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Blake mind was so numb as she was still contemplating with the fact that her mother was killed ruthlessly. She wanted Keith dead. No jail time, no simple beating, just dead! She didn't care if she had to fight the entirely of the White Fang just to get to him.
As she readied herself in a bedroom, her team came in to check on her, feeling remorseful after being told her mother was killed, "Hey Bl-" Weiss was about to greet her until she was cut off.
"I quit being a huntress." She bluntly said. The three girls eyes slightly widened, already getting the idea why but it felt
Yang trying to reason with her, "Blake, if it's about finding your mom's killer, then we can help you find them."
"Yeah! Uncle Qrow and the others can take the relic to Atlas while we help you!" Ruby joined in.
"I'm sure this guy isn't tough either!" Weiss also piped in.
But Blake replied, "No, I want to do this alone." She said while walking away.
"Blake, wait..." Yang tried to stop her by placing her hand on Blake's shoulder but Blake reacted aggressively, knocking her hand away while accidentally slapping Yang with the back of her hand.
That left the others stunned, even Blake was widened by that sudden aggressiveness but she kept her composure. "Just...mind your own business and leave me alone." She said, leaving the bedroom.
Ruby, while she felt deeply bad for Blake, she didn't like that she put her hands on her sister and was about to comment on that but Yang prevented her from doing so. "It's...fine, Ruby..." But as soon as Blake left the bedroom, Yang eyes were filled with tears.
Sun, who was in the living room with everybody else, saw Blake leaving. He was about to say something but he was immediately met with a glare that could kill.
As she finally left Haven dorm rooms, the cat Faunus eyes just let out a river of tears, crying silently. She couldn't imagine what pain her mother went through, during that tragic event. Same for Jamie...she felt terribly sorry for her family members.
Adam POV
Adam looked at the cyborg, subconsciously reaching for his Wilt sword...only to remember that he lost it. He sighed, "shit." he cursed, putting his Blush Rifle away. "Who are you?" He asked, getting a strange familiar feeling from the cyborg design.
The cyborg appearance had an Atlas guardsmen robot helmet with the left side it being completely made of machinery while the right side was just flesh, excluding his feet of course, they both were mechanical parts. The helmet had chords which connected to both the mechanical side and flesh side of his body. Its name was A-11.
They didn't respond, only scanning Adam's body. Suddenly, the cords spark with electricity. The cyborg extended his hand, charging up a blue aura sphere before firing it right at Adam.
Adam skipped over to the left with the aura sphere exploding in a small radius. Adam dashed forward and slammed his fist against the A-11 cheek.
The head only flinch back, not looking phased by the attack which had Adam's eyes widened. A-11 responded with a forward jab with aura fueling it, knocking Adam straight through the wall. Adam grunted, quickly pulling himself up but later tackled hard through ground by the cyborg before his leg was gasp tightly as the robot person maneuveringly rolled forward before launching Adam straight forward.
Adam was confused and shocked that he was getting ragdoll like this. It did happen before (by Glade) but he didn't expect it to happen by some random robot. Adam dragged back onto his feet, unloading bullets at the robot which didn't have any effect, even on its flesh side, the aura barrier glisten brightly. The robot charged another aura sphere, this time, making it much bigger.
Suddenly, the cyborg was knocked away with a ball hammer. The attacker was Perry, with Deery. They ran over to Adam. "Is that the leader?" Deery asked.
Adam shook his head, "the leader is the piece of shit I knew back when I lived in Atlas. This guy is entirely different, and strong."
"Stronger than that Glade guy?" Perry questioned, worried since Adam said that Glade did beat Ghira, and could've beaten him, even if Adam was at full strength (via without the Grimm powers)
"Nah but he's powerful." Adam admitted. "You two be careful."
"You're gonna keep doubting us huh?" Deery says.
"I'm just concerned. I already feel bad enough that you two had left the White Fang for me and later broke me out of prison." Adam says.
"You sound like Blake." Perry piped in.
Adam frowned as the three braced themselves. A-11 chased forward, shooting aura spheres rapidly at them all. While Adam and Perry avoided it, Deery used her intangibly while leaping right through the aura spheres before turning back tangible just so she can stab the cyborg with her spear. It couldn't even penetrate as A-11 grabbed the spear before pulling Deery into a punch. It phased through her again as she traveled behind him before attempting to swing a roundhouse kick at him but the deer Faunus was met with a swinging elbow to her nose that floored Deery away.
Adam and Perry both attacked simultaneously with Perry launching the spike ball off its hilt at the cyborg. It caught it without knowing that it was filled with rock dust that exploded which trapped him in a rock tomb as Adam sent a large grimm fist right at the cyborg, punching it right back into Frances hideout.
A-11 activated its rocket boots to catch itself in midair, only to blast itself right at Adam. Perry attached another ball hammer onto its pike before trying to engage with A-11. As Perry tried to bat his ball hammer, Perry weaved under it while charging an aura sphere and slamming it against Perry abdomen, blasting him away.
Adam was about to attack but was grasp by the face and dragged roughly through the ground. Suddenly, A-11 rocket boot was shot down by Deery, using a sniper rifle.
A-11 was dragged across the ground but immediately flung back up. Same for Adam but he was immediately introduced with a flying kick that he manage to react to and block it with his forearm.
Big mistake, since a very sharp blade shot out of A-11 foot and impaled through Adam's forearm, causing him to yelp in pain. Snapping the blade off, A-11 then face planted Adam into the dirt with a double hammer fist to the head. "Dammit!" He cursed
A-11 was about to kill Adam with an powerful aura sphere, pointed-blank but again, shot by an ice infused dust bullet right in the hand and later feet. This distraction was long enough for Perry to come close and hit A-11 right in the jaw with his ball hammer which he infused with gravity dust, boosting the force behind his swing.
A-11 was sent flying away. Perry and Deery soon regrouped up Adam, "Geez Adam, you're doing terrible out there." Deery said.
"Well excuse me..., my body hasn't completely recovered. Nor, I don't have my Wilt sword anymore." Adam replied.
"Then used those weird Grimm powers." Deery recommended.
"I can...but." Adam muttered. After his fight with Glade, using his grimm powers felt painful, even when it was just summoning arms not. "it feels painful when I even try to use a little now..." He admitted. Using it at its fullest ready out a toll onto his body, "Am I still not capable?" He thought.
A-11 was getting back up, rather menacingly. The three again brace themselves, "how about we just attack those cords?" Perry recommended. "it is a robot or cyborg. Which means those cords must be connected and controlling
"You know, that did seem like an obvious weak-point." Deery replied.
"Yet, you didn't shoot it." Perry jeered.
"Shut up!"
A-11 extended his robotic hand with transforming into a large cannon. The flesh side of the cyborg had flared a blue flame.
BOOM!
All their eyes widened as A-11 fired a massive blue aura wave at them both. Adam used his grimm arms to shoved them both out the way as he braced himself.
Almost instantaneously, Adam was blown back as he tried to stop the blue aura with his grimm arms. "Tch! I can't stop it!"
Adam was later engulfed by the aura wave. The aura wave blazed through the hideout and sent him flying. The wave ran into a random house, exploding and obliterating the entire house and destroying nearby houses.
Adam laid there in the rumble, grunting in pain with his aura shattered and pants torn. The black sludge oozed off from him, thankfully which is the reason why he was still alive. As he was slowly about to get up, he look over to see a few corpses of innocent, one of them look like a child, at least the bones of that dead person semblance one. "Dammit..."
Perry and Derry look back, hearing the explosion. A-11 body steamed as he charged over to Adam.
Adam slowly sat up but his body stomped down by the cyborg, causing him to cough up blood. "F-fuck...I can't die here..." He muttered. His body begin steaming with black smoke. His hands and legs oozed with black, sludge, becoming Labyrinth Adam.
Quickly, A-11 backed up to avoid eye beam from Labyrinth Adam. This Labyrinth Adam was even weaker than his uncontrollable Labyrinth form since he lost his aura but still, he had some boost in power. "Have to get those cords..." He thought.
A-11 charged at Adam with Adam sidestepping out the way of a punch. His hand reached out for the cords but A-11 discharge an electrical defense mechanism that shocked Adam with a large amount of volts. A-11 then spun and struck a heavy spin kick into Adam's stomach that floored Adam far back away from the demolished house. A-11 again, tried to charge up an aura sphere but Adam quickly recovered, shooting around the place like a mad dog.
Rapidly, A-11 fired off continuous aura sphere that Adam manage to dodge. As he dodged, he gotten closer to A-11 before slamming his grimm fist right into the soft part of A-11 body, glistening a shattered aura but it almost instantaneously recovered. Adam rapidly kept launching blows into A-11's body until A-11 was just there, taking it with his body being knocked around as if it was a ragdoll.
Adam soon launch a full force punch that sent A-11 through the ground. Still, A-11 got up if it didn't felt any pain at all.
However, it did wanted to this, seeing how much damage it actually endured. He charged up another maximum aura wave from its hand cannon. "Fuck...those attacks should've broken its aura!"
He said, getting ready to dodge it. But then he remembered, he was still in the village...and if it dodged it, it could've hit another home. He felt battling himself, was he ready going to die for some Humans.
"You...seriously not gonna tell on me?"
"I said no. I'll feel bad for doing that, I mean...we are friends, right?"
Adam groaned and waited for the blast. As A-11 did erupted the blast, Adam caught it, actually being able to hold back this time.
Perry and Derry finally caught up to the others. They saw the rumble and Adam was holding back another blast. Perry and Derry went and tried to attack the cords but was met with a high voltage of electricity.
"Goddammit..." Perry grunted as he and Derry both stumbled back. "Adam is gonna die...
Derry slowly got back up, "I got this..."
She ran over to A-11 and later bypass A-11's defense mechanism with her intangibly. But soon as she turn tangible, she grabbed ahold of the cords while being shocked heavily. "Deery...!" Perry shouted out.
"Tch!" She grunted, pulling back tightly before ripping off the cords. Deery fell unconscious as the defense mechanism was shut off.
The blast was slowly losing power and eventually disappeared. A-11 was still surprisingly activate, looking at its hand to noticed that its cords was ripped out. "Heeya!" Perry rammed his ball hammer at back of A-11 head, knocking it forward.
He then tried to slam it down onto A-11 head but A-11 turnt over to kick the hammer before maneuvering onto his feet and shooting a kick right onto Perry chin, breaking his aura and knocking him onto the ground.
But then, suddenly, with just a punch, Adam manage rip through the right side of A-11 abdomen, causing a lot of blood to splatter, and internal organs and mechanical parts to spill out. As Adam stopped, the grimm substance evaporated off as his body winced due to the burning sensation. "...heh...I win...again. Dammit..." He muttered, his vision getting blurry. Falling, the Faunus boy landed face first.
Blake POV
Its been several days, Blake ignored calls from her team, Sun and her dad. Eventually they given up on calling her which she wanted.
It has been a long road, she was heading to the main faction, knowing that's where Keith resided at. Even though it had been awhile, she still remembered where it was at. "God, I'm still so far away..." She says, skipping on tree branch to tree branch.
She then halted when hearing leaves ruffled. "Blake Belladonna."
A feminine voice echoed as Blake back flipped off a tree to avoid someone. As she landed, she glanced back to see a very familiar person. "Sienna? What are you doin..." Her words trailed off, remembering that Sienna was overthrown as the leader. "here..." she muttered.
"The White Fang has betrayed me. Shows their loyalty." She said, even though she did look calm, she was quite furious.
Blake furrowed her eyebrows and simply walked past her, "you get what you deserve."
Sienna raised an eyebrow, giving a small glare at Sienna. "Excuse me?"
Blake stopped and glared back at Sienna, "you heard me. You get what you deserve! All you done is create monsters! Because of you, Adam is the way he is now. My father was right, the White Fang has changed for the worse...it was just unfortunate that a much terrible person has replaced you."
Sienna was quite caught of guard by this. Blake was never this courageous nor spunky. The tiger (yes, I know previously I called her a fox Faunus. But that's only because I assumed it but she's actually a tiger Faunus) woman snickered while slowly Blake. Blake was a bit startled since this was the High Leader of all, which who was known that she was on par with her dad. "Blake..." she muttered as she suddenly lashed out a gut punch that blew Blake against a tree. "Who the hell do you think you're talking to?!"
Blake grunted as she glared at Sienna. Taking out a Gambrol Shroud blade, she lashed out a the former leader, slashing at her. Sienna was about to block it, only to be tricked by a shadow image of her as Blake was about to attack from above.
Sienna quickly reacted by knocking Blake to the ground with high kick swing right at the cat's ribcage.
Blake recovered, turning into her Beast Amplifier state with Sienna surprised. That was a forbidden technique that only certain Faunus's could learn.
It was forbidden, mainly because some Faunus couldn't keep their emotions control and start attacking others, and later, they either die or put in the hospital for too much aura strain.
She wasn't startled or anything, mainly because she knows it too and because her semblance, Grudge which makes her stronger when her opponent aura is weaken or shattered. She entertained Blake though, even shifting into her Beast Amplifier where her fangs and claws grew sharp and long and her eyes pupils becoming similar to a tiger.
Blake dashed at Sienna with her lunging her claws right at Sienna. Sienna side-stepped the attack before grabbing Blake by her arm and pulling her right into a knee strike which collided into her abdomen. Sienna then followed it up by slamming her elbow right into Blake's jaw, flooring the cat Faunus across the dirt.
Blake dragged back onto her feet before slashing a purple aura slash from her Gambrol Shroud at Sienna.
Sienna leapt above it but Blake with a shadow clone, intercept her midair. Blake attempted to claw at Sienna again but Sienna only blocked it with her forearm before taking out the shadow clone by lashing out her chain spear, impaling it through its neck while later sent Blake, barreling back into the ground with a roundhouse kick, sending her through a tree.
As Sienna landed. "I turnt Adam to a monster, huh? Its my fault that many Faunus's that became racists monsters? Is my fault that they endured pain from Humans?"
Blake slowly recovered, trying to attack Sienna with a fury of rage but Sienna only dodged it, slowly becoming even more stronger as Blake aura was being burnt down. "Adam was right about you."
Blake frozen when she said that, "w-what!?"
"That you a victim hypocrite who thinks she's right." Sienna had stated. "Blaming me for Adam's dark path? Then let's define your relationship with Adam. You were his best friend, partner...yet, you was fine calling him a monster, hitting him but you were very protective of getting that mutt getting hurt, despite him abusing you."
Blake slowly reverted back to her base. "Please...stop..."
"Why should I Blake? Don't you like being a victim?" Sienna asked but Blake didn't respond.
Blake didn't know what to say, this felt like her and Adam last conversation after she departed from the White Fang. Sienna put away her chain spear, taking a more calm yet serious stances. "I'm not saying Adam was the nicest. I even understand what you're coming from. But I truly despise the way you went about it. You were suppose to be his partner right? Then why did you call him a monster? Why weren't you supportive, knowing that he was in his darkest times?" She asked.
Blake was still speechless.
"Why does it take so much for you to get away from Keith, yet, it takes so little for you to get away from Adam? Regardless of his actions towards Humans, he treated you like you were his family." Sienna continued.
Blake eyes were filled with tears, "shut up..."
"Hm?"
"I SAID SHUT UP!" She yelled as tears streamed down. "you think I don't know that?! I know I'm a terrible friend...I..."
"You weren't ready for this lifestyle." Sienna says, "you try to do good yet, you're so vulnerable to someone who has power over you."
Blake didn't say anything, she only hung her head low, accepting defeat but Sienna had...comfort her? Not hugging, but only putting her hand onto Blake's shoulder, "go home Blake. While its tragic for what happen to your brother, you're not fit for this...".
"The person who killed my brother is already dead. I'm after Keith now. He and Ilia worked together to have my mother killed."
Sienna was surprised, "Kali, huh? I'm sort of surprised, Kali was a strong fighter back in her hay day."
"My mother hasn't been training ever since I left for the White Fang." Blake says, "another person who was close to me, suffering for my mistakes..."
"I guess we do have a common enemy. I'm sure you know that I was betrayed by the White Fang."
Blake tilted her head, "yes."
The two later was sitting in front of a campfire which was very nearby a waterfall, "so my Beast Amplifier? Am I misusing it?" Blake asked.
"You're letting your emotions get outta check." Sienna stated, "basically, when you use your Beast Amplifier, your emotions are boosted as well, which makes you more ferocious. The more ferocious you become, the harder it'll be for you to turn off."
"Yeah, I know. I might end up in the hospital or worst." Blake stated.
It was a little later, the two talked about what happen at Haven, "So, what will you do once we win?" Blake asked. She was curious since Sienna didn't take betrayal likely, usually they'll be executed but now that her whole team did, she wondered if she was going to kill all of them for what they did?
"Destroy and rebuild. Simple as that." Sienna says bluntly.
"So...kill them?"
Sienna nodded, "you know who I am. I don't take betrayal lightly. And a betrayal at a level of this? And how easy it was for them to be convinced?"
Blake stayed silent.
"But for now. Let us at least train. Can't get too shabby when entering a battle like this."
Goodbye! Can't wait to see ya in the next chapter!