Chapter 5: Magical Ore Blake
Everybody knows them, everybody loves or hates them. Now time to see how the cast reacts to a magical girl. Magical Ore I believe it was called. Though what they see may burn them for life. To the creators of this inspiration, I take no credit from their work.
On to other news, I got another story known as Lusus Naturae along with Smoldering Rose. I even got a beta-reader at long last who helped improve word quality. You may know him/her from the name below.
Anyway, continue on.
(Beta-read by Nacoma23)
"You see, Blake, I used to be a Magical girl." Kali Belladonna nonchalantly said to her now-shocked daughter.
The Blake in the audience wasn't fairing any better.
"Pfft!" Spitting out the drink she had been sipping, the Faunus girl was rather flabbergasted to see what just happened. The screen had started up, and the show began. At first she was happy to see her mother…until she said those two words. She thought she had gone insane, and wondered if her ears, even her cat ones, needed to be checked. But she heard it clear as day: Magical girl. Her mother had been a Magical girl, just like in those anime that Ruby enjoyed watching.
How her mother could say something so fantastical, and with such a carefree attitude, was beyond her understanding.
The rest of the audience, while also equally surprised, stayed quiet to see what would happen next.
Silence reigned, as Blake looked her mother in disbelief. Her face screamed 'really?' and her slouched posture asked 'Is this a joke?' Mother and daughter sat around a kotatsu table. Surprisingly, a blonde man was there with them. He wore a formal suit with dark glasses, which barely hid his blue eyes, and had a really nasty scar on the left side of his face. He looked like a gangster.
Nora just stared at the screen in disbelief. She recognized the blonde hair and blue eyes from a mile away. She jumped out of her seat and cried out, "Oh, my Gods! Jaune, it's you… and you're a gangster!"
She couldn't believe that her leader was a thug in this universe. Her Jaune was a kind, thoughtful, and supportive friend who always looked out for others. This Jaune looked cruel, inconsiderate, and antagonistic toward, well, anybody. He looked like the kind of guy who would shake a person down for money, and would still break their legs, even after receiving the cash, just for the heck of it.
Wait, is he gonna hurt Blake and her mom! She darkly thought. Many similar thoughts, each equally darker than the rest, ran through her mind. She began to hyperventilate.
Ren held her hand and soothingly told her. "Nora, wait. We don't know what Jaune is doing there. Just stay calm and keep watching."
Ren's words immediately calmed the girl, who took a deep breath and relaxed back into her seat. Jaune gave his friend a silent 'thank you', who accepted it with a reassuring smile.
"What?" Blake asked, wondering if her mother had gone crazy.
"I was a magical girl." Her mother said again, without skipping a beat.
"What?" Blake repeated, now questioning if she had lost her sanity.
Suddenly, the gangster took out a business card from his suit pocket, and presented it to Blake. Printed upon the small paper, in bold golden letters, was the name Jaune. "By the way, I was her sidekick and mascot. I've been by her side for most of her career… My name is Jaune, by the way."
Blake shouted. "Are you kidding me?! That name doesn't suit you all! I mean, seriously, how can anyone as extraordinary-looking as you have such a mundane name like Jaune?!"
"I thought you'd realize it, right away…" Jaune continued on, ignoring the shouting girl. "You know? From the character Tic I add to the end of my sentences. Dammit!"
"That was a character Tic!? If you surveyed 100 people, I'm pretty sure all of them would say you that you look like the guy who'd be in a police lineup, not next to a magical girl!" Blake was getting upset now, and also weirded out. Yet Jaune and Kali continued on.
"But you see," Kali began, putting a hand on her cheek, looking a bit sad. "I broke my hip last month. I guess there is no fighting the age process."
"Y-you were doing it until recently!?"
"I was active."
Speechless, Blake was now just hugging herself. Her mother, her sweet, lovely mother, was doing some Magical girl action like in those ridiculous shows from Mistral. This was too much for her.
Yang patted her partner on the back, trying to console her partner. Everybody was as speechless as her, even Adam.
"Well, in this line of work, once you're over 15, you're kind of considered an old hag." Gangster-Jaune explained rather bluntly.
"Don't say it like that! Do you realize how many enemies you've made just now?!"
She had no idea how right she was. Jaune's counterpart had inadvertently painted a big, red target on his back. All the girls in the audience focused their hate on the Boy Blunder, who shifted uncomfortably under their scornful glares.
"What was it you just said, Jaune? I think it was something about becoming "old hags" after 15, is that right?" Yang asked menacingly, cracking her knuckles. All the girls here, including Ruby, were over 15. Jaune had pretty much called all of the girls present an old woman.
"Wait, wait, I can explain!" While Jaune tried to reason with the girls, who ignored his protests.
Cinder huffed, thinking this whole situation was ridiculous. It was an alternate Jaune that said those rather insulting words, not their own. Some people were just too insecure about their age, she reckoned.
'Then again, I'm the Fall Maiden… so, I'm not old…'
Jaune then looked at Blake intently. Then he told her, "With Kali out of commission, we need a new Magical girl to protect this area."
"WAIT, WHAT?!" Blake screeched. Kali and Gangster-Jaune looked at her expectantly. Blake realized what was to be expected of her. Then Jaune looked at her with an atmosphere of sparkles that didn't suit him.
"Hey, you got someone you like?" He asked, straight to the point.
Blake went red and sputtered, "Why are you asking that all of a sudden?!"
"Jaune…" Blake growled angrily, frightening the poor boy.
Jaune couldn't help but cry, "Why me?!"
The Blake on screen could do nothing but turn red, showing that she did indeed have her eye on someone. She began to sputter as Gangster-Jaune smirked. He stood up, walked over to Blake and placed his hands firmly upon her shoulder. She couldn't escape now.
"Hey, I want to form a contract with you. Can you be a Magical girl?" He said with a straight face. Blake simply stared at him, her mouth opening and closing silently, unable to form an audible and coherent response. Her mother on the other hand…
"Alright, Blake, do well on the job!"
"But… I… this is just… I can't even… W-W-Wait a minute!" Blake yelled in protest. She couldn't even continue on, as Gangster-Jaune Shoved a contract into her face, along with a pen.
"Now sign this paper and we're ready to go."
"This is more real than I imagined. Where's the magic?" As Blake was presented the contract, a thought came to her mind. After all, if she was-forcibly-becoming a magic girl, then surely there was something she must fight. "Hold on… won't I have to fight, like, terrible demons , Grimm, or something if I agree to this?"
"Don't worry," Gangster-Jaune said with a reassuring smile. "These days, Magical girls only fight chumps on the streets. The only time you actually have to fight a monster if there's a Grimm attack."
Suddenly, his phone begins to ring. Excusing himself for a second, he picked up the phone and answered. He spoke with whoever was on the other side of the line. From his nodding head, Blake could tell that something was up. A minute later, the call ended and he turned back to Blake. "There's a Grimm attack."
"Man, even I saw that coming." Mercury muttered, not at all surprised by this obvious turn of events.
"A Grimm attack so soon… Don't worry, Blake, you got this!" Ruby told her friend, who smiled a bit at her encouraging words. Yeah, what could go wrong?
"Really? Are you serious right now?" Blake asked, feeling that this turn of events seemed rather rushed in her opinion. If her life was a show, she would call that some lazy writing.
Gangster-Jaune, ignoring her, just spoke up.
"Don't worry, Kid, they sent me a picture of the Grimm you're facing." He then opened a text on his smartphone. Clearly, the magic of Magical girls was breathtaking. Gangster-Jaune showed her the picture of the Grimm. "Behold, THIS is the face of pure evil."
"Ah…" Blake droned, not quite sure if Jaune was screwing with her. Instead of a hulking, demonic beast that was pure nightmare fuel, all she saw a cute, puppy-sized Grimm that was nibbling on its own foot.
The girls in the audience, sans Cinder, cooed at the sight. It wasn't dangerous at all, in fact, it was the most adorable and squee-inducing Grimm they have ever seen.
"It's so cute, to think that this sweet, adorable little dumpling is a Grimm!" Blake squealed cutely. Gangster-Jaune just snorted at her ignorance.
"Kid, that's just its disguise." Reeling his phone back, He slid his thumb across the screen, opening another picture. Then he showed it to her again. "This is its true form."
Her blood ran cold at the image. She could see it still had the same cute Grimm face… Only it wasn't small anymore, In fact, it had grown taller and LARGER. The cute, little grim now had an extremely masculine and grotesquely muscular body, with muscles so ridiculously large that she was sure her friend, Yatsuhashi, would turn green with envy.
Her reaction was appropriately, "KILL IT WITH FIRE!"
"Yep," Jaune calmly agreed.
"That is. Just. Wrong. Oh, so wrong. On so many levels…" Yang disgustedly exclaimed, to which Ruby nodded affirmatively.
"Words fail me." Cinder herself was more or less displeased by this mockery of the Grimm.
"That is the most ridiculous thing I have seen," Ozpin simply said, adding rather glumly, "Ever, of all time."
He had officially seen it all. And he's seen a lot. He has lived thousands of years, seen wonders that only the maddest man could dream of, and horrors that would make even him question his duty to Remnant. This Grimm had just made his list of the top ten most disturbing sights he had ever seen. It was right behind the time he caught Port in a speedo. Yikes.
Though he could concede that they were probably quite strong, if what this alternate Jaune said was true. But, they weren't exactly easy on the eyes.
As Blake gazed at the mismatched body, a text notification popped up. Jaune read the text, and said. "Huh, it looks like someone just found it."
"Wait, Who?" Blake snatched the phone from Jaune's hand. Attached to the text was a video link, which she opened. What followed was a video showing a teenage boy picking up the disguised Grimm by the scruff of its neck. The boy in the video was wearing her school's uniform, and had long, black hair with a magenta stripe. He also had very familiar magenta eyes and an unnervingly calm expression on his face.
She yelled in alarm, "Ren?!"
"Oh, is it someone you know?" Gangster-Jaune asked, taking back the phone. As he looked at the paused video, he stroked his chin, as though trying to remember something. He then remembered, "Oh, yeah, I remember. These type of Grimm tend to lure humans in with their cute disguises, then drag them to the underworld."
"What! Where is he!?" Blake asked worriedly, panic stretching across her regal features.
"Oh, just around the corner-" That was all Blake needed to hear as she ran out the door, leaving her mother and Gangster-Jaune behind., with A look of resolved determination and a brightly red, blushing face. Gangster-Jaune took notice of her reaction and couldn't help but wonder. Was that the man that she's chosen?
In a jealous fit, Nora jumped up and snarled. "I'M GONNA KILL HER!"
"I'm sorry, Nora, What did you sa- ACK-ACK-ACK!" Blake tried to say, only for Nora to pounce on her, her hands clasped tightly around her neck, strangling the Faunus. Both girls fell to the ground, with Blake trying to wrestle her way out of the Orangette's grasp.
Nora was gonna make this bitch pay for stealing her future hubby- erm, she meant her extremely close and completely platonic male buddy! Yang and Ren immediately try to restrain the girl, who kept a firm hold on the Blake.
"Nora, stop it, let her go! You're gonna kill her!"
"Listen to Ren, Nora… Ow, did she just bite me?!"
As the two struggled to pry her off Blake, Qrow looked up to the Keeper and asked. "I thought you said there'd be no violence between us?"
"...Yeah, I kinda meant between you and the baddies… Whoopsies," That was a rather huge oversight. Either way, the two students were eventually able to get Nora off Blake, with the cat Faunus breathing rapidly, trying to return as much as she can into her lungs.
She glared at the still-thrashing Nora and shouted, "Freaking psychopath!"
As Blake went around the corner, she went in and saw much to her horror, that she was too late.
Ren, with that same calm expression, was tied up and being carried off by the muscular, cute-faced Grimm. A portal opened, with little miniature Grimm popping out of it, no doubt coming from the hellish underworld that all Grimm call home. It was about to throw him in, where he would be lost forever.
"N-NO, I-I have to save him!" But how can she?
"There you are, take this." Having turned up a corner, Gangster-Jaune had finally caught up at last. In his hands was grayish-white magic wand of some sorts, with the tip resembling heart. "This will give you the power you need."
Taking it, Blake turned back. Then realized she had no clue on how to use it. Luckily, Gangster Jaune was there to help. "Now to transform, all you have to do is yell out the name of the one you love."
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Blake balked, "Huh?!"
Blake jumped back, as once again, Nora tried to strangle her. The former Fang member thought that it might be in her best interests to sit somewhere else for the rest of the viewing.
Blake seemed apprehensive toward this, asking Gangster-Jaune if there was an alternate method. But the man would have none of it.
"Look, it's required for the transformation. Say it now… or do you want Ren to be gone forever!?" Blake was still nervous, but the Grimm was getting ready to throw Ren into the vortex. She had no choice. She raised the wand high above her head, and said those three words. Yes, the three words that she had kept close to her heart, the words she held as sacred as any maiden would.
"I… I… I LOVE LIE REEENNN!"
"DEATH AND PAIN, MAIM, KILL, BURN!" Nora roared viciously, trying to escape Yang and Ren, who struggled against her. Ruby and Weiss joined them, hoping their combined strength would keep the Valkyrie from Blake.
Blake began to panic as more and more of the Audience joined in her defense, all of them straining their muscles in holding seething Nora back. She wisely began moving back a few rows. She just wanted to watch (albeit rather reluctantly) the universe on screen, not watch her friends restrain a rampaging Nora from murdering her. Even Ironwood and Glynda were helping out.
Mercury just laughed it up, recording the scene on his Scroll.
Back on screen, a blinding gray light enveloped the girl. The Grimm holding Ren paused and stared. Gangster-Jaune smiled and crossed his arms proudly, glad that his Friend's daughter made the right choice. Now Blake had the power to stop those monsters.
"..." Ren just stared rather blandly, unbothered by the light. It seemed like he didn't even hear the confession, despite being a few meters away. Probably for the best, since Blake didn't want to tell him just yet.
Soon, the light began to fade away. Little by little, Blake's Magical girl costume was revealed. She was wearing a cute, frilly little black top, with small grey mini-skirt with a few bells and ribbons. Jutting out from beneath the skirt was a long, black cat tail. Atop her head, she had cute, black cat ears, with her hair tied back in black ribbon. It was a very decent Magical girl outfit.
However, once the light faded, it finally revealed Blake, who stood proudly against the odd demons. She now had a very macho, muscular body, similar in build to the Grimm's. The Grimm, surprisingly, looked almost insulted. Even the inhumanly composed Ren himself looked rather disgusted.
"What? Is there something on my face?"
The audience froze in shock, their faces locked in abject disgust. None of them can comprehend what they were seeing. No one spoke. No one moved. Not even the Keeper said anything.
They saw that Blake saw clearly in love with Ren, much to one certain girl's expressed displeasure. Gangster-Jaune gave her some kind of wand, and told her the magic words to transform. Then Blake gained a new outfit. And cat-like appendages. Appendages that they realized she didn't have before the transformation.
Oh, and apparently she was now a man; a very large, muscular, and insanely macho man.
"Dude, this is fucked up right here…" Mercury said without a beat, summing up the audience reactions. Many were now starting to feel nauseous. For many they just felt disgusted. Some turned green, others looked ready to puke.
Adam himself had actually fainted from the sight alone. The sight of his 'lovely' Blake turning into some macho man proved too much for his fragile, psychotic mind to bear. His mouth hung open, with drool leaking out along with a very pained and choking gasp.
"...aaaaaaAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" None of their reactions could compare to Blake's, who let out a shrill and disgusted scream as she tried to claw her eyes out. She expected this to be embarrassing, especially when the whole magical girl concept came up.
But this, what she was seeing? This was just beyond insane.
Unknown to everybody, she recognized that body. Her mother, Kali, had shown her pictures of her father back when she was younger. This...version of her gender-swapped counterpart had the exact same build as he did. It was a bit more muscular and taller, but overall, her counterpart had the same body build as her father. What really hit her hard though, was that unlike everybody else, she saw something underneath the skirt. She saw, much to her horror, a pair of very lacy undergarments, with a particularly prominent bulge.
Yeah, that broke her.
She fainted, collapsing with spinning eyes.
"Woah, Blake!" Yang shouted, grabbing Blake before she could hit the ground. Her friends and the teachers gather around the prone Faunus, offering their condolences for her lost dignity. Even the villains felt sorry for her. Neo was actually holding up a sign that read, 'SORRY'. None of them had expected an outcome like this, especially the Blake on screen.
Eventually, their Blake regained consciousness. She looked around and noticed that she was receiving many sympathetic looks of pity. She stood up, with Yang providing a helping hand. She tensed up when she saw Nora. The orange-haired girl, who moments ago had assaulted her with murderous intent, now stood impassively with her hair shadowing her eyes.
Slowly, the hammer-user approached the Faunus Girl. She then patted Blake's shoulder, and softly whispered to her, "…Thank you."
"What the hell are you thanking ME for?!"
"...I... I'm a magical girl…right?" This was a mistake, it just had to be. There was no way that she had just turned into a man. On the verge of tears, Blake turned around and looked to Gangster-Jaune for answers. The man only gave her a toothy grin, along with an approving thumbs-up.
She wanted nothing more than to slap that dumb grin off of his equally dumb face.
"Are you shitting me?!" The 'man' yelled, using language that she normally wouldn't use. She had been just turned into a man, so the swearing was warranted. Gangster-Jaune just looked innocently at her, like he had done nothing wrong at all.
"What's wrong?"
"This! ALL of This!" The 'girl' yelled out, waving 'her' hands across her new body.
Gangster-Jaune then realized what the problem was.
"Oh….Isn't the body supposed to be a good thing? Clearly, it would be better to have a man's body for battle." He was right. Well, he thought he was right. Blake still didn't understand why she looked like some kind of hulking cross-dresser.
"Then what about these… c-c-clothes?"
"You're a magical girl. The clothes are supposed to make your buff body look cute."
"You're contradicting yourself! Buff is not cute!"
"Isn't it fashionable?"
"No! And what the actual hell! I don't have bouncy breasts, but bulging biceps! Look, even the Grimm is looking at me funny." 'She' said, with the Grimm indeed giving her odd looks. It sensed her negative emotions, but it wasn't fear. It felt more like despair and horror, with just a dash of shame.
Everyone present was speechless, despite the inevitable battle about to erupt. It was a bleak atmosphere that didn't at all suit a magical girl fight. But for Blake, what really ruined the mood for her was when she saw two magenta eyes settle upon her. Lie Ren himself was speechless, just sitting on the ground, tied up, unsure how to take any of this.
Blake could not allow him to know this was her. If he knew, there was a good chance she'd be met with disgust and horror and he'd never speak to her again. She couldn't leave him though. So with shaking hands, she turned back facing the Grimm.
"…hahaha… Hahahaha! I-I am a passionate and r-righteous ma-woman. You now face a, um, m-m-magical girl! I am the guardian of love and justice, Magical Girl Black, NYAN!" Blake shakenly declared, revealing her new identity to the world. She then struck a pose, holding her hands in front of her face like a kitten.
Despite those reassuring words, tears were leaking from the "man's" face. Never had Blake felt so ashamed in her life.
"I can't blame her… him…ugh, my brain hurts." Ruby solemnly said, all the light leaving her joyful eyes. It was a sentiment everybody shared.
"Yeah, don't worry, sis...I'm sure Blake can handle this." Yang unsurely agreed, still hugging the now inconsolable Blake.
"Why didn't I let Nora kill me…?" Blake whimpered, wishing that her torment would end.
"Great!" Gangster- Jaune cried joyfully. "Now that's the spirit! Here, take these." He tosses two cute hair pins to Blake, which land in 'his' big, powerful hands. "Now throw them at the Grimm!"
"O- Okay!" Blake did as she was told, and with all the force she could muster, threw them at the creatures of Grimm. She wondered if those pins purify the Grimm, or something of a similar nature. Once more, her expectations would be far off.
Boom!
In a flash of silver light, the miniature Grimm were enveloped in an explosion of fire and debris, killing them instantly, and in the most gruesome way possible. They burned to ashes. The magical girl gaped, shocked by the pin's true purpose.
"Those are magical grenades." Gangster-Jaune happily informed her. Blake just looked at him scandalized, wondering if this guy was from some from kind of gang pretending to be Magical girl contractors.
"C-can I have something else, please?" She asked politely.
"Sure. Here's a magical pistol." He said, holding out an actual pistol.
"I MEAN SOMETHING NORMAL!"
"Alright, alright, sheesh, there's just no pleasing some people..." The contractor muttered, not liking the girl's attitude one bit. Hiding the pistol away, he reached into his jacket, and pulled out another wand. The first wand vanished from Blake's hand, replaced with the new one. She couldn't help but feel that something was… off about this wand.
"There. You now have a stick. A regular wooden stick, that is totally safe, and does nothing." Blake clutched it to her chest with joy, thankful that something had finally gone right.
"Finally…" She then faced the Grimm and roared. "Eat magic, freak!"
Nothing happened at all. Looking back at Gangster-Jaune, she had a questioning look that asked why nothing was happening. The contractor just looked annoyed at this point.
"I said it's a normal stick. No magic, at all. All you can do is hit the beast with it." He said darkly. Blake noticed that the Grimm was edging closer to her. Tired of doing nothing and ready to fight. "Best to learn how use it fast. Otherwise, your first day as a magical girl will be your last."
Sweating and crying a bit, Magical Girl Black realized she had no choice but to do as she was instructed. With tears in her eyes, she leapt into battle with a battle cry that was far from manly.
As for everybody watching, they were now forced to witness a fight that was far from magical. The battle that they had expected was essentially just a fearful and screaming Magical Girl Black beating the Grimm with what was essentially a small club. Blood splattered onto the screen. And it wasn't Blake's blood, for it was actually leaking from the Grimm, which was howling in pain and fear.
Watching a very graphic and disturbing fight, one that would make even parents avert their eyes, proved to be quite the challenge for the audience. The students, not accustomed to seeing such gory carnage, couldn't look away, being too traumatized to move. The teachers, despite having seen death countless times, felt what they saw didn't compare to what they've experienced, and it scared them. Even the villains, all used to dealing death, were sick to their stomachs. It was best to say that none of them had anything to say. Actually, what could they say?
Even the Keeper was wondering if he was right to have allowed this.
Probably not, but it's too late to stop now.
After minutes of pure, unadulterated violence, that should never be part of any magical girl battle, Black was finally finished. She tossed the last scrap of Grimm flesh aside, with a pile of others.
"This...isn't how a magical girl fight should be."
Everyone agreed.
Magical Girl Black had blood, sweat, tears all over 'his' body. Swiping it away, 'he' then turned around and saw that Ren was staring up at him. Panic filled the new Magical girl once more. Her crush, he saw it all. He saw everything. For a moment 'he' thought it was all over. Yet instead, Ren rose, still tied up, and said a few choice words.
"Thank you, Magical Girl Black." With a smile and a bow of respect, Blake's crush immediately turned heel and left, with a little skip in his step. It was like the boy didn't even acknowledge the absurdity that he just bore witness to. Just another quirk Blake loved about him.
"I, uhm, guess it all worked out." With her identity safe, Blake decided it was time to return home. She turned around; only to see two people she knew very well standing before her. The first person she recognized was her friend, a redheaded teenage boy named Adam, who wore a white mask. Why, one may ask? Because he thought it looked cool. The second person was none other than her manager, Ozpin, who was looking up at her with stars in his eyes.
"Do you think they know about Blake's identity?" Weiss asked her friends, who just shrugged.
Winter compared their still-unconscious Adam Taurus with his counterpart on screen. She couldn't quite explain it, but she could tell that the alternate Adam was far more mellow compared to their own. She wondered if they could switch their Adam with the one from this universe.
"AAH!" Blake yelped, as she didn't expect to see them. Still, she had to play it cool, lest they discover her true identity.
"Uhm, good day, citizens that I do not know," She said rather clumsily, failing miserably to hide her acquaintance with them. "W-what are you two d-doing here?"
"Blake, is that you?" Already found out!
"W-W-How did you know?" She asked, actually curious to know how they found. They answered by pointing toward the corner of the wall.
"We were watching since you declared your love for Ren." Adam admitted.
"That long?" Blake shouted horrified. Her terror increased when she saw that Ozpin looked more than pleased.
"Incredible!" He then grabbed onto his friend's shoulders, roughly shaking her as he rambled animatedly. "To think you could turn into a Magical girl. An honest to god, mother-flipping, straight oughta anime Magical girl! This is so awesome! I've always wanted to see a fight like that!"
"Hey, Ozpin, uh…?"
"Oscar, for both of our sakes, I ask that you please not finish that sentence. I am NOTHING like that."
"I gotta admit Blake, what you did was quite manly." Adam nodded approvingly, just as a figurative arrow pierced Blake the second he said 'manly', "As expected of my best friend."
"So are these two friends? Like as in actual, real friends, in this universe?" Cinder didn't answer Emerald's query. She did have to admit, though, that this Adam was leagues better than their own. This Adam wasn't all angst-ridden and brooding, obsessing over Blake, or sounded like he was perpetually constipated. Hopefully, this Adam would stay that way.
"You know what? We should celebrate!" Ozpin yelled out, with Adam cheerfully agreeing.
Even Gangster-Jaune liked the idea, butting into the conversation with a suggestion. "Then let's go! Party over at the Belladonna's. Kali makes the best Korean barbecue, hands down."
And so the three men left to start their own party at the restaurant Jaune suggested, leaving behind a stunned Blake, who just stood there silently as she watched them going to her house. She had no doubts that her mom would agree to host a party.
"What's happened to my life?' Blake couldn't help ask herself, wondering if her future as a Magical girl will be as…interesting as today was. Whatever the future held, she doubted that would it be any fun. Reluctantly, she joined her friends, having surrendered to the utter absurdity that now encompassed her life.
The screen went black.
"That was… something?" Winter hesitantly said, unsure how to describe the universe they just witnessed.
She couldn't bring herself to say anything nice about it. None of them could. It wasn't that the dimension wasn't bad or anything, it did have some levity in it, but it was just so…different than what they expected, and that was putting it mildly. However, it was safe to say that everyone agreed they never wanted to see Blake's so-called 'magical form'.
"Hey, Mr. Keeper," Nora asked, curious about something, "why didn't that other Blake have any cat ears? You know, from before she changed?"
"Yes, I was wondering that myself." Yang wondered aloud. None of them had seen any Faunus traits on Blake at all, even before her transformation sequence. They didn't even see any such features on Adam or her mother. In fact, all the Faunus on screen looked very human in that universe. "What was going on there?"
"Right, that. I did explain that some dimensions would be different in more ways than others, correct." The Keeper reminded them, having told them before, right at the start of their little 'movie marathon'. He elaborated, "Well, in some dimensions like this one, there aren't any Faunus at all, just humans."
"Really… just humans…" Oscar cannot believe that such a world could exist. In fact, nobody believed that it was possible. But Ozpin knew otherwise, as pre-destruction Remnant had no Faunus. He still wasn't sure how they came to be. Though he shouldn't say this since some people might get upset.
*Cough-Adam-Cough*
"Yep," The Keeper affirmed, "Like I said, some universes may differ greatly from each other, just as you've seen how some look similar to your own. But enough of that, let's continue watching."
The screen lit up again with everyone looking intently… well, everyone except a still traumatized Blake and catatonic Adam.
As the next universe began to be projected on Screen, nobody noticed Mercury still had his Scroll. He had recorded everything, Nora's rampage and the Universe they have just seen. He looked at the video, having paused just as Magical Girl Black appeared. The image of the so-called magical girl was on the screen, offending his already hurt eyes further. He promptly deleted the video.
"The world must never know…" He quietly declared.
That was the first, and only, time that Mercury Black ever performed a genuinely selfless service for anyone. It hurt him more than watching that universe. He joined everyone in watching the new universe.
And done. I told you not every chapter will come rapidly. As sad as it is, I will now be posting weekly and what not. So expect chapters to only come once a week or so. Sucks but it must happen since I have work. Anyway, next chapter will be from another fanfiction then onto Pride of Four. In the reviews, recommend what chapter you want me to do for that story. Until next time.