Pandora: Summer of the Dead

by DynomiteX246

Sequel to Pandora: Spring of Genesis. In the world of Remnant, a dark force is collecting all the dark energy of many worlds, and attends to use this power to create chaos all around. Collectors, Assassins, and Huntresses must band together to prevent their worlds from being consumed by its own darkness. Featuring characters from Persona 3, Dimension W, Akame Ga Kill, and RWBY.

12. Ascension

Its been too long! But now its back! I am super hoping I will get right on this full throttle, and that's exactly what I'll do! So lets do this!

Beacon...

In the wasteland that was the academy of hope, a lean man jumps around with a scorpion tail coming out of his back. He breaths heavily. "What the hell?" The one chasing him is an armored figure, with golden plates on her legs and arms, with a mask that covers her face. And purple hair ponytail flowing through the cold wind. "You are dead!" The man named Tyrian leaps to kill this assassin, until a spear goes through his chest. "AAAAAAGH!" He gets sent to a rocky wall. "GAAGH! KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU!" Then the dark figure throws her shield, breaking his neck. The lady in gold and black stands there silent as the one who was Tyrian lays there silently, in a graveyard of many lost souls in that tragedy.

"I'm sorry..." The assassin silently whispered as she walked away. The Grimm then surround her, and as they leap to kill her, metal spikes stabs all of them at once. She then gets her own communicator on her ear. "It is done..."

SID's Base...

The one named Chelsea was never one for being a part of the action. She specialize in complete stealth where she dispatches her target under the safety behind their backs or through the disguise of her Gaea Foundation. But the heat of the battle is not for her. She rather be safe than sorry. Although no matter where she goes, nowhere is safe here. There is fighting everywhere, and then undead zombies are all of the sudden attacking. She kept calm, trying to stay in the shadows, and with some undead puppets noticing her a few times. Luckily she was prepared with her spin darts. Very convenient when she needed simple needle attacks, or something more explosive. But she'll save it for something warranted for the big guns. She noticed Minato fighting the armies with no fear. She never did understood who he is. The guy is an enigma if she seen one. Being a very reserved guy, yet it seems everything seemingly revolves around him. Strange powers, unmatched skill, no fear no matter what happens. She wondered if she has all of her memories, then things would make more sense, but she doubts it.

Then she noticed Kurome up there, freaking out. "That girl though...something about her doesn't feel right..." She couldn't help but let those words slip through her breath. She knows this girl, somehow. She felt a bit of a chill in her spine. Then all of the sudden her neck felt in pain as she rubs her collar. Elizabeth sneaks around as one of the faunus children, pointing the prisoners to the right direction.

The Young Collector meets with her partner. "Chelsea! You shouldn't stick out like this!" The user of Gaea Foundation stays silent. "Chelsea?"

"Ellie...I think you need to get out of here." Chelsea said in a somber tone.

"What? Why though? This is both our jobs!" Elizabeth protests.

Chelsea turns to her with a serious look on her face. "I mean it. It's getting far too dangerous right now! I didn't think it would come to this. But I'll try to finish this." She grips on her trusty spin darts that Loser gave her. "You put all of your focus on evacuating as much as you can, and then leave."

Elizabeth won't hear it though. "There is no way I'll just leave you!"

Chelsea then raises her voice. "Loser entrusted me to take care you!" Then the young blonde flinched. "Not even you can get in my way when I am given a job. And your Father gave me this job, to take care of you. So just do as I say and go!" Elizabeth felt hurt hearing all of this. But then Chelsea smiles. "Don't worry though! I won't die! Who do you think I am? Just let your older sister handle the tough parts! Okay?" She then giggled as she goes to her other hiding spot.

Young Elizabeth stood there with nothing but worry in her heart. "Chelsea...don't die on me too..."

Minato points to the yielder of Yatsufusa. "So you are the assassins little sister."

Kurome grits a bit, still in pain. "You again. I'll turn you into a puppet if you get in my way."

Minato scoffs, clearly mad about something. "I like to know something. You know someone like Chelsea?"

The wielder of Yatsufusa tilts her head. "Huh? Chelsea? Never heard of her."

Minato flinched a bit. Then smirked a bit. "Ah...I see. She never told you her name. Interesting..." It wasn't known to everyone around him, but Minato's body begins to heat up with adrenaline. "I never wanted to get involved in this sort of crap...but this little petty shit is something I can't ignore."

Kurome calms down and only glares at him. She knows he wants to fight her. Everyone who does this always find themselves an early grave. Although this guy seems different. He seems so sure of himself. No gloating, or bravado. He is just determined. She is going to kill him as soon as possible. She then signals her puppets towards him. "Amber! Get him! Rip his heart out!" Then the Dead Maiden dashes in, ignoring Jaune for a second.

Minato's eyes then angerly sharpen like knives. He quickly grabs for his sword handle and jumps toward his enemy. "Out of my way!" In a manner of a split second, their weapons clash, blowing the undead zombies out of the area, and almost blowing Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Akame, and even Jaune in his Incursio Armor. Both of them then recoil from the clash, but Minato recovers first and punches her to the cheek, then continues to strike her with his fists. She would parry it with her staff, and kicks Minato to his gut. He backs off, which Amber responds with jumping up, twirl her body and readies a kick. Minato blocks her spinning kick, and swings his sword as soon as she lands on her feet, but ducks to avoid his decapitation attempt. She kicks him straight to his chin. He spits out blood on the ground and looks at a piece of it from his mouth. "Okay bitch..." He then unsheathes his sword.

Kurome arrogantly smirked. "Heh...giving up now?"

Minato closes his eyes. Breathing in and out. Remembering his training with Albert Schuman. All forms of Karate. Taekwondo. Judo. Mauy Thai. Hapkido. Shotokan. Aikido. etc. All the fighting styles he learned from him. With one more thing he added on his own. His eyes open, with his eyes glow purple. Amber then rushes towards Minato with staff in hand ready to stab his chest. Minato then steps away from the staff, grabs it with his one hand, then palms it away from her hands. Without giving her a chance to recover, he elbows her nose. She throws a punch, only for Minato to duck, then plants his knees to her stomach, then hits her head with his knee. Jumps up and kicks her face, sending her stumbling back. Minato twirls around, and hits her hard with a roundhouse kick. Amber is dazed for a bit until she just flies up and uses her control over wind to blow Minato away. But he stands his ground, and uses Orpheus to block the wind. He snaps his fingers. "Agi!" Shooting a fire ball, which Amber dodges. She fires her own fire ball, which Minato leaps towards, and then have Orpheus block it. The Wild Card then punches her while airborne. Not done, he grabs her leg, using all his strength to slam her down to the ground. But she reverses his hold, and grabs his head to slam him down the ground, that creates foggy debris.

Kurome grins. "Heh...what?!" Her smile turned into a frown as she notices Orpheus is the one who slammed her in the end. It dissolved into Minato as he keeps Amber on the ground.

Jaune was amazed by this display of strength. "Amazing...I never seen anyone handle a Maiden like that..." He can see how Minato took down Cinder now.

The young puppet master angerly grits her teeth in anger. "Stop fooling around Amber and kill him now!"

Amber's struggle to break free, but then bursts out blackish purple fire out of her eyes and then bursts out into a flaming explosion. Minato backflipped away from the blast. Amber is surrounded by purple flames that illuminates the camp. She then forms a fire ball that is as big as a house, and throws it towards her target. Minato scoffs. "Oh this tired move again?" Recalling Cinder doing the same thing on him on Easter Island. But the difference was he didn't have his new helping hand. He points his hand on the fire ball. "Agilao." He fires another fire ball, only this time its larger. And it easily envelops the death ball.

Kurome was shocked to see this display. "What?!" He never seen anyone display this kind of power. Its like he is up there with General Esdeath. Not something she'd ever believe.

Amber looks up to see Minato is already on her face, and then he kicks her down to the ground. Amber struggles to get up, but as soon as her is up on her feet, Minato appears in front of her again, as he puts his hand on her stomach. "I had enough of you damn Maidens!" Then he blasts her point blank, sending her past her master, and to a wall.

Ruby was excited to see this. "Minato won! He really won!"

Akame didn't recall Minato being this powerful when she tried to kill him. "Kurome. You should give up!"

Kurome is now mad. "I don't give up! I never did, and never will! I'm gonna rip you into pieces!"

This triggered flashes of a head stuck on a pole with its flowing long hair. Minato's pupils shrink in shock. But then fire can be seen on his very angry eyes. "Come and say that to my face!" He then leaps towards her and swings his sword to hers, causing her to stumble a bit. She roars out to strike back. Minato blocks and shoves his shoulder to her body, push kicks her hard, sending her rolling, but eventually lands on her feet. Minato then jumps to swing his broadsword downwards the Yatsufusa user, which she blocks in response, causing her to fall to one knee, and cracking the floor she is standing on. Kurome shoves Minato out of her range and proceeds to unleash a fury of slashes, hoping her speed will overwhelm him. However to her shock, he easily parries all of her quick attacks. She gets more and more frustrated until he just kicks her away again.

Kurome growls as she summons more puppets to her side. "Get him!" Minato is even more disgusted by this display. The puppets swarm at him, but then Minato closes his eyes and grips his sword handle. Slowly unsheathes it, but this time fire is bursting through the blade.

"Gurentou." Then in a split second, the corpses gets sliced in half, and before they can recover, gets completely burned into ashes.

Kurome is more frustrated. "How did he do that?!" Hissing through her teeth.

Minato stands tall with sword in hand. "Is sinking dead people all you got? Is toying bodies like some stupid kid who can't let go of her sugar high all you got?! Come on. Take this more seriously!" Kurome gets ready to fight him again, but then Minato says more. "And don't think I don't know how to take you down. All I have to do...is cut your head or pierce you through the heart..."

Kurome didn't know why, but she remembered those words. She forgot the details, but she remembered that she said that before. She had enough of him. "I don't have time to waste on you!" She dashes towards her enemy. Both of them clash blades with Kurome's body beginning to be filled with dark aura again with black lighting crackling. Minato feels her getting stronger and more dangerous. He pushes her away off of him. "You should die like all the rest!" She the points her sword at Minato and lighting shoots towards him, which he never seen her do anything like that before. Orpheus blocks the blast, but the lighting splits as a result, hitting around everyone else.

Jaune blocks the lightening to save Ruby and Weiss while Blake backflips out of the way. Kurome growls like an animal, wanting nothing more than to kill everyone. Akame tries to get near her. "Kurome! Listen to me! Please stop!"

Mira almost gets hit, jumping out of the way. "Whoa!"

Some of the faunus that is following Nora would get hit from the lightening. One of them starts attacking their family and friends as Nora tries to defuse the situation. "Hey! Stop it!" But they start jumping on her.

Ren panics. "Nora!" He rushes in to save her.

Elizabeth nearly got hit. "AAAAAAGH!"

Mira see's this. "Elizabeth no!" In the shadows, Chelsea's eyes widened as she gasps.

Akame screams even louder. "STOP IT!"

Kurome laughs uncontrollably. "HAHAHAHA! Then KILL me AKAME! How many times do I have to say it?!"

Mira watches this unfold. "This is truly horrible...this is similar to the incident in Easter Island. Where the souls of the victims are lost forever and can never be returned...How an anyone be so careless and cruel? Is this really Akame's little sister?"

Minato makes a mad dash towards Kurome. "Knock it off you sick bitch!" He takes a swing but she blocks it. "What?"

Kurome kicks him hard. She hits even harder now. She clenches her hands over and over. "I feel stronger...and I don't need the drugs...I can fight forever, and take as many puppets as I want! Maybe...I can stand a chance...against it..." In deep thought, she would then get another headache. "Grgh! Damn it! I'll kill you! I swear!" Then something hits her neck. "Guh!" Her spine was hit. "Wha..." Akame gasps, feeling something hit her.

A needle sticks out of her back neck. Chelsea was the one who threw her spin dart. "Good thing I saved everyone. That was starting to get ugly." But then, Kurome's foot stomps on the ground, preventing herself from falling. "Huh?!" Then Kurome takes off the spin dart sticking out of her neck and snarls in anger. Chelsea curses under her breath. "Damn it! I knew I should have used the highest setting! But I thought I didn't need it! It didn't work on her again...Wait, again? Did I...try to kill her before?"

Kurome looks at the spin dart. Its bigger and metallic, and yet she knew this feeling. A certain bitch tried to get her to the neck again. She turns to see Chelsea in deep thought, but she gasp, realizing she was found out. She throws her smoke ball and tries to escape. "GET HER! KILL HER TEAR HER APART!

Chelsea runs away, seeing every undead puppet turning their attention towards her. "Oh no!" Minato then jumps in to deliver another Gurentou that burns them again. "Minato!"

He turns to his fellow Collector and shouts at her. "Get the hell out of here Chelsea!"

She easily obliges as she rushes out of the camp. Her life is in major jeopardy now. But then someone blocks her way. "'GASP'" Kurome's maliciously glares at her. Its just like his eyes...a blonde man with sky blue eyes, wearing a white mask that covers his lower face. "No!" Kurome takes a swing at Chelsea, she instinctively uses Gaea Foundation as a shield. Kurome smashes it into pieces. Chelsea see's her time is now numbered. She brings out another spin dart, but before she even see's it coming, her right arm gets sliced off. And thus, time slowed down in Chelsea's point of view.

"This happened before..." She remembers now. How she died. She tried to kill Kurome, and in her retreat, her puppets caught up to her. First her arm, then she was shot in the gut. And then..."This is it...this is how I die again? I guess I really do deserve this...killing so many people when I was an assassin..." She falls to the cold ground. She could have sworn she is seeing flowers flying everywhere. But the camp had no flowers...

Minato see's this. "CHELSEA!"

Elizabeth tries to recover from her near-death experience but see's what's happening. "CHELSEA NO!" She instantly tears up. "Leave her alone!"

Kurome stands atop of Chelsea. "I'll have to do the job myself...I'll take off your head and give it to AKAME!" She screams.

Minato rushes to them. "DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE!"

Then Kurome summons more corpses to shield her. Many layers of bodies to block from Minato's sword. "I don't know how you got here...but I don't care..." She raises her sword to cut her head off.

Chelsea grits her teeth, bracing herself for another decapitation. "I...I am sorry...If I knew this would happen...I would never have cared for you...Minato...Ellie..."

Minato's eyes widen, he is seeing it now. "Fuck! Shit! Its happening again!" He tries to free his sword, but the puppets are holding onto his sword. He uses Orpheus to burn them all. He gets through the fire, reaching for Chelsea, but he notices Kurome is already in mid slash. He is not going to make it. Chelsea is going to die.

"Chelsea is going to die..."

Then his head plays back her first death. She tried to run away, as soon as she grabbed her Gaea Foundation, her fingers was cut off, while the Teigu itself was shot into pieces. "Tch! No..."

"No...don't show me this..."

Chelsea runs to an open field of flowers. She knew she was screwed doing this, but she couldn't just stop going straight. She can't think straight, only looks behind her to see if they are still following her.

"Don't fucking show me this!"

But then the blonde puppet jumps in her way. Chelsea gasps, stopping on her tracks. Then the long spear gets swung, she tries to get away, but it was too late.

"No!"

Her arm was sliced off. Her eyes was full of fear and shock. But he could tell there is sadness in her. But then a bullet blasts through her stomach by a gunner hiding in the trees. She coughs up blood.

"WHY?! WHHHHYY?! I don't want to see this damn it!"

Chelsea finally falls, with the flower petals flying everywhere. "I...see...so...in the end...I'm the one who should be punished...

"No...nonononononono..."

Chelsea's eyes tears up. I just wanted to show you...what I can do...to see you smile again..." Then her eyes twitch a bit, until it slowly closes, one last time.

"NO! NO! NO! GOD NO!"

Then he see's it. Chelsea's head put on top of a pole with blood dripping out from it with heavy rain showering this gruesome, and tragic moment. Minato looks in shock. He never seen this in the Easter Island. He shouldn't have memories of this. He must be getting this from one of the Night Raid members. Maybe its Akame. Why would Akame just ignore Chelsea like this? Why didn't mention her again? Perhaps she really cared more about Kurome than her real friends? This is why he is glad to have no siblings. It would be a real pain to deal with shit like this. He can't stand it anymore. This injustice can't stand. He has to...no. He can't let this cloud his judgement. Screw that! Screw everything! He can't let this happen again!

"I...deserve...this...

"CRACK!" Glass shatters again...

"SHUT UP!"

As soon as Kurome swung her sword, Chelsea disappeared. "What?!" She looks up to see her meat shields are completely gone too. She looks behind her to see something she never thought she'd ever see. Angel wings. "Run?! Uh! Wait...your not Run!"

The angel wings turns around, revealing a new person. No...a deity.

"Thou Art I, and I am thou. From wicked darkness...I shine the light through my blade. I am Metatron. By the will of god...I shall destroy all evil."

Akame was completely in shock. "Wh...What is this?"

Ruby was also speechless. "Minato?"

Weiss is trying to make heads and tails from this shocking development. "If I understand correctly...he summons something called Orpheus...I didn't know he can summon another one of these...things..." She knew how to summon knights with her semblance, but this is completely different from her abilities.

Metatron holds onto Chelsea in a bridal fashion. Metatron's holy light then heals Chelsea's arm, preventing the blood to leak off of her wound. Elizabeth runs to them. "Chelsea! Please wake up!"

Chelsea slowly opens her eyes. "Uuuhh...huh?" She looks up to see her young partner, and what seems like an iron angel. What looks like a handsome man with curly blonde hair, and his entire skin filled with steel like texture. Like some robot, yet still holds a very attractive face. Then the angel morphs into Minato, as he carries Chelsea. She couldn't believe it. Minato saved her life. "Mina...to..."

"You idiot..."

"Huh?"

Minato looks pretty mad. "Don't you ever say you deserve this. Does anyone who freed slaves from a fucking psycho deserve to be fucking used as a scarecrow?! I don't ever want you to lower yourself with trash like that again! You hear me?!"

Chelsea couldn't help but cry, gritting her teeth hard, trying not to cry in front of him. "Guh...agh...I..."

Minato groans. "Elizabeth. Help her out. I'll take care of this..." He turns to see a very confused Kurome.

"What was...who are you?" Kurome now can't ignore this guy now.

Minato glares at her with a look of determination and anger. "Your worst nightmare..."

Then Kurome's eyes widen. She noticed something in his eyes. "Those eyes...they look like..." She then notices two demonic, reptilian eyes looming over her back. Those eyes are suffocating her with so much stress and fear. "Go...GO TO HELL!" She dashes to slice his face off, but Minato dodges easily. "Yah! Hiya! Gaaaaah!" She keeps on swinging her sword around desperately. "Damn you!"

Minato keeps on dodging with little effort. Like he can read her mind with every quick slash. Ruby couldn't keep up with Minato's speed. "He's so fast!"

Weiss also notices how ridiculously fast he is now. "Whatever this thing is, its improved Minato's overall stats!"

Kurome then uses her lightening to summon more puppets. However, a holy light stops it. "What?! What did you do?!"

Minato swipes his sword while Metatron crosses his arms. "You are not dragging anymore souls down."

Kurome is now angry. "Shut up! Just shut up! You don't know a thing about me!"

"I don't need to. You make people suffer by using your power. I could tell because Mira is also suffering. I may not know what is going on with her new coil..." He recalls the double lined coil in her chest that was mysteriously given to her by the end of the Easter Island incident. "...however...she gained some weird new senses ever since we survived through Cinder Fall and Haruka Seameyer. She feels other peoples souls and how they feel." Minato saw that moment when Mira felt her coil sense a soul ever since Loser passed on. "Look at the girl in green hair..."

"Huh?" Kurome turns around to see Mira holding onto her chest, she is feeling sick all over, and is barely keeping herself standing.

Minato is now dead serious. "She can feel all these souls. And she has been feeling my anger all this time. I was an idiot to letting my emotions get the better of me...all because of people like you..." He glares at her with such intensity that Kurome couldn't comprehend.

Kurome feels fear crawling on her spine. This glare...that damn glare. Kurome then screams. "NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUGH! YOU'RE DEAD!" She leaps towards him with wild abandon.

Minato's patience reached its limits. "You sick ass idiot." He then points his finger at her. "Punisher..." Then Kurome gets hit with heavenly light.

"Gagh! UGH! UaaaaUUUUUAH!" Kurome can't move at all.

Minato walks up to the trapped Kurome. He thinks about all the puppets she has enslaved, and Chelsea...Killing her would have been enough. As much as he hates to admit it, Chelsea killed plenty of people in war, and she doesn't take any pleasure in it. He wants to believe all of them deserve it. Her last one was a man who burns innocent people. The guy should be burning in hell. However...the way he died was kinda unsettling. And Chel felt no joy from it. And yet...what Kurome done to her...and Akame didn't even mention her name when she killed Kurome...From what he remembered, Chelsea did enjoy being with Akame. She must have thought she was her friend. But Akame never said her name or even acknowledged her. Well...it doesn't matter. Akame is an assassin after all. He should've expected something like this. But he cares for her. He really hates to admit it, but he does. Someone like her shouldn't suffer, while someone like Kurome...should repent!

"GOD'S FIST!" Minato and Metatron then punches Kurome in the gut. The force completely broke the wind, blowing Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Akame away while Jaune almost fell.

"GUUUUUUUUAAAGH!" Kurome threw up saliva, and her eyes bulge out.

Atlas...

Ironwood was on his desk, covering his face with both his hands, unable to look at the world. Being manipulated this easily. Is this what his years in service was building up to? It can't be. But then all of the sudden, everything started to shake violently, making him fall off of his chair. He gets up, rubbing his head in pain. "What the hell?!" He looks to his window, noticing the entire floating city just moved. But he wondered what could have happened to make that happened. "Ikatsuki...what are you doing damn you?!"

SID's Base...

Everyone was in shock to what they seen, as Minato just punched Kurome so hard, everyone felt it. Minato is carrying Kurome with his one fist, with her body limp. Her eyes have no pupils, clearly unconscious. Minato calms down, he also noticed all the undead puppets are all on the ground, motionless. He not only knocked her out, but broke her connections to all of her puppets. But then he noticed Chelsea's arm on the ground. Minato breathed heavily, trying to restrain himself. But his mind is full of killing and murder, and her damn smile. That cocky, arrogant smile in the flashbacks...but then something pets his shoulder. He turns to see Mira. She is all better now. "I know what your thinking Minato...and its okay."

Minato was shocked to see Mira being this soft. Usually she'd stutter her way or overly explain an reason to stop Minato. But not this time. Minato sighs, letting go of his anger for once. He then noticed that Kurome is still in his hand. He then throws her limp body at Akame's feet. He looks down on the former assassin. "She's your problem now. And take better control over your sister." He apathetically said.

Akame was angered by this, but knows that Kurome's actions has no justification and just nods. What does matter is Minato didn't kill Kurome. But he really hurt her badly. Whose to say he did any permanent damage to her?

Minato felt so much power in him using Metatron. It was a bit exhausting, so he calls it off and stands tall with his arms crossed. "Anyone else wants some too?" Challenging the rest of the SID's forces.

Sheele was on her knees, almost killed by the undead, and finds herself hopeless. Seryu is the same, growling at how these intruders have them a their mercy.

Then everyone hears slow clapping, which gets Minato's attention. "Oh not bad sunshine. I'll give it to you, you are one tough customer." Then Shuji Ikatsuki reveals himself. "Unfortunately, theatrics will only get you so far."

Minato glares at him, and in an instant, everything begins to come together. He remembers this man. The man he thought was his leader, only for him to be tricking him and use him as a sacrifice to cause an apocalypses. Using his close friend to kill him. Aigis. The thought of him disgusts him and angers him to no end. He was shot and fell off a 100 feet tall tower. But he will make sure he finishes the job himself. Anything to wipe that smug look on his face. "You're Shuji Ikatsuki..." Letting out a hiss.

He looks to see this blue haired boy. "Yes...that boy. There is something about that boy that I can't ignore..."

Minato notices his wicked smile. It only angers him more. Mira notices this. "Minato...?" She wonders if she knows this man. But then she vaguely took a look on is memories and recalls this man tried to kill him and all his friends that one time.

Shuji chuckles. "Now then! Time we put your little power to the test!"

Minato breathed in and out a bit, feeling the weight of the energy he poured out against Kurome. "Phew...damn."

Mira is now very worried. "Minato! You need rest!"

Shuji then states, "Hey now! He looks good to me!"

Ruby notices this and jumps in to defend Minato. "If you want him, you gotta get past me!"

"Perfect with me..." Then a blast of energy hits Ruby out of the way.

"AGH!" Ruby falls on her back, with her chest smoking from the blast.

Mira is shocked from this sudden attack. "Ruby!" Minato grits in anger.

Ruby gets up to see who shot her. She saw it wasn't Shuji. Instead a man in a black coat and hat. "Huh? Who...?"

"Long time no see...Little red..." Roman Torchwick reveals himself to Ruby Rose. His old nemesis when she was back in Beacon.

Ruby's eyes widen as large as they could be. "I-It...It can't be..."

Roman walks towards Shuji's side. "I must say, this place has seen better days. Luckily I'm here, so don't worry my friend." Still talking in his very slimy tone.

Weiss is shocked to see him. "Roman Torchwick?"

Jaune tilts his head in confusion. "Didn't you die back at Beacon?" He then realizes something. "Oh no...not you too."

Roman raises his hands. "That's right! The ol' Torchwick is alive and kicking!"

Minato seen his death through Ruby's eyes back at Easter Island and knows how unlikely his survival was. "Alright, enough of this clown! What is the plan here? Killing some people just to stir up some negativity? Shallow if you ask me. Just plain shallow."

Shuji smirks. "Ah, but you fail to understand that this is human nature. You seen it in young Kurome. She is a monster, the Wild Hunt are monsters, hell, we are all monsters! We need to be cleansed! That is why I done this!" Roman turned his head to hide him rolling his eyes.

Minato grits his teeth really hard. He remembers him very clearly now. "You're the same psycho from before. And I hate doing this, but I'm gonna finish you this time!"

Shuji is now grinning. "Oh now you are in the spirit of things! Get them!" Suddenly grey robots in black visors show up and starts shooting their rifles to the heroes. Minato jumps out of the way, with Orpheus blocking the bullets. Ruby rolls out of the way, Weiss blocking with her glyphs and Jaune blocking with his armor.

The robots then target Ruby as she rolls out of the way. "Whoa! Huh?!" Then she gets kicked by Roman towards a door to underground levels.

"Ruby!" Jaune shouts. Just then, more robots show up. "Damn it!"

Ruby rolled down the stairs. "Agh! Oof! Ugh! Gugh!" She hits the floor hard as she slides a bit. She struggles to get up for the moment. "Ow...Huh?" She looks around, realizing she is in a dark room barely seeing anything around her.

"Been awhile. Huh, Little Red?" Roman's voice echoes through the room. "Since we had this little dance?" Just then Ruby hears a click and nearly dodges a fireball coming from Roman's cane gun. "I bet you had your laugh! With how that big buzzard gobbled me up?" Then a fire ball hits Ruby's back as she lets out a yelp. She frantically turns around to see where her enemy is. "Go on! Have your laugh that the bad bad man got what he deserved!"

This time one of Roman's shots hits Ruby's back as she yelps in pain. "Roman! If I known that bird would have eaten you, I would have saved you! AGH!" Ruby gets blasted on the face, falling on her back. She groans in pain, trying to get up.

"Oh sure you would have! You were stupid enough to believe I'll listen to your ideals!" He keeps on shooting her as she finally gets back up on her feet. "Yeah right!" He then jumps on her and kicks her through the door, breaking her aura. "Your shtick just got old, and stale."

Ruby struggles to get up, only to find herself surrounded by guns. "Huh?"

"Freeze. Don't move." They also have Weiss and Blake on their hands, bruised and hurt.

"Weiss! Blake!" Ruby is worried for her friends. But then she hears a click behind her head.

Roman points his cane gun towards his enemy. "So...how the tables have turned...heh heh."

Ruby was scared out of her mind, but tries to keep calm. "Roman..."

"You can't imagine how much I waited for this. I really hate you, you can't believe how much rage I'm holding back..." Roman lets out a chuckle as he then flips his can and rests it over his shoulder. "Although I'm fair, even to my enemies. So I will consider sparing you. If you admit that you are wrong. That the bad guys always win, and beg for your life just to hammer it home. What do you say Little Red?"

Ruby sweats a bit, knowing Roman is giving her a chance at living. And yet, saying all those things...Undermining everything her Mother taught her..."Roman...I can't do that...I can't just...say those things...I believe people can be good if we just understand each other..."

Roman frowned. He lets out a sigh. "You really disappoint me. Seeing you like this actually makes me feel sorry for you. But...that's life." He turns around and walks away. "Do whatever you like to her."

"Hehehehe..." A sadistic laugh can be heard from Seryu. "With pleasure. I finally have you in my hands!" She then punches Blake in the face, knocking her to the ground.

"Blake!" Ruby shouts.

Weiss grits hard, unable to suppress her anger. "You savages!"

Seryu screams out. "SHUT UP! YOUR THE SAVAGES!" She points to Blake. "You freaks never should have been born! Always causing trouble and death everywhere you go! And yet you persist in saying YOUR the victims?!" She then points to Ruby and Weiss. "And you all try to defend them! YOU are the savages! And I will write you off from this world FOREVER!"

Blake spits out some blood, feeling her semblance just disappeared from that hard punch. "...do whatever you want with me...just leave them alone..."

The cyborg psycho tilts her head. "Huh? You care for those sympathizers? Then I will execute them." Blake gasps. "Its the price they pay for getting in the way TRUE JUSTICE!"

The cat faunus panics. "No!" The guards then grab her head and plants it down to the ground. "Let me go!"

Ruby and Weiss gets grabbed by the heads and is forced on their knees. "Gugh! Blake!"

Seryu transforms her right hand into a rifle. "Now who goes first?" She moves around her gun over Ruby and Weiss's head."Hm...can't decide..." She transforms her left hand. "I'll go for both! FOR PURE AND UNTAINTED JUSTIIIIIIIIICE!"

Blake tears up. "...no...guys...I'm...I'm sorry...I..." She begins to well up more tears, unable to hold in her sadness and regret. "I never should have left...I'm a coward...I don't...I don't deserve you guys...You're my best friends...

"Blake..." The runaway gasps, raises her head to see Ruby and Weiss smiling to their crying friend. "It's okay...at least...we're here...at the final moments..." Blake grits her teeth, unable to hold it in now.

Weiss also has a tear roll down her cheek. "Well...we're missing one though...I'm sure she's-" Then something bright gets everyone's attention. A portal opens. This time bright green. "-okay?"

Seryu almost pulled the trigger, but is startled by the portal. "What?! What is this?!" The guards are just as confused. "Don't just stand there! Do so-" Before she can finish, a fist hits the psycho's cheeks, causing her face to contort violently. As if everything was in slow motion, only for everything to speed up as the impact pushes Seryu all the way to a wall that was blocks away.

Ruby was startled. "What?"

Weiss too. "What in the heck?"

Blake was more in awe. "...can it...?"

The one who done the punch exits the light, revealing the person. Brilliantly glowing hair that resembles flames. A vest along with shorts, and cowboy boots. Lastly, glowing red eyes that signify wrath. "Hey girls. Got any room for this party?" The three girls look in awe, happiness, relief, and surprise at the sight of their forth, and missing member is here. Yang Xiao Long. With a new right arm that more resembles an organic arm, cover up by a brand new pair of Gauntlets. And she has brought a new vigor for battle. "Bring it on bitches!"

To be continued...

I just want to say how sorry I am for being super late on this. I just been super lost for the past months. I wonder what I'm doing wrong, and what next direction to go to before my third story. I am trying to power through this so I can have a much more clear conscious. Not to mention work taking time away from me and this. If you can, PLEASE share this with as many friends as you can, cause that REALLY helps. This chapter was at least fun and super liberating to make. I pray I at least gave you a satisfying story for you Chelsea and Yang fans. Thanks for reading.