Well, watching Volume 4 has brought out my RWBY fan once more, so I decided to add a little more to this story. That and several reviews asking me to continue with this. Anyway, this specific chapter will focus on the reactions of other characters to the Flash's existence, and expand a bit more on what else he (and Reverse-Flash) were doing during their brief time on Remnant.
Disclaimer: Obviously, I do not own RWBY or the Flash.
It had been several days since the fall of Beacon. Ruby had finally woken up and was with her father and uncle, discussing what had happened while she was out. Eventually, Qrow asked to talk to Ruby privately, and her father reluctantly agreed. Once Taiyang had left the room, Qrow sat down on the chair, smiling softly at her.
"How're you feeling kiddo?" Qrow asked.
"Well, I hurt." Ruby sheepishly replied. "Everywhere."
Qrow chuckled. "Well, after what you did, that's not surprising."
Ruby shook her head, a look of confusion growing on her face.
"You all keep saying I did something, but I don't..." She trailed off, to which Qrow looked at her in both concern and curiousity.
"What's the last thing you remember?"
Ruby's mind went back as she recalled the last events she could think of.
"I ran up the side of the tower, and when I got to the top, I... saw Cinder and-" She gasped as her eyes widened in horror. "Pyrrha! Is she...?"
At this, Qrow actually smiled slightly, his expression softening at Ruby's concern.
"She's fine."
"Wh-What?!" Ruby all but shrieked, in complete shock.
"She was badly wounded by Cinder, but she's recovering. I believe your friend Jaune is with her."
"I-I thought Cinder killed her." Ruby whispered as a torrent of emotions flooded through her.
"Well, that might explain what happened next."
And so Qrow told her the tale of the Silver-eyed warriors along with the fact that her mother had been the same. Qrow then explained all the things that had happened after she had blacked out, and what the state of events were in Vale. Then he explained what they had learned about the rest of her team. Ruby took it all in with varying degrees of sadness and confusion, but at the end, there was still one thing that was bothering her.
"So... how did Pyrrha get off the tower?" She asked. "All I saw was a streak of lightning and then... she was gone. Who saved her?"
"That... we know, though we still don't know who." Qrow sighed, then noticed Ruby's confusion. "According to your friends, that streak of lightning was caused by someone in a red costume. He apparently got Pyrrha out of there before Cinder could finish her off and got her to Jaune. And he made a brief appearance to Glynda and Ironwood. According to them, he called himself the Flash."
Ruby was quiet for a moment as she processed this information. She had gotten to the top of the tower with Weiss' help and yet had only arrived just in time to see Cinder fire an arrow. She couldn't process the event in time to use her speed to stop it. But this 'Flash' was behind her, yet had apparently ran up the side of the tower under his own power and had been fast enough to grab Pyrrha and get her miles away. All in the time it took for Cinder to let an arrow fly.
"That guy must've been fast." Far faster than even she was.
"Oh, big time." Qrow agreed. "We've got corraborating stories from groups all over Vale who claim that a streak of yellow lightning saved them from the Grimm. There's no doubt as to who it was. Your friends are also saying that he first appeared from some sort of portal, then vanished into a different one after saving Pyrrha."
"So, this Flash... is gone?"
"Yep." Qrow sighed. "Which is a shame. He left one hell of an impression..."
Battle of Beacon. Days earlier.
Glynda and Ironwood made their way through the streets, fighting towards the downed Atlas airship. Qrow had left the group, having headed off towards Beacon when that massive blast of light had appeared.
He had only left a minute ago, which seemed to coincide with a large wave of Grimm headed right for the experienced Hunters. That was when something surprising happened.
A streak of gold lightning ran blasted through the streets, ramming into the Grimm formation and sending dozens of them flying. To their surprise, the lightning halted, revealing a man clad in a red and yellow costume. Instinctively, Ironwood aimed his sidearm at the oddly dressed human, who raised his hands in a take-it-easy gesture.
"Hey, hey! I'm one of the good guys."
"Who are you?" Glynda asked. He paused in what seemed like amused confusion.
"I'm the Flash."
"What kingdom are you from?"
Ironwood's question drew a very confused glance from the masked man, but before he could say anything, loud screaming drew the attention of him and the two Hunters. Spinning around, the masked man disappeared in a streak of yellow lightning, moving far faster than either of them could follow.
To their surprise, two seconds later, the lightning briefly returned, and a young male boy was standing right before them. Then the lightning disappeared and came back again, this time deposting an old female Faunus in front of them. The pattern of lightning continued until two dozen civilians were standing in the street with them. All of which happened in less than fifteen seconds.
"Looks like this Flash just brought us everyone left in the area." Glynda said.
"So he is one of the good guys." Ironwood murmered. "But I still have to get to my ship."
"James, just go." Glynda said wearily. "I'll get these people out of here."
Hesitantly, the General nodded and moved towards his ship. Glynda looked towards the fearful crowd around her. Steeling her resolve, she collected herself. She was a Huntress. These people were looking at her for hope and guidance. She just wished she had more to give them.
"Alright everyone." She called, gathering the attention of everyone in the crowd. "Stay close to me. I'll guide you to a safe zone."
Reluctant to go further into the now Grimm infested city, Glynda was nevertheless able to get everyone to agree to go with her. As she led them through the Grimm infested streets, she realized that she hadn't seen this Flash character after he had brought these people to her. Dismissing her thoughts as unimportant, she focused on the task at hand.
On a rooftop in Vale, Mercury and Emerald were watching as the Grimm tore through the city. Mercury was still filming the events from his Scroll, while Emerald was looking on the events with mixed feelings.
A small thunderclap erupted from down on the street, surprising the two of them. The master thief and the assassin looked down, and were surprised to find a strange blue-white portal in the middle of the street.
"What is that?" Emerald asked.
Before Mercury could answer a figure emerged from the breach which quickly sealed. Neither of Cinder's henchmen noticed, as their attention had been drawn solely to this new arrival.
He was clad in a yellow, black and red costume, with red glowing eyes emerging from his mask. The man's body was vibrating at an unnatural pace, giving off the appearance of some sort of evil ghost.
The red eyed man briefly looked up towards them, causing Mercury and Emerald to flinch, before turning away and vanishing in a streak of red lightning, which raced through the streets of Vale.
Nearby, the water in a fountain suddenly started levitating as if gravity had somehow been reversed. When the streak of red lightning was gone, the water fell back to the ground with a splash.
"Uh... what the hell was that?" Mercury asked, with a slight waver in his voice.
Emerald had no answer. While she appeared calm on the inside, inwardly she was terrified of what she had just seen. That being in the yellow costume just felt... unnatural. Even more so than the Grimm, or even Cinder.
"Did you get it on tape?" Emerald asked, finally finding her voice.
Mercury checked the camera, then nodded.
"We should show it to Cinder." She said. "Whoever that was, he could be a threat to the plan."
Not to mention our lives. Emerald thought, though she kept it to herself. For once, Mercury had no scathing comeback. And judging from one look at his face, he was quietly scared of what he had seen as well.
Those red eyes just kept coming up in her mind, and she thought she felt a sense of... indifference from this man. Like two of the most dangerous people in the kingdom were of absolutely no threat to this man.
And that little... anomaly with the water. That was not like the power of the Maidens. It was just... unnatural. Suddenly, everything they had accomplished, every piece of Cinder's plan, even the world of Remnant itself, suddenly felt... insignificant.
Both of their thought processes were interrupted when a flash of blinding light emerged from the top of Beacon tower. The light passed, and soon Mercury noticed a body flying towards the ground. It hit the street a block away, and the assassin looked at the thief.
"That's not a good sign." Emerald rolled her eyes.
"Let's go."
She jumped off the side of the building and landed on the street, quickly followed by Mercury. The two of them made their way towards where the body had fallen. On the way there, Emerald thought she saw a streak of yellow lightning out of the corner of her eye, but it was gone before she could be sure. Shrugging it off, she focused on reaching the impact site, where the two of them found-
"Cinder!"
She was lying in a crater, badly wounded from whatever had caused that explosion of light at Beacon. There were noticeable cuts and bruises all over her body, and her right eye was now a bloodied wreck, with an x-shaped cut around her eye socket.
"What the hell could do this to her?" Mercury asked.
"Who cares? We've gotta get her out of here."
Emerald lifted her up with Mercury's help and put their boss over his shoulder. As Mercury left, the thief looked back at the tower, where the massive Grimm Dragon was now frozen. To her surprise, she saw the streak of red lightning climbing up Beacon tower, reaching the precipice in less than a second.
In the ruined remains of Ozpin's office, everything was quiet and still. The Grimm Dragon was frozen in its perch on the top of the office, while debris and large gears were scattered all over the room. Ruby Rose was lying unconscious on the floor, her last act having taken all the energy out of her.
As such, there was no one conscious to see a streak of red lightning resolve itself into a man in a yellow costume, with a red lightning bolt in a circle of black on his chest. His body was vibrating at an unnatural pace, and glowing red eyes not unlike the Grimm surveyed the room, taking a long look at the Dragon frozen like a spectre of death.
The man briefly looked at Ruby, then turned away. In a streak of lightning, he was suddenly in front of Ozpin's ruined desk, lifting up debris and pushing rubble away, surveying the ruins for something.
Finding it fruitless, the man was on the other side of the room in a heartbeat, searching another pile of debris, but once again, finding nothing. The pattern repeated two more times, with the man growing increasingly frustrated. Then with a look of realization, he turned his red-eyed gaze towards the Grimm Dragon, which was frozen in a roar directed at Ruby.
In a heartbeat, the man was standing over the young Huntress' prone form, before getting down on one knee for a closer inspection. Dimly, he heard the sound of a crow cawing from below the office, but ignored it as he looked over the young girl.
After a moment, the man raised his arm, his hand straight and moved it toward Ruby's chest. Before he could move any closer, something caught his attention. Looking over the edge of the tower into the city below, the man watched as a streak of yellow lightning moved throughout the urban streets at an incredible speed.
"There you are." A monstrously distorted voice broke the silence at the top of the office.
With a small smile, the man in yellow disappeared in a streak of red lightning, heading directly for the city below. Seconds after he vanished, the crow flew over the edge and Qrow landed in front of Ruby. Picking up Crescent Rose and storing it on his back, Qrow picked up Ruby in his arms.
"It's alright. I got ya, kiddo. I got ya."
Alright, that concludes this chapter. I may decide to continue with this even further, but I'll have to see how Volume 4 goes before I figure out a specific storyline. However, if I do, I may have Supergirl make an appearance at some point, so look forward to that.
Also, since Pyrrha would still be alive, can anyone think of a good name for a team consisting of Ruby, Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora and Ren? I'm really stuck on if I just keep it as Juniper, or change it to something different.
I'm also making an assumption about what happened to Cinder, but I'm assuming something like what I wrote happened after Ruby unleashed her power against her.
Anyway, I hope everyone enjoyed this and reviews are always welcome.