Chapter 2
What?
"What?" Banshee said in utter disbelief.
"That's the only reason I could come up with for this," I gestured around me.
"How did you get that?" She asked, still in a state of shock.
"Well, our clan Dojo is here, but our clan isn't. The Void was recreated in this dimension when the Orokin made it because it has to exist in both places. Also, have you noticed how similar Ozpin is to Excalibur?" I explained.
"Well, he talks the same, looks the same, and acts the same. He even owns this school, which shows he is skilled at combat," She thought out loud.
"Exactly. He must be an alternate version, meaning that we are in another universe," I said. Banshee soaked in this information.
"So, what you're saying that we have severed all connections to our system, right?" She asked.
"Yep."
"So we are not bound by the clan anymore?"
"Where are you going with this?" I knew exactly where she was going with this.
"No rules?!" She seemed excited. I was hopeful.
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure I just said that," I was trying to contain myself. Then all of a sudden, she bolted away to Excalibur's restricted garden. I sighed and decided to tell the rest of the squad the news.
-Later-
"Someone's mad," Hydroid smirked.
"Umad bro?" Zephyr teased.
I had just told the other two about the new universe and even how Banshee acted afterwards, which I immediately regretted. I just hope that nobody was around to hear my gigantic regretful sigh that I let out when they bombarded me with teases.
"Why do I keep doing this to myself?" I asked no one in particular.
"Doing what?"
We all looked at the door to find all of team RWBY staring at us through the door. My torturers looked at me.
"Just tell them," I waved my hand at them "and stab me while you're at it," They ignored my last comment.
"Volt likes Banshee," They said in unison, smirking. The four girls looked at us for a second blinking.
"Aww-"Yang began.
"I swear to Lotus, if you start, I will electrocute you so much you will jump off a cliff," I said murderously while pointing Amprex at her. She backed up, wide eyed with her hands in the air.
"Well, what should we do about it," Blake asked.
"First of all," I put my index finger in the air "don't tell anyone who might tell her. Two, do not tell her yourselves. Three, help me,"
"What do we get?" Weiss asked, narrowing her eyes.
"You get all of the seconds between now and my confession that I don't turn you to ashes," I said sadistically, getting up in her face with fake a smile for effect.
"Whoa man, I know that we agreed on the not burning trees part, but people are off limits," Hydroid joked, ruining the mood I was trying to create. I glared at him before leaving and entering the Dojo. I went down the elevator and entered the Bio Lab to find the most horrible thing to kill them with. Our clan Dojo was organized in a pyramid of power. The recruits were at the bottom; the newer people next, then the mid-level, and then experienced, then Excalibur. I was experienced, of course. Labs were on the mid-level floor. Just as I started making the Embolist, the door opened behind me.
"Sorry, just needed some time to think about… something," Banshee apologized "What are you doing?"
"Making an Embolist to kill the other two idiots on our team slowly and painfully," I said with bitterness still in my voice.
"What's got you so sadistic?" She asked with a hint of fear.
"Tell me what you were thinking about first. Then I will tell you," I said, turning away from the build queue.
"It's kind of embarrassing…" She looked away a bit, a slight pink covering her face.
"Can't possibly be as bad as me," I said bluntly "at least tell me what or who it involves,"
"Well it involves you," She said quietly, looking away more.
"Spit it out then, don't leave me hanging!" I said uncharacteristically. Then I felt a mysterious force wash over me and she moved her lips, but I didn't hear what she said. She seemed to blurt it out and look completely away. I waited for the force to wear off and then spoke.
"Wait till' later to use Silence, and from what I've gathered, you will probably want it," I assured her.
"I don't know how to say it," She slumped over.
"Well, what I have to say is probably similar, if not the same, as you," I motivated her. She perked up a bit, my comment giving her the confidence needed to say what she was going to say. She took a deep breath in and out.
"Okay, I got this," She said staring at her feet. Then she looked up. I looked at my wrist as if I had a wristwatch, signifying my limited patience.
"Volt, I love you," She took a breath and held it in, waiting for my response. I decided to screw with her and sat there, emotionless, for a few seconds. Then I let a small smile sneak onto my face. Banshee exhaled, relieved that the feeling was mutual.
"If you're wondering why I was so angry, I had told Hydroid and Zephyr about my feelings long before, just in case they found out later and told you. I didn't want my problems affect the entire clan," I admitted "I just had to tell team RWBY because those two just had to tease me in the central garden,"
"Oh, that sucks" Banshee sympathized poorly.
"Also, you didn't have to keep your feelings all bottled up like that, you can have relationships in the clan. Even some recruits are exploiting that," Banshee said like it was nothing. I looked up at her with a look of disbelief on my face.
"How did you know that?" I said, still internally scolding myself.
"It's in the clan signup guidelines. A lot of things that you wouldn't expect are in there," She continued to startle me.
"Who reads those?" I asked in disbelief. She was just full of surprises today.
"I do," I gave her a look that asked 'why?' "what? I was bored,"
"That's not how to solve boredom, that's how you get it," I stated.
"Well, if you want to learn Excalibur's sense of humor, go there," She half chuckled, half shuddered.
"What are we going to do about our current relationship?" Banshee asked after a long pause.
"I think we should just stay here for the rest of the day and night. Zephyr will know what it means. She knows not to tell. Plus, we can come and go as we please because we have our clan keys, they don't. We just need some privacy," I suggested. Banshee agreed and we decided to go back to the barracks to practice our new relationship in peace. We mostly just cuddled up on the bed, enjoying each other's presence. That was about it.
Probably four or five hours later, Banshee fell asleep. I got an idea and slowly peeled myself away from her. I went over to a small table and started sketching a blueprint. When I finished, I went over to the foundry and started construction on it. The machine estimated an 8 hour construction process. I went back to bed and crawled back in next to Banshee, slowly falling asleep.
-Next morning-
I awoke first, happily sitting in bed for a few seconds, just enjoying my new girlfriend's presence. "I can get used to this" I thought. After a few minutes, I decided to go check on my project. I made it to the foundry and saw that it was done. I grabbed the two objects and took them back to the room. When I returned, Banshee was starting to wake, clearly displeased by my disappearance.
"Why did you leave?" She pouted cutely.
"Well, I think you will like my reason," I held up the result of my project. It was a type of chest piece similar to the Eos, but in the center was a small button that represented an Orokin Laser Plate.
"What is it?" She asked, not really impressed by it.
"Well, it's a device that acts like a Void Key in the fact that it teleports you, but instead of brining you to a set location, it takes you to the other one," I said, tossing it to her.
"Wow, that's awesome! Thank you Volt!" She jumped over and hugged me from the side and nuzzling into me, taking me by surprise. I eventually recovered.
"Also, if someone besides you or me touches the buttons, it sends them to a Tower 4 Void mission," I added matter-of-factly.
"Oh you sneaky little bugger," She responded in an unintended seductive tone, her body movements not helping at all. My eyes widened and I backed up behind one of the planters in the room.
"What were you trying to do with that?" I asked fearfully, poking my head out.
"Wha- wait, nonononono! I didn't mean that!" She waved her hands in front of her, blushing heavily after realizing what she had just done.
"Anyways, forgetting what just happened, I think we should go back and find out what we're going to do about our current situation and Hek," I suggested. Banshee nodded, still recovering from her blush, and we used our Keys to go back.
When we returned, we walked out of the portal right in front of a blonde boy with his mouth wide open in shock. I looked at Banshee and she nodded.
"Sup," I gave him a half nod. He just fainted right there. I sighed and just walked around him through the halls. Banshee and I activated our helmets to see the minimap because the map would lead us to our teammates. As we walked the halls, we passed many students that gave us sideways looks and untrusting glares. I ignored this and just pursued my objective.
We eventually tracked them down to a small room inside a long hall way with a lot of other doors. It didn't open automatically, so I looked for an access panel. I was frustrated so I slammed my fist on the door. The wood cracked, but didn't break. Then Hydroid came from inside, looking to see who it was.
"What's all the smashing about?!" He asked me, not bothering to ask where we were last night (Zephyr you little…).
"I couldn't figure out how to open this door," I said in a frustrated tone. Hydroid tried to stifle his laughter, but he failed and broke into a full on hysterical laugh.
"What's so funny?" A voice from inside asked.
"Volt hit the door because he didn't know how to open it!" He managed to get out, causing everyone in the room to laugh, which consisted of Zephyr and Hydroid, team RWBY, and three people I didn't know. I glared at all of them, noticing that even when they finished, they didn't ask where I was last night (Zephyr I hate you).
"Yeah, and before you ask, I already told everyone that you spent the night in your cozy little fuck mansion with your new girlfriend," I wanted to die right there. Zephyr smirked and prepared for the beating of her life.
"Keyword: new. We did nothing if that's what you're wondering," I at least stopped that. I was glad I had my helmet on. Just as I was going to kick Zephyr in the face, the intercom became active.
"Team Storm, please report to my office immediately,"
"Oh yeah, we just signed up for this school and now we're attending, so we're a team," Zephyr said, bracing for impact.
I backhanded her as I turned around and went straight back to where we came from. I led the group, Banshee next to me, Zephyr holding her cheek in pain behind us, and Hydroid trying to seem not guilty in the back. When we walked back we got even weirder looks, one kid even got in our way to study us before I walked right over him.
When we made it to the office, Ozpin was sitting there with one of the few advanced technologies of the world in his hands, a Scroll. He was scrolling (no pun intended) through lots of photos and law enforcement reports. We waited patiently in attention for him to speak. He stopped at a picture and turned it to us.
"Do you recognize this?" The picture showed a shadowy figure of a resurrected ursa walking the woods.
"Hek got them too? They're the best stealth team in our system! No one can find them! I can't even find them at lunch!" Hydroid said in disbelief.
"What is it?" Ozpin calmly asked, ignoring Hydroid's remark.
"That's the product of one of my clan mates Nekros', abilities, Shadows of the Dead. His squad must be with him," I said.
"They would be our friends, but no one sees them. Ever," Zephyr added to Hydroid's conversation.
"Would you please find them; they are causing the civilians to be scared for their lives," Ozpin waved us off to go find them.
"Where is-"Hydroid looked like he just realized something "oh yeah, that's a stupid question," I rolled my eyes and just set the other squad as capture targets.
-Two Hours Later-
"Where are they?!" Hydroid shouted into the air. We were in a forest, their ideal hiding location. We had just walked around and tried to find them, my capture targets bouncing around in random locations and marking other things. I just turned them off. Hydroid had the least patience, losing it immediately. Zephyr fell right behind him there. I had managed to hold on a lot longer, but got frustrated, and Banshee was fidgeting slightly, letting me know she was losing it.
"I have an idea, split up into groups of two and you guys go have some fun, and we go off and continue our search. That way, they will either target us for lesser numbers and then realize it's us, or go for you because who would pass up that blackmail material?" Zephyr's ridiculous idea made me stop in my tracks and blush heavily under my helmet.
"First of all, our relationship isn't that serious, we haven't even kissed yet. Second of all, you're just going to sneak around and watch," Banshee seemed unaffected by the comment, easily countering it.
"Foiled again!" Zephyr snapped her fingers in mock disappointment.
"But it definitely would help both of us 'blow' off some steam, if you know what I mean," Hydroid said suggestively. I officially got pissed and went to punch him in the face. My arm stopped before its destination, confusing me. I looked and saw an ornamental glove stopping me. I traced it to its source and saw our objective.
Loki Prime (or as we call him, Prime) shook his head. He was a mute, no one knew why, but he was. He had Loki Prime with default colors, Wyrm Prime, Bo Prime, Burston Prime and Lex Prime. He only used Prime equipment; he even refused to use the clan Nikana due to its lack of relation to the original Orokin. He waved and three figures stepped out of the shadows.
The rest of the squad was equipped with the same weapons and other things. They were all pure black, only had black kunai, the Dragon Nikana, black Shade sentinels with Coltek accessories and Dread. Prime was the only exception. Saryn had the Chlora helmet, Ash had the Locust helmet, and Nekros had the Rakins helmet with the Mortos Syndana. They all had their corresponding Immortal skins. Ash, the voice of the leader, spoke.
"I would like to say hello on behalf of our leader, Volt," I shook hands with Prime.
"I'm really scared of Hek now, he caught you, who knows what he's capable of," Banshee commented.
"Well, it seemed that Hek had a kind of Snakelike creature with two heads that easily discovered us because of its sense of smell," Ash explained.
"Well, if we're exchanging information, I found out that Hek didn't just change our location, he changed our dimension. I was able to enter our Dojo, but no one was there," I gave a bit of information of my own. Ash pondered on this for a while.
"Does this mean that we are the only Tenno here?" Ash asked.
"Yeah."
"Well in that case…" A female voice from Prime's direction said. I looked behind him and no one was there. He deactivated his helmet for the first time, or should I say she. In Prime's suit was a beautiful middle aged woman with golden blonde hair and striking yellow eyes. She had a gold Orokin symbol on her forehead. All I could do was stare in disbelief. We were all in shock from the discovery. Hydroid was hit the hardest, in more ways than one.
"What is it Hydroid?" She asked him sweetly, obviously trying to mess with him. He fainted right there. Everyone laughed, and I took the opportunity.
"YEAH! WHO'S LAUGHING NOW! ME! HA! YEAH!" I shouted in his unconscious face. Everyone started laughing harder, completely taking everyone away from the fact that Prime was not only not mute, Prime was also older than us. And a girl. Kinda important. We all took a while to calm down, so long that Hydroid could have woken up so we could do it again.
"Now that that's over, why did you go mute? Could we have at least known your real gender?" I asked Prime, picking up Hydroid's unconscious body as we began to return.
"No, that would give away my identity to someone who would love to kill me," She said seriously.
"Why did you give it away here?" Ash asked.
"Because you don't know and you wouldn't kill me for it," Prime explained.
"Who wants you dead?" Saryn was curious.
"Surprisingly, The Lotus wants me dead," Everyone gasped.
"Why? Why would our greatest ally want you to die?" Ash asked.
"I remember. I remember what happened before we went into cryopods. That's why I use Orokin gear and equipment. I remember how the Tenno used to be. I know the Stalkers' pain," Prime was just full of surprises today.
"Why would you bring up the Stalkers?! Those horrible monsters of beings," Nekros finally spoke up.
"Have you ever heard of the Codes of Gun and Blade?" Prime asked. Everyone shook their heads no.
"They were the original code of the Tenno. They were laws that said that a true Tenno should kill as few as possible to complete his or her mission. There once were no extermination missions or defense. We would either just steal supplies or escort an important artifact out of the location. This is the code of the Stalkers. They are Tenno who still know these laws and know they are more honorable than the ones Lotus teaches us. The Stalkers hunt us because we kill too many. They are saving thousands by killing few," Prime gave us a little history lesson.
"That doesn't explain why Lotus hates you," Zephyr chimed in.
"Well, Lotus fears I will spread the code and bring Tenno against her and rally up the Stalkers to bring her down, so she's hunting me. That evil woman is trying to use the Tenno to kill off all of the other factions to give her ultimate control over the system and endless power over us. Lotus even betrayed the Tenno before we were put in cryopods," Prime spat out Lotus' name like a curse.
"So the real enemy is Lotus, and you want to kill her so the old code can be the real one," Hydroid chipped from over my shoulder. He had probably woken up a while ago and was just using me to get out of walking.
"Aw bro," He groaned. I threw him on the ground.
"Stand and walk. You have legs, use them," I ordered. He groaned and stood up, pouting like a five year old who wasn't allowed to have ice cream.
"So anyways, where have you been staying?" Prime asked.
"Well, there was this combat school that the people who found us attended, so we got accepted in," I said just as Beacon came into view.
"Is that it?" She pointed at the school, completely unimpressed.
"Yeah, it's really small," I admitted.
"Two of the replicated tower rooms are as big as it," Nekros pointed out.
"It will suffice," Ash tried to mask his disappointment.
"Hey Hydroid," I smirked.
"What are you going to do to me now?" He sounded depressed, just waiting for his punishment.
"Save the trees!" I fired Amprex at as many trees as I could before using Speed to run away as fast as possible from the tree hugger Tenno.
HEYO! New chapter, this one's really long because I had a lot I wanted to put in it. If you're wondering if the chapters will be less delayed, they will. I have a few short chapters that will be coming out fast, so keep an eye out for those. For the few people who are fans of both Warframe and RWBY, I salute you. They are two amazing things that many people don't know or appreciate for how great they are. Anyways guys, I'm going to go level up Banshee, see you later. (I'm RocketPenguinMan on the east coast US server)