Outcasts and Outlaws Volume 2

by Halogod97

After Kane's departure, Connor has been living a happy life with Ruby at Beacon, but he has no idea what's around the corner. He will make new friends and reencounter old ones, but the same can be said for his enemies. The mysteries about his past will be answered. Who killed his parents? Where did Mars disappear off to? And most importantly of all, what is his true semblance?

10. Chapter 10- On Death's Door

Outcasts and Outlaws

Volume 2, Chapter 10

On Death's Door

Okay my internet was down for a couple of days whilst switching providers, I'm riding through things to get this out. Get ready for some emotional aftermath. Enjoy!

Opening Music: http/youtu.be/iOsN2FP3-l4

(Shows Connor with his back to the camera)

Masshiro na keshiki

(He raises his arm into the air)

ni ima

(He clenches his metal hand into a fist)

saso

(Shows Kane)

warete!

(Shows Connor in front of beacon with his arm reaching up)

Boku wa yuku yo mada minu sekai e!

OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS. (Shows the silver bear pendant around Connor's neck swinging) Maigo no mama

(Shows Connor's eyepatch in his hand)

tabi shiteta!

(Shows Connor and Kane sitting back to back in the ruins of Connor's hometown)

Nezumi iro no sora no shita! (Connor and Kane stand up as light hits the ruins)

Hikariwari ohizu ikutsumo no yume ga nijinde ita!

(Shows Ruby smiling with her hands held together)

Itsuka wa sa!

(Shows Jim stood on the Beacon Balcony)

Chippoke na boku no kono hohaba demo!

(Shows Yang)

Ano

(Shows Ren)

Kumo

(Shows Nora) no mukou

(Shows Pyrhaa)

made

(Shows Doctor Brian)

yukeru (Shows Ozpin)

ka na!

(Shows Connor)

Tsugyotte

(Shows Mars)

kizu tsu ita!

(Shows Connor and Mars outside Beacon)

Kokoro sukashita you ni!

(Shows Connor getting dragged away by Murlough's dark clouds) Furidashita

(Shows Ruby sitting next to Connor's hospital bed)

amastu

(Shows Murlough in front of the bodies of Connor's parents) butachi ga!

(Shows Brook and Damien holding the Kalos Crystal)

Ranh

(Shows Murlough covered in dark clouds)

ansha

(Shows Damien pull out his guns) kurikaesu!

(Shows Connor hit the ground with light on his hands and cause a tremor)

Massugu na

(Brook runs across the tremor) hikari

(Connor starts fighting Brook)

ga kousashite!

(Shows Kane fire off a barrage of dark clouds)

Yukusaki mo

(Shows Murlough run through the clouds)

tsugenu mama!

(Shows Jim fighting off Grimm with his boomerang)

Doko made mo tsukinukeru! (Shows Mars in a sword fight with Damien)

Awai zanzou ryoume ni yakitsukete! (Shows Murlough lunging forward with his blade covered in black clouds)

Kono sora no shita

(Shows Connor lunging forward with his metal hand glowing with light)

donna toko ni ite mo!

(Connor and Murlough hit each other, creating a flash of light) (Connor puts his eyepatch on) Toduku hazu nan

(Shows Connor and Ruby walking into Beacon)

da minu sekai e!

OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS V2

Connor awoke many hours later in a daze. He barely managed to open his eyes, and upon doing so saw that he was hooked up to various machinery to measure things like his blood pressure and pulse. He also had an oxygen mask over his mouth and nose and his eyepatch had been removed, revealing the patch of skin underneath. Other than that, he was laying in his vest, his cloak having been taken off by someone.

First of all, he of course tried moving, but couldn't. He put a lot of effort into it, but found it impossible to stand or even sit up. In the end he only managed to turn his head so that it was resting sideways, looking towards the chairs next to his bed. Sitting in one of chairs was Ruby, who despite having her head down, had obviously been crying quite a bit.

This fact bubbled in Connor's thoughts, bugging him to no end. Summoning all his strength, he managed to mumble weakly, "Rubes..." This made Ruby lift up her head, and Connor saw the full extent of her sadness. It looked like she had been crying for hours on end and tears were still streaming down her face uncontrollably.

"Connor..." Ruby mumbled through tears, her jaw shaking. She then grabbed Connor's hand, which was in tatters and squeezed it tightly. Connor looked down at his own hand and saw the damage. All his fingers had been severed, leaving only his thumb, and the hand itself was in half. The whole thing had been bandaged together, but it did nought to hide the injury.

"I thought...you were gonna die!" Ruby said through more tears, unable to stop the flow of them. Connor felt a pang in his gut, he realised Ruby must have been really scared for him.

Connor was about to try to comfort her, but then another voice spoke up, and he turned his head to face it. "You were reckless." Kane scolded. "You shouldn't have charged at him like that."

"Kane..." Connor growled angrily, remembering what Murlough had told him. "You never told me you had a brother."

"It wasn't necessary" Kane replied, and was instantly met with a blast of anger from Connor.

"You didn't think it was necessary to tell me your brother killed my parents?!" Connor snapped back furiously. "You bastard! If I could move, I'd beat you senseless!"

Kane fell silent for a second then muttered, not looking at Connor, "I know, I deserve it." Then he fell silent again.

Connor was about to go all out on Kane, but then he felt Ruby pull his injured hand up and place it on her cheek. The tears continued to stream down her face, but she seemed comforted by his touch. This thought spurred Connor on. He twisted his other arm behind him and pushed, trying to sit himself up. As he rose, he felt the pain of his wounds, the shards of metal from the cannon shot stabbing into his flesh. He powered through it, knowing he was probably making his injuries worse, but he needed to comfort Ruby.

Eventually he managed to sit himself up on the pillow, and rested his forehead against Ruby's, relieved to be done with the pain of moving. Kane then left on a bad note, leaving Connor to slightly sulk about the matter.

A couple of hours afterwards, Yang and Ruby were in their room together. Ruby was sat at the desk in the room, seemingly doing homework, but hadn't written anything since she sat down. Yang soon began to become increasingly worried about her sister, and decided to check on her. "Hey sis." She greeted as she strolled across the room. "Are you feeling-"

Yang stopped mid sentence when she saw her sisters face. Ruby was crying over her homework, tears dripping onto the paper. "I just want him to be alright, Yang." She sobbed. "I don't know what I'd do if he died."

Before Yang could comfort her sister, the door the their room was roughly opened, and they both turned to see who it was. Connor stood in the doorway, hanging on to the door frame, barely standing. He had marks on his body where he had hastily removed the medical equipment attached to him, and was breathing hard without the oxygen mask.

In the next few seconds, Kane and Jim appeared behind him, looking as if they'd been frantically searching. "What the hell are you doing mate?!" Jim yelled. "You're in no condition to go walkies!"

"I...I have to see Ruby." Connor weakly responded, barely able to stay on two feet.

"Don't be an idiot!" Jim shouted back, furious at his friends actions. "You're gonna hurt yourself more!"

"Maybe so but..." Connor replied, and then looked at Ruby and stared right into her eyes. "I want Rubes to know that I'm okay."

Ruby stared back at Connor, more tears welling up in her eyes at the sight of him going so far just for her. Connor let go of the door frame, took one step forward, and then fell flat on his face. Jim started to move forward to help him up, but Connor quickly ordered, "Don't help me! Ruby has to see that I'm okay!"

Reluctantly, Jim stepped back and watched as Connor attempted to push himself up. He put his hands out inbred floor in front of him and began to push, putting all his effort in to just the first step. He was soon able to rest his knee on the ground for balance, despite the pain. Even in this position, he was in a great deal of it.

Ruby then watched as Connor lifted himself up, his whole body shaking from the strain. Ruby couldn't believe he was putting himself through so much for her. Every time he had gotten injured in the past, it had been to protect her, and he was still fighting just to show her he was alright.

Eventually, Connor managed to rise to his feet and stood just in front of Ruby. As soon as he took another step he fell again, this time landing right in Ruby's arms. She held onto him tight as he lay limp over her shoulder, resting his head on her back. "See Ruby?" He told her. "I'm alright. I'm alright."

Connor continued to say that for a while before Jim and Kane pulled him off of Ruby and supported him with their shoulders, then headed for the door. "Come on, let's get you back to bed mate." Jim said, and this time Connor didn't object. He'd done what he'd come to do, he'd comforted Ruby, who had now stopped crying and was wiping away tears.

Before they left the room, Connor turned his head and said, "Ruby, I love you." Despite her newfound comfort, Ruby felt tears begin to well up again. It was the first time Connor had told her that since he had confessed when he was drunk on the balcony.

As the three left the room, Jim said to Connor, "You're a real soppy git aren't you mate?"

"Yeah." Connor replied, chuckling a little. "Wouldn't have it any other way."

The next morning, Connor was sat up in his bed, having been helped up by Doctor Brian, who was now standing at the end of his bed with a clipboard. Ruby was also in the room, sitting in a chair next to his bed. She wasn't crying anymore, she seemed a lot more calm and even slightly happier now. Connor knew his actions had gotten to her.

"All right then!" Doctor Brain spoke. "We should be good to take off the bandages now." On that cue, Connor removed the bandages around his right hand himself, eager to see the results of the surgery the night before. He grinned boyishly at his new hand, as if he was a kid in a toy store.

The missing part of his main hand had been replaced with a metal structure, and his missing fingers were reconstructed as well. His thumb and other half of his hand were still normal flesh, but he seemed content with it. He moved his fingers, testing it, and as he did so Doctor Brian spoke up.

"It's an experimental new technology called Automail." Doctor Brian explained. "We linked the electrical wires to your nervous system, giving you full control over it."

As Connor continued to admire his new body part, Ruby asked, "Can't you do that for his eye as well?"

"An eye isn't as easy." Doctor Brian answered. "We'd need some remaining eye tissue to work off of, and since his right eye is gone, it's just not possible with our current technology."

Ruby looked back to Connor to see what he thought of that, and smiled to see him still fiddling with his new hand, amazed by the technology. "I'll leave you two alone for a bit then." Doctor Brian said, and then did exactly that.

Before Ruby and Connor could talk about anything however, Kane walked in and was greeted with an icy stare from Connor. "Don't concern yourself with me." Kane told him. "You have a visitor."

"Another one?" Connor muttered to himself, getting tired of everyone checking in on him so regularly, but he stopped muttering when he saw who his visitor was.

The visitor had dyed green but slightly greying short hair, and wore a long pale green coat, similar to Connor's but differently coloured. Connor recognised the mans face immediately however, and shouted out his name at the top of his voice out of surprise.

"MARS?!"

Ending Music: http/youtu.be/XHy8bnVVpo4

(Shows a cherry blossom tree)

(Flickers between Ruby raising her arm, and cherry blossom leaves falling)

Seijaku wa

(Shows Ruby with her hand held out in front of herself)

kirisaku you!

(Zooms in on Ruby's face) Otuzuretta no wa!

(Shows Yang walking across) Hitsuzen to shite no kaikou!

(Shows Jim walking behind her) Bokura no tame ni!

(Zooms in on a tear falling from Ruby's eye)

Koukai wa nagaku me

(Shows Connor walking from behind)

ni utsuru kimi no soul!

(Shows Ruby's skirt flapping in the wind)

Rainbow

(Shows Ruby clenching her hand) wo tootte!

(Back to Ruby standing with her arm out in front of her)

Utsukushika saita!

(Shows Connor's silhouette walking across)

Dareka no seimei ni tokeru hana. (Shows Ruby holding a branch of the cherry blossom tree)

Nee

(Zooms in on Ruby's face again) kimi ni mo mieru darou!

(Shows Ruby shed another tear) Kitto!

(Ruby lets go of the branch)

(Back to Ruby with her arm held out)

Kasaneta

(Zooms in on Ruby's face again) ayamachi

(Shows Ruby from behind) nurikaeyou!

(Shows everyone's silhouette walking across)

Nando

(Shows someone's feet in the crowd)

demo ii sa

(Shows Kane in the crowd)

Kurikae

(Shows Mars in the crowd)

shiteku

(Shows Ruby from behind as cherry blossom leaves fly past her on the wind)

sa try!

(Shows Ruby from side view as the leaves fly past her)

Kako to wa chigau asu wo!

(Shows one side of Connor's body as he walks)

Fubari

(Shows Ruby's hand reaching out) dake no

(Shows the cherry blossom branch flinging back)

kibou

(Shows Ruby looking up at the tree) egaku sa try!

(Ruby looks back down and sees someone, then smiles)

I never say goodbye!

(Shows Ruby standing with Connor opposite her, both looking at each other)

Itsudatte sou sa!

(Shows Connor looking at Ruby as the sunlight shines on him)

(Shows Ruby looking at Connor as the sunlight shines on her)

(Connor smiles and raises his hand, then holds Ruby's hand)

END