Chapter 16 – Sun Wukong
Sun walks over to the bin and looks to find that nobody was in plain sight. He then hears a voice from the shadows call to him. He sees his former alley and friend, Blake. She tries to signal him to come closer to try and talk with him. She whispers to him, "Sun, what is going on here? What happened to you earlier?" The monkey Faunus looks at Blake with dead eyes as draws his weapon and aims Blake.
"Sun!?" Blake says in confusion her friend shots her. The cat Faunus take the shoot in her gut, until her body fade. Revealing it was only a clone, the real Blake stands a few feet away, her scared eyes look into Sun's to see a deadpan face. The short blake haired girl, hearing the gunshot, rushes over to investigate. The other two guys get out the van and look over to see who is attacking them.
"What is Sun's problem, shooting Blake!?" Nora blurts out, revaluing her and her friends cover. The dark blue haired man and Neptune see the members of team JNPR and ready for a fight. Neptune equips his weapon as a trident and rushes Pyrrha. Wave use his imperial arm to put on his armor and attacks Nora. The opponent's advances were blocked.
"Ren, backup Blake." Pyrrha tells him as she readies her shield a spear.
"Kurome, we have company." The dark haired man says as Ren pull his two weapons. The student in a green tail coat, then runs over to be intercept Kurome before she reaches Blake. Kurome looks back to see Ren approaching, firing a bombardment of bullets at her. The black eyed assassin dodges attacks moves in for a slash with her katana on him. Ren blocks her attack with his guns. The two struggle in the clash and push each other back. Kurome then smiles at the strength of her enemy.
"Thanks Wave." Kurome says as she looks back at the man with dark blue hair, she then looks back at Ren, "You are pretty strong, how would you like me make you one of my puppets?"
"What do you mean by puppet? Why are Sun and Neptune working for you?" Ren demands the answers. Kurome starts to giggle as she gives him a reason for what he is asking. "They do not have much choice in the matter after getting killed by my blade." Ren is confused at what her last statement was about her saying they were dead.
Blake tries dodging all of Sun's attacks, but refuses to move on the offensive herself. She tries to beseech her friend, however he says no words as he continues his assault. Sun then changes his weapon into a staff continue his attack. The monkey Faunus hits Blake over her head knocking her on ground. She looks up to see Sun about to hit her while she was down. The cat Faunus tries one more time, "Sun, snap out of it. This is not you. Please stop!" Sun only continues his assault with him hitting her across the ground and into a pile of metal bins.
Pyrrha struggles with her enemy, Neptune. She tries to attack his legs, but Neptune jumps to avoid the hit. He then swings his weapon vertically down, but Red haired warrior blocks the hit with her shield. She then uses her other weapon to stab Neptune in the gut. The hit does more damage that she expected as it plunges deep into his body. He then pushes away from the Pyrrha as blood drips from his lower body. The red haired warrior then realizes something in Neptune. He possessed no aura and no life in his eyes.
"Neptune, what happened to you?" Pyrrha says her eyes widen in horror at he remains unresponsiveness. He rushes Pyrrha again. The red haired warrior grits her teeth as she aims and throws her spear at the center of his chest. His body is impaled by the weapon as he still tries to strike with his weapon. Pyrrha avoids the strike and controls the metal in her weapon. She spins the weapon in the center of Neptune's body like a helicopter blade, as she splits him in half.
"Pyrrha! Did you just kill Neptune? I know he just joined the enemy team but that is a bit too harsh." Nora comments as she blocks Wave's punches and kicks. She looks down at the upper body of Neptune continue to move. Her eyes widen as Neptune stairs at her with his dead eyes. Pyrrha stabs Neptune in his head, his body slow start to stop moving.
"He was not alive, no aura was surrounding him in the fight." Pyrrha says to Nora as she readies her weapon, aiming at Wave, "What did you do to him!"
"A group was attacking my leader. If you are not prepared to die against the Jaegers, do not go looking for a fight." Wave says in a deeper tone as he pushes back Nora, "That guy and the other were killed by Kurome's imperial arm. Now they are her puppets."
"Puppets, what type of sick people are you." Pyrrha says her eyes fill with rage.
Wave noticing he is ineffective against orange haired woman, changes his target to the red haired woman. He rushes her, but she dodges his charge. Wave then picks up Neptune's weapon.
"If you are strong enough to destroy one Kurome's new puppets. I guess I need to fight a little more seriously now." Wave says as he brandishes Neptune's weapon as his own.
Out for the metal bins, Blake scramble on her feet and holds her weapon in a defensive stance. Sun runs over a tries to attack his former friend with the intent to kill. All Blake does is evade and block the best she can. Pyrrha sees the look in the cat Faunus' face, it was of someone who could not hurt a friend even if they were trying to kill her.
She calls to her, "Blake, look in his eyes. He is already dead and being controlled. You have to stop him before he kills you." Blake dodges a heavy strike from Sun after hearing this. She raises her weapon to deliver a fatal blow. Her hand queries as she hesitates, her eyes tear up as she remembers the time she knew Sun, all came back to her in a flash of emotions. She lowers her what and says, "I cannot do it. He is still my friend." Sun recovers and swings his staff vertically at Blake, hitting her on the side of her head again. Forcing her to drop her weapon as she slides on the ground. Sun splits his weapon to the shotgun nunchakus and starts to walk over to Blake.
Ren sees Blake in danger and tries to go to her ad. He gets close, but forgets his enemy Kurome. She stabs him in the back of his leg, draining the last of his aura. Ren falls to the ground in pain, he tries to get back up but is shot in the back from Sun's gun.
"Good job. I may have loss one puppet, but I will get two more right now." Kurome says to Sun, She looks down at Ren and stabs him in the chest. He to hold back the sword from entering further into his body to reach his heart. Pyrrha and Nora try to go to the ad of their friend but are intercepted by Wave.
Blake tries to get on her feet and looks at the situation in horror at what is going to happen next. She fears the situation is about to result in everyone dying. The cat Faunus turns her back on everyone and starts to run away. However, she suddenly stops as she realizes all the times she had to run away before and she wished she had the courage back then to stay. She tightens her fist as she turns back towards the enemies.
Moving to pick up her weapon, she moves to save Ren form the black eyed killer. Kurome signals Sun to finish what he started as he aims his guns. He fires four shots at Blake, all of witched are the cat Faunus dodges. Blake closes in and strikes Sun. She slices across his stomach horizontally, cutting him in half. She then slashes over both his forearms, causing Sun to drop his weapons. The cat Faunus looks in his eyes. As he falls to the ground see them slowly close, the monkey Faunus now rest in peace.
She continues running and goes for another strike, this time on Kurome. So the black eyed killer would not take a lethal hit, she removes her katana from Ren and blocks Blake's attack. Ren is relieved to know that he is still alive as he covers the wound to prevent more blood from coming out. Blake now focus on her new enemy and reason for why Sun is dead, her eyes full of tears with a look of determination.
"You will pay for what you did to my friends!" Blake says as she grips her weapon. Kurome readies her weapon
"You are the one who is going to pay for destroying my last puppet, now I must start from scratch again." Kurome says as she clashes blades with Blake.