Sorry this took so long but real life is a bitch sometimes. Anyway I wanted to thank you guys for being patient with me and a special thanks to animatwin for thinking up the OC introduced in this chapter. Unfortunately exams are starting soon so I won't be able to work on any chapters for at least two weeks, as an apology I made this chapter extra long, sorry guys.
I don't own RWBY this should be obvious by now.
"What did you just say!" screamed Yang, slamming her fist onto his desk.
"No I'm not going to authorize a rescue mission or a search party," replied Ozpin, giving them an apologetic look.
Yang growled and rushed towards him with her fist raised high and hair ablaze, only to be stopped by Blake and Nora. While the two of them tried to calm the raging blonde Pyrrha walked over to the headmaster.
"Please sir it's our fault this happened at least let team JNPR search for the two of them, team RWBY wouldn't miss out on class then," begged the red head.
The headmaster turned to face her, "you're misunderstanding me Miss Nykos. I'm not stopping you because of school work. I'm stopping you because we simply don't have the resources required to find them."
"I could get the Schnee Company to help, they'd be more than happy to hurt the White Fang," suggested Weiss desperately.
Ozpin shook his head sadly, "if the Schnee Dust Company had the resources to find the White Fang they would have dealt with them already."
"So we should just do nothing while they're doing God knows what to Ruby and Jaune!" exclaimed Yang.
Ozpin slammed his mug on the desk and stood up glaring at her, "and what would you suggest we do Yang Xiao Long!" he snapped as his calm façade dropped, causing all of them to jump.
"Search all of Vale? We don't have enough people to even search a district! Alert the police? We have already done so! Attack the White Fang bases? Every single known warehouse used by the White Fang has been emptied, in fact we don't even know if their still operating in the city anymore!" he yelled before sitting back down.
"They were clearly planning this for some time and Roman has outsmarted us at every turn, so if you have any suggestions I would love to hear them because I'm running on empty," sighed Ozpin, rubbing his temples.
The office was silent as the students recovered from the headmaster's unexpected outburst, Yang's hair had even turned back to normal.
"Why did they kidnap Ruby and Jaune?" asked Ren.
"Ruby did used to work for them, maybe she learnt something she shouldn't have," suggested Weiss.
"No if that was the case they would have just silenced her like they did with Tukson," replied Blake.
"You are correct Miss. Belladonna, if they captured Miss Rose and Mr. Arc then logic dictates that they needed them alive for something," mused Ozpin as his calm mask returned.
"Maybe it was because of her abilities, after all from what she told me they seemed to greatly value them," commented Yang.
"That makes sense but why Jaune then?" asked Pyrrha.
Ozpin coughed drawing all of their attention, "they could be using Mr. Arc as an insurance to keep her loyal this time around, since he was a friend of her's and also the weakest link. However I don't think that is the reason for their kidnapping."
"What makes you say that Headmaster?" asked Weiss curiously.
Ozpin turned to face the window, "just a theory that I hope is wrong," he replied, cryptically.
"So what do we do now?" questioned a depressed Yang.
Ozpin just sighed, "Just keep your eyes and ears open and hope for the best, that's all we can do."
As the teams trudged out of the office Ozpin looked down at the mug on his table, "please let me be wrong," he muttered, depressed.
"Ruby! Ruby wake up!"
Red groaned as she felt someone shaking her shoulder, slapping the hand off her shoulder she rolled over to get away from the annoyance. Unfortunately the shaking and calling only increased tenfold in respond to this.
"Ruby seriously now is not the time to sleep in!" cried a familiar voice.
'Is that Jaune? Why is he in our dorm?' wondered Red. Yawning she sat up and opened her eyes to see a worried Jaune sitting next to her. Looking around she noticed that she wasn't in her dorms but instead what looked to be an improvised jail cell made from an old dust container. Suddenly the memories of the town came rushing back and she immediately snapped out of her sleepy daze and turned to Jaune.
"Jaune are you ok? Where are we?" she asked, frantically.
Jaune shrugged, "I don't know, when I woke up we were already thrown in here," he informed her.
Red sighed, "Ok then what's the last thing you remember?"
"We arrived at the village and were greeted by a group of Faunus who had called for the help. They told us to stay the night in the local inn and wait until the Grimm arrived," replied Jaune frowning.
"Then during the night we heard something and went to investigate, I remember seeing a girl wave me over and then everything went black. Next thing I know we're locked up in here," he grimaced, rubbing his head.
Red was about to reply when they both heard a group of people approaching, quickly shutting the two of them up as they focused on the new arrivals. She wasn't surprised to see the smirking criminal look back at her however she did raise her eyebrows at his companion.
"Adam, wish I could say it's a pleasure to see you again but I think we both know that's a lie," she greeted the Faunus.
"Indeed I would've liked to meet again on better circumstances," nodded Adam.
Jaune nudged her, "Ruby who is that and how does he know you?" he whispered.
Red glanced at him, "that's Adam Taurus, one of the higher ups for the White Fang. I used to work with him and his team on missions," she whispered back.
Jaune immediately grew pale and backed away from their captors as they walked up to the cell door, both ignoring the blonde knight and keeping their attention focused on her. Red didn't flinch under their gaze and just yawned in front of them.
"You know compared to that crappy room you gave me last time these sleeping arrangements are a five star resort," she joked.
"Of course it's my duty as a gentlemen to keep a lady comfortable," replied Roman, before dropping his smug smile.
"Tell me Red do you recognize this symbol?" asked the crook in a serious tone, holding up a piece of paper.
She frowned as she examined the symbol, it was a blue upside down pentagon with what looked like a planet inside it and a black X running over both with two words above the symbol. Red's eyes grew wide as she recognized the planet shown and the words 'Semper Vigilans', causing Roman to give a triumphant smile.
"So you do know it, care to explain what it is?" he ordered.
Red shook her head, "I've never seen the symbol before but I recognize that language and the planet," she informed him.
"Oh," said Roman intrigued, "and what can you tell me about them."
Red glanced at the paper conflicted before giving a sigh as she spoke up, "It's a very old language but a large majority of modern languages evolved from it making it relatively well known. It's called Latin, a language from Earth, as for that planet… you're looking at the Earth itself."
Everyone looked at her in shock, "really? Now isn't that interesting, what does the writing say?" asked Roman.
She just shrugged, "I don't know, just because I can recognize it doesn't mean I can speak it," she replied to his frustration.
"I guess that will have to do," growled the criminal as he and Adam walked out.
"Hey wait! What's going on her! Why did you capture us?" demanded Red, only to growl when the sound of a door shutting was their only response.
As the door shut behind them Adam turned the crook, "looks like your suspicions were correct after all."
Roman frowned, an expression of deep thought on his face, "is that bug we planted on Red working?" he asked.
Adam nodded, "it began responding just before we walked in…why are we doing this again?" he asked, confused.
Roman just sighed, "Because our new 'partners' are going to double cross us and I want to know where to hit them when they do. Get them ready for transport and remember tell no one about tracker we still don't know who their sleeper agent is," he ordered as he walked off, leaving Adam to stare at the dot on the scroll in his hand.
'Why did that symbol have Latin writing and more importantly why was Earth on it? Did Roman actually find a way back to Earth? No he would've gloated if that was the case plus he seemed almost worried about it,' Red took a deep breath to calm down her hyperactive brain.
Jaune gave her a concerned look, "Ruby are you ok?"
She just nodded and began pacing around their cell, looking for any escape route they could exploit. Unfortunately even though the cell was improvised it was built well, with no noticeable structural weaknesses, 'must have had practice making these,' she thought sadly thinking back to the three Schnee prisoners. Giving a tired sigh she sat down next to Jaune who did his best to keep up a calm façade but Red could clearly see the worry in his eyes.
"So what's the plan Ruby?" asked Jaune hopefully.
"I don't know Jaune, I guess we just wait," she said, defeated.
"We'll have to sleep in shifts so we can't be caught unaware, since I got the most rest I'll take first watch," offered the blonde.
Red smirked, "and you'll be my knight in shining armour," she teased.
The reaper laughed as Jaune's face became flushed and rested her head against his shoulders, only to hear something clang along the floor of their cell. A hissing noise quickly followed and Red felt her eyes growing heavy as she coughed and sleep claimed her once more.
Clack Clack Clack.
Ruby felt her bed going up and down, 'my bed doesn't move,' thought the toddler. Yawning she slowly opened her eyes to see she was in a big red wooden box with wheels. The box went up and down as it hit bumps in the path. Ruby looked forward and saw her older sister Yang dragging the box by its handle, 'why are we out here? Mommy and daddy won't be happy, they said the trees were dangerous and the monsters lived there.' She tried to tell Yang but her sister was too focused on the thing in her hand to hear her soft voice.
"I'm almost there, don't worry mom I'll see you soon," Yang muttered to herself.
'Oh we're going to see mommy ok then,' thought Ruby as she snuggled back into her makeshift bed, her eyelids growing heavy as a house came into view.
Red woke with a start, groaning as a familiar head ache made itself known. 'A memory flash, it's been awhile and just when I thought I'd never have to suffer them anymore,' she thought as the pain began to subside.
Red cried as her head suddenly hit something hard causing a large spike of pain to lance through it, "as if my head wasn't in pain already," she grumbled.
Groggily she tried to stand up only to find the both her and Jaune tied back to back and chained to a seat of what looked to be the interior of a Bullhead. Suddenly the Bullhead dipped slightly and Red had to close her eyes, 'yep definitely a Bullhead,' she thought angrily.
"Jaune, Jaune! Are you ok?" she whispered to her companion.
The blonde in question didn't respond and even when Red kicked him in the shins, she just sighed, 'must still be unconscious, damn that must have been some sleeping gas.' Her thoughts were interrupted be the sound of the door opening, spinning around she saw Neo emerge from the cockpit.
"Oh you're up, impressive that was enough gas to keep an Ursa down. So enjoying yourself?" she mocked, walking up to Red.
Red just snarled at her and leapt to her feet, only to be dragged back down by the chains. Neo smiled and patted her on the head like a dog, ignoring the growling directed at her.
"You're more of a beast then these animals that we work with," insulted the illusionist as Red continued struggling.
"When I get out of here I'm going to rip you to bloody shreds," hissed Red, a dark red outline briefly forming around her.
Neo immediately backed up and watched her carefully as the outline faded, only approaching Red again when it was completely gone. This time however the illusionist didn't get far as the minute she was in range Red sent a lightning fast kick to her gut. Neo cried out and doubled over in pain before she raised her umbrella to return the favour.
"STOP!" ordered a male voice.
Neo glared at Red and lowered her umbrella as they turned to Roman whom had just entered, "they want her and I don't think they will enjoy damaged products, do you?" he stated, glaring at Neo.
The illusionist muttered her apologies as she turned to leave, "bye bye Neo-chan," called Red in a sing song voice as the door slammed shut.
"You really have a way with people don't you Red," commented the smiling crook.
She just shrugged, "well your new friend is a real piece of work, where'd you find her anyway?"
"A story for another time perhaps, still you seem to excel at making my job infinitely more difficult Red," sighed Roman as he took a seat directly across from them.
"Of course, it's not work if you enjoy it," she replied, cheerfully.
The criminal glared at her, "You know most people would be trying to get on their captor's good side at this point," he pointed out.
"Yeah well I'm not like most people Roman you should know this by now, anyway mind telling me why you went through all this trouble to capture us," she asked, intrigued.
"Our new business partners wanted you for some reason they refused to inform us of," he replied, bitterly.
Red frowned, "you don't sound too happy about getting new allies, does this have anything to do with the symbol you showed me?"
Roman nodded, "I was hoping that you would know what it meant, any information to let me know who I'm dealing with here," he admitted.
"But wait why did you take Jaune then, he has nothing to do with this," she said, confused before shutting her eyes as they encountered more turbulence.
Roman watched her in mild amusement, "to keep you from escaping. You've proven to be extremely resourceful so we're taking no chances. You might be able to escape but not with him in tow," he explained.
The two of them stared at each other in silence until they felt the Bullhead begin to descend, "well looks like we've arrived, remember you're supposed to be unconscious," he stated.
As the Bullhead's door opened up Red stretched her neck and saw two heavily armoured figures and a blonde female standing between them. She didn't get much of a look at them however as one of the White Fang grunts threw a bag over her head. He then unchained them from the seat but left them tied together as they were carried out of the aircraft.
"Is this her?" asked a cold female voice.
Red gasped, 'that accent… there's no way,' she thought as she listened to the conversation.
"Yeah that's Red alright, good luck holding her, she's a troublesome individual," replied a male voice she recognized as Roman.
"Who's the boy?" came the female voice again.
'There's no mistaking it, I'd recognize my home's accent anywhere,' she realized as her heart skipped a beat.
"One of her friends, we needed him to keep Red cooperative, don't worry we'll dispose of him after this," answered Roman.
"No we'll take him off your hands, the doctor needed a new test subject anyway, besides a little extra security doesn't hurt," informed the female.
Red felt her blood became ice at this and had to consciously keep herself from trying to break out of the grasp of the grunt. 'Ok Red calm down you don't know why but they want you alive, so just make sure that that you stop them doing anything to Jaune.'
"Sure saves us the trouble," he responded and Red felt themselves being handed to another person, mostly likely one of the two guards.
"Our payment," demanded the crook.
"You'll find 20 RPG launchers and 50 automatic rifles along with the ammunition required in the crates behind you," she replied, crisply.
"It's all there boss," came another voice, presumably from one of Roman's henchmen.
"Pleasure doing business with you," called Roman.
Red heard the sound of footsteps walking away before she and Jaune were thrown over a shoulder and they felt the new captors walk back to their truck. Red stifled a grunt as the two of them were thrown into the back and heard the doors shut as the trio climbed into their seats.
"Captain I don't think it's a good idea to give terrorists weapons," commented one of the two males.
'That's a different accent!' Red strained her ears trying to piece together the accent with a place. She tried to crawl closer but Jaune's unconscious form made it difficult to do so without being spotted.
"Don't worry Lieutenant, Command has rigged those munitions to explode after a 24 hour time period hopefully taking their dust stockpile with it," replied the captain.
"Smart, the cops will think that the White Fang are the cause of the explosion, either deliberately or accidentally while we get away scott free," commented the other male.
Red felt cold as her brain matched a country to the second male's accent, 'that's a British accent.'
"But Captain intel said that the White Fang use residential areas as bases, with a blast that size there will be civilian casualties!" argued the Lieutenant.
'And that's American! What's going on here?' she realized, struggling to keep her breathing under control.
"Do I care? We have our orders Lieutenant and I intend to follow them now stand down or I'll have you court marshalled," threatened the female.
"You bitch! Do you know how many will die because of you!" screamed Red before cursing, realizing what she'd done.
"Well looks like our little possum decided to stop playing dead," said the British male.
"Take care of her," ordered the captain before Red felt something hit her in the face and everything went dark.
"…Incredible it's true, Remnant and Earth aura in a single being without harming the host," breathed a male voice with what seemed to be a German accent.
Red opened her eyes and groaned as light flooded her vision, attempting to bring her arm over her head only to feel it strapped down to something. Forcing her eyes open again she took a quick look around what looked like an operating room, she was strapped down to a bench with leather straps. Glancing over she saw Jaune was across from her in a similar set up but still seemed to still be out. Hearing voices she turned her head to see two people examining a computer screen, one was a male in a lab coat and the other was a blonde female in want looked like burnt yellow desert camo armour, short blonde hair and what looked to be two shotguns strapped to her back. Red gasped, the woman looked like an older version of Yang with shorter hair, even her aura was similar. In some ways it was her sister's aura but at the same time it was different, a more twisted almost darker version of it. 'What' going on here?' she thought alarmed.
"Was she really worth all this trouble? We had to reveal ourselves to the White Fang to get her," question the blonde skeptically.
'That's the captain,' she realized keeping quiet as she listened, trying to ignore the growing sense of unease.
"Oh absolutely if we can figure out how she naturally got both auras then we might be able to replicate it with our soldiers," he said with no small amount of enthusiasm.
"You know, you look good with that hair style," he commented absent mindedly, glancing up from the computer screen.
"Don't get used to it, Command thought that a woman walking around with a military buzz cut was too conspicuous," she informed him.
"I heard about your Lieutenant, Stan wasn't it? How did you punish him for his little insurrection?" asked the male.
"A demotion before shipping him off to one of our new outposts in Remnant," she replied. "Putting that aside are you sure you can hold her?"
"Don't worry my dear we've designed these specifically to contain Remnant aura users," assured the doctor.
"What about the Earth aura, we have enough trouble containing normal Ferals let alone one that has Remnant abilities," she pointed out.
The doctor waved his hand at her, "not to worry, the results from the tests so far seem to indicate that while her Remnant aura is active most of her Earth aura is dormant, only her mild precognitive abilities and some sensory information enhancers seem active. It might be that her Remnant aura is suppressing the Earth one."
"I see," replied the blonde as she turned around to face Red, a brief look of surprise on her face.
"I thought you said you had them under sedatives," she growled at him.
The doctor looked up confused, "of course I did I'm not an amateur," he replied turning around, blinking as he saw Red awake.
"How…odd the sedatives seem to still be entering the body but they're having little to no effect," he commented, examining one of the many tubes connecting to her body.
"Where am I and who are you people?" demanded Red.
"You're in The Watchers auxiliary base, in the Australian Capital Territory. Not that that means anything to you," he commented, offhandedly.
'You'd be surprised you fucker,' she thought trying to keep her expression neutral. Judging from the suspicious glare from the captain she wasn't entirely successful.
"Where's that? Some part of Vytal?" she asked, playing along.
"It doesn't matter, now tell me how did you get two different types of aura? They are supposed to be incompatible with the other," he asked, intrigued.
"Red, Ruby Rose, Huntress in training at Beacon academy," she replied.
The doctor frowned and repeated his question only to get the same response, sighing he nodded to the female soldier whom punched Red in the face. Again he asked and again Red got punched in the face this time coughing up blood.
After five minutes of continuous punishment he ordered the captain to stop, "I must admit I'm impressed I didn't know Beacon taught you what to do in an interrogation situation, you must have a high pain threshold to take her punches without your aura shielding you."
The doctor sat down and began fiddling with what looked to be a tablet of some kind, "Remnant auras healing abilities truly are amazing, it is there greatest strength but also an exploitable weakness. Did you know that if you flood the body with highly toxic chemicals, your aura stops all other functions as it tries to expel the toxins? Now I'll ask you again and this time I expect an answer or I'll have your friend Leah here stop playing nice."
Red looked up to him with a grin, "Go…to…hell," she panted.
"Pity, Captain if you would," he said, getting up from his chair.
Red watched as Leah nodded and unholstered one of her shotguns, loading it as she walking over to Jaune and placed it against his head. Red glanced between the doctor and the captain, her sedative filled brain only just realizing the severity of the situation. 'They aren't bluffing,' she realized as she noted the expression on the two.
"Now Miss Rose was it? Pay attention, this is what happens when I don't get what I want," he stated, calmly.
"Wait! Ok I'll talk just get her to put the bloody gun down," she cried.
The doctor looked to his companion who nodded and place the weapon back in its holster as she walked over to them. Red noted however that the soldier's hand never left the weapon's handle as she watched over her. 'The best lies are the ones with a grain of truth to them,' she thought planning what to say.
"Well Miss Rose we are waiting," commented the doctor.
"I was born with the auras," she explained, getting a surprised look from him.
"I see did any of your family have these auras as well?" he asked.
Red frowned, "no but members of my family did have two types of aura, depending on where they came from," she answered carefully.
"Interesting so it could be due to family blood lines mixing, did they ever say where they were from," he questioned, leaning forward in the process.
Red was silent until she heard the sound of someone cocking a gun and turned to see Leah ready her shotgun again. "They said they were from a place called Australia!" she cried, frantically.
"I don't appreciate being lied to Miss Rose," he replied, his expression darkening.
"I'm not lying!" she shouted.
"Prove it," spat the Captain.
Red sighed and took a deep breath,
"Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
Under the shade of a Coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boil,
You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me."
She looked up and saw both her captors with expressions of shock on their faces before the captain growled and walked over to Jaune with her weapon raised.
"What is the capital of Australia? Tell me now or I will kill him," she threatened.
"Canberra!" answered Red quickly.
"What planet are we on?" continued the Captain.
"Earth!" cried Red.
"Who is the current Prime Minister of Australia?" she asked.
"Tony Abbott!" she shouted.
Leah lowered her weapon and approached Red again, "you seem to know quite a lot for being someone who only heard of this place from her parents," she finished, looking at the doctor.
Red's eyes widened and she cursed, glaring at the soldier with a hate filled expression. The doctor and his companion nodded to each other as he turned to the door.
"Well Miss Rose you've certainly given us some things to think about, we'll let you have some alone time with your friend assuming of course he wakes up," called the doctor as the door slammed shut, leaving Red alone with Leah.
The Captain walked up to Red and leaned towards her ear, "do you hear the whispers?"
Red froze as images of the shadows sprang to her mind, seeing her expression the Captain nodded as if confirming something before following her companion out.
The dorm seemed to have lost its joyful cheer as the remnants of team RWBY finished another day of unsuccessfully searching Vale for any sigh of Ruby. None of them said anything as they collapsed onto their beds exhausted, each planning their next searching session. It had taken some convincing but they'd finally got Ozpin to allowing them to take time out of class to search for Ruby, stating that they wouldn't be able to get any work done anyway. Blake sighed as she heard quiet sobbing coming from the bunk above her. Yang was taking this the hardest having lost her sister twice in a span of a couple of months, it didn't help that they had no idea what the White Fang wanted with her.
Blake frowned, Yang had a right to be scared and she knew it. The White Fang never went after individuals like this, sure every now and then a Schnee Company board member went missing but that was pure spur of the moment hits. They had never deemed anyone a threat enough to warrant such a carefully planned and orchestrated abduction, they'd even abandoned most of their bases in preparation. 'This isn't right they would never spend so many resources to catch one person, there's something else going on here,' she realized.
"Yang don't worry I've talked to my father he's using all our resources to track them down," assured Weiss.
"Your father would do that for one of your friends?" questioned the Faunus skeptically.
The heiress gave a cunning smile, "I might have told him that I gave her multiple passcodes to our different facilities," she replied.
Blake raised her eyebrows, "how did he take that?" she asked.
"Not very well," she admitted. "He raged and screamed at me. Cut off my allowance for the rest of the year."
Seeing her teammates shocked expression she shrugged, "I've saved up enough lien to last me ten years here, so it's no real issue."
"Weiss I could kiss you," exclaimed Yang as she jumped down from the bed and crushed the heiress in a bear hug.
"Urk…Yang… can't breathe…Blake help!" cried a struggling Weiss.
The Faunus didn't move and instead had to struggling to hold back laughter at the sight of the composed heiress so flustered. After a couple of seconds she couldn't stem the tide anymore and burst into laughter meanwhile Weiss gasped as the blonde finally let go.
"Ok let's start again first thing tomorrow morning," said the brawler.
They both nodded to her and climbed into beds, Blake ignoring the seething glares her white haired teammate was sending her as she got changed. Just as she was about to go to sleep the Faunus heard her scroll go off, 'that's odd only team RWBY and JNPR know my number,' she thought confused. Getting up Blake walked over to her scroll opening it up and froze as she noted the sender's address. It was from Ruby's scroll, immediately she opened it up and read the message before shaking her two teammates awake.
"Blake what is it we need to be well rested for our search tomorrow," growled Yang.
In response Blake just handed the scroll to her causing Yang to frown as she read the message her expression of rage instantly replaced with one of shock.
Blake we need to talk about your little Red friend. Meet me at Tukson's old book shop in the western district at 12pm tomorrow. You may bring your teammates if you wish but no more than that, if anyone else shows up then I'm gone and so is your friend.
"Quick see if you can get the location of the scroll!" cried Weiss.
Eyes widening Yang quickly followed her advice only to growl as an error message popped up, "no good whoever sent the message must have removed the batteries after they sent it," she informed them.
"What do you want to do Yang?" asked Blake.
"We should tell Ozpin about this," suggested Weiss.
"No we don't know how this person is watching us, if we tell the Headmaster then they might not show up at all and that's if Ozpin even lets us meet them," argued Blake.
Yang turned to her partner, "Blake they mentioned you by name, do you have any idea who it could be?" she asked.
The Faunus just shook her head causing the blonde to growl in frustration, "ok here's the plan, we rest up completely before we go meet this person tomorrow and beat the answers out of them."
The other two nodded to her, a fire now in their eyes. For the first time they had a lead and no force, heaven or hell was getting in their way, one way or another they would find Ruby.
Leah turned to the doctor, "we should call Command immediately they'll want to hear about this," she suggested.
He nodded, "what concerns me is how she got to Remnant in the first place. We control the portals between the worlds. Nothing should be able to go between the two without us knowing it, let alone how she managed to obtain a Remnant aura."
The two of them walked into the control room and saluted as the screen came to life revealing a shadowy silhouette, "At ease, what do you have to report?" he asked.
The two of them dropped their salutes as the doctor stepped forward, "Sir there's been a development with project Prometheus, as you know we sent a team to capture a VIP but during her interrogation we discovered something very interesting."
The doctor sent the files from the recent tests before stepping back in line, "While this data is interesting I fail to see why you sought the need to use an emergency channel to report it," responded the figure after a short pause.
Leah stepped forward this time, "Commander we may have a level one security breach," she informed him.
"Explain yourself Captain," demanded the Commander.
"While we were interrogating the prisoner we found out that she used to live on Earth until quite recently from the information retrieved, but none of us have sent her through the portals so either there is a traitor amongst us or the portals are no longer required to cross between worlds," she reported.
There was silence as the two of them waited for a response from their superior, "Captain, Doctor, here are your new orders. I want you to find out everything you can about her, who she is, if anyone helped her and most importantly how she got there. I don't care how you do it just get it done," he ordered.
"Yes sir," they replied as the screen went dark.
As they left the room and made their way back to the interrogation chamber she grabbed the doctor by the shoulder, "Doc are you sure that her Earth aura is dormant?" she asked.
He frowned, "positive my tests don't lie. Why do you ask?"
"I mentioned the whispers to her and she panicked," replied the captain.
"A coincidence most likely, after all you need to be at stage two for the whispers to appear whereas she's barely at stage one. I think you might be letting your previous experience cloud your judgment Captain," he reasoned throwing off her hand.
She clenched her fist suppressing a surge of anger, "I hope you're right doc for all our sakes," she growled as they approached the door.
As they approached the door she felt a sudden familiar sense of unease, 'oh no.' Bringing out her shotguns she burst through the door and sure enough both the captives were missing.
"Sound the alarm we've got a security breach!"
Red tried to strengthen her arm with her aura only to see the bright red outline sputter and die, repeating the process on various parts of the body yielded the same results. 'I guess Frankenstein wasn't lying after all, I can't use my aura,' she sighed closing her eyes. 'Wait a second he said it only stopped Remnant aura not my Earth one, but how do I use it?' she wondered before a spike of pain speared her head again.
"Uncle Qrow when are we going to start training?" asked Ruby, impatiently getting up from the ground.
"We are training Ruby," replied Qrow, not moving from his position.
"But all we've been doing is meditating for the past hour," she cried.
"There's more to training then sparing Ruby, I'm not letting you near any weapons until you've unlocked you aura," he informed her.
"Yang told me that you need someone else to do it for you," replied Ruby frowning.
Qrow chuckled, "if that was the case then how did the first person unlock their aura with no one to help them hmm? While it is true that others can unlock your aura for you it is not the only method," concluded the hunter.
"So why don't you just unlock it for me?" she growled, annoyed.
"A true hunter has to earn their power not have it given to them," he replied, opening his eyes to look at her.
Ruby just sighed and returned to her meditating position, "So how do I unlock it then?"
Qrow smiled, "clear your mind and focus on your body, feel your chest rise with each breath, your heart pump with each beat, the wind in your hair and on the skin. Now close your eyes, imagine a dam, the biggest and strongest you can and break it. This is a basic visualizing technique that can be used to get in touch with your aura," he instructed.
Ruby nodded and felt a calm relaxed feeling wash over her, slowly her breathing became slow and steady. As she broke the dam a sudden rush of energy flooded her, snapping her eyes open Ruby saw she was surrounded by a bright red outline.
"Well done Ruby not many people can ever do this on their first try," congratulated a clapping Qrow.
"Qrow if I ever see you again I'm going to buy you the biggest dinner imaginable," grinned Red.
Closing her eyes she followed his advice and that's when she felt them. Two currents flowing through her body, one a large calm yet vibrant red flowing freely and the other a small dark, wild, almost primal force slowly trickling out as if contained by something. Reaching out to the second she felt resistance coming from the red current, pushing against it she touched the darker aura and felt it begin to rapid spread throughout her body. Instantly Red felt her senses sharpen, she could hear the mice in the walls and smell the scent of her two captors lingering in the room. Giving a triumphant smirk Red forced the dark aura into her arms and opened her eyes to see them outlined in a black colour.
"Ladies and gentleman we are back in business," she cheered, breaking the leather restraints.
Ripping the numerous tubes from her body, she felt a blessed relief as her red aura returned and began the healing process. Rushing over to Jaune she broke his restraints and placed him on her back piggy back style before stumbling as she noted her reflection. Her sliver eyes now had catlike oval pupils instead of circular and the white of her eyes had been replaced by black. Her teeth had sharpened as well, in fact it looked like all her molars had been replaced by sharp canines. Finally her aura outline was neither black nor the familiar bright red, instead it was a darker shade of red almost like blood.
"Well...this is new," she said, stunned by her appearance.
Snapping out of it she walked up to the door and found it was predictably locked. "I always wanted to do this," she grinned before sending an aura infused kick into the door.
The door lasted another two kicks before it swung open revealing a narrow hallway, closing the door behind her and securing Jaune she ran down the hallway. Her new sense of smell leading them to the nearest source of fresh air, however as they left the hallway to the nearest room an alarm began to sound. 'Looks like they know we're gone,' she thought before diving back into the nearby room as she heard footsteps approaching.
"Someone get these lights on I can't see anything in this damn hallway," ordered a male voice.
'That's odd I could see just fine,' thought Red confused. She held her breath as they walked past her hideout, praying they wouldn't notice them.
"Sergeant was the door to that room always open?" asked one of them.
The Sergeant didn't respond but Red heard the flick of safeties being removed and two of them began to approach. Taking a deep breath she waited until they had just entered the room before activating her semblance, knocking the two of them out so fast they couldn't even make a sound. But she was momentarily blinded as a flash light hit her face.
"Shit she's gone to stage one, open fire!" ordered the Sergeant.
Red disappeared into rose petals as the wall behind her was peppered with rounds from the squad, realizing she couldn't fight properly with Jaune on her back Red fled as fast as her semblance could carry her. The source of the fresh air was close now as the sound of her pursuers grew fainter, looking ahead she saw the source of fresh air was an open window. 'Oh man this is going to hurt,' she grumbled, not slowing down as she flared her aura around them and jumped through the window. Red grunted as the landed before taking off into the nearby city, smiling as she left the base far behind.
Jaune awoke to a massive head ache causing him to clutch his head in pain, 'what happened the last thing I remember was talking to Ruby in the cage then everything went black.' Groaning he got up from the bed he'd been placed on and looked around, he found himself in a room full of posters and some sort of computer he didn't recognize on a bench. Curious he examined some of the posters, they seemed to be for a show called Red vs Blue. As he was examined they poster he saw something that made his eyes widen, picking a slim cover he blinked thinking it was some dream but it stayed in his hand.
"What's going on here?" he said, confused.
There in his hand was a slim container containing some kind of disc, but what caught his attention was the cover. Written in big letters was 'RWBY' with four pictures that had an uncanny resemblance to a certain team he knew. As Jaune stared at it unbelievingly he jumped, hearing the sound of a door opening and quickly shoved it in his hoody.
"Oh Jaune you're up good, here's some clothes I didn't know your size so I estimated, now get changed," ordered Ruby as she threw a pile of clothes at him.
"Where'd you get these?" he asked, holding up a shirt.
"Stole them from a local store," she replied, before grabbing her own bag.
"Ruby we can't do that give them back right now," he said, horrified.
Ruby just gave a dark chuckle, "trust me Jaune right now being arrested for theft is the least of our worries."
"What do you mean?" asked Jaune confused.
"Where do you think we are Jaune?" she asked in return.
He shrugged, "somewhere in Vale," he replied.
"Wrong, we're not even in Remnant," she informed him.
Jaune felt his jaw drop, "but then where are we?" he asked, fearfully.
Ruby sighed, "Welcome to Earth Jaune Arc. Now get changed, we need to lay low and being an anime look alike is not the best way to do so."
"Anime? What's that?" replied the knight curiously.
"Never mind just get changed already, my parents will be back from work in an hour and I don't think they'll appreciate two strangers in their house," she growled.
Jaune nodded fearfully and Ruby left the room, presumably to get changed herself. The blonde sighed as he picked out the only clothes in his size. Placing his clothes and the slim case in a bag he walked out to see Ruby reading some sort of large book.
"What's that?" he queried.
Ruby looked up and gave him a sad smile, "it's a photo album, you store photos in it so you can look at them later."
Intrigued he made his way over and saw a picture of a young blonde haired and blue eyed girl laughing with a white haired boy of the same age. He smiled, they seemed so happy he could almost feel the joy radiating from them.
"Who's your friend?" he asked.
"I don't know, I can't even remember how we meet. Everything is just a blur, all I remember is that we were good friends," she replied, sadly.
"Ruby I am so sorry," he apologized, guiltily.
She just shook her head, "I told you before Jaune I've accepted it, by the way what's with the bag?" she asked.
"Oh I thought it would be a good idea to keep our old clothes in it, you know leave no trace behind," he lied, rubbing the back of his neck.
Ruby nodded, "good idea I'll throw mine in there too," she said, turning the page.
Jaune let out a sigh of relief and was about to leave her to reminisce when she suddenly dropped the album and grew pale. "Ruby what is it? What's wrong?" he asked, concerned.
She turned to him, "Jaune there's something I need to see."
The sun had disappeared, hiding behind the growing dark storm clouds as they approached the site. It was quiet, no sound of the birds chirping or the wind blowing. The silence created a solemn atmosphere that neither of them were willing to break as they walked along the rows, searching for what they hoped not to find.
"Ruby we can still turn back, you don't need to put yourself through this," said Jaune with a sympathetic look, placing a hand on her shoulder.
Red shook her head, "no Jaune I need to do this, I have to know," she replied.
His look of sympathy rapidly devolved into one of worry, "Ruby there are some things that aren't meant to be seen, things that can break a person. Sometimes it is better to just remain ignorant than risk yourself for that knowledge, remember once something is seen it cannot be unseen," warned Jaune.
She shook off his arm and turned away from him, "please Jaune just let me do this," pleaded Red as she walked down the aisles.
The blonde frowned but said nothing as he followed her and the duo continued their search. The first drops of rain began to fall before releasing a deluge on the unfortunate pair, signalling the start of the storm. Still Red didn't mind, in fact she couldn't even feel the cold or rain as she focused only on finding it, she glanced back at Jaune to see him throw his hoody over his head.
"The storm's getting worse Ruby, we need to go!" he called as thunder roared overhead.
Red rounded on him, "then leave you're not even helping anyway!" she snapped, briefly glowing a dark red.
Jaune flinched at her tone and she turned away, smothering the guilty feeling growing in the pit of her stomach. Red sighed as she heard the sound of the blonde following her, 'what's wrong with me? Why'd I snap like that?' Blaming it on lack of sleep she returned her attention to the search as they completed yet another row with no success, 'maybe it was a phony photo,' she thought in relief. As they reached another aisle of graves though she felt a chill run down her spine, a chill that was not caused by the storm. Slowly looking down she examined the tombstone in front of her and immediately collapsed to the ground as her legs gave way beneath her. Red yelled into the storm, her cry full of frustration and anguish as tears streamed down the side of her face. Jaune didn't say anything and just gave her shoulder a gentle squeeze as he looked down at the grave, confirming his suspicions.
Here Lies Laura Doe,
Who had many a friend but not a foe,
Her smile was a sight to see,
A Beacon burning bright.
We miss her ever so,
And where she's gone we cannot go,
But to us she'll always be,
An everlasting light.
Farewell Little Red may you rest in peace.
Well I had a lot of people wondering what had happened to Red's body...now you know. We finally get our first glimpse into the organisation Roman mentioned awhile back and more detail on Earth aura. Hope you guys enjoyed the new chapter.
P.S. If you want an idea of what Leah looks like just follow the link below but give her shorter hair, desert camo and shotguns as the weapons.
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