Hey guys! StarWars here! It's now time for round two of the finals, and no, it's not PvP, it's actually Patrick vs. the final OC team that was sent my way! Also, 1st Dragon King informed me that there are people that read this and don't have RT First, so I apologize if I'm spoiling things for you guys, I don't mean to. So without further adieu, let the chapter... commence!
BGND: Vytal Festival: Titanium vs. Steel
(BGND Dorm Room, the next day)
Patrick was on his computer, working on some coding, when his brother walked into the room, along with Tyler and Ethan, depression written all over their faces, but also anger on Dylan's.
"Why the fuck would Yang do that?!" Dylan growled as he sat on his bed, "Now there's gonna have people spreading rumors about all the other teams!"
"Dylan, It wasn't her fault." Patrick told his brother, "Yang was under the influence of that Semblance A.L.I.S. discovered during Coco and Yatsu's fight against Emerald and Mercury."
"Seriously?" Dylan asked, which was answered with a nod, "So is someone trying to sabotage Beacon's chances for winning the Vytal Festival?"
"What makes you think of that assumption?"
"Cause both Coco and Yang are from Beacon, so it is possible that you and Pyrrha could get hit by this Semblance as well."
"Hmm... I hadn't thought that, but I highly doubt I'm gonna convince Pyrrha to use your helmet-even if I repaint it red and bronze."
"Just please tell me you'll say vigilante when you battle, man."
"Alright, I will." Patrick said as he went back to his computer.
"Whatcha working on anyway?" Dylan asked as he walked over to Patrick's desk and looked over his shoulder.
"I'm trying to upgrade A.L.I.S.' Semblance Tracker so that it can find who's responsible for everything that's happened." Patrick said as he saved everything and transferred it to A.L.I.S.' hard drive, "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go talk with Yang."
Patrick then walked out of the dorm room and went over to Team RWBY's dorm, to which he knocked on the door.
"It's open." Answered a depressed Yang on the other side of the door. Patrick then opened the door and he saw Yang on Blake's bed looking just as depressed as she sounded. Yang then noticed her latest visitor, "Oh, hey Patrick."
"Hey, Yang." Patrick said as he walked into the room.
After he closed the door, there was a moment of uncomfortable silence before Yang finally broke it, "Look, if you're here because of what happened, then don't bother beating around the bush and just tell me that I was out of my mind, or what were you thinking, or something like that."
"I'm not here to accuse you of anything." Patrick said calmly, "If anything, I wanna tell you that it wasn't your fault."
"What? Why do you say that?" Asked an confused Yang.
"Because me and A.L.I.S. discovered an abnormal Semblance being used on Coco during her fight with Yatsu against Mercury and Emerald, and that same Semblance was used on you last night, and it was only speculation, but after last night, I can confirm that the Semblance creates hallucinations that only the the victim can see."
"Seriously?!" Yang yelled as her eyes turned red, "Oh... when you find the person responsible for framing me, I am so tearing them a new one." Yang's eyes then returned to their normal lilac colour, "Why are you telling me this?"
"So that you know that what happened wasn't your fault, allowing you to have a better mood." Patrick answered.
"Well, I'm better now, thank you."
"Your welcome." Patrick Wrist-Scroll went off, "Oh! The next round's are gonna start soon! I gotta go!" Patrick then started heading for the door.
But before he he left, Yang said, "Hey Patrick." Patrick then looked at her, "If you're up tonight, give it you're all." Patrick responded with a nod and then left.
(Anity Coliseum, later that night)
Patrick was in his tournament armour, walking over to the other combatants, all uneasy about what happened the previous night.
Then Oobleck's voice came on over the broadcast system, "All right, it's now time to begin the randomization process for our next fight!"
Then the roulette started spinning for a few seconds before landing on Patrick and a Wolf Faunus with wolf ears on the top of his head, black hair and eyes with different shades of yellow.
Port then announced once the roulette stopped spinning, "The combatants of this round will be Patrick Browne of Beacon and Warren Marune of Haven!" Patrick looked over to his opponent, who looked a bit shorter than Patrick and was wearing a black hoodie with maroon inner lining, dark grey undershirt, blue jeans that look like they've seen better days and black gauntlets over his arms. "Would all other combatants please leave the stage!" which they did so as the stage floor around them opened once more, with a ring of spotlights rising up to automatically fix their lights on the remaining two, just like the previous night.
"I think this goes without saying, but good luck." Patrick said to his opponent, but all he got was a dark glare from Warren, "Oh... kay, so that's how we're gonna do this, gotcha." Patrick then grabbed Chain-Breaker and turned to War-Hammer mode, and Warren activated a button on one of his gauntlets, and a few seconds later, the Wolf Faunus was encased in a suit of armour that looked like it was made of black metal scales with maroon underplating and silver highlights and had arm-mounted cannons, which made him look like a human-sized Beowolf without any bone armour, which shocked the Vigilante, "Wow... that's... intimidating..."
"Three! Two! One! Begin!" As soon as Port said that, Warren propelled himself towards his opponent, which Patrick dodged quickly before swapping out Chain-Breaker for his LaserMores and switching them to saber mode. The Armoured Wolf responded by extending claw-like blades from his wrists and charging at his charging at his opponent, resulting in the two locking blades.
"So after I kick your ass, am I going to have to watch my back as I leave the arena?" Warren asked, which confused the Vigilante.
"What?! No! Why the hell would think that?" Patrick asked back.
"Well, glad to know are willing to admit you are going to lose. But seriously I heard that Greene guy has a temper to match blondie. And all those explosions collateral damage must be insane."
"Ok first, I never said that I was gonna lose, I just said that if you do win, you're not gonna have to watch for me. Second, my brother may have a temper, but he doesn't go ballistic for no reason." Patrick then tried to move his opponent, but Warren seemed to be really heavy, "And what the hell is in your armour?! An Atlesian Paladin?!"
"What my armour is made of is none of your fucking business!" Warren spat at Patrick, before giving the Vigilante a good shove, sending him sprawling onto the floor, then he pointed his claws at Patrick, but Patrick rolled away just before the blades started firing at him. Patrick then used his LaserMores to block all of the shots coming at him.
"Uh... sir?" A.L.I.S. said to Patrick, "Warren's Aura levels seem to be decreasing at a slow rate."
"Is it a genetic condition?" Patrick asked as he was deflecting the projectiles.
"No, his Aura appears to be going into his armour, which seems to be needed to allow him to move in that thing."
"So, would a continuous stream of Blaster bolts help?" Patrick asked.
"I think so, why?"
"Oh, just curious." Patrick answered as he slowed down time to allow him a chance to swap out his LaserMores for Chain-Breaker, then he activated his jet boots and began raining down Blaster Bolts onto his opponent, which most of them hit their mark... until Warren caught on, and used his armour's gauntlets to create blades on his arms and deflected some of the bolts.
All of a sudden, Patrick's helmet made a high-pitched noise that made Patrick lose his concentration as he gripped the side of his head to clear up his hearing, but was all Warren needed to return fire on the Vigilante, causing him to be forced to land and give the Wolf Faunus a chance to clear some distance between them.
However, before Warren could attack his foe, the buzzer sounded. Confused, both Warren and Patrick looked at the screen and saw that Warren's Aura Level was in the red zone, while Patrick was in the orange zone approaching red.
"And Patrick Browne is the winner of this round!" Port said over the speakers.
Patrick was about to stretch a hand towards his opponent, but as he did so, his Helmet made the same high-pitched sound from earlier, but he was able to recover a bit more quickly than the last time that happened.
However, Warren seemed to notice, "What, you get headaches from winning now?"
"No, my helmet must be glitching a bit." Patrick lied, but he knew the real reason why it happened, "However, I must say, you are a formidable opponent, Warren."
"I wasn't expecting much from someone from a city that can hardly even protect its own city from terrorists with bombs and trains, but I guess you're not as bad as a thought." Warren responded.
"Thanks, and if you ever have ideas about making a new armour that's not as heavy as that suit, or lightening that one, I know a guy who can outfit you with enough Titanium for that thing." Patrick then gave Warren a business card, "If you take it up, tell the guy that Patrick sent you." Patrick then stretched out a hand to Warren, which he took it after a few seconds, and the two opponents went their separate ways.
As Patrick entered the change room, Patrick said to A.L.I.S., "So I guess we know it works."
"Yes, but I was unable to identify the source of the Semblance, but I was able to narrow it down to a student from Haven, due to the fact it came from the stands where the Haven Students were sitting." A.L.I.S. agreed as Patrick started getting out of his armour, "But as I was searching, I noticed something... peculiar."
"What is it?"
"It shouldn't be possible, but I found someone with the same heat signatures as Emerald Sustrai." That statement made Patrick go wide-eyed.
"Your scanners have just been updated, so it is possible that Emerald's here, but she should be back at Haven with Mercury... what's going on?" Patrick said out loud before continuing to undress.
I would like to thank KemarRaijin for sending me Team WOLF, they were the last person to send their Team to me! Also, Team WOLF was supposed to be from Beacon, but I changed it in my story so that it made sense to me. And another thing, if you want to know more about Warren and Team WOLF, then I would recommend that you read The Wolves of Remnant that KemarRaijin is typing out. Anyway, thanks KemarRaijin! Also, Volume 5 is now over! Here's what I think of the last two episodes of the volume before I get into the Volume itself.
*Yang's Lecture for Raven: So I honestly thought that Yang and Raven were gonna duke it out when I watched the second-last episode, because knowing Yang, but instead Yang lectures her mother in the finally?! Not that I'm against it, it was just... odd to have that happen. I'm also glad she decided to think with her head first instead of her fists, though. It showed character development.
*Jaune's Semblance: I was kinda surprised, let down and relieved that we now know what Jaune's Semblance is, which is now apparently Aura Amplification, so I guess we can call him the 'Blonde Paladin' now, cause I think Paladin's can heal people too, right? I don't know, could someone let me know in the reviews please?
*RWBY's Reunion: I liked how RWBY got reunited, especially Yang's hesitation to forgiving Blake. I don't think Blake's off the hook just yet, though.
*RWBY and JNPR's next objective: before passing out due to exhaustion, Oscar told Qrow that Ozpin said that they need to find Atlas, which most likely means that the gang now need to go to Atlas to (Most likely) find the Winter Maiden and the Relic of Creation (I personally think that because due to the fact that Atlas' the north pole of Remnant), but first, they're gonna need to find a way to get into Atlas due to Ironwood closing Atlas' borders.
*A battle won in the war: The Battle of Haven was a major win for RWBY and JNPR because one, they were able to get the Relic of Knowledge so that they can, hopefully, put it in a more secure place (If they bring it with them to Atlas, that's just putting a target on their backs), Cinder's MIA (I can't say KIA because we didn't see her die on screen nor did we see the Fall Maiden's powers transfer to Raven, the last person Cinder most likely had in her thoughts) so Salem's lost a pawn, and to top it all off, Adam's lost the support of the White Fang, so in essence, Salem did too. She also killed Lionheart for failing her, so she also lost a mole in Oz's inner circle. However, don't get your hopes up, Ruby and the gang may have just won the battle, but the war is far from over.
Now what I think of the Volume itself: I think this volume was a expostional volume, because their was a lot of info dumps and some fighting to level it out. Plus, we got to learn some new things about Remnant's history and the history of a few people in it; Ozpin's origins, the Branwens' ability to turn into birds, and the reason why the Branwens went to Beacon. The volume also had a few bombshells as well; Yang going to Raven only to get to Ruby, Ozpin revealing he was the wizard that gave the Maiden's their abilities, Ilia's reveal of having feelings for Blake (Which I'm all for having a character form the LGBT community), and last, but certainly not least, Raven's reveal of being the true Spring Maiden and not Vernal. But to honest, I liked the volume, all and all. It at least checked off two of my hopes for Volume 5; getting RWBY back together and showing what Oscar can do (Even though it was technically Ozpin). I don't have anything else to say about it, other than, quoting Monty, Keep Moving Forward, Rooster Teeth. Keep doing Monty's creation justice.