Music: Gyorgy Ligeti - Requiem

Chapter 11: Falling down (R)

Freefalling into the ground a few feet away, what the heck was I thinking?! That could mean certain death, But I had a feeling that we would be safe doing so. As Weiss and I start to fall down into the surface of Syndicate, We saw nothing but clouds, all which are formed together to create a cylinder shape from miles away, they roared with thunder and they covered the ground.

I could feel the vibration of the storm all around my body, and if Weiss was yelling out at me, I couldn't hear her. Blake and Yang were still behind us, and I couldn't hear them either, I could only hear my heavy breathing.

This is why i should've looked at the map of planet Syndicate, because I didn't know whether we'll land in the ground or the ocean. The explosion behind us vibrated the whole atmosphere around me. This wasn't the first time we went falling down though, but it was a lot different.

it start to rain as well, touching everyone and also the bruises all over me. If I had to choose between the rain and thunder, i'd choose the rain. Suddenly a large object fell pastus, it was a wing of an aircraft, bursted in flames. it went through the clouds and disappeared from our sights. We came close to the clouds and went past it.

I start thinking about the others, Hesh will have a 50/50 chance of surviving that battle, and maybe the helicarrier explosions. as we kept falling, we could see more of the ground in front of us.

There was water all over the place, (Yes!), but i wished we had googles because the rain was hurting my eyes. but on the way, a pack of ExoSkeleton birds were flying all over the place. I got out Crescent Rose in gun form, and shot a few of them, my aim though was hard to hit them so i figured that i got three. I put the weapon back.

Once we went past that, all that's left is the ocean. i was already for it, but then a glyth suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and i fell flat on it, then resmumed falling, in a very bad free-fall dive.

We landed in the murky deep waters, and I felt the cold liquid all over us. We immediently break for the surface, gasping for air. It was filled with asteroids all over the place. I looked around for anything to hold us, and a raft was there.

"Ru..By….Wha….Wer….You…think…ing!" Weiss gurgle throughout the water.

And so was I "Sorr…y.. Wei…ss…, it… was… our… on…ly…. chan…ce." said I.

"Well...you...wer...luck...y...i..used...those..gly...ths."

We got on the raft made out of broken metal parts, and coughed up some of the water from our mouths. when we got up, something fell from the clouds. It was both of the Helicarriers, bunched up together and going towards the ocean. A large splash came at impact, followed by an explosion, it shook the whole ocean, and splashed the water at us.

"Oh my…" Weiss said.

"Yeah." I said in agreement, by looking at the damage cause by everyone, there's no chance of winning.

"Weiss", I said "I think this war will be our last."

She nodded. "Can't go wrong with you there."

The clouds were gone, and the gray sky was back. The sea was getting calmer, and the wind showed a breeze in the air. everything was fine but something was wrong with Weiss. She was lying down on the wooden board.

"Weiss, are you alright?" I asked her.

She said to me "No, I feel weak, what else would i feel like?" She looked seriously hurt, " I just feel different all of a sudden."

"Just breathe Weiss, we're almost through," I said, but we weren't through.

She didn't speak, she had her eyes closed.

"Weiss, wake up." I yelled, "Wake up, I'm not gonna let you die here, We have to end this war, Wake up!"

I moved her side to side, "Wake up!" That seemed to do the trick. She start to open her eyes.

"Ruby…" She slowly said, and looked at her hand, "Ruby.. what time is it?"

"Uh," I didn't know, but it could've been past six o clock. "it's morning time?"

"What, Ruby we got to get to class!" She said, "Or else we'll be-" She looked out at the water, and the asteroids.

All I old think of was this 'She's back'. Weiss Schnee was back.

"Welcome back, Weiss." I greeted her.

"what do mean 'welcome back', I've been here this whole time." she obnoxiously said. "Why are we in the middle of the ocean?"

I answered "We jumped off a large ship and landed here."

"And where's Beacon at, what happened?" She asked.

"Okay Weiss, I'll give you a short version." I explained, "I woke up on another place, and you were there but you called yourself Carol, and there's a war going on between the Ghosts, which you and I are in, and the Federation, but theres these aliens called Exoskeletons, and they want to end this world, so that's it."

"What about Blake and Yang?" She asked, hoping for a good answer, but she isn't get one from me.

"They, unfortunately gone to the Federation' side, and want to kill us."

"What?!" She said in shock, "Why are they doing that?"

"I don't know, but this appears to be a different world, so maybe they took different roles, like you did."

"This has to be a dream then, Pinch me." she didn't offer any arm for me to do so, but I pinched her left wrist.

"Oww!" She yelped out, "you idiot, I was just kidding."

"Sorry." I said to her.

so far we were both in trouble, Weiss had her memory back, but we were pretty much stranded in the ocean, Blake and Yang were still evil and were coming after us, There was no sign of help, and We lost communication with the Ghost. Could this get any worse?

Yes, yes it can.