Mama Yang Hero Academia-39
"What the hell are you?" Wolfram questioned raising his gun and aiming it at them.
"Your judge." Scythe said, leaping away from her position on the ground, and began to literally bounce from wall to wall, while also bouncing to the ground, grabbing her blades.
"Jury." Jack said, running headlong towards him, jumping to the side as he fired his last bullet in the magazine at her, only for it to hit the ground.
"Executioner." The said in unison as they both accessed One-for-All.
Using his Quirk, Wolfram raised a wall of metal that took their attack, to keep them away, as Jack reeled from the pain feeling her arm fracture.
"Jack where does it hurt?" Scythe asked moving back with the white haired girl in her arms.
"My right arm. I think it's broken." Jack said, as the coloration began to change on the area of her damaged arm.
"You went a bit over your limit using grandpa's strength." Scythe said.
Taking this opportunity, as they were distracted, Wolfram ran with his lackey and David in tow.
"Damn it." Scythe growled.
"Go, I'll be fine. My aura is already starting to heal it." Jack said, exiting her temporary Argonaut form.
Looking at her for a moment, Scythe nodded, before running for the exit, following Wolfram and David's scents. As she ran after them, the sound of the reboot going off was heard echoing through the halls, as everything began going back to normal.
"They got control of the security system?" Scythe heard Wolfram's voice from up ahead.
Picking up the pace, with pushing her limits.
"Is it here?" Wolfram questioned as he and his lackey walked to the landing pad with an unconscious David over his shoulder.
"Just landed." The Lackey said.
"Then we're leaving." Wolfram stated.
"Yessir." The lackey agreed.
"Boss, what about everyone else?" The pilot asked, greeting them at the landing pad.
"We're going before the security systems fully back online." Wolfram stated, his voice stating there was no room for arguments.
"Yessir." The pilot said as he went to go start up the helicopter, Wolfram's Lackey running ahead to help with the preparations.
"Kill me. Just do it." David groaned out.
"I'll add a few more sins to your heart first, but then I'll make your wish come true." Wolfram stated as the chopper began revving up.
"STOP." Scythe shouted from the doorway. Aiming an arrow at him. "Give Professor Shield to me now. The device to."
"I wonder, did you come to bring this man back so he can pay for his crimes?" Wolfram questioned.
"Of course not." Scythe growled, putting her bow and arrow away, as black and red lightning began sparking around her. "I'm here to rescue Uncle Shield, from the likes of you."
'I forgot. All Might and David Shield are known to be almost brothers with one another. An' All Might's family is loyal to its own. So it makes sense that she's here for him because he's still part of that family.' Wolfram said, before slamming his hand on the ground. "Even though he's a criminal?"
Scythe cocked her fist back, deciding to test out the maximum limit to the resistance of the Full Gauntlet, put one hundred percent into her arm.
"That doesn't matter." Scythe stated firmly throwing the punch, instantly shattering the metal pillar as if it were a rock going through wet tissue paper. "He's family. An' because he's family, he's a member of my horde, whether he's committed a crime or not. That's doesn't change."
Feeling that her arm was perfectly fine after throwing the punch at a hundred percent power, Scythe did the same with her legs as the helicopter began to take off. Before she could leap at it though, Scythe was caught by her foot, pinned to the landing pad, which gave Wolfram's pilot to take off.
"No. Bring him back." Scythe called out as she broke the bindings, and leapt into the air, grabbing onto the helicopter, causing it to bounce and shake, before Scythe pulled herself up partially, and looked up, starring into the barrel of a gun.
"This is the end for you." Wolfram smirked, pulling the trigger.
"NO." David shouted as Scythe's head went under the helicopter.
"Good riddance I say." Wolfram smiled. "Get us out of here." He called to the pilot.
"Yessir." He pilot said, before a metal claw breached the floor of the helicopter, grabbing the edges of the hole and tearing it open, revealing Scythe, smiling as she held a bullet between her teeth, before spitting it out, hitting Wolfram in the head.
"You're not getting rid of me that easily." Scythe declared, breaking through the copter's floor, landing on her feet, and grabbing David. She tried grabbing the device as well, but was unable to as Wolfram aimed the gun in front of her face, forcing her to jump back out of the helicopter, with only David, but that was more than enough for her.
"SCYTHE." Melissa's voice echoed from the helipad as she came out to examine the situation.
Scythe turned around and looked in her direction, before she felt David's form leave her grasp as Wolfram took him back into the helicopter.
"NO." Scythe shouted as she fell from the helicopter.
"SCYTHE." Melissa shouted in horror, as she came falling down, creating a crater on the helipad upon impact.
"No. Bring him back. You can't have him." Scythe said barely audible as Melissa came to the crater.
"Scythe, are you hurt?" Melissa asked sliding down the curve.
"Bring him back. You can't have him." Scythe said, her voice a bit louder.
"Is anything broken, do you feel any pain anywhere?" Melissa questioned.
"LET HIM GO. DON'T TAKE THE PROFESSOR. DAMN IT." Scythe shouted at the top of her lungs as she sat herself up from the indent made, her voice filled with anger and sadness, blood trickling down the left side of her face, over her eye.
"Don't you dare lose that smile, alright Scythe?" The mighty voice of All Might echoed as he made his appearance on the scene.
In an instant, All Might rocketed up over the tower, and high above the helicopter, as the air current traveling behind him temporarily destabilized the aircraft.
"It's fine now." All Might said his smile as bright as ever. "Do you know why? Because I am here."
"Grandpa." Scythe cheered.
"I'll have you return my friend to me, you fiend." All Might said, rocketing towards the helicopter, smashing through it, grabbing David at the same time, before the aircraft exploded into a ball of flames.
"Papa." Melissa said, as the burning wreckage of the helicopter landed behind where All Might landed.
"Melissa." David said, surprised to find her there.
"Everything's gonna be okay." All Might said.
Scythe sighed, and was about to release her Argonaut form, when she felt a sudden surge of power emanating from the wreckage.
"Heads up, I don't think we're quite done yet." Scythe said as All Might looked back at the wreckage as well, before a pillar of metal slammed into him, knocking him away, with metal pipes and cables wrapping around David, and pulling him towards the epicenter of the wreckage.
There rising from the ground was a monstrosity of a creation, of cables, metal plating, pipes, and wires.
"Papa." Melissa shouted as David was enveloped in a cocoon of cables and metal.
"I heard what the Professor said. All Might's Quirk is failing him. He doesn't have the same unstoppable power he once did." Wolfram said, appearing in the center of the monstrosity, wearing the Quirk Amplifier device, his voice sounding different, like he was wearing a modulator.
"He's using the device. This is exactly what the council and sponsors were worried about." Scythe glared.
"You really don't know when to give up do you?" All Might questioned, launching himself at Wolfram. "Texas: SMASH."
Wolfram raised a wall of metal to take the punch, and All Might barely even shattered it.
"Is that all you got?" Wolfram questioned, sending four pillars from the wall of metal, hitting All Might in the stomach, and knocking him away.
As Wolfram's power grew, all power went out in the tower, as he gained control over all the metal that made it up, causing the monstrosity to become bigger than it already was. Scythe and Melissa just starred in fear of what was happening.
"David Shield's Genius lives up to its reputation." Wolfram said, the sclera of his eyes now black, and his irises and pupils shining a neon purple. "I can tell my Quirk's growing more powerful. It feels amazing. I'm never taking this off."
"Damn it." Scythe growled.
"SCYTHE." The Godslayer turned around to see Ruby coming up in a storm of black and red rose petals with Jack hanging off her like a baby koala, and throwing something at her. "A gift from Neo."
Scythe caught what was thrown at her, and her eyes widened. It was the Quirk Amplifier Prototype collar that Kurogiri stole from I-Island over a year ago, in perfect condition.
"Where did Neo get this I thought it was destroyed?" Scythe called out.
"It was, but Neo said a man named Arthur Watts, repaired it for some reason. She didn't say what that reason was, but that the collar is fully functional and better than ever now." Ruby called back. "Just be sure to take it off, when you start feeling drained. You could die if you wear it for too long."
Scythe looked at the collar, then at the growing mess, coming to a very hard decision, as she knew what would happen if she wore the collar for too long, and didn't need Ruby reminding her.
"Grandpa." Scythe shouted, putting the collar on, much to Melissa's horror. "I need you to get Melissa and the others out of here, and make sure no one else comes, while I deal with this."
"Scythe what are you doing?" All Might questioned, as Scythe powered up the collar.
"I'm doing what I must." Scythe said, her voice changing to a somewhat similar state as Wolfram's, as her Sclera turned black. "If I don't survive this, then tell mom, I'm sorry, and not to be mad at Aunt Ruby."
"SCYTHE." All Might shouted, before the crackling of One-for-All surrounded her, and she was off running at Wolfram, emitting a sonic boom right from the start, sending Melissa flying into All Might's arms.
"SCYTHE NO." All Might called out.
Wolfram saw Scythe coming at him, and sent a pillar of metal towards her. Running headlong toward the obvious attack, Scythe leapt off the ground a bit, One-for-All coursing through her at more than her body should have been able to handle, as she leapt from one pillar to another, sliding down the side of one as Wolfram tried to slam her into the air, falling back to the ground, grabbing onto the side of an oncoming attack.
Flipping around Wolfram's attack like a gymnast bar, she was running down the metal pillar's surface, jumping from it, as Wolfram sent more attacks at her, slamming them into the already formed pillar of metal to try and crush her, as she lunged forward, slamming her fists into more oncoming spears of metal.
Getting near enough, Scythe threw a punch at Wolfram, but the villain countered, by sending a square pillar at her, forcing her to lose momentum in her punch, and knocking her back.
Jumping from area to area, Scythe kept dodging Wolfram's attacks, as the impact from each of them kicked up a cloud of dust. Leaping through the cloud, Scythe landed on a piece of concrete sticking up like a boulder, and jumped off it, with One-for-All coursing through her. Wolfram smiled as she neared him, and sent another beam of metal at her. Scythe threw her punch to counteract this one, but a second one came out of nowhere, and slammed her into the ground, causing her to grunt in pain.
'Damn it. Why can't I land a hit on this guy?' Scythe questioned pushing back against the pillar with her arms. Her feet were digging into the ground as she kept supporting herself from behind pushed back even more. 'This isn't good. I'm already starting to feel my power getting drained from wearing this thing.' Scythe thought before she began to cough, spilling a bit of blood onto the ground. Wolfram began to laugh insanely as he sent more pillars at her, burying her under them. 'At least the others left, I don't know what I'd do if I any of them had gotten hurt because of me.'
Scythe continued to press against the oncoming force, pushing One-for-All to its limit with her body, as she spit up a bit more blood from the strain of using the collar.
"Why won't you just die already?" Wolfram questioned, throwing more attacks at her.
(Cue Music… Freak Show: Skillet)
"I can't die, not yet." Scythe stated, as her eyes began to shine brightly feeling a newfound surge of power flow through her. "I've got too many people waiting for me to come home to them. I can't go breaking their hearts, not when they need me."
Scythe pressed forward, pushing the pillars back, as she focused her body to continue, as she felt a familiar sensation run through her body, that she hadn't felt in quite a few months.
"I told you earlier. Didn't I?" Scythe questioned raising her head, to show her irises shining a bright blood red. "You awoke a dragon. HERE COMES THE WRATH." Scythe shouted as her scream turned into a feral roar, as her body began to glow brightly, before she pulled one of her fists back, and slammed it into the pillar she was pushing against, causing it to shatter, with the shockwaves shattering the pillars coming at her, and piled against the first one.
In a flash of lightning, Scythe rushed towards Wolfram, an intense fire in her eyes, as she pushed David's suit to its limits, as the exposed skin of her shoulders and arms, grew dragon scales, and her back sprouted wings, and her tail grew going from a feline's tail into a dragon tail, with a circlet of scales on her forehead, her hair flailing back with the power she was giving off.
Wolfram threw several more pillars at Scythe, each one larger than the last as she evaded them, before one hit her, and stuck her to the ground.
"SCYTHE." Melissa cried out from where she and All Might were starring in dismay, Ruby and Jack just watching in silent horror as the pillar drove Scythe through the ground, across what remained of the platform.
"Now die." Wolfram shouted, sending several more pillars at Scythe.
Wolfram's eyes widened in shock, when his attack was frozen in midair, and he saw a female Midoriya shatter them, looking bloody and cut up. He couldn't understand how of why Joker had betrayed him, but he didn't realize Joker was gone, and Midoriya was her own person again.
Wolfram felt a tap on his shoulder, and turned to look over it, before he was met with a pie to the face, as Neo was standing behind him, holding David over her shoulder, and sticking her tongue out at him with one of her hands up in a peace sign; she looked just as beat up and bloodied as Midoriya, before she disappeared in an illusion of shattered glass from Wolfram attacking her.
"DIE." The enraged scream of Bakugo rang through the air, and Wolfram wiped away the cream from the pie, in time to see the ash blonde send a massive explosion attack at him. Wolfram blocked the attack by bringing up a wall of metal and concrete.
Midoriya ran to the pillar that had buried Scythe under, and shattered it to pieces, giving Scythe a chance to breathe, and get up.
"Scythe are you okay?" Midoriya asked helping her to stand.
"I'll be fine. But I think I know what I need to do now to beat him." Scythe said, standing up on wobbly legs, as smoke began to rise from her body. "I've reached my limit with my Argonaut form, even with the enhancement collar, I need to finish this quickly."
"What are you going to do?" Midoriya questioned.
Scythe didn't answer verbally, not yet at least, as she took in a deep breath, and focused on sealing away all but six of her elements. She let that breath out as her scales receded back into her skin, her tail reverting into a cat tail, and she took a martial arts stance.
"Midoriya, are you familiar with a show called, Avatar?" Scythe asked, opening her eyes, revealing they, along with the scar over her right eye, were glowing, her right eye glowing gold, and the left and the scar over her right, were glowing purple.
Scythe raised her arms, and several large boulders of concrete came out of the ground, and she sent them at Wolfram just as Bakugo finished his attacks. Wolfram was barely able to raise a barrier to block the first boulder, before the second one, hit its mark, smashing into a section of his giant armored titan body, taking out a piece of it. Wolfram glared at Scythe as she used her control over earth and metal to start rendering the monstrosity of a creation useless.
Wolfram growled, and sent another pillar of metal Scythe's way. Scythe pushed Midoriya out of the way, and spun twice before planting her right foot forward, and throwing her right arm up, in a punching motion, forcing the metal pillar to mimic the movement, before she thrust her fists forward, sending the attack back at Wolfram, before he used his control over it, to send it off course to the side.
"What the hell? Since when can you control metal?" Wolfram questioned.
"Iron and steel have trace bits of earth within them. I can control earth, bend it if you will, and it will be your demise." Scythe smiled.
"Scythe let me help." Midoriya said.
Scythe didn't look back at Midoriya, before she gripped her forehead, and let off a pulse of energy, dragon scales and cartilage spikes on her ears, like Yang's and Ruby's grew out instantly, the only difference being the color as they were emerald green, with a silver hue to them, as the tips of her hair gained a silver shine to them.
"You can help now, you're an Earth Dragonslayer. Just follow my lead and you should be able to master control over your Dragonslayer abilities in no time." Scythe said, before she leapt away.
"Scythe wait, you need to know something about Wolfram." Midoriya called out.
Midoriya followed Scythe, with speeds only a wielder of One-for-All, should possess. Wolfram sent more attacks at them, and Scythe used her earth slayer magic to send them back at him, before she leapt up at Wolfram, ready to throw a full powered fist at him.
As she threw her punch, Scythe's eyes widened in shock when Wolfram caught it in the palm of his hand.
"What the? This strength is unbelievable. It's like he's got more than one Quirk." Scythe growled, before something came to the forefront of her mind. "Wait, don't tell me."
"That's right. Before we came to the island, I was approached by a man, who gave me a second Quirk, wanting to see All Might fall when he found out his best friend, who he thought of as a brother, had been involved in criminal activities." Wolfram smirked.
"Get your hands off of her." Midoriya shouted, taking Wolfram by surprise when she slammed her fist into his face.
Wolfram's grip on Scythe was released, before Midoriya thrust his arms up, creating a pillar of earth that sent Scythe high up into the air.
"Scythe." Bakugo cried out. "SEND THAT BASTARD TO HELL."
Scythe looked to the others, on the ground, before she steeled her nerves, and nodded in confirmation. She turned her attention back to Wolfram, releasing the restraints she put on her other elements, before she took in a deep breath.
"Etherion Goddess: DIVINE BELLOW." Scythe cried out as she released the attack at Wolfram, before it hit the monstrosity in its core, destroying not only Wolfram, but also the Quirk enhancement crown, while the force of her attack, reverberated through her body, destroying the suit David threw onto her.
(End Song…)
As the sun began to rise, Scythe used her control over air, to slowly float back down to the ground, the essences of the Sisters Grimm leaving her body, as she felt weak and lightheaded before she began to fall to the ground, returning to her child form.
"I got you kiddo." Qrow said, appearing from out of nowhere, catching her in his arms, and forcefully removing the collar, before slamming it on the ground, destroying it for good, before he removed his cloak, and wrapped Scythe up in it, to keep her concealed.
"Uncle Qrow." Scythe smiled, before she passed out, breathing softly, like she was just sleeping, her head resting in the crook of his arm.
"Sleep tight kiddo, everything's gonna be all right now." Qrow smiled taking her to what remained of the entrance to the helipad, where the others were waiting for them, looking at them with concern. "You did good kid, you did real good."
~2 Days Later I-Island Hospital~
"Please tell me I can leave now." Scythe groaned, sitting up in the hospital bed. Her arms, legs, and torso were wrapped in bandages, the residual energy of the Quirk Amplifier Prototype had caused her power to spike, not long after Qrow had grabbed her, which caused metal blades to sprout from her arms, legs, and spine before receding back, leaving more than several heavily bleeding gashes in her arms, legs, and back. Qrow got a small gash on his hand, but his Aura had healed it pretty quickly.
"Not quite yet sweetie." Ruby chuckled. "The doctors are still running a couple tests on your blood to see it the amplifier left any other anomalies in your DNA."
"C'mon, I'm dying of boredom here." Scythe groaned, flopping onto her back.
"You were dying of blood-loss and extreme over exertion yesterday. So you're staying put." Ruby said firmly. "Not to mention using One-for-All like you did put an enormous strain on your body, one which should have killed you. You're lucky it didn't."
"Enough with the arguing." Qrow groaned. "What's gonna happen with Midoriya and Neopolitan?"
"The, I-Island police finished getting their statements, about everything that happened, how Midoriya became free from Joker, how Joker managed to get away from us fighting her, an' how Neo was playing the League of Villains for saps while waiting for the right moment to strike, and free Midoriya." Ruby said. "Because Midoriya was basically a hostage, and Neo was supposedly undercover for Yang, no doubt her idea, they're being released without so much as a fine to pay, but they will be monitored for a couple years."
"Can you please stop talking about us like we're not here? We're literally in the same hospital room, two beds away." Midoriya said, sitting herself up.
"Sorry, I'm just not comfortable with talking to you right now." Ruby said.
"*That's understandable, given what Joker did to you when he was still Zombie King.*" Neo said, forming the words with her illusions.
"He?" Qrow questioned.
"By now my twin is probably back in Japan, and father has surely reversed Ochuna's Quirk Effects from him long before now." Midoriya sighed.
"So, I've been meaning to ask, how did you get here from Remnant Uncle Qrow?" Scythe inquired.
"Raven opened a portal to your mom a couple nights back while she slept in her office, on the night before you left for this island. Summer and I came through, but we had to make a living somehow, while keeping our eyes on you all. So now Summer and I are both certified heroes. We have your friend Jotaro to thank for making our identifications, as well as keeping us a secret from you." Qrow said. "Not sure how ice-cream girl got here though."
"*Salem is able to use the Grimm Pool in the Final Boss's lair and a Grimm Pool outside her castle, as doorways between the two worlds. All she has to do is part the Grimm Blood, and anyone can walk through without risk of being turned into a Grimm like her. I kinda snuck through when she wasn't looking, and the door was still open.*" Neo said.
"Great, so is she working with All-for-One?" Ruby asked with a sigh.
"As far as we can tell, yes." Midoriya said.
"Who?" Qrow asked.
"A really bad man, who wants to rule the world. He's able to steal other people's Quirks, and keep them for himself. The only Quirk that can stop him on One-for-All, which for the first time in the history of its existence, four people have possession of." Ruby explained. "Me, Yang, Scythe, and Jack. Where is that little munchkin anyway?"
As if on cue, Jack came through the hospital room door, with a smile on her face and a bag filled with soft drinks in her hand, before going around the room, handing one to Neo, Midoriya, Qrow, then Ruby, before she hopped up on the hospital bed, sitting in front of Scythe, before handing her a drink, and taking out her own, which were the same brands and flavors.
"So, Ruby. Would you please explain to me, why you're gone for three months, then suddenly a mother of a seven year old?" Qrow inquired.
"She's adopted." Ruby explained after making sure nobody was listening in, or there were any bugs in the room. "Much like how Yang adopted Scythe before Venom made them related by blood. She did the same with me and Jack."
"Don't forget about Kacchan. She used his DNA to father Jack's other half." Midoriya said opening his bottle.
"How do you know that?" Ruby asked.
"Joker has a spy in Café Dragon." Midoriya explained.
"An' we go there every day after classes to study together." Ruby groaned. "Who knows how much they could know about us right now?"
"Not a lot actually." Midoriya said. "The most information the spy was ever able to give was your meet up time, and how long you usually stay there."
"Wait, who's Kacchan?" Qrow asked.
"It's a nickname for Katsuki Bakugo. The boy with the spikey ash blonde hair." Ruby explained.
"He's also mommy's boy-toy." Jack smiled, causing Qrow and Ruby to spit take.
"Where did you learn that?" Ruby questioned.
"I think I know where." Scythe sighed.
"Was it from this?" Qrow asked pulling a small, pocket sized copy of Scythe's book out of his pocket.
"Yeah. I read Melissa's copy but I couldn't really understand it all. Most of it actually." Jack said.
"Where did you get that?" Ruby asked.
"What? It's good, I'm impressed at how detailed all the action and drama scenes are. Not to mention the scandalous romance scenes, if you catch my drift." Qrow chuckled with a smile, raising his eyebrow.
"Please just stop talking about that." Ruby groaned.
"Jack can you please grab that for me?" Scythe asked.
Without answering verbally, Jack grabbed Qrow's pocket book, and handed it to Scythe, who signed it with a pen sitting on the bedside table.
"Hey, what are you doing, don't draw in my book." Qrow said taking it back, then looking in to see the damage, only to find no drawing, just a signature. "Wait a minute. You're S-X-L?"
Scythe simply nodded her head.
"Surprise, your great niece is a smut writer." Ruby said.
"You don't seem too shocked by this." Qrow said.
"We enacted the jewelry store heist for our special Class at U.A. That's how we found out she wrote it." Ruby explained.
"That's another thing, what happened to turn my great nephew into a girl?" Qrow asked.
"I can answer that one." Midoriya said. "It happened three months ago, around the time Yang and Blake graduated from U.A." There was a slight pause as he thought it over a bit. "Actually, it happened the night of their celebration."
"There's a lot Yang, and I need to catch you up on." Ruby sighed.
"Tell me later, right now I'm just glad you're all alive and safe." Qrow said.
"Scythe, here." Jack said, putting Nana's hairpin back in the Etherion Slayer's bangs.
"But I gave it to you." Scythe said.
"Your bangs are longer than mine, you need it more than I do." Jack smiled.
"Excuse me, I'm coming in." The doctor said opening the door, and stepping in, with a nurse coming in behind him with a tray of various tools.
"So, is everything good Doc?" Ruby asked.
"Mostly. However, there is a slight complication." The doctor said coming to the side of the bed. "The blades that popped out of her spin, caused some nerve damage to her tail. I need to do a sensory test in order to see if these results are completely accurate. Would you mind moving for a bit for me to be able to do it?"
"Of course." Ruby said moving out of the stool for the doctor to take it, the nurse standing beside him with the tray of tools.
"Alright now Ms. Xiao Long, if you could lay down flat on your stomach for me, we can begin." The doctor said.
Scythe nodded and turned over, her tail motionlessly flopping onto the bed as the doctor put a pair of latex gloves on.
"Alright, let me know if you can feel anything I do." The doctor said, gently grabbing her tail.
As gently as he possibly could, the doctor massaged her tail, and pressed down at the base of it, Scythe let him know she could feel his finger on her back, but not her tail. Taking one of the tools off the tray the nurse was holding, and gently began using the slightly dull pointed tip to poke all along it, occasionally asking Scythe if she could feel him doing anything, to which she replied no.
"I'm afraid that concludes the testing." The doctor said, putting the tool down and removing his gloves.
"So, what's the verdict?" Qrow asked intently.
"Unfortunately, due to her power reacting like it did to the power amplification, the nerves connecting her lower back to her tail were completely severed, leaving her unable to move or feel her tail at all. It's a miracle in itself that she didn't sever the nerves connecting her spine to her legs. We could do nerve treatment to reattach them, or we could go for amputation. The procedure would be a quick one, and her medical bills are covered by I-Island's leader, so we could get the O.R. ready within the hour. Ultimately, the choice is left to you Ms. Rose, as her mother isn't here, you are the one who decides which path we take, either the nerve treatment, or the amputation. I must warn you though, the nerve treatment has little probability of succeeding, and would take several months to complete." The doctor said.
"I… I need to give Yang a call and discuss it with her first." Ruby said, hugging her arms in discomfort a bit.
"Of course. Please take your time." The doctor exclaimed. "I also strongly urge you to listen to your niece's opinion in all this as well."
After the doctor left, Ruby sat back down in the stool, still holding her arms, without much to distract her from the choice she had to make.
"Mommy." Jack said, hugging her. "What are you going to do?"
"I don't know yet sweetie." Ruby said, lowering her head. "Scythe, what do you think about this, do you want the nerve treatment, or do you want your tail removed?"
"I think it'd be best if it was removed." Scythe said turning back over. "It'd be a lot easier to deal with than to do the nerve treatment over several months."
"Are you sure? It's a part of you isn't it?" Qrow asked.
"I'm sure." Scythe said. "I don't really have a use for it anyways."
"Alright. If you're sure about this. I'm gonna give Yang a call." Ruby said pulling out her scroll and leaving the room.
"So, Scythe." Midoriya said. "There's something I wanna tell you."
"Stop." Scythe said. "If you're wanting to apologize for what happened at the USJ, then just don't, you've got nothing to apologize for, it wasn't your fault. So you can put your guilt to rest."
"But…"
"You heard her kid." Qrow chuckled taking a drink from his soda.
"Uncle Qrow, I wanna thank you." Scythe said.
"For what kiddo?" Qrow inquired.
"For saving Jack." Scythe exclaimed. "If it wasn't for you, Jack would be dead right now, and I would have to say goodbye to her."
"Hey, don't sweat it. But I still need a proper answer as to how you went from being a boy to being a girl." Qrow said.
"Again, that is something I can answer." Midoriya said. "It involved someone with a Gender Swapping Quirk."
"*Guy was a Pedo who had a thing for neko girls. Or so I'm told.*" Neo said with an allusion.
"Basically, Scythe got away from him before anything could happen, by biting off the finger to his hand that could reverse it. An' before paramedics could reattach his finger to his hand, All Might punched him, sending the dismembered finger flying and into a fish tank." Midoriya finished. "All-for-One, took his Quirk away before Zombie King, ate him."
"Wouldn't that mean….?"
"Yes. Though after I took back control, I was sick to my stomach, and I forced myself to throw up what Zombie King had eaten of Ochuna." Midoriya said. "I still have nightmares about it."
"That's normal kid." Qrow sighed. "Being in the backseat while someone else uses your body to do things that would give you nightmares, is not something that can be forgotten about. But you'll pull through, I know it." Qrow smiled. "Even if you're a woman now."
"I'm back to being a girl. I wasn't even a boy again for twenty-four hours." Scythe said.
"Oh speaking of which Melissa's friend Jason should be coming by to fix that for both of us." Midoriya said. "It'll be a while though. In the meantime, I wanna ask how you integrated Earth Dragonslayer magic into my soul instantaneously, according to the info my father had on you, it usually takes a week for that to happen, doesn't it?"
"Usually it does yeah." Qrow said, looking to Scythe. "Care to explain kiddo?"
"The collar might have allowed me to tap into a power I'm not ready for yet." Scythe said.
"Your right eye was glowing gold and the scar above it was glowing purple with your left eye." Qrow stated. "Explain now."
"Big Sis Tia, and Big Sis Luna might visit me in my dreams. They told me they're the deities of Remnant, and that I was their champion." Scythe said.
Qrow just starred at Scythe as if she lost her mind, before the carbonated canned drink slipped out of his hand, landing in Jack's as she caught it.
"You're telling me you're the champion of the Brothers Grimm that abandoned Remnant hundreds of years ago?" Qrow asked, coming out of his stupor.
"Sisters Grimm. They're sisters not brothers." Scythe said. "But yeah. They forced my magic to evolve into Godslayer so I could defeat Acnologia."
"We'll talk more about this later. But there's something we need to discuss." Qrow said. "Has Ruby told any of you about the Fall of Beacon?"
"Beacon fell?" Scythe asked, sounding a bit confused. "What does that mean?"
"It means, Beacon is no more. The Academy grounds are overrun with Grimm, and Ozpin is dead." Qrow explained. "Since the Vytal Festival had been cancelled Beacon was in disarray. Eventually the council agreed to start it up again, and that's when Cinder struck. She had the help from the White Fang, to unleash Grimm into the school, and cause a panic. If you know about the Deity Siblings, then you should know about…"
"The Maiden's right?" Midoriya asked.
"How do you know about the Maidens?" Qrow asked, turning to her.
"Cinder is working with All-for-One, to try and find the other half of the Fall Maiden's power." Midoriya said, Neo nodding in confirmation. "She's told Joker and Neo plenty of stories involving the Maidens. The other half of the Fall Maiden's power resides in Pyrrha Nikos right?"
"Yeah, that's the gist of it. Cinder must not have realized it when she helped to kidnap Pyrrha, but she's aware of it now." Qrow explained.
"Alright I'm back." Ruby said, returning to the room. "Yang is upset, understandably, but she understands that the amputation is what Scythe wants, and agreed to it fully, I've already told the doctor. He said the OR will be ready within the hour."
"Alright, so I guess that just leaves Scythe to get herself mentally ready for the surgery." Qrow said. "You sure you're gonna be okay Scythe?" Qrow asked.
"I'm sure." Scythe said. "I wanna go through with this."
"Oh, also Yang said she thought you should change your hero name." Ruby said.
"I have been thinking of a different one for a while. I was thinking of one that would have gone well if I had still been a boy again, but I doubt that will happen. Luckily there's an alternative to it."
"What were you thinking of using?" Jack asked.
"I was thinking of Aires, the god of war. But since I'm a girl again, I think I'll go with Goddess Hero: Athena." Scythe smiled.
~Undisclosed Villain Base Japan~
"So, Wolfram failed, and ended up splitting in two, my son?" All-for-One asked, removing his hand's from Joker's face, having used Ochuna's Quirk to make Joker normal again.
"I did." Joker said, flexing his arm, as he let his power course through him.
"I see. So Izuku wasn't completely gone like we thought, and now possesses more power than you do, having been turned into an Earth Dragonslayer." All-for-One said.
"That's not all." Joker said. "Neo betrayed us. She's sided with the heroes, and even helped to save David Shield from Wolfram. She even gave Ruby the Quirk Enhancement Collar to help Scythe fight against Wolfram."
"Interesting." A woman said, stepping out of the shadows. "It would seem we need to teach Neo a lesson on where her loyalties lay."
"Not now." All-for-One said. "The training camp for the Hero Course students is coming up in less than two weeks, we have to prepare for it."
"Father, I have to ask." Joker said, gaining his attention again. "Are you sure that Salem can be trusted?"
"I believe she can be son." All-for-One said.
"Have you located Pyrrha Nikos?" Cinder asked.
"She was there at the tower, I wasn't able to grab her because I was overpowered from all of them ganging up on me. So I had to flee." Joker said.
"A smart decision my son." All-for-One said.
"Though that leaves the problem of getting Pyrrha Nikos." Cinder stated.
"Patience." All-for-One said. "She'll be at the training camp, one more name added to the list of who we will kidnap won't be a problem."
"I hope you're right." Cinder said. "I will have what's rightfully mine."