meet their fans as well as outside, an entire area dedicated for live action performances for various things such as plays or video games, open tournaments with various prizes.
Banners of the event everywhere, people dressed up as varying characters, some incredibly good costumes and others not so much, even the voice actors are attending the events festivities and having a blast.
Surprisingly enough the place produced so much publicity that the event even allowed things like Car shows, fairs as well as other methods of having a great time.
But this was just outside, it's what's inside that excited the lil red riding hood.
Ruby's eyes widened to dinner plates as she noticed tonnes of stands scattered around the place, developers and companies showing off new games, trailers, future consoles, comics, interviews with developers and writers as well as the fact that this was all accessible fully, because of a single lanyard she had wrapped around her neck.
A VIP pass.
Ruby was about to burst with excitement as everyone behind her braced, L putting on a pair of industrial grade sound blockers, she started making a noise akin to a small squeal which uplifted to a massive "YYYEEEEEEAAAAAAH!" As she charged around the place faster than a rocket.
"Let's hope she doesn't make too much of a mess of things." L comments, Summer giving L a mild stare. "Don't jinx it." At which point everyone besides L laughs, said person facepalming.
30 minutes later, Building 1, YCON Main Event.
"This game will provide hours of entertainment for you as the completely unique and definitely not pay to win combat system can make fighting some enemies difficult unless you use strategy with your allie-" "Beat it." Ruby says as she carefully places the controller down and turns to look at the creator and in this case, presenter.
"Wait wha-" "It was actually kinda easy." "B-but it was on the maximum difficulty, it even had the adaptive AI on! And you didn't even buy any micro-transactions!" Ruby just shrugs as the developer falls to his knees, defeated.
"I-I...I went bankrupt for this game, my wife and kids left me because of it..." At this Ruby pats his back with a slightly regretful look on her face.
"Well it was fun, there's a lot of replayability to it." Ruby smiles as the developer looks at Ruby. "Really?" "Yeah! I only managed to beat it in a single way and the quickest way because I is genius. But there are loads of different ways I didn't play it that could actually be really fun!" Ruby says with a bright smile.
Yang is stood not too far away as Ruby continues to save the mans livelihood. "Eh, didn't jinx it too hard." Starting to walk back to Blake who is looking through a selection of comic books which she at first considered not really worth reading and without story.
Whilst she wasn't wrong with some of them to a certain degree, she had to admit that some of them were actually pretty good. "Anything catch your eye?" Yang asks as she steps next to Blake.
"Only Moon Knight and Batman." Blake says calmly. "Oh here we go..." "What do you mean?" "I know you're gonna say that they're both copies of each other from another company etc etc." "No, actually, in my opinion they're very different characters." "Here we- wait what?" "Sure some of the equipment can be similar but the characters and story are completely different, pretty sure Batman doesn't have multiple personalities." Blake comments as she continues flicking through the different comic books.
Yang stares at Blake for a full minute as if she were literally made of gold. "We're going to become friends very fast you and me." "Hm?" "I said we're going to become friends very fast...you and me..." Yang says with less enthusiasm.
"Sorry, I'm just a little distracted." "It's fine, I get that to. As hard as it is to believe, I am a video game enthusiast, comic book nerd and party person." Blake smiles lightly at this. "Well I've never really been fond of comic books but I might start reading a couple." At this Yang's eyes light up.
The Fire Burns. The Boat Sails. Buzzzzzz.
Car show, Building 2.
"Leanardo are you okay?" Summer asks L stares at each of the vehicles in the showroom intently, as if he were expecting them to move or do something. He didn't answer.
"Leanardo?" Summer asks with more concern as she takes a step closer to him. "Nope, nope, no." L says as he starts walking, Summer instantly following him. "Leanardo!" Taiyang looks over to his only son and wife whilst the salesman continues to talk before he follows them without saying a word, said salesman now talking to himself.
L starts making his way up a ladder in the Staff Only sectioned area and onto the catwalks, faster than Summer thought someone could move through a crowd without knocking someone over. Once Summer finally managed to catch up with him, he stared at the crowd below with a very much predatory gaze, his hands creating dents in the handle bars as he held onto them.
"Leanardo if you didn't want to be in the crowd you could've just said something, are you okay?" Summer asked with motherly concern. L didn't reply, he seemed focussed on something. Summer's face shifted to a frown of further concern. "Something isn't right." He finally spoke, in a low and quiet voice.
At this Taiyang stood at the opposite side of L as he caught up. "What's going on? You okay bud?" Taiyang asked, but everything they were saying faded out from his hearing, every movement slowed to a standstill, every heartbeat, every breath, every molecule ceased to move as he focussed entirely on a single distinct feeling which made him have to hold back the urge to draw a weapon.
His instincts screamed at him four distinct words: You're. All. In. Danger.
He hoped down from the catwalks and landed without a sound, time continuing by a half a second as the floor beneath him cracked from his landing. As he walked, he examined everyone, and everything, their heart rate, breathing, what they had with them, their thoughts.
Not one individual stood out to him.
Individual.
He examined the building he currently stood in, nothing of danger was detected, no planted explosives, no hidden weapons or persons of interest. So what was making him so alarmed?
Nothing in the present made sense, then let's check the past. L started walking to the main offices for the building, easily gaining access to each and every file on their server due to the pitiful security, every time he opened a door or gently moved someone out of the way, time moved forward half a second, so in real time, it would seem that he simply appeared and disappeared in and out of space itself, leaving behind nothing but dust and emptiness in his wake.
There. A few weeks ago, the foundations, floors and walls had been replaced and refurbished. The foundations are concrete with reinforced steel. The floors are also concrete and most of the walls are a mixture of concrete and steel.
Individual.
Concrete.
He stepped outside into the main foyer where the primary entrance to each of the three buildings sat. Again. There are lots of people, each enjoying themselves one way or another, only one or two showing signs of anxiety, all of which were Faunus or Soldiers, but none of them outwardly expressed any sign of acknowledging this feeling.
Individual.
Concrete.
Anxiety.
L frowned and as he turned to the entrance, his expression turned to one of shock for a split second before it hardened. He'd rather not grace what he saw with a description. But let's just say. Their 'appearance' in this place is...unwelcome. A time of happiness is upon everyone, no one is angry or sad, despite the split second appearance of a spirit, a curse only given to individuals who have been selected by the skeletal hands of their predecessor.
Death draws near.
Individual.
Concrete.
Anxiety.
Death.
Four words echoed in his head. Each acting like a riddle he could never figure out, again, the figure stood there as a teasing reminder that no matter what he did in the next few moments.
People would Die.
And again, they echoed in his mind.
Individual.
Concrete.
Anxiety.
Death.
"Scheisse." L whispered under his breath.
"Le-" Summer was about to put a hand on his shoulder, but he'd disappeared almost instantly as if he were never there in the first place, no air draft or anything, then she found her weapons on her arms but in their sheathed mode, Summer looked at them with wide eyes before reading the note that came with it, which simply read: "Prepare for combat and RUN - L."
At this Taiyang and Summer looked at each other before making their way down the ladder. Then a mind numbing noise came through as things around and inside the buildings as well as parts of the buildings themselves exploded, things started turning into chaos.
A huge dust cloud was created as each of the three titanic buildings collapsed in on themselves, a massive dust cloud spread throughout the area. Not even ten seconds later, gunfire started occurring as Men and Women, all of which Faunus, took weapons and searched for security guards and people alike to shoot at.
Again, the words echoed.
Individual.
Concrete.
Anxiety.
Death.
You're. All. In. Danger.
A few miles away.
"EVERYONE GEAR UP! THIS IS IT!" Sounded the booming voice of one of the angriest men alive at that present moment. The sounds of men and women stopping and dropping everything that they were doing became the immediate response to the call of duty that had just resounded.
Men and Women went boldly into their lines without a single hesitation.
"MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!" Came again the call, in the space of fifteen seconds, twelve individuals had gotten their gear ready and gotten inside their designated aircraft.
Though despite the rapid response that would make most spec ops units stand a little straighter, their reaction time wouldn't be enough to save everyone.
Despite them being some of, if not the best special operations units on Remnant, four words would still ring true in the hearts and minds of these brave, brave souls.
You.
Were.
Too.
Slow.
And no matter what they did, there's nothing they could've done to change it for the better.
Ruby coughed and sputtered, as she came to be conscious once again, finding the area she's in covered in dust and rubble but finding enough air to breath anyway.
She didn't know how long she'd been unconscious for, but that was the last thing on her mind.
She gradually got to her feet and found Crescent Rose by her side in sniper form, despite not taking it with her in the first place. Instantly Ruby started by picking up her baby and looking around, she saw no one which elicited her to start walking after dusting herself off.
The place still remained mostly intact though there is masses amounts of concrete and steel debris lay strewn everywhere, the lights had been completely obliterated leaving the place with a dull light as chunks of the roof are missing along with the walls.
It wasn't so far away she found the silhouette of someone recovering, she let out an internal sigh of relief. "You okay mister?" Ruby asked as she approached the man, only to find a mask staring straight back at her with a look of rage.
Ruby's eyes widened slightly in fear as the man raised his weapon at her, only for the man to be knocked unconscious by a rock to the head from a certain bow wearing individual from behind him.
"Blake!" Ruby says as she instantly appears and hugs her, Blake being slightly surprised before taking the gun off of the unconscious White Fang member and finally speaking. "Are you okay Ruby?" Blake asked, seemingly calm and composed in this situation.
Ruby nods, appearing completely fine besides being dusty and a few holes in her usual 'combat skirt.' (I still call bullshit on "Combat Skirts." And L says they are possible but are very impractical unless circumstantial. In other words they're bullshit.)
Blake didn't look much worse for wear either, the only difference being that she has a few more cuts along her body, the worst one being a slightly shallow one on her cheek that barely bled.
"Come with me, I need your help getting your sister out of some rubble." At this Ruby nods, a new-found concern for Yang entering her mind.
They ran over to the small comic book area that they were standing at earlier, to find a large part of a pillar had a barely conscious Yang trapped under it. "Yang!" Ruby appeared by her side, starting to bombard her with 'Are you okay's?' which only made Yang smile at her despite barely being able to perceive that Ruby was there, it made her happy in her heavily concussed state.
"Ruby, I need your help!" Blake started from the other side. At this Ruby nodded and assured her sister that she'd be back to make sure she's okay, tears welling up in the young ones eyes as she ran around the pillar and over to Blake.
She wiped her eyes and steeled her focus, letting out a heavy breath. "We need to get her out of here without being noticed, there are still patrols looking for people." Ruby nods and starts cutting the steel cables around the pillar with Crescent Rose, eliciting Blake to start moving the pillar away from Yang with her Psionics, though it took most of her breath away.
Ruby instantly went over to Yang to check her health despite not being very experienced in such things, but despite that inexperience, she knew it wasn't good.
Blake aiming Gambol Shroud at a near hill created from dirt and rubble, flashlights shining through the dust and onto Blake.
"Don't shoot! Emergency Services!" At this Blake lets out a sigh of relief since she's not exactly in the right condition to be fighting, that, and her Aura is drained to almost nothing.
"Over here! She'll need to get to hospital and fast." Blake says as paramedics and firemen make it over to Yang to examine her and place her on a stretcher, Ruby staying by her side as Blake looks around for a second before following them.
"How bad is it out here?" Blake asks whilst keeping an eye on her surroundings, only one paramedic responds. "It's chaos. We only managed to respond quick enough because everyone in the damn city heard the explosions."
At this Blake frowns internally before wondering where Leanardo is, but the only thing she noticed are eight individuals that are currently cloaked looking around and helping anyone they can, whilst shooting the White Fang members on sight unless they surrendered, which none of them did so far.
As they made it outside, the dust had cleared and Blake could breathe fresh air. All three buildings are in ruin, various people walking amongst them, most of them emergency services, the primary building they just left being the one mostly intact due to either luck or its unique design. There aren't a lot of injured, though this could be because they may have been taken to hospital, her doubts remained the same though.
She looked around as she sensed L's unique Psionic signature spike all of a sudden, it was a large spike, like, super large. But her own anger piqued slightly as she spotted a Miles Medical truck starting to pull away, it suddenly paused as a faint purple glow surrounded it before a White Fang member bursts out the back of it, firing his Dust based weapon into the vehicle in panic before disappearing in a large red beam which created a hole in the ground in the process.
L stepping out of the truck holding a cracked White Fang mask and a look of sheer rage on his face. He's not a happy bunny.
He started walking over to Blake as he spotted her, she consciously felt the need to run away and hide in a corner from his expression. But remained frozen in place not out of fear...but rather out of Terror...
"Status?" His quiet and neutral voice betrayed the look in his eyes.
"Yang needs to go to hospital but Ruby's fine...So am I." Blake managed to say after a few seconds of silence, wanting to steer very clear of the direction L is going to let out his wrath and should he find someone specific to unleash it on, well, lets say that they won't exist in the multi-verse and any other relative dimension. Even the ones where 1+1 = 3.
But more than that. He promises pain. And as someone who has lived through everything. He knows how to make someone feel pain.
"Here, co-ordinate with Metal and Rubber, they're already on site, give them the locations of White Fang operatives and they'll take them out before anyone else gets hurt." L says as he gives Blake the very same communications device that looks like a collar, though she didn't question it at all and began setting off with his orders.
At this time seemed to pause for L once again as he gave a silent prayer for each and every one of his family members. That's all of them accounted for. L thinks with a silent sigh to himself. Summer and Taiyang are injured and currently being taken to Hospital, Yang as well, Ruby will likely remain with Yang, Qrow is currently coordinating with the local Emergency Services to help how he can, leaving L himself.
He looked over at the currently worried form of Ruby, which he sat next to as time resumed once again, Ruby instantly hugging him as tight as she can, silently sobbing in his chest. "Don't worry about it Ruby. I'm not letting this go unanswered and besides." Ruby looks up at L, who gives her a reassuring smile. "Everyone's going to be fine, trust me, I'm always right." He says with a wink which makes Ruby giggle a little whilst still hugging L.
"Sir, a I've just had a submission from the lead Agent investigating Miles Medical, as well as Ozpin, Agents Sparrow, Advent and a few others...I think you'll want to hear what everyone has to say." The A.I. inside his head said with a tone that could only be described as worry for her host and partner in crime as well as life.
Thank you Syrus, I will listen to them when I am done making sure my family will be healed. L thinks to himself before stroking Ruby's head with a thumb comfortingly as they stepped inside an Ambulance with Yang, receiving an all clear report from Blake and the other two leaders of the Spec Ops teams.
I will address everyone at the same time soon in a meeting, you have control over Ops for now. That will be all, Syrus. L thinks to himself, trying to hide his slowly growing rage, a simple and respectful response coming from his long-time companion. "Of course, Sir." Her tone remained the same though.
The reason L is angry, isn't because innocent people have died, this will be counterbalanced by the bad dying as well, as is the natural order of things.
No, it's because some of the innocent people hurt were his family and if a Family member is hurt in any way, shape, or form.
Expect Death to knock at your door. Then you have two choices. Stay sat there forever. Or answer the door.
What will happen if you choose the first option.
Is that Death will kick down your door.
However.
You will not die.
You will be brought before Leanardo Stason.
There's a reason the Devil was named after him.
You shall regret the wrath that you wrought upon thee.
And he will execute great vengeance upon thee with furious rebukes; and you shall know that he is the Lord, when he shall lay his vengeance upon them.
And Vengeance, shall take their head.
So...Yeah...stuff blew up.
So yeah L was a very unhappy bunny when he showed me this and I had to let him cool down for a while, because for him this is like reliving a bad memory, remember, he's sort of a person kinda it's all relative stuff.
Status on the voting pole:
1. Sophia Scarlatina: 2 Votes.
2. Weiss Schnee: 1 Vote.
3. Cinder Fall: 1 Vote.
4. Blake Belladonna: 0 Votes.
5. Velvet Scarlatina: 0 Votes.
6. Other (Please PM.): 0 Votes.
Holy crap I am actually surprised more people didn't vote for Weiss.
L will be making a lot of German puns on that by the way.
But what I'm more surprised about is the number of votes on the OC Sophia (that was a really cute chapter though) and that someone voted for Cinder, being very honest, I don't even know if L even likes Cinder. Or in the words of Alucard: "I'm pretty sure no one alive matches my sexual preference!"
Be sure to put your vote in! Every vote counts and I'm also interested to see your opinion on who he would be suited to. It's also funny watching his reactions to pairing him with different characters. Mercury is still the funniest reaction I've gotten out of him by far, I'll post that at some point!
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Also, posted on the 21st, that's my favourite number :D
I'll let you lot go, bye bye!
Outro songs today:
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky.
E-dubble - Hampdon Park.
Offenbach - Infernal Gallop.
