Chapter 12: …Becomes a Shattered Lie

Everyone's faces turned to shock. Everyone's including mine, "Oh, did he forget to say that. Well since everything is a shocker then you might want to ask David who else he tried to kill. Well, saying the word try implies that they weren't a success. Well, it's time for me to leave before everyone starts asking questions."

Everything was frozen as what had just been revealed was processed. I was clueless on what to do. 'Should I explain myself to them? Try and cover it up saying it was a lie? No, they won't believe me, not after they piece together what happened. This is all Torchwick's fault. I'm going to…' but before I finished my thought, he was already running out the exploded back into an alleyway. "Where's he going?" I shouted, chasing after him and leaving them staring at my fleeting image.

I was hot on his heels, following him as he weaved left and right through the narrow alleyways. Eventually he was faced with a brick wall, no way to go other than over it. But, before he could climb over the wall I was at the wall's base, "Oh no you don't," I said as I yanked him off the wall by his leg. He gave a startled shout for a brief moment before he was slammed onto the ground.

In between coughs he managed to look at me, "Oh hell, what do you want?"

The dark part of me, the part of me that I tried to hide from Ruby and her team, suddenly took over, "Well, if it's what I want then I want to see you in a box ten feet under with every bone in your worthless body shattered into a fine powder. But first we have catching up to do."

I hoisted him up by his suit and slammed him into the wall, "Hey easy now, don't you remember me at all?"

"All I remember is that you were the one who pushed me over the edge. I remember that you're the scum that tried to have my partner turn on me and kill me. Well, you got halfway through that and now you'll pay for not finishing the job," I said, the rage seeping from me with each word.

"Hey, don't take it personally now. You said you'd get the job done, but I knew you were going soft. I could see it in your actions, methodically moving through the estate, leaving people just so you wouldn't get any more blood on your hands. I had to make a contingency plan just in case of…"

"In case of what, just in case of me actually opening my fucking eyes? Just in case I saw what I had actually been doing for you? I realized you had me doing your dirty work for you," I pulled out my revolver and pointed it at his forehead, "Now you'll see what it's like being on the end of it."

"Perhaps I'll take a rain check," that made my blood boil. But, before I could pull the trigger the wall that he had tried to escape over exploded, pushing me over causing me to miss. "Sorry but today isn't your day," he shouted over the explosion as he ran through the smoke into an armored truck.

Recovering quickly I pulled out my rifle, made sure it had the highest caliber in it that it could hold and fired every single bullet. They all hit the same mark creating a sizable dent into the side of the truck. But it wasn't enough, the vehicle escaped around the corner leaving me furious. I shouted out towards the moving truck, "I'm going to find you and when I do you better pray that I'm in a good mood 'cause I'm going to make sure you feel all the pain I can deliver." Fuming with rage, I stood in the street spouting curses under my breath.

To my surprise I saw Weiss round the corner, which made me give a sigh of relief. Immediately after my whole body tensed as I saw her sprinting at me, rapier in hand. Her normal icy cool eyes were now burning up in rage. 'I thought I was scary,' that's all I could think as I was scared beyond my wits.

"You bastard, you liar!" she shouted as she lunged toward me, her rapier emitting a crimson glow. I leaned backwards, narrowly avoiding the blade but leaving me off-balance. She swiped her leg under mine, knocking me onto my back. Lying towards the sky breathless, her sword glinted in the artificial light of the street lights. That was enough to bring me back to reality as I rolled off to the side. Her blade smashed through the pavement, causing cracks to spread across the road.

I managed to rise to my feet, but I was feeling tired after all the running I had just done, "Weiss, just let me explain."

"No, you have had plenty of time to explain yourself. Now I see why you never did. Because you're nothing but a lying, backstabbing murderer."

'She doesn't care, in her mind I've just taken a sledgehammer to her glass mural of her life. I did it to everyone's, all of them shattered. I need to try and fix this,' "Weiss listen, I've done wrong-" but then I got a swift boot to the chest, knocking me back and leaving me winded. As I tried to regain my breath she charged and took a stab towards me. I tried to dodge left, but the blade scrapped across my stomach, nearly impaling me through the side. I grabbed at my stomach in pain, 'This isn't working.' With that thought in mind I turned my back to Weiss and began to run. However she was swift on my heels as I tried to escape. Blood seeped from the cut and pain seared through my body, but I couldn't stop for anything I just needed a way out. I checked over my shoulder to see if she was still there, but there was nothing other than a white mist, 'Where'd she head off to.' I turned to face back forward to see her land in front of me. All I could do was turn back around and keep running, but I stumbled and fell to the ground. I desperately crawled away as she sauntered towards me. I was the prey and she was the predator.

I stopped crawling and just waited for my impending death. As I laid there I saw my reflection in a puddle of water. My face had blood and dust mashed onto it, dark circles ringed around my eyes and my normally dull eyes were filled with something I had seen before. It was a look of defeat, of total despair. I looked like my dad in his final seconds. The memory of his last moments forced itself forward into my mind, 'Never be like me; never give up.' Never give up, those were his last words. But here I was, bruised and beaten, waiting for the end. I was giving up. 'No, you disgrace. You can't give up! You need to find an out, you always have.'

In the reflection I saw Weiss behind me, "You don't deserve this." Then she pulled back her sword and forced it forward.

"NO!" I shouted in defiance. I grabbed the rapier as she tried to kill me, the blades edges cutting deep in my palms. She kept trying to force it, but it wouldn't move. "Do you think that I meant any of what I've done or am I just a murderer?" Then, with all my strength, I snapped her blade in two. With the broken edge, I smashed the broken blade into her legs knocking them out from under her before she could react to her now broken blade.

I threw the blade to the ground and began to walk off. "You can't run, I'll find you."

Looking over my shoulder at her, I said in a disembodied voice, "I plan on it, because when you do, we'll both be answering each other's questions." Then I ran off back to the only place I knew, back to the place where I would least likely want to be, back to Beacon.

Yeah, video games are quite distracting, but here is another chapter. I hope you enjoyed the plot twist I was waiting for that point. Keep doing what you do.

-TheInnerPeace signing off (I hope the plot twist was akin to the Spanish Inquisition[Monty Python joke])