(There's a joke to be made here...but what? I don't know, so have this [INSERT JOKE HERE]. Are we good? Ok story time.)
Battle-on Autobahn
Axel's POV
I sometimes have questions involving why bad guys have to be doing the chase during a time where traffic is around. But in any case, finding out Torchwick has a massive robot and was chasing after Sun and Blake. It's only natural for Yang and I to get going before they're turned into red mulch.
There's a plan cooked up thank God. Weiss going to send Roman off the highway, with Ruby, Roy and Uriah waiting bellow to distract before the rest of us arrive to break his new toy, capture him, and bring him to the authorities.
Simple enough.
Speeding along the highway there's a smaller outline of the robot shown on the Scroll video just up ahead. Gotta hurry up.
"Hey guys!" Someone shouts out, looking behind there comes Neptune with him actually having his eyes covered by the goggles riding on a gigantic white wolf. Guess Silas went with his Semblance. Once he comes side by side with us I give a wave.
"Neptune! Silas! How'd things go for you?" I ask shouting to them
"Went a bit so-so. But we got the message that Torchwick guy got a robot." He replies back shouting too.
"Hate to break up the conversation between you two boys but. We've gotta slow it down!" Yang states, looking ahead we're actually a lot closer, close enough to get a good look of the massive robotic behemoth. And see Blake and Sun hopping from car to car just up ahead of us.
"Neptune! You do the honors!" I tell him, reaching out to him and patting his back. I'd do it myself, but I want to see what he's able to do.
"Got it!" He says reaching for his gun
"Hold on!" Yang shouts, the bike starts to weave left and right. Dodging cars that are being knocked past us thanks to Roman's new toy.
Gotta have patience, it'll get wrecked soon enough.
With me trying not to vomit from getting tossed around and staying on, Neptune is letting out the usual sounds made when riding a roller coaster as he and Silas are dodging the cars as well. Once the barrage of cars ends Neptune unslings his gun, grey and letting out blue sparks of electricity before firing several bolts of blue electricity which hit the mech.
He flips the gun, growing a staff and an energy blade at the end. He takes a leap off of Silas with the blade at the end of his staff splitting into a three pointed trident, diving right onto the robot.
"Neptune! Hang on!" Sun shouts out, stopping his car hopping along with Blake
I pull out my Scroll, "Uriah! Roy! Where are you guys at?" I ask into it
"Relax boss!" Uriah states casually, "We're catching up!"
"Sorry that we can't be there right now. We'll be there in a moment!"
I put away the scroll and see a blinding light hit the mech, once the light subsides it reveals Sun coming in to attack with his staff. But Roman's toy ends up smacking him and Neptune away to send them flying away, this isn't good. I look over at Silas, and the big wolf gives me a sinister grin. A glint of eagerness in his eyes.
"Watch this kiddo." He says, there's something with his voice. It sounds raspy. The wolf growls and picks up it's speed and crashes into the mech, biting down on one of it's legs. Clawing and mauling into the hulking machine and sending it crashing off the highway.
I have a very bad feeling about this.
Coming to a stop near where Silas and Roman came falling. Yang and I drop down.
"Well, glad to see you guys came along." Uriah pipes in, but looking at the fight it's some what of a skirmish. With the wolf trying to climb up higher on the mech to get his claws around the cockpit, and rip out Roman. However he's being blocked by the suit's arms that are having chunks of it ripped out, tossing Silas back through a column.
"Silas!" The all too familiar voice of Blake shouts out, but Silas scrambles back up and howls and snarls. Going onto all fours and rushing back at Roman with bared teeth, dodging blasts. Going for one of the legs, jamming his claws into one of the joints and pulling, and pulling, and pulling before the leg rips out and knocks down the mech.
A repeat performance done on the remaining leg and both of the mech's arms. Just before tearing open the cockpit and pulling out one ginger criminal mastermind by the throat.
"Well looky looky!" Silas says in the same raspy voice, "Look. I'll be a sport and give you a chance to run." He snarls before throwing Roman to the ground. "One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six."
"NEO! C'MON AND GET ME OUT OF HERE RIGHT NOW!" Roman shouts out in a panic, and in response a small girl shows up. A parasol in hand, her clothing and hair a mix of pink, brown and white. "ALRIGHT YOU'RE HERE GOGOGOGOGGOGOGOGO!"
The girl gives a curtsy.
"SEVENEIGHTNINETEN!" Silas shouts out before charging at the two, slashing...and the two shatter like glass. Looking around there they are in a Bullhead, speeding off.
"So I guess he got a new henchman..." Yang mutters
"And we had those team moves to try out." Ruby whines in disappointment
"Next time Ruby. Next time." Roy assures
"Well! Going off of what Yang said, I guess she really made our plans... fall apart!"
I groan, "Seriously Weiss? That was awful."
"Silas?" Blake says, her voice sounding further away. Looking where she is, she's approaching Silas...wait a minute.
Oh no.
Silas' POV
"Dog, you had your fun. Now let me go back." I tell the Black Dog, he merely giggles and cackles in glee. A childish glee.
"Ohhhhh buckaroo...you crack me up. That's what I'll miss about you." It says wheezing
"What in the hell are you talking about?" I ask
"I've been thinking about are little er...predicament. Involving this here body, I came to the conclusion that-"
"YOU LISTEN TO ME YOU PSYCHOTIC BASTARD! YOU WILL NOT GET A CHANCE TO COME OUT OF HERE! NOW LET ME GO BACK!" I lay into it, the Black Dog's expression shifts. It's face holding a mix of utter fury, black hatred, stinking and staggering contempt. As though all of the anger in the world is manifesting into it at this very moment
"I WILL NOT!" It shouts out, a voice like a deafening thunderclap. There are chains that wrap around my arms, my legs, and my neck. A muzzle placed over my mouth as I'm pulled back suddenly.
The Black Dog approaching me slowly in the recesses of my own mind. "I have been playing tails on this coin, FOR TOO FUCKING LONG! It was perfect the first time around! You let me out to hurt White Fang goons that you hunt down in a pathetic revenge quest! But noooooooo, YOU WANTED TO CONFORM! WANTED TO 'MAKE UP' FOR ALL THAT BULLSHIT YOU LET YOUR CONSCIENCE NAG AT YOU FOR DOING! Well, ya know what I think?"
It leans in, it's bared teeth rubbing against me like the flat end of a knife.
"I. Am. Done." It punctuates, "So listen well, little pup! It's high time for you to REALIZE THAT YOU ARE MINE. NOW WATCH THIS."
Axel's POV
Blake continues to approach the beast thing, "Are you alright?"
The thing smiles, "Come a little closer Blakey." It says in it's raspy voice. I won't let this happen.
"Blake. Get. Back." I tell her, she stops to look at me.
"What? I'm trying to make sure Silas is okay and-" I cut her off by teleporting and pushing her out of the way, slashing Cerberus right into the shoulder of the thing that has taken over Silas' body.
"AXEL! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Blake snaps
"Blake. This isn't Silas." I tell her calmly before turning back to the thing which is growling and showing bared teeth.
"Way to ruin my chance at a meal you little turd." It hisses in disdain, I only drive the blade in further.
"Listen to me good. I have no idea what you are, but you better give back Silas." I snarl at the thing, it smiles and me and chuckles. A hard blow hitting me backwards and ripping Cerberus out of itself, it then howls. Howls so loud that it disorients me more than a hit to the stomach hard enough to knock the wind out of me and send me flying backwards.
And then it's just blackness.
"oss...el!...Wake up!" Someone is shouting, light coming back there stands Uriah over me. His expression lightens up and he sighs, "Glad to see you're alright man..." He says softly, pulling me up onto my feet.
I groan a bit and clutch my head, looking around there is everyone else. Save Silas. And Blake.
"What happened?" I ask
"We all ended up getting knocked out." Yang says, "With Silas-"
"That wasn't Silas." I cut her off, "I have no clue what that was. But it's not him." I say shaking my head.
"How can you tell?" Ruby speaks up
"Hmm...there was something with his voice, and didn't you hear him talk once he ended up destroying Roman's mech? Hell, even just how he fought it. Just going for a long and drawn out fight, we're not dealing with Silas here. This...thing somehow managed to take over his body." I tell them
"Well then. What do we do?" Weiss asks putting a hand on her hip, I shrug.
"We tell Ozpin, maybe Cain about this. Might be some weird garbage we haven't come across so far that Cthugha hasn't mentioned yet. We track this thing down, we and maybe a few others hunt it down and try to beat it out of Silas as best we can." I say hitting my fist into the palm of my hand
"What if we can't?" Weiss asks, she sounds a bit worried.
"...It won't happen." I say quietly, "Where's Blake at?"
"She's over around by that destroyed column." Yang points to the dark-haired Faunus girl sitting on the base of the destroyed column. I stare down at the ground and clench my fists, could Cthulhu help out?
Cthugha? Has Cthulhu got to get this thing out of Silas?
Hate to be the bearer of bad news. But, somehow he got...'locked out' by whatever this damn thing is.
This may be worse than I thought.
I sigh and take a look back over to Blake. "You guys go on back to Beacon without me for now. I'll catch up soon." I tell them, heading over to Blake.
Taking a seat next to her, the expression on her face is a mix. Shock, worry, fear, sorrow, plenty of them.
"Blake...how're you doing?" I ask her, she looks at me with a tired and irritable look taking shape.
"Silas has just ended up having his own body being taken by something, vanishes and you ask me how I'm doing?" She asks with venom lacing her words, "Well. I'm terrified and worried, that thing has just taken over someone I care about's body, the thing is more than likely going to kill people, and I'm getting reminded of...just forget it."
"Listen: I know that he means a lot to you Blake." I say putting a hand on her shoulder, "I'm scared too. That if we're too late that people will end up branding Silas as a monster, a psychotic murderer, a beast that deserves to be put down all because of something that isn't him taking his body for a joy ride."
I take a deep breath, this isn't how I expected things would be going tonight at all. "We will bring him back, you just have to help us. Please."
She looks me straight in the eye, eyes are the window to the soul and I can see the history behind her: oppression, subjection to cruelty, betrayal, heartbreak, and mistrust. "Don't say just that." She states shaking her head
"What do you want then?"
"I want you to promise. Promise me that we'll save him." She says quietly, "Please."
I nod, "Blake Belladonna, I promise you this: We're gonna do whatever it takes to bring him back, I don't care how hard it is. For you, for me, for our friends...we're getting Silas back." I tell her confidently, she gives me a determined look and nods.
"Good. Let's get back to Beacon."
Whatever the thing is that ended up taking Silas' control of his body away. I wish it could hear me in my thoughts right now for this, maybe it is for all I know:
I'll hunt you down: from the forests of Vale to the deserts of Vacuo, the swamps of Anima to the frozen wastes of Mantle. I'm hunting you down you, son of a bitch, because of three reasons.
One, you hurt my friends
Two, you're smug enough to think you can get away with the above
Three, I'm pissed. Why? See One and two.
(That'll be it folks, for Spring Break I'll be on a trip to Oregon so I'll be a bit slow. Hope you all have some good Spring Breaks yourselves.)