Twin Flames Chapter 3

The next morning, they are informed it's 2 weeks to the Vytal festival.

Yang said "It had to be postponed due to the fact Beacon wasn't ready to host the tournament."

Alex said "We better prepare."

Blake and Weiss said "Let's go.'

They have a long arduous training session before lunch. Cardin pulled on Blake's tail as she walked past.

Blake shouted "Let go."

Cardin said "Bow, animal."

Weiss heard this and punched him in the jaw.

Weiss asked "Blake, are you alright?"

Blake said "I am, thanks Weiss."

Cardin asked "Why do you defend her?"

Weiss said "She is my friend and we humans have terrible things to Faunus and that needs to change."

They all sit down. Weiss and Blake are sharing some friendly conversation.

Alex said smiling "It's good to see you 2 getting along, we are really becoming quite a team."

The 2 weeks past quickly.

Alex asked "Are we ready for this?"

Yang said smiling "I'm confident."

Weiss said "I'm ready."

Blake said "Ready to go."

Alex grabbed a tool box as they were leaving for the arena.

Weiss asked "What's that toolbox for?'

Alex said "Penny's in this tournament."

Weiss asked "So why?"

Alex said "Oh yeah I forgot to tell you, Penny is a artificial person made of metal and wires.

They all shouted "What!"

Alex said "Don't worry she is a good person, it is just due to certain things happening during mission she needed an arm replaced or something like that so I got a portable toolbox for fixing her."

They enter the arena against ABRN. The round started abruptly. Nadir met with Alex on the battlefield. She elbowed him in the stomach and followed by a kick to the back which lowered his aura level to five causing him to lose.

Yang shouted "Way to go Alex."

Arslan kicked her into Weiss. Bolin disarmed knocked Weiss's sword out of her hand. Blake arrived having just defeated Reese. Bolin slammed his pole into Blake's tail. Then he slammed Weiss in the back. Alex blocked Bolin's attack and pushed him away. Alex passed Weiss her sword.

Alex said "Yang you with me."

Yang nodded, Yang then kicked Arslan over the fire part of the arena. Alex sent magma upwards into Arslan she then launches Yang up into the air who delivered a powerful punch slamming Arslan into the ground.

Bolin went flying into the edge of the arena, having hit the edge of ring and being under his aura being under 15%.

The announcer shouts "Team RWBY has won the round!"

After winning the match. Alex,Yang,Weiss and Blake to to get lunch. Weiss ignores a phone call from her father. They go to have lunch at noodle store. Weiss's credit card is declined.

Weiss said "But I haven't spent that much."

Alex said "Don't worry."

Alex puts a small bag of coins on the table. The owner takes it and leaves them to their meal.

Yang asked "Where did you get that money?"

Alex said "Hunting Grimm does pay well."

Team JNPR sat with them and enjoyed a meal before their match.

Jaune said "I feel sick."

Nora said "Aim it at the enemy."

Ren said "That's disgusting but if you need to."

Jaune said lying on the table "Got it."

The announcer called them team JNPR to the ring.

Team RWBY head's back to watch their match.

Alex watches the match closely as do her teammates.

Alex said "So it seems the enemy have a sniper, that is going to be tough to beat."

Nora gets hit with a electrical weapon and knocks he opponent flying having absorbed the electric energy."

Jaune sees a lightning cloud and tells Nora to get to the top of the mountain.

A a few minutes of fighting, Nora gets the power up by the storm and single handily wipes out the opposing team.

Alex said "Jaune may not be a amazing fighter but he is a good leader able to think quickly and come up with a surefire plan."

They watch Team SSSN face against Team NDGO.

As the match went Alex shook her head.

Alex said "These guys are hopeless."

Weiss said "You're not wrong, Sun seems to be the only decent fighter there."

After the match they saw a ship come down.

Team RWBY ran out to the ship.

A woman dressed in white stepped out.

Weiss said "That's Winter, my sister."

Alex said "Your sister."

Weiss said "I feel like I haven't done as well as I should have this year."

Blake said "I'm sorry Weiss."

Weiss said "I have been through a lot this year, it's not any of your fault."

Winter walked up to Weiss.

Winter asked "How have been doing here?"

Weiss said "If your talking about my grades then I'm sorry."

Winter said "I meant your friends."

Weiss said "This is Alex , Yang and Blake."

Winter looked at all of them especially Blake, she then said "Let's talk."

Weiss said "Okay."

Weiss was separated from her friends by Winter's guards.

Winter asked "You not what they did to our family?"

Weiss said "We forced their hand, it is really us ,the humans fault, anyone would get desperate when they are treated as an animal when they are so similar to us."

Winter said "Who taught you this."

Weiss said "Maybe I am opening my eyes to the world we live in, the White Fang were once a peaceful organisation until their leader changed and what happened was scary."

Winter said "It was."

Weiss said "The history of Humans and Faunus is scary, when they portested peacefully no-one gave them heed and treated them as lesser but after they got violent they are treated as equals."

Winter said "so."

Weiss asked rhetorically "What kind of world do we live in which violence is the only way to be treated as equals?"

Winter said "They have done bad things to our family Weiss"

Weiss shouts at her "We have done bad things to them as well, not mention how our company treats Faunus!"

Winter shouts "They act like animals!"

Weiss shouts "BECAUSE WE TREAT THEM LIKE ANMALS?"

The sound of clunking came from the two guards being broken.

Weiss turned around and saw Qrow standing there.

Weiss walked said as she past him "I hope you can get through to my stubborn sister who refuses to see reason."

Weiss stood next to Blake.

Weiss said angrily "I'm am sick of her being so stubborn."

Alex said "You can be quite stubborn too but what makes the difference is you can when you see reason, you stop."

Alex hears gun shots.

Weiss said "For gods sakes, are they fighting now."

Blake asked "Are you alright?"

Weiss said "I will fine when my sister stops this fight which she started."

Qrow and Winter continue fighting on the ground until Ironwood came over.

Iron wood asked "What are you doing, creating such a huge commotion in the street."

Winter said "General Ironwood, sir he started the altercation."

Weiss walked over and shouted "Why can't you for once admit your wrong, that you were in the wrong, the thing Beacon taught me was I can be wrong, I spent so long thinking I was always right but being here taught me more than Atlas ever could." Weiss stormed off angrily with Blake and Yang following her. Penny waved to Alex and Alex waved back.

Alex followed Ironwood and Winter to Ozpin's office. She then camouflaged looking like she was part of the wall.

Ozpin arrived in his office with Glynda and Qrow.

Winter said angrily "What were you thinking?"

Ironwood said "If any my men behave like that I would have had them shot."

Qrow replied snidely "If I was one of your men I would have shot myself and besides you don't have many men most of them are machines that obey your every command."

Glyda said "I don't condone his actions but yours didn't make it any better."

Winter said "He was drunk."

Glyda replied "His always drunk, he once fell down on his way out of classroom."

After a few moments of stunned silence as Qrow was drinking again.

Ozpin asked "Why are you here?"

Ironwood said "You've been out of contact for weeks, you can't just go black like that."

Qrow said "I'm not one of your few men don't treat me like one, Jimmy."

Winter said "General."

Qrow said "Whatever, the point is I was sent to get intel on our enemy and they are here."

Ironwood said "We know."

Qrow said angrily "You now do you, well it's great that I'm risking my life out there to keep you all informed."

Ironwood said "Qrow."

Qrow said "Communication is a 2 way street, you see this thing I'm holding, it has something called a send button on it, use it."

Qrow said "They assumed you were compromised."

Qrow said "And I assumed you have no reason to be here, you don't need to be here this has nothing to do with you." Qrow then asked mockingly "Did any of you invite her because I certainly didn't?"

Ironwood said "Schnee leave we will discuss this incident later."

Winter said "But."

Ironwood said "Winter."

Winter left the room in a bad mood.

Alex said "Well I'm glad she's gone."

Ozpin asked "Alex, how and are you here?"

Alex said "I know what's really going on, and this is just the beginning the queen will make her move."

Ironwood said "What should we do with her?""

Ozpin said "Make her part of this if she knows which I have no doubt she does otherwise she wouldn't have bothered following you."

Ironwood said "Fine then, Qrow continue."

Qrow said "Your little infiltrator isn't just another pawn they are the queen pulling the strings, they are the ones who are responsible for Autumn's condition."

Glyda exclaimed "What?!"

Qrow said "The world thinks we are just teachers,generals, headmasters but they are wrong we work behind closed doors to keep the world safe from evils they don't know about and couldn't even begin to comprehend, so James when you brought your army here, did you think you were discreet or did just not care."

As he put a hologram phone down, he said "Discreet wasn't working."

He continued "I am here because this is necessary."

Qrow said "You are here because Ozpin wanted you here, he made you part of this inner circle and told what is really happening."

Ironwood said "I'm grateful."

Alex said angrily "This is not a very good way to show your grateful."

Ironwood said "When the people see my fleet they will feel safe and the enemy will know our strength"

Qrow laughed "You think our enemy is scared of you ships, she has created creatures that are the embodiment of fear."

Alex said "Not to mention your tech is easily hackable"

Ozpin said "And fear will bring the Grimm, a guardian is symbol of comfort and an army is a symbol of conflict. In the back of everyone's minds is the question 'If this is the size of our defences what are we expecting to fight."

Alex waked over to Ironwood's scroll and looked at it. He closed the hologram.

Alex said as Ironwood picked up his scroll "Your scroll has been hacked by the enemy."

Ironwood asked "How?"

Alex said "I don't know but they did, look."

She showed them all the symbol of a queen on the phone.

Alex said "This means your army is under their control and if we do anything they may started their plan early."

Ironwood asked "Is there nothing we can do?"

Alex said "We need a guardian."

Alex said "I will leave that to you, I have to get back to my team."

She gets back to see Yang and Weiss at the end of their match. After the 2nd round ended and soon after the 3rd round began with Ruby facing off against Mercury.

Yang easily defeated Mercury with little trouble. Yang is declared the winner. Alex runs down there to congratulate her. Yang swung a punch at Alex. Alex blocked the punch.

Alex shouted "Yang, what are you doing?"

Yang continued punching and kicking Alex, Alex blocked every punch and kick.

The announcer shouted "The match is over, you can stop."

Alex said "Okay, I have had enough."

Alex palms Yang in the stomach, Yang coughed up blood and then lost consciousness. Alex carried Yang back up to her team.

Alex said "That was the lightest blow I could do."

Weiss asked "Now what, she is out for the who knows how long?"

Alex said "Easy fix,I can heal people."

Weiss asked "How?"

Alex said "I can create life energy."

Alex's hands glow white and she heals Yang. Yang wakes up.

Yang asked "What happened."

Alex said "You won the round."

Yang asked "But Mercury knocked me out could didn't he?"

Alex said "No, I did because you attacked me what you were seeing was an illusion."

Yang said upset "I'm so sorry."

Alex said "Relax, the next match is about to start."

The next match was Penny vs Pyrrha. Penny and Pyrrha were fighting on equal footing.

Alex said "I'm worried about Penny, she could get really badly hurt here."

Penny duplicated her swords. The Pyrrha let a huge magnetic burst which sent Penny's wires back at her cutting in half.

Alex ran down to the centre of the stadium.

Emerald said "Mercury, stop her."

Mercury ran after her and as she arrived in front of Penny. He kicked her in the back of the head. She grabbed him and slammed his head into the ground.

Cinder began her broadcast.

Alex activated the toolbox giving it the orders complete Directive 3(Pick up Penny and her equipment, then return to storage unit) then Directive 1(Perform damage report on Penny).

Grimm started to attack the city and the stadium.

A Nevermore smashes through the roof and tries to attack Pyrrha.

Alex then kicks the creature, as she shouts "LEAVE HER ALONE,!."

Then everyone's weapon arrive and they defeat the Nevermore. They all head outside. To find Ironwood killing a Grimm.

Once he was done he said "Leave if you wish no-one will blame you but if you want to stay and fight follow me."

All of them agree to fight.

Ironwood said "1 last thing."

Ironwood blew up all of his mechanical soldiers including the ones on his ship.

Alex said "Good job no hacking for the bad guys."

You guys take the ground path I'm going to stop Torchwick.

Alex gets on top of Torchwick's ship and starts fighting Neopolitan and Torchwick on it. She fights them for a long period of time.

Alex said "Grr this is taking too long."

Alex starts to realises her aura and blows up the ship, then jumps off landing on the ground safely. She runs over only to find Weiss with Yang and Blake. Alex looks at them and sees Yang's arm's missing.

Blake said "I'm so sorry."

Weiss said "It's not your fault, we will find who did this and ensure justice don't worry."

A call comes through from Jaune that Pyrrha is in danger.

Alex said "I will go."

Alex runs up there only to watch Pyrrha killed by Cinder. Alex's eyes change from red to Silver, freeze the Grimm and hurt Cinder badly.

Alex picked up Cinder who was bleeding heavily. Cassadaria arrived.

Cassadaria asked "Who are you?"

Alex said "Alex is my name, you want your sister back."

Cassadaria asked "How did you figure that out?"

Alex said "I would rather not talk about it."

Cassadaria said "Sorry I shouldn't be rude to the one who saved my sister."

Alex said "I have to get back to the others."

Cassadaria said "I will have to leave Atlas , they will arrest my sister."

Cassadaria draws a sigil on the ground and starts chanting. The sigil glows but then nothing happens.

Alex asked "What were you doing?"

Cassadaria said "Trying my phoenix sigil which can bring others back to life but it didn't work."

Alex said "You should go and meet with Qrow he will help you."

Cassadaria said "Thanks."

A few days later Cassadaria arrives at Qrow's home.

Qrow asked "What are you doing here?"

Cassadaria said "I need a place to keep my sister so Atlas won't find her."

Qrow said "You are Ruby's friend so sure."

Cassadaria puts Cinder down and continues to treat her injuries.

Qrow asked "Why are you hiding from Atlas?"

Cassadaria said "My sister is responsible for what happened at Beacon and worked for Salem."

Qrow shouted "What."

Cassadaria said "I will take her down if she tries anything."

Qrow said "Fine but if anything goes wrong it's on your head."

A few hours later Cinder woke up. Cinder looked at Cassadaria.

Cinder whispered "..."

Cassadaria learnt close.

Cinder whispered "You betrayed Salem, I should kill you."

Cassadaria said "I will show Salem betrayed me."

Cassadaria unwrapped her face. Cinder's eye widened.

Cassadaria said "Salem made me into a monster."

Cinder whispered "I'm sorry, I didn't know so I have cause all this death for this."

Cassadaria said "I am travelling with team JNPR to the next town."

Cinder whispered "May I come with?"

Cassadaria said "Fine but apologise to Jaune."

Cassadaria and Cinder walk out of the building.

Jaune shouts "Why are you bringing her?"

Cassadaria shouts "She's my sister."

Cinder whispers in his ear "I'm sorry."

Jaune said to Cinder "Fine but I'm not forgiving you."

Meanwhile Alex is on her own. She is busily repairing Penny. 4 months later Penny was fully repaired.

Alex asked "Penny, you active?"

There was no response.

Alex created an orb of life in her hand and slammed into Penny's repaired body.

Penny opened her eyes and said shocked "I am alive."

Alex said "I have repaired you."

Penny asked "What happened?"

Alex said "Beacon is overrun with Grimm, we failed."

Penny asked "What should we do?"

Alex said "Time to reveal who I really am."

Penny said "Alright."

Penny arrived at Qrow's home. Yang opened the door and was shocked.

Yang said "Penny your alright come in."

Penny entered in the door.

Yang asked "So how are you functioning?"

Alex stood out of sight as she said "I fixed her like I said I would."

Yang said "Alex ,you sound different."

Alex said "I have stopped hiding who I really am."

Yang said "Show yourself then, you have nothing to hide amongst friends."

Alex stepped out as she said "We are more than friends."

Yang's eyes widen as she jumped "RUBY, YOU'RE ALIVE."

Chapter 3 End