Hello all of my favorite people! How are you today? Man, you can really tell when I'm in a good mood and when I'm in a not so great mood by these first A/Ns can't you? Anyways, I took the PSAT for the second time, the first being as a sophomore, and I did pretty good. I also realised that I haven't wrote a disclaimer in forever, but it probably doesn't matter, so no more disclaimers! Furthermore, I would like to thank The Baz for the OC in this chapter, who will be sticking around for a bit. Also, I wanted to thank everyone for all their support. As of posting, this story has 54 Favs, 64 follows, and around 17,500 views. That is something that I never thought would happen when I first began writing, so thank you all so much :) To end, the next chapter will most likely be a Christmas chapter. This will in no way follow the current story line and won't follow it either. It is simply being wrote for a little holiday cheer. Without further adu, enjoy :)
"I'm not going to be able to stop you, am I?" The older brother asked.
"Nope." Ike replied.
James sighed but said, "Have at him." With a small hand gesture towards the doppelganger.
Ike sprinted forward into the fray. He slashed down one Beowolf and pressed onwards. As one of the students killed another Creature of Grimm, the archer planted a foot on the dead Grimm, and pushed off flying into the air. As he propelled himself, he felt something grab onto his leg. Looking down, Blue saw a student holding onto him. The student looked to be about the same age as Ike. He wore a black shirt with a longer white one below it. Along with this, he had on baggy blue jeans and a black beanie, which was pulled over his eyes. The beanie had the former symbol of the White Fang on it. The symbol that was used before they had a shift in management. "What the hell?" Ike said.
The passenger must've heard him, because he looked up and smiled. This displayed his long canines, which obviously meant he was a Faunus, as well as his red ears. "Too many people. I've always hated crowds." Faunus said. The archer then noticed the teen's hand. It was a prosthetic one. In his human hand, he wielded a baton that sparked electricity.
"Well, can't drop him now." Ike thought as he drew his bow, and notched an explosive arrow. This arrow was then fired into a crowd of Grimm, leaving the piece of Vesh all alone. (For convenience he'll just be called Vesh) The Faunus then released his grip, and dropped to the ground. He red haired teen rolled forward, and slashed at Vesh with his robotic arm. The evil side of Ike then dodged backwards, and smacked the hand away from him with his version of Nero. Ike then landed, and switched to his own blades.
"Well, this should be interesting." Vesh said.
-Back Outside Ike's Head-
"Should we just kill them?" Vesh asked. The music then began to skip, and Vesh could see that the DJ was hiding behind the table. He quickly peeked up, and took the needle off the record. "If someone doesn't say something in five seconds I'm just going with my plan."
"Stop, stop." Junior said. "Nobody shoot. Or kill someone." He then pushed his way through the crowd of goons. "You're here. Why?" He asked somewhat nervous.
"You still owe me a drink." Yang said as she drug the leader of the suited men away.
"Didn't I pay you back last time?" The boss asked.
"Nope."
"What a woman." Neptune said looking and Yang. He then saw the two twins next to him and said, "Sup?"
The pair simply walked away and said, "Whatever." In unison.
Looking back over to his fellow blue haired teen, Neptune saw Vesh shaking his head. "What?" He asked.
"You're a moron." Vesh replied following Yang.
"Hey, it only has to work once!" The teen in red said.
"Good luck finding the one person!" Blue called back.
"Alright, where's Torchwick?" Yang asked Junior who was now behind the bar.
"What do you mean you don't know?" The brawler asked.
"What don't you know?" Vesh asked.
"Where Torchwick is!" The bartender replied angrily.
"How can you not know?" The Beacon students asked.
"I haven't talked to him. I haven't even seen him since the night you first came in here. He paid up front, I leant him my men, and none of them ever came back."
"That sounds like a tale I've heard before." The archer said.
"So where did they go?" Neptune asked inserting himself into the conversation.
"What kind of stupid question is that?" Junior asked. "They never came back!" He then turned to Yang. "Who is this guy?"
"Don't worry about him. Worry about me if I don't find out what I want!" Yellow said with more than a hint of aggression.
"I already old you everything! Torchwick hired my boys, and I guess he wasn't happy with them! Which is something I can relate to!" He yelled looking over to his men, who were all doing nothing.
"Hey!" One called out.
"Come on guys." Yang said as she left the bar.
"Well, it's been nice seeing you again." Vesh said sarcastically.
"Please don't come back." Junior pleaded.
"No promises." The teen replied as he caught up with the other two.
-Back In Ike's Head-
(I should really come up with a name for this place. Actually, you guys do it, because I want to see what you can come up with.)
The two copies started each other down, despite the chaos around them. The Faunus somehow returned to Ike's side with a big grin on his face. Blue could now see that the word 'Smile' was written on the front of the Faunus's shirt. "You know, he looks like you. Except for those creepy eyes." The Faunus then let out a high pitched laugh.
"Ya, that's because he is me. You're a hyena Faunus, aren't you?" The archer replied.
"How'd you guess?" The part hyena asked genuinely stunned.
"Lucky guess."
"Hey!" Vesh called out. "Are we just gonna stand here all day or fight?"
"If it's all the same to you I'd rather fight!" The Faunus called back, before rushing forward. Ike quickly followed behind him.
The red haired teen stabbed forward with the baton, which was deflected by Vesh. He then followed this was a slash of his robotic arm, which Vesh dodged by jumping backwards. Ike jumped in, and slashed sideways at his evil half. This was dodged by Vesh rolling under it and sweeping the good half's legs from under him. Ike was then kicked while on the ground, and sent skidding backwards. The hyena tried attacking again, by thrusting his sharpened metal claws at Vesh. Vesh slapped the arm down with Nero and kicked the teen away. As the redhead flew backwards, he opened his hand, and sent out a fiery projectile. Ike jumped over the Faunus just in time to see the dust projectile hit the ground and unleash a small inferno. Blue used this to his advantage and sprinted towards the fire. He jumped through it, and sprinted a few more step, before he reached Vesh. The two halves slashed at each other, but neither was able to land a hit. Ike spun on his right foot and stabbed at Vesh. Vesh sidestepped the stab and slashed downwards at Ike. Ike then dodged this with a roll and tried landing and upwards slash, which was, yet again, dodged. "Jump!" The hyena's voice called out, and Ike propelled himself upwards. The teen with a beanie opened his palm once more, and shot out lightning dust, which hit Vesh and shocked him violently. Before a hit with the baton was landed, Vesh jumped back and charged forwards hoping to win the upper hand.
The evil half stabbed at the Faunus, who slapped the blade away. Vesh then followed this with another stab, which the hyena pivoted around. This pattern continued, until Vesh stabbed once more and cut off a piece of red hair. "Finally got a hit huh?" The Faunus remarked. "Too bad it was just hair." He said with a smile.
"He's just messing with him now." Ike thought looking at the fight. Vesh tried another stab, but right before the tip of the blade made contact, the redhead batted it away with his metal forearm. This threw Vesh off balance, and let Ike get back into the fight. The blue haired teen jumped over his ally, and connected a drop kick to Vesh's head. This was amplified by Ike using his semblance to kick off and land a front flip. The darker half skipped off the ground and stopped on one knee, with his opposite hand on the ground.
"By the way, what's your name?" Ike asked.
"Rideat Dente" The hyena answered proudly.
"That's one of the lost languages isn't it?" The archer asked.
"Sure is. What about you?"
"Ike Mers." Blue responded.
"You have quite the fancy name there yourself." Rideat said with another laugh.
"Well, it looks like he's charging again, so be ready to fight."
"Please, I'm always ready." The Faunus said with a smile.
-Back to the Unhappy Trio-
"Well that seems like a waste of time." Vesh said.
"At least we got something." Yang said.
"But that something wasn't much." The archer responded.
"There it is again!" Yellow yelled.
"There's what?!" Blue responded.
"That stupid pessimistic side of yours! It's been there ever since we lost Victor!" The brawler said taking a step toward Vesh
"Well maybe I'm not too pleased about losing the guy who was trying to kill me!" Blue said taking a step towards her.
"You know what your problem is?!"
"What?!"
"You're just an as…" Yang's naughty word was then cut off by the sound of both hers and Vesh's scrolls going off.
"What?!" They yelled together as they answered.
"Everyone if you can hear me we need back…" Blake's voice was then drowned out by Sun's
"HHHHEEEEELLLLPPPP!" He called out. "They got a robot and it's big. Really big!" The blonde continued sounding more than a little panicked.
Yang then got on her bike and Neptune followed by getting on behind her. Sun's cries for help continued, and Yang asked, "Where are you guys?" This was answered by Blake and Sun passing by them, down the street, followed by a giant robot, as Sun screamed.
"Well, he wasn't kidding." Vesh said.
"Just grab your scrap metal and hang on." Yang said as she revved the engine. The archer sighed, and did as he was told. Yellow then whipped her bike around and sped off to follow the Faunus pair.
The blonde navigated through traffic, and finally reached the highway that Torchwick was on. Neptune pulled his goggles down over his eyes, knowing that they'd be traveling at a less than safe speed. As Blake and Sun leaped from car to car, Roman decided to simple smash anything in his way. Yang held down the throttle as fa as she could, and eventually the trio caught up to the chase. "You gotta slow it down!" The blonde biker said to Neptune.
"Got it." he replied. The teen with the gun reached for it, but Torchwick began uplifting cars.
"Hold on!" Yang commanded, but Vesh had another idea. As an SUV flew passed the bike, Vesh let go of the rope, and leapt onto the car. As the pair on the bike continued onwards, Blue jumped from car to car hoping to catch up. Eventually, Neptune was able to fire a few shots at the villain, slowing him down slightly. As the passenger on the bike switched to a closer ranged weapon, Vesh propelled himself towards the robotic suit, by pushing off a car. The archer stabbed Nero into the suit and held on for dear life. Neptune then joined him, by stabbing his blade into the suit as well. Vesh was finally able to regain his composure and ripped Nero out of the robot. He then stabbed Ichor in just in time to have something to hold onto as the robotic suit began to convulse in an attempt to lose the unwelcomed guests. Two transparent yellow clones of Sun then dashed towards the mech, and both slammed into it. Upon contact, the clones exploded, but Torchwick continued to flail the robot. Sun attempted to join the fight as he leapt into the air, bo staff in hand. Unfortunately, Neptune's weapon became dislodged and sent the teen flying from the mech. The two teammates collided in the air and off the bridge.
Ruby then informed the remaining five that she was ready for the plan to start. Weiss jumped from another bridge, and landed in front of Torchwick. The villain was then able to dislodge Vesh. This caused the teen to have a rough landing just behind the Ice Queen. The archer looked up in time to see the heiress stab her rapier into the ground, creating a floor of ice. The robotic suit then slid on said ice, and was send tumbling off of the bridge and down to Ruby. Weiss then ran over to the hole in the bridge's guard rail and jumped off. Vesh contemplated going off to find Sun and Neptune, but then remembered that it was Torchwick in the suit. "If he's gone that's just one less obstacle." He thought. The dark half then ran over to the same hole as Weiss and jumped off.
-Guess Where We're Going Now-
As the darker half rushed forward, as did the Beacon pair. Ike slashed with his Nero, but was deflected. Dente was close behind with a slash of his claws, but that was deflected as well. This left Vesh wide open. Ike reached towards his quiver with one hand as he slashed upwards with Ichor. The darker half was able to jump back slightly, but was still caught with the tip of Ike's blade. What he didn't expect was to have a lightning arrow get thrown at him and land a direct hit. The sparks arced from the arrow up the doppelganger's body. Eventually, they stopped but it was obvious Vesh was in trouble. "Just let me have some fun." Rideat said with a less than sane smile. "I'll call you when I'm done." Ike simply nodded, and left to help block the wall from the Grimm.
"What, are you getting cocky now kid?" Vesh yelled out as he stood back up.
"Not cocky. I just wanted to have a bit of fun." The way the hyena said the second sentence unnerved even Vesh slightly. Before the dark side could respond, the Faunus was already closing in on him. The two slashed at each other, and though Vesh was putting up a good fight, it was obvious he was losing. Eventually, Vesh was able to push the Faunus away and switch to his bow. Rideat then opened his palm to his prosthetic arm his foe notched an ice arrow. Both fired ice dust at each other at the same time, causing shards to form on the ground. However, neither had hit their mark. The fight didn't stop there though, as Rideat closed the distance once more. Vesh quickly switched to his blades, and blocked a strike from the Faunus's baton. He responded to this with a diagonal slash of his own, which Dente rolled under. While still ducked, the hyena landed a strong punch to Vesh's chest, knocking him backwards. Vesh got back up for one final charge, but before he reached the Faunus, Ike intervened.
The blue haired teen jumped and landed in between the two. This gave Vesh no time to react as Ike plunged Ichor into his darker half's stomach. "One down." He said as he pulled his blade out. Surprisingly, the injury wound looked like one a Creature of Grimm would have. Vesh fell to the floor, and began to disintegrate like a Creature of Grimm. The Beowolves soon fell to the ground and began to fade away as well. "Ninety-nine left to go." Ike felt an odd feeling in his head as the last body left. Almost as if he had just become extremely light headed. Then, for a brief moment, he saw what appeared to be the world outside his head. He could see team RWBY standing in front of a giant robot. Then, the vision vanished.
-At the Same Time-
Vesh was standing behind team RWBY, not really wanting to fight but knowing he had to. Suddenly, he felt a horrible pain in his head and his vision faded. Then, the pain left and his vision returned. "Ike, are you okay?" Ruby asked.
"Ya, I'm fine." The archer replied.
"The bastard must've taken part of his head back." Vesh thought to himself.
"Alright then, let's get started. Freezer Burn!" The young leader called out as Blake and herself dropped back next to Vesh. "You just need to distract him." Ruby told Vesh. "Try to just make small hits on his legs, while Yang does heavier damage."
Even though he hated taking orders from the girl, he couldn't look out of place. "Got it." Vesh said. Weiss then created a floor of ice, which Yang smashed dispensing a fog. As team RWBY dashed through the fog, Vesh lined up a shot with an ice arrow. He then released the arrow, which hit right on target on the villain's leg. The archer then switched to Ichor and Nero and dashed towards the robotic suit. Vesh quickly slashed at the free leg, damaging the hydraulics in it. Roman then began firing at the ground trying to hit the five, but constantly missed. Ruby used the explosives to her advantage and struck through the smoke of a missile.
"Checkmate." The girl called out as Black and White rushed forward. Vesh propelled himself up on top of the really big robot, as Sun called it, and began hacking at anything that looked important. The monochrome duo began dealing damage from below, but were forced to stop as Roman slammed his foot against the ground. He then launched rockets at the two, which they each dodged. Getting more than annoyed at the rider on top of him, Torchwick picked up Vesh and threw him at the two. Blake was able to dodge him, but Weiss wasn't as lucky. The two slammed into each other, but Weiss was able to release a final glyph before hitting the ground. Blue landed with a solid thud of his own next to her.
"Are you two okay?" Yang asked as she approached.
Vesh slowly pushed himself to his feet but was able to stand. "I'm a little worse for wear but I'll live." He then looked over to the fight to see Ruby and Blake attacking Roman.
"I'll be damned if I let them screw this up for me. He might have information on where Victor is." The dark half thought to himself.
"Maybe you should just rest for a…" Before she could finish, Vesh went sprinting back into the fight. "bit."
As the Ladybug duo chopped of an arm, team Storm took action. Yang began pounding the top of the mech, while Vesh was attempting to take of the other arm. While his attempts with a blade did nothing, maybe explosives would work. The teen retrieved a demolition arrow from his quiver, and took aim. He released the arrow, but before it made contact, Roman charged forward, slammed Yang into multiple pillars, and dodged the arrow all at the same time. "Damnit." Vesh cursed. Yang was then punched as she fell, breaking another pillar.
"If I'm lucky she won't get up." Vesh thought. Unfortunately for the dark side, she did. "Didn't think I'd get that lucky." As another punch was launched at her, she stopped it completely. Then punched it back, ripping the arm clean off. Yang was kicked away, but the archer used this to his advantage. He switched back to his blades, and began to wreak havoc on the wires exposed in the arms. He jumped into the air, and slashed one exposed socket on the way up. As he came back down on the other side, he eviscerated the other side. Yang spun around, barely missing the mech. Ruby and Weiss then activated team Ice Flower. The partners began to shot freezing bullets into the robotic suit and Vesh quickly caught one. He aimed a lightning arrow at the exposed socket, and fired it in. This damaged the motion control completely stalling the suit for a few moments. And that's all Yang needed. She came back around once more, and slammed her fist into the robot's head. This sent it flying, and destroyed it completely. Roman steadied himself, and soon saw both a flaming bullet from Yang and a fiery arrow from Vesh flying at him. Before they made contact though, someone stopped the projectiles. The archer notched another arrow, and concentrated his aura around hit. He fired again, hoping to bend the arrow around the girl. This too fail, as the pink, white, and brown clad girl pushed her umbrella over slightly, blocking it.
"Ladies, Robin Hood, Ice Queen." Roman said. Weiss obviously took offense to being called Ice Queen. "Always a pleasure." He then tipped his hat. "Neo, if you would." Neo bowed down before him as Yang rushed forward.
"That's not going to work." Vesh said.
"Why?" Ruby asked as her sister slammed her fist into what was Neo. The girl shattered into fragments though, completely escaping.
"Cause that's Neo." The archer answered. The evil pair then appeared in a bullhead, which they safely escaped in. The other four quickly came to Yellow's side.
"So I guess he got a new henchmen." Yang pointed out.
"Ya, I guess she really made our plans… fall apart." Weiss said with her lame pun.
"No, just, no." Yang said.
"What, but you do it." Weiss wined.
"There's a time and a place for jokes."
"Was this not it?" The heiress asked.
"No, it wasn't" Vesh said coldly. "We can't keep seeing failures as victories." He then began to walk away.
"It also wasn't very good." The brawler pointed out.
"Well at least I'm trying."
"It shouldn't surprise me that they screwed up." Vesh thought. "I hope Cinder comes to her senses about losing Torchwick." He then looked up at the sky. "Then again, maybe I misjudged him."
Yay! Section One down. Now only 99 left. Obviously, I won't be writing about every section being cleared, because that would take forever. Thanks again to The Baz for Rideat. I'm always happy to look at new OCs and will put in good ones if I see an opening for one in a story. Thanks again guys for all the support, it means the world to me :) and as always, feel free to pm me and don't forget to drop a review. Till next time :D