A/N I need professional help, I cant stop writing again, quick call the number on the fridge; its my nurse Sarah, she has a particular set of skills specifically designed to stop me, please hurry.
Akame woke and slowly opened her eyes to the sound of the door unlocking and shattering ice, opening her eyes in the darkness just as light flooded the room, her eyes quickly moved around checking her current status, her spine was bruised as was a large majority of her back, arms, and legs, her head was bloody and her hair was coated in said blood, the most obvious issue was her broken forearm which she was made acutely aware of thanks to her hanging from the ceiling by her wrists. Esdeath entered the room looking over the girl and smiling
"Count yourself lucky, thanks to the efforts of my new subordinates your life has been saved." Esdeath dryly commented as she released Akame letting her fall roughly to the ground "If I had my way you would already be licking my boots, but Ruby wanted you to be freed so here we are. You are going free, but if you want Murasame you have a single week to retrieve it, after that its scrap metal." Esdeath said smiling sadistically at her then turned to the doorway and called orders "Toss her out of the ship, I don't really care if she dies."
"Yes ma'am." the two grunts said as they grabbed Akame roughly by her forearms and dragged her away, Akame had held her completely neutral look the entire time but inside she was raging as she was dragged away from her target and towards an airlock to be left to the coin toss of life and death
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Yang sat on her bed staring at the insignia in her hands, she felt a rush of emotion; anger, sadness, fear, and pride. The last one she quickly dismissed and looked to the door as it opened and Winter entered, they all glared at her not wanting to see either her or Esdeath anytime soon even if they had no choice
"No need for that, we all serve General Esdeath now, I've come here to ensure we have no hard feelings." Winter spoke casually as she sat down next to Weiss who inched away from her a little
"Of course we have hard feelings." Yang growled glaring at her as she continued to vent "My sister is a toy for that ice bitch and were stuck working for her like sheep."
"From now on you can refer to General Esdeath as, Generaloberst, General, General Esdeath, or Ma'am." Winter ordered her voice changed back to normal and she spoke in an neutral tone again "Your sister will be fine, she is General Esdeaths' love, and will preform as such." that statement earned disgusted looks from Blake and Yang
Weiss joined the conversation to clear up their disgust "The legal consent laws in Atlas is 13 with guardian approval, and considering our new standing in the Atlas military Rubys' guardians are Esdeath and you; Yang. So Esdeath can order Ruby to consent but would also need you to do the same." that caused farther disgust
"Well tough luck Esdeath, I ain't agreeing to that!" Yang said to herself ignoring Winters correction
"Shame, but I wasn't going to try anything yet." Esdeath said neurally from the doorway causing them all to jump, even Winter
"General." Winter gasped and saluted her, Esdeath grinned and strolled forward and pet Winter a bit than sat down next to her
"So what brings you here Winter?" Esdeath asked casually giving Winter her whole attention
"I wanted to clear up any bad blood between us." Winter answered calmly maintaining her composure
"Of course there will be bad blood, you cant just say a few words and clear this up, it'll take time and none of them want to be around either of us right now, so lets leave them be. I'll have Winter come collect you all for a meeting later." Esdeath explained to her subordinate and quickly stood followed by Winter and left, after exiting Yang spoke with near uncontrollable anger "What a bitch."
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Esdeath walked to the bridge where people were sitting around taking damage reports and planing their next action all of which Esdeath ignored as she stared out the window staring at nothing but found it easy to just shut down and not focus on anything, closing her eyes she stood alone in the darkness that enveloped her, hoping that whatever happened next works out in her favor
"I'll finish the job this time Ice Queen." Esdeath heard a familiar voice whisper in her mind, her eyes snapped open and ducked into a combat stance and quickly looked around seeing no one prepared to attack her, no one prepared to strike, and no one who betrayed her... why does this keep happening?
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Ruby was sitting quietly in her office, which surprised her when she though about it, she had a space entirely for her to work in, what was more surprising was that Winter was waiting for her in said office, opening the door and walking in Winter stood and saluted her
"Major." Winter held her salute and stared blankly at nothing
"Ah... um, no need for that... stuff? You are here to help me, right?" Ruby asked as she struggled to remain composed, Winter sighed and sat down
"I understand that, but General Esdeath has been putting all of us through the paces, I'd rather not get punished for dropping my professionalism on accident." Winter answered as Ruby sat down behind the desk, it was empty apart from a computer and a non-mobile scroll
"Alright so when you activate your computer it will scan your aura and create an account accordingly, the General already promoted you and enlisted your team so it should greet you accordingly." Winter explained and Ruby activated the computer and true to her word a few second later it spoke
"Account activated. Welcome Major Ruby Rose. Setting default." the computer spoke before opening to a program she didn't recognize
"Right so that should say 'Atlas militärisches Rundfunknetz' and everything should be in Atleasian right?" Winter asked Ruby looking at everything written and found it all to be gibberish
"Yep, I don't understand a single word of it." Ruby confirmed causing Winter to sigh
"I expected as much, there is a member of the Atlas Militär 9. Militärisches Protektorat who's semblance is knowledge transfer that would come in handy." Winter explained by clearly had reservations
"But?" Ruby asked looking from the computer to Winter who seemed to want to complain but settled for asking a question
"May I share my opinion?" Winter asked, instead of venting she asked Ruby if she could, which was confusing to her, most people would just go on a rant but Winter asked for permission to do so
"Yeah, why wouldn't I want you to?" Ruby asked raising an eyebrow
"Thank you, he is an absolute moron he likes to think hes funny but he just causes problems for everyone, so they sent him to a backwater post. Once he thought it would have been funny to show up to class in the girls uniform at Atlas academy, he was always making a fool of himself." Winter vented seeming a little more human than before "I'm sorry for being so rude about that description but I couldn't think of any other way to describe him." Winter quickly apologized after Ruby began to laugh
"Its not that but that sounds like something I heard dad and uncle Qrow talk about something like that before, I don't remember it too well but I think dad or uncle Qrow did the same thing, I wasn't paying very much attention." Ruby waved off as she laughed, Winter held a concerned look for a few moments before joining in her laugh before quickly stopping and recomposing herself
"Anyways back to work, the General wants you to be prepared to help coordinate an up coming mission."
"Uggh fine!" Ruby playfully complained as Winter began to go over military etiquette and laws
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Yang, Blake, and Weiss sat in their barracks staring at the provided uniforms they were ordered to wear
"I'm fine with it." Weiss said as she looked over the uniform which look identical to Winters' uniform
"Of course you would be, its your colors; white, gray, and boring." Yang snarked looking over her own, which also looked like Winters'
"We just have to wear them, it doesn't matter if we like them or not." Blake added in causing Yang to sigh
"Yeah but wheres the color?" Yang asked "Walkin' around in the same colors all the time sucks, I figured they'd at least let us color them." Yang began to rant
"I understand but you don't have to like it, once we get to Beacon we get to change into something we do like." Blake waved off as she began to strip, followed by Weiss and finally Yang who was grumbling about not wearing colorful clothes
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"General, engine one is slightly damaged and will take at least four hours to fix, engine two is in a slightly unstable condition but should be stable in a little less than a day." the head engineer Mich Gefrorenes explained to Esdeath as the leaders of each department sat waiting to bring issues to their General
"I assume there's no way to make that process any faster?" Esdeath asked looking to him
"Yes ma'am." He answered as he scratched his graying beard before quickly backpedaling and spoke again "I mean- probably, but I'd rather not try anything so dangerous with so many people around."
"If you want to do any tests I prefer you test them in a safer location, next time were in Atlas you can have the time you need to test whatever you want." Esdeath reassured causing him to smile and adjust his glasses
"Thank you general, now I believe that William had something she wanted to ask." He added looking to the tired woman to his left who was currently blindfolded
"Yeah, general may I ask; why did you both employed and promoted a team of children? I know they attacked you, but why?" William asked her voice showing just how tired she was
"They aren't just children they were training with Akame, that means that they are powerful in their own rights. There's something about that girl that the strong always seem to be attracted to, and if we can get them to side with us that just means an easier job for us when she chooses to attack." Esdeath explained to them
"But if were looking for power why not just let me use my semblance on Akame?" William asked resting her head on the table
"Because I don't like your semblance, it takes all the fun out of it." Esdeath shot down
"Aw come on, its not like its permanent... entirely." William complained betting her fists on the table like a child "Can I at least use it on the other kids you got?"
"All of them except Major Ruby Rose." Esdeath agreed causing her to cheer, get up, and leave
"She does know the meeting wasn't over right?" Mich asked looking to the other members of the meeting room, Esdeath groaned
"I knew I should have put off answering that... oh well, Wilhelm how are our communications?"
"For now their fine but with the speed we moved the Array is a bit off its a quick fix but we need to stop transmitting for a bit." Wilhelm explained reading over the reports in front of him
"Very well, inform everyone and get it done quickly." Esdeath ordered causing him to Salute her and leave as well
"Well that's them end of this current meeting considering we need comms for almost everything else. Oh before I forget Felix, have the Manta refueled?"
"Yes ma'am, all of them have refueled and are prepared for another fight." Felix answered happily and they continued to discuss the order of assignments after communications are brought back online
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Ruby sat in her office alone, it was gonna take some time to get used to having her own office but for now she was reading the rule book that Winter gave to her before returning to her own duties for a bit, why were there so many rules? A knock at the door drew her attention, Ruby waited for the door to open, after about a minute it didn't open
"You can come in?" Ruby called out and the door opened and a pale man with short blond hair and gray eyes wearing a uniform similar to Esdeaths entered and he smiled at her
"Hallo, jy moet die nuwe hoofvak wees, I was quiet surprised to hear that you're so young." the man greeted happily as he pulled his hat off and sat down across from her
"A-ah um yeah... hi... I- I'm Ruby Rose." Ruby greeted in a very shaky tone causing him to laugh
"You need to get better at showing your presence, sit up straight, square your shoulders, never stutter, and keep a stone cold look on your face." He guided and Ruby followed what he said and sat with the posture he asked of her "Everyone 'round here were ordered to teach you the ropes, I don't know what you did to get on Esdeaths' good side but man does it bring some good perks."
Ruby slouched and sat back with a sigh "Jeez how do you do that all the time?"
"Ha! Your work hasn't even started yet, well not to worry luckily for you, you have an office, most of us use our offices to relax and cut loose a bit." He cheerily explained smiling at her
"I'm glad that I have an office then." Ruby happily said leaning back in her chair and began to relax before quickly panicking and leaning forward "I completely forgot to ask your name! I'm so sorry!"
"Think nothing of it, my names Sarah." he answered smiling strangely at Ruby
"Oh... that's a strange name for a... what?" Ruby blinked in surprise staring at the woman in front of her, she had short red hair, orange eyes, and dark skin
"Whats wrong? You seem confused, or lost? Little bit of both maybe." Sarah asked sarcastically as she unbuttoned her coat entirely and a large majority of the buttons on her undershirt almost exposing her chest "I got no idea how the guys wear such tight clothes, I've asked some of the chicks 'round here but they all say its easy if you wear a bra. But I'm not a big fan of coverin' my tits, What do you think?"
"I... wha?" Ruby was still trying to catch up
"You okay kid? You want me to go get the General so she can kiss it better or would you rather I do that?" Sarah asked seductively which was lost on Ruby who was slowly recovering from what happened
"No... I'm fine... you have a transformation semblance?" Ruby asked finally catching up
"Yep, I can change my body all I want. It made bullying me very difficult in primary school, they make fun of my height I make myself taller then them, I get made fun of for being too tall I make myself just taller then them... I was mainly focused on height but you get the picture." Sarah ranted as she rolled up her sleeves
"Yeah... that must have been nice, I got bullied for my cape when I was in Signal." Ruby added causing the woman across from her to smile
"I've always been big on makin' uniforms your own so if you ever wanna do somethin' to yours just ask, I've been dress coded for just about everything. I did wear a shoulder cape for a while but that became an issue when we were in Vacuo so I got rid of it." Sarah said resting her feet on Rubys' desk
"Neat, so are you one of the Majors around here?" Ruby asked trying to get more conversation
"Yeah, there are two more other than us, Sal and Falk. Their both good people but Sal can be a bit of an ass." Sarah answered as she stood "Alright I got some other things to do, give me a call sometime we'll have lunch."
"That'd be fun! See ya later." Ruby said waving as she left
"Hello Winter... nah we were just talking... oh please... fine, fine, I'm goin'." Sarah's voice came with only half the conversation, Entering the room Winter quickly looked over Ruby
"Good..." Winter quietly said before letting out a sigh and began to explain her actions to the extremely confused girl in front of her "I probably should have told you earlier but the thing about the Atlas Militär 4. Militärisches Protektorat, is its general staff apart from myself and General Esdeath are prisoners with life sentances, Sarah Rooihart is a criminal from Vacuo she was arrested for almost 46 counts of rape, 46 counts of statutory rape, equaling 92 counts of sexual assult. Geneal Esdeath took her in under the condition that after she served twenty two years she would be free to go, her time ended three years ago but she stuck around because as long as shes here and doing her job Esdeath will protect her, I dont know why but she does the same for all of her solders, just be careful with everyone from now on, okay?"
Ruby felt strange like she was talking with Yang but not "Okay... I didn't think she was... like that." Ruby said concern in her voice "I hope she leaves my team alone then..."
"You don't have to worry about that, she'll mainly be working with you, your team is in its own hot water though." Winter began to speak but her eyes flashed red each time she began to speak "Mas- M... M-M-Mas..." After a few seconds of attempting to speak and eye flashing she stopped trying to speak and paused for about a minute "I can't say her name but she has a similar track record to Sarah but tripled and with 9 counts of rebellion and almost 100 counts of murder, she was on death row when General Esdeath saved her life seeing better uses with her alive with the condition that her service period will end on her death."
"Why can't you say her name?" Ruby asked completely confused by what just happened
"Its nothing to worry about, after my incident the General forced her to wear a blindfold, just remember don't look into her eyes if you can help it." Winter said as she shuttered in fear
"Did you at least warn them?" Ruby asked standing Winter raised her hand and spoke
"Don't worry, right now the heads of all departments are in a meeting with General Esdeath your team is safe, we'll be having a meeting with them after Esdeaths' so they'll be fine." Winter waved off calmly causing Ruby to calm down as well and sit "Now then lets go over basic strategy and your logistical responsibilities." Ruby groaned and slammed her head on her desk
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Yang looked at herself in the mirror, she was dressed like Winter... she really didn't like it, Weiss and Blake wanted to go explore the same looking corridors, in the same looking ship, with the same looking people, it made her furious Yang sat at one of the desks and banged her head on the table with a groan
"Ugh... I hate this." Yang lazily said to no one
"I know right?" A tired voice came from behind her causing Yang to blink in surprise and look around, looking to her bed she saw a paper white woman with short black hair and a blindfold on sitting on her bed
"Umm who are you?" Yang asked the woman as she turned around in her seat and looked over the woman
"Me? I'm Oberst William Faiaburando, I'm your leader, I only lead the specialists, but they are really good at what they do. I'm sure you will be good at it too." William explained tiredly as she looked at Yang
"Um... are you blind?" Yang asked walking over to her and quietly waving her hand in front of the woman's face
"Nah, but they are pretty gross to see, most people react so abhorrently towards them that I've been forced to cover them up, its a small price to pay if you ask me." William sadly said as she lied back and 'stared' at the ceiling
"I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm sure they cant be that bad." Yang waved off putting on her older sister routine and placed her hand on Williams shoulder pulling her to a sitting position
"They are though, even General Esdeath believes that, she was the one who ordered my to do so, but I still get to take this off every once in a while." William waved off causing Yang to scoff
"I'll be honest with you, I don't like that woman, Esdeath is just flaunting her power trying to get want she wants, shes like a spoiled little brat." Yang vented
"I'm sure I don't have to tell you but General Esdeath is our undisputed leader, and with good reason. She listens to our problems and acts accordingly, I may dislike my punishment but its necessary for me to remain in this army, and its better than the alternative." William explained reaching out towards Yangs' general direction but missed her
"Yeah but look at you! You can't fight like that and you're in charge of the specialists! From what I know you see the most action!" Yang ranted in rage as she guided Williams hand to her shoulder
"You are much too kind Yang, I'm very happy to know that you'll be serving me, I expect great things from you." William complemented as she stood slowly "I want to take this off now so I'll be heading back to my office, if you wish to tag along I wont stop you, its much nicer than these... bland rooms."
"I'd love that, but I have to meet with Winter and Esdeath soon." Yang said clearly upset to even think of her
"Don't worry 'bout that, the meeting room is still reserved for the majority of the evening so you still have a good three hours before you have to go to the meeting room." William explained calmly her tiredness fading away "Besides I don't get many visitors to my office so I'd be nice to show of my collection of cool stuff."
"Okay, I'll stick around for a while. It'd be nice to see some color for awhile." Yang said gratefully as they exited the barracks
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Ruby sat staring at the sheets in front of her, her desk was almost completely covered in papers, Winter had explained what each of them were and where they had to be filed or placed but she was getting loaded down with so much work, her main question why did so much paper work go into running this ship, each of the department heads had constant request flowing downward and she had responses from the lower ranks flowing back upward for her approval, it was awful. After about ten minutes of work she heard a knock at the door
"Come in." Ruby said tiredly and the door opened and to her dismay it was Sarah
"Heya kid, hows work life treating ya?" She asked looking over each pile of paper and nodding
"Yeah..." Ruby said leaning away from her a bit, mainly out of disgust
"I'm assuming Winter told you 'bout my... exploits?" Sarah asked walking behind Ruby and placed her hands on her shoulders
"Yeah... she did..." Ruby answered calmly, having spent so much time with Esdeath she didn't feel fear
"Don't worry I'm not planing on railing you, but I do wanna do Esdeath. So I'll make you a deal, you let me switch places with you, I get an unforgettable night with Esdeath, you don't have to get whipped, what do ya say?" Sarah asked as she lightly massaged Ruby's shoulders
"You do know that if she finds out you're dead?" Ruby asked calmly as she used her Aura to listen to the woman's heartbeat it was slightly slower than her own
"Yeah but I can make a perfect copy of you." Sarah said walking out in front of Ruby it was like looking in a mirror the only difference being the clothes "See!"
Ruby was shocked to say the least the woman in front of her was her but it wasn't there were minor differences but she corrected those quickly
"How... did you-" Ruby began but was cut off by herself covering her mouth
"Don't worry about it, but I will say I'm now reconsidering doin' you too, you got a nice ass." the other Ruby said feeling herself up and down causing Ruby no end of discomfort "So whats your answer?"
"No, like I said if she finds out you're dead and I don't want to know what would happen to me." Ruby shot down again watching as her other self touched herself "And stop doing that!" Ruby shouted at her and began to blush
"Aw come on, it's rare that I find a form who's still pure." the other Ruby complained as she sat on Ruby's desk in front of her and smiled lustfully at her "I could show you how fun it can be... if you want."
"Please leave." Ruby asked herself, her disgust and embarrassment showing on her face
"Fine, but I'll be keepin' this form for a while, I like the feeling of being tight." The other her said as she got up and walked to the exit "But if you ever change your mind, I could drive you crazy." the other her added before exiting leaving Ruby to her embarrassment and disgust
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Yang entered Williams office and looked around at everything true to her word everything was so much more colorful then the rest of the ship combined, there were records hanging on the walls, strange banners, and what looked like paint splotches across the walls in all different shades of color
"Woah this place is really nice." Yang complemented as she walked around the room as William sat at her desk
"Yeah, I try to collect things from all over the world, its really cool, like that over there is a geode from Vacuos largest dust mine, its extremely expensive." William said and pointed to a large rock in the corner of the room
"Whys that?" Yang asked looking at it, to her it just looked like a normal rock
"Because no one knows whats inside, could be earth dust, could be gravity, the point in its a gamble and tons of people are willing to pay for this hunk of probably nothing." William explained as she reached up to her blindfold
"I like that, you got a good head on..." Yang trailed off as she turned to William...
A/N I just spent the rest of Wednesday rewriting this chapter because I felt it wasn't that great but now I think its a lot better, I should mention I didn't like to upload on Fridays so I've decide to go back to Saturdays, lucky you guys you get two chapters in one week.