Outcasts and Outlaws
Chapter 12
Control, Fighting In Unison
This one seems like it's pretty short, maybe the shortest one yet, so I'll upload another straight after this to make up for it. Also starting to get kinda close to the end of this volume. I'd say we're about 75% of the way through at the moment.
Opening Music: RWBY OP 1
(Music starts, shows Connor in a red shirt kneeling behind a tall figure in a green cloak in front of him) (Connor raises his hand, a depressed look in his eye) THEY SEE YOU AS SMALL AND HELPLESS! (The figure's green cloak flaps in the wind) THEY SEE YOU AS JUST A CHILD! (Dark clouds start to form in Connor's eye, it being zoomed in on until he evaporated into dark clouds) SURPRISE WHEN THEY FIND OUT THAT A WARRIOR WILL SOON RUN WILD! [OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS] PREPARE FOR YOUR GREATEST MOMENT! (Shows Ruby in a training room with her scythe) PREPARE FOR YOUR FINEST HOUR! (Shows Connor standing in a tree wearing a long black coat) THE DREAM THAT YOU'VE ALWAYS DREAMED (Shows Yang on her bike) IS SUDDENLY ABOUT TO FLOWER! (Shows a horde of Grimm advancing) WE ARE LIGHTNING! (Shows Damien with Brook standing on one side of him, a shadowy figure on the other) STRAYING FROM THE THUNDER! (Connor looks behind him as a Grimm drops down and charges, but slashes past it) MIRACLES OF ANCIENT WONDER! (Shows Connor, Yang and Ruby charge in) THIS WILL BE THE DAY WE WAITED FOR! (Shows Connor standing in front of Beacon looking apprehensive) THIS WILL BE THE DAY WE OPEN UP THE DOOR. (Connor starts to fall forward) I DON'T WANNA HEAR YOUR ABSOLUTION! (Ozpin catches him and pulls him back up, then Team JNPR come to stand with him) HOPE YOUR'E READY FOR A REVOLUTION! (Shows Ozpin walking away from Connor with his Kane over his shoulder) WELCOME TO A WORLD OF NEW SOLUTIONS! (Zooms in on Ozpin's eye as a gold gear spins around in it) WELCOME TO A WORLD OF BLOODY EVOLUTION! (Shows Ruby, then Yang, then Ozpin, then a shadowy figure) IN TIME, YOUR HEART WILL OPEN MINDS! (Connor steps through the shadowy figure and draws his arm blades) A STORY WILL BE TOLD! (He does an epic pose) AND VICTORY IS IN A SIMPLE SOUL! [END]
"So what do you say?"
Connor snapped his head sharply, with a wild look on his face and yelled, "Screw you!" Then he placed his hand on the ground as it pulsed with a dark aura, exploding the ground beneath him and sending black smoke all over the plaza. Damien and Brook both coughed loudly while Team JNPR and Ruby covered their mouths.
"Where is he?!" Brook shouted as the smoke cleared. He was answered by a small rock smashing into the back of his head and leaving a small bruise. He and Damien turned around and saw Connor standing on a rooftop, his long black coat flapping in the wind, the moon shining behind him. His eyes were pitch black, just like they were when Kane destroyed the village.
"You think I'd just give up Kane?!" He yelled down at them. "He may be an asshole, and he may have ruined my childhood, but I've been with him for 8 years and in that time I've come to respect him! I'd never sell him to out to you!" As he stopped speaking, the dark aura crawled up his arms and surrounded the rest of his body, he coat flapped even more brilliantly than before and the moons light illuminated his outline.
"My name is Connor Hikaru-Kodomo, and I'm gonna kill you!"
"So what do you say?"
Connor snapped his head sharply, with a wild look on his face and yelled, "Screw you!" Then he placed his hand on the ground as it pulsed with a dark aura, exploding the ground beneath him and sending black smoke all over the plaza. Damien and Brook both coughed loudly while Team JNPR and Ruby covered their mouths.
"Where is he?!" Brook shouted as the smoke cleared. He was answered by a small rock smashing into the back of his head and leaving a small bruise. He and Damien turned around and saw Connor standing on a rooftop, his long black coat flapping in the wind, the moon shining behind him. His eyes were pitch black, just like they were when Kane destroyed the village.
"You think I'd just give up Kane?!" He yelled down at them. "He may be an asshole, and he may have ruined my childhood, but I've been with him for 8 years and in that time I've come to respect him! I'd never sell him to out to you!" As he stopped speaking, the dark aura crawled up his arms and surrounded the rest of his body, he coat flapped even more brilliantly than before and the moons light illuminated his outline.
"My name is Connor Hikaru-Kodomo, and I'm gonna kill you!"
Brook reacted quickly, pulling up his hooks and sending machine gun rounds out of the barrels hidden in them straight at Connor. Connor disappeared in a cloud of black smoke once again, dodging the gunfire. "Now where'd he go?!" Brook shouted into the night, and was immediately answered by Connors foot impacting with his left cheek, sending him flying across the plaza. Brook quickly stood up and ran at Connor, swinging his hooks wildly. Connor held up his blades to block the hooks and then pushed them off of him, following up with a slash that Brook barely dodged. Connor kept attacking, swinging his blades one after the other. Brook back stepped consecutively, and then blocked one blade with his hook and swung the other. Connor blocked the hit and the two of them pushed against each other's weapons in a test of strength. As they put all their strength into overpowering the other, Connors dark aura sent out a powerful burst, knocking Brook back.
Brook stood back up again, and crossed his hooks against each other. As he did so, multiple clones appeared around him, a part of his illusion semblance. The clones immediately charged at Ruby and Team JNPR, who drew their weapons in response. Pyrhaa blocked one hit with her shield and then stabbed her attacker with her spear, turning it to dust. Ren ran at another of the clones and flipped over its head, then sharply turned around and fired a barrage of bullets into its back. Nora was busy crushing others with her sledgehammer, turning them to dust one by one. Jaune was having a tough time fending off three clones with only his sword and shield, but Ruby sped past, slashing them with her scythe as she went.
Meanwhile, Connor charged at Brook, only to be stopped by Damien, who blocked with the katana blades on the end of his flintlock pistols. "Stop this Kane!" He said, "Just come quietly!"
Connor looked into Damien's eyes, showing him the darkness of his own and cried, "My name is Connor!" Before sending out another powerful pulse of darkness, sending Damien flying. Damien stood up and examined his weapon. The katana blade on one of them had broken clean off in the blast. He looked back at Connor and realised it wasn't Kane doing this, Connor was in complete control of the power, which made this fight very dangerous.
As the others began to thin out the small army of clones, Brook charged at Connor again, unleashing a barrage of attacks. Connor simply ducked and dodged all the attacks, then placed his hand on Brooks chest, sending him flying backwards into a wall. When he rose, he had blood running down his chest from his injuries. Damien looked at his bloody comrade and back to Connor. If Connor was truly in control of Kane's powers, then he and Brook didn't stand a chance. They be killed if they didn't get out of there.
Ren charged forward with the rest of his team close behind him, all intent on helping Connor, and fired his pistols rapidly. Damien stuck out a hand in front of him, stopping the bullets in mid air. Ren and his team came to a sharp halt, all wondering how he had done it.
"Now you gone and done it." Damien snarled, "Prepare to feel the wrath of my semblance!" Then he punched forward with his fist, sending the bullets flying back towards Ren at twice the speed. Connor quickly assembled a wall of darkness, destroying the projectiles as they made impact. He then clenched his first, sending the darkness straight at Damien who, with no time to dodge, was pushed back into the same wall his partner had been knocked into. Damien quickly regained his posture and pointed his flintlock pistol directly at Connor, and Connor raised a hand surrounded by the dark aura in the same manner.
Just as it seemed they were in a standoff, a brilliant white light hit the plaza, blinding Connor and Damien. Military soldiers in white uniforms filed out onto the plaza, and pointed their rifles at Connor and Damien. Behind them stood a massive mechanical robot operates by a single soldier sitting inside. It was equipped with rocket launchers and a machine gun, they were in big trouble.
"Someone must have spotted us fighting and called the authorities." Kane muttered to Connor, who instantly agreed. "We need a way out of this." He replied, and Kane showed him a way. Smiling at Kane's plan, Connor walked towards the enormous robot with his hands behind his back.
"Stay back!" The soldier operating the robot ordered, "Get on the ground!"
Connor smiled again, so confident of the plan. As soon as the army robot took a step towards him, he released a burst of dark energy behind him, sending a black smoke around the plaza.
The military bot activated its laser trackers, trying to see through the smoke. Connor however, was already somewhere they'd never find him.
The pilot of the machine suddenly thought to look up and spotted Connor falling through the sky towards him. He raised the machines rocket launcher only to have it cut to pieces by a thrown blade from Connor. Connor then plummeted down from the sky and smashed into the robot, sending a pulse of dark energy through it, causing it to explode. When the smoke cleared, the rest of the soldiers looked around for their targets, but it was no use. Thanks to Kane's plan, they were already off into the night.
Like I said, I'll have another one coming I many minute now!
