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?

16. Chapter 16- Battle of Beacon

Outcasts and Outlaws

Volume 2, Chapter 16

Battle of Beacon

Okay, so I'm pretty sure that this is the second to last chapter, unless what I'm thinking of the next one being is actually split between two. This is also where I started putting battle music in for certain moments, either type in the link or the name of the OST into YouTube to get the music track. Enjoy, lots of action in this one!

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

[FMA Brotherhood OP 3]

(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

In a flash Connor sped through the crowd of Brook clones right to the other side of the hall, thrusting with his katana as he went. As he came to a stop on the other side of the sea of clones, the ones he had stabbed through turned to dust, leaving a gap in the masses that was quickly filled by other clones.

As if on signal, the rest of the students in the hall rushed forward, slashing at hacking at the clones with their weapons. Kane jumped into the fray, right up against the front line of clones. His scythes formed out of the black clouds and solidified into metal and he then used them to block a couple of hits from a clone before slicing it at the waist and turning it into dust.

Meanwhile Yang dashed forward and punched a clone in the belly, her the shotgun attachment in her gauntlet shooting a first shell as she did so. A little ways behind her Jim threw his boomerang from his one remaining hand, the string extending and propelling it in an arc, taking out all the clones just in front of him. Taking advantage of his missing arm, a clone approached Jim from the left. Yang quickly spotted it and jumped back towards Jim, then punched it out of the way. "I got your back!" She yelled and then continued to cover Jim's blind side.

Deep in the crowd of clones, Ruby slashed a small group down with her scythe. The clones were weak, but the sheer number of them was the problem. Meanwhile Nora flew overhead, riding on her sledgehammer after having propelled herself into the air with a shot from its cannon, and smashed the hammer head down into a crowd of clones.

Joining up with Nora, Ren ran towards a group of clones, firing his green semi-automatic pistols as he went. He then went into a running slide, which the clone instinctively jumped over, only to be knocked out of the air by Pyrhaa's orange spear. She and Jaune then joined Ren and Nora in hacking away at the mass of clones.

Mars was attempting to make his way over to Connor, blocking with his telekinetic energy shield and slashing with a similar sword, Damien spied him from his tabletop perch. As a small group of students broke through and swung their weapons at his legs to knock him over, he leapt from the table and landed in front of Mars, ordering the clones around them to disperse. "Mars! No time long see, old friend!" He then greeted with false glee.

"Don't make me laugh!" Mars retorted. "We stopped being friends when your underlings started murdering people in the streets, when they lost sight of the difference between a corrupt government official and an innocent bystander!"

"I regret the actions of my men, but I had nothing to do with that." Damien replied. "You know that my philosophy is to only kill when necessary and that we both agreed the only way to bring down the corrupt section of the government was to kill all their political representatives, unfortunately some of my men grew tired of the war and went against that in a desperate attempt to end it."

"It was that very attempt that proved to be the downfall of the Outlaws." Mars responded. "Even you have now abandoned that philosophy by coming to get revenge on Kane. I'll never work with you again, for you are a different man to the one I knew."

"It's a shame you feel that way." Damien said, pulling out his flintlock pistols and pointing their katana blade attachments at Mars. "I really didn't want it to come to this, but you get in the way of my goal, I'll annihilate you!"

On that remark, Damien dashed forward and began wildly swinging at Mars with his blades. Mars blocked with his shield and sword and then after barely dodging a blow, swung his sword forward. Damien knocked it aside with one of his own blades and then thrusted with his other, which Mars had to quickly bring up his shield to block.

Music: http/youtu.be/Ll9oUO3OdbE

[RWBY Soundtrack- Red Like Roses 2]

In another area of the hall, Connor was busy cutting down clones like they were nothing. When he had a short moment, he quickly searched the hall for Ruby and found her surrounded by clones, but dealing with them expertly. Her speed and skill with her two handed scythe was too much for the clones to handle, they couldn't get anywhere near her.

Connor drew upon the power of his aura, knowing how to do so on his own now. Even though his semblance was significantly weaker without it, he had already adapted to fighting without the Kalos Crystal. He raised his hand in the direction of Ruby and sent of a ray of light, creating a path in the sea of clones between him and her. He then ran over there as fast as his legs would allow him, and the two of them quickly assumed a back to back formation.

"Connor! I was worried..." Ruby cheered in relief, cutting down two clones who jumped at her, "I thought you..."

"Me? Hell no!" Connor exclaimed, grinning smugly at Ruby, issuing a blush and a smile from her as well. Connor then turned serious as a clone almost hit Ruby as she was distracted, but he slashed it with his katana and Ruby snapped back into the battle. "I've got an idea!" He told her whilst fending off more clones, having to raise his voice over the noise. "We're all strongest when we're in our assigned teams, we know each other's strengths and weaknesses! You go and join up with your team, I'll tell Ren and Nora to do the same, and then go and find Kane!"

"Yang is busy helping Jim! She probably won't want to leave him!" Ruby countered, sweating a little as one of the clones almost got too close, but was taken down by a shot from her scythes sniper barrel.

"Hah! Those two!?" Connor laughed out loud, almost letting a clone close enough to slit his throat. "I'll take car of that, you sit tight with Weiss and Blake until Yang gets to you!"

Connor then shot off, and Ruby fired a shot into the air to signal her teammates. Meanwhile, Team JNPR has already met up and were busy taking down the main force of the clones, trying to get through to the original Brook.

"We need to get to him quicker!" Pyrhaa yelled, pushing a clone off the end of her spear.

"I have an idea! Ren, clear a path!" Jaune ordered, and on his command Ren fired a wave of bullets into the crowd of ones in front, temporarily pushing them back and creating a small parting.

"Pyrhaa with me!" Jaune shouted and him and Pyrhaa headed for the parting, then worked on slicing down the clones around them to widen the parting. Once it was widened Jaune yelled, "Nora, jump!"

Giggling at the prospect of what she was about to do. Nora placed the hammer of her sledgehammer on the ground and held the handle, then stood on the hammer and pulled the trigger. A blast of pink dust shot out of the hammerhead sending Nora flying through the air. She then landed in a crowd of clones just behind the parting Jaune and Pyrhaa had created and smashed them with her hammer. As well as knocking down a group of clones, the force of the hammer also broke the floor that Ren, Jaune and Pyrhaa were standing on and propelled them into the air. They flew over Nora's head, who launched herself again and joined them in the air. They then flew in the air over the original Brook and attacked. Ren fired a rain of bullets down on him, Nora switched her weapon to grenade launcher mode and fired off a few pink dust rounds and Pyrhaa threw her spear down at him, which landed in his foot and distracted him from making more clones.

The four of them landed behind Brook, three of them landing perfectly on their feet, and Jaune landing square on his butt. Once he had stood up the four of them readied their weapons to fight Brook, as he pulled Pyrhaa's spear out of his foot and tossed it aside.

Meanwhile, as Ruby sliced the head off a clone, Blake and Weiss jumped overhead and landed in front. Blake pulled her sword, the Gambol Shroud, out of its sheath and began slicing at clones with it. Simultaneously Weiss propelled herself around with her glyphs, stabbing at clones with her rapier and turning them into ice. The three then grouped up into a three member circle formation.

"There's a lot of them!" Blake commented dryly, slicing at oncoming clones with amazing speed.

"Got any ideas?" Weiss asked their team leader Ruby, summoning up a white glyph to defend her front, then stabbing through it at the clones.

"We need Yang!" Ruby answered, firing off a shot into the masses, which then gave her an idea. "Iceflower!" She commanded, a codeword that her team knew associate with a certain tactic.

Ruby then transformed her scythe into sniper mode and aimed it up at the ceiling. Weiss simultaneously twirled her rapier, summoning up an ice glyph on the barrel of Ruby's weapon. When Ruby fired a shot, ice erupted from the barrel and spread all around the group, creating a makeshift ice dome with archway like gaps. The clones still stormed through the holes, but in lesser force, making it much easier for the team to slay them.

As they continued their fight, Yang shot in through one of the gaps, smashing her fists into clones and firing off blazing shotgun shells. "Hey sis, what's the plan?!" She asked Ruby whilst fending off more enemies. However Yangs concentration dropped for just a second and a clone kicked her out of the circle of four to the edge of the ice dome.

Blake cried out Yang's name and started towards her, but Ruby put a hand on her shoulder and stopped her, then pointed at Yang.

Music: http/youtu.be/DrC_n5hUDKs

[RWBY Soundtrack- Die]

As Yang rose to her feet, a lock of the warriors golden hair fell in front of her face. Her temper immediately rose, and her eyes turned red. A single clone rushed at her and swung its rusty hook hand, but Yang simply blocked it with her gauntlet, her hair flowing over her face and covering her eyes. The clone looked confused for a second and then Yang lifted her head up, pushing her hair away from her eyes and punched the hook with her other gauntlet. The hook shattered into many small pieces and scattered over the floor, then Yang followed up with another punch that sent the clone flying out of the dome.

Once again a clone managed to kick Yang from behind with great force and send her flying. Ruby saw this and yelled, "Bumblebee!" Prompting Blake to switch her weapon into grapple hook mode and throw the end of it out to Yang. When she grabbed it, Blake swung the grapple in an arc, swinging Yang around the dome, punching through clones as she went.

Looking around, Ruby then saw that some of the clones were working on smashing down the ice dome, and were doing so with great efficiency. They needed another tactic, fast. After a quick moment of thought she yelled, "Freezerburn!" On that order, Weiss stabbed the floor with her rapier, turning it into an ice rink. Blake then swung the rope of the grapple into the air, launching Yang high up, who then came smashing down the ice. Yang let off a flame shot as she impacted, which resulted in the ice turning into an enormous cloud of haze.

Now fighting with Kane and Jim, Connor saw the haze appear from across the battlefield. He then looked in the other direction and saw Mars locked in a vicious sword fight with Damien. "We need to help him!" He shouted to his two allies.

Jim threw his boomerang right into the forehead of a clone, then fired a rifle round into its skull as he retracted his weapon. Kane sliced fast with his two scythes, then flipped back and landed with his hand on the floor, black clouds erupting from it and pushing back the clones around him.

Kane then ran back to where Jim and Connor were standing back to back, grabbed both of them by the collar and jumped high into the air. He let go mid air and the three of them landed in between Mars and Damien. Connor and Kane then immediately drew their weapons and starting attacking Damien relentlessly, but his skill with swords was enough for him to block all of their attacks. What he didn't see coming however, was Jim, who rushed up from in between Connor and Kane. He concentrated his aura in his fist and punched Damien in the belly, the force of it sending him flying over the sea of clones and landing right on top of Brook as Team JNPR fought him.

While their fight ensued, Connor's team assembled. Mars hadn't been injured in in his fight with Damien, but he hadn't landed any hits either, the two of them were equally skilled. They looked around at the mass of clones as the student body continues to fight them, knowing that they needed a better plan.

"If only we had some sort of bomb..." Mars muttered to himself as he tried to brainstorm a plan, then something popped into his mind. Using his telepathy semblance, he communicated the his plan to the other three and then ordered, "Kane, Connor, get up high!"

On that command, Jim grabbed Connor with his one arm and activated his aura, then threw Connor high up into the air. He next did the same for Kane, so that the two of them were in high in midair above the crowd, just below the super high ceiling of the hall. After that,

Mars activated his semblance and created a small green energy platform in midair. Connor's and Kane's feet magnetised to it and the two of them crouched upside down looking at the mess of a battle below them.

Knowing exactly what Mars wanted them to do next, Connor and Kane both charged up their semblances in their hands. Bright golden light and black clouds amassed around them, grabbing them attention of every person and clone in the room. Damien took the opportunity to throw down a smoke bomb while Team JNPR was distracted, knowing what was coming, and by the time they reacted he and Brook had both disappeared.

Connor and Kane then fell down from the platform, dragging the amassed power with them. Mars quickly used the last of his aura to form dome shaped shields around all the students, knowing the impact was going to be big.

As Connor and Kane hit the ground, a wave of energy bursted through the hall, followed by tendrils of light and dark erupting from the two. The tendrils sought sought out the clones and annihilated them one by one. Some went out of control and attacked students, but Mars' shields protected them.

And as the dust settled and the students cheered at their victory, Brook ran down the side of rocky cliff behind Beacon, cursing his loss.

Ending Music: http/youtu.be/XHy8bnVVpo4

[Beyond The Boundary ED]

(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