Fall of Beacon part 2 - Battle of Beacon: Iron vs Maiden

( Jonathan's pov )

( several minutes earlier )

This was it, this was the moment that we've been preparing for the last couple of months. As I let Carlos borrow the War Machine armor he took Blake to fight Adam over at Beacon while I remained here in the city to fight off the horde of Grimm with anyone else that was available. So far the Iron Legion Protocol was working like a charm, over the semester I spent most of my free time building as many suits as possible in order to increase our odds of victory. As I managed to take down a small army of Ursai I looked towards the sky as several Nevermore were taken down by my silver Mark 2 armor and my Mark 30 " Blue Steel " armor.

Jonathan: Okay so far so good, let's just hope there aren't any more surprises.

JARVIS: Sir, there is another pack of Grimm approaching from your left.

I looked over and saw a pack of about 50 heading my way, this was the perfect time to test out my latest project.

Jonathan: JARVIS is it ready?

JARVIS: Yes Sir, shall I deploy it to your location?

Jonathan: Do it.

Soon the rumble of an engine could be heard as my newest set of armor began to arrive in the city. A large rocket like structure began coming into view as its compartments opened up and several armor pieces began flying towards me. As the first set of pieces landed they assembled to form the lower half of my armor, as I flew over to place myself inside the rest of the pieces assembled around me.

JARVIS: Grimmbuster armor now online, power is at 100% capacity. Dust energy infusion is successful.

The armors design resembled the one from the MCU with several modifications. The overall build was slightly sleeker with the shoulder guards being more defined as they each housed an arc reactor. The boots were the same with an arc reactor just above the arches. The left gauntlet had fire, water, wind and stone dust on each knuckle and the right had lightning, plant, gravity, and ice. The central reactor on the chest had four hard light dust crystals surrounding it to enhance its firepower.

Jonathan: Okay any Grimm that wish to die come and get me. And those who don't...

I raised my right arm and shot one of the Grimm into a building that collapsed on top of it after the impact.

Jonathan: ... too bad.

As the pack began rushing at me I activated both ice and stone dust as I slammed my hands on the ground which caused spikes to erupt from the ground in front of me that impaled several Grimm. The ones that managed to get out of the way in time weren't going to fare any better as I switched to wind and lightning dust while infusing it onto my repulsers to fire a blast of energy that ripped them to shreds while electrocuting any stragglers.

Jonathan: Who's next?

As I continued to tear apart any Grimm that came my way I got a call from Weiss, she said she was on her way back to Beacon to help out the other students along with Yang. I knew my brother wouldn't want Yang there if he wants to prevent her from losing her arm, but right now I had too many Grimm to deal with so I couldn't go after her, I just hoped that he can finish off Taurus before it's too late. As I began to clear the area I got a call from Jaune.

Jaune: Hello... can you hear me!!!! Jonathan I need your help!!!!!

Jonathan: Jaune what's going on.

Jaune: It's Pyhrra, she went after Cinder!

Jonathan: What!? Why!?

Jaune: She's trying to fight her by herself, I told her it was crazy but she went anyway!! Please you have to stop her!!!!

Jonathan: I'm on my way!

I ditched my Grimmbuster armor as I set it to continue fighting the remaining Grimm in the city as I flew off towards Beacon as fast as possible.

Jonathan: JARVIS I need you to access the footage from the vault. Focus on any video with Cinder Fall.

JARVIS: Right away Sir.

As the video uploaded I saw Cinder was able to get past my security upgrades. While it did hold her off for a little while in the end she managed to bypass all of it even with only a fraction of the power she had stolen.

Jonathan: Damn it, JARVIS full power to thrusters now!!!!

As I continued to speed up I finally made it to Beacon and I was able to find Pyhrra doing her best to hold her own against a Maiden.

Jonathan: STAY AWAY FROM HER!!!!!!

As I propelled myself forward I began blasting Cinder with everything I had. She was using her new abilities to easily dodge my attacks while retaliating with her own. The room was filled with fire and repulsers constantly being blasted throughout the damaged room as the two of us began flying around trying to gain an advantage over the other.

Cinder: So the Knight has decided to honor me with his presence. I didn't think that the two of us were ever going to have a chance to meet one another personally, yet here you are of your own free will, and about to perish by my hand.

Jonathan: Sorry but I have no intention of dying today. I don't care how strong you think you are. I plan on taking you down right here, right now!

As I rushed towards her she shot a stream of flames at me, I formed a shield to block her attack that I reinforced using hard light and ice dust to better handle the intense heat. After that I fired my homing missiles as she flew around the room destroying each one.

Jonathan: Pyhrra you have to get out of here right now!!!

Pyhrra: No I'm going to stay and fight with you.

Jonathan: You don't understand, if you stay you're just going to...

Pyhrra: I know if I stay I could die, but if that is to be my fate then so be it!!!

I couldn't understand why she refused to leave. As soon as Cinder made it to the ground Pyhrra began to attack her again. No matter what she continued to fight with all her strength, I knew that she was strong but... I couldn't take the risk.

Jonathan: JARVIS, activate Rescue Protocol.

Just as Cinder was about to stab Pyhrra in the torso with a spear made of fire a surge of electricity began to cover Pyhrra as it managed to hit Cinder causing her to jump back. When it dissipated nanotech began covering Pyhrra's body in a blue and gold armor until she was outfitted in Rescue Armor.

Pyhrra: What's happening? What is this?

Jonathan: Sorry Pyhrra, but it's time for you to go.

The Rescue Protocol was designed to get Pyhrra as far away from here as possible, I modified the suit so her semblance would be useless against it if she tried to manipulate it to her advantage.

Pyhrra: Wait stop!!!! Jonathan let me go!!!!!

As the armor began flying away I began fighting against Cinder once again. I had to use everything in my disposal if I wanted a chance at beating her, no matter what I threw at her she somehow made it to get past me, I had to finish now otherwise I would run out of options.

Cinder: Is this all the great Jonathan Stark has to offer? I expected you to be more entertaining than your brother, but I guess I had nothing to worry about in the end.

As she kept her focus on me I called in all my armors to fly towards my location for an all out attack. I started attacking her with hand to hand combat hoping I could distract her long enough until my suits arrived. Unfortunately she was really good at this and my counter measure program could only do so much to help me.

Cinder: You know it doesn't have to be like this, you're supposed to be one of the Maidens champions, so why not simply join us. With someone of your intellect on our side we can easily overpower anyone that stands against us.

Jonathan: Tempting. But I promised to help keep the innocent safe, besides I could never work for someone like you.

At that moment my armors finally arrived and began an onslaught of attacks that kept Cinder busy. As she flew around trying to avoid as many of the blasts as possible I backed away as I tried to catch my breath.

Jonathan: JARVIS... give me a status update.

JARVIS: Sir it would appear that most of the citizens have escaped the city and managed to find refuge. However there are multiple reports of casualties and there are still a large number of people missing.

Jonathan: What about the military robots? They should've shut down when my virus was installed.

JARVIS: They did, however an external link had a back up program enabled in case they were shut down prematurely, the coding matches what was used to take over the CCT earlier today.

Great so Cinder was already a step ahead of me this whole time. As I looked above me I saw Cinder getting an advantage as she created her dual blades with her semblance and heated them up in order to easily slice up my armors. I decided to get back into the fight and began harnessing lightning and ice dust into my gauntlets to see if I could cause some damage.

Jonathan: Take this!!!

As I fired my repulsers at her she managed to block most of it with a fire shield and returned fire with several fire balls all being shot at me at high speed. As I tried maneuvering out of the way many of my armors that weren't destroyed gave me cover by firing blasts that destroyed any fire balls that where still chasing me.

Cinder: Do you honestly believe that you have the power to stop us! Now that I have become the next Fall Maiden our plans are one step closer to being realized, just what do you hope to accomplish by standing in our way!!!

Jonathan: All that matters is making sure people like you are stopped, no matter how much you try and bring us down we'll keep fighting back!!! That's what it means to be a hero!!!!

As we kept clashing I started to feel a familiar sensation course through me, my thoughts became more aggressive with every hit we took.

Ultron: It would seem as though you haven't learned your lesson yet, no matter how much you try to fight back there will always be someone far stronger than you.

Jonathan: ( Just shut up! I don't need you so get out of my head! )

All of a sudden I found myself in a dark void, everywhere I looked I saw nothing but emptiness in every direction.

Ultron: I once told you that unless you allow yourself to let go of these trivial human matters than you won't be able to evolve into a higher being.

He then suddenly appeared in front of me and steadily hovered towards me.

Ultron: Do you truly wish remain inferior to everyone around you?

Jonathan: Shut up!!!! I won't allow you to trick me, just stay out of my way and never come back!!!

Suddenly I felt the void shake as an image appeared beside us. The image showed Cinder pinning me to the ground with her hand around my throat. Her free hand was ignited and was ready to deliver the final blow. As I tried to figure out what just happened I suddenly felt like my left arm was impaled, I looked at it and saw my arm become like Ultron's.

Ultron: If you won't take the necessary steps to secure victory than I have no choice but to take matters into my own hands.

He snapped his fingers then I received a notification from JARVIS saying that the Rescue Protocol has shut down and that Pyhrra was given full control of the armor.

Jonathan: What did you do!?

Ultron: "I" didn't do anything. This was all your doing Stark. I am a part of you, the part that understands that necessary sacrifices are all means to an end, the part of you that will do what must be done for victory to be assured.

The image then showed Pyhrra flying in and blasting Cinder, while she kept her busy using both the armor and her regular weapons I tried to retract my armor but I couldn't, the left arm of my physical body started to turn like what happened in my mind. As the battle continued I wanted to tell Pyhrra to run away, to get out of here before she got killed. Before I could say anything Cinder managed to hit the armors arc reactor causing it to shut down and Pyhrra fell in front of me, as I tried getting up I felt an intense pain course through my mind. Pyhrra tried getting up to help me but unfortunately Cinder got to her first, she formed her bow and arrow and managed to injure Pyhrra exactly as she did before, the armors defenses were completely useless thanks to her enhanced abilities, she then grabbed Pyhrra's helmet and easily ripped it off before holding her by the shoulder with a blade ready to finish her off.

Cinder: It's unfortunate that you were promised a power that was never truly yours. But take comfort in knowing that I will use it in ways you could never have imagined.

Pyhrra simply looked at Cinder in the eyes without the slightest bit of fear.

Pyhrra: Tell me, do you believe in destiny?

Cinder: Yes.

Just before the blade made contact I thought I heard Pyhrra say " thank you " to me. When she was struck down she didn't even make a sound as her body began to disintegrate as Cinder used her powers on her, the only thing left behind of her was her headband. That was the last straw, I felt my body writhing in pain as it felt like I was being taken over, outside my mind my armor began to change as well. The entire left half began to change as my control over my own body began to dwindle. Cinder then made her way towards me in an attempt to kill me, but before she could finish me off I fired an intense blast of energy at her torso that sent her crashing to the other side of the room.

Cinder: So you still have some fight left in you Stark?

My body got up slowly, my mind and my armor were slowly being corrupted by something deep within me, something out of my control. My eyes glowed red as he began to take over.

Ultron: There is no more Stark. Now there is only... Ultron!

As my body continued to fight Cinder on the outside I tried fighting back to regain myself on the inside. My mark began to burn and I felt incredibly heavy, no matter what I did Ultron was already prepared and I couldn't get past his defenses.

Ultron: You only delay the inevitable, your resistance is admirable but foolish.

He surrounded me in a force field that soon exploded that sent my flying high up only to grab me and throw me back down hard enough to make a crater the size of a car.

Ultron: This is the only way to achieve true victory, once Ms. Fall has been slain I will ensure that this world will find true peace once all submit to my rule.

Jonathan: N-No...

I tried getting back up but I was in too much pain to properly move, most of my body had already been converted into Ultron's likeness except for the right half of my chest and face as well as my right arm.

Jonathan: I... won't let... you...

Ultron: You're just like all the others. You cannot see that your very existence is the sole reason why your species is on the verge of extinction.

He jumped into the crater and began beating me as I tried using my only free arm to defend myself.

Ultron: You can never hope to defeat someone in your state, no matter what you try everything you and the rest of your kind have built will all be destroyed. There is no other choice but to abandon your humanity, it only holds you back!!!!

Before the next hit could connect I was able to grab it and I began to hold it back. I slowly started getting up, I was tired of this, the reason I came here to Remnant was because I felt like the person that I was told was coming with me was my brother. He can be too nice for his own good, still if anything he was always ready to put his trust in others and I was no different. He was depending on me and I wasn't about to let him down!!!

Jonathan: You say that all we have built is about to be destroyed... but that's the thing about us humans, we can always rebuild!!!

As I got back up my arc reactor began to glow brighter as the rest of my body began to reform my armor, however that wasn't the only change happening within me. As my body continued to fight Cinder she was quickly put on the defensive, Ultron was beginning to overwhelm her as she realized that what she was fighting was the furthest thing from human.

Cinder: This is impossible, how can you keep going like this. You were brought here by the Maidens themselves, you should be a slave to the fate they have set before you!!! So why do you continue to resist!!!!

Ultron: I am a slave to no one. Fate is only a four letter word to me. For you see Ms. Fall, there are no strings on me.

Cinder increased her power, she surrounded herself in an aura of flames as she formed her twin blades and retaliated with incredible speed and precision, but no matter how much she tried to fight back it was nothing compared to a cold engine of logic like Ultron.

Ultron: Struggle all you like Ms. Fall, you are about to reach the end of your meaningless existence soon enough.

My body was able to trap her in an energy field infused with gravity dust to keep her immobilized before reforming the left arm into my mini rail gun like before and pointed it straight at her.

Ultron: Corona Destroyer.

The blast was more than powerful enough to obliterate the remaining walls of Ozpin's old office and any flying Grimm that just so happened to be in the area. Cinder should've been completely destroyed by that but somehow she managed to survive with several bruises and burn marks around her body.

Ultron: It would seem you aren't as frail as the rest of the organics that taint this world. I suppose that I should stop holding back.

As my body prepared to end her something began to happen to the part of me that had been overtaken by Ultron, cracks began to form and my body began to react as if some invisible force was attacking it.

Ultron: No you fool!!! Stop this at once!!!! I will not... allow someone so weak... to overcome my superior... power!!!

Jonathan: ( I don't care how superior you think you are!!!! You may have taken my body and mind, but my soul is another matter all together!!!!! )

Within my mind I began regaining control of myself once again, my aura began to flare intensely as my armor rebuilt itself piece by piece both in my mind and on my real body. Soon my aura surrounded me and covered me in an outline of Iron Man himself.

Cinder: Just what are you!!!!!

Ultron: You can't defeat me!!!! I AM ULTRON!!!! I AM YOUR SUPERIOR!!!!!!!

Jonathan: And I... am... IRON MAN!!!!!

As we clashed once more I felt myself become one with my body again, Cinder was on the verge of defeat but she still kept coming at me with the intention to kill, so I had to pull out all the stops. As I focused on the fight before me I could see the image of Ultron standing along side by Cinder, it was almost if they were fighting me simultaneously, their moves were perfectly aligned so I used that to my advantage.

Cinder/Ultron: WHY WON'T YOU JUST DIE ALREADY!!!!!

Jonathan: I CAN'T DIE JUST YET, THERE'S TOO MUCH AT STAKE FOR ME. THAT'S WHY I'LL GO BEYOND MY LIMITS AND SAVE EVERYONE NO MATTER THE COST!!!!!

During our clashes I ended up losing more of my armor, the only thing that remained were my jet boots, gauntlets, and only the right half of my helmet. I was covered in dirt and bruises and my aura was almost completely diminished. Cinder wasn't fairing any better, even with the full power of the Fall Maiden she was still inexperienced. She began to focus the remaining power she had into her palms as I saw Ultron do the same, I only had a little power remaining, even still I focused all of it into my repulsers as well as all the Dust I had left. We charged at each other one last time, as we were about to make contact I retracted my boots and my helmet and formed armor on my arms to better brace myself for the power output.

Cinder/Ultron: THIS IS YOUR END STARK!!!!!!!

Jonathan: IT'S ONLY THE END WHEN I SAY IT IS!!! I HAVE TO GO BEYOND!!! PLUS ULTRA!!!!

The resulting explosion was enough to shake the entire foundation of the tower, the sound of our attacks colliding could be heard all the way to the outskirts of the city. Somehow enough of my armor survived to shield me from most of the blast, but I knew I couldn't keep fighting anymore, I didn't have any power left and my aura had completely dropped to zero. Cinder struggled to get herself back up on her feet, but in the end she was still standing, soon her Grimm dragon began to descend as it prepared to defend her if necessary. Soon I heard the sound of someone approaching and Ruby was suddenly standing at the edge of the tower. I could tell by the look on her face that she was surprised by the damage both to the tower and to ourselves. She then made her way towards me to try and defend me as best as possible.

Ruby: Jonathan are you alright?

Jonathan: For the most part. Listen we need to get out of here. We can't beat her as we are now.

I tried getting up but I was in too much pain to move even a little bit.

Ruby: Where's Pyhrra?

I pointed over to some of the debris that landed on top of Pyhrra's headband, when Ruby saw it she began to understand that our friend was no more, we failed to keep her alive.

Jonathan: It was Cinder... she was responsible for taking Pyhrra from us.

I didn't feel right having to tell Ruby this, but I remembered that this was the only way we could probably still get out of this situation alive. She dropped her scythe as her head began to pound in pain, that look in her eyes was one of despair and I knew it would be the catalyst for awakening her legendary power.

Ruby: PYHRRAAAAAA!!!!!

Her eyes began to glow brightly as we were all consumed by it. As her power began to increase I found myself falling into the darkness. What happened next...

... I don't know.

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Hey guys it's Cerberus. So I just wanted to let you guys know that this story has one chapter remaining before I take a small break before I start on the next one. I also wanted you guys to know that the next one I write will actually be a combination of volumes 4 and 5 since when I started planning it separately they were both too short so putting them together would make it about as long as this one or so. Also I know you'll have noticed the My Hero Acadamia reference in here, I just wanted to put that here since my brother is a big fan of the series so I put that for his character, it may seem a bit out of place but my brother has supported me and even helped me with suggestions so this was just my way of thanking him for his continued support.( obviously I don't own anything for My Hero Acadamia or RWBY. I only own my personal character. ) Anyway I know I am late saying this but I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and here's to the year 2020!!!! Also I wanted to thank anyone who takes the time to read my stories, I know they aren't as good as some of the others out there but it does mean a lot when someone enjoys it. Take care everyone and let's begin the New Year with a new attitude!!!!!