The 'Lone' Hero of Vale - Chapter 10
(No, that would be too easy)
(Shut it.) Link frowned and didn't grab his sword (I can't incapacitate these guys, I refuse to be forced out of this city as well, and besides, If Penny has some association with these soldiers then it's clear they'll be obviously missing, which will result in more soldiers being sent to look for us.)
"It's your lucky day." Link grinned as the golden eye vanished "You wont get hurt too much."
"We'll remember your face." The 2 Atlas soldiers frowned as they aimed their guns at Link
"Yeah so will every other Atlas soldier." Link rolled his eyes "Although if you don't catch me, you can't force me out of Vale." Link's smiled faded "And trust me, you will NOT force me out of Vale." Link drew his sword and shield, images of team RWBY, JNPR and CFVY came to his head.
"You mean you're..." One of the two soldiers spoke
"Stay on guard." One of the soldiers said as they both backed up "The files on this one are still unknown despite what we've heard from General Ironwood."
"This one?' Link growled "I'm just a monster to you huh?" Link took a step back, getting in a battle stance. "You're so lucky." Link chuckled as he sprinted towards the 2 soldiers, looking like a mere flash as he sped and moved in zig zag fashion.
"He's so fast!" The soldiers spoke at the same time as they began to shoot at Link, who either dodged the shots or blocked them with his shield.
"You silly soldiers only care about firepower, try this on for size!" Link put his sword away and reached for a minor weapon, his boomerang, wanting to do as little damage possible, he threw his boomerang, which hit a soldier in the head, it didn't do critical damage but it did enough to stun him for a few seconds
"No need for that silly toy either!" Link then grabbed his hook shot, he quickly fired it at the soldiers gun
"Hmph!" Link shot himself towards the soldier, quickly disarming him and jabbing him in the chest with his elbow.
"We're not pushovers kid!" The soldier who got hit with the boomerang now began to go hand-to-hand with Link
"Hmm!" Link stuck to defense and kept dodging as he noticed the other soldier rush at him now
"Damn alright then!" Link literally threw his shield in the air, very high up and now began to fight back, going at a soldier with fast kicks, main hitting his mid section. The soldier took all the incoming roundhouse and side kicks, attempting to get a hit on Link. However, a mistake was made, Link drifted away from his original fighting style, he threw a punch of his own, which missed drastically, the soldier stayed focused and struck Link in the chest with his own punch, he did not go easy on Link the way he was doing to the soldiers, putting full power into the punch, clearly knocking Link's wind out. The soldier went for another brutal closed fist punch, this one going for Link's face.
"This one's not bad, but he just got a lucky hit that's all." Link acted quickly and lifted both arms up, blocking the punch, the second this happened, the other soldier finally began to charge at Link, despite this, Link stayed calm and simply grabbed onto the soldiers forearm with a tight grip, then began to swing him around, throwing him into the other soldier
"You're not pushovers, but you aren't good enough either." Link backed up to catch his breath and his shield with no problem "I'll give you credit where it's due, that wasn't half bad, but it's over now." Link calmly put his shield away and grabbed his sword, wielding it with both hands, the triforce on his left hand lit up brightly
"What are you doing?!" The soldiers quickly got up
"I'm taking it easy on you." Link smiled as 2 triforce diagrams spawned in front and behind them, one was bright, the other was faded
In another alleyway
Penny had barely stopped running now, after Ruby was able to chase and tackle her down.
Penny took in everything Ruby told her, how she shouldn't feel any different just because she's pieces of metal rather than blood and skin.
However, showing a smile and gratitude, on the inside, she couldn't help but still feel...like just another robot, to be used a future soldier.
But then she realized 2 things...
The soldiers stopped chasing.
And Link hasn't returned.
"R-ruby..." Penny backed up, it was followed with a hiccup as well "Link isn't back yet, do you think he was captured or perhaps he was k-!"
"Nope!" Ruby said with a smile "He can handle himself, although it is taking a while." Ruby looked back at the alleyway, expecting Link to show up "Maybe it's the other way for those soldiers..."
Elsewhere
(They're not dead...?)
(That's right, Triforce Slash never kills...) Link mumbled (But even still, the final blow wasn't connected...I "missed")
Link picked up his shield and boomerang then proceeded to step on the soldiers, just to make sure they were alive
"Ugh!" One of the soldiers groaned and turned around in pain
"Alright, they're fine." Link nodded and yawned "Man if this is what Atlas has to offer no wonder the bad guys haven't been stopped yet." Link then noticed the soldiers getting up, so he quickly ran away. Noticing the rose pedals on the ground "Good plan, but not very smart, these soldiers will pick up where we are soon enough."
Within the span of a minute, Link turned the corner of an alleyway and noticed Ruby and Penny
"They're on their way!" Link rushed and nearly crashed into Ruby
"Oh Link you had me worried a bit, what took so long?!"
"They gave me a bit of a fight...Nothing too difficult though." Link chuckled
"They're down here...!" The soldiers faint voice could be heard
"You have to hide!" Penny looked at Ruby and Link before eyeing the dumpster.
"Oh no, I'm not getting in there!" Link tried to walk away
"You must...Please." Penny grabbed onto Link's collar
"Oh brilliant..." Link sighed as he was thrown into the dumpster.
Penny then glanced at ruby, grabbed her by the waist and hoisted her up in the air, proceeding to dump her into the dumpster as well.
"How lovely." Link shrugged as he saw a rat run by
"Promise me you won't tell anyone about my secret."
"Promise." Link lifted his hand
"I promise too." Ruby nodded.
Penny nodded and closed the lid before greeted the soldiers
"Salutations! Officers!' Penny saluted the soldiers
"Why were you running? And what happened to the other girl?" The soldiers ignored asking about Link, since they figured he was a rogue hunter along with the fact that they didn't want to run into him anymore
"Other girl?" Penny looked around then rolled her eyes "What girl? I've been on my own all day." Penny smiled but almost gave it away when another hiccup was heard
"What were you told about running off on your own?"
"Are you okay?"
"Just a scratch." Penny then showed her hands, which were shredded a bit, revealing metal.
"Penny, your father will not be happy when he hears about today, please just come with us." A soldier said as he himself wasn't okay, the fight from Link took a lot out of him and his fellow companion
"Yes sir." Penny gave another salute and walked with them.
10 minutes later
"Hm? Blakes calling." Link picked up his scroll
"Everyone! If you can hear me, we need back-!"
"HEEEEEEEEEEELP!" Sun shouted "They got a robot, and it's big, really big."
"Come on let's go!" Ruby nodded as she and Link began to run "I do not want to miss this!"
"That torchwick guy is in it, but not, like, it didn't eat him, he's, like, controlling it or something!"
"Where are you guys?" Yang could be heard in the call as well
"Huuuurry!"
"We're heading to the freeway, please hurry." Blake said before hanging up.
"Alright, got a plan Ruby?" Link asked
"N-not really, I just have this thing, but it's team RWBY exclusive."
"Winging it, I can deal with that." Link shrugged
Ruby led the way...under the freeway...which to Link was bizarre, but then again, team rwby got back on the call and Link was zoned out
"So ruby what are doing here, won't they be up there?" Link pointed upwards.
"Right, but Weiss has a plan to bring it down here to avoid civilians from getting hurt." Ruby nodded, then heard 2 voices, each getting faint
"Sun and Neptune!" Link pointed at them falling to the ground, seemingly to their death.
"Link!" Ruby commanded
"Got it!" Link sprinted towards Sun and Neptune, realizing he wouldn't make it on time
"Last resort, let's see if it pays off!" Link started off by throwing his sword, spear style at Sun, it clipped onto his baggy shirt and stuck onto a pillar. Link then grabbed his bow and arrow, then pulled back on the string, having no time to turn it into a crossbow, he had to take a shot, just one shot, one chance.
"OH MY GOD!" Neptune shouted. The arrow barely grazed his hair, it managed to hit his jacket and hook him to a pillar as well. The shock of the incident made him pass out.
"Phew." Link sighed, which was then followed the shattering of ice and a giant robot collapsing to the bottom of the freeway. "Gotta go work." Link safely brought down Sun, who was barely conscious as well along with Neptune then rushed to help team RWBY, but to his surprise, his help was rejected.
"Link don't worry about us!" Yang shouted "Take Neptune and Sun to safety, we can handle the giant toaster."
"We'll be fine, I promise!" Ruby nodded
"A-alright then." Link mumbled
(Good, because you have company, look behind you...)
Link turned around to find Sun and Neptune still there, but there was another person in front of them, it was a woman, her outfit was pink, white and brown, she was short, very short despite being in heels, and she held an umbrella...Her hair and eyes were both different color; One half was pink, the other was brown.
"Who are you...?" Link asked as he reached for his sword
"..." The girl just smiled and opened what was a pink, see through umbrella
"Don't you dare hurt my friends!" Link grabbed onto the handle of his sword, the triforce on his hand lit up, as well as everything else gold on his clothing.
"..." The girl blinked, her eye color changing as she did so.
"...Grr" Link clipped the sword out of the sheath, then smiled himself.
"..." Neo winked at Link, clearly winning the taunting battle
"Go away." Link closed his eyes, then opened them, and to his surprise, the gold in his eyes didn't just appear on his left, it finally sprouted on his right.
Link was already across to where that girl(Neo) was...however, she was gone, and Link cut through a pillar, surprisingly the freeway hadn't collapsed yet either.
"Damn! I missed." Link wondered but then went back to Ruby's orders, to take Sun and Neptune out of there. "Let's go guys." Link lifted Neptune up and grabbed his(neptune) gun too.
"Thanks for saving our butts Link." Sun picked up his staff "Come on, I'll buy you dinner, my treat."
"Um, ok then." Link shrugged and followed him.
10 minutes later
"A Simple Wok huh..." Link looked up at the banner of the street side noodle bar
"Yup, best of the best, no need for some fancy restaurant." Sun nodded
"Well mainly because we're a bit tight on cash too." Neptune chuckled as all 3 got served their chosen dish.
"Shouldn't we have backed them up at least?" Link asked as he, Neptune and Sun were all about to eat
"Nah." Sun chuckled
"They're probably fine, right?" Neptune asked
"..." Sun looked up from his plate, then just chuckled again "Probably."
Neptune said nothing and turned back around to continue eating.
"I suppose so." Link shrugged and went back to eating as well.
(9/26/17) Edited: Minor details + Link's fight with the Atlas Soldiers & his encounter with Neo.