When Ruby 'died', Blake didn't know how to cope with the loss of one of her best friends. Ruby had been the one, along with Yang, to help her out of her shell. Blake felt horrible. It had been her idea to split up, and Ruby, of course took the input of all of her teammates. Ruby had been the deciding factor, and of course, Jaune followed her lead. Blake silently cursed Ren, Nora, and Weiss, but moved out with Yang regardless.
Within ten minutes, the black and yellow pair heard their leader shout, "I trusted you!"
"What's that about?" Blake worriedly asked her partner.
"I don't know," Yang answered, looking to wear the voice came from, "But I know that was Ruby." The blonde pulled out her scroll and called Ruby. No answer. Blake heard the glass splitting on Yang's scroll, the blonde was clearly putting too much strength into her hand.
"Try Weiss." Blake suggested.
"What do you think I'm doing?!" Yang snarled, looking to her partner with angry, red eyes. Blake put her hands up in surrender and Yang put the communication device to her ear. "Weiss—" Yang was cut off by the heiress on the other end. After a deafening silence, she finally spoke. "O-Okay." She said, her face downcast. "Meet us back at the bullhead." Yang crushed her scroll in her hand, throwing the remains against a nearby tree. She screamed in rage and destroyed the same tree with a single fiery punch.
"What happened?" Blake asked, worried, but fearful of her partner's temper.
"Fuck!" Yang decimated another tree. "God-fucking-dammit!" She destroyed a larger tree, punching the debris as it fell on top of her. Blake could only assume what had happened. Her bow went flat against her head, and she sat down, waiting for Yang to be done with her tantrum. Soon, Blake got tired of mournfully waiting and grabbed the blonde's collar, dragging her to the bullhead.
"What happened?" The Faunus sternly asked as Yang followed behind her, having gotten her partner to let go of her. Yang didn't answer, just looked down at the ground.
"Weiss… Weiss told me that— that Ruby—" Yang's sentence was cut off by a sob.
"No!" Blake said, turning around. "She's… She can't be…"
That night, Blake couldn't sleep. How could she? One of her very few friends was dead, and another had left because of it. Blake felt a painful pang in her chest every time she thought about the young leader, which happened often. Ozpin had Weiss give a detailed description of what happened. Blake wished she didn't listen to it.
According to Weiss, a Beowolf had snuck up behind Ruby and impaled her with its claws. Weiss had tried to fend them off, but several had pounced on Ruby and tore her apart. Weiss ran, as she ran she heard Ruby calling out behind her, screaming for help. When Weiss didn't return, Ruby screamed about trusting the heiress.
Her mind could easily paint a clear picture of the events in Blake's mind, horrifying her. She could see every blood vessel pop. She saw every thread of Ruby's combat skirt being torn with her skin. She could hear every bone, crunching under the beasts' jaws. The part that worried Blake the most was that she knew, for a fact, that Ruby had to have died in a tremendous amount of pain. Just the thought of Ruby crying out in so much pain brought tears to her eyes.
[Present]
Perseus moved through Beacon's ventilation shafts, aiming to find Team RWBY's dorm. It was the dead of night, and she had received word that WBY was to move out to hunt her in the morning. Perseus had to shift onto her back, so that she could gracefully land in the room while making minimal noise. The shaft was just as wide as she was, so it was a difficult maneuver. Perseus used the thermal detector on her goggles to detect where the dorm was. She was tracking Yang's extreme body temperature. The normal human's body temperature was 98.6 degrees fahrenheit. Yang's was about 130. When she found the red, yellow, with minimal green and blue, silhouette of her sister, she followed the vents to it. She remembered just where the vent was in the dorm. It was Weiss' side of the room, near the floor. Perseus felt her feet touch something. She turned off thermal and cloaked herself, seeing that she was looking at the vent, which was as big as her foot. There was no way she could get in through there. She sighed, and began to superheat the palm of her cybernetic arm, heating up the vent. She heated it up to 1,220 degrees Fahrenheit, carefully maintaining the required heat, melting through the aluminum shaft. The liquified metal fell onto her armor. Perseus focused her aura around the exposed skin and hair on her head, and stood, turning on her night vision function, she saw that she was on the other side of the wall. She was sweating from the heat, but her aura prevented burns. She used her mental communication ability to tell JNR to barricade the door and wait outside the window.
While they did as ordered, Perseus disabled the lights, tearing the wires out. Once she received confirmation that JNR had done what they had been told to, she kicked open the vent gate, immediately waking Blake. She tossed in a smoke grenade, filling the room with smoke, then activated her thermal vision. WBY was up now, trying to find the door to get out. Perseus sent a bullet from her handgun, landing it on Weiss' calf. The heiress cried out in pain.
"How does it feel?" Perseus' echoing voice asked, having hacked their scrolls to amplify her voice and make it impossible for them to find the source. "To call for help, knowing that your friends can't save—" the wall collapsed behind her, and something grabbed her, throwing her into WBY's dorm.
She threw her assailant off, hearing them slam into the wall, she turned on thermal. WBY knew she was there, but couldn't see her. A woman's figure was by Yang and Blake's side of the room, struggling to stand. Perseus began to move towards the figure, just to be hit by a flare and launched into the hallway, letting more of the smoke escape into the dorm.
"Y'know…" A familiar voice said, their silhouette stepping through the smoke, twirling something on their finger. "You kind of remind me of an old enemy I had." He stepped out, revealing himself as Roman Torchwick. "But she's gone now, and now, I have you, running around, trying to avenge her—" Perseus tried to stand, but Roman kicked her. "Stay down!" He commanded. "If Schnee really did kill Red, that makes her an ally."
Perseus pulled Roman's feet out from under him, his body slamming against the ground with a thud. Neo flew out of the shadows just as Perseus stood. The cybernetic soldier grabbed Neo's outstretched foot and slammed her into Roman, who had just stood as well. The multi colored girl used Roman as a launching pad, flying at Perseus, she dug her blade into the soldier's side, the blade having slid off the armor and sliding through the plates. Perseus screamed in pain, and slammed Neo's head against the wall, briefly disorienting her. Before Roman could get back up, Perseus pressed her foot against his head.
"Your friend gets to live because she is young, you are not." She pushed her foot down and broke his neck, killing him instantly.
Neo would have screamed in rage, but she was unable to do so, being mute. Instead, with an angered expression, she plunged her blade through Perseus' back. If she had stabbed a mere two inches to the left, her opponent would have been permanently paralyzed. The cybernetic soldier dropped to the ground, taking Neo with her. She quickly slammed the multi colored girl's head into the ground, finally knocking her unconscious, before passing out.
When Perseus woke up, she was laying on a couch. She looked around, trying to see where she was. She immediately recognized the room; it was Ozpin's office. She had been precariously tied to the couch with a few belts, each restricting her motion. Perseus scanned her suit, it had not been taken off, and neither had her mask.
Her wounds had been primitively patched up, the minimal had been done to make sure she didn't bleed out. Her suit still had scratches and scars from the past two days' battles. Her right arm's armor was still missing, and her chest piece was charred from Roman's flare, and had a large dent in it, a gunshot from several days prior. On her stomach, there was a small hole from Neo's blade, but it was covered by a small cloth, taped down. Her cloak was torn and shredded, tears running vertically across the back, with the bottom being shredded, running up the left side. The soft points on her side were torn, revealing her pale skin.
Perseus then scanned the room, looking for any other occupant. There were several people in the room; WBY, Ozpin, Winter, and Qrow. They were all looking at her, aware that she was awake.
"You did not remove my mask." She spoke, her voice scratchy and monotone. "Why?"
"Oz here thought we should be respectful of your privacy." Qrow said, looking disgusted at the headmaster. Perseus looked at the headmaster.
"I will thank you for that." She then, effortlessly, broke the belts restraining her, causing all the people in the room to point their weapons at her, everyone except for Ozpin, who just stood quietly.
Perseus did not attack as they had all assumed she would. She simply walked around, stretching her aching muscles.
"You're not going to fight?" Weiss asked, sounding oddly disappointed.
"No." Perseus answered, rubbing her wrists. "Ozpin is not interested in a conflict, as are many in this room."
"You usually talk like you know something we don't." Yang said, causing everyone to stare at her.
"That's because I do." Perseus said, glaring at Yang. "I know a lot that you don't. I'm a high-ranking Atlesian military officer. I know things Ozpin here would be executed for knowing. And I know things that would tear Team WBY(pronounces it as Wuby) apart."
"It's RWBY." Weiss corrected sternly. Perseus laughed.
"Where's the R?" She asked, trying to infuriate Weiss. "I know what happened. I've been to the Emerald Forest and gathered enough information to reconstruct the murder."
She expanded a holographic panel from her arm, tapping a few buttons, she accessed Ozpin's network, displaying a 3D rendition of Ruby, Weiss, Pyrrha, and CRDL. Pyrrha and CRDL were hiding in the bushes, and Weiss was walking beside Ruby. Weiss suddenly attacked Ruby, but Ruby almost overpowered her. Pyrrha flew out of the bushes and took Ruby's right arm off.
The blood that splattered against the ground was highlighted and the video paused. "I found the blood using a black light. The space where Ruby's knees was highlighted. "When Miss Rose hit the ground, she tore up the grass, resulting in a patch of dead grass and mud in that area. It seems as though an animal got to her arm before I did, though." The video began again. "I'm unsure if this was immediate, or if Ms. Schnee played with her a little."
Ruby slung her head back, bashing her head into Pyrrha's nose. Blood dropped in between the two as Ruby ran. The video paused again. "I found what could be confirmed as Ms. Nikos' blood nearby." The video began again and Pyrrha tossed her shield at Ruby, cleaving her legs off. "Again." Perseus said. "More blood." Weiss walked towards Ruby, tearing through her chest with Myrtenaster. "The body was found with a small hole in the chest cavity, one that could only be made by a rapier." Perseus explained. "Miss Rose died soon after she was impaled."
"I refuse to believe that you actually found all of that six months later." Winter said.
"Believe it, Princess." Perseus growled. "Because that's what happened. The autopsy report agrees with everything I just showed you."
Winter pulled out her scroll, presumably to check the records. After a few moments, Winter glanced up at Perseus, then down to her scroll, Perseus, scroll. She quickly put it away and sighed.
"If you will excuse me, I have research to do on this subject." Winter turned and walked out the door.
"Still don't believe me?" Perseus' answer came in the form of Qrow's sword, swiping down her left arm, and tearing most of the armor off that arm. Perseus had leaped out of the way, and his sword had caught her armor. Perseus tore off the loose piece of cloth that hung from her arm, exposing her bare skin. Just as she landed, Yang landed a hit right in her face, launching her out the window and onto the campus below. Perseus flipped and turned once she hit the ground, but stopped by holding out her prosthetic arm, digging her fingers into the pavement, sparks flying from the friction of metal and pavement.
Her bangs hung over her shattered goggles, which she tore off, throwing them to the side. Her hair shielded her silver eyes, protecting her identity as WBY dropped down, ready for a fight.
Edited by DemonFoxBK201