[Dragon Ball Super OST – The Earth's Fate]
残り:四の影/ Remnant's Four Shadows
End of Remnant, Episode 13: The Great Gathering
[Motorcity, Motorcity Universe]
If anything, Cael had to admit that Noire knew how to work a crowd. As they were going through the worlds that Griseo had visited (and left a bit damaged), he was gathering people to join them. He managed to get villains to side with them on the matter of getting them to think Griseo thought they were too worthless to recruit.
"Noire's a lot like Yuki." Ayla said watching Noire chat up the Duke of Detroit. "It's kind of scary to think about it. They got that vibe about them."
"I know. Only difference is Noire's a shameless hedonistic…"
"You be wise to not finish that sentence, child." Sayah said staring him down.
Chronoa cleared her throat to get everyone's attention and floated up into the air a bit.
"Ok, I got good news. I've managed to pin down exactly where Griseo and Towa are. They've planted down in a universe and haven't moved…meaning they're setting up shop there." Chronoa said as Noire used his staff to show a map of the multiversal ring. "At this one, but I fear Towa is going to try to break out of the ring."
"An explanation would be needed?" Ozpin asked.
"That ring is a barrier, basically as the Goddess of Time, my responsibility is to oversee all the worlds in that ring. However, the Brother Douches had interfered that I have to focus on their whims as they messed with nearly every world on the ring." Chronoa expounded. "And I fear with me here, they'll find out and will interfere."
"Hold up. You're a goddess?!" Mike said looking her up and down. "But you're so…"
"I didn't always look like this! Those assholes restricted my form to this impish form you see here. I used to be a bombshell!" Chronoa said fuming.
"Can we focus on the actual matter? You're a goddess in charge of our worlds?! That raises so many ques-" Numbuh 5 said only to be shushed by Raven (Branwen).
"We're literally traveling to different worlds. Yours along had mutants, ghosts, aliens, and other monsters. At this point, don't question it because you'll drive yourself to drink." Raven said.
"Plus, we don't have time to argue."
Blade Bronzeblaze, a young upstart from a merged universe of monsters ravaging the world and hunters needed to combat it. Ironically, the world of FusionFall was quite similar to their own.
"Abigail, right now, we need to focus on gathering allies and readying ourselves to stop this Griseo guy. It's clear, that Benedict, the Teen Ninjas, Femme Fatale, Katz, and Vilgax decided that selling out our would to some wannabe…" Blade said as his hands shook. "Damn it, I could take her and Katz when I had the chance!"
[Cues: Shemnue OST – Daily Agony]
"From your words and actions, she and Katz were someone close to you." Noire remarked.
"She was." He said simply. "Katz not so much."
"You've never brought that up." Blossom said floating over to him.
"Because you never asked. Not like I showed signs…because I kept up that mask. That devil may care attitude, being down for action and adventure. I mean it's true, but…it was containing the anger, the horror, and….my desire for revenge." Blade said looking down. "I've never told anyone the whole story…except for…those closest."
Unlike Yuki, Blade's team was a trio, both of them girls ironically. One who shared a similar pain and the other he met at the Academy.
"The short version is…my parents were murdered right before I volunteered for the time travel experiment. My future trip to that hellscape would reveal to me that Katz killed them because my father was a witness to one of his crimes. I was full of grief and anger. So much so, the KND wanted to decommission me early think it'd help. When I found out, I volunteered for that time travel trip. When Dee Dee screwed up the time machine, I thought I was going to die…and I just accepted it. Not like I had anything to live for. The KND didn't give a shit about me, and I had lost everything." Blade said as said KND members were tugging their collars.
"But I didn't die. But I might as well had considered the hell that was the Future. That's where I met Shirin. To survive, we did things. I can say that any childhood innocence I had was drowned. I saw so many people I grew to care about die. Ben was my hero…and I watched him get killed. Fuse had launched one final attack, and the Earth was dying. They fixed the time machine…and I was sent back right as the Earth went to shit. Shirin dove in after me….before the Earth was destroyed. She and I were jetted back to the present. And we were shipped off to Academy. You all know how that went. Then Femme Fatale comes to into my life after I graduated. Turns out this bitch is my aunt. Pretended to be loving, caring…give me a home. It was all lies…she wanted the money I stood to inherit. She had sent me on missions she'd insisted I'd do solo…dangerous ones that I shouldn't have survived…but I did."
"Explains the high-level gains so quickly. We all assumed you were grinding." Ben remarked feeling stupid for not inquiring more about this.
"Yeah, I might have forgiven if it wasn't for greatest transgression. Teaming up with Katz. She's a coward…I have a feeling Katz has her back to the wall…and she sold me out to save her own hide. Offering to split the money with him…to save her own life. That day…it was before my final mission against Fuse. I survived Katz and her teaming up against me…and my teammates. That day…I was so mad that I rushed into the battle with Fuse despite the handicap." Blade said.
"And you still won! You were amazing and that one-liner you said, "Say hello to my big diffuser" before you finished the job was amazing!" Halona, his teammate, remarked.
The other teammate, Shirin, smacked Halona upside her head for that.
"Blade was literally having a mental episode. He could have been killed…and I'm afraid he wanted that." Shirin said worriedly. "I…fucked up…I should have stopped you…."
[Music Ends]
"Wow, it really is like our universe. All the people who should have seen their hero had some serious issues and failed to do shit about it. Congratulations, your world was saved by a mental mess of a teenager that was suffering on the inside." Noire said dripping with sarcasm. "Starting to look like a trend here."
Everyone gave him dirty looks for that, but it really did not help that their cases against Noire in the next universe over…when they meet Shinji Ikari.
(A/N: Dark and darkly humorous. FusionFall is showing up again in my work, but this is for a fairly good reason. FusionFall and RWBY are very similar in concept, and I have seen a crossover attempt before. Blade Bronzeblaze is the character for my run through OpenFusion, a free program that recreates the FF server from back in the day. Like another of my FF protags in another work of mine, he went through both the Future and the Academy. Shirin's from the Future, and Halona was met at the Academy. Funny enough, Halona is a concept character for a FusionFall project I joined up in…but it fizzled out. So here it is…and yes Noire is being King Dickhead on this journey…but not like they can rebut his words.)
