Wonder Woman 2017 Part 3
After learning what Jaune knows, Pyrrha makes her choice to leave home and join Jaune to find Ares.
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Where in the palace throne room, Jaune Arc himself is wrapped in the golden Lasso and he will spill the beans for the Amazons to hear on why did he come here and why the Battle Droids where pursuing him.
"My name is Captain Jaune Arc. Pilot Arcadian Expeditionary Forces. Serial Number 8121941", well it's the Golden Lasso of Truth that's making him talk and it's useless to resist.
Pyrrha and Pelina, battle weary, watch him. With the Queen's Guards, what's left of Sienna's Guards and a Amazon Senator. Jaune strains to keep his mouth shut with no avail.
"Seconded to Vale and Republic Intelligences, what the hell is this thing anyway?" Jaune stops what he was saying and ask what is the Lasso is.
"The Lasso of Hestia compels you to reveal the truth", Pyrrha tells him what the Lasso is.
"It's pointless and painful to resist", a random Amazon using the Lasso said.
"The Golden Lasso Truth is very powerful and when it's wrapped around you, it will forcibly make you reveal the truth, not even strong Aura and Semblance can help you resist it. Not even you can resist as well Salem, that goes for the Brothers of Light and Darkness too." Hakaze explains how powerful the Golden Lasso of Truth is and no one can resist it at all not matter what the being is.
"Not even the so called Brothers can resist the Lasso of Truth?"
"Oh yes Ozpin, but also the Lasso will always stay on the hands of an Amazon and anyone who is good, so not in the hands of those who do evil and are hungry for power and money", Hakaze said then gave Jacque a glare.
"What is your mission?" Pelina ask him.
"Whoever you are, you're grave danger", Jaune tries to talk again without the Lasso of Truth doing it for him.
"What is your mission?" Pelina ask again and Jaune exhales.
"I'm a SPY! I'm a spy", Jaune reveals he is a spy and the scene goes to flashback.
"Looks like we are going to see what Jaune has been spying on before he arrived in Themyscira", Weiss said.
"But what he has seen will disturb him", Hakaze said.
"Wonder what it is", Blake said next and they are about to see.
Flashback is sets in a Military Installation which is CIS territory. Jaune in his pilot uniform with both the Atlas and CIS emblem stands an airstrip next to several Human pilots that are from Atlas and they too have both their Kingdom of Atlas emblem and the CIS's emblem too.
"Vale and Republic intelligence got word that the leader of the Atlas Army, General James Ironwood was visiting a secret military installation in CIS territory.
In Jaune's POV, following General Ironwood as he and his Atlesian Troopers enters a large nondescript warehouse and walking pass the B1 Battle Droids and B2 Super Battle Droids who are there.
"I pose as one of their pilots and then flew in with them", Jaune follows them into warehouse to see what they are up to.
"According to our intel, the Atlesians had no troops, no money, no munitions of any kind", while Jaune keeps talking, in the scene Jaune discovers this is an immense munitions factory manned by worker Droids that's used by the CIS to make Bombs for the Kingdom of Atlas.
"Why would Atlas side with the CIS, we wouldn't do such a thing, why are Kingdom is so poor?" Winter wonders is that.
"It's unknown why, but bigger guess is because Atlas has spend too much with their military assets, plus General Ironwood here is more like a warmonger rather than the man that you know him to be", Hakaze explains the background of Atlas in Wonder Woman.
"Nice Jimmy", Qrow said.
"I would never be a warmonger", James excuses himself.
"You wouldn't be, unless you worship someone who makes war", Hakaze said but they don't know whom she's referring to.
"But our intel was wrong. Atlas have aligned themselves with the Galactic Republic's enemy, the CIS to make bombs for both of them to use. And not just bombs", the next scene shows James approaching a scientist wearing a head-to-toe protective gear, removing mask and googles, we meet the stunningly beautiful Dr. Ilia Amitola.
Ilia finishes writing a chemical formula in a notebook, she turns and greets Ironwood with respect and confidences.
"New weapons, invented by Ironwood's chief psychopath, Dr. Ilia Amitola who is a Chameleon Faunus", Jaune can't help but stare admiringly until Ilia turns her head, revealing metal plates on her face, hiding damage incurred by her own experiments.
"What happened to my face?" Ilia ask Hakaze after seeing her counterpart's face, even those who are Faunus and part of the White Fang are disturbed on what happened to Ilia's face.
"You got disfigured in accident caused by one your experiments, now you wear that metal to hide the disfigurement", Hakaze explains what happened to Ilia's face.
"Boys in the trenches call her Dr. Poison", while that goes on, Ilia leads James to her lab, to a fully-enclosed test chamber with a viewing window while Jaune watches.
In the chamber, Jaune sees a gruesome site, which is a prisoner, his terrified face covered by a gas mask, his wrist and ankles stretched out and restrained by chains and another chain leads from the top of the prisoner's gas mask. Out of earshot, Jaune watches Ilia show James the formulas in her notebook, explaining them. Ilia closes the notebook and sets it down, the releases glowing gas into the chamber, The panic prisoner's terrified eyes widen, muffled screams cry out behind his gas mask.
Enraptured, Ilia puts a hand against the window, her anxious eyes follow the smoke filling chamber, she hopes it works this time. James watches and waiting. Jaune looks on in horror as the prisoner's gas mask begins to show slight signs of disintegration, thin cracks in the glass, wear on the straps, corrosion the metal, Ilia isn't even aware she's grinning but then the prisoner's realize the gas mask is resisting the gas and protecting him. He calms down and Ilia gets frustrated and James gets disappointed.
Jaune watches as a frustrated Ilia pulls a lever and the chain connected to the prisoner's gas mask tears the mask off exposing him to what's left of the gas. The panic prisoner screams in pain as he breathes and dies horribly and disturbed the audiences. Jaune can barely watch, he glance away and his eyes lock on Ilia's notebook.
"They've been using prisoners as test subjects on the poison gas, that's very inhuman!" James said in disgust like many others.
"But the gas mask did look like it was going to burn off from the gas, but looks like it fails", Oobleck said.
"That's just horrible when the prisoner dies on a horrible way when he gets expose to the gas", Ozpin said, they all wonder what they would like if the gas can disfigure a expose victim.
"You suppose Jaune is going to do something about it?" Pyrrha wonders if Jaune going to do something after witnessing all that.
"Since is posing as their pilot, Jaune might do something while nobody can notice he is a spy", Winter said to Pyrrha.
"This poison can help Atlas and the CIS win the war without taking any loss of their own Troops", Arthur commented about how the war should end in Atlas and the CIS's favor.
"From what I saw, if Dr. Ilia was able to complete her work, millions would die. The war would never end, I had to do something", Jaune makes his choice, knowing it can cost him his life, he slowly opens he door and grabs notebook and leaves while Ilia and James are distracted talking.
But when Ilia turns and notice her notebook is gone, "someone stop him!" Ilia and James then sounds the alarm even though they have no idea who exactly stole the notebook. Jaune makes a break for it and gets onboard a CIS Belbullab-22 Fighter and takes off but not before trying to blast both James and Ilia who are escaping on a CIS Platoon Attack Craft/PAC which fails before he focus his attention on destroying the factory storing the poison. He opens the cockpit and drops a grenade into the factory which ultimately destroys the factory before getting as far away as he can.
But in the end Vulture-Class Droid Fighters takes off and pursues him.
"Well Jaune did something and destroyed the factory where the poison is", Ruby said feeling satisfied that the poison is gone.
"Unfortunately for all of you, Ilia still has more of her poison gas elsewhere", some went wide eyes when Hakaze revealed that.
Going back to the throne room, Jaune tries resist the lasso again but no avail again.
"But if I can get those notes to Vale in time, it can stop millions more from dying and to stop the war", Jaune said but Pyrrha gets curious about the war that he was talking about.
"What war?" Pyrrha ask in curiosity.
"The war to end all wars. 4 years, 27 parts of the other Kingdoms destroyed and outside of it, 25 million dead, soldiers and civilians", Jaune swallows hard, forced by the lass to reveal all, not just the facts, but also his feelings about them.
Plus the audiences are getting ready to react what comes next.
"Innocent people, women and children, slaughtered, their homes, villages looted, burned at the hands of the Kingdom of Atlas and the CIS. Weapons deadlier, more horrifying than you can imagine. Like nothing I've ever seen, it's like the world is going to end", Jaune said the absolute truth while the audiences are horrified of the monsters that Kingdom of Atlas and siding with the CIS.
Jaune's head hangs low, Pyrrha looks at him with sympathy and sadness.
"Take him to the infirmary", Pelina said while Pyrrha tenses, clearly shaken by this.
"My kingdom of Atlas are monsters for what they have done to all those people while siding with the CIS", James commented.
"But your counterpart is also a monster for being a warmonger", Hakaze said to him.
"Hakaze is right Jimmy", Qrow said and the rest will Atlas personal will have nothing to say about this because of their Kingdom are being monsters.
"Also, do you know what Pyrrha could be thinking?" Jaune ask Hakaze.
"Yeah Jaune, I know Pyrrha is thinking of whom she thinks is behind this war", Hakaze said and many could tell what Pyrrha is thinking.
"Does she think the long time enemy of Zeus is behind this?" Ruby ask and wonders.
"That's what Pyrrha is thinking Ruby."
Pyrrha follows her mother and the cortege into the courtyard, trying to lend voice to their debate.
"Should we let him go?"
"And risk him bringing more Battle Droids and Atlas men to shores?" Pelina said until Pyrrha interrupts them.
"Mother? Excuse me mother, but after what Jaune Arc said, this must be Ares", everyone turns to look at Pyrrha when she mentions Ares.
"What are you saying?"
"Forgive me Senator, but Jaune called it a war without end. Millions of people of Remnant already dead. Like nothing he's ever seen. Only Ares could do such a thing. We cannot simply let Jaune go alone. We must go with him", Pyrrha believing this is Ares's doing suggest they go with Jaune and stop this war with no end.
"We are not deploying our army and leave Themyscira defenseless to go and fight their war?" Well Pelina refuses to send her Amazon to help the rest of Remnant's Kingdoms and the Galactic Republic appose the Kingdom of Atlas and the CIS.
"Oh come on!" Nora commented on Pelina's refusal.
"To you Pelina, the Amazons wars is just a thing of the past and you prefer you keep it that way", Hakaze said while Pelina is trying to slowly back away from Nora.
"It's not their War, Zeus created life on Remnant to be just and wise, string and passionate", Pyrrha protested still thinking Ares is behind this.
"That just a story Pyrrha, there is much of you that don't know, man is easily corruptible", Pelina counters by saying what Pyrrha learn is just a story and people can be corrupted with the use of free will.
"But Ares is behind that corruption, it is Ares these Atlas and CIS fighting, stopped the God of War", Pyrrha still protests.
"We must care to our wounded, honor our fallen Pyrrha!"
"Themyscira has seen death for the first time mother. Ares must not be allowed to threaten us again. We know only too well what happens if he finds us and he will. Never again shall we be enslaved and now mankind must be freed. As Amazons this is our duty!" Pyrrha completely on thoughts on the desire on stopping Ares.
"But your not Amazon like the rest of us Pyrrha", Pelina retorted which strikes Pyrrha in the heart, but Pelina stops herself from revealing anymore.
"You don't know war like we do", Pelina claims.
"You may be afraid to face Ares mother, but I am not", Pyrrha said in accusatory.
"Afraid? You know nothing of fear Pyrrha. Nothing of war, nothing of pain, nothing of sacrifice. So you will do nothing, your Queen forbids it", Pelina said then Pyrrha leaves, brimming with anger while Pelina is left with conflict.
"Do nothing huh?" Adam Taurus said not quite appreciating that the Amazons all except for Pyrrha will do nothing to stop this war which Pyrrha believes is Ares's doing.
"Some Queen you are", Sienna said as a mock.
"I do notice that my mother stop herself revealing anymore, was it the biggest burden to bear?" Pyrrha wonders and ask Hakaze.
"Yes, this biggest burden to bear thing", Hakaze answered.
Next scene is the in the infirmary where a skilled fellow Amazon stiches up a wound on Pyrrha's arm.
"Is it true you saved Jaune Arc's life?"
"Who told you that I did?"
"What will the Queen do with Jaune Arc? Will she kill him?" That question leaves Pyrrha wondering herself.
"Ah don't worry, nothing like that is going to happen to Jaune", Hakaze said giving some relief.
Elsewhere in the infirmary, Pyrrha enters to find Jaune stepping out of a tub, his back to her naked which gave some of the girls and boys the audiences blush in their face, but some nose bleed. For some reason Pyrrha studies his body as he towels himself dry. Jaune's shoulder has been bandaged, but his body is covered with cuts, bruises, scars from other many battles he's been through. Seeing this Pyrrha touches her own wound, sympathetic, Jaune finally turns, startle to see Pyrrha there.
"Vomit-Boy is been through a lot to have all that all over his body", Yang commented while blushing.
"Didn't hear you come in or knock." Jaune said but Pyrrha stares at him puzzled, Jaune isn't really enjoying the look on her face.
"Would you say you're a typical example of your sex?" Jaune raises an eyebrow, slightly offended, but he doesn't cover himself, plus the audiences who still had some red faces and nose bleeds wonders what kind of question is that.
"I like to think of myself as above average", Jaune answered.
"Is that your final answer?" Blake ask him.
"Yeah!" Jaune said feeling hot.
"What is that?" Pyrrha ask which is actually Jaune's pocket watch on top of his clothes.
"It's watch."
"A watch", Pyrrha said still not familiar with that type of gadget.
"My father gave it to me. Been through hell and back with him and now me and it's still ticking", Jaune said while Pyrrha was listening to the tick.
"Jaune's father carried it with him throughout many wars and now he's doing the same", James commented.
"Why?"
"Because it tells time. So I know when to wake up, work, eat and sleep", Jaune answers everything he does from the time but Pyrrha views it as ridiculous.
"You let this little thing tell you what to do?" Pyrrha said and Jaune takes the watch and covers it up.
"Can't blame for what Pyrrha is thinking", Weiss said.
"She's an Amazon sister, they are not familiar with such technology or gadgets", Winter said to her.
"Do you mind I ask a couple of 100 questions?" Jaune ask and Pyrrha shrugs.
"What is this place?"
"Themyscira."
"I know that already, it's just that, how come I've never heard of it? Who are you people? How do you know English?" So many questions coming from Jaune.
"We speak 100s of languages of Remnant. We are the bridge to a greater understanding between all men", Pyrrha answers.
"Funny, because I understand even less now than before you walked in", the way Jaune watches her makes Pyrrha self-conscious.
"Hey, I didn't get to say it earlier, but thanks for dragging me out of the water", Jaune wanted to thank Pyrrha for pulling him out of the water.
"Thank you for what you did on the beach", Pyrrha also thanked her for defending her against the Battle Droids.
"So are you gonna let me leave?"
"It's not up to me, I tried, I even asked them to send me with you", Pyrrha said and Jaune's eyes brighten while Pyrrha backpedals in embarrassment. "Or anyone, an Amazon. The Amazons."
"The Amazons?"
"It is our sacred duty to defend Remnant and I wish to go. But my mother will not allow it", what Pyrrha said which made Jaune just as disappointed as her, though his better sense tells him not to be.
"I don't blame her for that", Jaune said which surprises Pyrrha.
"The way this war is going, I wouldn't let anyone I care about near it", Jaune said and the audiences did understand this a lot.
"We all get that a lot, those who are not Huntsmen, Huntress or Soldier would want to stay out of a war", Tai commented about that.
"True", Qrow said next.
"Then why go back?" Pyrrha ask while Jaune starts dressing.
"I don't think I want to, bit I've gotta try. My father used to say, you see something wrong in the world, you can either do nothing, or you can do something and you already tried nothing", Jaune said what his father told him which moved Pyrrha and she takes that in with determination on her face.
"There also saying, no one deserves to be left behind to die, fend for themselves and everyone deserves to be saved", Hakaze said, plus she knows about James Ironwood's descent to villainy after he succumbs to his paranoia and fear, even though that event hasn't happen yet.
"Okay, but the look on Pyrrha's face is full determination, is she planning to?"
"Oh yes she is Ozpin."
That night Pyrrha arrives a distances away from the tower where the Godkiller Sword is kept while the moon shines the night. She sees the single window in the high tower, Pyrrha then steps toward it, then another and another, then Pyrrha sprints and leaps into the air off the cliffside and soars through the night and she slams into the side, holding on. Well the window is at least 30 feet above her, below the abyss and the wind moans.
Pyrrha begins her climb but the spur breaks off, "ahhhh!" Pyrrha briefly falls but she slams her hand on the wall halting her fall. Shocked a she hangs there for a second, the grins fiercely, then begins to climb her way straight up the stone wall, her fingers slamming into the tower making her own ladder out of the solid stone.
"Amazon super strength!" Nora said and cheered.
"Oh thank Oum", Pelina said feeling relief that Pyrrha didn't fall to her death.
"You realize Pyrrha would have survived the fall thanks to her Amazon attributes?"
"I know Hakaze, me and my husband can worry."
"Right now, Pyrrha is going to get the Godkiller Sword that she needs", Ruby said.
Pyrrha finally made it inside the tower, Pyrrha moves toward the Godkiller Sword and takes it from it's scabbard, awed by it's weight, it's sheer power in her hands and she holds it tight and it feels right. Next she passes a suit of ancient armor and snatches the Shield and then the Lasso of Truth. Next as Pyrrha was going to leave, something caught her eyes, she finds new type of armor which is colored in Gold, Red and Blue from it's display, Pyrrha's eyes widen with delight.
"I think she founds and got what she is looking for", Ruby said with a smile.
"And that gold, red and blue armor that she is going", Blake said.
"What she needs now is to get off the island with Jaune", Weiss said next.
"Surely Pyrrha knows the way off", Yang said to them.
"She does, plus that's the Wonder Woman Costume", Hakaze answer that Pyrrha knows a way off island and saying what that armor is.
"Quite a fashion", Coco commented.
Back at Jaune's room, he's busy checking something until Pyrrha shows up with the Godkiller Sword, Lasso, Shield and Wonder Woman Costume. "Nice outfit", Jaune compliments her while the Jaune in the audiences blushes and Pyrrha smiles. Not oddly, the audiences finds that Pyrrha keeps her long red hair down rather tying it the way they all know.
"Thank you. Now I will show you the way off the island and and you will take me to Ares", Pyrrha said to him.
"Deal", Jaune said but Pyrrha a bit nuts.
Pyrrha and Jaune on horseback enters to the edge of the harbor. There they found the not-very-modern-looking Amazon sailing boat. Jaune skeptical by the sight of that boat.
"I'm leaving in that?"
"We are Jaune", Pyrrha corrects him because she is going with him
"We're leaving in that?"
"Do you not know how to sail?"
"Yeah, just haven't since I was kid", some snicker at this, while Jaune remembers his past time before he became a Huntsmen.
"Like fishing?" Jaune said and his family nodded their heads.
Before the can leave, they hear Pelina and her Queen's Guards coming from behind. While Jaune prepares the boat, Pyrrha goes to confront her mother.
"I'm going mother, I can't stand by while innocent lives are lost. If no one else will defend Remnant from Ares, I will do it myself", Pyrrha tells her mother that she made her decision to stand against Ares.
"I know Pyrrha", Pelina accepts what her only daughter wants to do.
"Or at least I know that I can't stop you. There is so much you do not understand."
"I understand enough, I'm willing to fight for those who cannot fight themselves, like you once did."
"You know that if you choose to leave us, they you may never return home, because your memory of this island will fade", Pelian warns her much to the audiences confusion, Pelina then presents the headband of Sienna.
"I know that kind of goodbye", Pelina felt like a tear was coming down on her while her husband and Pyrrha herself gives her some comfort.
"Question, what does she mean by that?" Hazel ask what's Pelina saying about never coming back and the memory of Themyscira fading away.
"Let's say, Themyscira has a border line and leaving can cause any Amazon's memory of the island to fade away and preventing from ever coming back", Hakaze explains what she knows about the meaning.
"This belonged to the greatest warrior in our history, make sure you are worthy of it."
"I will", Pyrrha said and Pelina hands it to her.
"Be careful in the world of men Pyrrha, they do not deserve you", Pelina tries to memorize her daughter's face, believing it's the last time she'll ever see it.
"You are my greatest love, now you are my greatest sorrow", Pelina said and Pyrrha walks away from her mother and the only home she's ever known, then joins Jaune on the ship, well the wight of this good-bye didn't go unnoticed by Jaune.
Pyrrha looks back toward the island, her whole world until now. Back at the shoreline there was a question that Pelina will be ask.
"You didn't tell her?"
"The more Pyrrha knows, the faster he will find her", Pelina said and the audiences can tell whom she's talking about.
"She's talking Ares isn't she?" Jaune ask if that's Pelina is talking about.
"Yes, once Ares knows about Pyrrha's presences, he will come for her."
"So Ares is alive after all", Ren said and Hakaze nodded her head as a yes.
Back at the ship, the breeze moves through Pyrrha's red long hair as she takes a breath, watching the island drifts away and in a sudden flicker of fog it is gone. Bittersweet, she eyes Jaune at the tiller, he looks at his watch, still ticking and leaves it in his pocket.
"How long until we reach the war?" Pyrrha ask him, while some in the audiences felt like that's a dumb question.
"Which part? The front of each battlefield is so far away", Jaune said to her about how far is the battlefield.
"Where the fighting is the most intense then? If you take me there, I am sure I will find who I'm looking for."
"Who's that?"
"Ares."
"Ares? As in the God of War?"
"The God of War is our responsibility. Only an Amazon can defeat him. With this", Pyrrha shows Jaune the Godkiller Sword.
"And once I do, the war will end", Pyrrha said what she believes will happen next after Ares is defeated, lastly Jaune refute this outright, but after all he's seen today, he's turned upside down.
"Look Princess, I like your spirit and maybe you know something I don't, but this war against the CIS and the Kingdom of Atlas is so sprawling and messed up", Jaune said not quite convince on what Pyrrha is saying.
"You're looking at the person who can end it all. After I find and destroyed Ares, the both Factions of the CIS and the Kingdom of Atlas will be freed from his influence and the they will be good again, you'll see", Pyrrha said and yet Jaune thinks she is nuts.
"But Pyrrha doesn't know that everyone in Remnant can resort to violence thanks to free will instead of Ares influencing everyone", Hakaze said meaning what Pyrrha believes can be wrong.
"I'm starting to understand why your mother didn't want you to leave. How much to you really about the rest of Remnant?" Jaune ask while readying a good spot for them to sleep for the night.
"Remnant? I know all there is to know about the rest of Remnant from great books", Pyrrha answered and yet Jaune can't tell whether she's joking of not.
"The great books explains why there are no men or kids on that island?'
"I was raised on the island", Pyrrha still remembers that she was the only child as they both lay down next to each other.
"Just you? Your saying never met a man, but what about your father?" Jaune wonders if Pyrrha as a father at all.
"I have no father, I was brought to life by Zeus, mother sculpt me with Clay and then ask Zeus to give me life", Pyrrha answers her origins before Jaune pauses after hearing that.
"Well that's neat", that's all Jaune can say about that.
"Well Jaune doesn't have much to say after hearing all that because it's not like he got a history about the Amazons."
End
Coming up next is we meet the Antagonists and some sight seeing in Vale.
Notes: I know in some fanfics there is fan made Kingdom known as Arcadia which would be Jaune Arc's home, well I'll be using that too.