What am I gonna do? Yang lay sprawled out on her bed staring up at the ceiling, she had been more than distressed and confused after the talk she had with Mercury a few days ago. The things he told me… then there's what Torchwick said to me just before he got taken away after the failed attack on Vale. He said I was his backup plan, I mean, after what Mercury told me, it makes sense now. Torchwick really cared for Ruby and she really cared for him, she was lost, alone, afraid… she had nothing, not even her memories, and he gave her a purpose, and she didn't do it because she just turned evil or whatever, she did it because she came to care about him. When he told me I was his backup plan, he wanted me to protect her from Cinder, I guess he didn't trust her either.
With a heavy sigh she rolled onto her side, now staring at her door. So, Ruby did all those terrible things because the people she cared for needed to do them for whatever plan Cinder had. Okay, going above and beyond for people she cares about does sound like Ruby but then… killing someone, with her own hands, taking a life, even if it was kinda in self defense, I can't see her doing that, but Mercury said he was right there with her. That must have been really traumatic for her, Mercury said she's still shaken by it, she had to go through that, and the only people there to comfort her or help her through it… Roman Torchwick, Neo, Emerald and Mercury. I- I wasn't there for her, and they were.
"I was looking for her, I tried to find her… I never stopped." She felt a pain going through her arm that had long since been severed, still, with a trembling breath, she calmed herself. At the dance, I was having fun and it was Mercury that reached out to her when she was in Mountain Glenn, he called her, he told her about me being her sister, he was worried about her while I was enjoying the party.
"And then, we went to Mountain Glenn." She did not have fond memories of that place, though it was a picnic compared to the fall of Beacon. I got captured and that was the first time I really came face to face with Torchwick, even then he was protective of Ruby, he said he didn't want anything to happen to her, he wanted her safe. Neo seemed very protective of her as well, she still does. The whole time they were here, I don't think Neo ever left Ruby's side for long. When I finally broke free and we got on that train… I got to talk to my little sister for the first time since she had been missing.
"She- she said she was lucky to have me as a sister…" Her fist balled in front of her as pain and anger swept through her body, her teeth gritted and tears clouded her eyes. She wanted to protect Torchwick and Neo… from me, from my team, even though his plan was going to get a lot of people killed, she wanted to help him. Why? Because she cared about him? Then why didn't she try to stop him? He's dead now because of the path he chose and Ruby could have ended up the same way! If he cared for her… why didn't he push her away, to protect her?
Yang curled herself up into a ball, hugging herself as tight as she could with her one arm. I guess that's a bit hypocritical of me, being a Huntress is what cost me my arm, it put Thistle in the hospital… Pyrrha and Penny are both dead, it was part of the paths we chose and whether Ruby is a Huntress or a villain, she'll still be in danger. On the train, I could see she just wanted to protect the people who mattered to her, and with what Mercury told me, she put that above everything else, above her own safety… and above the lives of others.
"So… that's how someone so kind and so innocent copes with becoming a monster." Yang whispered bitterly. I tried to get through to her, and for a second it seemed like she was herself, that smile… it was so familiar and then, it was gone, she became someone else before she blew me off that train, her eyes weren't the same. Maybe that colder, harder side of her is like a shield she put up to deal with everything she had to do for Torchwick?
"Even after all that I still couldn't turn her in…" A soft smile formed from her lips and tears fell from her dull lilac eyes. When she came back to Beacon with Mercury and Emerald, I- I didn't know what to think. I was afraid, relieved… and sad. I begged my team not to turn her and then she told me she was moving forward, leaving Torchwick in her past. I think, deep down, I knew it was a lie, but I really wanted to believe her. She talked to Dad and fought with Qrow and at the end of it all, they both accepted what she had done and believed her when she said she was moving on.
And then… came the tournament finals… She could feel a deep and unbearable terror welling up in her chest as she recalled those events, but still, she needed answers… she needed the whole picture. Ruby came to me, she told me that she was going to leave, that it was the last time she would ever see me, the way she said it, it made my heart break. I had just gotten her back, I thought maybe I could start to rebuild what we had, start to get my little sister back. It was all just an act! She was just manipulating me so her and Mercury could make me more angry, more easy to fool with their plan!
"That's it! I need more answers!" With that, Yang jumped to her feet. Her eyes were scorched crimson, her Semblance flaring with her range as she stormed out of her room, stomping down the hall with purpose toward the guest bedroom.
"Mercury!" Yang shouted as she swung open the door without hesitation. The gray haired boy looked up from his magazine at her from his bed.
"What, wanna fight? We just sparred a few hours ago, maybe you should rest up a bit more before going another round with-"
"Shut up!" Yang walked towards him, slamming the door behind her before grabbing him by the collar of his jacket, causing him to drop his magazine, still, he just looked at her unperturbed by her rage, instead waiting patiently for her to say what so clearly important to her.
"Do you know what you've done!? Do really?! You killed people, you and Ruby!" She let him go, throwing him down on the bed as she stood over him huffing with rage. "My arm is gone, Thistle is still in the hospital, Penny and Pyrrha are dead and you caused all of it. Do you even feel bad!? Answer me!"
"Do I feel bad?" His expression was subtle as he tilted his head back, looking up at her with his cool gray eyes. "Not really, I don't know if Ruby does either, at least, not in the way you're thinking."
"Not really?" Yang's voice grew soft. Contrary to the wrath Emerald had expected, her eyes cooled to lilac as her shoulders slumped. "H-how can you say that… they're dead Mercury, my friends are dead, so many innocent people… and you're telling me you can feel nothing?"
"Look, I made my peace with what I've become the day I killed my old man. There's no coming back from that Yang. You kill your own blood, it's only downhill from there when it comes to your sense of morality and you learn to let go of guilt really fucking fast!" He stood up, his own gray eyes held a cold anger as he glared down at her.
"But, I've spent time with you… you're not heartless." Yang felt tears welling up her eyes as she thought of what this meant for her sister, if she felt the same as him.
"Well… things have changed. Feeling bad won't bring anyone back to life and honestly, if I end up going back to Cinder, I'll probably sleep just fine if I hurt more people. In the end, you put what you care about over everything else. We all do it, for Huntsmen, they put protecting people above even their own lives, for Ruby, she put Roman and Neo above the lives of others. I just cared about myself more than anyone else." His expression softened back to his cool neutral look as he put his hands in his pockets, stepping back from Yang.
"And what about now? What do you care about now? Why are you here? Why did you save my sister?" Yang forced her composure back, she needed answers, this wasn't the time to let despair win out.
"It's complicated and I'd rather not get into it." Mercury shrugged, falling back on his bed, folding his clasped hands over his splayed legs.
"Yeah well, Ruby's not here yet so this is the best time I'm gonna get to make you tell me without her getting in the way. So, talk." She folded her arms over her chest and stepped a little closer, making it clear he wasn't going anywhere until she got what she wanted.
"Fine, whatever." He gave a resigned sigh. Well, I don't have to tell her that I'm romantically involved with her little sister, but I guess I can talk my way around that.
"Okay, so like I said, there's no coming back after you kill someone, let alone a parent, it changes you and after Cinder found a use for me, getting any sort of redemption or whatever became something I didn't even think about, let alone care about, I knew I was too far gone so I didn't care. Then, I met this weird, awkward girl and it was strange, I guess I started to care about her. Seeing her take another person's life for the first time, seeing that look in her eyes, I knew she wasn't like me or Emerald, she was a good person, no matter what side she was on. I wanted to help her and before long, she saw something in me that wasn't just usefulness or a means to an end, but something better… I guess she found me under all my smart-ass crap. So that's why I'm here, because I care about Ruby, same goes for Neo and as much as you think hating her for everything she's done is the right thing to feel, deep down, you want to fuck what you should feel and put what you care about first."
"I don't hate her… I- I hate what she's become." Yang hugged herself with her arm, her gaze falling to the floor.
"That's the same thing, don't try and sugar coat it to spare your feelings. She is what she's become, but she's still the same person at her core. So, since we're talking about answers, tell me honestly, what matters more to you; The lives of your friends, your arm, the lives of people you've never met, your moral code… or your own little sister? What do you really care about that you would put above everything else?"
"I- don't know." Yang was trembling, she never felt like she wanted to run away so badly before… but she knew she couldn't. I need answers… I need to know what to do!
"That's not an answer and you know it. I'm asking you what matters most to you, it should be a simple question. You went through hell trying to get Ruby back, now she wants you on her side. She has her memories back, you're her sister again so I'll ask you one more time, what matters more to you, your sister, or your morals?" Yang visibly recoiled at his question, he struck a nerve, that means he was going the right way.
"I think you want to say that Ruby is what matters most to you, but you keep letting what you should feel get in the way of what you actually want. So how about I put it a different way…" Mercury narrowed his eyes at her and she faltered, unable to meet his stern gaze.
"If Ruby choses to go back with Cinder and you don't follow her… could you kill Ruby?" He watched Yang's eyes grow wide, her body relaxed as her arm fell back to her side. For a long moment, she was silent, staring at him. Many emotions flashed in her lilac eyes; disgust, horror, guilt, confusion, frustration and finally… resignation as she withdrew into her mind.
Could I do it? The whole time she was on their side, I never once fought her, even when Vale was in danger I didn't fight her. If I did… if I stopped her then and there, maybe we could have stopped the train in time. People died that day, my friends were badly hurt and Cinder used that to push people's fear over the edge with her speech after Penny… Still, I didn't stop Ruby, I didn't fight her. Yang's eyes shut tight, her mind was a tumultuous storm of feelings and thoughts rushing around in a blur that felt as though it would tear her apart.
Still, through the haze of doubt and confusion, she pictured it; All of Vale on the line, her friends lives in the balance and the only way to save them… was to kill her little sister. She could see it with chilling vividness, Ruby cowering beneath her big sister, her big silver eyes glistening with fear as Yang reared back her fist, ready to deliver the final, life taking blow…
"No!" With a desperate Yang's cry eyes shot open, even so she could barely see through the haze that pooled in her eyes. Her heart was pounding in her chest and her breaths her labored and trembling, she felt like she was about to throw up, every fiber of her being felt repulsion and disgust towards the very idea. It felt like it was so against who she was at her core, that her very soul rejected it.
"That's what I thought." With a soft sigh Mercury stood up in front of Yang, she was still trembling. However, as Mercury's hand came to rest comfortingly on her shoulder, she looked up at him with tears in her eyes and he could see that what she truly wanted felt at odds with what she thought was right.
"Look, you don't have to feel bad. So your sister is the most important thing to you, like that somehow makes you a bad person. I didn't follow Cinder because I want to bring about the end of the world or whatever, I followed her because having a purpose was all that mattered at the time, and I'm not following Ruby so I can save the world and do good, but because she's what matters to me right now. See, as it turns out, the world isn't so simple as black or white, Ruby did bad things but she was never a bad person, it's just a matter of priorities, and there's nothing wrong with putting your sister above everyone else." He smiled his casual, cocky smile, shrugging like it was nothing, but for Yang, it was anything but as she narrowed her eyes at him.
"You say that like it's so simple for you! You've already done so much harm that it's easy for you to see everything in shades of gray, but I can't just shrug at all the death and destruction you two have caused, let alone… be part of it." Her rage quelled as doubt and guilt flooded her heart and mind, her head hung low and her gaze to the floor.
"Alright, well if you don't want to chose either way, why don't you just let someone else kill her." His tone grew hostile as he took a threatening step closer. "I'm sure there are plenty of people on either side who would just love the tear her limb from limb, you can let them do it and pretend you're keeping your hands clean. Don't worry, Neo and I will try to protect her, you can sit on the sidelines and just watch what happens to keep your precious morality. You know what pisses me off?! How you act like this is so complicated, you know you want to protect your sister, deep down, you really don't care what she's done or might do, you want to be on her side, but you also don't want to let go of your moral high ground so to keep your hands clean you act like you can just look away and do nothing, just like you've been doing this whole time! Well you know what Yang, whether Ruby dies or your friends die, you're dreaming if you think your choice to do nothing justifies a clean conscience!"
"I- I…" Yang struggled, she tried with all she had to force the anger she knew she should have towards him out… but she couldn't. She couldn't summon up any rage towards Mercury, or even towards herself. Instead, she felt herself beginning to shut down, she felt herself falling into despair. He's right… he's right.
"If it means anything, Ruby still loves you and I think she knows she's going to need you. The world is against her, it doesn't matter what side, they all have a reason to hate her and a reason to kill her. Honestly, she doesn't show it but I think she's afraid… she just wants her big sister at her back." His eyes and voice softened with compassion and empathy as he stepped back, giving her space and a moment to think. She looked to him, his words and hit her hard but he could see an epiphany in those wide lavender eyes.
"Yang! Mercury! We're home!" A familiar voice shouted cheerfully from downstairs.
"Ruby…" Yang's voice came as a soft, weak whisper as both her and Mercury looked to the door and then back to each other. After a moment, she gave a small, subtle nod, her glistening eyes held a strength of conviction in them that told Mercury more than words possibly could. With a smile of acknowledgement he led the way with Yang follow closely before they left the room, shutting the door behind them.
"Wow…" Yang blinked, not really knowing what to say as she and Mercury stood staring dumbstruck at Ruby.
"Eh-he… you like my new look?" Ruby blushed, bashfully rubbing the back of her head.
Ruby's ensemble was drastically different from the outfit that Roman and Neo gave her. Her hair was cut very short, the scar on her forehead proudly displayed. She wore a black top that cut off at just below her chest, leaving her belly exposed, its long sleeves rolled up to her upper arms which showed the red on inside, contrasting the rest of her black of the top. Fastened to her shoulders metal pins in the shape of her rose emblem was a long flowing cape that fell into a gradient from black on top to gray in the middle before turning bright red at the last third down to her ankles.
At her waist was a black skirt that hung down to her knees ending in frills at the hem, held up by a silvery chain belt. She wore black combat boots with red laces and accessorized her look with a steel upside down cross hanging from her neck, two ruby dangled from her pierced ears from thin gold chains and lastly… a familiar black bowler hat, with a rose in place of the feather Roman Torchwick wore.
"Wow…" Mercury echoed Yang, though with a different connotation as he looked up and down at her slack jawed for a moment before shaking himself back into his senses, well mostly, he still couldn't look away from her. The subtext of his stare wasn't lost on Neo who folded her arms over her chest as she glared at him.
"It's definitely… different." Yang tried not to sound completely off put but she couldn't help but feel it was a bit too… different.
"Thanks, I think." Ruby looked down at the floor, blushing a little bit harder as she briefly met Mercury's gaze. After few seconds to regain her composure she took a long, steadying breath and looked back up to them with a more serious sharpness in her eyes. "Anyway, since we're back, it's time for a team meeting!"
She didn't even stop to ask if Yang was on board, she must have a lot of faith in me and her. He shook his head lightly as he smiled before walking over to the couch in the livingroom. After a lingering look of doubt at her sister, Yang followed him with Neo close behind. The three of them sat down, Mercury in the middle and Yang and Neo at his sides as Ruby strolled up in front of them, clearing her throat before beginning.
"Alright!" She began enthusiastically, trying to exude lighthearted leadership to a humorous effect. "So, now that everything is in order, we will move on to the main mission!"
"Which is?" Mercury smiled slyly at her, happy to play along.
"We're going to find Cinder and make her tell us everything." Her smile faded and her eyes became cooler and more intense, they all could tell, she was deadly serious. "Our best bet it to go to Mistral, start there and work our way out until we find her."
"Oh, that's great." Mercury fell back into the couch looking less than enthused. "So I get to be on a team with my girlfriend and her two psycho sisters to try and find my old super powered and very unforgiving boss all while everyone on all sides is trying to hunt us down?"
"Yep!" Ruby replied cheerfully and without hesitation, a bright, beaming smile lit up her face.
"Sounds like a good time." He grinned back, leaning forward, resting his elbows on his legs as he and Ruby exchanged a long look into each other's eyes. "Well, I guess we should-"
"Whoa!" Yang shouted as she bolted up from her seat, her eyes wide in astonishment and disbelief. "Girlfriend!?"
Crap, did I say all that out loud?
"Yep!" Ruby chimed in her bubbly voice before using her semblance to blur over to Mercury, throwing herself into his lap and nearly knocking the wind out of him as he caught her. She came to a stop, sitting in his lap and her head resting against his chest as she smiled up at her still reeling sister. "Mercury's my boyfriend, surprise?"
"Oh, oh well that's just great!" Yang threw her arms up before turning away from them as she began to walk away from them… and then she promptly turned back around. "Because of course you are, okay, so this suddenly makes a lot more sense… damn it, of all the guys in the world it had to be him!"
"Hey, I'm right here ya know." Mercury deadpanned, while Ruby got a giggle at both of their expense.
"Aw come on Sis, Mercury sweet and cool and funny, you've spent weeks with him and I can tell I did the right thing leaving him with you." Ruby's smile softened as she put one arm around his shoulders, pulling herself against him while he blushed, more at her praise than her affection.
"I can't believe I'm going along with this." Yang sighed as she walked over to the nearest wall, letting her head fall against it forhead first with an audible thud. "Boyfriend, because why the hell not?"
Now even Neo was giggling silently at Yang's reaction, despite her protectiveness towards her adoptive little sister, she couldn't help but find her newest teammate's reaction funny. Beside Neo, Mercury put his arm around Ruby's middle, making himself comfortable with his girlfriend, looking more and more content by the moment. However, behind Ruby's smile, she felt so many things. Feelings of love, happiness, gratitude, relief and contentment conflicted with fear, apprehension, unease and pain that radiated through her head from her scar.
For now, I've got my sister back. The last people in the world I trust and love, people whose hands I would put my life in without hesitation are in my corner and on my team. It feels like the world is crushing me, but with these three, I feel like we can make it through everything it can throw at us.
"Well, this is it." Mercury looked at the house he had called home for months, a soft laugh escaped him as he felt an unexpected degree of fond nostalgia for the place as he and his new team stood outside, bidding their last farewell to the building before they set off for whatever awaited them.
"We've got a long road ahead of us, we should get going." Ruby said solemnly, bidding her home, a home filled with memories that she gotten back, goodbye.
"Hey, by the way," Mercury looked down at his girlfriend beside him. "You've got me curious, you wouldn't show me or Neo the designs for your new weapon. I'd like to see what you did with your scythes."
"Oh! That's right, I almost forgot!" Ruby smiled sheepishly, all three of her teammates were staring at her eagerly as she took a few steps back. A gentle spring breeze flowed around her, tugging at her cape as she slowly reached behind her.
In a blur of silver and red Ruby pulled her weapon from her back as it rapidly unfolded before them. Eyes widened and jaws dropped from Mercury and Yang as a massive double bladed scythe easily twice as tall as its wielder towered imposingly beside her as she held the middle of the long shaft, her boot coming to rest on the long curved blade that rested on the ground, the other blade looming over her, it's crescent pointing the opposite direction as the one below.
"Allow me to introduce the Dual Autonomous Incendiary Scythe; Soul Eclipsor!" Ruby declared proudly, her team in awe of the gargantuan weapon.
"Um, Ruby, that thing is bad-ass and all, but isn't it a little big?" Yang blinked, staring up at the topside blade.
"Yeah, but I trained with Neo every single night after we got it and I'm coming up with my own fighting style with it that combines what she taught me with what Uncle Qrow taught me! Besides…" Her voice softened as she smiled wistfully at it, gently stroking the cool metal shaft with her thumb. "It was the only thing that seemed right."
"Oh yeah?" Mercury grinned as he walked over to her. "This I've gotta see, I hope you learn fast, I don't want to be following around a leader who can't even fight."
"Oh don't worry," Ruby leaned towards him, a smug smile forming from her lips as she looked up at her boyfriend. "I can still kick your ass."
"I'd like to see that." His smile softened as he put his hands in his pockets.
"I bet you would." Ruby winked before folding up her absurdly large weapon, making it more manageable before she holstered it at her back.
"Well team, we should get going, we've got a long walk ahead of us to get to Mistral." Her expression cooled as she looked from Mercury to Neo and then to Yang, her eyes lingering on her older sister for a long moment with a wistful, somber note before Yang returned her look with an extremely subtle nod. With a soft sigh, Ruby turned around and without another word, she began walked down the path away from home.
"Wait!" They all stopped at a familiar shout as a Taiyang ran up to them, a box held securely under one of his arms.
"Dad?" Yang cocked her eyebrow bemused. They had already said their goodbyes to him and he gave them his blessing to go, though they didn't tell him the whole plan.
"It just came in the mail, I was hoping it would before you left, it was specially made by the Atlesian military for you under Ironwood's orders." He came to a stop in front of Yang who was beginning to understand what the item in question was. Slowly, almost too slowly, he opened it up, revealing a very expensive looking, high tech prosthetic arm.
"Dad… I don't-"
"Just put it on." Mercury nudged her with his elbow. As Yang looked to him, he gave a warm, reassuring smile. "Come on, we've got work to do."
Yang gave the prosthetic a long, hesitant look before giving a soft sigh. She untied the jacket sleeve that was knotted just above the stub were her arm ended and pulled it back, leaving the tan jacket hanging off her remaining arm. She reached into the box and pulled it out, looking over its details before putting it securely into place. It worked exceptionally from a technical standpoint, as soon as it was attached she could feel it working. She held it up in front of her face, slowly and methodically moving her fingers.
"It's cold…" She said numbly, her lilac eyes dull with sadness as her arm fell back to her side.
"You'll warm up to it." Mercury grinned as Ruby and Neo joined them, her little sister smiling lovingly at her while Neo's smile was more proud.
"It's good to have you back." Ruby took Yang's metal hand into her own, covering both the top and bottom with her warm hands as she looked fondly into Yang's eyes. "Everything is going to be okay."
As Yang looked into her sister's familiar, deep silver eyes, she could feel the unconditional, pure love Ruby had for her, even through everything, that love wasn't shaken. Yang finally understood what Mercury had told her. She's still the same… she's still my little sister. I have to do this, I have to be there for her this time. I- I still love her, no matter what… and I will protect her.
Dear Weiss…
Hey, I hope this letter gets to you, I know things have been pretty crazy since Beacon Fell, since the CCT is down this is the only way I can talk to you now. My surgeries went well, it still hurts but the doctors say I should be able to walk again… though they don't know if I'll ever be back at full strength again, hopefully physical therapy helps. I'm sorry that I couldn't see you off, but when I heard that you were home safe with your family after I woke up from surgery, I can't even describe how relieved I was.
I know things are tense between you and your family… I wish I could be there for you. I wish a lot of things could be different. I really miss you Snowflake, I keep waking up thinking about you, about that night. Weiss, I'm sorry I wasn't strong enough but no matter what, I will get better and then I'm going to find you and when we meet again…
When we do meet again, there's something I have to tell you, it's very important and I have to say it in person, but I need you to know it. I'm going to work hard in therapy and get back on my feet (literally) and then I'm going to find you. I hope you'll hear what I have to say then. In the meantime, you are very dear to me and I miss you with all my heart.
Sincerely; Thistle Tsvetok.
Weiss' hands trembled as she held the letter gently in one hand, tears dripped onto the paper as they fell from her cheek. In her other hand she held tenderly the only other thing that came with the letter… a white tulip.
Passion and conviction burned in Weiss' chest like never before. Placing the letter down on her bed she bolted up before busting into a sprint across her room, holding gently onto the flower as she came to an uneasy stop at her massive dresser. She shuffled through it until she found a long, ornate wooden box.
'I won't let you down again Thistle. I have something I need to say to you as well, and the next time we meet, I will be strong enough to protect you!' With a shallow, shaky breath Weiss fixed the tulip into her hair, her aura surrounding it so it couldn't wilt.
She opened the clasps that held the box shut and swung it open, revealing Myrtenaster. Delicately she took her weapon by the hilt and held it up. Hang in there for me Thistle, I'll be fighting right alongside you.
"Gah!" Thistle yelped in pain as she fell to the floor, her legs giving out after only a mere two steps before she fell to the floor, her back sending agonizing waves of pain radiating throughout her entire body. Sweat dripped from her as she struggled up from the cold tile floor, her breathing heavy and her soft purple eyes burning with indignant rage.
"Damn it!" Bitterly she growled, her legs unresponsive as she lay there, her arms holding her upper body off the floor while her lower body were inert and useless. She gritted her teeth, her jaw muscles bulging as she bit down. The air around her body hissed and popped as she poured her impotent rage into her Semblance.
"Need a hand?" A compassionate voice spoke to her as he reached his hand down to her.
"No no, I'm on the floor because I like it down here, not like I was short enough Jaune." Thistle laughed painfully. Beside her Nora put Thistle's arm over her shoulder while Ren took her other side helping her to stand.
"Here." Jaune rolled her wheelchair over as his teammates helped her sit down. "It's going to take time, to beat yourself up."
"I don't want to beat myself up, I want to get even!" Thistle slammed her fist down against the cushioned arm of the chair.
"Well, that's why we came here. We want to go after the people responsible for this… we'd like you to join us when you get better." Jaune put his hands carefully on her shoulders, his heart couldn't help but break for her, the most likely, energized and proud person he'd ever know, now stuck in a wheelchair and barely able to take a single step.
"I'm sorry for what happened to Pyrrha, I really am, she was my friend to… but I have a score to settle and it isn't with Cinder." Her voice held a spiteful edge as her Semblance again began to flare, making the air quake at her fury.
"I know, and to do that you're going to need a team. I hope you'll come with us, if you do… I think you two will cross paths again." Jaune looked to his teammates as the nodded in agreement. However Thistle could barely contain her Semblance now, each agonizing pain in her spine only pushed her anger further and further.
Ruby Rose… I'm going to find you and I am going to make you pay!
