"Wait, you want me to do what now?" Yang questioned.
"I need you to sneak into the palace and observe Jeni's behavior," James said.
"Yeah, somehow I doubt she's gonna not notice me," Yang glared at her husband. James sighed.
"Well we need someone to observe her behavior. Would you like me to find someone else?" James offered. Yang wringed her wrists a bit.
"Please..."
"Ok, I'll see who's up to it."
...
"Guess what, Yuki-chan, we're going to go be spies and check up on ol' Jeners," Violet grinned. Yuki cocked her head to the side.
"Violet-sempai, are you sure that's a good idea?" Yuki asked.
"Yeah, why not? I mean, we've been training all day for weeks now, I think I'm ready for combat," Violet said. Yuki walked over to the rabbit faunus and smiled.
"Ok, friend. Let's go get to our mission then," Yuki said, grabbing Violet's hands and running out.
...
"Princess, glad to see you're doing ok," Will gave Yuki a tight hug. "I've missed you."
"I've missed you too, Big Brother," Yuki murmured into Will's shoulder. Molly waited patiently beside Will, waiting to embrace the younger cat faunus as well. Yuki was released and went to leach on Molly. "Hi, Molly-nee."
"Hey, Yuki, how are you doing?" Molly said, wrapping her arms tightly around the preteen.
"I'm good, I'm glad we won't be so spread out from now on. It's good to see everyone," Yuki said, looking over at Cassandra, Jade, Jake, Sara, Will, and Dawn all together.
"Yeah, and we're gonna prepare you for your mission. First we need to get some lunch down you," Molly said, leading Yuki into Jake's apartment.
...
"I feel like I just walked out of the making of Red Vs. Blue," Violet spun around in her new armor to blend in with Jeni's higher rank soldiers, which wore robot like suits. Violet folded her bunny ears a bit and shoved on her black helmet. Yuki walked out, trying to balance her own helmet.
"Yeah, I feel like I'm some kind of robot or maybe a cyborg," Yuki wobbled around. Cassandra and Will high fived each other.
"Will, I never thought I'd say this, but we work good together," Cassandra smiled at Will. Will felt a soft smiled creep up his lips.
"Yeah, maybe we're closer than we think, sis," Will suggested.
"Maybe. Good job on the robotics."
"Jade helped. She's good with computers and is teaching me a bit," Will said sheepishly.
"My paddlewan is doing good, no, partner?" Jade jokily asked.
"Your paddle-what?" Cassandra asked.
"Star Wars reference," Will and Jade said in union.
"Ok, so you two need to blend in with other soldiers. When you find Jeni, we need you to observe her behavior, hopefully find a weak spot. If you can find flaws and weak areas of her army, tell us," Molly explained.
"We need data on everything. You're helmets are going to send everything you see and scan to Jade's laptop. We need information on her warriors and on her," Will explained.
"A-And if you can, can you see if our parents are still alive?" Jake asked silently.
"We'll try our best," Yuki nodded with confidence.
"Good, now we need to go drop you off. We're gonna leave you two at the palace. Remember, more info, faster peace," Molly said, grabbing her car keys and heading out.
...
'Yo lil sis is calling! Pick up yo phone befo she do somethin stupid! You sis needs yo butt, she's calling yo phone!' Yang picked up her cell phone and answered it.
"Hello?"
" The school's been attacked. Nathan was able to evacuate most of the students, I think their somewhere in the woods hiding. I'm hiding in the broom closet, the soldiers are getting closer. I have two broken legs and I think my heads bleeding. Look, I don't know if I'm going to see you again. I love you big sis," Ruby explained rather frantically.
"Ruby, hang in there. I'm gonna come and save you," Yang assured.
"Don't waste your energy. Take care of Yuki and Dawn, they mean everything to me. Try not to fight too much with Nathan, don't mourn me if I die. Live like I never existed. Just please, don't get back into the drugs and drinking. I want you to be happy," Ruby begged from the other side. Yang felt tears trickle down her cheeks.
"I-I love you so much, baby sis," Yang sobbed. "Please, hang on if you can. I promise I'll take care of Yuki and Dawn if anything happens."
"Thanks, Yang. I love you Big Bear. I gotta go, they've almost got through the door. Bye," Ruby whimpered from the other side.
"Goodbye, Little Bear. I love you so much-"
"Got her-" FUZZY SIGNAL SOUNDS! Drop! Scream! Hang up! Yang felt her knees give out as tears started to flow freely down her cheeks. Yang stayed there for hours, sobbing bitterly to herself.
...
"Wow, this place looks different," Yuki commented, looking around the palace. Everything was a lot darker. Yuki made her way down the halls, now decorated exclusively with portraits of Jeni. Violet was also walking around, observing the atmosphere.
"Yeah, she seems kinda vain if you ask me," Violet poked a little statue of Jeni holding the head of Medusa.
"I thought we were friends... I guess not," Yuki said upon seeing the painting of Jeni holding Yuki's amputated arm while Yuki lied on the ground burning.
"Nobody's gonna ever hurt you. Trust me, I won't let someone hurt my best friend," Violet put a hand on Yuki's shoulder comfortingly. Yuki nodded and continued walking around.
...
"So, so this is what my father did all the time," Yuki said as she looked around the basement area. Everywhere you looked, some kind of diagram or plan was posted on the walls, medical tables and beds scattered about many of which had red stains on them, and amputated animal ears and tails were scattered about. Yuki grabbed a notebook that lied by a pile of bloody tools. On the first page it read, 'Property of Patrick Markus Belladonna'. This caught Yuki's attention and she continued to read it. Flipping through the pages, she found diagrams of the human and faunus body in extreme detail, instructions on dissections and amputations, and notes on the Nada disease. In the back, Yuki found that the medical notes ceased, instead, there was sketches and diary entries. The first sketch was unmistakably a sixteen year old Ruby Rose. The next few were of Ruby, in some she was holding skulls, then many of Dylan and Yuki. Yuki was extremely shocked at one thing. How did Rick know what she looked like as a child? How did he know when he was never a part of her life? She read a few diary entries trying to calm her nerves.
'I've killed so many people, I'm a monster. I was upset at my father, I allowed Bella to believe it was the soldiers at the protest that killed him, but it was me. I was the one who opened fire on innocent people, all because I was upset. But I hurt a woman I love. I accidently hurt Bella, but it took three days for the guilt to appear. I regret that, but currently, I regret leaving the person I knew I loved. It wouldn't have worked out anyways, but Mei will never know me because of what I did. I hurt Ruby, I left her and Mei for dead. Why? I was upset. I was upset, and when I'm upset, I harm. I kill. I bring tears. I like it but regret it later. I can't look at Dylan anymore. He's making the guilt worse. I have to seek help from the one person that has always excepted me for who I am, Bella. I love Bella, she's my older sister. I know she'll help me. She'll care for Dylan in a heart beat. Already, I wonder what could've been. I just had to get upset.'
"H-He regretted it?" Yuki asked herself. Yuki closed the notebook and snuck it into her backpack. Suddenly, Yuki heard a cry for help from the floor below her. Yuki removed them to see dirt caked Blake and Sun below. "Are you two ok?"
"Yes, please help us out," Blake said in relief someone was there to help her. Yuki offered a stronger robot arm to help Blake up, but she heard a different scream and dropped Blake for the other person. Blake hit the floor and hissed. "YUKI, COME BACK!"
"She'll come back for us, she's not going to abandon us, it's probably someone she needs to get out of here," Sun assured.
"I-I-I just need to get Jeni under control..." Blake murmured.
...
Jeni grinned at the beaten faunus in front of her. Violet panted, trying to catch her breath. Jeni threw a burst of energy at Violet, causing the rabbit faunus to be thrown through three walls and slide onto the floor. Jeni strutted her way over to Violet and smirked.
"Poor little bunny, is she upset? Can't win against me? Wasn't your mother a mage, Violet? Yes, Velvet, right? Ah, well guess what? She's gone. Just think of how disappointed she will be to see you unable to use the powers she passed on to you? Poor, pathetic, little bunny. You know what cats like myself do to innocent little bunny rabbits, do you? We wring their necks with our teeth in their necks. We devour defenseless little bunnies," Jeni taunted. Violet weakly pulled herself into a kneeling position. Jeni scowled and shoved her face to the floor. "Don't even bother, you're as good as dead," Jeni mocked, sending a shock wave through Violet's head.
"I'm never gonna get it!" little Violet cried in frustration. Velvet made her way to her daughter and set a hand on her shoulder.
"It's ok, it took me a while to learn spells as well. You may be an adult until you can properly cast magic," Velvet explained.
"Mommy, when I learn magic, I'm gonna get rid of bad people I don't like with a snap of my fingertips," Violet said with confidence.
"No, no, no, sweetie. I need you to promise me to only use your magic for good, and never to harm other people, no matter how bad they are," Velvet said. Violet nodded.
"I promise, Mommy. I'll never let you down. I'll never hurt anyone, ever," Violet swore.
"That's my little angel," Velvet cooed, pulling her young daughter into a tight hug.
"Y-You haven't won, you'll never win," Violet said weakly.
"Tell me why, bunny?" Jeni said in a mocking tone, continuing to send electric shocks through the other faunus girl.
"Because you hurt people. You never used magic properly. I can honestly say I've put good uses to my abilities. You'll never be complete because you'll throw away everyone who ever tries to love for power and loneliness. You'll die an old, unloved hag, because of your choices, Jeni. Unlike me, you'll have nobody to be upset once you're dead. You are an evil child, Jeni, and you'll never be loved, you'll never love anyone. I'm not the one who'll have upset parents, you are, you despicable brat," Violet used her last shaking breaths to preach before hitting the floor dead. Jeni glared at the faunus girl.
"You're worthless, and you always have been. What do I care if my family loves me or not? Third in line for the throne? That's not love, especially when I'm the powerful one, that's why I don't care," Jeni said as she walked away, disappearing into a cloud of black smoke.
Yuki ran through the broken walls to find Violet, but she was too late. Yuki fell to her knees and cradled her friend in her small arms.
"Vi-Violet-sempai... I'm so so sorry, this is my fault. If I could bring you back I would," Yuki sobbed.
...
"This, this is interesting," Yuki murmured, looking over the other notebooks she grabbed from the palace. She had been reading them all night, using a flashlight for her light source.
(Yuki, this isn't healthy, you're going to hurt yourself by looking in these death notes.)
"Dylan, if you really didn't want me hurt, if you really cared about me, Violet would be alive. You would be alive. Jeni would be normal," Yuki growled. Dylan molded out of Yuki.
"Is that how you feel? That I don't love you?" Dylan asked, hurt by what Yuki had said.
"Dylan, if your goal was to protect me, you've failed. In fact, you can leave. I don't need a constant reminder that you're gone," Yuki said, tears rolling down her face.
"I-I..." Dylan felt tears trickle down his pale cheeks. "If that's what you feel is best, I'll leave you be. Just take care of yourself, Teddy Bear." and with that Dylan disappeared in a flash of flames. Yuki sighed and got back to reading.
"Daddy, I want to make you proud, so let Dylan watch me with you, ok?" Yuki said to the empty room before breaking into sobs.
