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With that out of the way, you may proceed on wasting a couple of minutes of your life on this chapter.
Somewhere, on the plain deserts of Pandora, in the middle of fucking nowhere...
A dead man in a blue jumpsuit was hanging from a large, metal claw on the border between an abandoned shanty town and an endless wasteland. It was probably once a part of a more complex structure that got destroyed by either human action, sand storms or time.
The giant claw, not the dead man.
The dead man was definitely a casualty of human action.
Below the hanging corpse was a fully armored gunman, who was curiously looking at the dead man, wondering perhaps on how someone managed to hang the guy so up high.
And why they'd bother to do that in the first place.
A relaxing synth tune played in the background.
"I don't know the dead man. Probably didn't deserve what he got."
Most of the audience members recognized the narrator's voice, since it clearly belonged to Pyrrha Nikos.
Pyrrha herself didn't really know what to expect from the...clip, as it started off kinda grim.
"Doesn't make him special though. All kinds of people die out here. The innocent..."
The gunman's attention dropped from the hanging corpse and they proceeded to stroll forward. A figure could be seen in a distance as the man moved away, sitting on top of a large rock.
The figure was feminine, albeit a lot more muscular than normal, and she wielded a buzz axe in her right hand. She was wearing brown pants with metal gauntlets and iron parts to protect her hands, but the only clothing covering her torso was a white wrap around her breasts. A few pieces of white fur poked out from the iron pads.
Said figure also had a mask and short, brilliant red hair tied in a small ponytail.
"And the not so innocent."
She hit her buzz axe on the rock, which produced a clanking sound that wasn't loud enough to alert the nearby gunman.
"That...that seems to be me?"
"You look kinda weird though." Yang spoke after Pyrrha, and then added,"I mean, why put armor on legs and arms and just cover your chest with some cloth?"
"Maybe it's hot there? The desert might not be much of an indication, but still..." Ren said.
Sun put both his arms behind his head and exclaimed:
"Probably. It does kinda remind me of Vacuo...well, not the weird construction and dead bodies, of course."
The view shifted on the front of Pyrrha, who noticed the armed man walking about and stopped fiddling with her buzz axe. The mask she wore had a belt extension that completely covered her right eye.
The view of the half-naked Pyrrha made Jaune scratch his cheeks, so that he could cover the blush forming on his cheeks. The girl beside him had a winning smile on her face, albeit hidden from others.
"Pyrrha is ripped! Like, she probably has more muscles than even the big, angry guy over there!" Nora said, her words clearly pointing out Hazel as the comparison.
The man simply turned and passively gazed at the girl before continuing to watch the rest of the clip.
"If I'm lucky, he hasn't noticed me yet."
Pyrrha quietly came down from the rock and started slowly walking behind the gunman, who was completely oblivious to her presence
"I wanna warn him. I want to tell him to run, to hide, to get out of sight so I won't have to kill him."
"Eh?! Why would she want to kill him?!"
"Honestly kiddo, the guy kinda has a 'murderous bandit' feel on him." Qrow responded to Ruby's question.
'Then again, the redhead doesn't look that different either...'
Pyrrha threw her buzz axe in the air and almost grabbed it, but it clumsily fell from her grasp.
"That's...what I want to say."
The view zooms on Pyrrha, who tilted her head. Her visible eye widened in excitement. The whole world around her was now colored in a bloody shade of red.
Most of the White Seat audience got a bit worried at what would happen next, while Neo smiled - fully knowing what will happen next.
"This is gonna be good." Roman quietly spoke, and Neo simply nodded in agreement.
"What actually comes out of my mouth is..."
The relaxing music stopped as Pyrrha exclaimed:
"I HAVE THE SHINIEST MEAT BICYCLE!"
Pyrrha then dashed towards the man. The muscular girl jumped on the ledge of a small barricade that separated both of them, propelling her in the air as the screen zoomed on her masked face.
The gunman was too late to notice her, and didn't even manage to bring his arms to protect himself, much less point the barrel of his gun at her.
The girly scream of the gunman echoed as the screen turned black.
"Heh, close enough."
A multitude of laughters and snickers echoed through the cinema, the main culprits being Mercury, Roman and Tyrian, with both the Xiao Long blondes to some degree.
The rest of the audience...wasn't quite as amused as they were.
Except for Nora, who started giggling a bit.
"I...I don't know what to say to that..." Winter muttered out, completely flabbergasted by the scene.
Ironwood only sighed at the Specialist's words. While some people may find Nikos' from the screen to be funny, he personally had some suspicions on her...symptoms.
"Well, uh, THAT was a thing." Ren spoke quietly. Pyrrha didn't know what to say to the scene. It was obvious that her mind and body are doing and speaking completely separate from one another. Still, it kinda made her at loss for words.
Jaune was unsure particularly how to feel about it.
Blake, on the other side, was reminded of her book she read in Beacon months ago - the man with two souls, one fighting the other for control. If it weren't her friend in the main role, she would've expressed her interest in this.
On the opposite end of the seats, Tyrian thought the whole scene to be poetically amusing. The sane side of the girl clearly wanted to do the right thing, while her not-so-sane side was doing whatever it wanted.
"Seriously - 'I have the shiniest meat bicycle'? Who even says that?"
"It's still better than YOUR usual 'epic one-liners', Mercury."
The said assassin put his hand on his chest with a faked expression of sadness.
"You wound me, Em."
"Suck it up then."
The screen lit up, showing Pyrrha casually strutting on some sort of high-tech train track.
The inner-self sighed as she started:
"This...is me."
"I'M READY FOR A SPINE TINGLER!"
"Nora's for cracking legs while Pyrrha's for breaking backs? Seems like JNPR girls like to be rough!" Yang had the biggest shit eating grin on her face. Nora pouted and responded back with:
"Humph, pot calling the kettle back!"
"Nora, it's 'pot calling the kettle black'."
"Same thing, Renny!"
"Yeah...great. Hey, remember back when we were sane?"
"SHE CAN TASTE THE BLOODY HATRED!"
"...Guess not."
Pyrrha threw the buzz axe in the air, only this time - she managed to properly catch it. She also swung it in front of herself a few times for good measure.
"You still can't hear me, can you? Little voice in your head, trying to remind you that we could go hours, days without screaming about our desire to ride bicycles made of meat? I don't even remember..."
A loud noise suddenly caught Pyrrha's attention as she stopped and looked around, only to notice an incoming train, which she barely dodged it by diving aside.
'So she didn't always have the split personality disorder, if one can call it that, assuming her...sane side is to be trusted. Even in another world, Ms. Nikos still suffers in some way...' Ozpin sighed. He knew that...Bob's intentions weren't fully expressed to them, and couldn't help but wonder...
Where do his true goals lie?
Ozpin lived long enough to see hints of a hidden reason, and Bob definitely had one. Even wearing that skull-like mask couldn't conceal his body posture. The headmaster of Beacon also knew that Salem too was trying to read their new host.
Hopefully, he'll manage to get to a conclusion faster.
"How did she not hear that train earlier?!" Weiss asked, which prompted a snarky response coming from Mercury:
"Dunno, Princess. Maybe it has to do with voices talking in her head?"
Weiss just shot the assassin an annoyed glare.
On the other hand, Ozpin was a bit glad that the others weren't burdened with similar thoughts.
Not yet, at least.
Pyrrha lifted her masked face and saw a train station in front of her. And on that train station was a blonde boy who carried a futuristic gun (that also had several glowing blue spots on it) in his hands. He was wearing a yellow sleveless shirt, blue jeans and combat boots.
The most peculiar thing about him was that he had spotted blood-red tattoos all over his left arm, which also went through his neck and a small part of his face.
"I would've never guessed, but tattoos actually look decent on you, Jaune."
"Uh, thanks Ren."
"How about we actually get you a tattoo after this? You'd look even more fearless than you already are!"
"I ,ah , I'll think about it Nora."
Pyrrha had to admit, Jaune did look good with tattoos. Now, if only her mind wouldn't give her less-than-family friendly ideas on where those tattoos would be...
"Oh God. He's armed with a Schnee SMG. He's a Vault Hunter. He's a Magus warrior who can kill me with his brain."
Jaune turned around and noticed Pyrrha, who was slowly getting on her feet.
"What the hell - is that a Psycho?" Jaune asked himself out loud.
"He's the most beautiful man I have ever seen."
"HA! I KNEW IT!" Nora victoriously exclaimed, all with a fist pump in the air.
"Why am I not surprised?" Blake spoke, almost in a bored fashion.
Needless is to say how Pyrrha and Jaune felt about the whole scene, but then Oscar expressed his suspicion:
"He called her a Psycho...I'd guess that isn't a good thing, right?"
"Oh shush cute little Ozpin!" Nora immediately responded, despite the fact that the actual Ozpin was near them.
"Tell him he is as handsome as a thousand moonlights. Tell him you need his help. Tell him to rescue you and care for you, and whatever you do - do not scream the word 'poop' at the top of your lungs!"
Mercury snickered.
"She's gonna do it."
Weiss instantly protested.
"No she won't, you ruffian! She would never do something like-"
"I AM THE CONDUCTOR OF THE POOP TRAIN!"
"...that."
While it was amusing to see the expressions of the people that personally knew Pyrrha Nikos, it was Nora who was visibly suffering the most, if the silent, desperate 'no' was an indication.
If she were a lesser woman, Pyrrha herself would've felt like she wanted the earth to open and swallow her.
Jaune was there with her, and that kinda helped. The blonde put a hand on her shoulder and casually said:
"It's no big deal! People say stuff like...that all the time! Well, not all the time, but you understand! I mean, what's the worst that could happen after that?"
Jaune jumped down the stars and started shooting at her.
"Apparently, THAT could happen." Oobleck made an astute observation as he readjusted his glasses. Pyrrha & Nora looked defeated, while Jaune kinda tried to laugh the awkwardness while scratching the back of his head.
Ren decided to remain patient.
"But why start shooting? I mean, she just let a few words slip through, right?"
"In blondie's defense, Tai, the girl kinda looks like an insane serial killer, which she may be for all we know. No offense kiddo."
"None taken, Mr. Branwen."
Yang and Ruby let out a laugh at the last sentence. That didn't stop even with Qrow's gaze on them.
Pyrrha's head hung low in defeat and quickly moved in a zigzag pattern to avoid the shots before taking cover.
"It's over idiot. You're gonna die here and now, and the last words out of your mouth would've been - 'poop train'."
Jaune's entire focus on shooting Pyrrha down made him unaware of a small group of slim-like bandits that appeared behind him and kept crawling towards the Magus.
"Oh great, now the Rats are arriving."
The Rats now got a bit too close to Jaune for Pyrrha's liking.
"Turn around Magus...Turn around or you're dead!"
Pyrrha held her breath at the sight, and hoped that her counterpart would try to warn Jaune of the danger.
"Tell him to look back, now!"
Pyrrha slightly poked from the cover and raised her buzz axe in the air, and said:
"STRIP THE FLESH!" before ducking undercover.
Jaune did notice how Pyrrha's fists were now clenched, but decided to not mention it. He also hoped that the Jaune on screen would be at least capable enough to notice the bandits on time.
"No! Listen to me..."
She repeated the same actions as before, but now she said:
"SALT THE WOUND!"
"Yeah, great, we'll salt all the wounds later. But right now, if you don't listen to me, he's gonna die and it's gonna be your fault!"
Pyrrha growled as she tried to fight off the voice, but ultimately managed to find the strength in her to get up and...
"TURN AROUND, LADY KILLER!"
She then threw her buzz axe that landed on the head of one of the Rats behind Jaune, who was about the stab the blonde Magus with a rusty knife.
The Rat gurgled in a slightly comical fashion before Pyrrha jumped and landed on his shoulders before pulling the buzz axe from his head. The Rat collapsed flat, while Jaune simply looked at the corpse of his would-be attacker.
The female Psycho proceeded to savagely butcher the rest of the Rats. She sliced two Rats through their chest cavities and plunged her axe into the head of the third Rat.
"THAT'S THE STUFF!" She said as she kicked off the dead Rat and pulled her weapon from his head.
She approached a quivering Rat near her and exclaimed:
"I AM GOING TO PUT MY PAIN INTO YOUR SOUL!"
The said Rat immediately fainted.
"YEAH! GO FOR IT PYRRHA!"
Ren sighed at Nora's cheers. But there was nothing he could do to prevent her from acting like this.
And honestly - if he could, he wouldn't. Not in a million years.
Ozpin chuckled at the statement of the Pyrrha in front of them.
'Putting your pain inside someone's soul...funny way of implying something, is it not?'
Yang, on the other hand, grinned and said:
"That's a good one liner there! Not sure if it would be usable for everyone, but still sounds awesome!"
Beside Nora and Yang, almost everyone else was a bit reserved at the sight of needless carnage that was followed with maniacal giggling.
It's probably also not worth mentioning that Tyrian was fully approving of everything going on there.
Pyrrha took a moment to look at the unconscious Rat, wondering if she should gut him open or simply chop his face in half. She didn't notice the other Rat on her left side, who jumped at her with a shiv in his hands.
However, the Rat never managed to reach Pyrrha as he got suspended midair, rotating in a small, purple energy bubble.
Her eye twitched at the sight as she turned around to see Jaune, who was slowly approaching her. He himself suspended the Rat with his Magus powers, as the tattoos across his body flared with a blue hue.
'That power...very similar to my own magic, and yet - it feels so... alien. Otherworldly is perhaps a more precise description.' Salem thought, whilst paying no mind to other events, be it on-screen or off-screen.
Cinder scoffed at the idea that the Arc's powers in that world are something more than parlor tricks. After all, the power of a Maiden is something to be awed and feared ...even with the crippling weakness that came in the form of an annoying pest born with special eyes.
Pyrrha looked at him for a few seconds before her gaze returned upon the incapacitated Rat. The Rat squealed when she jumped up and brought her buzz axe down on him.
Mercury giggled a bit and silently said:
"Heh, he went out with a squish."
Emerald simply rolled her eyes at her partners comment.
A slow piano tune started playing as Pyrrha pulled her weapon from the Rat's freshly decimated corpse.
'Now say thank you. Tell him that because of him, we might actually one day be able to act like a normal person again.'
Pyrrha paused a bit...
"What'll she say I wonder? Probably something insanely idiotic."
Ruby immediately countered Roman's opinion with:
"Nope! She'll say something cool, I'm sure of it!"
...before turning to Jaune and exclaimed:
"I POWDERED MY NEVERMORE FOR THE RIBCAGE SLAUGHTER!"
"I'd say you were...both right." Pyrrha admitted, while trying her best to conceal her embarrassment. Sure, she didn't have an idea on how to approach people like a, well - like a normal person due to her fame...
But the Pyrrha in the world on the screen was completely opposite of her, only not in the way she would've liked.
"Uh, Miss Salem?"
Everyone's attention now turned to Nora, who had her arm in the air, as if she was asking a question to a school teacher. She actually managed to fully catch Salem's attention.
"Is it possible to do that? I mean, I'm sure you'd be the right person to ask since you're, you know, the Queen of Grimm and all, so I really, REALLY wanted to know if it is possible to do that. Of course, not that the Grimm would consent to that kind of thing, I know THAT much. And it's not like I'd do that, well, not anytime soon at least, but I-"
"Child."
Salem's one word was all that it took to silence Nora's ramblings.
"Do not bother me with such...questions."
What came as a shock to everyone around was that Nora stuck her tongue out at Salem before pouting afterwards.
Safe to say, it kind of caught Salem off guard. By no means was she offended by such an action - she was simply mildly annoyed.
Hazel wouldn't openly admit, but he was impressed at the girl that managed to beat him back in Haven. And judging by the looks of it, the purple-eyed boy was quite close to her.
If that's the case, then Hazel would hold nothing but sympathy for the guy.
Back to the main topic...
Jaune simply looked at Pyrrha, as if he was examining her thoroughly.
The smile on his face indicated that he no longer held any hostile intentions towards her.
"Heh, close enough!"
The piano music stopped abruptly as the screen went to black.
"Close enough indeed." Qrow spoke and let out a silent chuckle.
"While it could've gone better, it could've also gone a lot worse." Glynda added as she adjusted her glasses. Taiyang noticed the change in the screen and said:
"Hey, there's still more!"
The train was going full speed as it shifted it's wheels from the ground tracks to the tracks on the right.
Time seemed to slow down as the scene captured Pyrrha, who was hanging on a ledge and giggling like a maniac. She swung her axe towards the screen, and the scene went straight to black...with the squishy sound of chopping meat.
Neo's hands went behind the chair and pulled out a cardboard sign with a big 10 on it.
The rest of the audience was left confused at how the girl managed to do something like that.
'Well, it went pretty well. A few dozen of these and then...well, ain't gonna be a happy ending, unfortunately.' Bob thought as he stepped in front of his audience, ready to present yet another show for all of them.
Inspired by: "Krieg: A Meat Bicycle Built for Two" from Borderlands 2
Funny thing - I have a RWBY/Borderlands 2 crossover in plan, with Jaune being and acting just like Krieg - AKA Krieg!Jaune.
The reason why I didn't do this is because that fic would require for me to thoroughly search the subject of Dissociative Identity Disorder, something which Krieg has, examine Krieg as a character and see how the others would act around Krieg!Jaune - which I won't do now since I'm a bit busy with the My Hero Academia/Dark Souls 'Way of Hero Corona' story. Check it out on my profile!
On to the currently present members of the cast and where they belong.
White seats -
1. Pyrrha, 2. Jaune
3. Ren, 4. Nora, 5. Neptune, 6. Sun, 7. Ilia, 8. Ghira, 9. Kali
10. Oscar, 11. Ruby, 12. Weiss, 13. Blake, 14. Yang, 15. Penny, 16. Ironwood,
17. Ozpin, 18. Qrow, 19. Winter, 20. Port, 21. Oobleck, 22. Taiyang, 23. Glynda
Grey seats -
24. Roman, 25. Neopolitan,
26. Raven
Black seats -
27. Salem,
28. Watts, 29. Hazel, 30. Tyrian
31. Cinder, 32. Emerald, 33. Mercury, 34. Adam
As for the story...
It will have, in total, 25 chapters - not including the prologue and the epilogue. Yes, it is 5 chapters more than what I previously planned, so rejoice!
SNEAK PEAK:
"So, I'm thinking...I don't let these images appear on every holovid in the world, and you help out your new friend every now and then. What do you say?
...
"Clock's ticking...buddy."
...
"As if I had a choice. Now what...friend?"
"I'll be in touch. Boop!"
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