Weiss prepared herself for battle. Across the arena stood Emerald, preparing her own weapons. Glendale Goodwitch gave them the sign to begin and the two raced towards each other. Emerald swung her sickles which Weiss deflected. Weiss returned the attack and used a round of dust to freeze Emerald to the spot. The green haired girl looked over herself to see that from her waist down she was covered in ice. She looked up just in time to see Weiss charging at her. The ends of her weapon fell to the ground, connected by a chain to the hilt. She swung them at Weiss, managing to knock her rapier out of her hand. Weiss slid to a halt as Myrtenaster flew across the room. She turned back to emerald to see the girl fire at her. Weiss charged at her, weaving out of the way of the shots. Everyone watched with excitement, wandering what she was gonna do when she reached Emerald. To everyone's amazement Weiss raised her fist and hooked emerald across the jaw. Emeralds body shot out of the ice and went crashing into the ground.
Everyone starred in amazement, except for Clark that is, Clark looked on in suspicion.
The last time Weiss fought like this was when she had taken that super serum that gave her super speed and super strength. Clark watched nervously, wandering what she's gotten herself into this time.
Emerald looked up just as Weiss' boot collided with her face. The green haired girl soared through the air again. She landed on her feet and took a swing at Weiss. She got a few good hits in on Weiss who had completely abandoned her rapier and was using hand to hand combat. Weiss ducked under an attack and attacked with an uppercut. As Emerald begin to rise in the air Weiss grabbed her leg and smashed her into the ground. Weiss refused to let go and threw her attacker into the nearby wall. Emerald slowly stood from where she had fallen, she didn't expect it to be this hard.
Weiss tried to kick her but she blocked. She grabbed Weiss' leg and had her in a lock she couldn't get out of. She aimed her weapon right at the heiresses head, everyone gasped in surprise. She fired, shot after shot smashed into Weiss sending the girl backwards. Emerald glanced up at the screen above them and noted that both their aura was at half way. Weiss starred back at her, clearly pissed off. Emerald smiled, if she was angry it meant she'd be sloppy. They continued to fight, emerald slowly getting the upper hand as Weiss got angrier and angrier. She managed to sweep Weiss' leg out from under herand send the girl to the ground. She fired at her, creating a small crater around Weiss' body. A buzzer went off signalling the end of the match.
"Well done Ms Sustai," Glynda congratulated the girl. "And you Ms Schnee," she glared disappointingly as Weiss picked herself up. "Not only was your technique the worst I've ever seen, but you completely abandoned your weapon, your attacks were inconsistent, you were rash and you had no sense of control."
Weiss stomped away, she didn't even stay for the rest of the class she walked out the door slamming it behind her. Everyone starred in shock, this was the exact opposite of how Weiss usually acted.
"What's going on with her?" Jaune asked turning towards her team. They replied saying they didn't know, all excite Clark.
Clark starred in the direction Weiss had left not once looking away. Phyra was paired up against team CRDNL. No one was worried about her, team CRDNL were chumps and didn't stand a chance.
"Clark, what the hell are you doing?" Crimson asked. The rest of their friends turned to see him starring at the door.
"Just worried about Weiss," he replied finally looking away. The match began and while everyone was distracted by the fight Clark activated his x-ray vision again and continued to watch Weiss.
Weiss made her way to their dorm room as soon as the door was closed she ran to her bed and pulled a small veil out from under her mattress. Clark watched in shock as she pulled out a syringe.
'She's not going to,' Clark thought to himself. When she filled the syringe with the liquid he knew he had to do something. Without a word he jumped form his seat and ran out the door. As soon as he exited the classroom he blurred through the corridors, desperately racing towards Weiss.
Just as the needle touched her skin Clark came barging through the door.
"Weiss stop!" He shouted. Weiss starred at him in horror. They stood in silence, neither moving, only starring at the other. Finally, after minutes passed Clark broke the silence.
"Weiss, what's going on with you?" His voice full of concern.
Weiss dropped the syringe to the ground as she broke out into tears. Clark immediately rushed to her side and comforted her.
"I'm so sorry!"
"It's okay, it's going to be okay. What happened?" Weiss wiped away the tears from her face.
"When I took my fathers super serum last semester I gained incredible powers. Powers I could only ever dream of having. Then they were taken from me. It felt so good to be so strong, so fast and then it was gone. It was hard to cope with the sudden lose of power. I kept finding myself wanting that power back, I wanted to be able to run faster than a train, I wanted to be as strong as an Ursa. But I can't. This serum, it's the closest thing I've got. It increases my strength as well as heals me from minor injuries without the aid of aura."
"This stuff gives you super strength?" He questioned. She nodded in response.
"Nowhere near as much as my fathers serum, but I'll take whatever I can get." She began to cry again. "God Clark, I've become addicted to power," she wailed.
"It's okay. I can't be easy after everything you went through. Weiss, I'm here to help," he reminded her.
"Thank you."
A few minutes passed as they shat in silence, Clark continuing to comfort her.
"Weiss, we have to through the rest of this stuff away. Is this the only veil?" He asked holding up the one she had used.
"Yes," she replied.
"Okay." Clark threw the the veil and the syringe away glad that he had just saved his friend.
"We should really get back to class," Weiss suggested.
"You sure your okay to go?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just going to go to the bathroom. Can you tell the others I'm okay?"
"Sure, see you there." Weiss waited for him to leave before lifting up her mattress and grabbing a second veil full of serum. She was telling the truth when she said she wanted to quit, she knew it was bad for her but she wanted to be strong, she wanted to be a hero. She grabbed a spare syringe and injected herself with a double dose.
Later in the evening team CRWBBY sat with team JNPCR in the library. They were having a group study session, everyone was there except for Weiss who had text them and said she'd be there shortly.
"Your fight with team CRDNL was awesome!" Ruby exclaimed, recalling the fight that happened after Clark and Weiss left.
"Don't forget the dance is next weekend," Yang reminded the group. "Weiss and I have been put in charge of the event."
"Really?" Crimson asked in shock. "Why you two?"
"Well, team CFVY's away mission lasted longer than expected, so Weiss and I were asked to pick up were they left off." She explained.
"So who are you going with?" Nora asked the blonde.
"I was thinking about asking Oliver. I talked to Ozpin and he said it'd be fine to bring someone from outside the school.
"What about you Clark?" Crimson asked nervously. Clark looked at her in surprise.
"Sorry, what was that?" He asked.
"I asked if you had any idea who you were taking to the dance?" She asked again.
"Oh, I was thinking about skipping the dance." His friends looked at him in shock.
"Why?" Crimson asked in horror.
"I don't know, I guess I just don't feel like it."
"What wrong, don't have someone to go with?" Yang mocked.
"No that's not the problem. Dancing, just isn't my thing."
Crimson played with her tail nervously, clearly wanting to say something. But before she could, Yang made a suggestion.
"Why don't you ask Raya?" She suggested.
"Who's Raya?" Jaune asked.
"Oh, this girl came over the other day and get this they have nick names for each other. She called him Kal-El." Crimson looked disappointed whilst the others looked surprised at the odd nick name. Bart and Ruby looked slightly nervous and Clark was annoyed that a whole group of people now knew his alien name.
That's when Davis entered the library. Clark noticed him and walked over to the man.
"Davis, what are you doing here?"
"I'm looking for Weiss. We were supposed to go on a date tonight but she didn't show up so I got worried. This is the second time she's done this." He revealed.
"Wait, she said she was supposed to meet you?" Davis nodded in response. Clark let out a long sigh. How could he be so foolish. He should have watched her more closely. Obviously she was going to get more of that serum.
"What is it?" Davis asked, it was evident from the look on Clark's face that he knew something.
"It's nothing," Clark blurted out as he began heading towards the exit.
"Clark, Weiss is my girlfriend, whatever's happening to her I deserve to know."
"Follow me." Clark instructed. They started walking down the hall until the reached the elevator. As Davis pressed the button Clark sped away. It wasn't until Davis hopped in the elevator that he noticed Clark had gone.
"Clark?" He called out. As the doors closed he could feel the anger inside of him growing. He slammed his fist into the side of the elevator,creating a massive dent. He looked at his hands in horror.
On the other side of town Weiss enters the usual warehouse.
"Ah princess," siss greets her.
"Stop calling me that!" She demanded, her hands squeezed into fists.
"Shoah, okay love. Now I'm afraid I don't have the usual amount there's been a shortage."
"What!" She shrieked.
"I'm afraid all I've got is one veil." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a veil that was only half full.
"You can not be seriously!" Moving faster than he could react she grabbed him by the shoulders and slammed him into the wall. With one arm holding hi against the wall she places her other around his throat.
"Give me more!" She demanded.
"There isn't any," he wheezed, having trouble breathing from the hand at his throat.
"Wrong answer." She began to squeeze, tighter and tighter.
"Weiss!" She turned her around, keeping her grip on the criminal. She looked at Clark who looked back at her in concern.
"Let him go Weiss," Clark ordered. She looked at the unconscious criminal in her hand before looking back at Clark.
"What's it to you. He's a criminal just like the kind you stop all the time."
"What do you mean?"
"I know Clark!" She shouted in rage. "I know your the Blur." Clark's face looked shocked for a moment before returning to one of concern.
"This guys a criminal like all the others you take down. The world would be a better off if he wasn't in it."
"That's not how we do things," his voice remained calm.
"Why not!" She screamed. "I have the power and he deserves it. So tell me Clark, why shouldn't I do it."
"Because it's wrong. And somewhere inside of you you know that. The Weiss Schnee I know is not a murderer." Weiss starred at the criminal in her hand, Clark looked worried for a second, however, much to his relief she dropped him to the floor.
"I'm so sorry." Tears began to streak down her face as Clark pulled her into a hug.
Later in the night Weiss sat on the edge of the cliff at Beacon, she looked over the city, thinking about everything she'd done, what she'd come so close to doing.
"How you doing?" She turned to see Clark. He smiled softly at her and she returned the smile.
"I was such an idiot. I became addicted to power. I nearly killed a man just because I wanted more."
"But you didn't, that's what's important. Even while you where juiced up the good in you beat the bad." Weiss began to laugh, much to Clark's confusion.
"You wanna know what brought me back to my senses?"
"Sure."
"You did. This whole time, I just wanted to be like Clark Kent. I wanted to, uh... Not only did I want the power but I wanted to have the ability to bring justice to the world without having to worry about getting killed in the process. I wanted to be able to save and protect people the same way you do. And then something occurred to me, I realized that, Clark Kent would never take another man's life. I came within an inch of doing just that. I'm not even in your league."
"Weiss, you do a lot of good in this world and your going to do so much more. You don't need to be indestructible to be a hero.
"You're right. Yeah. I should be thankful for who I am and the abilities that I have. I know that." A silence came over them.
"So, how long have you known?" He asked.
"Since we had that fight when I took my fathers super serum. When you stopped that car for the police I saw you and figured you were the blur." Clark nodded in understanding.
"Does this mean you remember everything about that time?" He was careful as not to use the word possessed. He didn't want to drop that on her in case she didn't.
"No, the last thing I remember was being in a field with Lex." Again, silence came over them.
"If you knew all this time, why did you never say anything?"
"Because after they way I acted, I didn't think I deserved to know your secret. Besides, I trusted that you'd tell me in due time."
"Thanks, your a good person."
"I must admit, I do find find it extremely cool that you're a super hero." They shared a small laugh. "You never told me how you have so much power."
Clark looked up at the stars, thinking over his answer. He sent a quick message on his scroll before turning to her.
"Weiss, you want to know how I have my powers. The truth is, I'm not from this planet, I'm not even from this galaxy." Weiss looked at him in shock.
"Wait, do you seriously mean you an..."
"Yes Weiss, I'm an alien. My name is Kal-El and I come from Krypton." He explained to her the full story of how he came to Earth, Krypton exploding and the Kents finding him.
"That's incredible," she exhaled as he finished his story.
"It is very exciting to have an actual alien on my team, especially since I'm the only one who knows." Clark cringed, he didn't tell her about Ruby yet and he didn't tell her about Bart because that wasn't his secret to reveal.
"Actually, your not the first person on the team to know."
"What?!" She shouted. She let out a long sigh before asking.
"Who else knows?" She asked as she rubbed her forehead.
"Bart, but he knew years ago."
"Okay, still only two of us know."
"Actually."
"There's more?!"
"Ruby knows. Only because I saved her from being crushed by a shipping container."
"What about Yang and Blake?"
"I've thought about telling them and part of me wants to but there's some stuff going on at the moment and now isn't the best time." As he said this Bart and Ruby walked up to them.
"I've told her about me," he explained.
"Well, Weiss sorry to drop another bomb shell on you but," Bart disappeared in a streak of lightning, appearing a second later next to her. "I'm Impulse," he revealed. She took it surprisingly well. Then again now that she knew about Clark, it wasn't that big of a surprise about Bart.
"Are you an alien to?" She wandered.
"No, there was this lightning storm one day and I was struck by lightning. I woke up with no memory of anything before hand and had this super speed." As the night went on Weiss asked the question people always ask when they find out eventually Clark Bart and Ruby decided to tell her about her being possessed.
"Weiss, we have something we need to tell you about," Clark decided. "That period of time when your memory, blacked out, well we know what happened."
"Really! What?"
"Be prepared," Clark warned her.
"Weiss, you were possessed by an Kryptonian phantom." She couldn't believe what she was hearing. Clark continued to explain to her about Zod and Faora and how Ruby and he were banished to the Phantom Zone.
"Wait a second." She interrupted. "You two were sent to an alien prison?!"
"Yeah," Ruby answered nervously. "It was the worst time of my life. On the plus side, we met Raya."
"Raya?"
Clark continued to explain who Raya was and how other Zoners had escaped and how they were trying to capture them all.
"So where's Raya now?" She asked.
"She's at the Fortress." Weiss looked at him in confusion.
"Oh sorry, the Fortress of Solitude is a crystal fortress with all of Kryptons knowledge inside."
"Of course it is."
"I'll take you there sometime," Clark offered. "But for know I think it'd be best if we sleep on it. You have a lot to think about." Clark suggested. The group stood up and headed inside.
As they entered their room they found Yang and Blake arguing with each other.
"What's going on?" Clark asked.
"Clark, tell Blake that she needs to have a night off. She should come to the dance."
"That's ridiculous," Blake snapped.
"Blake we're worried about you, this investigation is starting to mess with your head," Yang explained. Weiss sat down next to Blake.
"You can't sleep, you hardly eat and to be honest, your grades have been suffering," she listed. It comforted Clark that despite everything she found out, she was still the same old Weiss.
"You think I care about grades!" Blake shouted in frustration. "People's lives are at risk."
"We know," Clark stepped over to her. "And we're all still trying to figure out what Torchwick is up to."
"And thanks to you, we know that they're operating somewhere in southeast Vale." Ruby added.
"And the Schnee company record singled out Vale as the primary target for dust robberies over the last few months." Weiss reported.
"And don't forget about their missing military tech to," Bart mumbled.
"But there are still unanswered questions," Blake argued.
"Blake, you want be able to find anything if you can't keep your eyes open." Clark's stated.
"All we're asking is that you take it easy for one day," Yang placed a reassuring hand on the cat faunus' shoulder. "Weiss and I are planning the dance so that you can have the perfect night."
"And once it's all over we can return to our search rested and ready."
"So what do you think?" Bart asked hopefully.
"I think this is a colossal waste of time." With that she got up and marched out of the room.
The evening passed in silence. Eventually it came time for bed.
"So, who are you taking to the dance?" Yang asked Weiss as she brushed her teeth.
"Davis of course. That is if he forgives me for ditching him tonight. I've been calling him non-stop but he won't answer."
"What about you Bart?" She asked. Bart looked like a dear caught in headlights.
"I um, I'm not sure really," he fumbled.
"Bart." He turned to Clark who had a look on his face as if it was obvious what he had to do. He let out sigh and turned to Ruby.
"Ruby, I was wandering, would you like to go with me to the dance?" Ruby's face immediately reddened. She didn't know why but aside from the embarrassment of being asked in front of everyone she also felt extremely excited.
"I'd be glad to," she replied much to Bart's delight.
"Ooh how cute!" Yang teased.
"Shout up!" Ruby snapped back.
The next day Clark watched as Weiss and Yang worked on preparing the ball room for the dance that night. Clark was glad Weiss was taking everything so well. The dance was probably a good way to keep her mind busy. Unfortunately, they still hadn't found a way to get Blake to come tonight. However, he did have one final idea. As Arthur, Sunn and Neptune entered the hall Clark decided to go find Blake and give one final attempt at changing her mind.
He found her in the library, scanning through newspaper articles on White Fang activity.
"Blake we need to talk." She looked up at him, annoyed that she'd been interrupted. "Now."
They ended up in an empty classroom.
"Clark if your going to tell me to stop you may as well save your breath."
"I don't want you to stop, I want you to slow down."
"We don't have the luxury to slow down," she argued. "We need to find Torchwick."
"And we will." He assured her.
"Blake, four years ago my mother became pregnant. She'd never been able to have kids before so this was a complete miracle. Mom and dad were going to have another child and I'd have a sibling. A few months later we," he paused, thinking of the right words. "We were having trouble on the farm, we needed our storm seller demolished and I got impatient and decided to blow it up without my parents permission." Blake looked at him in shock.
"The explosion caused my parents to crash their car. Mom took it the worse. We took her to the hospital and she was fine. But the baby..." He trailed off as he blinked back tears. "The baby didn't make it. I killed her."
"Clark, I'm sorry that happened to you and I understand what your trying to tell me, but this is different! I can't just stop and."
"I told you," his voice rose slightly, "I'm not telling you to stop. To this day I'm trying to make up for what I did. That's partially why I became a huntsmen, not only is it the right thing to do but I have to make up for my past sins. And I can't do that if I'm to exhausted to think straight."
"You don't understand! I'm the only one who can."
"No your not! I used to think just like that, I thought I'd be better off on my own. I didn't want anyone else to get hurt because of me. But you know what it's better to trust in others. So trust in me, please. I'm not asking you to stop, just please get some rest. Not just for you, but the people who care about you." With that he left, letting her think over what he'd said.
Weiss finally managed to get a hold of Davis on the phone but only long enough to decide to meet at a coffee shop. Weiss rushed down, thinking of a backstory for what happened last night. By the time she reached the coffee shop the sun was already setting. She saw Davis at a table and sat opposite him.
"Davis, I'm deeply sorry for..." She was cut off by him raising his hand.
"Weiss, what's with you and Clark?" He demanded.
"Clark? Nothing."
"Really? I spoke to him last night whilst I was out searching for you." Weiss couldn't help but feel guilty over that. "I found Clark, and he seemed to know exactly where you were and what was going on. However, he ran off and left me worrying about my girlfriend. I want to know what's so important that you trust Clark with and not your own boyfriend?"
Weiss felt miserable, she didn't want to lie to him but it's not like she could tell him the truth either. She wandered if this was the kind of thing Clark had to deal with.
"I'm waiting." She snapped back to the present and looked up at Davis.
"It's complicated." Davis continued to look pissed off every second.
"There's a lot in my life that I don't understand right now, but the one thing that I'm was sure of was us. You were my light amidst all this darkness. Unless your willing to communicate with me, i don't see this working out." Weiss couldn't believe it, her relationship with Davis was one of best things in her life right now and it was falling apart right in front of her.
"Davis, I'm sorry but I can't."
"Fine!" He snapped. He rose from his seat and stormed leaving Weiss alone to think.
Davis drove down the street. He was furious with Weiss. Why wouldn't she trust him? And then there was Clark. What was so special about him? Why did she care about him more the she did for him? His breathing became heavy and he felt his body shaking. He pulled into and alley and crawled out of his car. His eyes turned red and bone spikes grew out of his knuckes. All he could think about was how angry he was. Not only at Weiss but Clark. Clark who was steeling her away from him. He cried in anger as his skin turned grey.
"CLARK!"
Later that night couples arrived at the dance, wearing their finest clothes, looking forward to a spectacular night. Yang entered with Oliver followed closely by Ruby and Bart, both constantly complained about what they had to where. Bart played around with his tie and wined about how uncomfortable he felt in a suit. Ruby complained how much she hated being in a dress and constantly asked if she could change back into her hood. Weiss sat off to the side alone, the only reason she was here was to make sure things didn't turn to chaos with Yang in charge. Besides, she wasn't the type to sit in her room and cry.
Outside Arthur grumbled as he to played with his tie.
"Stupid dumb neck trap," he complained.
"I knew you'd look better in a tie." He turned around to see a refreshed looking Blake in a beautiful purple dress. A smiled dawned across his face as she wrapped her arm around his and the two headed towards the dance.
Clark smiled as he watched all his friends in the ball room. Bart and Ruby were laughing with each other while Yang and Oliver danced. What was most satisfying to see was Blake, dancing happily with Arthur across the dance floor. As Mercury and Emerald entered the ball he deactivated his x ray vision. He stood on the edge of the cliff, below was the city of Vale. He'd planned on meeting up with Raya at the fortress but wanted to go on a quick patrol before he called it a night. He leaned backwards and let gravity take control as he plummeted down the cliff face.
At five past twelve Bart, Ruby, Blake, Arthur, Yang and Oliver sat down together.
"After everything he went through to get me to come I'm surprised Clark isn't here himself," Blake stated.
"Why didn't he come?" Arthur asked.
"He isn't much of a dancer," Bart answered.
"So he's just sitting in his room all night?" Oliver wandered.
"He said he was meeting a friend," Ruby replied.
"What happened with Weiss? How come she isn't here with Davis?" Yang queried.
"I'm not sure but I think they may have had a fight. She was extra cranky my when she got back," Ruby recalled.
Suddenly, the tables began to shake. Thumping sounds in the background could be heard. They became louder and louder, as they did the tables began to shake more and more. The music died down as everyone wandered what was going on. The thumping ceased, just as quickly as it'd started. The group looked around curiously. Bart was the first to speak.
"What the heck is..." The roof above them collapsed, causing the power to go out and the room to go black as a giant figure crashed into the ball room. Screams filled the room as people shouted Grimm and ran for the exit. Bart however ran straight towards the figure. And what he saw shocked him. It wasn't like any Grimm he'd ever seen. In front of him stood a giant grey beast with what appeared to be bones sticking out all over its body. He ran at it only for the beast to send its clawed foot straight into his gut, kicking him across the room. The beast let out a roar as security guards entered the hall and began shooting at it. The beast ran over to them, unfazed by the guards attacks and wrapped them to pieces.
As this was going on Ruby ran over to were Bart lay on the ground unconscious.
"Bart!" She cried when she saw the state he was in. His stomach was ripped open and he lay in a giant puddle of his own blood. She knelt down next to him and held his unconscious body in her arms. Blood soaked her dress as she screamed for help. The beast leapt into the air just as a group of huntsmen and huntresses charged into the hall.
"We have to get out of here!" Oliver shouted over all the chaos.
"Not without Ruby!" Yang argued. She raced over to were she sister sat and gasped at the sight of Bart.
Clark and Raya sat in the Fortress together. Raya was going through her life story, telling Clark all about Krypton. He apologised as his scroll rang, interrupting her story.
"Professor?" Clark asked, wandering why Ozpin was calling him.
"Clark, get here now."
Authors Note:
Doomsday attacks and leaves Bart seriously injured. How will Clark and everyone else react when they find out what's going on?