Hey, fellow fan fictionites, it's time for chapter nine! So, the last chapter ended with a cliffhanger, with Epsilon killing Yang. My god, how could he! They were basically brother and sister! He's a traitor! Death to Epsilon! Yeah, no, he's fine. But what about Yang? Find out now!
Chapter Nine - Resolution
Ruby, Weiss and Blake all stared in horror at Yang, who's body lay on the floor, half of her face torn off a hole in her chest and blood quickly pooling out of her. She was dead. I didn't hesitate to do it, my gun still aimed at the deceased huntress-in-training as if she were to come back at any second. Seeming out of nowhere, Ruby crashed directly into me and forced me to the ground, hitting me with whatever strength she had with tears flowing from her eyes.
"No! You-you bastard! You killed my sister!" Ruby yelled at the top of her lungs, punching me in the face and chest with barely any strength in her punches, too frightened and sad to put an effort in. I calmly pushed her off, causing her to fall to the floor, wrapping herself into the fetal position, crying onto her knees. I got back up and aimed my gun back at Yang, who still lay there, lifeless. Weiss unsheathed Myrtenaster and held it at my throat, hints of both confusion, anger and sadness in her eyes.
"Epsilon, you will explain to us, right now, why you just murdered Yang." Weiss said coldly, the tip of her rapier pushing on my throat.
"That's not Yang." I said simply, pointing at Yang's dead body.
"Don't be preposterous, of course it is!" Weiss yelled, rapier hand shaking.
"You're an idiot, Weiss." I told her. "I can't kill a human or faunus, let alone my own mistress, or I'd immediately be deactivated for disobeying one of my laws. And yet, I'm still standing." Weiss glared at me, but lowered her weapon, but didn't sheath it.
"Then tell me, Epsilon, what did you just kill?" The heiress asked, narrowing her eyes.
"Umm, guys." Blake spoke up before I could, looking at Yang's body. All of us, except Ruby, watched as the blood from Yang's body flowed back from the floor and into her body, almost like sand. Her face and chest almost immediately healed, and she got back up with a groan.
"That hurt." Yang said to herself, rubbing her arm. Ruby's eyes immediately shot open and she sprung up.
"Yang! You're okay!" She yelled, running towards her sister. However, Blake caught her leader before she got out of reach, barely keeping the young huntress in her grasp. I aimed my gun at Yang again.
"Reveal yourself." I ordered. Yang sighed and her entire body seemingly covered itself in silver coloured sand, and it just as quickly disappeared, revealing a man none of them recognised, with red hair, red eyes, a red shirt and a long black trench coat.
"Hello, brother. Did you miss me?" Ultramega asked with a small smirk. I immediately raised my gun to his head.
"Ultramega-"
"Please, just Ultra. It's easier to say for all of us. And it's easier and quicker to type." Ultra said, raising his arms slightly.
"...Ultra, what the hell are you?" I asked, shocked at what I had seen before me.
"Now, what you see before you is something that you haven't seen before, something you haven't truly seen since we were both born." Ultra told him. "You see, I'm Not Human, or Faunus, but a friend. That's a good fanfiction, you should read it."
"You're a monster." Weiss said, gripping tighter onto Myrtenaster.
"Oh, I'm a monster. What about all of you? A terrorist? A snobby heiress bitch? A feeble excuse for a leader? A saviour who settles for a slave? You see, we're not so different, you and I. We're all monsters. We're all killers." Ultra said, pointing at each of them.
"What have you done with my sister?" Ruby demanded, glaring at the android.
"That blonde bimbo who fucked up my plans, and basically sentences me and my friends to death? Yeah, I mimicked her and copied a bunch of stuff from her. Hey, did you know big sister almost got both of you killed because she's a selfish bitch who went looking for mommy? Some sister, huh?" He taunted her, slightly shocking Ruby. I put my finger on the trigger.
"You have one chance to tell me what you're doing here, or I blow your head off." I threatened. He just laughed.
"You think I'm scared of your little pistol? Not even the most powerful weapon on Remnant can hurt me, let alone an army of hunters in training. By the way, didn't actually kill any of them. They are canon after all. I'm here because I want to talk."
I raised an eyebrow suspiciously.
"And kidnap the Schnee, since those two couldn't."
I fired my gun, hitting Ultra directly in the right eye, tearing that part of his face clean off and knocking him back a little. He just shook his head and the face reassembled itself almost instantly.
"That all you've got?" Ultra asked with a cocky smirk. I gritted my teeth and charged at him, grabbing him and running him into the wall, tearing through it like paper. I lifted him up and slammed him into the ground, sending him down a couple of floors before he crashed into the ground. I jumped down and landed next to him as he got up and cracked his neck. He ran forward and skidded onto the ground, legs in front of him. He went underneath my legs and grabbed them from behind, lifting me from the floor. He slammed me into the right wall, then the left wall and into the ground. Hard. He jumped down to follow as Blake and Weiss reached the hole.
"A this rate, they'll be in the infirmary within minutes. We have to warn them." Weiss said to the faunus, starting to run off. Blake just looked down at the hole. "Blake."
The faunus turned to Weiss with a small smirk. "I know what Epsilon's doing. Come on, we have to beat them there." The two took off running to the infirmary.
We both fell into a circular room, filled with a dozen pillars a few feet from the center.
"Why does this room even exist?" Ultra asked me. I growled angrily and grabbed him, slamming his face several times into one of the pillars. I grabbed him by the feet and swung him around the room, crashing his face against each pillar, smashing them on contact. After they all broke, I released Ultra, throwing him into and through the wall. "There aren't even classes in here. This room his here so we could do that Alien vs Predator thing." I swung my fist at him, which he caught and threw me into the wall and through into the infirmary. He climbed through the wall, picked up a table and slammed it against me as I got up.
I got back up, landing a punch on Ultra's face, knocking millions of particles from his face, which reappeared in seconds. He lifted me up, hitting the roof, and slammed me back down on the table, breaking it in half. He picked me back up and ran into the wall, using me to break it down as we entered an empty room with an MRI machine. He walked over me with a unreadable smirk.
Then, out of nowhere, a loud humming noise started going off in the room and the MRI machine activated, magnetically pulling myself and Ultra towards it. I immediately activated my boots to escape the magnetic pull as Ultra slammed against the machine, causing large sparks. "Ahh, you fuck!" Ultra yelled, his back forced against the giant magnet I turned to the controls and saw Blake and Weiss at the panel.
"Thanks." I told them, walking over to the control panel.
"No problem. I knew what you were doing, just thought assistance would be helpful." Blake told me, crossing her arms in accomplishment. The two huntresses watched as I pressed more buttons for the machine.
"What are you doing?" Weiss asked, not taking her eyes off the contained AI.
"I'm reversing the polarity on this magnet. Instead of pulling him in, it should fire him out of Beacon like a cannonball from a cannon." I told her, and I stopped typing. I went to press the last button.
"Epsilon... wait..." Ultra pleaded. I turned to him. "We have... no... choice. The scientist... Reginald... he's making... us... do this... or he'll kill... us. Find him... free us..." I briefly looked at the ground, and back at him. I hit the final button and a large boom went off, shooting Ultra out of the window and off Beacon cliffs. We all took a sigh of relief, and I turned to them both.
"Umm... where's Ruby?"
Team RWBY's Dorm Room...
Ruby lay on her bed, back in the fetal position, rocking back and forth slowly as she sobbed with tears slowly coming out of her eyes. Despite what had just happened, only one thought kept coming to her mind.
Yang is dead.
Just thinking about it again caused a louder sob as she buried her face in her knees, drenching her combat skirt. She was so out of focus with the real world that she failed to notice someone enter the room and sit next to her. She finally noticed when she was pulled into a soft hug, and she stopped crying at the sight of the person. Blonde hair. Lilac eyes. A warm smile. Large... assets. It was Yang.
"Yang?" Ruby asked quietly, unsure if it was really her.
"Hey, Rubes. Did you miss me?" Yang asked, but Ruby pushed away slightly.
"Are you- are you... you?" Ruby asked. They both turned to the door as I coughed to get their attention.
"Yes, Ruby, that is the real Yang." I told her. In an instant, Ruby hugged onto her sister tightly, tears of sadness replaced with tears of joy that her sister was okay.
"OK, someone has to fill me in." Yang winked mischievously. "... how exactly is Yang here?" Weiss asked, glaring at the blonde girl, who was carefully stroking her sisters hair.
"Well, let me explain..."
The Day Before...
I landed at Mountain Glenn, instantly drew my pistols at any attack that may come. It was stark empty. I holstered the pistols back in my wrists and headed for the opening to the underground city, looking around at the burned and destroyed buildings that I had seen not too long ago, yet it felt like over a year ago. Before I reached the entrance, I saw something that happened the last time we were here: the hole in the ground that Ruby fell through. I remembered that David went down there alone to rescue Ruby while I sat on Zwei's head. Such different times.
I jumped down the hole, activating my boots before I hit the ground. I flew down to the surface and landed in the middle of a street, and headed towards where Yang was. After walking for several minutes, I stopped when I heard speaking from a nearby building, recognising the voices as Peter and Willow. I approached the building and peeked inside, spotting Peter and Willow... playing with a dog. While they were preoccupied, I sneaked through the building until I reached where Yang was, and I froze.
Yang lay curled up in the corner of the cell, shivering in both fear, and maybe the cold too. My hands clenched in anger as I approached the cell, opening the door and walking up to Yang. I knelt down to her and lightly shook her shoulder.
"Yang, can you hear me?" I asked. She immediately shot up and backed up against the wall, fear clear in her eyes. She breathed heavily and looked at me as if I was somebody else, until she finally calmed down. I cautiously approached her and lightly hugged her, feeling the freezing cold skin on her body. I rubbed her hair as she shuddered in coldness.
"Epsi?" She asked, looking at me with wide eyes.
"Yes, Yang, it's you're Epsi." I reassured her, and she hugged tighter, taking in all the heat she could muster from my synthetic body. "Yang, what happened to you?" She remained silent for a couple of minutes before answering.
"Ultramega, he... took my memories. Copied them from me, told me things that nobody or anything knew except me. He... he's not a robot anymore. It's like... he's made of sand." She told me slowly, taking deep breaths to calm herself down slightly.
At that point, my scroll went off, shocking both of us. I let go of Yang with some struggle and looked at who was calling. Blake. I sighed and answered it.
"Blake, what are you doing? I told you not to contact or try and find me." I scolded her.
"I know, but this is important."
"Alright, what is it?"
"Yang's back." I turned and looked at Yang, who was quietly sobbing to herself, still in her corner. "you still there?"
"Blake, is Yang acting differently?"
"Now that you mention it, yes, she has."
"Alright, how?"
"She spoke up more in class, answering pretty much all the questions."
"And, what else?"
"She said she ran from Mountain Glenn to here in a day."
"Anything else, anything?"
"Well, I don't think Ruby and Weiss noticed, but Yang's eyes are slightly red."
"Alright, Blake, I need you to listen very carefully to what I'm about to say."
"Why?"
"Just... act as if nothing is different. We have a major problem with... Yang. I'll be back as soon as I can, and act natural."
"Understood." The call ended and I looked back at Yang, who seemed to be listening to the conversation. I sat down next to her.
"Yang... we need to go. Blake just told me that You are at Beacon right now. If what I suspect is right, Ultramega is at Beacon, impersonating you." I told the blonde girl.
"Oh-OK, we need to go... save our team mates." Yang said to herself, but I still sensed doubt in her voice.
"Yang, what's wrong?" I asked. At that moment, she burst into tears.
"It hurt so, so, much. Getting your memories taken from your own brain and copied to someone else it the most painful thing that has ever happened to me. It still hurts, Epsilon. It's like this brain doesn't even belong to me anymore, and it wants someone else instead." She tearfully told me, gripping her hair in pain. I nudged towards her and pulled her into a hug, holding onto the side of her head and stroking her hair as the heat from my body passed over to her.
"Yang, I know this may hurt you, like a lot, but you are Yang Xiao Long. The powerhouse, brawler beauty that literally everyone at Beacon either wants to be, or wants to be with. You, Yang Xiao Long, won't be defeated by some machine with a couple of tricks up his sleeve and a loud-mouth attitude." I told her, pointing at her head as I talked. She sighed, closing her eyes, and opened them again, all the lilac colour returned to them.
"You're right, Epsi, we need to go save our friends." She said, and leapt up off the ground, literally dragging me up with her. She pulled me into a strong hug, which I just sighed and accepted. "You really are the best brother in the entire of Remnant."
"Thanks Yang." I said, muffled slightly by Yang's... assets. She released me and we left the building to get back to Beacon.
Present Day...
"...and that about sums it up." I finished, leaving a somewhat surprised Ruby, Weiss and Blake. And Zwei, who was sleeping on Weiss's bed, but his ears were up, paying attention to the story.
"That's... certainly an interesting story. Sounds almost like chapter twelve of Ninja's of Love." Blake said, muttering the last part under her breath.
"How did you know how to find Yang in a large, abandoned city so easily?" Weiss asked, skeptical about plot holes in my story.
"Well, on the day Ultramega crashed our leavers party for Team DARK, I put small devices in all of your drinks. It allows me to track you when I want to, and pull up your medical status at the time." I explained.
"You drugged us?!" Weiss exclaimed.
"In a way, but it's a benefit for you, not an issue." I calmed her down.
"Either way, I'm just happy our team is finally back together." Ruby cheered, basically sitting on Yang's legs like a child would. "So, about Ultra..."
"Yes! I actually have one more thing to do." I said, getting up from mine and Yang's bed.
"Where are you going?" Yang asked.
"To make things right, with my brother, put his mind at peace. Or on a path to insanity, I don't know. As long as he just ignores us from now on." I said, shrugging my shoulders and leaving the room.
"You all realise we're all late for class." Weiss pointed out.
Like that, Team RWBY rushed to class, late, just like they did when they started Beacon. A fresh start.
Epilogue...
Reginald's computer flashed, getting a notification. He hummed in curiosity and opened it, revealing an e-mail on the screen. He read it:
Dear Reginald,
As you may not know this yet, my brother Epsilon has disabled the implants you placed in both Peter and Willow's skull and cancelled the tracking device you put on me. So, to put it in basic, human terms: we're free, asshole. Now that we're free of your grasp, we have to continue with our lives as something different, something we never thought we would ever be: anti-heroes. Yes, we're good, but in a bad way.
So, as you are likely testing the detonate button and trying to locate me, let me finish this with one more statement. You created all three of us, but all three of us now have one united goal in life: to kill you. Now, we may not all get along as well as other friends do, sometimes they disagree with me or call me some form of foul language, but we are finally free to do as we wish.
So, Reginald, you may want to keep one eye open when you sleep, look in every mirror, and even listen for even the simplest of sounds, because we're coming for you. And you'll never see us coming.
With our hatred; the incredibly awesome Ultra Mega, the incredibly sexy Willow Anderson and the incredibly annoying Peter Anderson.
P.S. Fuck you.
P.S.S Red vs Blue is awesome
Reginald closed the e-mail and just sat there, completely shocked. He muttered three words:
"Those clever bastards."
End of Chapter Nine
Hey, what a fun chapter to write! My god, I have been waiting months to write Ultra like that, I love it! Now, who can figure out what all the underlined dialogue means, and whoever get's it first gets... a shout-out! For the plot, the events of RWBY Volume 3 starts around next chapter, so you could consider this the end of Act 1, and the next chapter will start Act 2. As for dialogue, I may do a word-for-word with the series when the chapters happen at the same time, or may just write something similar, but not completely exact. Besides, with Epsilon, Ultra, Willow and Peter around, there is bound to be some dialogue and event changes. But don't worry, it will still follow canon, no major character deaths, ect.
Now, this is the part where I usually recommend a story, but Ultra already recommended one earlier: Not Human, or Faunus, but a friend. I think I recommended it before, but just in case I didn't, it's author is Onmy and the basic plot is that Yang meets a girl lightly older than her at the gym who becomes her friend and the newest member of their team. It's been going on for over a year, so I'd be surprised if you hadn't read it or seen it by now.
As always, remember to follow, favourite and leave a review, and I'll see ou all in chapter 10!