BP: I don't really watch RWBY, but I got bored and decided to write a crossover of it with Pokémon and I only depend on the wiki for information so it may not be accurate. I'm not sure why it's a good idea, but take it as a therapy of sorts, since well, everyone was reeling from Volume 7 (although I probably don't feel the weight of it, because I didn't actually watch it so I only know bits and pieces)
Obviously, I'll bring back the characters from the PAL series, who originates from the Pokémon World and obviously Aura would work different for the Pokémon characters and I'll be taking how it works from the original. However, I made some changes to the background of certain characters and adding Genesis (N. Aepic Fael's characters) to the story.
For those who have read my PAL Series you obviously know how much PAL's abilities and authority extends to, so for the sake of this story, I actually have thought up of the antagonists they will face as opposed to Salem from RWBY, whom I'll leave to Ruby and the others. Don't worry, the main character from Pokémon is still Ash. So, yes, there are some elements from the original series, like his background for instance.
Anyway, I am feeling in a foul mood by my former classmates who make fun of MY writing and the kind of stories I write, it was so bad I actually deleted that story so they'd shut up. They cling to the past and talk about what I did in the past and not about themselves. How immature.
Also, it's difficult to go out due to the coronavirus, so I'm stuck at home literally and I'm asked to put a hold to my job applications.
For most people, the world around us is all there is, and we believe that whatever we can sense from our five senses was all there is. It's the same for capabilities and potential. We see the most powerful person as the goal we want to meet, and may think we aren't capable of more, because in that world, we would have been put in the highest pedestal in terms of abilities.
However, what people do not know was that there is a lot more there to the world and universe around us. Different worlds, where you may only be considered average compared to the people inhabiting it. Different world with completely different cultures and mechanics compared to your own. In that world, there may be even people who could do things you would never imagine, such as dimension travelling or even resurrecting people.
It does open up possibilities, doesn't it? Unfortunately, it'll open up doors for those who may use it for nefarious plans, for malicious intent.
And she was one of them.
At first glance, she may seem like the innocent teenage girl that you would overlook, or even given a polite smile and say hello if you see her at a grocery store or something with waist-long black hair with hot pink and an outfit that consisted of a white skirt and a hot pink jacket along with knee-length boots.
The place she was trudging through was a contrast to her appearance, as it looked like a barren wasteland, with rocky terrain and large purple crystals sprouting from the ground, and the sky was an abnormal red. She did not seem fazed by the creatures spawning from a tar-like pool, as she clutched to a book with a star like symbol in a circle. She approached the figure who had her back turned to her.
As she drew closer, the figure spoke, and turned around to show a woman whose skin is a deathly pallor, with jet black sclerae in her eyes, and glowing crimson irises. Instead of being perturbed by the intruder, she seemed intrigued.
"I usually can figure out the name of every soul that has ever lived, and died, and ever will…yet I do know yours, girl. Explain." The immortal woman said softly, tone not betraying her feelings.
"Lady Salem. I am Rosaline Pyra, and I am not of this world. Mine is a universe beyond your reach, where the people there have powers that work similarly, yet much more powerful and versatile. I can give them to you." Rosaline replied.
"And what is it you seek in return?" Salem asked, not bothering to ask how Rosaline knew about her.
"Revenge. More live now than have ever died, in my universe, as in yours. They denied me my right to my position, when I gave them everything." Rosaline said, anger bubbling the surface.
"So, you want them dead…what can you offer me?" Salem enquired.
"I can give you a way to get more members for your faction. You would definitely need them to take on the people in my dimension." Rosaline knelt down, and offered the book she was clutching.
Salem walked over and took the book, flipping through it. She gave a small smile and said, "Very well. What do you propose?"
"A union — our two universes, reborn as one. They will never see this crisis coming." Rosaline said eerily.
"Such an undertaking will require lots of power." Salem noted.
"I have that covered." Rosaline claimed. "It would cost me my life, but it would be enough to do the deed. All I ask is for you to destroy not just your world, but mine too. They are too conceited to see what I could do to help them."
"Very well. Are you going to do it now?" Salem gave the girl a smile. She had so much potential as a member of her faction, but if she could do what she claimed…
Rosaline nodded. She'd do anything to take PAL's/Genesis' Sweetheart Pakura Ameyuri down for good. She didn't care whose blood will be spilled, as long as one of them was hers.
"The unison of two worlds, eventually tipping the balance of life and death is the spark needed to push two worlds into war. Through this tough time, the Chosen One can end the war only with the help of a silver-eyed Rose. Alone the Chosen will fail, with the situation being Grimm. Chosen One, find the Rose and combine her treasures for Judgement Day."
A young man with broad shouldered and lean frame, brown eyes and neck-length hair with the fringe combed down and some tips of his hair sticking out slightly woke up in a panic. "Who said that?" he exclaimed, before realizing it was a dream.
"Something wrong, Ash?" Pikachu had asked from beside him. Lucario was also waking up, rubbing his eyes sleepily.
"I heard a prophecy. I am going to wake the others up." Ash said grimly.
A few minutes later, everyone had gathered at the dining table of the mansion in the Genesis region, fully dressed but each of them had varying degrees of sleepiness on their faces. One of them was in the kitchen making breakfast for everyone.
"This had better be good." A guy with black hair with fringe combed to one side and amber eyes grumbled.
"I'm very sorry to interrupt your sleeping, Jude." Ash replied. "However, I can't help but hear a prophecy and feel that this will be related to what would come next?"
"Arceus gave you a prophecy?" A boy with brown hair and baby blue eyes was surprised.
"While I was asleep." Ash answered. "That's why I want to look into it, as I felt a change, but I can't quite put my finger into it. Problem is, the prophecy is vague, it'll be a bit difficult to decipher."
"Sure, but we'll need to know exactly what the prophecy said." A bespectacled handsome boy with black hair and violet eyes pointed out.
"The unison of two worlds, eventually tipping the balance of life and death is the spark needed to push two worlds into war. Through this tough time, the Chosen One can end the war only with the help of a silver-eyed Rose. Alone the Chosen will fail, with the situation being Grimm. Chosen One, find the Rose and combine her treasures for Judgement Day." Ash recited.
"Sounds ominous." A girl with blonde hair and Capri blue eyes shuddered, just as the girl making breakfast came out with a cart laden with eggs, ham, piles of fried potatoes, a tureen of fruits, basket of rolls, along with jugs of orange, apple, grape and cranberry juice and a pot of hot chocolate. She was a breathtakingly beautiful girl with long, jet black hair that fell halfway to her back, with amethyst eyes and an hourglass figure that rivalled no one.
"Alright, let's decipher it line by line while we eat." The bespectacled black-haired boy suggested, as everyone else rubbed their hands and drooled at the breakfast as the girl floated the dishes and accurately slid the dishes in the middle of the table and placed each utensil, cup and plates in front of one person without a miss. She then silently took a seat between the bespectacled boy and another boy with spiky black hair, gray eyes and a scar on his left cheek.
"The unison of two worlds, eventually tipping the balance of life and death is the spark needed to push two worlds into war." A woman with brown-blonde hair, tough build and platinate blue eyes mused. "Wait, does it mean two worlds are now one?"
"Let me check, Anna." Phillip replied, taking out a world map, and widened his eyes. "Oh no, no, no!"
Everyone stopped eating and looked at the map. Aside from the regions, instead of the countries like they expected, they had four continents located at the remaining spaces that had places named Anima, Solitas, Sanus and within them was Mistral, Vacuo, Vale and Atlas. There were also other islands scattered on the map that was definitely not of their world.
"Who could have done this?" Ash looked on with open-mouthed horror. Meanwhile, Phillip had his laptop out, likely trying to hack into whatever communications tower this world has in order to access the situation better.
"Ash, you know any of us have the capabilities to do so." A girl with gray eyes and messy black hair said dismissively. "Right, Nevryn?" She winked at the boy with the scar on his cheek, who rolled his eyes.
"Whatever, Lexi." Nevryn muttered.
"Ok, then the rest of the prophecy makes sense." The bespectacled boy said, snapping his fingers. "The silver-eyed Rose is likely a person from that world. Her treasures it mentioned would mean the treasures from that world."
"How do we not know the silver-eyed Rose isn't an artifact, Shiki?" A muscular man with tawny eyes and dirty blonde hair asked.
"Ever heard of an actual rose with eyes, Randolph?" Shiki facepalmed at his stupidity. Then again, it's Randolph, what else does he expect? Shiki swore to Arceus that he's the stupidest, unluckiest person to ever exist.
"Oh come on, no harm asking." grinned Randolph, only to double over in pain when the brown-blonde haired woman stomped onto his foot.
"Keep talking," she grumbled. "And I'll think making spike-soled shoes to make it hurt even more."
"Alright, alright," Randolph laughed, wincing slightly. "The thought of you using actual weapons scares me, Lieutenant Anna."
"And it should." Anna folded her arms and gave a single nod of smug satisfaction. In the background, Shiki was smacking a hand belonging to a pink-haired girl with azure eyes from snatching his strawberry roll without even looking at her.
Anna thought, but Phillip finally hacked through the communications tower and heard a girl's desperate voice saying, "Ironwood's declaring Martial Law and abandoning Mantle! Salem is coming, and he's going to use the staff to move Atlas. If we don't stop him, then Mantle's going to be des—"
"The communication cut off." Phillip noted. "Must have been this guy Ironwood, considering who she's talking about. Let me try hacking into the security cameras, see if we have any answers."
"Des what?" The pink-haired girl asked, tilting her head innocently.
"Most likely, she was going to say destroyed." Ash said grimly.
"Salem? Ironwood? Staff?" A curly-haired man was confused.
"So, what do we do?" Shiki turned to Anna. "Seems dire."
"We're going to help them." Ash interrupted.
"We don't even know what's going on, Ash." The black-haired beauty was unsure.
"No, but we do know people are in danger, Pakura." Ash shot back. "We can get our answers later."
"Wait Ash, it's not very wise to let everyone go." Anna held out a hand to stop him.
"Anna's right. We need to do it without this Ironwood coming down on us too. This would mean less manpower to take on this Salem person." Phillip agreed. "Alright, I got the security footage."
"What do we need to do?" Ash asked.
"We need to take care of three things: One, this item." Phillip pointed to a footage of a boy that had black hair and hazel eyes with the iris being forest green, with accents of burnt orange and yellow around the pupil. At his hip was what looked like golden ornamented lantern with a blue sphere in the middle.
"What's that?" A platinum-blonde hair girl with scarlet eyes enquired.
"Not sure, Lily, but if they are fighting over it, it's probably important." Phillip answered. "Secondly…this. We have to find out what's going on." He managed to find a footage of a woman with a white-haired bun running across the corridor, as if she was checking if something was safe.
"And third?" An athletic girl who closely resembled Lexi asked.
"Third, we need a reason to get them to come here for the next step. So, I say we get this person." Phillip pulled out a picture of a man with dark spiky hair that looked like a cluster of feathers, pale red eyes and a slight stubble along his jawline on his laptop. "If I am not wrong, taking him would likely make them come here because he's the only adult and likely the parent figure to all the other kids. Even if they think it's a trap, it's likely they'll come here for him."
"We'll just send Shiki and Pakura, along with myself to do so." Anna nodded. Ash sighed.
'Of course Anna would choose her best two members to help her out, because she wants the mission to be done within an hour.' Ash thought, as Shiki himself also sighed, likely in exasperation towards Anna as usual.
"Anyway, Atlas has a specific airship design, so either one of you can disguise it as one when you go in." He nodded to Pakura and Shiki, giving them a picture of the Manta. "You've never been there, so we can't exactly teleport in. You'll have to go in manually."
"But how are you guys supposed to get there within minutes?" Ash asked.
Phillip had a grim look as he glanced at the pink-haired girl.
"Oh no, not Sara!" Jude groaned, which earned him an innocent look from the girl.
"Do you have any brighter ideas?" Phillip raised an eyebrow.
"Don't worry, Sara can get us there before they arrive!" Sara declared.
Ash grimaced, but said, "Alright, you three better get a move on."
"Ash, you can can do the honour of receiving them, because it's likely they are around your age." Lily suggested.
"Yeah, rub it in, won't you?" Ash grumbled. Even though he was the PAL Champion, he was still the youngest member among them. True, while he had enough talent to become the PAL Champion, he still fell short when it came to fighting abilities when compared to the other members of Quarantine.
That was why Shiki retained his PAL Prince title despite losing to Ash in a Pokémon Battle. Ash suspected Shiki wasn't even trying to win when he battled him back then. Then again, Ash knew he still had lots more to work on as someone being perceived by the public as the PAL League member- Pokémon Battle wise, at least.
Everything is turning bleak as Salem crushed the General's hope
(Shot panned towards a dark red sky with Team RWBY staring at the red sky, as Nevermores flew around the sky with a silhouette of smirking Salem at the moon. Ruby Rose closed her eyes solemnly, before cutting to the faces of Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long respectively.)
But respite for Ruby's Group came in the form of the Chosen One
(The point of view cuts to Ruby's, where red sky and Nevermore in front disappeared to reveal a boy standing in front of them, with a Pikachu and Lucario beside him. Ash turned around and smiled at Ruby, who was reflected in his brown eyes. Shot zooms in to his brown eye, and scene transitions)
Floating on the edge of despair
(Scene transitions to Qrow Branwen, standing at a rooftop with the red sky and his head down, red cape flowing in the wind and holding the Harbinger in scythe mode at his left hand, and slicing the screen with his scythe)
But then we still hold out some hope
(The scythe slashed to reveal Royal Flush cards in spades and the five cards was blown aside by an unknown force to stick to the background, revealing a smirking Shiki with a katana at his back and winking at the camera)
Even if situation seems grim
(A black-haired girl was shown in a chamber looking at a hologram of Caldia City, the City of Magic. The girl summoned a staff with a purple crystal before crystal glowed in a purple light, seemingly consuming the hologram Caldia City)
Rulers await now to see how we fight
(Cut to PAL's Hall of Fame, showing statues of all the rulers so far, with a giant Salem controlling them like a puppet with strings attached to attack RWBY and Ash, Pakura, Shiki, Jude and Phillip. All of them took out their weapons at the ready)
But then our fate's controlled by our hand
(Nora brought Magnhild down on a young man with blonde hair and blue eyes, who easily caught it and tossed her to the side. Shot cuts to another boy resembling him only with dark hair and dark eyes kicking Ren's StormFlower off his hands.)
Freedom awaits if we have the key
(Ashura and Ruby was smiling at each other as they spared in a forest clearing. Ashura aimed a high kick at Ruby, who blocked it with a scythe which Ashura backflipped to dodge. However, the scythe emitted lighting, which flashes the whole screen.)
It's a fight for our lives bestowed unto us by the Gods
(Qrow fought off a group of Sabyr Grimm running towards him, not noticing one behind him about to attack, only for a silhouette to slice them apart. Qrow looked behind to see Clover Ebi, before the person faded to Shiki instead. Shiki walked towards Qrow, putting a hand on his shoulder, and Qrow smiled uneasily.)
So now, all we need to do
(Shiki narrows his eyes and pushes Qrow aside just as a red-headed boy in an eye mask and a magician's outfit ran towards and attacked Shiki who threw him aside with an unseen force.)
Is to give it our best
(Qrow Branwen then jumped into the fray and attacked the magician boy, managing to kick his face and his eye mask away, and the shot focuses on the mask falling to the ground with a clatter.)
So now, all we need to do
(Ruby kills several Grimm with Crescent Rose in what looked like Salem's realm before purifying Shadow Pokémon with her Silver Eyes.)
We have to work together
(When the light faded, Ash was seen behind her with Pikachu and Lucario, with piles of defeated Grimm and Shadow Pokémon behind him)
Since if we stay strong; keep our courage
(Shot zooms out to a determined Ruby, equipped with her Crescent Rose. She nodded to Blake Belladonna, Weiss Schnee to her left who gave her reassuring smiles and Yang Xiao Long to her right cocked her Ember Celica in response and grinned)
We'll find a way to survive within this war thrown at us
(Zoom in to Summer Rose standing over a cliff where behind her was the Evernight Castle, white cloak fluttering at the side. She lifted up her arm to cover her face, and when she lowered her arm, she became Ruby and her cloak became red, as she threw it out like a hero would. She had a confident smirk on her face as she did so)
Or would we succumb to them…
(Shot pans to all the Quarantine members standing in a circle, made up of PAL and Genesis members, each with a differing pose and expressions, ending to Ash, and shot zooms in to him.)
No, I won't accept this fate
They couldn't begin to unravel this need to live
(His face switches to Ruby, who has the same determined expression, and it pans to every single Quarantine member, JNR, Oscar and Qrow, all standing at the distance looking at the Evernight Castle. A fingerless-gloved hand was placed on Qrow's shoulder, and he jumped and looked back, but nothing was shown of the person)
I only wanted to finish this fight for peace
(Ash and Ruby closed their eyes and began to show a white, purified aura from their bodies, before becoming a silhouette Ruby kills several Grimm with Crescent Rose before turning into a 2D moving black silhouette and swinging their respective weapons, before to Weiss and Pakura, Blake and Phillip and Yang and Jude respectively in the same style swinging with their own weapons.)
As a pure soul, I truly believed that
Hopes do come true
(A close-up is shown of Ruby and Ash's faces back in the normal style before zooming out and showing that Teams RWBY, JNPR, Qrow and Oscar are at the left looking at the right with Ruby, and for Ash, the PAL members and Genesis members are on the right looking to the left. In the middle was Salem, and a few other silhouettes not shown.)
(Sang to the tune of Mirai Nikki opening, Kuusou Mesorogiwi)
"We're here!" Sara chirped to the three passengers, who looked like they have been through a total nightmare, clinging to each other like their lives depended on it and shivering and it was not from the cold outside.
"Why did we let her pilot the plane again?" Shiki muttered. He should have expected it considering every time Sara pilots a vehicle, they somehow end up in another dimension, or another timeline due to the sheer speed she can manually pilot a vehicle. While this was their best shot, it didn't mean Shiki had to like it.
Although they had reached Atlas in two minutes flat, they had just been through a dimension filled with eternal nightmare and torture on the way, thanks to Sara. Sara herself did not seemed disturbed, as she had cheerfully said, "Sara has seen scarier nightmares in her head."
"You know where to go, right? Phillip has marked the locations." Anna said.
Pakura and Shiki nodded.
"Good. Just kill whoever is in your way." Anna told her adoptive daughter.
"Don't listen to her. Try not to if you can." Shiki sighed. While he does respect Anna for her skills and all, she isn't exactly the kind of mother who would raise a child properly.
For example, if Pakura wrote the Hunger Games as the answer to the best solution to overpopulation, Anna would say, "It's not efficient enough. That only takes care of 23 people a year. You need more than that."
Or, if she was being bullied, Anna would encourage her to fight back and bash in the bully's head for as many times as needed, and sadly due to this advice, Pakura has a fair share of kills as a result of it. Perhaps it was from all the age-restricted movies Anna had illegally snuck her in to watch when she was growing up. It was a miracle she actually turned out the sweetheart everyone thought she was today.
Anna opened the door, and all three jumped out, with Shiki and Pakura flying to their assigned locations. Anna simply used the recoil of her guns to get to where she needed, and landed pillar of Atlas Academy around the main building's wall. Luckily, she wasn't seen yet with the number of people around.
She snuck around, grabbed one soldier silently, and dressed in their clothes. Now she can get in without a problem. Luckily for her, she spotted a military Huntress walking away from the group of soldiers with the Relic of Knowledge Anna had seen from the picture hanging from her belt.
Something told Anna that this wasn't a real Huntress, immediately tackling her to the ground. Sure enough, when the girl impacted on the floor, a pink, glass-like Aura passes over her, revealing a girl with brown and pink hair with matching eyes and wearing a hat.
Anna jumped back to dodge the hidden blade protruding from the end of her umbrella, with the Relic in hand.
"Hmm…what is it about this lamp that is special, anyway?" Anna wondered.
The girl said nothing, only rushed at Anna with the umbrella blade in hand. Anna grabbed the blade with one hand and yanked the girl forward and caused her to lose her balance, before giving her a good kick to the chin. The girl backflipped to her feet, disarmed of her weapon. At the same time, Anna saw some pink shimmers around her body.
Anna smirked and waved the weapon, before breaking it in half. The girl widened her eyes, and rushed at Anna, not intending to give up the Relic. The girl threw a punch at Anna's throat, only for Anna to sidestep it, and hit her in the gut with a punch.
However, instead of seeing her opponent get thrown back by the force, she shattered glass, telling her that the criminal had used her Semblance to avoid the attack at the last second.
It didn't matter. Shiki had taught her a way to sense opponents, even in disguise through Aura. Since she was already familiar with the girl's Aura signature, it is likely she can tell where she was even if she was in disguise. Besides, it looked like the girl needed to get in close to strike her, so she can bank on that moment.
Anna opened her eyes when she felt a response and swung a kick, managing to get the mute girl to hit the wall. A pink coloured sheen went along her body before particles went flying off the body.
Anna wasted no time, grabbing her arms and pinning them to her sides to prevent her from moving and kneed her in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her lungs, and the only reason she didn't double over was because Anna was holding her. Then she twisted her opponents' arms, breaking both of them before sending her to the ground with a kick to the chest.
Once the girl had hit the ground, Anna finished it off with a stomp to the face, breaking her nose and rendering her unconscious.
"Please. I've won a war. What's one little girl?" Anna shook her head. "It's child's play to me." She took out a stone that was glowing blue, and used it to deactivate a barrier she had enacted earlier to prevent anyone from hearing the battle. In fact, one wouldn't be able to see it unless they focused Aura on their eyes due to it being made of Aura.
With that, she walked away, lamp in one hand and dragging the unconscious body of the girl in the other and humming some military song.
Meanwhile, Shiki blinked at the wreckage as he landed in the middle of the tundra as Phillip had marked it. Being careful not to let the other two men spot him while keeping his ears out for the conversation, he snuck over to the unconscious woman. He checked her vitals with his Aura and for any abnormalities, and concluded she was just knocked unconscious.
He noted that her Aura was still up despite being knocked out, and thought Aura over here must work differently from theirs. When he went into the wreckage to look for any more survivors, he saw a pale man with a brown braided hair and with what looked like a real scorpion's tail. There was just something about him that screamed psychopath. Shiki mused it was lucky that he was unconscious.
Before the man could wake up, Shiki simply took a sharp shard he found, enhanced it with his Aura and stabbed him in the chest, killing him instantly. While he still had some Aura left, it wasn't enough to protect him from the fatal blow.
Shiki sighed. He could already tell what was going on outside. The brown-haired man with teal eyes was telling this Qrow that he was going to bring him in.
'No, they haven't fought yet.' Shiki thought. 'They are still talking. Maybe I could…' He targeted Qrow, subtly controlling his actions.
Meanwhile, Qrow was about to charge at Clover, but his mind became blank. He then snapped, "Your duty is to your kingdom, your people! James has been letting Mantle suffer for years and the fall of Beacon has been pushing him off the edge and you let it happen!"
Shiki saw Clover take a step back, clearly taken aback by Qrow's words.
"You should have seen him mentally breaking." Qrow continued, feeling a foreign sense of confidence and speaking his mind like he should have. "You'd have to be an idiot to have missed the signs and since you're not one, you're just ignoring them. Do I have to spell it out for you? James isn't mentally well, and he's clearly not fit to be making these kinds of decisions because he doesn't take into account that he's not infallible and you let him go on like this!"
"That's not for us to decide!"
Qrow clutched to his weapon tighter. "Then who decides? James? He's a literally paranoid authoritative figure who wants everything in his control and he's been terrified for years. He'll definitely not listen to reason even if it bit him on the ass because all that fear clouds his judgement. The Ice Queen is so busy kissing his ass she would never see anything wrong with his decisions, and your Council didn't even know anything until an hour ago, so tell me who's left to decide? Who?"
All he got for his efforts was Clover gritting his teeth.
"You Atlesian soldiers are all the same, mindless, brainless puppets to serve Ironwood. Not a single one of you is capable of independent thought, and apparently even the best of them isn't either."
"Qrow, please," Clover tried. "Give me a chance to find out what's going on and we could—"
"I should've known you cared more about your position than me anyway," Qrow admitted quietly, staring down at the floor. "I knew you would put following orders before anything we might…no, but there was never anything there. Was being nice to me your orders?"
"No, it..."
"I should have known; Ironwood must have figured out wouldn't be difficult for the good luck charm to treat the bad luck charm like everyone else." Qrow said, resigned.
"Qrow, that's not..."
"I should have known it was always going to come to this at some point. I just never thought it would be because you care more about following the rules than the people you're supposed to protect." Qrow then walked towards Shiki, as instructed before Clover could react.
Shiki took this opportunity to knock Qrow out when he reached his location.
"Qrow, wait!" Clover chased after him, only to stop short at Shiki holding an unconscious Qrow. "Who are you?" He pointed Kingfisher at Shiki.
"I need him for a bit." Shiki said. "You don't mind, do you?"
"Let him go, or I'll arrest you." Clover warned, only for his Kingfisher to be pulled away by an unseen force, and thrown a distance away.
"And that'll make me surrender, how?" Shiki asked, unfazed. "Besides, why would you care? I bet you rather sacrifice your loved ones just so you can comply with the General's orders. Just another mindless puppet."
"I…" Clover shook his head. However, before Clover could do anything, Shiki gave him a single punch to the stomach, shattering his Aura instantly due to the sheer amount of force Shiki put in that punch. Not only did it deplete his entire Aura, it also caused Clover to cough out some blood and sent him flying.
As Clover hit the side of the crashed vehicle, the vehicle somehow caved in, not killing him, but certainly leaving him stuck.
"I didn't even punch that hard." Shiki walked over while getting Kingfisher to fly to his hand, and dropped it next to Clover. He heard the sound of an airship engine in the distance, and commented, "Looks like you won't be stuck for long, but it's more than enough time for me."
"You…" Clover started, only Shiki said, "Don't worry. I'll take good care of Qrow. After all, you're not the only one with good luck."
Clover could only watch in horror as Shiki teleported away, taking the unconscious Qrow away with him.
'Of all tasks, of course I end up with the psychopathic, power-hungry murderess.' Pakura thought, somersaulting away from a slash attack in the observation room. Pakura hated people like that. It reminded her of Rosaline after all, hiding behind a charismatic air, but wanted nothing more than power.
Once she gained some distance, she charged in with a thrust. But it was parried, as Pakura continued her assault strikes and thrusts that struck Cinder multiple times with her superior speed, and kicked her back.
Cinder propelled herself to Pakura with two flame swords in hand, but Pakura simply dodged one, and deflected the other. During the tense swordplay, Pakura spotted a brief opening and sent Cinder flying backwards with a telekinetic blast.
Cinder raged, and used fireballs to shoot at Pakura, who held out a hand to meet the fireballs head on. She smiled as she was unharmed due to her immunity to magic-based attacks.
"Fighting me with magic? Ironic, and a waste of time." Pakura said, rushing towards Cinder, who realized her Maiden powers would not work on her, tried to form glass projectiles and shot at Pakura, but it was redirected back to her without any gesture from Pakura. She then immobilized with telekinesis, allowing Pakura to barrage her with punches and kicks with no fear of retaliation, causing her Aura to flicker.
Cinder saw that the torrent of freezing winds had calmed down and was about to go, only Pakura sliced off her left arm. As she screamed in agony, Pakura attacked her with shards of ice raining down on Cinder, who had no choice but to tank it with her Aura due to the pain from the Grimm arm, as it finally grew back.
Pakura looked at where the Shadow Hand extended to and was disgusted to see it was up to her shoulders. She wondered if she sliced from there, it would be permanent. Her eye flares with Maiden fire, and formed a black glass sword and threw it at Pakura, who dodged it with ease. Cinder then furiously threw several more black glass swords and knives at Pakura, who simply used telekinesis to deflect it back to Cinder, who got one embedded in her arm.
Pakura rushed down at Cinder, punching her face, but Cinder managed to use her Shadow Hand to try and attack, only to be dodged. Cinder quickly rushed back into the room to scream at Penny that the Fria is hers, only for Winter to return to the fray and Cinder retaliated by grabbing Winter, burning her skin in the process, and throwing her against the wall.
Penny gasped, and Pakura stopped Cinder's Grimm hand from reaching them.
"Don't worry. I'm a friend. I'm here to help." Pakura smiled. She nodded to the dying Fria, and holding Fria's other hand. Fria looked at her, smiling at the girl who oozed comfort from her hands.
Penny nodded at the sincerity of Pakura's smile, as there was no time for introductions.
Pakura pulled Cinder, causing her to stumble and a well-placed kick simply depleted her remaining aura, before Pakura froze her in an ice mirror. The mirror then shattered in pieces, taking Cinder with it. At the same time, Fria, who had lost consciousness, closed her eyes.
Snowflakes and wind swirled through the air, and both Penny and Pakura had their eyes closed, with snowflakes and wind drifting around them respectively. Penny opened her eyes, revealing green Maiden flames coming from her eyes.
Meanwhile, Pakura was saying, "What's going on?" At her eyes having blue Maiden flames around her eyes that was reflected in the shards of ice mirror she had created. "What is this?" She then sensed two people coming, and quickly ran before Penny could ask her name to thank her for her help. Just then, Ruby and Weiss ran in.
"Winter." Weiss said in concern, jumping down and going over to her, who was just getting up. Winter glared and asked, "What did you do?"
Ruby looked over to Penny, whose flames faded away, and looked at Ruby before turning and dropping to her knees, resting her hand on Fria's. Ruby hurried over to her side and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Are you alright? Penny, what happened?" Ruby asked.
"She's…gone…" Penny nodded to Fria sadly.
"No, she's a part of you now." Winter glared.
"Then there was this girl, she killed Cinder. She was protecting me." Penny explained. "I didn't even catch her name."
"Was she familiar?" Ruby asked.
"No, we never met. But she protected me without question. She ran after seeing her eyes, which were like mine earlier." Penny said sadly.
"The new Fall Maiden…" Ruby gasped.
Meanwhile, Pakura was saying, "I don't understand. The moment I killed that power-hungry woman, my eyes started to glow with this blue fire around my eyes like hers did. It's like I have gained her powers or something." She was with Shiki and Anna, gathered outside the plane, with all their objectives secured.
Shiki had placed Qrow in the inside of the plane, praying he doesn't wake up when they are going through another dimension when it's piloted by Sara. The ice cream lady was also haphazardly thrown into the plane. Why Anna decided to take her was beyond him.
"I guess you keep what you kill?" Anna shrugged.
"What? I don't want to have that arm that looks like it came from a Grimm." Pakura protested, sitting down.
"Don't be stupid." Shiki scoffed. "I don't think that arm comes with whatever powers you gained."
"But it shouldn't belong to me! I'm not even from that world." Pakura muttered.
"Look, we don't know what that power entails, besides throwing fire. You don't even need it though. You can already control wind, fire and ice with your Aura anyway." Shiki assured her.
"I don't even want them!" Pakura said, "I just wanted to make sure that girl would claim her rightful powers. Like Shiki said, I don't need these powers to be strong."
"Maybe you're being rewarded." Anna suggested. "For being a good girl."
"Ahem." Shiki coughed in disbelief at the statement.
"She is an angel, I'll have you know." Anna huffed.
"Yeah, only because of my interference with your questionable parenting skills." Shiki rolled his eyes.
"Relax, Shiki. I see it as a good thing. At least those powers are no longer in the villains' hands." Anna said confidently.
As she said this, they got transported to another dimension, and what they saw made them vomit, scream or curse Randolph. The pilot herself was not very perturbed by it, and only said, "Ew".
It was an infinite number of Randolphs menacingly rubbing their nipples.
Shiki had a hard time deciding which dimension was worse, the one they been through when they came to Atlas, or when returning from Atlas.
No matter. That dimension aside, once they get back, with their objectives all secured, they can turn their attention back what they sought to do.
Lure Team RWBY to them, and get answers.
While one of them could have just used their psychic powers to extract memories from Qrow or that ice cream girl, Shiki felt this wouldn't endear the group to them if they abuse their powers like Ironwood did. Ultimately, what they needed was the group to trust them. As Shiki had always said, actions speak louder than words.
Later, when Maria's Manta flies away from the City of Atlas, a voice comes over the ship's panel, where a video is playing, likely live. Everyone turned when Maria noted someone was hacking the ship's control panels to send a message.
"Am I on, Phillip?" At the sound of someone saying yes, he said "Good."
A boy with black hair and brown eyes was staring at them. Everyone noted he did not look much older than the older girls of RWBY. "This message is for Team RWBY and whoever is traveling with them. My name is Ashura Red Satoshi Ketchum, but you can call me Ash. You may not know it yet, but something big has happened that required the need for your cooperation."
"What's he on about?" Weiss frowned.
"You have lost a lamp, I believe, but you do not need to worry. I have it here."
The Relic of Knowledge floated in front of him, and everyone gasped. Ruby approached the panel to look at the boy, who dropped the lamp, letting it fall out of the screen.
"Someone has helped me procure it, if you must know. I am not working with whoever stole the Relic. I'm not here to instigate a fight, because I believe each of us has the answers the other wants. If the Relic isn't enough for you to agree on a meeting point for us to take you back to a safe place away from Ironwood, then…" Ash brought in an unconscious Qrow. "This would."
"Uncle Qrow!" Ruby shouted.
"We need to get him!" Yang added.
"But what about Oscar?" Penny asked.
"Don't worry. Whoever you left behind; we can get them for you." Ash continued. "But if you want the Relic and your relative back, come to these coordinates. We'll be waiting." With that, the panel switched to a map, a dot indicating their location and a pathway to the location Ash had designated to meet.
"I'm on it." Maria sighed, changing course to the meeting place Ash had assigned, setting the ship to maximum speed, knowing how dire the situation was.
After the message, everyone is sitting at the benches, looking at one another.
"This boy Ash said he just wanted to break bread and talk things out. But with Jacques Schnee and his dinner party ploy, I'm not sure if this isn't a trap." Blake said.
"Yeah, but the problem is he has the advantage. He has Uncle Qrow and the Relic of Knowledge, and I am not about to let those stay at the enemy's hands." Ruby said with determination.
"Hopefully he's more reasonable than my father." Weiss muttered. "He's definitely elite material with his mannerisms and appearance."
"Don't worry, Ruby. If the girl I saw is a friend of his, maybe this wouldn't be so bad." Penny suggested.
"I still can't believe they somehow managed to get the Relic from Neopolitan!" Nora hissed. "How did they even know to go there for the Relic?"
"Nora's right. We won't get our answers until we get to the meeting point." Jaune agreed.
"While they confirmed they have nothing to do with Salem, they definitely know something because why else would they go after the Relic and take Qrow with them?" Ren questioned.
"I don't know." Ruby shook her head. "But one thing's for sure. If Ash and his team is up to something, I think we should find out what it is."
Everyone thought about it, before nodding with conviction.
'Who are you, Ash?' Ruby thought.
Back in PAL, Ash sighed as he looked out the window. Their mission was a success, of course, but Pakura returned with something extra in the process. Something told Ash that the group would know something about those powers.
He hoped Anna's decision to interfere in Atlas is the right one. After all, it didn't take a lot to push General Ironwood off the edge, according to what he saw in the footage Phillip managed to hack and retrieve.
And none of his subordinates questioned his orders. Ash shuddered at the thought, knowing that in Genesis, it was the same thing. No one questioned Anna's orders either, but that was because they love and respected her, not because they were soldiers serving under a general.
"The balance our world has…it won't hold for much longer." Ash noted to his Pikachu. "It's likely Salem would come for us instead of Atlas, now we have done this."
"Would doing this help us in the long run?" Pikachu asked.
"I hope so, buddy. I hope so." Ash replied solemnly. "I pray that when shit hits the fan, we will be ready."
BP: Anyway, to answer a few questions you might have, I got the idea of the worlds merging from Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.
Anyway, I know it's a bad chapter, but I wrote it to vent my emotions, I was livid at my former classmates for mocking the stories I wrote for fun, and the concept sounded fun to me. I feel better now after writing everything down while running on the fuel of anger.
If you're wondering if I actually watch RWBY, the answer is only two episodes. I heavily depend on the wikia (so the fans knowledge) to have an idea of how their world works and as for the plot in general, I read the transcripts. So, no, some of the information I written down would be inaccurate, as I may mix up things.
As for why Ash isn't more prominent in this chapter, it's mainly because Ash is still considered inexperienced when comparing to other members who have been in this gig for longer than he has. Yes, he's the main character, but I feel Ash still has a lot of room for development as a result.
Phillip was able to hack into the Atlas system because his technological genius is second to none in his world and is an experienced hacker and programmer in his own right. Most Quarantine members talents are comparable to those Ultimates in Danganronpa, so they are the best in what they do.
I may focus on the Pokémon aspects more, because I am much more familiar with Pokémon and secondly, the way Aura works in the Pokémon world or at least how I designed Aura to work in the Pokémon World, which was taken from Hunter X Hunter.
Yes, I heard Neo is powerful, but why Anna was able to defeat her was two things: They fought in a cramped area, leaving Neo with less space to make use of her gymnastics, dance battler style (she seems like it anyway) and secondly, Anna has faced opponents like Neo before in her military career, but Neo hasn't faced anyone quite like Anna, who can shatter her Aura in an instant if she wanted to.
Since Anna (according to N. Aepic Fael) can literally throw a moon, Anna was actually going easy on Neo at that fight.
Like in the other PAL stories, psychic powers exist. The reason why Shiki was able to control Qrow was because Mind Control depends on willpower or Psychic Shields to resist it. Since Qrow was emotionally hurt, it leaves him extremely vulnerable to Shiki's psychic attack. Also, Shiki's strength exceeds Anna, so it's likely he can shatter Clover's Aura in an instant as well.
Because the Aura mechanics I designed for the Pokémon World is totally different from how it works in RWBY, there will be a significant difference between the RWBY characters and the characters from Pokémon in terms of abilities. I'll be here all night if I were to explain the full extent of Genesis/PAL abilities, because unlike RWBY, they can physically manifest their aura in more than one way and some even have psychic powers or magical powers (this will be explained later), so I'll let the story reveal the rest.
As for why I killed Cinder and Tyrian early, well, Pakura was acting in self-defense and know she can't let her live and continue her quest for power, lest she goes after Penny, whom she saw as innocent. For those who read my PAL Series, it would probably be obvious to you they would choose to kill and how Shiki isn't stupid as to leave someone he thought a killer alive. After all, as assassins, what is one more kill to them?
But don't worry, if this story continues (depends on reception), I have an idea of the antagonists I would add in for Ash and the others to combat, so those two aren't needed in this story.
Any pairings you want, you can request, because since I don't know RWBY much. Any suggestions are welcome too.
I originally didn't want to post this, but N. Aepic Fael was urging me to, so I'll do it for him.