The screen began to bubble and boil as the familiar silver door rose from it's depths, the thick purple chains corroding and breaking apart as the door opened up and bathed everything in dark purple.
From the tainted light, came a single red eye that glared at the screen before the door slammed shut and everything became static, a crumbling rose symbol appearing every so often as the title began to form.
The Ruinverse: Chapter Thirty Four, Slipping Failure.
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-Remnant, Sanus, Vale-
"Ah..ah…ah…" panted the resident 'B' of Team RWBY as she stopped right near the corner of a coffee shop, her breathing heavy due to her not stopping for rest in two days, her stomach starving and her own aura nearly depleted as her eyes were heavy with the specter of tiredness.
The reason? She ran off due to…a disagreement with her own team, as she was forced to reveal her ears to a Schnee that knew nothing of her hardships and personal demons.
As of right now, she just wanted to be left alone, to stay away from anyone that might help her…just so she doesn't feel weak, scared and pathetic to anyone's eyes, especially humans. For her, this was expected of a faunus, one that ran away from the past and now present, a recurring pattern that would be her future.
Find trouble, be exposed, run away, rinse and repeat.
It was all the same for her…and she hated it.
'Damn it…' she thought to herself while poking her head around a corner, only to notice someone right near the table right next to her direction.
That being a tall tan skinned boy with short spiky light-blonde hair, dark gray eyes, thick abs, a long blonde monkey-like tail, wearing an open loose-collared white jacket that exposed his shirtless chest and stomach, two red wrist bracers, black fingerless gloves, a twisted gold necklace with a single round pendant sporting a monkey-like emblem, a white belt, blue cargo pants, a long chain attached to the right side of his belt loop, white bandages on the legs, black and yellow sneakers, who was currently munching on a banana as his cup of coffee laid undisturbed on the table.
'Wait, isn't that the guy from two days ago. What was his name…um…Snow Mokung? No, it's Sun Wukong, yeah, that's the name.' she thought while shaking her head, her brain still tired from last night's 'jog', aka her constant running. 'The reason why…no, it wasn't his fault. It just happened…'
As she looked upon the monkey faunus, she felt like walking up to him and perhaps letting her feelings out. Maybe even getting his help in sorting out her own personal baggage.
But as the thought entered her mind, a sudden sense of doubt formed alongside it. Could he be trusted and, just maybe, he didn't want to help?
He seemed nice and even flirted, badly, at her once…but she just couldn't muster up the courage to ask for his assistance, not after losing the trust of her team.
'No, he couldn't help me anyway. He has his own life, and I have my own life.' she thought with a sad smile, turning to leave and find someplace quiet to calm her erratic mind.
But…fate had other things in mind.
"Nom nom nom."
As the monkey faunus finished his banana, he looked at the peel and shrugged before sending it flying over his shoulder.
Splat!
Right near Blake's left foot.
SWISH!
"AHHHH!" she screamed before sliding right into the road, falling on her face as her aura shattered upon the asphalt. "Ow…"
"Eh? Wait, isn't that-"
HONK HONK!
Sun's eyes widened in horror as he quickly sprinted towards the road.
SPLAT!
Only to watch in horror as a speeding truck ran over Blake's body, crushing her head into pulp and breaking her weapon and bones in the process, blood splattering on Sun's face and clothes as the road was drenched in the girl's still warm blood.
"...oh….oh…oh…gods!" he cried out in horror, as the color drained from his face.
But before he could move towards the body, he saw three figures rushing right towards him.
That being Team RW_Y, their faces filled with shock, horror and disbelief as they surrounded the body of their teammate, the blonde's eyes blood red as her semblance now activated and glowing brightly, punched a truck with her right arm, stopping it and destroying the engine in the process.
"My tru-"
"SHUT UP!" Yang yelled while storming towards the driver and pulled him out by the shirt. "You nearly RAN OVER the body of OUR teammate! After one of your friends KILLED HER!"
"Ah! I didn't do it!"
"Well that is bullshit!" she growled before throwing him across the street and glared at the now stopped vehicles all around her. "Don't even try it!"
As the blonde brawler growled at the passersby with malice, Weiss started to cry, her previous actions coming back to her as she held Blake's right hand, letting the blood stain her skirt in the process.
"No…no no no!" Ruby cried in disbelief, flashes of her own past coming back to her like a firestorm, forcing her into a small mental breakdown in the process, her eyes glowing silver for a brief moment as Sun stood there unmoving and rather…shocked at the events that just transpired. "No no no no!"
'...oh gods. I…couldn't save her.' he thought while guilt started to creep up in his heart, only to notice the banana peel near the 'crime scene' and paled in horror. 'Wait, that peel…oh no. I killed her!? But, it was an accident! I…I didn't see her at all!'
As this occurred, Sun noticed something washing over the team's faces, slowly at first but it soon became more apparent as the minutes went on and the police began to barricade the roads to prevent traffic congestion.
First came despair, then came grief, and then…rage.
Not just any rage, but a more broken kind of rage that was reserved to those suffering from a great loss, something Sun knew first hand due to his nomadic upbringing.
It was chaotic, spiteful, misdirected and occasionally murderous in intention. No one can sway the person or persons unless they were close to them or the person themselves learned the hard way.
But in this case….it wasn't going away anytime soon, yet for Sun, perhaps he could stop the rage before it consumed them? Maybe…who knows but he wasn't going to mope about that much, he only knew the girl for like a day or two, he wasn't that attached to her…yet he just hated seeing people become consumed by their own sadness.
'Ok…just talk to them.' he thought before moving towards Weiss.
WOOSH!
CLANG!
Only for Ruby to slam her scythe at the faunus' face, which he quickly blocked utilizing a dark red bō staff with gold detailing that he pulled out from under his shirt, as the girl's eyes were filled with angry tears.
"Don't come near her, murderer!"
"Woah! Wait, a second, I was just trying to talk to you guys." he said before seeing Yang's angry expression and gulped.
"You ain't getting anything like that from us." she frowned while her arms shook with rage. "Especially after YOU killed MY partner!"
"It was an accident! I didn't even see her!"
"Likely story." Weiss frowned, slowly standing up as glyphs formed near her shoulders, revealing several small white Nevermore heads poking out from the circles. "But you are a thief, a criminal! You get your kicks from this stuff!"
"Hey, that's discriminatory!"
"Like I care!" she snapped while pulling out her blade. "You killed Blake, you killed her BEFORE I could apologize to her! And now…you must pay!"
He gulped, seeing their angry faces, and pushed Ruby's weapon back. "I can stay in jail, that I'm willing to do…but you three need to calm-"
"What makes you think we're just going to let you stay in jail?" Yang frowned while cocking her weapons, causing Sun's eyes to dilate a little. "We are going to kill you."
"Wait a moment! You can't kill me! You're…Huntsmen right? That's against the code." he said before seeing Ruby's scythe swinging at his neck, causing him to quickly dodge, jump on her head and land on top of a lamppost. "Woah!"
"After what you did, this is an exception!" Ruby growled before slashing at the lamppost, causing it to fall as Sun quickly jumped on another one.
BAM!
"CAW!"
Only for buckshot and a barrage of white constructs to fire upon the faunus, making him turn the staff into a gold chain-linked lever-action gun-chucks as he blocked the attacks and jumped onto another lamppost.
"Ah!" 'Shit, they are serious!'
"Get back down here so we can skin you alive!" Weiss yelled while firing a blast of Gravity Dust at the lamppost, warping the metal as Sun quickly jumped onto a passing car driving on the opposite lane, and quickly used the vehicle to escape. "FUCK!"
"Don't let him get away!" Ruby yelled while activating her semblance and 'ran' after the faunus, who was holding onto the car for dear life.
'I should've just jumped onto the roof, but I REALLY need to lose them, maybe find someone to get them to-'
SWISH!
BEEEP!
"AH!" he screamed as a scythe slashed against the right side of the car, cutting it in half as Ruby continued to use her semblance to keep up with the faunus.
"Stand still and die!" Ruby yelled from within the flurry of rose petals as the scythe kept on slashing at the car, which struggled to stay together, the remaining wheels dipping down towards the road and a possible explosion.
"Like no way." he said before jumping onto another car, just as the metal began to ignite the gas tank.
KABOOOOM!
Causing a large explosion as Sun had to jump onto various cars, avoiding the Silver Eyes' attacks as more and more cars were hacked and slashed into pieces and explosive materials.
BOOM!
BOOOM!
BOOOOOM!
"STAND STILL, MURDERER!" Ruby yelled as Sun quickly jumped onto a truck's backside, opened the trailer's door and quickly closed it shut, just as said trick raced down a dark tunnel out of Vale. "FUDGE MONKEYS!"
(A bit later)
-Somewhere outside Vale-
"Ah…ah…ah…" panted Sun as he was currently resting against a soft pillow, the plastic preventing him from actually enjoying the softness in its entirety, as he looked at his Scroll, quickly calling his teammate Neptune. "Pick up…Neptune…"
Ring…ring…ring…
"I'm unable to pick up the call, please leave a message after the beep."
The faunus groaned in frustration as he felt a little…overwhelmed, especially after three 'former' Huntresses attempted to kill him. "Damn it Neptune." 'Ugh…maybe I should call him later. When I know I'm safe…I mean what are the chances that they are following me right now?'
As he placed his weapon, Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang, in staff form near his left side and began to close his eyes.
VOOOM!
VOOOM!
'Huh? A motorcycle? Huh…that's kinda relaxing.' he thought as the camera zoomed away from his direction and towards the direction of the sound.
VOOOM!
VOOOM!
Which was soon revealed to be a bright yellow and black motorcycle, ridden by the 'Y' of Team RWY as Weiss and Ruby held onto her back, all of them moving faster and faster towards the truck as the sun began to dip down into the horizon.
"Just you wait, murderer." Yang growled while revving up the engine more. "We will catch you, skin you alive and then use you for target practice!"
And just like that, the screen became black as tar, the only thing illuminating the darkness were the motorcycle's headlights and Yang's glaring red eyes.
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Name/Designation Title: Sun Wukong (Slipping Failure Sun Wukong- SFSWRWBY)
Age: 17~18?
Affiliation: Normal Evil (Very loosely.)
Dimension: - 22222209- 01 SFSWRWBY
Abilities: Enhanced strength, speed, endurance, jumping, agility, balance and durability, climbing skills, night vision, prehensile tail, martial arts skills and knowledge, 'gun-chuck' handling and knowledge, bō staff knowledge and handling, nunchaku knowledge and handling, shotgun knowledge and handling.
Semblance(s): Via Sun.
Bio: In this timeline, when Blake Belladonna ran away from her team, she located Sun Wukong in Vale and was about to start up a conversation when she, at the last moment, decided to avoid him as well, not wanting to bother the faunus. As she left, one of Sun's banana peels, which he had just finished eating at the time, flew in her direction and landed right near her left foot, causing her to slip and fall into running traffic…right as a speeding truck raced across the road, killing her on contact due to the speed and lack of time to set up a clone. This moment would horrify not just Sun, who felt terrible for his actions, but also the remaining members of Team RWBY, who heard the crash a few blocks down and saw the truck crushing Blake's head with its front wheel. Shock turned to grief and that grief quickly turned to rage as Team RWY became convinced that Sun killed Blake on purpose, seeing the monkey faunus as a worse enemy than Roman Torchwick as, in their eyes, they can never mend the broken words and actions from two days ago, ever. In their rage, they abandoned their own Huntress creed and began to actively hunt the faunus, who escaped Vale by the skin of his teeth, and plan on killing, skinning and then using his body as target practice as retribution for their fallen comrade's 'murder'. Unable to rest or hide for long periods of time, Sun became a prisoner of this deadly game of cat and mouse, forcing him to become a survivor, adapting to anything thrown his way as he is constantly filled with self reflection upon his own carefree actions, never looking back lest Team RWY finds and ends the faunus on the spot. How interesting that all of this hate…came from a banana peel.