Greetings, one and all, welcome to the next Chapter of RWBYS: Heroes. I hope your going to enjoy it as much as I had writing it and now on to the review.
kyrogue23: I think your going to be pleased what Jason is going to do to Adam Taurus. Yeah, Toshi is one of the two (the other being Jason) who would go out of his way to save lives, even if they are the enemy.
And now its story mode time.
The group stared between Marc and Morgenstern, eyes wide as they look between the identical men. "I knew I was good looking... But this is insane.", Marc said, standing back up, not knowing what was going on.
"What? Two Marc's?", Nora asked surprised, looking to her teacher and back to the strange eyed monster in front of them.
"More like one Marc and one failed project.", Morgenstern told her in his usual calmly and cold way of speaking, but before they could react to this, he continued, "No. The Marc you all know is not a clone or anything like that. He is the real thing. But a version of me from the past. During one of my experiments in the mechanic's behind time travel. I pulled over my younger self... Even I was surprised at this."
"You experimented with time travel? Are you insane! You could have undone all of reality!", Glynda shouted, "How you haven't punched any holes in the fabric of space and time is beyond me!"
"I would have thought you would understand the high risk high rewards Glynda. And it's more like a rug really.", Morgenstern said calmly, not at all concerned he might have caused the end of all Worlds, before stepping forward, walking towards his younger self, "You still seem confused. You must hate me for what we have done against the Academy but..."
"Shut up, monster. There is no way you are me. You killed everyone I cared about.", Marc spat, standing back up and staring his older counterpart down.
"You have no idea what they have done to us. They were corrupt. They needed to be punished.", Morgenstern said, raising his hand and suddenly Marc's eyes went blank and he dropped to the ground, Glynda managed to catch him before he could, "Soon you will understand."
He then turned his gaze to the sky, seemingly unconcerned by the ships taking aim at their location. "What is Jason doing?"
"He gave his life to protect us all.", Glynda said as she held on to the unconscious Marc.
At this he let out a light scoff, "Yes. And I am the tooth fairy. I guess I will have to use the usual way to get Jason to come to me.", Morgenstern said, turning to the remaining Hunters, Huntresses and the two visitors, "I wonder how many of you all I have to kill before he comes charging down."
"We will never fall to the likes of you.", Sun said as all of them took their fighting stance.
"253.", Morgenstern said.
"We have all trained for this. Together we can do anything: face any foe, overcome any obstacle.", Coco said and once again, Morgenstern said a number, this time "288."
"What are you doing?", Weiss asked, completely surprised at Morgenstern's behavior.
"My apologies. I am just so used to these heroic speeches I started to keep track of how many times I hear certain lines.", he explained casually, "It's a little hobby of mine."
"Your... Your insane!", Ren exclaimed.
"625.", Morgenstern said once again.
"We're gonna...", Neptune said, trying to come up with something original.
"Fuck your face!", Nora finished for him.
Morgenstern breaks out in a cold, dry laughter, devoid of all sort of joy, "14." Nora charged forward, her hammer clashing with Morgenstern's sword, creating a shock wave around them as the ground gave away, before the ginger was thrown upwards when Morgenstern bombarded her with sword strikes of nearly impossible speed.
Morgenstern lunged at the group through and in a moment of distraction, Neptune is knocked to the side by a kick from Morgenstern in the stomach. Coco attempted to blast Morgenstern from behind, but was knocked back by a blast of red lightning bolts from his fingers, while Velvet was knocked back by a round house kick when he swung around to face the remaining students.
Meanwhile in the Beacon vault, an elevator arrives and immediately Ozpin, Jaune and Pyrrha sprint out and down the corridor. "What is this place?", Jaune asked.
"It's a type of vault.", Pyrrha answered.
"What would this school need to... hide?", the blonde continued, but he stopped in his tracks as he saw the Aura transfer machine, gazing wide-eyed at the strange contraption and the comatose girl inside.
"Pyrrha! Get to the pods!", Ozpin said before she could explain it all to Jaune. The red head looks at her boyfriend before she runs to the second pod.
"Mister Arc, if you'd like to help, you can stand guard here.", Ozpin said to Jaune, who looks at the two with uncertainty, then turns around and gets into a guarding stance.
"What do we do now?", Pyrrha asked as her headmaster types away on his machine's holographic keyboard.
"We, do nothing.", Ozpin said as the second pod opens, "You, Miss Nikos... have a choice to make." Pyrrha looks at the pod, then at Jaune, hesitating.
"Pyrrha. I am not sure what is going on... But whatever choice you decide to make, you have my full support.", Jaune said softly over his shoulder. Her expression changes from uncertainty to sadness, and she wipes a tear from her eye, she then climbs into the pod, which closes.
"Are you ready?", Ozpin asked, his student gave him a slow nod, "I... I need to hear you say it."
She lays her head back, staring ahead, "Yes." Ozpin thanks her before he presses a few more buttons on the screen, and Amber's pod raises up, the woman inside begins glowing orange, and her eyelids begin fluttering. The orange glow travels along the pipes connecting the two pods, first up to the ceiling, then down to Pyrrha's pod. An orange glow surrounds Pyrrha, who begins screaming out in agony.
Jaune runs over to Pyrrha's pod, moving his gaze back and forth between Pyrrha and Amber's pod. While Jaune panics, trying to understand what's going on, Ozpin looks away. "I'm... so sorry.", Ozpin mutters when suddenly, an arrow pierces the glass of Amber's pod, striking her in the chest. Amber gasps, and her eyes open, then begin to close again, while the machine begins beeping an alarm. Ozpin and Jaune turn around to see Cinder Fall standing halfway down the corridor from them, an obsidian bow in her hand. She lowers the bow, a tiny smirk creeping across her face.
"What am I doing here? Where did I come from? Who am I? WHAT am I?" Marc thought as he floated in a never ending darkness until he enters a bright light.
"This. This is your birth."
Looking around, Marc saw a blond woman with shoulder length hair and vivid green eyes in a hospital gown laying in a bed, holding a small bundle of blankets as man with pale skin, short bowl-shaped black hair with blue eyes sat next to her on the edge of the bed. "A boy, a beautiful baby boy.", the woman said, tears of happiness in her vivid green eyes.
The man and a look of pure joy on his face, and smiling from ear to ear as he looked over his newborn, "Fuck yeah! I'm a father!", he said with a raised fist.
"Langue, Sky. We don't want his first word to be 'fuck'.", the woman said, but both just laughed too overwhelmed by their happiness.
"I will try, Gia. So what is his name going to be? You were allowed to pick the name if it was a boy.", the man named Sky said, "Or do you want to wait until the others arrive?"
The woman named Gia gave a look over her son, his small hand placed in her much larger one, "Marc. His name will be Marc Morgenstern.", she said with a smile.
The scene disappeared before his eyes and now he found himself standing in a living room. The couple from before were sitting on the couch, their child in his father's arms as both of them were looking at their son, who was looking up at them with his royal blue iris and sclera, four ripple-like pattern, with nine tomoe in the three circles closest to the pupil.
"I don't care about his eyes, they may call him a freak or a monster.", Sky said holding his son in his arms, "He is my son."
Gia placed her head on his shoulder, smiling contently, "Five fingers, five toes, that's all that matters to me.", she said as the two parents looked at their son with a smile, who smiled back at them.
The scene disappeared once again before his eyes as 10 years of lost memories came rushing into Marc's head. He remembered learning to ride a bicycle, helping his mother and father around the house, celebrating his birthday and Christmas with them, his honorary uncles and aunt and their children. He remembered going to the beach and his father learning him how to swim.
Marc was brought to his knees as he now found himself kneeling on a stained glass pillar. The image depicted a sleeping Marc.
"They were good parents. Who loved us with all their heart. But this all changed when the Academy found out about the child with the Aseity eyes.", Morgenstern's voice spoke before he manifested in front of him, "They took us from them. They hurt our mother and our former master Eraqus nearly killed our father. Then they stripped us from our memories and turn us into a weapon of mass destruction."
"No... It can't... But why did we kill Terra and Aqua?", Marc asked, as he looked up to his older self.
"I gave them a chance to join me and to created a better Keyblade Academy. But they refused and stood in my way.", Morgenstern explained, "I had no other choice."
"What about Lily? Why would we attack the woman we love!?", Marc shouted suddenly, realizing that the monster who he had blamed for all the pain and sorrow inflicted on his sons, the woman he loved, who messed up his life and entire Worlds, was he himself all along.
"That... Was a rash decision on my part." Marc admitted, a sorrowful look appeared in his cold eyes, "I let myself be caught up in a prophecy. Trying to kill my son and nearly killing the love of my life... It's one thing I regretted with my whole heart. Not a day goes by where it does not haunt me."
"What your doing, destroying the Academy, and the Order, this trying to reshape the Worlds. It's madness.", Marc said.
"Then join me. Help me save the Worlds. We will start anew.", Marc offered, holding out his hand, "The last thing I want is for us to be enemies.", he extended his hand, hoping his younger self would join him.
Back in the real world, the fight continued against Morgenstern, but none of them could get a hit on him. He easily blocked and shunt aside all their counters while they had to keep enduring Morgenstern's relentless offense.
As Morgenstern deflected another attack of Weiss and Neptune, Ren attempted to strike him from behind, but Morgenstern swung around to face him, he blasted him with red electricity from his finger tips, sending Ren's body flying before he collapses to the ground beside his childhood friend. "Ren!", Nora shouted as she proceed to take a swing at Morgenstern, who promptly sidesteps it and again unleashes electricity from his fingers once again, though she was send back flying as well this causes a quite different reaction from the grinning redhead.
"That's unexpected.", Morgenstern noted.
"You think some lightning is going to harm me? Thanks to my Semblance lets me produce, as well as channel, electrical energy straight to my muscles! Allowing me to jump explosively into the air, wield my mighty hammer and absorb your attacks!"
"So your Semblance allows you to absorb energy. That's interesting.", Morgenstern said as he and Nora stared each other down, just as his eyes started to glow ominously.
But before they could charge towards him, the sound of thousands of missiles could be heard launched in the distance. "No way...", Sun said looking in the distance to see their imminent death coming to them. But just as the missiles were about to impact on them, all of them stopped in midair. The students turned to see Morgenstern with a raised hand, having stopped the missiles from hitting all of them.
"They would kill you all just on the off chance that I would go down as well. Pathetic.", Morgenstern spoke as he begins to turn the missiles around, redirecting them at the ships and the City of Vale and with a single gesture he send the missiles shooting off.
The students tried to charge at him, leaping into the air, they all prepares to strike the opponent, who didn't move at all. Before the attack could connect the ground beneath them rose up, sliding them across the elevated earth.
But in the distance a dragon like roar could be heard as the dark clouds burst open and golden sunlight comes streaming down. And with in seconds, the missiles started to explode by what seemed to be a golden solar flare, flying through them as it made its way towards Beacon Academy. "It's such a surprise that you haven't succumbed.", Morgenstern said before turning to the remaining students, "Didn't you all know? Jason is very sick."
He then turned to see the golden stream flying towards the cafeteria, "After this maybe I will give Ragyo a visit. She does anything for an awesome orgasm. Whatever it is be molesting her daughter or destroying the planet.", he thought as he waited for his arch-enemy.
Taurus draws his sword and stabs it into Blake's abdomen near her left hip, causing her to shriek in pain. The cry catches Yang's attention. The leader of the White Fang stands upright, pulling his sword from Blake's flesh and turning to face Yang. "Get away from her!", Yang said as the evil redhead sheathes his sword with an evil smirk.
"No... please...", Blake whispered weakly as she reaches out helplessly.
Yang screams, her eyes turning red and a burst of flame erupting from her as she leaps at Taurus, drawing her fist back with tears in her eyes.
Taurus swiftly draws his sword, swinging it through the air at Yang, as his Semblance activates. But before he could land a hit, both he and Yang where thrown backwards when the roof broke open and the golden stream of energy landed on the floor, making the very ground they stood on shake, whipping up a cloud of dust, and when it settled, it showed Skywalker standing straight up.
It was then that Skywalker looked up, the look in his glowing red eyes as he stared down Taurus was more horrifying than Blake or Yang had ever seen on his face. There was no calming smile upon the young man's face or a understanding light in his eyes, but instead there was cold fury in every part of his face. A sense of power radiated from Skywalker as though he was giving off a burning heat.
"No... This can't be... Your suppose to be dead!", Taurus said, slightly backing up, but Skywalker stared him down, just staring at his enemy with cold red glowing eyes, "You think your brave? You're not brave, men are brave. Your not even human!", he charged, drawing his second blade to preform an overhand slice, the blade arcing towards Skywalker's unprotected head.
The girls gasped, Yang hurried forward, intending to stop the attack but she froze as Skywalker simply unleashed stream of Heat Vision from his eyes, as Taurus flies through the air, the lower half of his right arm separates from him.
Skywalker side steps, Taurus as he lands on the floor and lays there on his side. "Stay down. Don't make me destroy you.", he simply said as Taurus despise being weakened and wounded, the evil red head stood up tried to attack by throwing a punch, but Skywalker calmly pimp slapped him across the face, repeating it a few times until he could hear something crack in Taurus face as the last strike send him down to his knees.
"Look at him. No different than the creep who killed your girlfriend.", Morgenstern's voice spoke in Skywalker's head, "You need to do something. You need to stop him."
Skywalker stared Taurus down, as he silently calls his Keyblade to his hand and raises his weapon. "Yes, good. Do it." but before he swing the weapon down, he seemed to struggle for a few moments. "You won't do it... You don't have the balls to do what I would do to you in a heartbeat.", Taurus said as he got back up to his feet.
"I won't kill...", Skywalker said, slamming his Keyblade into the ground before grabbing Taurus and lifting him above his head, "But I can't have you in a position where you can be a threat any longer." it was then that Skywalker ripped off Taurus legs.
As the White Fang Leader screamed in pain and shock, Skywalker slammed him into the ground, "If you harm anyone I care about ever again. It will be your head next time." and with his warning given, Skywalker slammed his fist against Taurus head, it bounced against the ground before he was knocked into unconsciousness.
He then quickly rushed over to Blake's side, with Yang behind him. "Blakey, are you alright?", he asked with a soft, his eyes turning back to their normal amber once.
The cat Faunus gave a smile as she touched his face, telling her that indeed this was real. "You came back.", was all she said before wrapping her arms around his neck, softly crying in his shoulder as he wrapped his arms around her lower body. "I thought I lost you, but you came back to me. They are going to write legends about you one day. When the moment looked darkest, there you were with fire in your eyes."
"As long as they include the woman who kept me grounded.", Skywalker responded with a soft smile of his own, before lifting her up bridal style.
"Get a room you two.", Yang said, trying to keep her cheerful and upbeat tone, but even she couldn't hide the fact that she was utterly relieved that one of her best friends turned out alive after all.
"Maybe we should make it a room for three.", Blake responded with a cheeky grin.
"Are you sassing me? Blake Belladonna, where did you learn to quip like that?", Yang asked surprised.
"From you and Jason, of course. It seemed you two have rubbed off on me.", Blake said with a smirk, both Skywalker and Yang couldn't help but have a little smirk themselves.
But it wasn't long before Skywalker turned serious once again, "You two need to get out of here. There is something far more dangerous than the Grimm or the White Fang here.", he said handing Blake over to Yang.
"Your going to fight him? That's suicide! You heard the legends about Morgenstern.", Blake tried to protest but painfully gripped her side.
"I know. To tell you the truth, Morgenstern is in reality far stronger than in any story you might have heard about him.", Skywalker admitted as he stepped back, "Fortunately for me, I already beat him once.", he then took to the skies, ready to face of against the Heavens Dark Harbinger.
There we go another chapter, hope you enjoyed it. 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.