What's up, it's chapter fifteen! So, it feels like it's been a long time since chapter 14, but realistically it's only been a week, so there's that. Well, this chapter is the 2v2 fight between Epsilon and Ultra against (spoiler) and (spoiler). Don't worry, it wont take long to find out who they are. But before that, some Epsilon and Penny moments.
Chapter Fifteen - The Doubles Round
I watched the match from the side lines, ready to enter for my match with Ultra against out currently unknown advisory. Of all the matches I had seen, which was most of them, I made absolute sure not to miss it, since I had told her I wouldn't miss it.
Penny summoned six floating swords and launched them into the rock that Russel Thrush was hiding behind, then another six swords into the rock Sky Lark was hiding behind, as they both glanced at each other in fear. Penny's teammate tapped her watch impatiently, so Penny lifted the rocks, with Russel and Sky attached to their respective rocks, and she slammed them down onto the grass, draining their aura's and ending the match.
"And victory goes to Penny and Ciel of Atlas!" Oobleck announced over the broadcasting system. Penny's swords folded back into her back and she bowed politely to her defeated foes.
"Thank you for a wonderful time." She thanked with her ever present smile and left the arena with Ciel. I reached them just as they exited the main arena and into the exits.
"Hey, Penny." I called out, catching her attention.
"Epsilon!" She yelled happily, hugging me tightly, so much that a normal person would have painfully been dragged to the ground. She let go with a smile and turned to her team mate. "Epsilon, this is my teammate."
"Ciel Soleil." She introduced herself with a formal bow.
"Hello, I'm Epsi-."
"Epsilon Xiao Long. 17. Hails from Vale. Member of Team UCER. Status: Active." She interrupted, as if counting all the things she stated.
"So... You two did pretty good out there. You literally gave those two no chance." I stated to my fellow android.
"Penny?" Ciel called out, pointing at her watch. "I believe it is best if we move on to our next location." Penny glanced at me and turned back to Ciel.
"Could we have just a minute to talk?" Penny requested. Ciel checked the time and nodded, taking a step back.
"Who's she? Your bodyguard or something?" I joked.
"Sort of. She's like a friend who is sort of not close and is ordered to spend time with you." Penny explained.
"Oh, so it's like Weiss on Team RWBY." I stated.
"Precisely." I lanced a Ciel and leaned a little closer to Penny.
"Does she know about... what we are?" I asked her quietly.
"Oh no." Penny said, shaking her head. "General Ironwood doesn't really want anyone to know about us or Ultra. However, there was an incident with a magnet not long ago."
"What happened?" I asked, slightly amused.
"I got a magnet stuck to my upper left forehead, which I had to hide with a large sun hat." Penny told me and we both started laughing. She glanced at Ciel and her smile turned to a more serious expression. "Epsilon, there's something I've wanted to talk to you about." She glanced again, making sure she wouldn't hear. "I want to stay at Beacon."
"Penny, that's great." I said with a smile, but it soon faded. "But I don't think Ironwood will let you do that."
"I know." Penny said sadly. "But I have a plan." She spoke with a mischievous grin.
"Well, if I can help, I definitely will." I reassured, getting a happy smile from Penny.
"It's been precisely one minute, ma'am." Ciel said, stepping forward and pointing at her watch.
"I'll talk to you more soon, Epsilon." Penny finished by giving me another hug, which I returned.
"Epsilon, I know she's your girlfriend, but you can let her get on with her own life." Ultra yelled, walking towards the arena. I turned to him and quickly let go of Penny out of embarrassment.
"Girlfriend?" Penny asked. "Am I your girlfriend?"
"No!" I yelled a bit too loudly. "No, Penny, just friends." Her smile faded a little as Ciel basically dragged her away.
"You just missed the opportunity, brother. But it won't happen. Canon." Ultra said to me.
"The next match will begin in just a few moments." Port announced.
"We'd best get ready to go." I said as we walked out onto the arena. "This is another Elysium team again, right."
"Right. Canon teams won't work, so the writer made up his own." Ultra confirmed. We reached the center of the arena and we stood opposite to two girls.
The first girl was a human with long, blonde hair with blue eyes and pale skin. She wore an obscenely short skirt with with a faded blue shirt, riddled with bullet holes. An opened deep black hooded leather jacket with dust infused to look like a power circuit. Her weapon, a dagger 12 inches long, the handle coloured silvery blue, was against the small of her back. Looking at her, she looked a bit like...
"You aren't related to a Yang Xiao Long, are you?" I asked her.
"I might be, if that's what your into~" She said with a wink.
"What do you think you are, a prostitute?" Ultra asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Used to be, but I'm willing to get back into that business for you~" She said with a mischievous smile.
"Hecate..." The other girl said.
"I'm just joking, Sky. I'm all yours~" Hecate said, giving the other girl a kiss on the cheek.
The second girl was also a human jet black hair, slightly sparkling like there was tiny lights in her hair, with light blue eyes and pale skin with a few scars, noticeably on her arms, one across her throat and some... unseen. She wore a deep blue singlet with stitches in the cloth covering slash marks where her ribs are. She wore a pair of crystal bracelets, one on each wrist, which pulsed from dark to light blue in a steady rhythm. A light blue skirt that reached just above her knees with leather roman-style open sandals. Her weapon was folded into three on her back, about a foot in length along her back, and had a multi-shot dust pistol on her right thigh.
"God damn, they're hot. Damn it, Ou0, your damn OC team is a fucking distraction." Ultra complimented them.
"Epsilon and Ultra of Atlas, versus Hecate and Sky of Elysium!" Port announced.
The roulette-styled hologram appeared, and started spinning to pick out four biomes. After several moments, the four biomes raised from the ground: volcanic, ice, ruined buildings and ocean. Me and Ultra readied our weapons, but the girls just turned to each other and smirked.
"Three! Two! One! Begin!" Oobleck yelled quickly.
Sky raised her arms as Hecate jumped back, and she aimed the palms of her hands at the center of the arena. At that moment, the entire floor of the arena exploded and shot up into the air, sending me and Ultra flying across the stadium. The destroyed biomes started to merge together, creating a dozen floating sphere shaped islands, Sky and Hecate standing on the underside of one, grinning maniacally at us as we floated towards the shield.
"Oh my word, it appears that Sky has activated her semblance!" Port yelled, surprised.
"Yes! Miss Breakers semblance allows her to alter the gravitational field of a certain area, in this case, the entire arena. This means she can create floating islands with their own individual gravity fields, keeping them from floating away from them." Oobleck explained. "But Epsilon and Ultra are in trouble if they don't get away from the shield."
We continued floating, almost hitting the top of the arena. I activated my boots, pushing myself away from the shield in the low-gravity. I grabbed Ultra by his leg and threw him at the floating island Hecate and Sky were on, which he expertly landed on, drawing his machetes.
Sky reached onto her back and grabbed her weapon, which folded out to a 3-foot long blade which she held in her right hand, seemingly weightless to her. Ultra charged at her, swinging his machetes at her waist, which she back flipped multiple times to avoid, holding her blade in front of her to block his machetes. She grabbed her pistol and fired several dust bullets into his chest, which simply passed through him and healed instantly. He grinned and twisted himself slightly, elbowing her in the chest and sending her onto the ground.
Ultra sheathed his left machete and grabbed his left pistol, firing at her. She sliced the bullets with her blade, easily slicing through them with ease as she crawled backwards. She rolled backwards, getting back up and slicing at Ultra's chest, from right shoulder to left leg. She expected him to fall to the ground, dead, but he healed simply. He raised his machete to swing at her, but was stopped by Hecate with an aura shield.
She pushed him back, forming a hammer out of her aura. She spun around, slamming the hammer into Ultra's chest, launching him out of the islands gravity and into another island, crushing it into small pieces of debris. He leapt off the debris onto a different island, trying to find me.
I flew around the islands, sparingly using the jet boots to save power, searching for Hecate and Sky. I glanced from island to island, finding the two girls on an island in the center of the arena. I flew down to them, drawing my pistols, only to be flown back across the arena by Hecate, who created an aura War Hammer. I slammed through an island and through another island, activating my jet boots mere feet from the shield, almost getting eliminated from the match. I quickly checked my aura levels.
"75%, not good. Ultra's at 60%." I muttered to myself. I flew to the nearest island, Hecate landing on the island with a grin that could only be described as 'psychotic'. She reached to the small of her back and pulled out her dagger, holding it in her right hand, while forming an aura dagger in her left hand. I shot my pistols at her, which she dodged out of the way of and slicing the electric bolts with her aura blade, soon discovering that shooting wasn't much good.
I transformed my pistols into daggers and swung at her, which she dodged with her won daggers, and tried to attack me more furiously. She spun, slicing her aura dagger at my face, slicing from my right eyebrow to my left cheek, tearing the prosthetic skin on my face. I glared at her, which she responded with a cheeky wink, and I swung at her, which she easily avoided by back flipping, kicking my hand back. She sheathed her dagger and made her aura hammer, slamming me into the ground and destroying the island which she leapt off.
As she flew through the low gravity to another island, Ultra intercepted her, slamming her into one of the floating islands, landing on top of her.
"Kinky~" She said slyly, head butting him and kicking him off her and onto another island. He flipped and landed as Sky and Hecate landed on opposite sides to him. He took out both pistols and fired at them both, Sky slicing the bullets with her 3-foot blade and Hecate creating an aura shield to stop the bullets from hitting her.
Sky folded and sheathed her blade and pushed her palms at Ultra, sending him flying into Hecate, who created her aura hammer and slammed him directly at the edge of the arena, into the shield. I activated my jet boots fully to try and catch him before he hit the shield, but I was just too late, the statistics on the hologram eliminating Ultra from the match. My aura was also down to 20%.
"It seems that with Ultra out of the game, the match may be over very soon for Hecate and Sky." Port stated. "Oh, but what's this?" He asked as he watched as I flew into an island, pushing it into another one, and into another, and another and another, creating a five island chain. I directed the islands directly at Hecate and Sky, crashing them into the sixth island, creating a gigantic debris cloud.
Hecate and Sky barely leapt onto the last standing island, landing on their chests painfully, not having the time to land properly. I deactivated my jet boots, landing on the island with gritted teeth, angry at the two girls. Sky took out her blade and swung at me, which I blocked with my daggers, making an 'X' shape to stop the blade. Hecate took out her dagger to sneak up behind me. I grabbed her wrist as she swung, took out my pistol and fired a dozen electric shots right into her chest, draining her aura.
"Oh, and it's down to one-on-one!" Port stated.
"Hecate!" Sky yelled, pulling her pistol and fired it at me, which I stopped with my hand using my aura. I took out my dagger and threw it at Sky, which missed her leg and wrapped around it. I pulled her towards me and swung at her, knocking out her aura in a single hit as the debris and island fell to the ground.
"And that's the match. Victory to Epsilon Xiao Long!" Oobleck told the crowd. I turned and saw Team RWBY cheering, especially Yang, which made me smile. I walked over the debris and held out a hand to Ultra, who grabbed it and picked him up.
"You alright?" I asked as he wiped the dust off his black trench coat.
"Yeah, I'm good. Loo's like you're going to the finals. You are the main character after all." Ultra told me, and I nodded. I looked over to the other team to see Sky crying, Hecate hugging her to comfort her.
"I can't believe we lost." Sky said sadly, tears in her eyes.
"Well, we tried out best." Hecate tried to reassure. Sky sniffled a couple of times and looked at Hecate.
"Back to prison then." Sky stated.
"At least we'll be there together." Hecate told her, making her smile and kissed her.
"Prison?" I asked Ultra.
"Who the fuck knows. You'll find out later. Much. Much. Later." Ultra said, equally unsure as me.
"And with that, Epsilon will move onto the finals as the next match begins." Oobleck stated.
"Once the arena is repaired." Port added.
Beacon Academy...
Cinder searched through her scroll, reading the newly acquired information from Ironwood. She stopped when she saw blueprints with the title 'P.E.N.N.Y'.
"Oh." She said quietly, widening her eyes in surprise.
"What?" Emerald asked.
"Oh nothing. We're just going to be making a slight, hmm... alternation in the plan." Cinder reassured, getting concerned looks from Emerald and Mercury.
"What does that mean?" He asked while doing push-ups.
"It means that this will be even easier than we thou-" The screen displaying Penny closed and was replaced with a silver circle with a line though the middle, two brighter semi-circles inside the larger circle and two narrowed red eyes, one in each semi-circle. "What is this?" Some text displayed on the screen.
Nice try, mom, you fucking bitch - Ultra
Cinder clenched her fists around her scroll, unintentionally burning the metal casing. Before she could break it, a knock came at the door. Emerald opened it to find no one there, but a parcel on the floor. She went to pick it up, but as soon as she touched it, she immediately backed away.
"What's the matter? Too hot for ya?" Mercury asked.
"No, that things freezing cold." Emerald said. Cinder put down her scroll and picked up the parcel, using her fire abilities to not get damaged by the cold. She opened it and found two things: a flash drive with a note attacked and a small device that looked like a tiara. She read the note:
Cinder, been a while. Just found out Epsilon has made it through to the finald, and here's how to stop him. Give the headpiece to Emerald and plug the flash drive into the CCT at the right time. You'll know when to do it. One chance, don't mess it up.
- Reginald
Cinder smirked.
Ozpin's Office...
"Can you take off this damn tracker yet?" Ultra asked Ozpin, annoyed.
"Now, Ultra, you know I can't do that. Safety precaution." Ozpin told him, taking a sip of coffee.
"'Safety precaution'? I'm not insane. No, I am. I'm not going to kill anyone." Ultra tried to reason.
"You tried to kill Winter Schnee, and put dozens of civilians in danger." Ozpin stated.
"She deserved it! And those civilians are fucking idiots, standing there like statues, right in the line of fire!" Ultra yelled annoyingly, getting an amused smirk from Ozpin. He turned and looked out the window.
"You fought good today Ultra, I'm glad you're on our side." Ozpin told him.
"I'm not really on your side. I'm on my brother's side." Ultra corrected him.
"Brother? Epsilon's never referred to you as his brother, nothing more than a monster in his eyes." Ozpin said.
"And he should. I'm not going to deny what I am." He stated. At that moment, the elevator opened and Qrow walked in with a 'coffee' in his hand.
"You know, he's making you look like a fool." Qrow said to Ultra.
"I know. Damn tracking device." Ultra complained.
"And Ironwoods a damn fool to you, Oz." Qrow added.
"His heart is in the right place. He's just... misguided." Ozpin said to the hunter.
"Sometimes, I'm not sure if he has a heart." Qrow said, talking a drink from his 'coffee'.
"Hey, I take offence to that. I don't have a heart and I'm a bad ass." Ultra boasted.
"And yet, your still on a leash." Qrow reminded.
"I don't need reminded." Ultra gritted his teeth. Qrow turned to Ozpin.
"So, have you chosen your guardian yet?" He asked. Ozpin spun his chair around to face Qrow.
"Maidens choose themselves. I simply believe I've found the right candidate. Ever since the day I met her, I had the feeling she would be the one. She's strong, intelligent, caring... but most importantly, she's ready." Ozpin finished.
"Wait, who is it? You see, you only know because it showed Pyrrha. You'd all go insane with crazy fucking theories if you didn't see. Also, IT'S NOT FUCKING NEO! Stop fucking saying it is, it's Pyrrha, end of story. That's it, just end the fucking chapter!"
End of Chapter Fifteen
And that's the end of the chapter! Man, this went faster and better than expected, with plenty of Epsilon and Ultra, with just a side of Penny. Now, the two OC's in this chapter, Hecate and Sky, were not made by me. If you read properly, you can find the creator, as said by Ultra. But, them two, and the rest of Team NXHS, will be seen later in the story, probably in a different Volume. Now, onto Story Recommendation:
Name: Blondes
Author: SleepinEyes (Yes, again. They're a really good author)
General Synopsis: What if our two favourite blondes had met before? Omakes by Gilamesh The King if Heroes.
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