"Come with you, to your world" Blake muttered out.
The metal on his right hand was disappearing as he held onto the wound that was inflicted upon him. Looking at Blake Belladonna with a smile.
"I know I ask a lot of you Blake," Nirvana said "but I can assure you that on my world you will never have to hide, you will be accepted regardless of who or what you are. You can be free there."
His hand moves through the locks of her dark hair.
"This time spend with you Blake, I wouldn't trade it for the world. But my home calls me and Milena, and I cannot turn from it" he said with a sigh, slowly standing up.
"Let me help" and with that Blake grabbed around his midriff and helped him up. The knife wound wasn't major but it was going to sting. They stepped forward away from the Cliffside and into the forest.
Milena purred in her owner's arms "it's alright dear you're safe" Nirvana said petting his small feline companion.
After a few minutes of walking Blake sat both of them down on a nearby rock and inspected his wound once more. "So you came all this way from another world just to find her?"
Nirvana nodded in response.
"When I created my first portal here to Remnant something went wrong and she got trapped here. I spend the following weeks endlessly working on creating another one to get here and find her. For weeks more I spend looking everywhere I could until coming here. That's why I tried to get into Weiss' good graces, I knew she liked me and I needed the resources only she could provide in order to find Milena….I know it wasn't fair to her but I was…well you already know."
"I understand," Blake said shortly, grabbing a handkerchief from her pocket and trying it around the wound on his arm "I understand what you had to do. In a desperate bind we always need to make the hard decisions, and sometimes they end up hurting people."
"I never intended to hurt anyone," Nirvana spoke looking into Blake's eyes "my goal was simple and straight forward. Retrieve Milena and return to my world, but as you may have noticed, things have become infinitely more complicated."
"Just a bit" Blake joked.
Nirvana could just melt away in those golden eyes of hers. "Can't you stay here?" Blake asked, he shook his head in response "the people I work for are…difficult. Vadim clearly had ulterior motives over there and if my superiors find out I've been here without informing them…I'm afraid they will come here and what they might do."
Blake gave him a confused look, rubbing his hand softly.
"What kind of organization do you work for?" she asked.
"It's a long story Blake. But all that matters is that I succeeded in my goal and I can now take Milena home safely. I will not force you to come along with me, I can't ask you to leave everything you know behind for me. But perhaps…you could consider. Since I do not know if I can and will return" he told her.
They kissed, a soft tender kiss, passion went alight once more as they touched.
"I…I want…" Blake spoke up.
"BLAKE GET AWAY FROM HIM!"
The two turned to see a storm of rose petals appear in front of them as the figures of Ruby Rose and Jaune Arc appeared in front of them.
"Ruby what's going on?" Blake wondered as she turned to her lover to see his face tense up.
"Blake stay away from him! That man is not who he claims to be. He put Pyrrha and Cardin into a coma and he just did the same to Weiss!" Ruby said, pointing her finger at the man next to her friend.
Blake looked over at a tense and stoic Nirvana, who was gritting his teeth.
"What are they saying! What's going on Firen?" she asked confused.
"Blake I assure you…" he started until Jaune interrupted him "that's not his name. He took a retired professor's name and put him into a coma as well. Didn't you Alector Nirvana!" he said accusingly.
Blake's head switched between her friends and her lover, confusion and doubt began to set in.
"What's going on! What are they saying! What do you mean it's not your name."
Alector Nirvana tried to prevent his face from forming into a full scowl as he held tightly onto the kitten in his arm, a fact Ruby finally took note of amidst her fury.
"You found her, you found your cat" she said softly.
Nirvana finally looked at her "yes miss Rose, I have finally found her" he responded.
"I hope it was worth it you monster!" Jaune yelled at him.
Rustling could be heard from behind as more people ran through, until the remaining members of their teams in the forms of Ren, Nora and Yang stood before the pair.
Nirvana gritted his teeth at the sight before him, before turning to Blake, who was looking at him with confused unsure expression.
At last, he sighed.
"Very well I suppose there is no point in denying it anymore," he said as he looked at Blake and then at the entire group in front of him "it is true. It is I who put your classmates into a personally induced vegetative state using technology from my own world."
He produced a device from his pocket, it was a small round black device with a red button on it.
"According to my superiors the technology was originally developed for therapeutic reasons, or so they claim. It traps a person within their own subconscious and makes them relieve their greatest insecurities, with the hope that they come out stronger."
Blake stood in disbelief at the sight before her as the man she had fallen for explained, but not just that, but also admitted to what people had suspected him off. The man held the device off as he looked down at the cat in his arms purred at him.
"I swore that nothing would stop me from finding Milena, nothing would get in my way. Not some arrogant blockhead, or some noisy amazoness girl and especially not some spoiled ice queen," he said without emotion in his voice, causing everyone but Blake to look at him with an angry expression "and I am more than willing to bet, that if any of you were in my shoes, when you lose that which is most important to you, you would have done the same."
"No we wouldn't your insane!" Yang yelled as she ran forward towards the man. In response Nirvana quickly grabbed for his belt buckle and grabbed a device, another quick red light engulfed everyone around it, rendering Yang's fiery dash forward pointless.
"Did you really think I'd only have one Semblance Inhibitor, always useful to have a spare" he said as he placed the device back on his belt buckle. Yang felt a void overtake and take away her abilities once more.
Nirvana then took the small black device and threw it on the ground right before Yang "here take it. With this you can reverse everything, bring the people affected by it back to normal, as good as new."
The group looked up at him in surprise.
"This is no trick. See it as a parting gift, you get all your friends back. In return I will take my leave with Milena from this world and we will never see each other again" he said.
Then from his belt buckle he grabbed a white disk, it was glowing with all the colors of the rainbow on each side. He then extended his hand to Blake.
"Come with me Blake, please?" he asked softly.
It was only then that he saw the tears streaming down her face, her look of confusion was replaced with one of sadness and disbelief.
"You can't…please tell me…..no please" she fell to her knees in tears as emotions overtook her and she couldn't think straight. Her mind flooded with conflicting thoughts and emotions.
"Blake…" Nirvana worriedly approached her until an angered Yang tackled him away from her, causing him to drop Milena who landed on her feet.
"GET AWAY FROM HER!" she yelled.
Nirvana angrily got to his feet as his metal arm infused his normal one, clawed protrusions on each of its fingers and glowing red light appearing around it.
"Have it your way Goldilocks" he said angrily as he lunged forward.
As the two started a brawl, Jaune went over and picked up the black device from the ground before tossing it to Ren "Ren we will have handle everything here, take that to Ozpin now."
Ren instantly obeyed his team leader and ran away with the device. At that moment Ruby and Nora ran forward to where Yang and Nirvana where fighting, until a hissing Milena jumped in front of them.
"I don't know about you but I don't feel good hitting a cat" Nora said to Ruby.
But as swiftly as she did the cat had jumped up with great speed and slashed Nora across the face, who fell backwards while desperately clinging to her hammer.
Milena jumped fast towards Ruby biting into her shoulder and causing the girl to scream out and wildly flail about to try and get the feline off of her. She looked to see her sister fight against the fake professor as Blake was still on her knees crying her eyes out.
Yang was engaged in a fist fight against a metal armed Nirvana who tried slicing at her only for Yang to block the strike at every turn, and then made her own attempt at a hit, but in a similar vein that hit was easily parried by the man.
Jaune ran past Ruby and went straight for Nirvana. As the man saw the young warrior run towards him he immediately jumped back from Yang as Jaune approached him, only to instant run forward and tackle Yang to the ground before grabbing Jaune's blade as it was aimed towards him with his metal hand.
As the blade landed in the metal tight grip of the hand, he pushed forward, knocking Jaune downwards on his knees as Nirvana moved forward and ensnared his head in his metal hand.
Jaune grabbed hold of the arm but could not move it as the elongated protrusions tied around his head.
"Consider this payment for your earlier assault Joan of Arc" Nirvana yelled as red light moved out of the glowing metal hand.
Jaune closed his eyes to his fate, until he felt the tension on his face leave. Opening his eyes he saw the metal hand loosen as Nirvana felt backwards on the ground.
A fiery and angry Yang was standing over him.
"You got this coming for a long time" Yang said cracking her knuckles as Nirvana tried to stand up.
Jaune looked at the woman that had saved his mind, she was stunning with her golden blonde hair flowing on the wind as she stared down at her enemy.
Ruby's flailing became noticeable as she tried in vain to shake Milena off her arm, only for the feline to sink her teeth in deeper.
"Aaah" Ruby yelled.
In a quick move she dropped down with the arm that Milena was on aimed at the ground. The impact with it send shockwaves through the cat who let go of Ruby's hand in pain.
Upon seeing this, her owner erupted.
"Milena!" he yelled as he got up and pushed past Yang aiming straight for Ruby. The golden haired women immediately gave chase behind him as Jaune got up and looked at the two.
Yang grabbed Nirvana's shoulder as he ran to force him to turn to her, and in an instant he had cocked her in the head with his metal arm.
Nora ran to Ruby and immediately grabbed Milena by her neck and lifting her up, making sure she couldn't turn her head to bite her.
"Go and help them Ruby, I'll take care of this little one" Nora said as she held a hissing Milena in her hand.
Ruby turned and her eyes found Blake, who was still on her knees in tears. Without hesitation she ran towards her teammate. "Blake, snap out of it we need your help…"
Blake turned to her team leader. Ruby felt in her veins the pain that Blake seemed to endure, her eyes spoke volumes. "I can't…I don't….I don't know" she fell against Ruby as her sobbing intensified, Ruby gave a worried expression as she saw her sister still engaged with the furious Nirvana.
Yang lost her footing as repeated punches by Nirvana's metal hand became too much, she tried to fight back but without her abilities she wasn't used to fighting this way. Her fast reaction time and blazing abilities where useless now. She saw the Semblance Inhibitor dangling from his belt and tried to grab it, only for him to kick her shin in response upon noticing it.
The kick to her shins did not help as Nirvana immediately grabbed her face with his clawed hand, muffling her mouth. The protrusions around his fingers ensnared through her golden hair as the core of the arm burned bright.
"You've put quite the fight but it's over now. Sweet dreams Goldilocks" she heard him say as the bright red light intensified.
Yang became terrified as she remembered the emotionless looks on Weiss and Pyrrha. The same fate she was about to suffer. She looked around, a torn Ruby looking at her while holding a sobbing Blake, Nora being too busy keeping Nirvana's cat from harming anyone. But Jaune…where was Jaune.
As she felt a powerful force overwhelm, the sound of massive clattering broke through her.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!" Nirvana yelled as Jaune had thrust his sword straight to Nirvana's metal hand.
The red light went out.
The hand began to rumble as if it was breaking apart and a terrified expression appeared on Nirvana's face as he looked at his arm falling apart at the seams.
What followed was not so much an explosion as just a boom.
And it knocked Nirvana full force into a nearby tree, his metal arm casing destroyed and pieces scattered around where Yang and Jaune where standing, and the Semblance Inhibitor having fallen of him and laying a few feet in front of him.
Yang looked up at Jaune as he stood in front of her, having used his shield to protect himself from the boom which send their enemy flying. The golden haired bombshell fighter looked up at him with big eyes.
"You saved me" she said, almost as if she was in awe.
Nirvana shook his head, his body was writhing in pain from the blast and subsequent hit against the hard tree. He lunged forward and saw his device in front of him, realizing it was no longer on his person he crawled forward and made a grab for it.
Only for his hand to be squashed on the ground by a boot.
Looking up he saw the blonde bombshell Yang looking at him with content as she bend down and grabbed the Semblance Inhibitor of the ground and inspected it briefly before saying.
"Nora this one in on you" and she threw the device behind her on the ground.
Nora smiled and dropped Milena to the ground as she quickly grabbed her hammer and jumped in the air "HEEEYAH!" she yelled as her hammer made contact with the device, smashing it into pieces.
A terrified look grew on Nirvana's face as he saw Yang's golden hair turn even brighter and the blazing energy around her fists became clear. She grabbed him off the ground and help him up by his shirt collar.
No words were spoken. As per usual Yang let her fists do the talking.
With one fiery hit to Nirvana's chest she send him flying once more. Multiple feet backwards as his body once again made contact with a tree and his whole body was engulfed with pain as he collapsed forward on the ground. Unconscious.
"Niyaah" Milena bellowed as the cat made her way to her owner, softly nudging her face against his for a response, but receiving none of it.
Yang breathed out with a satisfied look. She turned to her sister, holding an inconsolable sobbing Blake in her arms, Yang immediately joined them and tried to comfort her friend and partner as Nora once again went over and grabbed Milena, pulling the distraught cat away from her owner and causing her to hiss once more.
Jaune joined Yang and Ruby into comforting their friend as Blake cried her heart out.
"I can't believe….noooo!" she yelled in tears as the group gave a look over to an unconscious Alector Nirvana. The fight was won, but what would they do next.
Author's Note:
Alright wonderful people this was the penultimate chapter of the story, the next chapter will be the final one after that I will begin on the sequel to this story. The title is still unsure but I have some fun ideas that could work wonders. Let me know what you thought of the story so far and I hope it is to your liking.
