I don't own RWBY nor Marvel
Aftermath: Adam Taurus
Years.
That's the time he had been fighting against the humans.
Ever since he was rescued from that accursed placed called mines, he has been training, preparing and fighting for himself and all Faunuskind for when the time came, when humans 'inevitably' attacked them.
He knew it would happen. Humans may seem to not care, some may fake caring, but he knew the truth, he had seen into the abyss that was human's cruelty, and that same abyss had stared back.
His left eye was proof of that.
When he joined the White Fang, it had been an honor, he felt pride, he thought he was doing the right thing for the betterment of Faunus lives.
He should've known better.
Ghira's peaceful methods weren't yielding the results he envisioned for the White Fang. The White Fang wasn't being taken seriously, humans like Jacques Schnee would look at them and scoff.
"A protest would not change the minds of those that whipped Faunus in the mines!" he remembered having told Ghira, but he ignored him.
"We need to show them we are different from them, that we want change without resorting to another Faunus War" it was he had answered him that day.
"Yet nothing has changed, I joined four years ago, and the White Fang has existed long before, nothing has changed since then!" he liked to think as himself stubborn as a bull, and not because of his Faunus heritage.
"Change is never fast, it takes time, we just need to be persistent" yes, he remembers Ghira also being a stubborn pain in the ass, maybe one of the few qualities he admired of the former High Leader.
"Every second, we waste in these peaceful protests, it's another second of thousands of our kind dying of hunger, abuse, and quite possibly experiments, we can't afford to pull any punches!" the argument had lasted for another half hour, and when it ended he had left quite angry thinking he would never be heard.
But he was heard. Sienna approached him the day after and told him she agreed with what he had said to Ghira last night, he had been surprised, he had been so invested in the argument he forgot, other cell leaders had been around.
She told him that she and the other cell leaders too agreed with his views, obviously the only one who didn't was Kali. She told him her and the other White Fang high commands had a plan to remove Ghira from power "We just need an opportunity".
And she got it.
And so he was there, in the last protest to ever be carried with Ghira as High Leader took place in Atlas, and it didn't end well, for both sides. Once again, he saw the cruelty that humankind was capable of, when a Huntsman shot a live round at a protester who pushed him. That single shot brought chaos.
But it was the opportunity Sienna and her followers needed, after arguments with Ghira, she convinced him to give his position as High Leader, as his methods were paid with the lives of 20 Faunus.
Change was immediate, 'guards' started to go in every protest that took place.
Anti-faunus establishments would be trashed and ransacked.
And his personal favorite, Schnee dust mines would be attacked to liberate the enslaved faunus. But his only regret would be that they could never stop the creation or 'resupply' of said mines.
For he knew from experience that no matter how many Faunus died, or escaped, they would be replaced in a three days tops.
Still, he saw the changes and he felt proud of his work, soon he started to be seen as a hero, with how many of his kind he liberated per month. He could say with certainty that he was happy to have sided with Sienna.
Until he wasn't.
She started to negotiate with the councils of each kingdom, they started to talk about more equality to Faunus, about how they would be given a fair trial, and judgement. Of how Faunus would be given an equal opportunity to be citizens, but he knew better, it was just a front.
Nothing would change.
Establishments would still refuse to attend them; people would still assault them and kill them. And most importantly they would still be slaves in mines they had no choice but to be born to.
And yet, Sienna accepted some of these changes, but still the attacks persisted if they ever saw an establishment mistreat faunus, so that was a plus.
But still he was very dissatisfied, and so he started to look for people that agreed with him. He couldn't be the only one.
And he wasn't. Unsurprisingly most of his followers had once been in a mine, and his most devout had been in mines the furthest from Atlas.
And so slowly he started to gather support, and with his newly appointed position as head of the Vale Cell it became easier.
Everything was going in schedule, until two things happened.
One: a weird, quite possibly, crazy and megalomaniac human, approached him offering to help him with his revolution if he worked for her, he was about to behead the foolish human for even suggesting working for her. Until she showed him Dust to feed their SMGs for weeks. So, he accepted, some sacrifices needed to be done for the greater good.
Two: …. Blake betrayed him. The mission was going well. Everything was fine. And then she left. He had thought that she had gone back to Menagerie with her parents, and didn't think much about it, until Roman (one of the disadvantages of accepting to work for the crazy bitch) told him of a Female Cat Faunus with amber eyes.
He tried to deny it, she couldn't have betrayed him for humans. To go and join Academies where racists were accepted with open arms, as long as they could kill some Grimm.
But worst of all, when he was given a newspaper as proof. He saw in the background of the image, the unmistakable hair of the Schnee.
As such since then he had been angry, and he used that anger to push his agenda. His plan had been to take control of the White Fang and then start a revolution, but plans change, and his aligned a little too well with the crazy human's.
And that had been every major event in his life up to this moment…is what he would've said if that day had never happened.
All his hard work, all does nights training, all the recruiting, all his preparations, were turned to dust almost as if with snap of the fingers.
A third of his forces suddenly turned to dust in the middle day, at first he thought they had been found by a huntsman with an overpowered semblance.
But then he heard the screams. Outside the warehouse they ha been and down the streets, people were running, as vehicles lost control and crashed, bullheads dropped from the sky, and most importantly, man, women, old and young turned to dust right in front of his eyes.
He would've believed it to be divine justice finally being given to the humans, if he had not seen a faunus child hold the hand of her disappearing mother.
He had smiled that day, when seeing it now he shouldn't have. His remaining followers saw his smile and left him. They had called him a "monster" for smiling at a time like that.
And they had been right.
When the following day came, he was all alone. With particles of what once had been half the population of Vale around him.
The previous feeling of glee, he had had seeing humans cry and scream had died, and once he was calmer, he was hit with the sudden loneliness of all his follower leaving him. He had gotten to know them, and he would've trusted them with his life, and he should've been angry at them for leaving him (the that didn't die), but he couldn't because he knew it had been inconsiderate of him to smile. They all had families and said families could've been victims of this catastrophe.
He grabbed his weapon and scabbard and started to look around the city, he saw some broken glasses in stores, vehicles crashed, some even with one or two bodies either under them or inside them. Everything looked worse than ever before, even he could feel the negative feeling in the city.
And then he heard crying, he walked to where he heard it and saw two children no older than 3, one was a dog faunus and the other was human, both had dark hair, they were crying nonstop and he wondered where were their parents when he saw the remaining dust around them.
He looked around looking for any adult, so he could leave them with, but there was no one around. He cursed a little before he picked the faunus girl carefully and patted her a little to calm her down, it seem to work, he then turned to the human baby, and hesitated, but soon got down and picked him up too.
He didn't know why he did it, he tried not to think much about it, but he had taken both kids 'I could never leave a Faunus in need, unless I was doing something for the White Fang, but the Fang is probably in disarray too' no matter what excuse he gave himself it didn't change the fact he let carrying both children in his arms.
"Mommy! Daddy!" they both cried while hitting him in the face, but he didn't waver "Mommy! Daddy! Please come back! Help us! Help us!"
"They can't hear you, they're gone" his answer just brought more tears.
He had gone back at the warehouse and dropped the kids in one of the couches, he could've left them in an orphanage, but the circumstances weren't probably the best ones. So, he left them there, while he went out to scavenge for supplies 'the grocery stores must be deserted' and they were he took what he thought was necessary and left.
And so the days passed. The children would still cry out for their dead parents, but now they would never cry when he entered the warehouse. And he would've stayed at the warehouse, had the kids not cried about wanting to go home.
He couldn't take them home, but he could take them to where most faunus considered home.
Menagerie.
It took a full month before some jobs returned to normal, flights and cruises to other continents were one of such.
He grabbed all of the savings they had in that warehouse, and took all of the other safehouses as well, if other members hadn't thought of doing that.
Told the kids to pack their stuff (which he stole from stores) and get ready they were leaving. They no longer cried, having been fed and taking care by him taught them that they weren't in danger, and they relaxed a little when they saw his horns. They still looked sad when he told them, but did it nonetheless.
And so the next day they were on a ship to Menagerie. He smiled a little when both kept holding his hand the whole trip.
After some days they finally arrived, and the he could see there was not much difference between Vale and Menagerie. Not many shops were opened, and any passerby he saw just had a defeated look on his face. He saw the Belladonna's state and wondered if Blake was there, but quickly he erased those thoughts. He had the worst relationship with the Belladonnas.
And so he led the children inside the jungle. To where his old home was.
His home was as he remember, small shack inside the jungle. He smiled a little remembering how he built it, and how over time he kept upgrading it. He opened the door, and everything was as he remembered, in the far left corner were futons to sleep in, just a little to the right was the bathroom, in the middle of the room was a small table, and all of the right side was the kitchen.
His home was the very first time he accomplished something all by himself. "Wow" He smiled even more, when they started to admire his little house.
He was staring to grow fond of them, although he still believed they resented him a little from taking them away. His constant anger was nowhere to be found. And then he realized something important.
"Hey" he called out to the kids, and they both turned to him "I know this might be a little too late, but what are your names?" they seemed surprised at the question, they probably thought I would never ask them, or that I didn't care enough to know their names.
They gave me broad smiles and both announced heir names "I'm Crystal" the girl responded "And I'm Cloud" the boy responded.
He too smiled "I'm Adam Taurus" and let them inside.
Now four months later he still didn't know why he did it, maybe it was the sense of empathy he felt for them, because he knew what it was lo grow without someone, maybe it was a rare sense of solidarity, he didn't know, it didn't matter. He didn't regret it. He quite possibly saved them from a horrible experience had they stayed in the streets.
He was rummaging through the market by the beach, looking for new food. When he heard a ping from his scroll. A disadvantage of living in Menagerie was that the news took from 2 to 4 weeks to arrive to the coastal town.
He took out his scroll and his eyes widened when he read the title of the news. Quite possibly the most shocking ones since that day.
In that very moment Adam, returned to being his old self for a little bit as he laughed hysterically while other passerby watched him as if he was crazy.
He didn't mind, he stopped laughing after a while, but he still wore a sinister grin on his face "Maybe the future won't be so bad afterall" he murmured to himself.
And he couldn't help himself but look again to relish in the happiness he felt from the news.
"Leadership purges in Atlas, from the Army to the SDC"
Done.
Found a little free time to write this.
Now before some start speculating if at some point there would be like a type of crossover with Marvel's Avengers or something like that, and the answer is : no.
Let me explain, as you all know RWBY has a lot of 'Reaction' fanfics, and I like some of them (mainly those about them reacting to our Wars), but there is something similar in all of them and that is that it's just a reaction, and as such the cast doesn't really experiences what they are being shown.
I could've made a RWBY React to Infinity War or something like that, but I thought it would be a little repetitive. So, this is what my fanfic is about, "What if the Thanos Snap affected the world of Remnant?" how would the characters react, how would they feel, what would they do. It's not just them looking at something but actually experiencing it.
One of my favorite RWBY fanfics is 'Archangel by Konstantinsen' who does something like I just described, letting the characters experience it for themselves firsthand instead of just through a tv or screen.
So I just wanted to clear that out.
P.S.: that's why I write I don't own RWBY nor Marvel, because at the end of the day The Snap it's the climax of MCU Infinity War.
-The Knight in Dark Flames