CHAPTER TWENTY ONE - LOSING CONTROL
1 Month Ago...
"Come on, let's finish this." Matt told Freezer as he readjusted his right glove, the two alchemists approaching where Bane had crashed into. As they reached the rubble that had been thrown out of the building, chunks of the rubble flew into the air as Bane pushed herself upwards, glaring at the two alchemists as she got to her feet.
"You ready for this?" Matt asked him.
"Ready when you are." Freezer confirmed with a small nod. Bane growled and thrusted her arms down, extending the blades. Matt started walking towards Bane.
"Right, I'll draw his attention, you go around the back- Freezer?" Matt stopped, noticing Freezer hadn't moved forward with him. "What are you-?"
SLICE!
"AHH!" Matt yelled as a spike of ice protruded from the ground, impaling him in the stomach. Matt let out a couple of heavy, shaky breaths and turned, glaring at Freezer. "You bastard!"
"Sorry Flame, I'm not ready to die yet, you'll have to fulfil Bane's needs for now." Freezer told Matt with a smirk, and turned away and ran.
"Isaac! Traitor!" Matt yelled in anger. He growled in pain as blood started to trickle down the spike and onto the floor. Matt turned back to Bane, who slowly approached Matt. His eyes widened in horror at the giant person reached him, staring him down with the faceless mask. Bane growled at him as Matt's breathing increased in speed, realising with the injury he had from that traitor, and that his aura was completely gone, there was no way he could get out of this alive.
But, much to his surprise, enough to make him stop breathing, Bane walked right past him, and didn't look back.
"Why didn't they-" Matt said to himself breathlessly. He stopped when the pain from the spike came rushing back, causing him to yell out in pain as he clutched the top of the spike. He grit his teeth and released his right hand from the spike.
SNAP!
Matt fell back as the bottom of the spike instantly melted from his flame, landing on his side.
SNAP!
The spike melted, water running down his front and back as blood started to pour out much quicker as the wound was no longer sealed. Matt closed his eyes, biting his bottom lip so harshly it almost bled.
SNAP!
Matt stifled a pained scream as the skin on his stomach and his back bubbled as he cauterised the wounds, sealing his body shut and stopping the bleeding temporarily. He let out a shaky breath as he felt both freezing and boiling hot at once, and felt extremely nauseous.
"Lieutenant Colonel!"
Matt turned to his other side as he saw Alyx and two Atlesian soldiers run towards him. He let out a weak breath and passed out. Alyx fell to her knees when she reached him, quickly pulling up his bloody white shirt and saw the seared wound. She let out a relieved breath and turned to the other two soldiers.
"Call for an evac, and get a medic, he needs to be taken back to base immediately. I;ll stay here and make sure he stays alive." Alyx told them.
"Yes, Lieutenant!" They both saluted and turned back the way they came, running to their other units. Alex turned back to Matt, holding his head on her knees.
"Come on, sir. Don't die on me now."
Now
David sprinted down the road to the hospital, sweat dripping down his forehead and taking quick breaths. He had been running from where he and Matt attempted to ambush Bane to here, several miles away, and he was exhausted. Your average person would have keeled over miles back, even an experienced huntsman or huntress wouldn't have been able to keep up with David. This went beyond his Inhuman biology, this was sheer desperation and will to save Anna. He reached the door and ran inside, running past a group of people and several nurses, along the corridor and went straight to the stairs, jumping up a few steps at a time.
"Sir, you can't-" One of the nurses yelled, stopping when a gloved hand touched her shoulder and turned her around.
"You need to evacuate the building." Matt told her.
"What?" They asked, confused.
"My name is Matthew Sable, Atlesian Lieutenant Colonel. A dangerous individual in on their way, or possibly even here, to kill a patient they had previously put in critical condition. It is very likely that they will kill anybody in their path. You must evacuate the building right now." Matt hastily told the nurse, who was so shocked and scared she couldn't speak.
"Attention, we are evacuating the building. Please make your way to the nearest fire exit in a calm and orderly fashion." One of the nurses said over the intercom. Matt nodded to her in thanks and turned to another nurse.
"I need the details on the patient in danger, Anna Kyle. Can you give me them?" Matt asked her.
"Y-Yes sir." She stuttered, going over to a computer. Matt looked back as the people waiting in the reception quickly exited through the main entrance as some people started exiting the staircase from lower level.
"Sir, you need to see this." The nurse told him. Matt quickly went over to the computer and skimmed over the report. His face dropped.
"Oh god, I hoped I was wrong."
David tripped on a stair, falling on his right knee and slipped forward. He slammed his hand into the ground, cracking the stair and pushed himself up the last few steps onto the floor Anna was on. He exited the staircase and entered the hallway, immediately running right into the doctors office.
"Doc! Doc!" David yelled as the slammed the door open and saw the good doctor. Two holed were in his forehead and blood pooled into the desk in front of him, his dead eyes wide in horror. That sent a horrifying chill down David's body.
Bane was already here.
He ran straight out of the office and sprinted down the corridor till he hit a corner and turned right, and saw Bane approaching the door at the end of the corridor where Anna was. He left his blood boil and his eyes burn in rage.
"BANE!"
Before Bane fully turned around to face David, Bane let out a grunt as David tackled her to the ground, landing on her back.
"STAY! AWAY! FROM! HER!" David yelled in anger, punching Bane in the face with each punch, his left hand delivering a blow like a shotgun blast, but was overpowered by his right, metal fist denting her mask. As David lunged again with his right hand, Bane caught his hand and twisted his arm, slamming his face into the ground. Her right blade extended and lunged straight at his head, but just pierced the floor. David reappeared on top of Bane, slamming his fist into her face again, smashing the mask and knocking it clean off her face. When David lunged again with his left arm, Bane thrusted her blades up and went straight through David's arm, causing him to yell out in extreme pain.
David grabbed the blades with his right hand and crushed them in his vice grip, essentially trapping himself to Bane. With her unable to move, David unleashed a punch straight at Bane face again and again and again and again and again and again and-
Bane launched David down the corridor by firing the blades off her gauntlets, stumbling to her feet and holding onto the wall to balance herself. She growled and turned back to the door where Anna's room was and continued towards it. David looked up at Bane from the floor and seethed in rage.
"Bane! DON'T YOU TURN YOUR BACK ON ME!" David roared and sprinted at Bane, jumping up and launching his right fist straight at the back of Bane's head. Before it connected, Bane spun around and hit David with a straight uppercut, knocking him out instantly as he fell to the floor with a thud.
Bane growled in annoyance, resisting the urge to thrust her other blades into David's skull. Bane turned to the door where her prey remained.
She would kill the female Inhuman first, then made sure David knew what had happened, and then kill him when all his hope is lost.
Bane wasted no time slamming the door open, lunged forward and jammed her blades straight through the pillow.
...wait...
Bane pulled the blades out of the pillow and ripped the bed quilt back, finding the bed to be completely empty.
Where is Anna Kyle?
Bane growled angrily, slamming her fist into the wall, shards of the wall flying off the wall and onto the floor. Bane spun around and stomped towards David.
Since she wasn't here, Bane would kill him now.
Bane lunged down at David, but stops when it feels like she's been stopped by a truck. She looks down and sees someone she's seen before, someone she thought dead. He looked up at her and smirked.
"Xerxes, it's been a while. How you been?"
Bane yelled angrily and lunged at him, but he punched her in the chest, knocking her back.
"Look as much as I hate to do this-"
Bane roared in rage and lunged at him, getting a knee into her stomach, knocking her down to a knee. He slammed a fist into the top of her head, and an uppercut which sent Bane off her feet and slamming into the door frame. His demeanour changed from calm to grim.
"I will not let you hurt my friend."
He channelled electricity into his right hand, clenched it into a fist and jumped forward, punching Bane in the chest.
CRASH!
Bane was sent flying through the door frame, bed and the wall, and falling a dozen floors. Bane growled in pain and got to her feet, looking up at him with fearful eyes. Bane made the only logical decision in that moment.
Run.
He sighed as Bane ran away, turning back and walking over to David, putting a hand on his chest, feeling a regular heartbeat, which is actually weak for an Inhuman. He sighed, rubbing his forehead.
"David, you idiot. Always trying to take on everything yourself.
"David!" Matt yelled, running up the stairs and reaching the floor he was on. He paused, looking down both ends of the corridor for Bane, and turned right, running down the corridor and turned the corner. He saw David laying on the floor, with-
"Alex?" Matt asked, confused. Alex 'hmm'd' and looked at Matt with a raised eyebrow.
"You know me?" Alex asked. "I don't recall meeting you before."
"People from your past. But not from theirs."
"Anyway, can you get a nurse or something, David's not in a good wa-."
"It doesn't matter. Where's Bane?" Matt interrupted him. Alex paused and simply pointed his thumb over his shoulder.
"About a dozen stories down and some distance in that direction, and getting further away." Alex told Matt, who just looked at him dumbfounded. "So, a nurse-"
"I-I'm sorry, but you are Alexander MacFarlane, correct?" Matt asked Alex, interrupting him again.
"The one and only." Alex confirmed.
"But that's impossible. I've seen your file, you died months ago during the Immortal War, the last casualty in fact! So how can you-" Matt stopped himself, realising it. "You're the Ghost!?"
Alex's eyes briefly widened in surprise, but they closed as Alex raised his hands.
"Look, it's a very long and very complicated story. But was it David who reported my death?" Alex asked Matt, gesturing to the person lying on the floor.
"Yes, it was David." Matt confirmed.
"David, you stupid son of a bitch. I ought to have let Bane kill your dumb-ass." Alex muttered to David, voice flooded with annoyance. He sighed deeply and turned to Matt. "Look, news of my death has been greatly exaggerated, and I don't have time to explain why. Can you just, please, get a nurse before David dies from a concussion or something?"
"Right, your right, I'll be back in a moment." Matt told him, turning back to the stairs.
"Wait! One more thing." Alex yelled to Matt, who stopped and turned back.
"What is it?" Matt asked him. Alex pointed back to the room.
"Where the fuck is Anna Kyle!?"
Hey, Alex is in the story! The Prophesy has been fulfilled!
...You probably don't even remember.
Anyway, so this chapter was delayed for a main reason, and that reason is Minecraft Sky Factory. I reached a point where I'm stable and wrote this to RWBY music to help. Overall, I think this chapter may be the best in the entire arc, I enjoyed writing it and have no regrets. In terms of this arc, it was meant to finish next chapter, but it may be two, but I'm planning on finishing it next chapter to start the RWBY Volume 5 arc.
Just so your ensured, the third arc of this story has been fully planned out, and unlike this arc, I plan on sticking to it, and it will have some major canon divergence I hope none of you will expect, so get hyped for that!
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