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Chapter 17: Undertale
Blake was never much of a gamer. Sure, she enjoyed a few games that had a good story, but there were few that she truly captured her interest. But at the moment, she did find a game that caught her attention. The wonderful game of Undertale.
She was currently battling Torriel, who was blocking her way. During her time playing, she had grown attached to Torriel and was sparing her while avoiding her blows. After blocking her attacks the third time, she felt the need to use the bathroom. Getting up, she left her controller on the table of her dorm room and left to the bathroom with the game still on.
"That was a good workout." Yang voiced, entering the room with an orange towel around her neck. Spotting Blake's game, she saw Torriel at perfect health while Blake's health was three-fourths full. "I guess I should help her out."
Grabbing Blake's controller, she started attacking Torriel and avoiding the attacks effectively. Yang felt like the boss was getting easier to beat. After landing a hit rate over three hundred, Blake had re-entered the room to see Torriel's health go to zero and kneeling.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" The cat faunus screamed in horror at what her partner had done. Dashing to the screen, she leaned on it and touched the image of Torriel. "TORRIEL!"
You are much stronger than I thought.
"Stay alive!" She cried with tears leaking out. "PLEASE!"
Listen to me, small one…
"…Okay." She whimpered.
Be good won't you?
"I will." She sobbed out.
…My child.
CRACK
Blake slid to the floor with her hands covering her face. After a few minutes of silence, Yang thought to call out to her.
"Blakey?" she asked concerned. "You okay?"
The next thing she knew, Blake was on top of her, strangling her.
"YOU MONSTER!" The raven haired of the group shouted with tears in her eyes. "YOU KILLED HER! WHY?"
Yang failed to answer seeing as her windpipe was being closed off. Luckily, her sister had come in before she could completely black out and pushed the cat faunus off her.
"Blake!" Their leader scolded. "What is wrong with you?!"
Instead of answering, Blake just sobbed into her hands while calling out a name. "Torriel …TORRIEL!"
"What?" Ruby asked confused.
"She killed Torriel!" Blake shouted while pointing at Yang, who was getting back up while massaging her neck.
"Geez! If you wnted to kill the boss yourself, why not just reset the game?" The buxom blonde suggested, a little miffed.
"Reset the game?" Blake whispered in indignation. "RESET the GAME?"
As she got up, Blake stomped to the door leading to their room. Before she exited, she said one last thing to her partner. "I wish you could understand what your actions have done!"
SLAM!
As she left the two siblings, Ruby walked over to Blake's game and held the controller.
"What is it about this game that got her so mad at you?" The young leader asked herself aloud while setting up her own file.
"I don't know. But when you do find out, wake me up." Her older sister replied while plopping herself on her bed to take a small nap.
Fifteen minutes later
"Just stop! I can handle the outside world." Ruby pleaded out loud, waking Yang up. Opening her eyes, Yang could see Ruby had reached the same stage as Blake and was fighting the goat human again. "Just let me go. Please!"
Getting up, Yang walked over to her sister and watched as Ruby clicked on Mercy only for nothing to happen.
Ruby felt the controller pulled from her grasp as Yang quickly picked the fight option and waited for the line to hit center.
"YANG NO!" Ruby shouted in horror to stop the impending attack. But it was too late as Yang had got a perfect center and killed Torriel in one hit. "NO!"
"Woah!" The blonde exclaimed, impressed. "One hit kill? I must be a gaming prodigy."
Ruby did the same as Blake in rushing towards the screen, blocking Yang's view.
You…
"No." Ruby sobbed. "It wasn't me. It wasn't me!"
…at my most vulnerable moment…
"Please!" She begged. "I didn't want this!"
To think I was worried you wouldn't fit in out there…
"I'm so sorry!" She cried. "I'll live with you! Just don't go!"
Ehehehehe! You really are no different than them…
"Don't say that!" She sobbed with tears streaming down her face. "It wasn't ME! I wanted you to live."
H a … h a…
CRACK
"…So I won, right?" Yang piped behind her. The next thing she knew, Ruby had used her semblance to go to a corner of the room and chuck everything she could have at Yang with angry tears falling. "Woah! What's up with you?"
"…" After panting and expending all her energy, Ruby just walked out of the room. The thought of being in the same room as Yang at the moment was not good for her heart.
"Geez!" Yang huffed while putting the controller down. "Why is that goat boss so important to them? It's just a stupid game!"
After a few minutes, Weiss had entered the room after having visiting her sister in Vale. After asking of where the others were, Yang had told of what had happened. Thinking Weiss would be on her side, she did not expect for her to scold her on killing things so easily and marched out of the room.
"Arrrgh!" Yang yelled. She was now alone in the room with the only one to talk to being Zwei. "Zwei? Was me killing in a game such a bad thing?"
Getting a whimper in return, Yang thought of it being a negative. "Well who asked you? Games are meant for violence and killing. That's all!"
Getting lonely, Yang decides to see what team JNPR was up to. Knocking on their door, she was greeted to the sight of Ren wearing some sort of visor that was completely black while Pyrrha was taking notes on the item. Jaune was looking at a screen of the gameRen was playing, and Nora was busy snacking on some chips.
"Wat'cha got there, guys?" Yang asked, curios on the event.
"Hey Yang." Jaune muttered, not taking his eyes off the screen. "While we were at the convention, Ren signed us up to beta-test this new product. It takes virtual reality gaming to a new level. Pyrrha is taking note on what Ren sees on the visor, and I'm looking on the screen if the feedback is equal to the visor's."
"…Cool." She simply stated, not completely understanding what he had said. "…Think I could try?"
"You're free to try, but it's not like you'll enjoy it." Pyrrha said. "The only games this thing can play at the moment are 2D games. The eye focus works well as a selection so no buttons are needed to … You don't seem to be understanding what I'm saying, do you?"
"Not a clue." The brawler stated without shame.
"If you keep looking at yes, the game will pick yes." Jaune dumbed it down for her. "If you want to pull the lever, then focus on the lever and look down to pull it down. …Get it?"
"Why didn't you just say so?" Before she could take the visor, a thought came to her. "You guys ever heard of a game called Undertale?"
"No/Yes." Yang was not surprised Jaune knew the game, but for Pyrrha to know it too while the others didn't was kind of a shocker.
"I got interested in the story when Velvet introduced it to me and Blake." The champion justified herself.
"…Can this thing play it?" Yang asked.
"What console is your Undertale using?" Jaune asked.
"What does it matter what Undertale is …under. Eh? Eh?" She punned.
Groaning at her joke, Jaune explained the needs for compatibility. After finishing his explanation and still not getting any sign of understanding from her, he told her to just get the game. After she returned, he saw that the game was compatible with the visor.
"Okay so hook yourself up to the visor and we'll monitor how you're doing in the game." Pyrrha told the brawler while handing her a small joystick. "…I don't have to tell you how to use a joystick, do I?"
"No." Yang grumbled. "…Hey wait! If I have a joystick, then what's the point of my eyes being the buttons?"
"We told you: This game only works well with 2D at the moment." Ren explained. "This was meant for 3D open world games, but it's still in development. At the moment, we're helping with the graphics feedback stage and the eye scanner."
"What?"
"…Just play the game." Ren grumbled.
After turning on the visor, Yang was at the start screen. As she tried to use the joystick, nothing happened. "Okay, the joystick doesn't work."
"Use your eyes." Pyrrha suggested while taking notes.
"…Woah! So my eyes work like a mouse? Awesome!" After getting used to it, Yang focused on start and began creating her file. "Y-A-M? Shoot! I focused on the wrong letter! –Del- N-G. …Start!"
A few minutes later
After reading the script, Yang ran into Flowie. "…This is gonna suck."
"…Friendly petals? Guh!" Yang groaned. "What did my team see in this game?"
Pyrrha stayed quiet as she remembered Flowie. A part of her forgave him, but the things he did still angered her whenever she remembered them.
"OH SH*T!" Yang shouted after seeing how she was deceived. "You little sh*t! …HAH! Take that! …Oh hey. It's that goat thing I killed twice."
SNAP!
Pyrrha had snapped her pencil in her grip hearing what Yang had said. Jaune was also staring at her in shock at what he heard. The two took a deep breath before remembering that Yang was probably still new to the game and probably skipped things.
A few minutes later
"Why is she coddling me?" Yang growled. "I'm trying to get exp but she keeps getting in the way! …A training dummy? YES! Now we're talking. Time to fight."
As Yang demolished the dummy, Torriel had told her the dummy was meant for talking to. "What? That's the dumbest thing I've heard! Grrr!"
Torriel had now left her. "Finally! Now I can get some exp without her breathing down my neck!"
Pyrrha was now taking more notes on Yang's psyche than she was on the console.
Five minutes later
Yang had shown no mercy to any of the things that had attacked her. Whenever they had tried to ask for mercy, she rarely spared them. Now she had made it back to Torriel.
"You made me Butterscotch cinnamon pie?" Yang asked in a small surprised tone. "…Thanks. …I guess. …Neat, I get my own room to myself."
Ten minutes later
Yang had finally made it to the same stage where she kept killing Torriel. Only this time, she didn't want to hurt her.
"Just get out of my way." Yang growled while picking spare. "I need to do this."
After sparing didn't work, Yang attacked three times before choosing spare once more. "…I don't want to keep hurting you! You were kind to me when everyone was a jerk!"
Getting nothing but another attack to dodge, Yang had attacked once more before choosing spare again. "I know what happens if I hit you one more time! So just …just get out of my way! Please!"
After choosing spare four more times, Yang accidentally had her eyes focused on fight. Seeing as she couldn't cancel the attack, she waited until she was far away form the center and had struck Torriel. Sadly the attack still struck her down. "…NO! NONONONO! …I-I didn't mean to! It was an accident! It was only suppoed to hurt you a little, not kill you!"
You are much stronger than I thought…
"Is this what Blake saw?" Yang cried into the visor. "Is this why Ruby and the others were mad at me?"
Listen to me, small one…
"…Stop it." She whimpered. "You're not dying! You can't! I didn't even mean to attack you! It wasn't even a perfect hit!"
Be good won't you?
"…I will …I will." Her voice cracked. "Just don't… just don't go… I need you… Don't leave me alone…"
…My child.
CRACK
*Sob* Yang had taken off her visor to see Pyrrha along with Jaune and Velvet staring at her with a look of concern. Velvet had a large pad with her and was eyeing her heavily. "…What?"
"My office. Tomorrow at ten. Don't be late." After saying that, Velvet walked to the and left, but not before giving Yang another glance of concern.
Yang gave the visor back to team JNPR. Ren asked if he could borrow the game for a bit, and she complied.
Walking back to her dorm with her eyes still puffy, she saw her team sitting by her bed, waiting for her. Without any words said, she ran to them and started crying on Ruby's lap.
The next day
Yang was in the Velvet Room having a talk with Velvet. She was acting like her usual self again, but Velvet seemed to not buy it.
"So what did you wanna talk about?" Yang asked, lying on the couch relaxed.
"…Yang. Drop it." Velvet said with a stern tone. "The game yesterday was a clear sign that you have problems."
"What?" Yang said trying to sound laid back. It was obvious she was straining to keep it that way. "Me? Problem? I got no problem. It was just a dumb game."
"Please Yang!" Velvet urged. "I'm your friend. The way you played that game and reacted to it shows you do have problems. I know what it is, but I can't help you if you can't even admit it yourself."
"And I said I don't have a problem!" She growled out, her eyes turning red.
"Is that your solution?" The bunny faunus said in small anger. "Intimidation and force? …Yang, that wont solve anything but getting you alone and in trouble."
"I'm angry because you wont let it go!" She stomped her foot. "I don't have a problem!"
"Keep lying to yourself. It's obvious to me. It's obvious to your friends." Velvet said, standing up. "The only one who wont admit it is you yourself."
"Well then my problem is that everyone thinks I have a problem!" She yelled, throwing her hands in the air. "I'm fine! I'm happy! I'm not hurt!"
"…Hurt by what?" Velvet questioned.
"Nothing!" Yang quickly denied.
"You said you're not hurt, but I never said you were." Velvet pushed. "I only said you had a problem. I never said what it was."
Yang was now hyperventilating and squeezing the couch cushion hard. Her eye's kept darting everywhere, avoiding looking at the faunus in front of her.
"Please Yang." Velvet said in a calm tone. "Help me to help you."
Seeing no change after twenty minutes, Velvet thought to try what triggered the heavy emotion.
"You're much stronger than I thought." Seeing the blonde focusing on her, Velvet decided to continue. "Listen to me. …Be good, won't you?"
"AAAAAH!" Yang cried before falling to her knees in tears.
After a few minutes, Velvet tried once more. "Are you ready to share Yang?"
"Why? Why did she have to leave?" Yang sobbed.
"Who?" Velvet said, caressing Yang's back.
"Why did mom have to leave?" Yang bawled on Velvet's shoulder after pulling her into a hug. "Didn't she love me? I needed her!"
"It's okay. Ssh. Ssh." Velvet tried to soothe her, while trying not to tear up herself. "Just let it out."
After half an hour, Yang had come clean of everything. Velvet had promised to keep it confidential between the two not just as a client, but also as friends. She also revealed that the game was also a way for her to test the psyche of others to see how merciful or sadistic they could be. She did share that few were a true paragon while others erred on the line of sadistic. She not only catalogued of their method of playing, but also on their reactions after the action was done.
"Thanks Velv." Yang said, giving her one last hug before exiting.
"You're welcome Yang." Before Yang was gone, she gave her a suggestion. "To ease yourself, I think you should take something up that you think would be good for you. Something expressive."
"I'll …give it a thought." As she left, Velvet would be surprised of what Yang would choose.
Two days later
During the next sparring in Combat class, Goodwitch was impressed by the finesse Yang had in her steps. She still moved like a brawler, but the grace and poise in her evasion and blocks were …in her own way, majestic.
After Yang's opponent was knocked down by a magnificent spinning kick, Goodwitch had announced Yang the victor.
"I must say Miss Xiao Long, the way you moved today was …beautiful." Glynda shared her thoughts to her student. "What have you been doing to get that way?"
"I've been taking ballet to express myself." She said with a huge grin.
END
A/N: I know, I know. Ballet? Really? But hey: Yang in spandex and a tutu. That's a win and you know it. And before anyone says anything: No, I did not get this from a TFS. I played Undertale myself and got a genocide run. After that I felt so guilty that when I played the paragon run, I felt even more guilty that I never chose to give any of them mercy the first time! Later on I got some info online that there were different ways to kill them with different reactions. I didn't have the heart to kill them again so I watched some vids showing what would happen. Then I happened to see TFS playing it too.
PS: I am really sorry if this kind if hits others really hard close to home.
NEXT TIME ON: Those Days
"CHEERS! To the completion of Unity March!"
"What are you doing here?"
"Can we go back to how things were?"
"…Sorry. I already have someone I like."