Patriot-112: Hey Everyone, and here we are with another chapter of Alter Zwei! Now before we begin, I just want to say, that although Ozpin is definitely a hundred times better than a certain late Headmaster of Hogwarts, (*CoughDumblesCough*) I have a good amount of beef towards him. Of course, I have my reasons, but there is too much to list, so I won't go into explaining it.
So, I got nothing else to say, so...let's get with the show!
Chapter Two:
Look Familiar?
Qrow after managing to calm his niece down, went after the masked girl, who went off into the stands after forcing Ruby away.
Thankfully, his honorary niece/protege was not seriously hurt, thanks to all the training he gave her. However, he was gonna teach that masked girl a lesson when he finds her, as he looked through the halls looking for the rogue, the signs of battle absolutely clear.
Of course, he was also curious as to who the girl was. At first, he thought it was the assailant that attacked Amber, but threw that out the window, due to the hair color and different attire. Not to mention the girl fought a lot like the Nikos girl who was Ozpin's chosen candidate for being Amber's replacement, though unlike the redhead, this girl was more vicious, and not afraid to play dirty, if watching her beat Ironwood's grunts was any indication.
Before he continue his musing, a large bang from down the hall got his attention and he immediately dashed toward the sound.
"This day just keeps getting more and more...complicated,"
Cinder's body slammed against the wall, eliciting a strained grunt from the Fallen Maiden, before she is grabbed by the front of her bandaged shirt and made to look at the masked snarl visage of the rogue huntress who attempts to slam an aura infused fist into her face, but the amber eyed bitch manages to move it to the side, while the fist slams into the wall instead, and causing spider web cracks to appear.
The Pawn of Salem then drove her knee into the girl's stomach, forcing her to let go, and allowing her to summon her glass sword and attempt to deliver an overhead slash on the head of the nuisance.
However, with quick reflexes, Dorée managed to to block it with her own shield before attempt the same trick she did with Blake, though with more lethal intent, as her hidden SMG appeared and she squeezed the trigger.
The repeating pow of the firearm reverberated off the walls, but Cinder, thanks to the Fall Maiden powers she stole, managed to block the rounds. Though it was still a close call.
Dorée growled before continuing her attack, by thrusting her sword (not THAT way you sexual innuendo freaks) at her stomach, only for Cinder to move to the side, the blade impaling the wall, and away from her.
"What's wrong, Cinder Fall?" Dorée snarled out, making the flame bitch turn to her, "Afraid to use your powers so that failure Ozpin wouldn't find you? Of course, he couldn't do it right, even if he tried,"
Cinder blinked at the hostility the girl seemed to have toward the Headmaster of Beacon.
"And what's your grievance with the old fool?" Cinder remarked, as Dorée's eyes narrowed behind her mask.
"Wouldn't you like to know," she said, before she rushed forward again, and attempted to decapitate her, only for Cinder to deflect it away.
The two continued their duel, until they reached the stadium's dock, where a number of students and other spectators were. All of them waiting to be evacuated, due to the rampage by the Rogue huntress.
But, once the crowd noticed them coming, they immediately begin to run away from the fight.
However, one person didn't run, as mismatched brown and pink eyes stared at the fight between Cinder and the masked rogue, all the while staying near an ambulance airship.
Back with the two women, they continued their dance of death, with Cinder being forced to use more of her half of the Fall Maiden powers, as she used her two-sword fighting style to keep even with the annoyance facing her.
Dorée continued her assault, growing more vicious in her attacks. However, one swing from one of Cinder's swords, managed to cut one of the pouches on her belt, and a familiar device fell out and landed on the ground.
However, the duel was about to be interrupted, as she heard the sound of rushing footsteps, and the running gears of a weapon shifting, forcing her to break off her duel with Cinder, and intercepting a large sword with her shield, in which the force of the blow sent her flying back, before flipping in mid-air and landing on the ground in a kneeling position.
"Alright now, I think that's enough now, kid," said a male voice, and the masked huntress looked up and cursed, seeing that it was none other than Qrow "Bad Luck Charm" Branwen.
"Oh great, the walking drunk bad luck charm himself," Doré muttered, not wanting to face Qrow now, in fact she didn't intend to face him...ever!
In Qrow's perspective, he blinked at the young woman's words, especially the bad luck charm part.
Not many knew about his semblance, the few included being his sister, Summer, Taiyang, and Oz.
He mentally filed that away for the moment, as he looked at the girl who was now assuming a guard position.
He sighed at the obvious defiance the girl was showing.
"Look kid, I don't know what your deal is but you need to-," he was cut off as the girl rushed forward, her speed matching matching that of Winter's.
"Geez! Not the talking type, huh!?" Qrow mused out loud, as he began to dodge her swings, stabs, and slashes.
"I don't talk with yes men who blindly follow old fools who keep too many secrets and unnecessarily put others who aren't ready in danger," the masked girl growled, "Especially when they pick a young woman, who is still just a student, and give her the difficult choice of choosing overwhelming power at the possible cost of losing everything and everyone she holds dear, or leaving the world to rot."
Qrow could only blink in utter surprise at this.
"Wait...what?" he exclaimed, 'Did she mean the Cereal Girl? And how the hell does she-OH SHIT!'
He had to jump out of the way of an incoming piece of pipe, which was covered in a black glow.
Before the masked huntress could continue her attack the sound of engines made her snap around, as Cinder boarded the medical airship as it began to take off, causing her hidden eyes to widen in fury.
"YOU COWARD! I won't let you get away!" she shouted as she drew her left arm back, and with all of her might, and the help of her semblance, hurled the disc at the dust plane, as it left the dock, hitting one if it's engines, and causing smoke to billow and it proceeded to descend rapidly toward the ground.
"RAAAGGH!" Dorée screamed angrily, cursing herself for being distracted, just as Qrow was attempting to move forward to knock her out, only for the same pipe to hit his legs and swept him off his feet and onto his rear. He then felt the metal pipe wrap around his legs, before he tried to get it off.
"Oh great!" he exclaimed, as he was now stuck.
"You drunk moron!" He heard the girl shout as she looked at him with a PISSED OFF expression, from what he could tell from the parts of her he could see. And if he was crazy, he could see her eyes glowing red behind the mask, "I had her... and now because of you, my mission is at risk!"
Her gripped on her sword tightened.
"I should kill you for getting in my way," she snarled out, "But right now, she's more important,"
With that said, and using her polarity, she jumped on her shield, as she levitated after the crashed airship, determined not to let her prey get away.
Qrow watched as she left, and then proceeded to try and get the pipe off.
"Uncle Qrow!"
He turned his head as he saw Ruby, along with her team and Team JNPR, CVFY, and SSSN.
"Are you alright!?" the red-hooded girl asked in concern as Qrow still continued to try and get himself loose.
"I'm okay, considering I'm a little 'tied up' at the moment," Qrow answered, as he gripped the pipe.
"Let me take care of that," said Pyrrha as her hand glowed black, and the same glow surrounded the pipe as it untwisted and released Qrow, who stood back up.
"Thanks, Cereal Girl," he said, and Pyrrha nodded, before the champion noticed a glint of sunlight in the corner of her eye. Turning fully, she spotted what looked to be a scroll.
She proceeded to walk over to it, noticed by Jaune as well, who proceeded to follow her.
Meanwhile, after Ruby helped her uncle up, she began asking questions.
"Uncle Qrow, who was that woman? Why did she attack Mercury?" Ruby asked, making the veteran huntsman sigh.
"To be honest, kiddo. I don't have a clue," he said, "But one thing's for sure, she's gotta be stopped before she gets herself or anyone else hurt...Of course, a little late for Black, and the Atlas grunts."
"Of which I intend to arrest her for!" a voice exclaimed, and everyone turned and spotted none other than an irate General James Ironwood. Qrow sighed at that.
"Good luck with that Tin Man, cause I don't think she intends on surrendering...probably still won't even after she's done what she's come here to do," he said, making Ironwood blink at that, before his frown increased.
"Regardless, she assaulted a student and Atlas Personnel, and destroyed military property." James insisted, before they heard the sounds of kicking and screaming heading their way.
They turned and saw Yang dragging the now bruised up Mercury and Emerald by their hair, and proceeded to throw the two of them toward the large group.
"Yang, wha...?" Blake began to ask, before the blonde brawler held up her hand, before walking over to the two and stomped her heel into Emerald's back, who yelped in pain.
"Now, tell them what you told me, and don't even try to lie, stall for time, or use that Semblance of yours, because if you do...," She added more pressure, making Emerald struggle and gasp.
"A-Alright! ALRIGHT!" Emerald screamed out, and Yang smirked.
"Good girl, now tell 'em." she said, her tone hard.
While this was going on, Pyrrha had just picked up the scroll as Jaune approached not long after, and looked at the device. It looked like any other scroll, except it was red with gold trim, and had an emblem in the top right corner, causing Pyrrha to look at it, before she recognized it...or them.
It was her emblem, the spear crossing the shield, and Jaune's own family emblem, the twin crescents. With the shield and spear black, and the crescents white.
She was not the only one to notice as Jaune was also surprised to see his emblem...merged with that of his partners. It then clicked in his mind when he first saw the masked girl.
"I...I saw that before...," he said, making Pyrrha look at him, "It...It was on that girl's shield. You think...you think this could be her Scroll?"
The Spartan turned back to look at the scroll, the girl's words from before still buzzing in her head.
"I'm doing this not just to save Remnant, in fact I could care less about the Four Kingdoms. ...I-I'm...I'm doing it for... for you and Jaune,"
Her mind was running a mile a minute. In her hand was possibly the answers to who the masked girl really was, and why she was doing what she did.
And so, she came to the decision to access the scroll.
Emerald Forest
She landed with a loud thud, as her shield, floating via polarity, returned to her arm. In front of her was the now trashed medical airship that Cinder used to leave the Colosseum, which had crashed landed, as the skid marks and torn up ground indicated.
She saw the hatch open, and walked toward the crashed vessel to look inside, only to find one person, and it was not who she was after, but rather the body guard of that damn thief, Roman Torchwick...the bubble gum and brunette hair, were a dead give away, as this was none other than Neopolitan, another illusionist who is able to easily disguise herself.
The girl was set prone against the control panel, blood dripping slightly from her head, before she groaned in pain, as she woke up from unconsciousness.
Dorée, once she saw her stir and begin waking up, immediately walked over, and grabbed the ice cream themed girl by the scruff of her paramedic coat, and roughly lifted her out of the pilot chair and slammed her into the wall of the airship, this caused Neo to wake up entirely, as her eyes blinked wearily and looked at the masked visage of the huntress who attacked Mercury and fought Cinder. The assistant of Torchwick began shaking in fear as she looked at this person.
This girl has the same type of aura as the masked raven haired woman she met back in the rail tunnel, and she knew that she was dangerous. Her instincts screamed at her to flee, but right now, she was trapped as Doré's hand then gripped tightly around her throat, causing her to struggle.
"I know you can't speak, Neopolitan," said masked woman said, causing Neo's eyes to widen in shock that the woman knew her name, "But I know there are other ways you can tell me what I want to know, without your voice. So..."
With that, her grip tightened on the girl's neck and Neo began gagging as her feet began kicking.
"Where. Did. Cinder. GO!?"
Back at the Colosseum
The Bullhead carrying Ozpin and Glynda arrived at the flying stadium's docks, and just as it landed, the side doors opened and the Headmaster and the combat teacher jumped out. They spot the group of students, along with their colleagues, and immediately ran over, as they saw Yang holding a bruised Mercury Black by the front of his shirt.
"So, you two part of some doomsday Grimm worshiping cult, huh!?" the blonde haired girl shouted, her eyes red and hair aflame as she shook the now legless boy furiously, "Hoping to wreck everything so people would panic and the Grimm would come in!? And with that, the White Fang as an added bonus to the carnage!? Well, reality check bud! Someone already found you out!"
"Miss Xiao Long! Stop this at once!" Glynda shouted in reprimanding protest, and attempted to use her telepathy semblance to stop the daughter of Raven Branwen, only for the hand of General Ironwood to hold her shoulder, stopping her and making her look at the general in surprise.
"James what are you-?" she began to ask, but noticed the serious look on his face.
"No Glynda..." he said, his tone serious as Ozpin came over, the general then turned to him, giving his fellow headmaster the look that it pertains to her.
Ozpin blinked, getting the message, as he looked to the Xiao Long who looked ready to give Mercury another punch.
But then...
A horrified gasp got their attention as they turned to Pyrrha and Jaune who were looking at something.
"Miss Nikos...?," Ozpin said and began walking over, along with everyone, as Yang knocked Mercury out and joined the others, but not before warning a now scared Emerald to stay where she was... or else. She made good on the threat by punching her fist into her palm, as her way of explaining that she will beat the thief to a pulp. Emerald nodded fearfully, and Yang took that as a yes and went over to see what the fuss was about.
As they approached, they could see Pyrrha's hands shaking, making them more concerned for the Spartan.
"Pyrrha? Jaune? Are.. you okay?" Ruby asked in worry, and they didn't hear anything from her or Jaune for a moment until the Mistralian spoke, in almost a whisper.
"T-That's...impossible,"
This caused everyone to get really worried as Ruby jogged up to the two partners to look at what they were seeing.
What she saw made her eyes widen in shock, in Pyrrha's hands was the scroll they found, but it was what on the screen that shocked her...
Emerald Forest
Cinder growled angrily as she moved through the forest as she clutched her arm.
"Crazy BITCH!" she snapped, "She put everything in jeopardy, and the plan is in danger of failing! ... *Sigh* Hopefully, I can salvage this and try to find another way to have the Grimm attack Vale and Beacon. I just hope she can be patient for a little-,"
But as she plotted her plan B, her ears picked up the sound of something metallic spinning and sawing through trees, before she ducked as an annoyingly familiar shield flew over her.
'Grrr! Persistently. Annoying!' she growled mentally before hearing footsteps and turned to see none other than the said masked huntress.
"Thought you'd get away, didn't you?" she asked rhetorically, as her shield came back to her left arm, resulting in the resounding click. She then, much to Cinder's confusion stabbed the blade of the sword in her right hand into the ground.
"And now that we're alone..." she said, as the now empty hand reached up toward her face, "the time for masks...is over,"
With that, her fingers grasped the said object, and slid it off of her face.
Amber eyes blinked as the mask slowly came off, revealing the hidden part of her face, before they widened in shock at seeing the familiar vivid green eyes that snapped open, along with the similarly familiar facial features.
Said familiar eyes glared at Cinder, before Dorée reached under the collar of the battle dress, as if fiddling with something, before pulling what looked to be a choker collar off and throwing it away, before she began to speak again, but in a voice she knew.
"Take a good look, Cinder," Doré said, her voice radically changed, "Look at my eyes..."
She motioned to said organs.
"Look at my face...,"
She ran two fingers down her own face.
"Listen to my voice..." She said, her glare still strong, "Do I look familiar? Do I sound familiar? ...Don't I look and sound like someone...you planned to murder!?,"
Patriot-112: ...Oh dear. I wonder what Cinder is thinking? *Shrugs* Oh well, it's not like anyone cares about her...oh man, now I sound like a dick- Oh what the hell am I talking about!? You all know she deserves it, and more!
Anyway, for those who are confused that Penny hasn't shown up in this yet, please know that she is around, and will appear in the next chapter, alright? Also for those of you waiting for an update for Naruto and the Kyuubi Child...I. Have. Not. Forgotten. Okay? Good. I just don't know what to write yet, but I'm going to get back to it as soon as I get out of my RWBY-itis phase.
Until the next chapter my peeps. Later~!