Greetings, one and all and welcome to another chapter of RWBYS: Heroes. I am sorry for the underwhelming fight against the Grimm Dragon, but how I originally penned the previous chapter... It just wouldn't fit in with the rest. Still I hope your all going to enjoy it as much as I had writing it and now on to the review.
kyrogue23: Well it is the first time in the Arcmoani Network (KLK: MWI takes place 2 years after RWBYS: Heroes), but his "first" appearance was a hologram/program, but yeah you could say that. And yeah, Marc is not happy at the moment. I hope it entertains you.
And now on to the story.
"We have to hurry. The moment Ironwood sees that Morgenstern has returned he will level the entire place.", Ozpin said, ready to fight along his old friend and their students.
"Are you sure that is wise. Ozpin?", Morgenstern asked calmly as he observed the destruction in the city below him and around the school, "Cinder Fall is on her way to collect the rest of Amber's power. If you hurry now you may be able to stop her."
Ozpin's eyes widen, shocked that this monster knew about Amber. "Oz, go. I will handle him.", Marc said, his voice barley hiding the restrained anger in it, "Jaune, you go with Pyrrha and Ozpin."
"Alright, be careful.", Ozpin said as he and his two students rushed past Morgenstern, who just let them pass without any attempt to stop them, and they rushed into the school.
As the Dark Messiah watched them go from under his hood, before his opposite called his attention. "You will pay for what you have done.", Marc said, calling his Keyblade to his hand before taking his fighting stance.
"We do not need to be adversaries.", Morgenstern said in his usual tone of speaking, turning to the Legendary Knight and his remaining students, "Join me. I have the power to shape the Worlds as I see fit. How we see fit."
"You think... After all you have done to my friends... No, my family. that I will join you?", Marc said as energy started to crack around him, "In a hundred years, when I fianly die... I only hope I go to Hell so I can kill you all over again."
Morgenstern let out a scoff, "I am ready. But are you?", he raised his hand calling his own version of the same Keyblade Marc and Skywalker use, although the Dark Messiah's was of a darker shade.
"Everyone, stay back. I am doing this alone, just keep those Grimm off my back.", Marc told his students before turning to his enemy, "Tell me one thing. Do you bleed?", before he charged towards his opponent in blinding speed.
"No. But Eraqus sure did.", Morgenstern said intercepting the attack, the ground giving away under them.
Meanwhile on the top of the hijacked Atlesian Airship, as Ruby and Sutakira look on the large explosion that had warped the dragon and Skywalker away, with the surrounding Griffons roaming the skies. A Griffon lands on the airship, but Ruby easily cuts it down with Crescent Rose, causing to disintegrate into black particles. "Jason...", she muttered looking up in the sky.
"Don't worry Rubes, I am sure he is fine.", Sutakira said as they suddenly hear a snap. Turning around they to see Neopolitan, now changing into her standard attire with a wave of light.
"I'll take her, you go on ahead.", Sutakira said, taking his fighting stance, Ruby gave a nod before she entered the airship.
Neo gave a sadistic smirk before they charged forward, quickly slashed at Sutakira with her Umbrella sword, only for him to block her blow. As the pair's blades locked, Neo used her Semblance to create the illusion to surround him with five illusions of her. All five attack him at the same time, but much to her shock, she phased right through him, looking around, Neo saw that Sutakira had activated Ghost Drive, allowing him to leave after-images of himself.
"Annoying isn't it, when someone can do it too?", Sutakira said, as he teleported forward leaping over an attack at his legs and flipping over Neo.
The two exchanged blows and strikes against each other, but both opponents manages to dodge the others attack by using their after-images and illusions.
"I can keep this up all day, how about you?", Sutakira asked as both he and Neo fired at the other, the two bullets clashing mid air.
Neo creates more illusions in the hope of distracting Sutakira, but before she can pull the trigger, the blunette grabs the barrel and yanks it to the side, causing Neo to miss his shot and giving him enough time to kick Neo in the side of the head.
Neo stand up again, but as Sutakira teleported in front of her, a damaged bullfighter crashes on the Airship, forcing the two back. Neo was sent tumbling head over heels over the edge of the ship by the explosion. She tried desperately attempted to climb back up as her Umbrella fell down to the ground. Holding onto a smooth edge, Neo lost her grip, but before she could plummet to the ground, a hand caught hers.
Looking up, she was surprised to see Sutakira's blue eyes looking down at her, "Hold on!", he said before yanking her up back on the Airship. As she sat there, she couldn't get her eyes off the young man who had saved her, despise them being enemies. "You alright?", Sutakira asked, getting a nod from her.
"Thank you.", Neo suddenly spoke with a slight smile, before quickly making her escape by entering one of the ships many vents.
"So she can talk...", Sutakira thought before heading into the Airship itself to help Ruby.
Outside the Beacon grounds, Velvet groans as she struggles to get up, only to get knocked back down when Coco bumps into her after getting knocked away from a Paladin. Neon dodge and weave between groups of students fighting against the infected Atlesian Knights and Paladins. Yatsuhashi is fighting a Griffon while Flynt uses his trumpet to hold back a Paladin. Weiss gets knocked back another Paladin.
"Weiss!", Neptune reaching his hand out, Yatsuhashi tries to help her but on his way he tries to hold back a Paladin's fist with his sword, but he gets knocked back.
Weiss soared through the air, before she felt herself being caught by two strong, furry arms. "Come on Schnee. I expected better than that.", a voice said.
Looking up she saw that it was McGrath, but he didn't look like he usually does. Instead of his normal brown hair, his hair was now old and flowing as if it was a flame. His upper body is covered in green fur except the front, showing off his muscular six pack and chest. A powerful aura surrounded him with sparks of pure fire around him.
"Seriously? Your a Super Saiyen 4!?", Weiss asked as he put her back on the ground.
He let out a chuckle at this, "I told you I was holding back.", McGrath said, an actual smile on his face, before turning serious once again as he faced the machines, "Alright! Who wants to die first!?", and in a rather quick succession, he disappeared in a flash of green light, only to appear in front of a Paladin and blasting it with a wave of yellow spears.
A Paladin then turns to and starts approaching a distracted Ren.
"Look out!", Nora said trying to reach her boyfriend, but before the Paladin could strike, a meteor like fire blast slammed into it, and the White Fang member was ejected form it. "Tha fuck...", Ren said slowly, as the Paladin came back online, staring the students down.
"Don't worry luv. Cavalry is here.", the voice of Phoenix came from the Paladin, before it turned to the airborn Grimm, "Time to make a difference!", the machine rubbed its robot hands together.
Phoenix activated the mini-gun mode on his Paladin, swapping out his hand "You wanna play rough? Okay! Say hallo to my...", he started but was stopped mid sentence by his blonde friend.
"Seriously? Scarface? That's so cliche!", McGrath said as he obliterated a group of Beowulf's.
"Your just jealous that I'm allowed to pilot a giant robot!", the Paladin shakes its fist before unleashing a rain of bullets on the incoming Grimm.
Phoenix was tackled by another Paladin, the two grappled with one another, until Phoenix moved back, forcing the other Paladin to the ground. "Nerf this!", he unleashed a rain of bullets point blank, until the other robot was a heap of metal garbage.
"I am glad that he is on our side.", Ren muttered.
"Aren't there any challenges left!?", Phoenix said, raising the arms of his Paladin in victory before doing a little dance. Turning to the left he spotted Marc fighting Morgenstern on the roof, "Oh sweet mother of god, it's Morgenstern. Didn't Messiah killed him?", trying to keep his smile.
"Where are Waffles and Water?", Phoenix asked as he rejoined his friends in the fight, but McGrath didn't know either.
"Well, I guess now's a better time than any. Velvet!", Coco said upon seeing the incoming Grimm, making her teammate look up excitedly, "Make them count." Velvet nods and begins to walk towards the incoming army.
"What are you doing!? She's going to get hurt!", Weiss protested, but Coco told them to just watch.
With her weapon, Velvet begins to replicate Crescent Rose, as she imitates Ruby's trademark overhead spin, landing on top of the Paladin as she dodges its cannon fire. She then replicates Myrtenaster to deflect the Paladin's punch and land a few blows before pushing it back with the Ember Celica imitation. Once after she lands a few shots, she slides under the Paladin's fist, similar to Blake as she uses the Gambol Shroud copy and uses its string to trip over the mech, before moving to the second Paladin by lopping off its hand, and jabbing it in the head.
Before it can react, it is immediately peppered with imitation bullets, thanks to copying Coco's minigun. As it moves forward, Velvet switches to using Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang as a reference, as she lands another few hits while landing a downward blow from above with a copy of Magnhild, severing a limb.
As the first Paladin attempts to recover, Velvet immediately copies Skywalker's Keyblade, as she leaps off the second Paladin and slices apart its legs before blasting it at full power. However, the first Paladin sucker punches Velvet.
Fighting along the side of a Beacon and through the building itself, Marc and Morgenstern landed on the roof. Marc attempting to distract the Dark Messiah by sending a few lighting bolts from his Keyblade at him, though Morgenstern blocked it and redirecting it into wall.
"You know. This reminds me of the day when the Keyblade Academy burned.", Morgenstern said, and Marc charged again, though Morgenstern responded by sidestepping and kicking him in the chest.
Marc attempted to rally, remaining toe-to-toe with Morgenstern as they engaged in a swift flurry of swordplay. The bout ended with the two engaged in a blade-lock, which Marc attempted to break with a telekinetic push, though Morgenstern managed to counter with one of his own, quickly overpowering his opponent, flinging Marc backwards through an opposite building.
"Little Red, little Red, you are just determined to be the hero of Vale, aren't ya?", Torchwick said, spinning around in his chair as Ruby approaches, destroying another ship.
"What are you doing!? Without these ships, the Grimm will destroy everything!", Ruby said, horrified at what this man was doing.
"That's the plan!", he said with a smirk as Ruby performs an low swing, with Torchwick somersaulting over it, and ducking the next swing, before performing another backflip to dodge the third. Ruby then twirls Crescent Rose before attempting another low sweep, only for Torchwick to backflip away from her consecutive twirls.
Once Ruby finishes spinning her weapon, she fires a shot, only for Torchwick to evade and fires a shot back with Melodic Cudgel, sending Ruby flying several feet.
Ruby evades another shot as she lands, she swats aside Melodic Cudgel just as he attempts to fire it at her, causing him to move a few feet off-balance, before Ruby leaps over him, kicking Torchwick's left cheek, and using the momentum to flip him over and send the criminal tumbling on his back.
"But why!? What do you get out of it!?", Ruby demanded to know as she recomposed herself.
"You're asking the wrong questions, Red! It's not what I have to gain, it's that I can't afford to lose!", Torchwick responded as he vaults over Ruby to evade a powerful strike. Torchwick preforms a roundhouse to the abdomen, while slamming the barrel of Melodic Cudgel to the ground and fires, causing the cane to ricochet and hit Ruby, before catching it and firing the weapon once more over his shoulder. The blast is enough to send Ruby crashing into the wall.
"I may be a gambling man, but even I know that there are some bets you just don't take.", Torchwick said, as he held Ruby at gunpoint, "Like it or not, the people that hired me are going to change this World! You can't stop 'em, I can't stop 'em! You know the old saying, 'If you can't beat 'em, join them!"
He suddenly felt himself receiving a kick to the head, knocking him to the ground. "Here is another one. 'Go fuck yourself, Roman Torchwick'."
As the master thief recover he saw that it was Sutakira who had dropped from the ceiling and kicked him in the head. The blunette was now standing next to his girlfriend, helping her back on her feet.
"I don't care what you say! We will stop them and I will stop you! Bet on that!", Ruby said as she and Sutakira charged forwards, Roman grips his weapon and fires at him, Sutakira deflects the attack right back at him, as Ruby smacks him with Crescent Rose, ramming the weapon in his stomach, and firing another shot, sending him flying into the flight controls.
"You got spirit. But this is the real World!", Torchwick said, and he held of their coordinated attacks, "The real World is cold! The real World doesn't care about spirit!" Ruby then kicks him in the knee, causing him to lose balance as Sutakira strikes him downwards.
"True, the World can be a cold and harsh place. People are messy, awkward, sometimes selfish and cruel. But they're trying, and we are going to make sure they have a chance.", Sutakira said as with one final strike from Storm Fall, he destroyed Torchwick's cane.
"You keep believing in your fairy tales.", Torchwick said as he was smacked down into the floor, "As for me, I'll do what I do best: lie, steal, cheat, and SURVIVE!" it was then that both Ruby and Sutakira deliver a punch to his head, knocking the master thief out.
The couple looked at each other happy before the ship took a steep noise dive towards the ground. "I guess we done our part. Let's go.", Ruby said as they blasted the window open. The crimsonette look at her blue haired boy friend, who picked up Torchwick and throwing him over his shoulder, "Doing the right thing is annoying sometimes.", she admitted as she grabbed his arm, a blue aura surrounding them and they were off the sinking airship. Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted Neo escape in an escape pot.
Back in the city, Glynda uses her riding crop to knock back a few Creeps, while Qrow slices and blasts at a few infected Knights with his sword. Blake had left them, heading to the school to help her friends after Skywalker had flied off to fight the Grimm Dragon.
Suddenly, their heads are shot off, as the smoke clears, it is revealed that General Ironwood miraculously survived his crash, albeit having his clothes damaged, revealing the right half of his body to be cybernetic. Without hesitation, he prepares to shoot down all the infected Knight, but all of them powered down.
"This area's secure! We need to...", Ironwood said as suddenly, Qrow's expression changes into anger. He transforms his sword into a scythe and charges toward Ironwood, "Qrow! This isn't my doing!"
Qrow continues charging, despite Ironwood's words. The general flips his gun in his hand and gets into a battle stance, preparing for the perceived attack. However, Qrow leaps past Ironwood, who turns around just in time to see a large Griffon lunging at him. With one swing of Qrow's scythe, the Griffon is sliced in two. Upon landing, Qrow turns around to address Ironwood.
"You idiot. I know you didn't do this.", Qrow scoffed, but he did raised his fist, ready to give Ironwood a punch in the face for launching the Warp Missile and taking Skywalker's life. But he felt Glynda holding him back, before she herself slaps Ironwood in the face, "That's nothing compare what Marc will do to you for killing his oldest son.", she said and Ironwood lowers his head.
"I did what I had to do, the situation was escalating quickly..." the general said, his expression turned even more grim, "Someone's done the impossible and revived Morgenstern. We need to evacuate Beacon, it's the only..."
"You can't do that! You are willing to annihilate Beacon and everyone still in it on the off chance that you may kill that monster?", Glynda asked in horror, "This will spark a war between the kingdoms."
"That son of a bitch brought the war to us, 20 years ago. Everyone in there is already dead by Morgenstern's hand, and if they aren't... They are soon going to wish he did.", Ironwood said, sounding regretful but also knowing he had no other chose, he had already seen what that monster can do, "The protocol was activated the moment he was reborn, there is no way to stop it, unless I can get back to my ship."
The three hear a loud noise and turn to see its source: Ironwood's ship slowly nosediving into the ground. "Well, it won't be much of a walk.", Qrow said, turning to find that Glynda has disappeared.
"General Ironwood, there is an emergency.", a voice of one of his lieutenants said, and a irritated Ironwood asked what was happening now, "Our satalite has detected movement inside the sun. Something is alive in there and it is moving."
At this news, Ironwood dropped his Scroll, "Mother of god... The dragon is alive."
In the Beacon courtyard, the students stand prepared to fight the Atlesian Paladin that is charging toward them. However, electricity arcs spark out of it and it suddenly powers down, collapsing and sliding to a stop in front of them.
"Hm. That went better than expected.", Sun said as he high-fives Phoenix, who was still in his own slightly damaged Paladin. Weiss doubles over, exhausted, leaning on Myrtenaster to keep herself standing.
"You have done well, Schnee.", McGrath said as he powered down, his brown hair was back, the green body hair had disappeared, and on his upper body he wore his trademark green hoody and black v-neck shirt.
"Your not so bad yourself, McGrath.", Weiss said as Yang came running over to them.
"Weiss, have you seen Blake?", Yang asked.
"She was last seen heading towards the cafeteria.", Phoenix explained from his suit, "A bunch of Alpha's are there, as well as some members of the White Fang."
Yang gives a nod before she hurries off in the direction.
In the cafeteria, Blake had run across Taurus and among the flames the two old partners started to duel. "This could've been our day! Can't you see that!?", Taurus said as they blade-locked, "Jason Skywalker is dead!", he broke off, sheathing his sword and backhands Blake across her face, knocking her over.
"It doesn't matter that Jason is gone.", Blake said, wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth and standing back to her feet, "People die every day. Friends, family. Yeah, I lost Jason tonight. But he's still with us, in here. He didn't die in vain." she gestures to her heart, before becoming determent, "But you will, because you are wrong! Jason's heart did beat for us, for all of us! I will make my dream come true!" she charged at her old partner, blades at the ready.
As the fight continued, Taurus found that his movements were being hampered by Blake's speed and use of her Semblance to create clones to take a hit for her or directly attack him, but none of them were running away.
"What you want is impossible!", Taurus said, managing to kick Blake and knocking her over once again, it was then that Yang's voice draws their attention to one of the broken windows. She soon comes into view and shoots a White Fang member, before looking around for her teammate.
"Blake! Where are you!?", Yang shouted.
Tauros looks at Blake to see her terrified expression, then returns his gaze to Yang, "Seeing as Jason Skywalker is already dead. She will have to do.", he said with a sadistic smirk.
"You fight like a younger man. With nothing held back.", Morgenstern said as he and Marc arrived on another school roof. Marc renewed his attack, though Morgenstern managed to deflect one of his blows and, kicking Marc back.
Marc came on again, trying to drive Morgenstern back but he kept his ground as he began to channel and turn the flames against his opponent. Retreating to the relative safety of the structure, Marc watched as the heat and melted the structure. Morgenstern attacked, keeping up his onslaught, driving Marc out of hiding.
Engaging Marc in a blade-lock, Morgenstern threw her against a wall and pressed his attack. Marc managed to recover in time to dodge Morgenstern slash, which struck the wall where he had been seconds before and caused an eruption of sparks. After avoiding another such attack, Marc was forced to keep enduring Morgenstern's relentless offense, while he easily blocked and shunting aside all of his counters.
Marc was finally brought down when Morgenstern twirled and slashed the Keyblade out of Marc's hand with a sudden undercut, before slamming him into the ground with his telekinesis.
Before the knight could stand up, the boot of Morgenstern came down on his chest, as he held him at bladepoint. "You have fought valiantly, but in vain. I do not wish this.", the Dark Messiah said, "I give you one last chance. Join me or die."
"Go to hell.", Marc said, defiant to the end.
"Then now I will destroy you Marc. As I destroyed the Academy.", Morgenstern prepares to finish it, but he was caught off guard when Glynda suddenly appeared, deflecting Morgenstern's Keyblade with her riding crop and managing to land a hit on his face, sending him sliding back.
"Thank you Glynda.", Marc said as she helped him back to his feet.
"I couldn't let that monster kill my man.", she said, adjusting her glasses, just as a tower of Beacon Academy was lifted into the air and thrown at them.
Marc and Glynda jumped forward, using his Keyblade and her Semblance to cut their way through the tower. And as they burst out of the other side, a powerful telekinetic blast send them crashing towards the ground.
Using her Semblance, Glynda slowed them down enough to give them a soft landing. Looking up, Marc saw that they had landed in front of Team A, who all had shocked and horrified expressions on their face, changing between looking at him and at his enemy.
"No... It can't...", Glynda muttered, her green eyes widening in shock and horror. Marc turned around himself, and he could see why the looked like they did. After Glynda's attack, Morgenstern's hood had fallen off and it was his face that left everyone seeing it in complete shock.
His black hair was spiky in the back, he has chin-length bangs that parted down to frame both sides of his handsome pale face. Instead of staring into normal eyes, they found two eyes of royal blue iris and sclera, four ripple-like pattern, with nine tomoe in the three circles closest to the pupil staring at them.
"We know better now, don't we? Devils don't come from hell beneath us. No. They come from the sky above.", Morgenstern said, aside from his horrifying eyes, he looked exactly as Marc himself.
There ya go, another chapter and cliff hanger, hope you enjoyed. Many thanks to everyone who reads, reviews, favorite or follows this story, you beautiful bastards. For now I wish you all a fantastic day and I will see you ladies and gents, next time.