It's OK, Omega is here. Once again, not much to say, I just have to put that line at the beginning of all my chapters.
Hope you enjoy!
The dance had been throughly taken care of. The decorations were put up, the foor was made, the music was chosen, and, of course, I had my awesome looking suit on me.
I was taking over for Yang at the front, greeting people who arrived. Although, I had to wonder why exactly do we need a registry for this. Who isn't allowed to be here that can actually get here? Technically, Cinder and her minions, but they were already here and no one knew they were evil. Nevertheless, I did my job. And it was worth it when the next two people entered the ballroom.
"Well, don't you ladies look nice," I say with a grin. Standing there was Ruby and Weiss, each wearing a dress in their own color. The Schnee heiress currently was holding onto Ruby's arm, although with the way Ruby was wobbling it probably should be the other way around.
"Why thank you," Weiss told me with a smile. "You look rather nice as well."
"I live to please," I say with a grin as I bow with my arm crossed over chest.
"You're really taking this, woah, butler thing seriously, aren't you?" Ruby asked me, nearly falling over in the process.
"Why, of course. Even as brutish as I am, I enjoy feeling a tad more. . ," I pause to find the right word. "Cultured, on occasion. Plus, I really rather enjoy talking like this."
"We can tell," the two girls deadpanned.
"Seriously, how do you fight in these?" Ruby asks of Weiss, still not getting the hang of the footwear.
"Years and years of practice," Weiss said somberly, most likely remembering her less than stellar childhood. Ruby seemed to notice this and pecked her girlfriend on the cheek, making Weiss smile again.
"Well, aren't you two cute," I say with a grin. Both of them looked startled for a second, but I spoke quickly. "I've seen this coming for a while, it's nice to see it finally happen."
"T-thanks," Ruby said nervously.
"Your welcome," I tell her, and then point behind me to the dance floor. "Now, go enjoy yourselves."
They took my advice, and left to go dance. I stood there and greeted a few more people, not much of interest happening. That is, until Yang and Blake showed up. Yang was smiling like the sun(pun intended), and the cat faunus had a small blush on her face that her pale features did not help hide.
"Why hello lovebirds!" I call out to the two of them, dropping my butler act for a moment. Blake's blush seems to grow even larger with the shout. "So, who confessed to who first?"
"That would be yours truly," Yang raised her hand, her grin never leaving her face. "I saw her in her dress and just decided to take the plunge and ask her out. I was seriously shocked when she actually said yes!"
"Well, good for you two," I say with my own grin. Yang puts a hand on my shoulder as she walks by me.
"Oh, and thanks for being my wingman, Cy," Yang tells me with sincere gratefullness.
"Anytime, Yang," I tell her with a bow. With that, the blonde laughs and leaves to dance with her date.
The next person who entered was one Sun Wukong, who looked like someone just shot his cat(pun intended once more). The monkey faunus sighed heavily as he slumped over and leaned on my little stand.
"I assume you've seen Blake with Yang?" I ask, despite knowing the answer.
"Yeah, I feel like someone just stepped on my heart and then wiped their shoes on it," Sun told me morosely.
"Cheer up, King. There are plenty of fish in the sea," I tell him with my best smile.
"But none of them are Blake," he mumbles.
Wow, he was really crushing on her hard. Kinda feel bad now.
"Look, if you really cared about her then you should be happy she's happy," I tell him with sage-like wisdom. "Just try to be her friend now, instead of her date."
"Thanks, Cy," Sun told me looking a lot better than when he had arrived.
"Anytime," I said with another grin. "By the way, how's Neptune taking the fact that Weiss is dating Ruby."
"He's already going after another girl somewhere around here," Sun told me.
"You know that's the reason I don't like him, right?" I ask, pissed at the water-fearing asshole. I value loyalty above all other things in life, which is why people like Neptune, Ironwood, Jacques, and Whitley annoyed the shit out of me. Hell, I have more respect for Emerald then I do for those guys and she's evil! Although, I planned on turning her if I get the chance.
"Yeah, yeah, I know," Sun tells me before running off into the party.
The next batch of people that entered was, none other than, Team JNPR. Pyrrha had her arms wrapped around Jaune's left arm, while Ren and Nora were standing side by side.
Oh right, kinda forgot about Flower Power. . .Eh, it'll happen eventually. Plus, I don't think I can convince Ren to actually accept Nora's feelings until the Nuckelavee thing is dead, and he's the one who killed it.
"Good evening, you four," I say with a bow. I grin at Pyrrha and Jaune. "Nice to see you two being all lovey dovey. Although, I kinda wish I had told Jaune you liked him after the dance. Missed out on some great comedy right there."
"What do you mean?" Jaune asked with an eyebrow raised.
"You bet Pyrrha that if she didn't have a date to the dance that you would wear a dress," I say with a chesire grin. "It was very entertaining."
"Heh heh hehhh," Jaune laughed awkwardly. While the others were actually laughing. Although, Pyrrha had the decency to supress her laughter.
"Enjoy the dance," I tell the four as they walk away.
Alice what's the situation like?
Still normal, Emerald and Mercury are on their way to the dance right now. Cinder hasn't left the room though.
Okay, keep me posted.
Roger.
Alice was currently acting as my eyes and ears outside of the dance until Cinder made her move. The CCT has the same security as before, since Ozpin and I don't trust Ironwood with the information that RWBY gives. He doesn't exactly know subtlety, and would probably flood the CCT with guards or just apprehend Cinder outright. So, I was in charge of stopping Cinder from hacking the CCT, or at least, Izanagi is.
As for where Dante was in all of this, he was in the Emerald Forest training. I kinda made a mistake showing him One Piece, cause ever since he saw Zoro and all he's done Dante has been training non-stop. I respect his determination, but I sometimes have to force him to relax using one of my talismans.
I was brought out of my thinking by the doors opening once more. As Alice had said, Merucury and Emerald were now at the party.
"Why hello, sir and madam," I say with a bow, forcing as much fake pleasantness as I could into my voice. "It is a pleasure to see you have arrived at the festivities for the evening."
"Wouldn't have missed it for the world," Mercury tells me with a cocky smirk.
Yeah, keep smiling ya cocky prick!
"I hope you enjoy the dance," I say with a bow. They merely smirk and walk past me into the crowd.
What do you think are chances are of turning them, Alice?
For Emerald, practically guranteed. She sticks with Cinder, because she believes that she'll make a world that lacks poverty and hunger. Which is technically true, seeing as there would be no hunger with no people to experience hunger. We'll just give her promises of a better life and possibly Luffy's speech to Sanji and we're good.
The problem lies in Mercury.
Yeah, he's the wild card in this. There are multiple different takes on his character varying from good to bad, it just depends on which one this Mercury is.
Well, as an old friend once told me 'sometimes you just gotta roll the dice'.
Yeah, he always said that didn't he?
I don't say anything in response. I just finger the links on my necklace that was beneath my shirt remembering old times with a friend I had once knew.
The night went by pretty fast after that. I watched as my friends danced with their dates, all of them looking so very happy. I was proud that this is what I'm fighting for. For my friends to be able to live their lives with a smile on their faces, it's what I do and I wanted my friends to be the same way.
I was rather impressed with JNPR syncronized dance to 'Shine'. I had long left my podium, so I had a front row seat to the show. Sadly, without Jaune in a dress it just wasn't the same. Nevertheless, I had a good time, I chatted with my friends and told multiple stories to people.
"So, there I was training with Jaune and then out of nowhere Pyrrha sneaks up on him, taps him on the shoulder and freaks Jaune out," I tell some people with a grin. "Now, I built a lot of functions into that armor of his and he accidently activated one when Pyrrha snuck up on him. This function being to turn into a freaking armadillo and curl into a ball. It took us like an hour to get him out of the thing, and then-"
CY!
Huh, what!?
She's on the move.
Heh, time to rock!
I look back to my audience who were listening for the next part of my story and smile apolgetically.
"Sorry, I gotta go," I apologize, much to their dissapointment. "We'll continue this story later!"
I dash out of the ballroom with incredible speed. As soon as I get out of sight of prying eyes, I go to my inventory and switch into my Izanagi outfit. With a quick 'BOOST', I ran off towards the CCT. I quickly jump up to the window, and see Cinder take out the guards. I've made it just in time, seeing as she was about to put the flashdrive into the computer. Using my spear as a makeshift gun barrel, I fire a bolt of lightning at the flashdrive seconds before it entered the computer. I immediatly crash through the window, looking quite epic as I did so with my coat fluttering behind me and glass glittering as it flew through the air.
"Seems your plan didn't go as planned, Queen's Pawn," my words made her freeze in either shock or rage. She draws her bow and fires three glass arrows at me. A spin of my spear and they were all gone. "Ah, don't like that nickname, but what chess piece do you represent? Watts is a bishop, kinda fits his whole look and personality. I'd say Hazel is a rook, seems like an appropriate designation. Tyrian seems like a knight, if anything, for his wild fighting style. Of course, you can't forget Salem being the queen. So, where does that put you?"
Now, mind you, Cinder wasn't just sitting still while I discussed chess terms. She was actively trying to spear my body with a myriad of arrows. I was just way too fast for any of them to hit. Normally, I'd talk about how slow arrows are compared to regular bullets, but I think she firing them faster than most bullets. Like I said, I was just way too fast.
"Raarrrrggh!" Cinder snarled at me, seeming to be at the end of her rope. She forgoes her bow for a second and starts firing shards of glass at me. I spin my spear and shatter the shards.
"Ooh, now we got a party," I smirk beneath my mask, while Cinder just growls again.
Cinder's rage was practically nuclear at this point. She seperates her bow into short swords and swings them at me. I counter with my spear and we clash a few more times. The power of our blows getting stronger and stronger as we went on. I was winning the fight too, that is until one little thing happened. Ruby.
"Stop!" Ruby yelled jumping out of the elevator with Cresent Rose raised.
Cinder was in no mood, and threw a fireball at her in rage.
"NO!" I 'Shadow Step'ed in front of Ruby and took the fireballs to my back. I could practically hear my skin sizzling from the heat. That was the one backdraw to the whole familiar deal. If Alice had been hear, she could have taken that hit without even flinching, being a dragon making her impervious to fire. I, on the other hand, was not impervious to fire. She had all my skills, but I did not have all of hers.
"C-Izanagi!" I glare at Ruby and she changes her shout. Getting my hint, that I did not want the person I was fighting to know my real name.
"Better," I tell her while turning around. I was angry to see that, Cinder was long gone already. Even more infuriating was the fact that so was the flashdrive with the computer virus on it. "Dammit!"
"Izanagi, what's going on!?" Ruby asked, slightly hysterical.
"It's okay, Ruby, you can call me Cy again," I tell the reaper. "That was part of the reason shit goes sideways in the original show. The woman I was fighting is a minion of someone much more powerful."
"You know who she is!?" Ruby asks me again. "Then why don't you go fight her now, and bring her to justice!"
"Wow, you actually use that phrase," I mumble, while switching from my Izanagi outfit back to my suit. "It's not that simple, you know the phrase 'the enemy you do know is better than the one you don't'?"
"Yeah," she answers while nodding.
"That's whats going on," I tell her, rolling my shoulder in order to get a kink out of it. "If I beat her now, someone I don't know anything about may show up and screw me over. I may be battle crazy, but even I'm not that stupid."
"So, what now then?" Ruby asks me, confusion clear in her voice.
"Well, I need to go talk with Ozpin," I tell her. "As for you, you need to go back to the party and have some fun! Here, hold onto my arm and I'll teleport you there."
"Umm, could we just walk?" Ruby asks looking a little green, probably remembering the last time I teleported with her.
"Right, my bad. Sure, that's fine," I walk into the elevator and gesture for her to follow.
We make it to the ground floor, and the door opens for Ironwood to be standing there.
"Ah, General lovely night we're having, aren't we?" I ask with a grin, while Ruby looked worried. "Either way, the situation has been dealt with, due to some divine interference. Ozpin can give you a full account of what happened."
Ironwood frowns at me for a second, before speaking. "Very well then, enjoy the rest of your night."
"We will," I tell him. With that, Ruby follows me out of the CCT. While Ironwood stays behind to get a handle of the situation.
[Later in Beacon Tower]
"They were here," Ironwood shouts. "Ozpin, they were here!"
I was currently with Ozpin, Ironwood, and Glynda in Beacon tower. We were discussing what happened at the party yesterday.
"Yeah, we kinda knew that already," I tell him with a snarky grin.
"Then why didn't you tell me about it ahead of time!?" Ironwood demands, smashing his fist on Ozpin's desk.
"Because, General," I growl out the word as I said it. "You have a tendency to over react to certain things. If we had told you, then you would have flooded the CCT with guards and she would have known that we know. Izanagi was perfectly capable of handling the situation."
"Yes, you're alter-ego," Ironwood grumbled. "And what if you weren't able to handle the situation, hmm? What if she downloaded that virus of hers, and got away?"
"Please, I can take on everyone in this room and win, all at once," I scoff with a glare at the general. "I more than enough to take on Cinder when she's holding back for the sake of stealth."
"You're overconfidence in your abilities is troubling," Ironwood tells me, looking down on me as he did so.
I smirk, and then used 'Shave' to appear behing Ironwood. Before he could react, I put the blade of Beta beneath his throat and made the metal cackle with electricity.
"Oh, it's not overconfidence," I tell him with a sadistic smile.
"Cyan!" Glynda shouts at me. Getting the message, I remove my blade and return to my earlier position.
"Mr. Matu would you mind informing Glynda and Ironwood of Cinder's next move," Ozpin asks me with his hands crossed in front of him.
"Of course, Oz," I tell him. "The next move will involve the hidden base she has in the South East. She plans on using a train combined with explosives to flood the city with grimm."
"Well there we have it. We send as many troops as we can to the southeast, find out exactly what's going on, and eradicate any forces that stand in our way," Ironwood says determinedly.
"Why must your answer to everything involve a triumphant display of military bravado!?" Glynda growls at Ironwood. "You treat every situation like it's a contest of measuring di—!"
"Glynda!" Ozpin warns.
"Well, he does," Glynda mutters, while I start cackling.
"She's right," Ozpin tells him. "As much as I too would love to end this situation once and for all, we must remember that this may go beyond Vale. Beyond Beacon. And if this truly is part of some master plan for which we know not the final move, we mustn't be so bold. Nor can we risk the spread of panic."
"I have served you faithfully for years... but if you mean to tell me that your plan is to really hold the defenses, and wait—!"
"Have more faith in him than that, Ironwood," I tell him with a sneer. "The plan is thus. Team RWBY is going to want to go to the South East for their mission, and they won't be taking no for an answer. While this did not work out as well as they thought originally, this time I will be there. I can gurantee that I will be able to stop the train as well as the destruction that it would entail."
"Are you sure about this?" Ironwood asks Ozpin.
"I am," Ozpin answers. "Mr. Matu has shown that he has the skills necessary to help with this endeavor. So, Mr. Matu. . ."
"Yes, sir," I call out.
"Prepare to go on your first mission," he tells me with a slight smirk.
There we go, the ball has started rolling. Let's see where it ends up!
Also, if you're curious about the early update, it's because I'm going to a con on the weekend and I don't know if I'll have easy access to Wi-fi. It's also the reason why this chapter may seem a bit rushed. These last two haven't been my best work, but I can promise I'll do better with the next one!
Hope you enjoyed, OK is out!