Hey, what's up everyone, it's chapter seven! As we slowly approach the canon story of Volume 3 of RWBY, I have just one thing to say: I fucking love Qrow. His character is such a bad ass in fighting and when he speaks, even when he's drunk. He's definitely cooler than the one I've wrote so far. You haven't met this OC character yet (well, technically you have), but this OC character will definitely get along well with Qrow. So excited for him to arrive in this story! So, with that out of the way, onto Chapter Seven!
Chapter Seven - Evolution
"Tell me what happened."
Me, Blake and Yang stood around the infirmary bed Ruby was lying in, bandages still wrapped around her forehead, as I tried to figure out what I had missed when I was fighting Ultramega. Several dozen other infirmary beds were filled with other students with various injuries, at most broken limbs, but no limb losses or deaths during the attack. All the robots that attacked Beacon were either destroyed by the hunters and huntresses present in the cafeteria or by the Atlesian Fleet as the robot's fled. After getting Ruby properly checked up in the infirmary, she was ready to tell us what really happened.
"Well, after you went and fought Ultramega, a student from Atlas somehow brought down a wall, maybe her semblance, and somehow managed to subdue Weiss while we were distracted. I spotted them leaving the cafeteria with Weiss and followed them. They told me they needed Weiss, and they'd bring her back, but I tried to stop them. The boy knocked me out by kicking me into a wall with boots like Yang's gauntlets. I woke up and they were gone." She told us, trying to remember the details.
"Who were they?" Yang asked.
"It was... Willow and Peter Anderson. Yeah, I ran into them in the corridor a bit ago, and seen them around since then." Ruby explained.
"That doesn't really answer the question 'who were they'." I stated.
"What do you mean?" Blake asked.
"That's who they are, but not who they are. My guess, they both work for Ultramega, that's the reason they came to Beacon in the first place, since Ultramega couldn't. They needed to kidnap Weiss, so he caused a distraction that would allow them to kidnap Weiss. But, why them, what's so special about them two?" I asked rhetorically.
"David told us that he and Anna had been altered through certain circumstances, David obtaining that sword and when Anna was captured by the White Fang. He says they call themselves 'Inhumans' due to their extremely enhanced semblances." Blake spoke up. "Willow literally tore down a wall with little effort, and maybe messed with Weiss's mind to make her loose consciousness. Peter managed to knock Ruby out which shouldn't be easy, due to Ruby's speed semblance. What if she has enhanced telekinesis, so enhanced she can mess with someone's mind, and he can move so fast he could get Ruby."
"Blake, are you saying that they are Inhumans?" Yang asked, mouth slightly open in shock.
"It makes perfect sense. Ultramega thinks humans, and probably Faunus, are weak, so he manages to obtain a couple of Inhumans and work with them, since they're the best he could get. How they became Inhumans? Likely experimentation, like what happened to Anna." I theorised.
"Look, I know this is very important, but what about Weiss?" Ruby asked, slightly sadly.
"Obviously, we're going to get her back, but how?" Blake asked herself.
"I say we take Ultramega head on, go in guns blazing!" Yang suggested, punching her fists together.
"Yang, I hate to say this, but you're right. Going any other way won't work." I say to her, as she did a silent 'yes' gesture.
"How, we don't know where they are." Ruby pointed out, and we all remained silent.
"I believe I can help." We all turned to see Ironwood approaching.
"General Ironwood, wasn't expecting to see you here." I said, approaching him.
"Yes, when I heard that Weiss was taken, I immediately told my fleet to monitor all air traffic, but nothing has come up."
"So that means they're travelling by ground." Blake pointed out.
"Precisely. Fortunately, one of my airships spotted three people placing Weiss into some kind of container, and put her into a truck. The truck is currently heading out of the city and towards the abandoned expansion of Vale." Ironwood continued.
"Mountain Glenn?" Yang asked. My eyes widened.
"Damn it, I should have known!" They looked at me curiously. "The AK-130's, the one's I controlled, I thought they were all destroyed when we went and rescued Ruby from Torchwick and the White Fang. But it seems they weren't. Ultramega has the ability to pass from body to body as long as they are controlled by him. I controlled the AK-130's while we were still one, so he could control the AK-130's. That is how he survived after Yang destroyed the first body, that's where he's been the whole time."
"It seems you're time is running out, this may help." Ironwood pressed a few buttons on his scroll and handed it to me. "This is the real-time location of the truck Weiss is currently in. If you fly there, you may get there in time."
"Thank you, General." I said, and put the scroll in my pocket.
"Good luck to you all." He finished, and left.
"So how are we going to get to Weiss fast enough, they have a huge head start." Yang stated. I smirked.
"Come on, I've got the solution." I said to Yang and Blake. "Sorry, Ruby, but you're too injured to help." She pouted. "Let's go." The three of us left the infirmary, leaving Ruby by herself.
Beacon Docks...
Me, Blake and Yang walked along to the furthest docking port at Beacon, quite a distance away from all the other airships. Yang was starting to get tired. "Epsilon, why are you dragging us out here? Couldn't we just take a different one?" She whined.
"We could, but it wouldn't be fast enough. Luckily, I have the solution." I told her confidently.
"Care to elaborate?" Blake asked.
"Well, during my... sleeping problems, I got bored of simply going to the gym every night. So, I found an abandoned airship and modified it. Faster engines, stronger weapons, I even managed to add Yang's motorcycle to it." I told them, getting a surprised look from Yang. "I always thought we'd need this eventually, but not for something like this." We reached the end of the dock and Blake and Yang looked at the modified Airship in complete shock.
The entire airship had been painted black and yellow, really standing out from the default grey colours, and had a large machine gun turret underneath the cockpit. Instead of two side doors, the door was at the rear of the airship, ready to accommodate larger items into the ship. After about a minute of complete awestruck, Blake spoke up.
"What's it called?" She asked, still shocked.
"Well, I wanted to call it 'The Bumblebee', but that's what Yang's motorcycle is called, so I named it something even better: 'The Bumbleby'." I announced, getting confused looks from the girls.
"That's just... confusing... and I don't get it." Blake said slowly.
"I do." Yang said, giving Blake a wink.
"Right, so, here's the plan: I'll engage Ultramega hand-to-hand, keep him occupied from you two. Since we've fought before, he'll have learned to be a more formidable foe. Yang, you'll take Bumblebee and get onto that truck, get Weiss and get yourself and Weiss to safety. Blake... you're flying." I told her.
"I'm flying... that." She said, pointing at the modified airship.
"Don't worry, it's simple to fly, you'll do fine." I reassured, getting a nervous chuckle from Blake. "Alright, let's go safe the Ice Queen." We all boarded the airship and quickly took off, almost immediately out of Beacon's sight.
Downtown Vale, heading towards Mountain Glenn...
"So, we're in the clear now?" Peter asked.
"Almost. Let's just hope her team mates don't find us so fast." Willow pointed out, looking at the heiress.
"Trust me, they will." Ultramega spoke up. "You two need to get out of here, don't let them know you're here. I'll defend the Schnee from my brother."
"Why?" Peter asked.
"I may get out matched again. If I do, you two have to keep defending until we get Schnee to Reginald." Ultramega explained, clenching his fist in anger at his name. "Now go." He ordered them. He opened the door at the back of the truck and the Inhumans jumped out, running out of view. He briefly turned to look at Weiss, who was frozen inside the container with two robots standing next to it. Ultramega turned and looked to the sky, an airship in the distance. "Do you're worst."
The airship flew past the truck, stopping briefly over a bridge above the road. The rear door opened, and I hung onto the edge of the door frame. I turned towards Yang. "Make sure you get Weiss in time! We've only got one shot!" I yelled over the engine. Yang smirked and gave me a thumbs up, and I jumped. After falling for a few seconds, I activated my jet-boots and landed on the bridge. I pulled an earpiece out of my pocket and put it in my right ear. "Yang, Blake, you hear me?"
"Loud and clear!" Yang responded, I imagine with a grin. I looked down off the bridge and saw the truck approaching.
"Truck's here. Keep in contact." I told them, and ran across the side of the bridge and jumped, landing on the top of the truck, denting it. Ultramega looked up at the dent and narrowed his eyes angrily. I crawled along the truck until I reached the door and opened it. I widened my eyes and quickly moved back, dodging the blast from Ultramega's hand. I flipped around the truck and into the empty door, finding Ultramega there. He growled and shot at me, hitting me in the chest, tearing the door off it's hinges and off the truck.
The airship flew over the truck, did a back flip and sped back after the truck, keeping a safe distance away.
"Blake, please don't try and make me throw up!" Yang yelled, holding on tightly to a support beam.
"Sorry, this thing isn't exactly easy to pilot!" Blake yelled back, keeping an eye on the truck ahead of her. I quickly got back up and leapt back onto the top of the truck, Ultramega hovering just above the end of the truck.
"You're too persistent for my liking, brother." He taunted, shooting at me. I held out my hand and blocked it with my aura. "I don't have a choice on the matter. I need the Schnee! And you're not going to stop me."
"Oh yes I am." I took out my daggers and threw them at Ultramega, burying themselves in his chest. I yanked them out, spun them around and threw them back, Ultramega blocking them and shooting at me. I reached and grabbed a road sign, and threw it at Ultramega, ripping into his shoulder.
"Stop it!" He ripped out the sign and threw it at me. I dodged the sign, and he shot me, sending me onto the front of the truck. I grabbed onto the front as I landed in front of the windscreen, quickly rolling out of the way as the robot driving the truck punched through the windscreen to try and get me.
"Epsilon's gonna need some help. Get ready Yang, you're dropping in ten seconds!" Blake told her partner. Yang walked to the back of the airship, getting onto her motorcycle, putting on her helmet and aviators. "Dropping in three, two, one, now!" The airship lowered a couple of feet from the ground as the bottom opened, Bumblebee landing on the road. Yang his full acceleration and followed the truck, driving around the slower cars in the way, not breaking eye contact with the truck ahead of her.
"Blake, gonna need a short cut if I'm going to catch up." She said over her earpiece.
"Hard right into a back alley... now." Blake instructed her, and Yang skidded to the right, narrowly avoiding a couple of cars. She drove past several people, all running to the sides of the alley to avoid getting run over by Yang. She continued through the alley and exited just to the side of the truck.
I grabbed Ultramega by wrapping my arm around his neck, dragging him down to my height. He grabbed my arm and flipped me around, pinning my arm and grabbing my by the neck.
Yang accelerated and skidded underneath the truck, seeing me just on the edge in Ultramega's grasp. She cocked Ember Celica and shot at Ultramega, scorching his face. His grip loosened on me, and I slammed him onto the ground. He angrily looked at Yang and lifted the ground out from in front of her with his anti-gravity enhancement.
She hit the breaks, narrowly avoiding the debris in front of her. She skidded the motorcycle around and sped back up to the truck. The two robots in the truck started firing at Yang, forcing her into the path where dozens of civilians moved out of the way.
I punched Ultramega in the chest, pushing him back slightly. He fired both lasers at me, punching me off the truck and into the front of a car. He raised his arm, pulling out the ground in front of the car I was on, flipping it. I quickly got back up, leapt onto the car and jumped back onto the truck. I punched him in the leg as he punched me in the head.
Yang continued driving on the path, out of the robot's range. "Blake, can you distract the robots?"
"Let's find out." Blake responded, flying in front of the truck. Ultramega punched me again, sending me to the ground as the airship flew in front of us, and fired the machine gun at Ultramega. He shielded himself from the gunfire and glared at the ship. The two robots flew out of the truck and followed the airship as Blake flew away. The robots landed on the ship and started shooting at the cockpit, denting the metal plating. Blake flipped the airship a few times, flinging the robots off and increased speed, the robots behind her.
Ultramega lunged at me, which I narrowly dodged, grabbed his arm and threw him off the truck and into a stone pillar. He flew back around and into me. I caught him and threw us both off the truck and into a nearby train.
The two robots stopped their pursuit of Blake and flew back to the truck. "Heading back towards you." Blake informed Yang. "Whatever you're gonna do, do it now."
I ripped a chair from the train and threw it at Ultramega. He blocked it and flew at me, which I flipped over. He turned around and shot me in the chest with both lasers, sending me to the ground.
"I'm going in. Epsilon, can you keep him occupied?" Yang asked as she approached the truck.
"What do you think I've been doing?" I asked frustratingly as I got back up. Yang got just behind the truck and leapt from her motorcycle and into the truck, crashing her motorcycle to the ground. She approached the container with Weiss in, seeing the heiress frozen in place, with a dozen dust crystals attacked to the container.
The two robots flew underneath the truck. They aimed their jet's downwards and lifted the truck from the ground and into the air, causing Yang to fall to the back of the truck. She grabbed onto the side and crawled back up to the container as Blake flew behind the truck.
"Blake, I'm in the truck. Angle the airship so I can launch the container from here to you." Yang instructed her as she started tearing the dust crystals off the container.
I forced Ultramega against the wall of the train, punching him multiple times in the face and in the chest, damaging the metallic body. Suddenly, I was elbowed in the chest, getting sent several feet down the train. I got up and saw Peter there, rubbing his elbow in pain. I turned around and saw Willow at the other end of the train, crimson energy coming from her hands as her eyes glowed.
"Kill Epsilon!" Ultramega ordered as he fired his laser at the front of the train, killing the conductor and flew out of the train, towards the truck. Peter and Willow looked at each other hesitantly.
"I lost Ultramega, he's heading you're way." I said over the earpiece, running past Peter to the front of the train, a large hole at the front and the conductor lying dead against the control panel now heavily damaged. I looked forwards and saw the end of the line.
"Yang, we've got to go." Blake urged, spotting Ultramega in the distance, quickly heading towards them. Yang removed the last dust crystal and crushed it, causing the others to explode. She and the container skidded to the back of the truck and out as it exploded, landing inside the airship. Just as Yang entered, Ultramega grabbed her my the lag and dragged her out with him. "Yang!"
The train crashed into the barrier, going off the rails and onto the road. "Epsilon, can you see Yang?" Blake asked. I looked out of the train, but couldn't see Yang or Ultramega anywhere.
"Do you have Weiss?" I asked quickly.
"Can you see Yang?" Blake asked again, more urgently.
"If you have Weiss, get back to Beacon. We'll get Yang later." I told her. She cursed to herself and flew back to Beacon. I turned back in the train and saw the Inhumans looking at me. "Listen to me: this train is heading directly into populated areas, we need to stop this train now. We can argue or fight later." I told them.
They looked at each other and nodded at me. "Move the civilians in our path out of the way." I ordered Peter, as he sped out of the train immediately. "Can yo stop this thing?" Te train continued down the path, dozens of civilians too slow to move out of the way. Peter ran in front of the train, grabbing any person too close to the train and moved them out of the way, them moving to the next one to move.
The train drove straight into a wall. I raised my arms to block a large chunk of rock as it flew right into the train, knocking me back and down to the ground. Willow spread her arms to the floor as crimson telekinetic energy flowed out of the train and around all the wheels, stopping them.
Peter continued running just ahead of the train, grabbing civilians and moving them out of the trains path and to safety. Willow raised her arms and the train raised about a foot off the ground, coming to a stop after several dozen more feet. The train landed back on the ground as the energy went away. The people on the train exited as I climbed through the front of the train, finding Willow sitting with Peter as he breathed heavily.
"I'm OK, I just need a moment." He reassured his sister between breaths. She looked away from Peter and at me as I crossed my arms and gave an angry look.
"You two and Ultramega have been causing me and my team a lot of trouble recently. I recommend you explain yourselves before the police arrive." I told them coldly. Willow cautiously got up and approached me.
"We don't have a choice. There's this man, a scientist called Reginald, he's forcing us to kidnap the Schnee or he'll kill all three of us. You have to understand we didn't want to do this and we were going to bring the Schnee back when we could." She tried to explain.
"Why does he want Weiss?" I asked, uncrossing my arms.
"He's going to give her to the White Fang." Peter spoke up. "He want's some rare metal they have, something that doesn't even have a name." They finished. I stared at them both, deciding what to do with them.
"What has he done with Yang?" I asked angrily.
"Yang? The blonde girl? Tha-that's not part of the plan. She has nothing to do with it. We don't know why he took her." Willow told me. I could tell she wasn't lying.
"You two, go back to Ultramega. Tell him to bring me back Yang, or I'll kill him permanently. I know where he is." I warned them, and left them to contemplate on what they said.
3 Hours Later...
Yang slowly opened her eyes, slowly looking around the area she was in. She was in a small, dark room with three walls and a roof. The fourth wall was a series of metal bars, almost like a prison cell. She cautiously got up and walked up to the bars, shaking one of them, which didn't move. She stopped when she heard voices around the corner.
"- bring back Yang, or he'll kill you permanently. He then left us to come back here." Willow told Ultramega, who sighed heavily as he leaned against a wall.
"Can't just have one victory, can I?" He asked himself, chuckling a little. He moved off the wall and moved around the corner, finding Yang up against the bars. "So, you're finally awake. I was wondering if you'd ever wake up."
"W-what do you want with me?" Yang asked nervously.
"What do I want with you? Nothing. We needed Weiss, and you took her, we're simply returning the favor." Ultramega said, approaching the bars. "However, you are of some usefulness to me." He grabbed one of the bars and moved it so he could enter the room with Yang. She backed away slowly.
"What, am I you're hostage, you're prisoner? Or are you just taunting my brother?" She asked, slightly angrily.
"Don't call him your brother!" He yelled, making Yang jump back slightly. "You're nothing but a girl, stuck pretending that he's your brother, when you aren't. Shame really. No brother. No true sister. No mother." Yang's eyes glowed red as she lunged at him, anger taking over. He expected this and grabbed her, pushing her away from him easily.
"Then what do you want with me!"
"What I want... is to talk to my brother, without him killing me on the spot." Ultramega told her, and she laughed.
"You think he's going to come anywhere near you? He knows what you look like, he'll defeat you again if he sees you like that." She taunted, and he just smirked.
"I suppose you're right. I can't go up to him like this-" Ultramega was cut off as a hand grabbed onto his head and ripped it off, causing a small explosion, sending Yang back against the wall. She looked up to see her saviour, but her eyes widened with horror at who spoke. "-but I can go up to him like this."
Standing in front of Yang was Ultramega, in a brand new, significantly different looking body. He looked human. He stood at 6'0" tall, with somewhat long red hear, red eyes and pale skin. He wore a red t-shirt and black suit-like trousers with a long, knee length black trench coat, with smart black shoes, black leather gloves and two disks wrapped around both wrists. He just smirked at her.
"Like what you see?" He joked, approaching her as she backed up against the wall, falling down to her knees. "Yang... you've hurt me. Killed me the first time we met, and even though I can't feel pain, it still hurt that you did that." He leaned down to her current height. "Now, I'm gonna return the favor."
"Are- are you going to k-k-kill me?" She asked, tears in her eyes.
"Oh, I'm not gonna kill you-" He lunged forward, his face inches from her terrified one. "- I'm just gonna hurt you. Really. Really. Bad. Wait, that's a suicide squad reference. Oh well, it fits" He pressed the palms of his hands against the side of her head as she screamed in pain.
End of Chapter Seven
Ooooh... what's going to happen to Yang? Will Epsilon get her back? What has happened to Ultramega? All these questions, and more, will be answered in the next question. Now, for the story review:
Name: Incognito
Author: spyder-m
General Synopsis: Jaune was stuck in a rut, working a dead-end job and still trying to figure out what he wanted in life. Pyrrha was moving temporarily to Vale to do some promotional work for the Schnee Company, but also to escape the celebrity status she had attained in Mistral. The two have been friends for years, but are only now meeting in person for the first time. Arkos. Online friendship AU.
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