RWBY: The Unknown Sibling
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XXV
Emerald Sustrai and Mercury Black were bored. They had completely thrashed a team from Atlas. Due to the amount of teams from all of the nations attending this year; Beacon had decided to host something slightly different. Asdie from the solo team tournament, where it starts with four, then two and then a solo fighter.
Alongside that there were the mixed years tournament and a royal rumble of teams. All participants had to partake in one tournament, but they said nothing about participation in the others. "Think any of these guys are going to be able to withstand the plan?"
"I would shut the hell up Mercury. No, at least…I don't think so." She replied as she looked at her team. It appeared that their boss's boss reach extended far. From the Haven Academy came sixteen other students, five teams in total to help destroy Beacon Academy and anyone foolish enough to stand against them.
Emerald looked through her scroll, due to a rather successful computer virus she was looking at the students and contemplating who she could potentially disable before the Grimm were unleashed.
She realised she had a plethora of viable targets. Some of them she could get placed under potential house arrest, during the tournament leaving the defenders unknowingly weakened. She looked and she looked at the profile, it was the profile of Harry Branwen…He was first. "Now, what can I deceive you with? Mercury, I might need you to hospitalise someone."
Mercury smirked "That, I can do."
(HAND)
"So, who do we want to go forwards in the Team Fights?" Harry asked as he looked at his colleagues.
Damania looked at him "Are you being serious?"
"We're democracy…A democracy of powerhouses, nutters and genuine do-or-dies hearts-on-our-sleeves type of team."
"Or how about a democracy of half-wits and loose-cannons with obscene power, obscene control and the ability to turn around to people in authority and tell them to 'Kiss a Grimm'." Glynda said making her presence known.
"Professor Goodwitch! Perhaps your input…"
"Put Hadrian and Damania forwards…It's more pleasing to have a male and female pair go forwards instead of two males."
"Then would it not make sense of Nanuuk or Adam; they're both Faunus. I'm not…"
"But they're not the Leader of 'Ozpin's Little Monsters' as people call you." Goodwitch replied, with the corners of her mouth twisting into a thing smile.
Harry and Damania looked at the other two "Thanks…Be careful, there are others here that feel less benevolent. Be sharp and should anything happen…"
"Get the defenceless out. Use our brains." Adam stated nodding grimly "Are we going to partake in the other events?"
"Yeah…I'm not a killjoy. This is a festival! We're meant to represent the school, true but also we're teens or young adults; let's have some fun."
"Like you and…" Adam began.
"Velvet and I are not up for discussion. Though you need to stop using your hand and ask Yang out…Taiyang won't kill you, probably."
"But you and your father will?"
"Me no…Him maybe. Besides we're going to be having fun with Nev…"
"Get going you two. Represent us, fight and die well." Harry and Damania blushed at the Polar Bear.
"I really should not have introduced him to Gladiator…"
"Not your smartest choice…Then again all of your pop-culture references have not been smart choices."
Harry's retort died on his tongue and as they walked into the arena, they found themselves facing Yatsuhashi and Coco along with another pair from Shade and the two that had introduced themselves during the invasion.
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! WELCOME TO THE NEXT ROUND. DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF TEAMS PARTICIPATING, THE COUNCIL HAS DECIDED TO INCORPORATE A WHIRLWIND RUMBLE STYLE FOR THE REST OF THE TOURNAMENT. EIGHT PARTICIPANTS, FOUR DOUBLES, ONE TEAM STANDING…DEPLOY THE FIELD!"
"Good luck…Don't expect us to be nice because we're school mates." Coco said as her handbag shifted into the gatling gun. "Harry, please tell me you have a plan?"
"Survive? Take out the Shade Team and hopefully Haven stomp Coco and Yatsu…Coco's the easiest one physically, but Yatsu…his semblance if it's what I think it is or anything that I've heard then we're in a jam. I could take Yatsu, but it's more like fighting Neville but minus the hammer."
"Basically, you'd drain your aura and take him out leaving me to deal with a bunch of unfriendly unhelpful peers. Worst idea ever."
The start whistle went and immediately the gatling began to strafe "Give her 3 seconds and she should be out of ammo." Three seconds later, more ammo began to churn out.
"I was wrong."
"Salutations, Hadrian Branwen and loyal partner. I am Penny, and I am combat ready!"
With that Penny charged them, her partner quickly introduced herself as Ciel Soleil and she too charged forwards. Her wristwatch forming into a staff/sword thing with a what looked "Is that a .50 Cal on your spear?" Harry asked.
"Affirmative."
"Damania…you take swords…I'll take the over compensator." Soleil was tough! She knew how to wield her weapon with skill, for Harry quickly realised that Absolution was by far the most impractical weapon he could use.
He swore as the rifle came to the fore and five shells shot out. Harry flipped his sword up and deflected three. The other two bullets slammed into him causing his aura to materialise. Soleil looked up temporarily before letting her guard down.
Harry smirked, lightning crackled and the next thing Soleil felt was Harry driving his knee clean into her solar plexus. She felt something crack and pop, blood flooded out of her mouth.
(Stadium)
"That was a little brutal don't you think?"
"Nah, she did shoot him with that big rifle…anyway, she got distracted…He's good though."
"Yeah."
"Have you seen the other two, from Beacon. They seem to be holding out."
(Overview)
(Coco and Yatsuhashi vs Emerald Sustrai and Mercury Black plays out as it does in the show).
Everyone, including Team RWBY were amazed and slightly shocked. Coco and Yatsuhashi; two of the strongest second year students had been taken out with more or less ease.
Although Mercury did look a little unsteady as Yatsuhashi had got him with the flat of Fulcrum and had then hulk smashed him into one of the geysers. As Emerald had merely choked Coco unconscious.
(Damania)
Her opponent was good! A bit too good, unless she had some sort of muscle adaptive semblance or was a prodigy at swords. Because she was inhumanly graceful. Damania struck forth with her O-katana, two swords were brought up in an 'x' shaped effectively locking the sword in place "Harry's taught me a trick…" She welled her aura up, she drew her sword back and used the momentum to land a powerful, kick designed for someone wearing heavy, potentially reinforced or worse footwear to haemorrhage and wind or break bones and wind their opponent. In essence it was part of a fighting style with emphasis on 'No Quarter'.
Damania smirked as the kick connected with what should have been the spleen, her smirk faltered when a definite metallic sound reverberated. The recoil rocked her sending her to the floor. "HARRY!" She yelled hoping to high heaven that her team leader would help out.
It was the Universal HAND Plan Z, get Harry. "What is it? Just catching my breath."
"Penny…Either a robot or metal plated."
"Okay."
Penny looked at her opponent "Well done. I am a synthetic human being type #1, created to represent a living breathing version of Penelope 'Penny' Polendina."
Emerald and Mercury, both hidden under Emerald's semblance stopped. The battle fields had been: forest, fields, volcanic natural park and urban city. Harry and Damania had trashed a little more of the urban city biome, but then again at a later point in time, they'd protest that it was already trashed when they got there.
The field was actually a savannah but that was gone after Gianduja; the Handbag/Gatling Gun had trimmed it right down. The volcanic natural park aka geyser biome was still in tact but the geysers were much more powerful. In fact the only one relatively undamaged was the forest.
None of that really mattered, as Harry right there and then self-destructed. His aura bar decreased to the point where one good hit would eliminate him but the molecules of water in the air from the sweat and geysers began to vibrate as Harry's manipulation of dust both crystallised and natural began to combust and soon enough a full on storm would be developing above them.
(Oobleck and Port)
"Oh my! This is sensational! Has anyone seen anyone with this kind of power? And or lack of restraint? I mean, yes the biomes were designed to help those who knew how to benefit from them but this…just full on twisting and corralling the very fabric of reality or at least what it appears to be the natural elements around us for this…this is something else!" Gabbled Oobleck.
Port chuckled "Oh ho, I would most certainly have my hands fully occupied with the younger Mr. Branwen in my youth. In fact, I daresay I would struggle now…but that is another story best told another time."
(Ruby et al.)
"This…is…Harry…" Ruby began, but words were failing her. She knew her brother was insane and insanely powerful, but this…This was something else; something out of comic books! This sort of power no-one should have!
"Ruby…Harry the Hazard, as we call him…He's been left to shoulder so many burdens when he just wants to vanish. His semblance and magic fanned themselves into flames for everyone to see. Quite literally, everyone's fuck ups have made him stronger and more independent and now this has resulted in this ascendency of disaster. This. Right now, I'm guessing; all I'm doing is guessing that Harry is now working autonomously." Neville said as he watched, he could see the remaining three fighters.
"He's going to be okay?"
"Depends if they can get through his aura and then restrain him…oh boy, Atlas is going to be in some major hot water…as are we!"
(Ozpin)
"Oh James…What have you done!" Ozpin said to himself. The ever-rejuvinating wizard, destined to fight against the dark; in the form of his friend, lover and wife Salem. Ozpin was old, he knew what had come before and he lived every moment after; whatever he had missed, he quickly learnt about. He wasn't sure when Mantle had moved and become Atlas. He did know that Atlas was the most heavily dependent on Dust to deter the biting winds and also one of the most suitable places for placing a Relic.
Ozpin watched, his mind rapidly searching for a plausible reason…for anything to justify a synthetic robot to have a semblance. He needed to something to justify it if only to prevent Harry from flat-out trying to murder the Headmaster. Then there was Qrow, Ozpin sighed. Two people with utmost loyalty in him could also be his biggest pains. "I wonder if you feel the same way?"
(Salem)
She sneezed silently but the fact the windows rattled revealed the strength of it. She watched through her Observer Grimm, she needed to thank Doctor Watts for this. Her eyes widened as she watched the one named Harry, abruptly lose all control "A pity…you young one, could be so useful for my side…but you have your heart on your sleeve and can only seem to function as a barely controlled berserker…But your power is incredible, I unfortunately need you dead…but no-one can, will or may kill you aside from me."
"Ma'am?" The deep growling baritone of Hazel Reinhardt, easily the most imposing and strongest…also the most intelligent man of her subordinates. He hardly spoke, but when he did it was only enough to convey what was needed.
"Your concern is noted, but I am okay. There is a wild card on the table, by the name of Harry Branwen…Do not engage him in any sort of combat, avoid all confrontation with him at all costs…If you do see him, be polite."
"Polite…we are polite, my Queen." Came a demented giggling to her left.
"Tyrian…Everyone here will heed this command. Harry, may very well end up doing our job in Atlas for us…If he doesn't, presume he will stop us."
(Magic Wielders)
The tournament and festival had been amazing. Even Mrs. Weasley, who saw herself as the one who knew best for Harry, could easily see why Harry would not want to come home. Here, it was blatantly clear that he was treated with respect and revered…but not because of something surrounded in hearsay but for what he had done.
The same with Hermione, the bookish girl who had once been fully planted in Dumbledore's court on the basis of "He's an adult, they know what they're doing" only to be proven wrong could see it. Harry, whilst hating the attention for deeds he did not remember and at costs no-one paid attention to, liked the attention he got here…He didn't like the pointing and the delirious whispering in the street but the nods and waves and the cheers he received for being him nothing more or less, but he felt more at ease about it. Hermione snorted it was hypocritical and potentially paradoxical but that was her best friend in a nutshell. Were they friends? Or not? Harry hadn't dropped her secrets on her in front of everyone…so he was still friends with her…People were hard, books so much easier. "I better apologise, all the same."
"Miss Granger?" It was Professor McGonagall.
"I need to apologise to Harry; trying to force him to come back with us." She nodded.
"He has most definitely become more confident in his own skin…Oh wow…I mean, I knew he was powerful but this…this is simply absurd to the point of amazing." They watched as HAND effortlessly destroyed their first team and were now making piecemeal out of the second and third teams.
(Normal)
"Damania, sorry about this…but jump. ELECTROMAGNETIC DISRUPTION!" Damania activated her semblance as she jumped clean up and over her well shocking teammate.
Emerald reached out and ensnared the pair, Damania went up and suddenly Emerald felt her body began to convulse as suddenly the lightning discharged, overwhelming both her and Mercury.
Penny, unfortunately lay charred, blackened and melted…her systems were not built to withstand such discharges. "You okay?"
"Yeah, Harry…I think we, I mean by we, you…are kinda screwed."
"Atlas? Guns pointed at me?"
"Yup."
(Ruby et al.)
"Mum, Dad…" Qrow, Summer, and Adam along with Nanuuk and Velvet were heading out of the stands and for the arena.
"Team RWBY, JNPR…Stay put." Qrow ordered.
"Why are you, two…"
"Harry's our friend and teammate. He's only restraining himself due to his self-knowing that he's gone too far. However, knowing Atlas…they're going to set him off and unfortunately, Damania is his fuse."
"Faunus rights…Of course, Harry's told us about the other side and his views on Faunus equality." The adults paled and began to pick up their pace and as they reached the corridor leading out into the arena they quickly found fifteen Atlesian knights heading into the arena "Put your hands in the air!"