A/N: I hate typing on this new laptop. I miss my old one.

Also, heeeyyy! I am alive and college sucks. I miss high school, though I now have a new reason to write again and that's boredom.

At the bottom A/N, I have a few things that need to be addressed so please be sure to read them.

Chapter 32: else, then what

~Soap

Unknown location

"I miss you Summer, I miss you so much." I said aloud to no one. "I wish you were still here; you would know what to do to make me stop crying and how to help me with what I'm feeling right now."

I sobbed into my hands as the cold, icy air threatened to freeze my tears, however my semblance ensured that they would not.

After a length of unknown time, I managed to calm myself down to the point that I could form rational thoughts again.

Slowly, I materialized the very blade that stole the innocents lives of so many people.

The very blade that destroyed an entire city.

That was the moment that everything started to go black...

~Blake

I stood there for a moment trying to fully process the events that had just unfolded.

When I finished, my mind kept coming back to one thing: that beautiful blade that Soap had thrown at Niri.

Something didn't quite make sense though.

Out of everybody that was currently taking up residence at the church, Sarah, Bucky, and myself knew the most about Soap.

With that said, it still felt as though he hid some things from us; I saw then that I was right.

What I still wasn't sure of was where Niri fit into the picture. I could only see what had been told to me.

There were still questions that had gone unanswered.

I had to find Niri and ask her a few questions; but first I had to talk to Sam and the others.

"You know, you never did tell me what happened that night when you found me in that mountain top temple."

"There was a reason for that."

"That being?"

"I was afraid that you would run off if I told you."

"Well, I'm a bit too old to run now. Would you mind telling me now?"

"Why not?"

~Sarah

It was very, very dark when I arrived at my destination.

The destination in question was an abandoned, mountain top temple long forgotten before even Ozpin was born.

Even with my faunus enhanced night vision, I could barely see.

'How the hell am I going to find Chris?' I thought to myself.

Just then I heard a familiar voice cry out in pain through the darkness.

"NO! STAY AWAY! THIS IS MY BODY!" I heard Chris scream into the night.

His voice sounded desperate, as if he was on the verge of death.

"STOP! I PROMISED I WOULD PROTECT HER!"

"You weren't worried when you heard me screaming bloody murder?"

"Of course I was worried; I just had to find you before I could show it. Otherwise I wouldn't have found you to begin with."

I started to move toward his voice. As I got closer, I noticed deep scratches and splotches of blood; both were very fresh and caused by a human.

After following his screams for a few more minutes, I finally located him behind a locked door that I had to force open.

I'll be honest, I didn't expect what I found.

When I forced open the door I came face to face with a brightly lit room riddled with archaic writing and ritual circles. The room itself only had three walls; the fourth was crumbling and exposed to the snowy world outside.

In the center of the room was Chris with his hair concerningly pitch black and another thing that was even more concerning was that his eyes were pitch black as well.

Chris was bent over in the center of the room surrounded by his own blood. A lot of it too, more than any human should have inside them.

I cautiously made my way to the center of the room with my weapons in hand.

When I was 15 feet from him, he suddenly rushed me with a very peculiar, ornate black blade in hand. A blade whose purpose I was very familiar with.

I blocked the charge and prepared for another.

He started charging again but fell halfway. He pushed himself up screaming, "WHY DID YOU TAKE HER AWAY FROM ME? SHE WAS MY ONLY LIGHT IN THIS WORLD!"

He laid there in the middle of the floor sobbing. "Sarah, I'm sorry! I'm sorry I couldn't protect you from those monsters!"

His eyes were flickering between pitch black and their normal color.

I slowly made my way to him and knelt down beside him. "I'm right here Chris. I'm fine."

His eyes were stable when he looked up at me still sobbing. "Is it really you Sarah?"

"Yes." I showed him the ring on my finger. "I promise."

His hair slowly changed back to it's normal pure white color at the sight of my ring.

He put his hand in mine and intertwined our fingers. After a moment of staring into his eyes, I bent down and kissed him. "Come on, you need to get some sleep."

He nodded his head and quietly asked in a childish voice, "You promise you won't be gone when I wake up?"

"I promise."

"Okay."

He laid his head on my lap as I teleported us to the wall.

A few minutes later when Chris was fast asleep, I spoke quietly, "You are my husband. I vowed to never leave your side and I meant it. Get some sleep Soap."

I laid my head against the wall behind me and closed my eyes.

A little while later, I contacted Blake.

"Hey Blake?"

"Hey, where are you?" She asked.

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you. Just get here as soon as you can, I'm going to need some help getting him out of here. You should be able to find me by following me through your bond."

"Yeah I can see that. I know where you are I just don't know how to get to you."

"Then just get Bucky to set up the autopilot on one of our recon bullheads." I said remembering that we built one a few days ago for a mission but never had the need to use it.

"I can't have him just fly me there?"

"No."

I could almost hear Blake sigh before she responded, "Fine."

An hour later I heard the almost unnoticeable sound of our reconnaissance bullhead landing.

"I'm here. Where the hell are you?" She asked me.

"I have no idea. Besides, you of all people should be able to find me by following your instincts."

Blake didn't respond for a moment, "What do you mean?"

"You are both a faunus and were almost an assassin for the White Fang; you should be able to find me with ease."

"I know. And I have." I heard her say from the doorway.

"That was quick." I said.

"Don't mention it." She said as she looked over the room we were in. "Two questions. One, what is this room? Two, what on remnant happened?"

She sheathed her weapons as she made her way over to us.

"I don't really have an answer for one. As for two though, it appears that Chris's other side tried to take over."

Blake's face grew concerned when she heard this. "Why do you say that?"

"Because when I found him he was screaming, his hair was black, and he attacked me."

"He attacked you and his hair? That's how you knew?" Blake asked, trying to make sense of the situation.

"Yes, but the two things that confirmed it for me were the fact that his eyes were pitch black instead of their usual silver-brown and the fact that when he attacked me he did so with a weapon."

"Why is that important?"

"In all the years that I have known him, he has only ever used a weapon other than his gun once. That was when I got injured when we were rescuing Drake. It was only a small cut, but it was enough to set him off." I said.

"Actually, I think I remember him telling me about this. He said that the thing inside him uses his weapons as a way to come out."

I nodded. "Yep."

"Well, let's get Soap out of here." Blake said, about to grab Chris's arms.

"Sure, but we should probably stop his bleeding first." I said.

A/N: So this is a rather random update. I was called for jury duty and sat in a room for a few hours so I got some typing done. I cannot promise regular updates, but I will update when I can.

Also, I have a question for you all. If I were to write it, would you guys enjoy some chapters containing some of the everyday things that Soap and co. do?

I ask because it seems to me that I have been giving you guys nothing but plot for a while. Let me know what you think.

Another thing, I have been revising the beginning of the story rather steadily and have been swapping from 3rd person to 1st person; so please check it out and let me know what you think.

I should be updating relatively soon with Blake's side of things but until then, have a good one.