Hello my friends I'm back with another chapter of Black Roses. Last chapter Team RWBY and BAGL were sent to investigate a village where communications went dark. What they found were lots of Grimm and the mysterious man that attacked Ruby and Weiss. Now Salem's Lord is returning home! Who is the mysterious man, and who is Salem's master? Find out, later in the story!
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Beautiful sounds of the morning birds sang. Light blue eyes groggy opened. With a yawn she rubbed the sleepiness from her eyes. "Looks like it's going to be a beautiful day today," Weiss said to herself. She tried getting up but felt some weight on her body. Lifting the covers up, "What the-,"
A scream was heard throughout the halls. Gohan and Lewis fell out of their beds, while Black opened his eyes with an annoyed look. "It's not even mid-day and the Schnee is already getting on my nerves." Gohan picked himself up and rubbed his eyes as did Lewis. "Something must've happened."
Getting up from his bed Black stretched his limbs. "The Schnee probably her ripped her dress or something." Lewis looked around and noticed someone missing. "Umm, guys, where's Alli?" Gohan and Black looked around. "She doesn't usually wake up early." Lewis said.
Then there was knocking on the door. "I'll go get it." Reaching for the doorknob Black opened the door. "Morning…Black?" Ruby cocked her head to the side as she stared at him. "What?"
"You sleep with your gi on?" She asked.
Looking at his clothes for a second he looked back at her. "Yes, I do, is there a problem with that?"
"N-No, there isn't," Ruby defensively waved her hands in front of her. "Did you knock just to ask me if I wear my gi when I sleep?"
"Oh, no, look, umm, we have a bit of problem in our dorm," Ruby used her finger and thumb to represent "a bit". "We were wondering if you could help us out."
A good 2 minutes passed as the two team processed what they were looking at. "...Is that… Alli?" Gohan scratched his head; Lewis nodded in agreement, while Black stood there with his arms crossed. They were all currently in team RWBY's room to see Alli or someone that looks like her, sleeping on top of Weiss with her arms wrapped around her. "Can you get her off of me!? She reeks of alcohol!"
"Have you tried waking her up?" Lewis asked as he poked Alli's head. "Yea, but she just kept on whinnying and started saying something but I didn't get to hear what she said because Yang covered my ears for some reason." Ruby said.
Gohan had a feeling why Yang covered Ruby's ears. "Are we even sure this is Alli?" Gohan asked.
"Yea, the only difference is that she has turquoise color hair and tail," Blake responded.
"Black, you're the leader of your team get her off!" Weiss yelled.
Black sighed and walked forward and grabbed the back of Alli's shirt and pulled her up. It looked like Weiss was about to be free till, RRRIIP. Black's face held a slight surprised expression, while everyone gaped at what just happened. Almost immediately the three boys were pushed out the room.
"What the hell!" Black banged the now locked door. "You three can't come in here!" Ruby shouted from the other side.
"What, why? You asked for our help!" Black shouted back.
"The situation is now out of your hands!" Ruby shouted again leaving Black confused and slightly annoyed, "Damn these human females, they're so confusing!"
Back inside the room, the girls turned back to Weiss's bed to see Alli with her bareback free for the whole world to see. Alli then snuggled more into Weiss's chest making her blush even more than she was before. "What do we do now?" Blake asked, uncertain on what their next course of action is. Then an idea popped in Yang's head. "I know," She looked under Blake's bed and pulled out a bag. Reaching in, she pulled a bottle out. "What's that?" Ruby asked.
"Umm… this is…broccoli juice?" Ruby face turned to one of disgust. "Ew, broccoli juice, you like that stuff?" Yang smirked, "Yup, drink a bottle every day."
Ruby felt like she was going to throw up and ran out the dorm. Yang chuckled at this, "What's really inside the bottle?" Blake asked.
"Alcohol,"
The Schnee and Faunas gave her a look that read, really. "We're going to have a long chat after this," Weiss said.
"Yea, I figured, now." Yang opened the bottle and waved it over Alli's nose. Her nose began to twitch along with her tail before her head lifted itself off from Weiss's chest. Yang grinned and guided the bottle of alcohol away from Weiss with Alli unconsciously following the bottle. Blake and Weiss had a surprised look, "It's working,"
"Just a little bit more," Yang lifted the bottle higher. Weiss saw that Alli's body was pretty much off of her. She quickly scooted away from the sleeping faunas. Yang looked away to check on her friend, "Weiss, you good?"
"Yea, I'm okay now."
Blake noticed Alli getting closer to the bottle and reached over to stop her, but as soon as she placed her hand on her shoulder she was grabbed by the wrist and flipped over. Yang's eyes widen as Blake's body fell on top of her, letting the bottle go in the processes. Alli caught the bottle before it hit the ground then took a swing. Blake and Yang groaned as they got up. "What was that?"
"Maybe that'll teach you not to tempt me with alcohol." The three girls looked back at Alli who stared at them with green eyes. Turquoise hair, green eyes, and now her voice was slightly deeper too? Was this actually Alli?
Seeing her friends unable to respond Weiss decided to speak first, "A-Alli, is that you?" Alli continued to stare at them for a couple more seconds before letting out a loud burp. "Heheheh, now why would you confuse me with little Alli, hmm?"
"But, you are Alli, aren't you?" Blake asked, it was more confusing for her too because everyone had a certain scent they gave off but for some reason, Alli gave a mixed of her old scent and this new one. "Oh no, I'm not Alli," She said with a smirk.
Weiss's eyes narrowed, "Who are you then?"
The girl's smirk widened a bit. "I think it's better that I introduce myself when all our friends are present." And with that, she slipped out the bed and covers and walked out the dorm half naked.
"…Should we tell her shirt ripped?" Yang asked. Blake gave a shrug and Weiss didn't respond.
In the cafeteria, the group stared at the girl while she devoured food from 10 trays. "How is she eating all of that?" Pyrrha asked with astonishment.
"I have no idea," Ren said.
Some of the students in the cafeteria were sickened by how she ate. "I think I lost my appetite for today," Weiss said pushing her tray away.
"What is she, a Saiyan?" Both Gohan and Black thought.
Finally finishing up her last tray Alli closed her eyes. "Are you done?" Jaune asked.
Alli raised her index finger, "Drink, please." Knowing what she was referring to Yang passed her secret bottle to her. Taking a big swing she slammed the bottle back down. Then, "BURRRRP!" The burp echoed throughout the cafeteria silencing everyone for a couple seconds before returning to what they were talking about. "Disgusting!" Weiss yelled.
"To answer your question, yes, I'm done." Getting up from her seat she stood on top of the table. "Now, I'm sure all of you want to know who I am, right?" Receiving nods from them she continued. "My name is Allison Banks, it nice to meet you." She wobbled a bit when she bowed.
"…Isn't Allison just the same as Alli but without it being shortened?" Jaune asked.
"Yup, it helps people from confusing us both." She hopped off the table and sat back down. "So what do you do when you…come out?" Ren asked, curious because they've never seen her when she comes out.
"Oh ya know, go to clubs, have a couple of drinks, flirt with cute boys, beat up perverts, and eat delicious food." She took a swing from Yang's bottle and burped again.
"So you're the reason why Alli keeps getting sick," Gohan said, "All that alcohol you consume every night is messing up her body."
"I don't drink every night… every two nights." She showed with her fingers.
"That doesn't make it any better!" Weiss shouted causing some of the students in the cafeteria to turn and look that her. "Gohan has a point; if you don't stop it will seriously cause some major problems to her health," Ren said.
Allison let out an annoyed groan. She looked over to her partner, "Hey Black, what do you think about all this?"
He glared at her. "Well now that I know you're that reason why my partner is always in the clinic, I'll tell you this. The next time I see or hear that you're somewhere that is serving alcohol, I'll drag you back to Beacon myself, understood?"
Allison's face turned blue out of fear. "Ay-Aye captain."
"Good," Black stood up from his seat, "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go and read my book in peace." He said and walked away.
As he exited out the cafeteria he saw Ruby heading his way, carrying a heavy binder. Ruby couldn't really see where she was going since the binder was blocking her view. She ended up tripping on a small stick causing her to fall forward, "Whoa!" But to her surprise, she didn't hit the ground. Instead, someone caught her.
Black had his right arm wrapped around her stomach which stopped her from falling over. Ruby looked up while he looked down at her. "You should really pay attention where you're walking."
"Hehe, thanks for the save." Standing straight back up Ruby handed the binder to him. "Ugh, my arms feel like jelly." Ruby wiggled her arms.
Black read the title of the binder. "Best Day Ever Activities?"
"Oh yea, since tomorrow classes start back up again I wanted all of us to spend today doing fun activities that I planned out."
"I think I'll pass," He said, he lifted the binder with his right hand and handed it back to her. "Black I know you like to spend your free time alone but you should really try to at least spend some time with us and your team." Ruby said.
"I spend enough of my time with you lot."
"But that's what friends do, spend time with each other. If you change your mind then message me on your scroll and I'll add you to the activities." Ruby started walking away, but then stopped and looked back at him. "It'll be more fun with everyone there. That includes you too." She said with a smile.
Black stared at her leaving form. He sucked his teeth and walked away.
Sometime later Black was sitting under a tree he reading his book. He closed the book and rubbed his eyes with his thumb and index finger. "Not really enjoying that book I see." Looking up he saw Ozpin standing before him with his coffee mug in his hand. "What is it you want Ozpin?"
"Well I was walking by and I happen to see you sitting under this tree reading your book alone, clearly bored too."
Black sighed and stood up. "I haven't been able to find a good book to read lately and I don't really have another way to pass the time."
"Well I'm not really sure what you teens like to do during your free time nowadays but I have an idea what we could do." Black raised a brow. "And that is?"
"Go to that table and wait for me," Ozpin said before walking away, Black walked and sat at the table. After a couple of minutes of waiting, Ozpin came back with a medium sized box. He set up the game, "So what's this?" Black asked.
"Chess, a board game where strategy, critical thinking, and tactics are used to win," Black now seemed slightly more interested. "How is this game played?"
For the next minute Ozpin explained the roles of each piece and the rules of the game. To his surprise, Black understood everything quite well. "The pawns are the foot soldiers in a way, they are only able to advance two spaces at first move but then have to move only one space. Like any other piece, pawns are allowed to take any piece, which also includes the queen." Black let a smirk appear in his mind as he held a pawn piece between his two fingers.
"So, even a pawn can take down a queen."
"So, do you understand everything about the game?" Ozpin asked. Black answered with a nod. But just before they could start Glynda walked up to them. "Professor Ozpin, you have a meeting with General Ironwood." Ozpin checked his watch, "It seems that I have forgotten about the meeting. I'm sorry Black but it would seem we'll have to start our game some other time." Black was about to say something till he heard a crash and saw Yang fly out the cafeteria.
"Well, it looks like there something interesting going on in the cafeteria." Ozpin commented.
"And I feel like I know who it might be too." Black said with an annoyed tone. Glynda walked up to the cafeteria door and barged in, she growled in annoyance when she saw the messy cafeteria. Using her wand she repaired all the damages and cleaned up all the mess team RWBY, JNPR and the three members of BAGL caused. "Children, please, do not play with your food." Black walked next to Ozpin as they entered the cafeteria.
"Hey Black, you missed the fun." Ruby waved. A piece of grape jam landed on his head. Black's right eye slightly twitched and everyone else felt their hearts drop a bit when they saw him glare at them.
Letting out a deep sigh and clamming his nerves down, Black wiped the jam off his hair. "I'm going to go get cleaned up." Ozpin let out a chuckle.
After being scolded by Glynda the group headed to the library. "So what do we do now?" Yang asked.
"Well, if we cause any more trouble we'll have detention today." Gohan grabbed a book and started reading. "Well, we have to study for class tomorrow. But if you guys get an idea of what we can all do then tell us." Pyrrha said as her team sat by another table and began studying, mostly Ren and Pyrrha though.
An idea then popped in Ruby head. "Hey, we can play, Conquer Remnant!"
"Didn't we forget the game at home though?" Yang asked which caused Ruby to slump down in her seat. "Oh, oh, I have that game!" Lewis said.
"It's under my bed, lemme go get it!" Lewis rushed out the door.
"Seeing that we're going to be waiting for Lewis to come back, I think I'm going to take a quick nap." Allison rested her forehead on the table. For the next 5 minutes they waited for Lewis to come back.
"Man what's taking him so long." Yang groaned.
"Maybe one of us should go check up on him," Weiss suggested.
"I'll go," Ruby got up and walked out the library. As she approached BAGL's dorm she noticed that the door was open. "Guess Lewis is still inside." Walking in the room she looked to her left to see if Lewis was by his bed. "Lewis, you there?"
Seeing that he was not by his bed, Ruby turned back to the door. "Hmm, guess he's not her-." Ruby eyes widen and her mouth open but no words came out. The reason was that in front of her was Black who was only wearing a towel that was wrapped around his waist covering the bottom half of his body. His body still wet due to the fact he just got out of the shower.
Ruby's eyes unconsciously traveled at every bit of his muscular body. "What are you doing here?" He asked calmly. Finally snapping out of whatever trance she was in, Ruby bolted out the room with a huge blush. "IM SORRY!" And slammed the door closed. Black tilted his head to the side and raised a brow, confused by what just happened. "The hell?"
On the other side of the door, Ruby had her back to the door and stared at the ground. Her face was red and steam seemed to come out of her ears as Black's half-naked body played in her mind. "Ohmygodohmygodmygod!"
"Ruby?"
"Ahh! I didn't see anything!" She shouted shielded herself with her arms.
"What?" Recognizing the voice Ruby looked over to the source of the voice. "Lewis, where have you been?!"
"Oh, I saw a cool butterfly and chased after it." Ruby sweatdropped. "Yea, that sounds believable coming from you." They headed back to the library and set the game up.
After minutes of playing Yang was the closest to winning. "Goodbye Atlas,"
"Nooooo!" Ruby cried in vain as Yang's forces overtook hers. "My people, your lives will be avenged."
"Alright Weiss, it's your turn," Yang said.
"I have… absolutely no idea what's going on." Gohan leaned in and helped her out. "I think I know the basics of this game." Checking her cards Gohan told her what she can do. "You have resourceful raider,"
"And that means what exactly?" Weiss asked.
"It means you can use Ruby's discard air fleet and add it to your own," Yang responded. "You also have sandstorm too, and since Vacuo warriors have an endurance boost to natural hazards you can disable Yang's ground forces and simultaneously invade her kingdom," Gohan added.
"Just remember that I will never forget this declaration of war," Yang warned.
"Okay, and all this means what?" Weiss asked.
"It means your three moves away from conquering all of Remnant!" Ruby cried out, still feeling sad for the loss of her fleet. Letting out an evil laugh a dark cloud formed above her. "Yes, fear the power of my forces, cower as they pillage your homes and weep when they take your children right from your very eyes!"
"Trap card," Yang said.
"Huh?"
"Your forces have been defeated," Yang said.
Gohan sweatdropped. "Sorry Weiss, I didn't think she had a trap card."
Weiss slumped down in her chair as tears streamed down her face, "I hate this game of emotions!" Ruby hopped on her lap and hugged her. "Stay strong Weiss we'll get through this."
In another part of the school, Black was walking down the hall trying to look for his team. "Where the hell are they?"
"Looking for someone?" A voice said. Black's eyes widen, looking back he saw Mercury standing there with his arms crossed and wearing that cocky smirk. "You, what are you doing here?" Black's eyes narrowed when he saw Emerald walk out from behind him. "Oh nothing, just exploring our new academy we'll be staying until the festival starts," Emerald said.
"You're participating in the tournament?"
"Yep, now if you'll excuse us, we have some fellow students to introduce ourselves too." Both Mercury and Emerald walked away from him, leaving him slightly annoyed.
His scroll then suddenly vibrated. Taking it out from his pocket he checked from who it was. "If you're looking for us we're in the library."The message was from Allison. "Well, at least I know where they're at now." He thought.
Making his way to the library he passed a window and saw Atlas ships landing by the docking bay. "Looks like Ironwood here."
Finally reaching the library door he walked in, passing Blake who was just exiting the library. They both shared a glance before going on their way. As he made his way to the table Ruby and the others were at, he saw two new faces. "Black, hey, you made it. Wanna play conquer Remnant?" Yang asked.
Almost immediately Ruby's cheeks turned red and tried to avoid eye contact with him. Allison noticed this and looked at Black and back to Ruby, then back to Black then back to Ruby. A smug smile appeared on her face as she hummed in an amused tone.
"Conquer Remnant, what is that?" Black asked.
"It's a board game; basically you have to defeat all opposing players' kingdoms till you conquer all of Remnant." Gohan explained.
"Since Neptune is going to be playing for Weiss, maybe you should play for Ruby how's that sound?" Black looked over towards the redhead only to see her looking away.
"S-Sure, he can play for me."
"Alright then, Ruby you'll help Black with understanding how the game works." Yang said. Black grabbed a chair and sat next to Ruby, causing her cheeks to redden even more. "I'll play for Blake then," Sun said.
"Alright then, Game on!" Yang said.
1 hour later…
"Ugh, what the hell was that!?" Yang punched the wall they were walking down. "You're just mad that you were the first one to lose." Ruby said only adding more fuel to the flames that were erupting from her sister. "That still doesn't make any sense! You sucked at first then you started playing like a pro, were you lying that you never played that game before." Yang pointed at Black who was carrying a couple of textbooks for Gohan.
"I already told you, I'm a fast learner." Was that so hard to believe?
"I'm still impressed that you managed to predict and counter all of Sun and Neptune's plays." Weiss said. Black looked away due to the fact he wasn't exactly used to being praised by a mortal and a Schnee by all means. "I'm going to go leave this in the dorm." He said before walking away.
"Alright, catch you later Black." Ruby hesitantly waved, still unable to forget the embarrassing situation she was in with him. Waving her off, Black entered the dorm and dropped the textbooks on the desk. He then received a message on his scroll. It was from Gohan, he asked if he wanted to train a bit with them. Thinking about it for a while Black realized that he never really had an opportunity to train with his team. "There's nothing better to do. Might as well." Walking out the dorm he walked past RWBY dorm but stopped when his Saiyan ears picked up the word White Fang. Taking a few steps back he listened closely.
It was Blake telling her team about the White Fang planning something big and how she doesn't understand how they can all just sit here and do nothing. The Cat and Schnee began arguing about how they weren't ready to go after the White Fang and stop their plans.
"Looks like Roman was right, these girls are going to be an annoyance." The room seemed to settle down, and then he heard Ruby's voice saying something about being the first youngest huntress that will take down a corrupted organization. He couldn't really understand rest of what she was saying due to the fact she was talking so fast.
"If they're planning to go after the White Fang and Roman, Saiyaman is bound to make an appearance at some point too." He had to keep Saiyaman away from Roman and Neo, but how? Maybe lure him somewhere that no one's around. A place where they can fight to their fullest.
Before he could think of a place, Ruby dashed out the dorm and ran down the hall. "Don't worry I'll be right ba-." She ended up crashing into someone.
"Oh gosh, sorry, are you alright?" Black narrowed his eyes and made his way to Ruby. "I'm fine," Emerald offered her a hand but before Ruby could take it Black lifted her up by her arm. Mercury smirked at this, while Black glared at them both. Ruby looked between the two, "Soo, I'm Ruby, are you guys new?"
"Visiting from Haven actually," A new voice said. From behind the two, Cinder made her appearance. Black glare harden, while Ruby stared at Cinder for a bit, with Cinder smiling back at her. Then realization seemed to hit her, "Oh I get it now! You're a teacher!"
Cinder's eyes widen as her mouth was left open, her face turned slightly red in embarrassment. Mercury had to stop himself from laughing, while Black let out a chuckle with a smirk. Cinder's body shook in anger. "I'M A STUDENT!" She yelled before stomping away. Emerald chased after her with Mercury following behind.
"S-Sorry! Umm, Welcome to Beacon!" She waved, "Was it something I said?"
Black calmed himself, "No, I think you said the right thing to her." Ruby stood there still confused by why the girl got mad.
The next day everything was going through its normal routine. Team RWBY were waiting patiently for their last class of the day to finish. As soon as the bell rang the girls got up and walked out. "Hmm, looks like they're in a hurry," Gohan commented.
"Wonder what they're up too," Allison said. Black closed his textbook and walked out the class. Last night he was looking at the map of Remnant on his scroll, trying to find a place where he and Saiyaman can fight freely. He had a good list of choice but then he narrowed it down to one place, Mountain Glenn. It's an abandoned city that was overrun by Grimm.
"Now, all I need to do is bring Saiyaman to me, and what better way then powering up." A smirk appeared on his lips.
As he was walking down the hall he saw Jaune sitting by a window reading a comic book. "I do hope you're not wasting your time reading those dumb comics instead of doing something else." Jaune immediately hid the comic book. "Black, hey, uhh I wasn't reading any comics. I was mentally preparing myself for tonight that's all." He nervously laughed at the end.
"You're doing double for lying," Jaune eyes turned to horror and fell to his hands and knees. "I won't be there tonight due to some… complications, so I expect you to do all of your tasks without my supervision, understood?"
"Y-Yea, I understand."
"Good," With that Black walked away. As he was passing Team RWBY's dorm he heard them discussing something. They talked about who will go with whom and where they'll be going to. "Guess that's my cue to start moving." Walking in his dorm he quickly changed into his Gi and walked out.
"Hey Sun, down here," Allison peered over the edge into RWBY's dorm as they went over their plan again. "So when do you guys wanna make your move?" She asked both Sun who was hanging from his tail and Neptune was standing by the edge of the wall.
Ruby said, "Alright team, let's do this!"
"Yea!" Sun said causing the girls to take a step back. "Sun, how'd you get up there?" Yang asked.
Allison poked her head in. "We climbed, how else?"
Sun flipped inside while Allison just stepped in. "So Sun told me about this Torchwick guy you encounter a while ago, and now that I'm hearing you're going to go after him, it makes me wanna join on the fun too." Blake glared at Sun who scratched his head and gave a nervous smile.
"We are going to do an investigation on the situation, as a team." Blake clarified. Almost immediately Lewis bolted in the room. "INVESTIGATION?! I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A DETECTIVE!" Ruby jumped into Weiss's arms from the sudden outburst.
"L-Lewis, were you spying on us?" Yang asked.
"Nope, I was walking by and I heard you guys are going to do an investigation. You guys left the door opened too." He pointed out, causing the girls to slightly redden in embarrassment. Ruby sighed knowing that since Lewis is found out about the plan there was no way of telling him no. "Guess we'll have to go over the plan again." She said.
"Umm guys," Poking his head in the room, Neptune asked, "Can I come in please."
20 minutes later…
Gohan was walking down the street with Penny. "Wow, so you guys never found out what happened to the villagers?" She asked.
"Yea, I could've returned back there as Saiyaman but Professor Ozpin is a really smart man. He'll probably suspect one of us if Saiyaman were to appear there after a secret mission two teams went on."
"Is Professor Ozpin smarter then General Ironwood?" She innocently asked.
"I'm not really sure. I think he is." He noticed that they were reaching the CCT tower. "So have you talked to Ruby yet?" Penny looked away.
"Is something wrong?" He asked, concerned for his little sister. "I haven't talked to her since what happened at the shipyard."
"Why is that?"
"General Ironwood told me not to talk to her, Weiss, Yang, or Blake." Gohan narrowed his eyes. "I'm also…scared that she'll find out the truth about me. I don't wanna lose a friend." Gohan placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Ruby is a kind, understanding, and caring friend. There's no reason for you to be scared of losing her." He said causing her to smile. They reached the CCT tower.
"Alright, I'm going to talk to dad then I'll take you to the arcade again. Wait right here squirt, I'll be right back." He ruffled her hair making her giggle and salute.
Making his way up the elevator and he held out his scroll for identification purposes. The computer scanned his scroll and took him to the communication level. Reaching his destination he exited out the elevator. As he walked up to the front desk a hologram appeared. "Hello, Welcome to Beacon's Cross Continental Center, how may I help you?"
"I want to make a call to The Atlesian Headquarters in Atlas." He responded.
"Absolutely, please head over to terminal 4 and I'll patch you through."
Walking up to terminal 4 he took a seat and waited for his call to be answered. After a few seconds of waiting a man answered. "Hello, this is Atlesian Headquarters, how can I help yo- Oh Gohan, it's you how are you doing?"
"I'm doing okay, Beacon is pretty different than being homeschooled." The man chuckled at this. "I bet it is. So, what can I do for you today?"
"I was wondering if you could patch me through my father."
The man gave him a sad smile. "I'm sorry Gohan, but your father is in a meeting right now. If you want I could leave him a video message for him."
"Okay," The screen went blue and the camera turned on. "Hi Dad, sorry I didn't call sooner, school has me by a lease with homework and projects. It's fun none the less, made a lot of friends here. Some of them are pretty cold but the others are nice too. If you're wondering, Penny's doing fine; I took her to the arcade a couple times these past two weeks. Even after all these years she still loves whack a Grimm." Gohan's smiled then disappeared and his face turned into one of slight anger and worry. "I'm pretty sure you heard on the news about what happened in Vale's shipyard. I fought a man there, he was strong and fast," Images from that battle played in his mind. "He…He also know's how to use Ki too. I don't know how but he knows how to use it. He also affiliated with the White Fang and Roman Torchwick, and every time I try to stop them he appears. I fought him a couple times and whenever I think I have edge over him, he just gets stronger the next time we fight."
Gohan's fists tightened. "I know I promised you that I wouldn't use my powers if I'm not disguised as Saiyaman but…If that man ever attacks innocent people before me while I'm not disguised, I won't be able to just sit there and watch. I won't be able to keep my promise, I'm sorry." There was a short moment of silence before, "I hope I can see you soon father, Goodbye." The recording ended. Gohan sighed and closed his eyes. The faces of the Androids that terrorized his whole life appeared in his mind. "I won't let that happen to this planet, not while I'm still here." He got up and turned to leave only to bump into someone. "Oh sorry, I didn't see you." He apologized.
"Gohan?"
"Weiss, what're you doing here?"
"Oh, I came here to make a call to my…sister!" She lied. "What about you?"
"Oh, I tried calling my father but he was in a meeting, so I left him a video recording." For a brief second, he saw sadness in Weiss's eyes. "I can relate to that." She said quietly. Gohan heard her but played it off as he didn't catch what she said. "Huh?"
"Oh, it's nothing."
"Well, I think I'll leave you off so you can talk to your sister." Weiss nodded.
"Oh speaking of sisters, your sister Penny walked off with Ruby."
"Okay, thanks for telling me. Guess I'll see you in class tomorrow then." Gohan waved goodbye and entered the elevator. When he reached the lobby he walked out the CCT tower and took a deep breath before exhaling. "Now, what to do to-." His eyes narrowed when he sensed a powerful ki that kept rising. It was him, but why was he powering up, was he trying to call him out? Whatever the reason might be he had to go and check it out.
"So much for relaxing today,"
1 hour later…
Saiyaman flew through the air as he headed toward the direction of where the man was powering up. After some time of flying, he reached his destination. "Mountain Glenn, he does want to fight."
He landed on the abandoned street and walked forward. He looked side to side trying to spot him. "Where is he?" After a couple minutes of walking he saw pieces of debris fall from the building up ahead. Looking up he saw him.
Black stared down at Saiyaman with a smirk behind his mask. "Finally, he's come. No interruptions this time."
They stared down at each other, waiting for the other to make the first move. The wind breezed past them both.
A piece of a broken building came off and fell to the ground. Saiyaman immediately powered up to his full extent a white aura surrounding him. Loose rocks and debris floated around him as he continued to power up. "Haaaaaaa!"
Saiyaman then shot upwards towards the man. Black kicked off the edge and flew at him with great speed. With their fists pulled back they aimed a blow at each other's face, only to have both their fists collide with each other causing a shockwave that shattered any glass that still remained in the city. Saiyaman tried to knee him in the gut but the masked man had the same idea and again their attacks collided.
Saiyaman aimed at the masked man's face but ducked under his fist. The man tried to land a hit to his stomach but Saiyaman dodged to the left, he then grabbed the masked man by the arm with both hands and threw him into a building.
The Masked man crashed through the other side and landed on his feet as he skidded along the ground. Saiyaman appeared before him and let out a barrage of attacks all to which the man responded with his own attacks. Each of their blows landed, Black blocked a kick with his forearm and responded with a punch to the face. Saiyaman used his leg to kick him in the rib causing Black's eyes to widen in pain. Cupping his hands in front of him Saiyaman fired a ki blast sending the Masked man to fly into a building. The ki blast caused an explosion and the building to collapse.
Black shot out from the falling building and delivered an earth-shattering punch to the gut, Saiyaman coughed up saliva. Using his free hand, Black punched him in the face and reeled his other fist back and punched him again. He threw punch after punch; each hit landed its mark. Saiyaman managed to block one punch with his forearm and then kicked the man under the chin. He then began to repeatedly throw fast punches to the man's gut.
Behind the mask Black was in slight pain but it was also mixed with excitement. This is what he missed, a fight, a real fight! Saiyaman ended his barrage of attacks by kicking Black on the chest.
Black skidded back before shooting forward with a black and purple aura surrounding him and Saiyaman doing the same but with a white aura surrounding him.
A green chopper pulled up next to Yang's yellow motorcycle. "What took you two so long?" Neptune asked
"Lewis got hungry so we got something to eat. Want some?" She offered them a burger. "Maybe after we're done," Neptune said.
"Alright, hey Lewis can you stay and watch over our rides and don't eat all the food." Allison kindly asked.
"Okie dokie!" He happily saluted.
"Whoa, nice ride. Where'd you get it?" Yang asked impressed by Allison's ride.
"Oh, this isn't mine. I stole it from some asshole." Allison casually said, walking past the two. Neptune and Yang gave her an "are you serious" look.
Turning back to them, she saw their looks. "Come on it's not like this is the first time you see someone with stolen property."
"I guess you're right," Yang said. She got off her bike and walked to the Club door. Neptune looked up and saw the name of the place they were going to. "So mind telling me what kind of friend you exactly have?" Up ahead two men saw them heading they're way and ran inside and closed the door. Yang smirked and fired a shotgun round at the door causing it to open. Walking inside she said, "Guess who's back!?"
10 guns were pointed at her, Yang's expression turned serious. "Put your guns down!" Someone yelled from behind the group of men. Pushing past them a man in his mid-30s emerged from the group. "Blondie you're back, why?"
Yang was about to respond but Allison beat her to it. "Junior, your favorite customer is here!" She skipped next to Yang.
"A-Allison?! Yang saw the scared look from Junior. "You two know each other?"
Allison teleported behind Junior and hopped on his back. "Oh yea, me and Junior are best friends, right buddy?"
"Yea the best," He responded with slight fear, "So could you tell me why you both are here?"
"Oh, my friend here wants to ask you a few questions. We can do it over a drink, can't we? Allison gave him a look that made sweat a bit. "S-Sure,"
"Great," Allison flipped over him and landed in front of Yang. As Junior lead the way Yang leaned into Allison. "Whatcha do to him to get him so scared of you?"
"You could say that I gather a good amount of evidence that could put him and his whole gang away. Plus I might've jumped him into a horde of Grimm a couple of times." The two teens had a surprised look.
"What, he wouldn't give me a drink." Allison defended.
Yang grinned, "I think we're going to be good friends."
Allison flashed her a smirk of her own, as she walked forward she stopped when she saw a nearby glass of beer shake a bit along with some other stuff from nearby tables. "What's wrong?" Neptune asked.
She continued to stare at the glass but saw the shaking stop. "Nothing,"
Shockwaves erupted as two superpower beings clashed repeatedly. Weak build crumbled as they could not withstand the shockwaves. Saiyaman and the masked man exchanged punches and kicks at speeds that no normal human and faunas could achieve. Saiyaman landed a blow to the Masked man's face. The Masked man kneed him in the gut. Saiyaman elbowed him downward. The Masked man uppercut him, he then received a kick across the face. He responded with a punch to Saiyaman's face.
The two powerhouses continued their fight, both trying to dodge and blocking their opponents attacks. They ended their exchanges with a heavy collision of their forearm. Backing away from each other they fired ki blasts at each other. The ki blast's collided and caused a minor explosion. They moved to the left and continued to fire ki blasts. They dodged, knocked away the ki blasts or flew behind buildings letting them take the hit. Saiyaman fired one blast and it hit the building, he prepared another blast expecting to see the Masked man fly to the side, but that didn't happen. Instead the Masked man flew through the crumbling building and punched Saiyaman across the face sending him crashing into another building, his back hit the wall. The Masked man appeared above him and raised his clasped hands and slammed them down on to Saiyaman.
Saiyaman crashed onto the floor causing a medium size crater. He then shot up and kneed the masked man in the gut. Black coughed up blood behind the mask.
Saiyaman pulled back his hand and powered up a ki blast before extending it forward and blasting the Masked man. The blast along with the Masked man hit a building which erupted in a major explosion. Saiyaman was breathing pretty heavily as he still held his hand out. He looked for any movement.
The smoke made it hard for him to see anything, "Did that do the trick?"
Almost immediately the Masked man appeared in front of him with his right hand pulled back. Saiyaman dodged to the left. He turned back around and saw him just floating there. He then felt a sharp pain, looking down he saw a big cut across his chest. "Wha-What!"
The Masked man slowly turned around, to show his black purplish ki blade on his right hand. Saiyaman gritted his teeth as his fists tighten.
Behind the mask Black smirked, "Now, let's see what you do when I use my full power." He charged forward and let out a fury of stabs. Saiyaman tried dodging the attacks but his body still received cuts here and there.
The Masked man tried to slashed downward but Saiyaman caught his wrist. The ki blade disappeared and he made another one on his left and stabbed at him, luckily Saiyman also managed to catch his other wrist. He struggled to keep his grip on the Masked man's wrist. "It feels like he's stronger now."
The Masked man raised his two feet in front of him and planted them onto Saiyaman's chest causing him to let go and fly back. He caught himself and looked back only to see him thrust his sword at him. Saiyaman dodged to the left, the Masked man then diagonally slashed upwards forcing Saiyaman to lean back. Using his right leg he slammed it on Saiyaman's back. Gohan's eyes widen and yelled in pain. The Masked man wasn't finished; he grabbed Saiyaman by the face and flew him into several buildings. He then powered up a ki blast in the hand that still held Saiyaman's face and blasted him down to the ground.
The impact caused a building to collapse on top of Saiyaman. The Masked man landed a good distance away. Saiyaman pushed himself out of the rubble and coughed a bit. He sensed an attack and gasped when he saw multiple ki blasts being fired at him. With no time to dodge the blasts hit. The Masked man still had both hands out and kept firing dozens and dozens of ki blasts. As the explosion grew bigger and bigger so did the smoke. After 20 seconds of firing, he fired one major ki blast which caused an even bigger explosion. More buildings collapsed from the explosion.
Black flew to the sky and gazed at the destruction from his battle. Oh, how he missed this. He searched for any sign of Saiyaman but found none. His earpiece rang, growling in annoyance he answered the call. "What is it?"
"Black, hi, I hope I'm not interrupting anything," Roman said.
"No, I don't think so, since I might've destroyed my only source of entertainment." He responded.
"Oh, well that's not good. Hey, I need a bit of help with something. Remember those kids from the dock?" Black didn't respond letting Roman continue. "Yea they're back and I'm chasing them down Vale's highway. They saw the Paladin and it's going to make things a bit hard for me to acquire anymore if they say anything to the military. Plus I want to crush the monkey for throwing a banana on my favorite hat."
Black rolled his eyes, "Fine, I'm on my way." He took one last look at the rubble below him before shooting towards Vale. By the rubble, some of the rocks began to move.
Allison moved her chopper to the side, avoiding cars. "Lewis, shoot!"
Lewis aimed his double barrel and fired both rounds at the mech. Yang was driving her motorcycle next to her with Neptune firing his weapon. "Ugh, these kids are really getting on my nerves." Roman thought.
They continued to chase after the mech but then a big shadow seemed to fly above them. Neptune stopped firing as he couldn't believe what he was seeing. "Uhh, guys?"
Yang looked ahead, "Blake, Sun watch out!"
The cat and monkey faunas turned around. Up in the air, the Masked man was carrying a truck in his hand. "Oh shit," they jumped on to another car when the Masked man slammed the truck onto the road. Roman had the Paladin crash through the truck which caused a small explosion. Yang and Allison drove through the fire, Lewis and Neptune kept firing their weapons at the mech.
The Masked man punched a car Blake was on out of the way, she managed to jump onto another one in time. He flew up and fired multiple small ki blasts at the two. Sun and Blake kept on jumping to one car to another trying not to get caught by the Masked man's ki blasts.
Black could easily end this chase but he decided to play with his prey for a bit. Cars and trucks were both being knocked off the highway by both the Masked man and Roman's Paladin. Black landed on another car Sun was on crushing it, Sun managed to jump off in time. He kicked off and kicked another car Blake was on out of the way. He grabbed another one by the back and flipped it.
Blake and Sun landed on a bus and ran forward but were forced to stop when the Masked man appeared in front of them. He skipped forward and kneed Blake in the face. He then blocked a swipe from Sun's nun 'chuck, and causally dodged his other swipes. Sun spun around and aimed for a kick to his face but the Masked man caught his leg and pulled him forward before slamming him down.
Blake got up and glared at the Masked man for a bit before she ran at him and did several slashes with Gambol Shroud all to which the Masked man dodged. Sun ran up and joined in the attack; with the two of them attacking they still couldn't land a hit on them.
The Mask man turned around and ducked under Blake sword, then punched Sun in the gut before using his other arm and elbowed Blake in the rib. He then stood up and spun around and planted his left foot straight to Sun's chest, and turned back to Blake and kicked her in under her chin only to hit a shadow of herself.
Blake stood at the edge of the bus. The Masked man skipped forward and pulled his fist back, suddenly a brown-greenish smoke appeared in front of him. He then received a double kick to the face snapping his head to the left. Allison grinned as she saw her attack connect. The Masked man was sent flying back, opening his eyes he saw Sun with his staff in his hands. Using his staff he hit him back, landing on his back he rolled back and skidded for a bit. Blake jumped over him and had her blade dis-attach it's self from her hilt and let loose several slashes with Gambol Shroud each slash pushed him back. Allison fired her duel wielding crossbow rounds at him. The Masked man crossed his arms stopping the dust rounds from hitting his face. The firing stopped, looking up two copies of Sun ran at him and exploded, that last push had him flying off the bus. He hit Roman's Paladin almost causing the mech to fall off the highway.
Black bounced off the road and hit several cars before landing on his feet, he skidded back, a car crashed into him but it went unnoticed by him. Black growled in annoyance. Bolting forward, he knocked cars out of the way. As he was flying back he saw Roman's Paladin slip off the highway due to the Weiss icing the floor.
Black smirked sadistically behind the mask. "Schnee!" He increased his speed passing Yang's motorcycle. Yang noticed that he was heading towards her. "WEISS!"
The heiress looked up and saw the Masked man heading her way. Black formed his ki blade and dragged the tip along the round slicing the round a bit. Weiss got into her stance and readied Myrtenaster with a white glow her glyph appeared below her.
As he got closer Weiss gritted her teeth as sweat dripped down her temple. "One strike, one chance," He got closer and closer till he disappeared and reappeared right in front of her, he thrusted his ki blade as Weiss thrusted her rapier. As time seemed to slow for the two none of them noticed a golden blur appear next to Black, it was Saiyaman. With a surprised look, Black was tackled through the highway before both fighters crashed onto the ground. Black was grabbed by the foot and spun around and sent flying into one of the highway's support pillars.
Skidding on his back Black flipped himself back up and growled, but then behind the mask a shocked expression appeared on Black's face. Before him was Saiyaman but without his helmet and his hair was standing and was a gold color. Super Saiyan, but that's not the only thing that shocked him it was the face he was looking at. "G-Gohan?!" He's seen Super Saiyans transform and how their looks change a bit, it was a bit hard to tell but it was indeed Gohan.
"He- He's a Saiyan!? But how, how is there a Saiyan here!?" He was too shocked that he didn't notice Gohan charge at him. He punched Black across the face making him skid backwards. Black regained himself and shot forward. The two exchanged a series of punches and kicks, neither one letting up.
Black brought down his ki blade but Gohan caught it with his left and then punched him with his right. He turned around and pulled Black over his back and slammed it him to the ground. Gohan extended his free hand and charged a ki blast, Black saw this and using his free hand pushed the hand out of the way which had the blast hit the ground next to them. From the smoke Black flipped backwards, he heard some explosions nearby.
Looking to the side he saw Blake cutting through missiles at incredible speed. Ruby ran up to the mech along with Blake and they simultaneously began attacking the mech at great speed. They ended up cutting through one of the arms of the mech.
"Damn it Roman!" He dashed to help his ally, with Ruby and Blake distracted he appeared next to them and kicked Blake out of the way. Ruby was surprised by him but quickly overcame it when the Masked man started attacking her with his ki blade. She used her quick movements with her scythe to block his attack but they still managed to graze her Aura. She was skilled with the scythe he had to give her that but he was years ahead of her in terms of combat. She was having a major difficulty defending herself from his combinations of punches, kicks, and his ki blade. He stopped her scythe with his blade and then maneuvered it to a certain direction and with a pull he flung it out of her hands. He began throwing punches at her but surprisingly she was doing pretty well at dodging some only having a few hit her. He had his ki blade slash her a couple time causing some cuts on her arm and side.
Black slipped through her defenses and gave a strong kick to the stomach knocking her away. Ruby gasped as the air left her body from that kick. Weiss thrusted her rapier from behind trying to catch him by surprise, but Black sensed her and leaned to the right and created a ki ball and was about to plant it on her stomach but then he received a strong kick from Gohan sending him flying back. Gohan chased after him.
Black managed to open his eyes and saw Yang on the back of the Paladin firing shotgun rounds at it. He fired the ki ball at her; the ki ball impacted Yang's back causing a small explosion and sent her crashing into one of the support pillars. Roman had the Paladin rush and punched her through the pillar.
Gohan appeared above him and tried to hit him down with his clasped hands, but Black disappeared and reappeared behind him and was about kick him but Gohan did the same and appeared next to him and tried to land a hit on him. They continued to disappear and reappeared while fighting; their blows caused the ground to shake and wind to blow from the shockwaves of their attacks.
Gohan skidded back with his arms crossed. Black appeared in front of him and aimed a blow to his head. Gohan ducked and gave a heavy sucker punch to the gut. Black coughed up saliva, he was then punched straight in the face landed on his back before flipped backwards and landing on his feet. He panted heavily, Gohan in the same condition.
Black heard a crash and glanced to his right. Roman's Paladin was destroyed and he was standing there with the four girls ready to attack. Black growled in annoyance, he fired a ki blast at Gohan who crossed his arms and took the blast. With him distracted Black flew towards Roman. Yang fired a Shotgun round at him, Neo landed in front of Roman and was about to block the attack with her umbrella but Black appeared in front of her and took the blast to the chest.
As the smoke cleared the girls saw the Masked man who wasn't seemed fazed by the fire dust round. Saiyaman landed in front of the girls and glared at Masked man.
Black's suit was pretty damaged with rips in his pants and robe, his gloves had missing fingers, the front part of his robe had burn marks, and part of his hood and mask was torn, revealing his left eye.
Saiyaman's suit was worse. The green part of his gi was barely hanging on to his right shoulder. His left arm was visible due to the fabric that had been ripped off. Holes in the suit by his right leg, and a deep cut from his chest which was bleeding. He had blood dripping from his forehead and burn marks and small cuts all around his body. His red cape was ripped diagonally down.
Allison and Lewis landed behind the girls. "Where you guys been?" Blake asked.
"We saw that girl about to attack you guys so we intervened," Allison answered both were panting as they had some bruises and cuts. Neo smirked as she saw them.
"Man can't catch a break with you all sabotaging my day." Roman said.
"Well you're a bad guy; we can't just have Romaning around now can't we." Saiyaman smirked as he saw Roman's left eye twitch a bit. Yang snorted at the pun while the others sweatdropped.
Roman got over the pun and looked at Black and then back to Saiyaman and the girls. "I don't think I ever introduced you all to my new partner in crime have I?"
"Ladies and Saiyaman,"
"I'm a boy!" Lewis waved Roman stare at him for a second. "And kid, allow me to introduce you to…" He did a dramatic pause before, "Dark Saiyaman!"
"GAH!" Everyone yelled and fell back anime style while Black and Neo almost tripped over themselves. Roman had a cocky smirk, "Nice one huh?"
Saiyaman shot back to his feet and yelled, "Yo-You can't just take my name and put the word dark in front of it to make it a villain name! That's not how it's supposed to work!"
"Of course I can, I'm a bad guy, and I don't play by the book." Roman responded.
"But that doesn't show any thought or creativity!" Ruby joined in.
"Hey you try to come up with a villain name in about five seconds Red, it's not as easy as it looks." Roman retorted with a tick mark appearing on his forehead.
"I'm pretty sure any of us could have thought of a better name in that amount of time." Weiss deadpanned.
"It looks like your partner doesn't like the name either," Blake said. Roman turned to Black who was surrounded by his black and purple aura and was shaking a bit as he glared at him. Neo held a sign that said Boooo.
Roman turned slightly pale from Black's glare and aura. "We-Well, anyways it's been fun playing with you all but I have a busy schedule."
"You're not going anywhere!" Saiyaman dash towards them, the Masked man stepped forward and had his hand in front of his face and then a bright light shined from him blinding the Saiyaman and the others. Roman and Neo didn't expect this and were also blinded by the light. Black turned around and lifted Roman over his shoulder and Neo under his arm and blasted off.
The other screamed in pain as they held their eyes. "I can't see!" Yang shouted.
Gohan held his eyes as he gritted his teeth. As a few moments passed their vision came back. "Damn, they're gone. That technique was…the Solar Flare. How does he know that?"
He turned to the others only to see them looking at him with astonishment in their eyes, "Is something wrong?" He asked.
"We promise not to tell anyone." Ruby said with s determined look.
Gohan was confused but then felt a cold breeze hit his cheek. He touched his face and head before realization hit him. His helmet, it was gone! "I-I can explain!" He stuttered.
"It's alright, like what Ruby said, we promise not to tell anyone. I just never took you to be a blondie." Yang said. The others nodded in agreement.
Blondie, what were they talking about? Reaching up to touch his hair he noticed it was no longer black but gold blond. "I'm in my Super Saiyan form. So that mean's," He looked back to the others, "They can't recognize me."
"Oh thank you, if my identity gets out people that know me might be put in danger." He explained.
"W-We understand," Weiss said who for some odd reason was slightly shaking a bit.
Saiyaman nodded and turned around to walk away, "It's very brave of you all to chase after this criminals. But next time, please don't bite off more than you can chew." He flashed them a smile and blasted off.
"He's…So cool!" Ruby shook Weiss by the shoulders much to her annoyance. Yang chuckled.
"I got to meet Great Saiyaman, I got to meet Great Saiyaman!" Lewis jumped around in joy. Allison and Blake stared at the sky where Saiyaman took off. "Hmm, was that…"
Gohan landed on a building and stared at the city. He lifted up his hand and touched the deep cut that the Masked man left him back in Mountain Glenn. "That blade, it was made out of ki, if I hadn't dodged that…" His gaze landed on his blood covered hand. Clenching his fist he gritted his teeth. "I might've been killed."
He then remembered the blinding light. "Solar Flare, the only ones who knew how to use it were Tien, Krillin, and Dad." His mind wandered to Black. "No, it's just a coincidence that Black looks like dad, there's no way he could be him. His ki is different than dad's too." He looked up to the sky and glared at the night sky. "There is one thing I know for certain; he's powerful to where being a Super Saiyan was barely enough to surpass him."
Black landed in the hideout and dropped a dizzy Roman and Neo on to the floor; they both had swirls in their eyes. Roman was the first to snap out of his dizziness and stand back up. "I appreciate the save but maybe give us a warning before flying us out."
"Hmph," Black pulled his hoodie and mask off. "So where'd you go off to? Because to me, you look like you came from a big fight." Roman jokily laughed but then got quiet when Black glared at him. "Did you fight Saiyaman before I called you?"
"My business is my own Roman," He crossed his arms and looked to the side. "Well could at least tell me where you two fought because I doubt it was in the city." Roman asked.
"...Mountain Glenn," Black responded.
There was a long silence from Roman till he decided to speak up, "I'm sorry I didn't quite catch what you said did you say, Mountain Glenn?" Black nodded and immediately Roman fell to his hands and knees as a rainy cloud poured on him.
Black raised a brow at this, "What's wrong with him?" He asked Neo, she smiled and handed him a note. The note explained that in Mountain Glenn they had a White Fang base of operation in the tunnels that were preparing for phase 2 of Cinder's plan. "How the hell was I supposed to know that?! You didn't exactly tell me that you had a base there!" Black yelled as he crushed the note.
"I thought Cinder told you but I guess I was wrong." He let out a sigh and got up from the floor. "Well, I could blame it on natural disaster for the cause of any damages to the base over in Mountain Glenn. It'll take longer for the phase 2 to commence but that works in my favor."
Black rubbed his temples and was about to leave till he remembered something, "I keep forgetting to ask you. That time you sent me and Neo to get your jeep back from that friend of yours, he said you abandon him." Neo looked at Roman though at the time she didn't care what Roman did to him, but now the idea of Roman abandoning that guy plagued her mind with slight paranoia that he'll abandon her as well.
Roman looked between the two and let out a deep sigh, "His name was Daniel, he was…my partner at a time, we were good friends and we did lots of jobs when we were just lowly criminals." Roman smiled to himself as he remembered his early robberies he would do with Daniel but his smile soon disappeared. "But as the years went by Daniel changed, he started enjoying torturing and killing people. He was a complete maniac, so I set him up and he got caught by this group faunas, nasty bunch. I wasn't surprised when I heard he escaped them." Black and Neo stared at him with a slight serious expression.
Neo held out a note to him, "Then what's stopping you from abandoning us?"
"Because I'm your leader and I can't abandon my little criminal pupils," He ruffled Neo's head making her pout, "Besides I made a promise, didn't I? That we'd stick together till the end," Neo let a smirk spread across her lips.
"That promise also includes you too as well kid." Black rolled his eyes and walked away. "Whatever you say," He waved off.
1 hour later…
Black was walking down the hall now dressed in his normal gi he was heading back to his dorm. As he was passing by the clinic room he saw Ruby in her pajamas struggling to reach something in the top shelf. He would've ignored her if it weren't the fact she was flinching while holding her side. Without her noticing, he walked up behind her and grabbed the bandage roll she was trying to reach for. Ruby turned around quick and moved back, bumping into the shelve. "B-Black," She looked up at him while he looked down at her. "You looked like you needed help."
"Oh, thanks," Handing the bandage roll to her he took a couple of steps back. "So what's wrong with you?" He asked as he crossed his arms.
"Oh, nothing much just some bruises,"
"Probably from when I fought her," She hopped on a bed and stretched the bandage but it kept sticking to her hand. Black sighed and grabbed the bandage roll. "You clearly don't know how to use this."
"But-,"
"Where are you bruised?" He asked she didn't respond as her face went a bit red. "Are you going to tell me?" He asked again getting slightly impatient.
"It-It's around m-my stomach," She slowly lifted up her shirt which revealed her stomach. There was a purple bruise across it and small cuts that were bleeding too. "Looks like her Aura didn't protect her that well."
He began wrapping the bandage around her, the whole time her face was red. Black's face was emotionless for the whole time. "You alright? You're shaking,"
Ruby quickly nodded her head. "Shouldn't your Aura have healed these wounds?" Black asked.
"Yea, but my Aura is still…recovering." He finished up and placed the bandage roll to the side. Ruby pulled her shirt back down and hopped off the bed but almost lost balance luckily Black caught her by the stomach. "Thanks,"
"Mmm," He walked to the shelve and placed the bandage roll back. He then grabbed a pack of ice and handed it to her. "Here it'll help with the pain and swelling." She accepted the ice pack and placed it over her stomach. He was about to leave till, "Wait, Black," He turned to face her, "Can I ask you a favor?"
"...Depends on what it is,"
Ruby fidgeted with her thumbs as she looked down, "Could you train me," She said as she looked up. Black had a slight surprised look. "Why do you want me to train you?"
"Well you see today me and my team along with Allison, Lewis, Sun, and Neptune went out to investigate the White Fang and Torchwick," He crossed his arms and listened attentively to her throughout the explanation, he knew all of it already due to him eavesdropping on them this afternoon. He got more curious about what she was going to say when she got to the part about when they fought. "I got to fight Dark Saiyaman for a bit, I didn't really do so good, he was strong, fast and very experienced, he managed to knock away Crescent Rose out of my hands and that's when I felt helpless. All I could do was dodge and even using my semblance wasn't enough to escape his attacks I didn't show it but…I was scared because I knew if that sword of his would hit me…I'd be done for."
Black stared at her, he didn't even notice that she was using her semblance during that time. "That's why I want you to train me, for when the next time I lose Crescent Rose I want to be able to keep fighting and not feel helpless again." Black saw the determination in her eyes. "I need to get stronger and better if I want to protect my friends." Her mind played to the times when the Masked man attacked her teammates and friends and how injured they'd be afterward.
Black thought about it for a bit, she did show promise if she was able to dodge most of his attacks with him using a quarter of his speed. She's already strong for huntress standards so adding his training to her will most defiantly increase her power, maybe enough to become his new source of entertainment. He kinda wished Zamasu was here to assist him in making his decision, but then again in this kind of situation, he would probably not get the advice he needed but the opposite. He looked at her and noticed her staring at him. "…Very well, I'll train you."
A joyful look appeared on Ruby's face as she jumped for joy but instantly regretted it when her wounds started hurting again. "Ow ow ow ow!" Black rolled his eyes. "I have some rules though," He said catching her attention, "First anything I tell you to do you will do it," She nodded her head in agreement, "Second whenever I tell you we will do training you will listening without any complaints," She nodded again, "And finally, tell anyone about me training you or tell anyone what kind of training you're going through, your lessons will end immediately, understood?"
"Yes sir," Ruby saluted.
"Now go, your lessons will in two days." Ruby walked away but stopped by the door, "Hey Black," Catching his attention, "Thanks," She smiled. Black looked away which made her giggle a bit before walking off.
He exited out the clinic room and walked the opposite direction. "Hmm, not only do I have Saiyaman as the main course but it seems that Ruby Rose might become a possible replacement for Vegeta, a tasty appetizer." He grinned at the thought of fighting Ruby again once she's gotten stronger.
As he was walked down the hall Black stopped and stared out the window, his thoughts went back to Saiyaman and Gohan. He still couldn't believe it, Saiyaman and Gohan were the same person and not only that but Gohan a Saiyan too! The mere thought of another Saiyan here made his blood boil in hate and anger as memories of Goku, Vegeta and Trunks played in his mind. He punched the window shattering it and glared at the night sky. Then a thought came to mind, that time when Gohan introduced himself to him he saw flashes of Goku in place of Gohan. Could, could he be related to him? He clenched his fist as a dark aura seeped out from his body. He had to find out and he knew the perfect person that could get him the information he needed.
BOOM! Finally done, I'm so sorry this took longer than normal; College has been taking up a lot of my free time, so yea. Hoped you all liked the chapter. I was planning to stop mid-way and post it up but then I was like "Nah imma keep going,"
So like I said in the beginning of this chapter I'm going to be revisiting all past chapters and correcting them and maybe adding a few things that might make the story a bit more interesting or ya know just might keep it the same. Anyways all chapters will be updated by when I post the next chapter so if you want to reread the whole story again go ahead. You might find the story more interesting.