Chapter 23. Destinies are Meant to be Fulfilled

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Opening - Ben 10 Ultimate Alien Theme

https://youtu.be/cxUbzV__dUI

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This is VNN, I am Lisa Lavender. A terrible tragedy took place this afternoon during the one-on-one rounds of the Vytal Festival Tournament. One of Beacon Academy's students attacked their opponent after moments defeating them in their match. Atlas soldiers attempt to subdue the student, until a mysterious red coated man stopped their actions and fought against Atlas by himself. Witnesses who saw this had mixed reac-"

*Bzzt!*

"Hey! I was watching that! Red vs. Blue was on!" Mercury complained as he was fixing one of his mechanical legs as someone turned off the T.V.

"Shut up! That show is nothing garbage!" Said Emerald.

"Pfft. You don't know comedy when you see it. Also, is that how you treat a patient like myself?"

Getting on her nerves, Emerald grabbed the screwdriver Mercury was using and turned it viciously.

"Ow! Ow! Ow! Too tight!"

"Enough!"

Both teens turned and saw their leader, Cinder, speaking about what happened at the Festival. "Mercury here put on a wonderful show, he was quite brave." She said.

"These things aren't exactly cheap, you know." Mercury said to Emerald as he resumed fixing his parts.

"So, what's next?" Emerald said.

"You and I will ensure that our next match up goes just as smoothly." Cinder grinned as she crossed her arms.

"What about me?" Mercury said.

"You get to lay low until the end. We wouldn't want people to see you on your feet and have this all be for naught, now would we?" Cinder said to him.

"Right...that's good to hear. What do we do now?" Emerald said.

"You and I will ensure that our next matchup...goes smoothly." Cinder replied

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Beacon Academy, Team RWBY's room.

"I'm sorry, But you left us with no choice." Ironwood replied as he was explaining the consequences of what happened earlier.

"But he attacked me first I swear!" Yang yelled as she tried to tell the facts to the General.

"Video footage and millions of viewers say otherwise."

"But Yang would never do that!" Weiss spoke out to defend her friend.

"That's right!" Ruby added as she helped her sister. "Yang is my sister and she would never act like that!

"It was all a misunderstanding Ironwood." Zack defended his girlfriend. Jack and Emma nodded in agreement.

Hearing their words meant the truth, but Ironwood knew what had to be done to keep the public safe, and from lashing out if he made an alternate choice here.

He took a deep breath. "You all seemed like good students, and the staff here are fully aware that you would never act they way you did. But I believe, and hope this to be, as nothing more that a result of stress and adrenaline. When you're out in the battlefield, your judgement can be clouded at an you need things that simply aren't there. Even after the fighting has passed..." He said.

"But I wasn't-"

"That's enough!" Ironwood lashed out as he grew tired of Yang's explanation.

Team RWBY, Jack Emma and Zack looked in shock as the General shouted. It was the first time they were shouted like this.

"The sad truth is...whether it was an accident, or an assault...it doesn't matter. The world saw you attacked an innocent student. They already made their conclusions. And it's my job to inform you that...you're disqualified."

Hearing this made the girls lower their heads in shame. Especially Yang. Why couldn't they believe her damn it! It just doesn't make sense! Mercury attacked first!

With that, Ironwood left the room. Giving the girls sometime to take all this information in.

After a moment of silence. Yang spoke.

"You guys believe me, right?" Yang spoke.

"Duh! Of course we do!" Replied Ruby.

"You may be hotheaded, but not ruthless!" Weiss said as she too believe her.

"...Blake?"

The black haired girl didn't say anything, as she was struggling to believe her teammate or not.

"I want to believe you."

"What's that suppose to mean?!" Yelled Weiss as she couldn't believe what Blake was saying.

Hearing these words shattered Yang as she can't believe her best friend wouldn't even believe her.

"B-Blake...?"

Blake looked up to her friend for a moment and looked back down, should she believe Yang? It's just like being with Adam all over again.

Before anyone could reply.

"I can't believe it...you too huh...?"

All three girls looked at Yang.

"I trusted you Blake...and now you won't trust me..."

"Yang...I-"

"Hehehe...have I gone crazy?" Yang laughed as she stared to cry. "I mean I know what I saw, but everyone didn't. So why won't they listen..."

"Yang..." Blake said silently.

"It doesn't make any sense...Mercury attacked me! I defended myself... But everyone didn't see what really happened...What is going on?"

"Yang I-"

"I TRUSTED YOU BLAKE!"

All three girls jumped as Yang shouted at Blake.

"I TRUSTED YOU! AND YOU TRUSTED ME! NOW YOU DON'T! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU! AFTER ALL WE'VE BEEN THROUGH, AFTER ALL THE TIMES I DEFENDED YOU! WHY CAN'T YOU TRUST ME!"

Blake was silent. Why couldn't she believe her? Why can't she just say it? Why?

"Yang I-"

"I hate you..."

"What?"

"I HATE YOU!"

The Faunus girl looked in shock as he heard the words coming from her friends mouth. Not only that, Blake looked into Yang's eyes, and saw rage. Pure rage. She even saw-

"I HATE THAT YOU CAN'T TRUST ME AFTER WHAT I'M GOING THROUGH! WE'RE SUPPOSE TO TEAMMATES! FRIENDS! BUT NOW, YOU ARE NO LONGER MY FRIEND! I WISH THAT YOU STAYED WITH THE WHITE FANG SO I CAN FIND YOU AND I CAN PUT YOU AWAY LIKE ALL THE OTHER CRIMINALS!"

With that said, Yang ran out of the room and never looked back after what she had said just now.

Watching in shock, the girls said nothing as what Yang said to Blake.

She didn't mean that right? Breaking the silence once more, Weiss spoke.

"How could you Blake! Yang is your friend! And she trusts you! Why couldn't you say you believed her?!" Zack gave Blake a harsh glare, causing the Cat Faunus to flinch before running out the door and after Yang.

Jack shakes his head and sighs as Emma frowned at Blake. "I'll go get him." Jack said as he slams down on the MonTrix and became Great Jaggi as he chases after them.

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As the day came to a close, Pyrrha sat outside the dining hall alone, her head bowed deep in thought. The wind blows a single orange leaf to her feet, she stares at the tree line taking in the fall colors, an image of Amber present in her pod and the choice she had to make flashes through her mind.

"Hey." Pyrrha turns her head up her eyes resting on the smiling face of her partner and friend, Jaune, with a large cone of cotton candy in hand. "I-It's no green goop, but I think it might do some good."

Pyrrha stared at the treat while she came back to reality hesitantly accepting it. "Um, right. Thank you Jaune" She said.

Jaune's beaming smile fades as he sees her still tormented face, looking back to the far end of the building as Nora and Ren came around the corner. The green ninja holding a tub of popcorn in one hand alongside more cotton candy and a soda.

Upon noticing what's happening, she turned to her distracted partner. "Uh... come on, Ren. Let's go back to the fairground. I'll win you another stuffed animal." Nora said as she dragged him away from Jaune and Pyrrha.

Jaune looked back at Pyrrha taking a seat beside her. "You were the first person to believe in me, you know that." Jaune said to his friend, Pyrrha looks at him while the blond knight laughs in sadness. "Even when I told my parents I was going to Beacon, they told me not to worry if I ended up having to move back home. How depressing is that?" He said.

"I'm sure they didn't mean-" She tried to say only for her sorrow to switch to surprise, her eyes widening as the fluffy snack fell from her grasp as she felt Jaune's hand rest on her own.

"I guess... I'm trying to say that... You've always been there for me." His grip tightened slightly, the memories of what he'd done... what he'd almost done back in Forever Fall. " And I can tell theirs something on your mind, so... I don't know. How can I help?" Jaune asked smiling.

As her astonishment melted away into content, Pyrrha leaned back resting her head on a very startled Jaune's shoulder. Closing her eyes and smiling. "You're already doing it." She said. Jaune quickly matched Pyrrha's smile, the two remained there for a long moment, but her smile soon faltered her expression darkening once more as another leaf joined the other.

"Jaune." Pyrrha said as she sat up.

"Hmm?" He replied looking at her curiously.

Pyrrha suddenly pulls her hand away from his, turning away from him." I don't know what to do." She said.

"W-What do you mean?" A confused Jaune asked.

Pyrrha glanced up wondering what to say. "Jaune, do you believe in..... destiny?" Pyrrha asked

Jaune was taken back slightly by the question. "Um... I-I don't know. I guess that depends on how you view it."

"When I think of destiny." Pyrrha began. "I don't think of some predetermined fate you can't escape. But rather, some sort of final goal. Something you work towards your entire life."

Jaune nodded, beginning to understand what she meant. "Okay, uh yeah. I can see that, sure."

Pyrrha, still struggling to find the right words as she glances at him. "Well... What would you do if something came along that you... never expected? Something that had the potential to stand between stand between you and your destiny?"

Jaune only seemed more confused by her words. "Like what?" He asked. Looking at Pyrrha worry in his gaze, meeting his eye Pyrrha turned away she wanted to tell him, by Oum she wanted to tell him the truth. But how?

"Or what if you could suddenly fulfill your destiny in an instant, but at the cost of who you were?" She continued to ramble.

Jaune leans over and attempts to place his hand on her friend's shoulder. "Pyrrha you're not making any sense."

Pyrrha stands up moving away from his touch, she stood there holding herself as if on the verge of tears "None of it makes sense! This isn't how it was supposed to be!"

Jaune gets up, spreading his arms out in confusion. "I'm sorry! Please, I'm just trying to understand what's wrong." He pleaded.

Pyrrha looked down, tears threatening to spill forth. " I've always felt as though I was destined to become a huntress - to protect the world... and it's become increasingly clear to me that my feelings were right. But..." She says turning back to look at Jaune. "I don't know if I can do it. "

"Of course, you can." Jaune said, almost as if he's right. "The Pyrrha Nikos I know would never back down from a challenge. And if you really believe it's your destiny to save the world. " He said as he moves towards her, clearly confident in his answer. "... you can't let anything stand in your way."

However, despite his overall intentions his actions didn't bring her relief, in fact she looked even more horrified. Covering her mouth in shock as she began to sob.

"Pyrrha?" Jaune asked, fearing he had said something wrong.

"Stop......" She said, turning away from him her face in her hands.

"Did I say something wrong?" He said, edging closer.

"STOP!" She cried thrusting her hands out, unintentionally activating her Semblance grasping Jaune's armor and slamming him into one of the columns. He watched weakly from his position until she opens her eyes realizing what she's done.

"Jaune!" She yelled in shock dropping her hands to her sides, the blond falling to the ground. Finally, the tears came forth as he looked up at her "I'm...I'm sorry..." Pyrrha bolted off as Jaune called out to her.

"What did I say?" He muttered from his position on the ground.

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Pyrrha ran and ran she didn't care where she would end up. She didn't know where and frankly she didn't care she just kept running the tears in her eyes blurring her vision. Rounding the corner, she ran directly into a certain Dog Wyvern their heads impacting one another.

Great Jaggi yelped in pain as he stumbled back, grasping his head in pain, as did Pyrrha falling onto her butt. He shook his head, looking down at the one he ran into. "Pyrrha?" He said changes into Jack in confusion before noticing the tears in her eyes. "Are you okay?" He asked helping her to her feet. Emma manages to catch up to him.

"I-I-I'm fine" She replied, rubbing her eyes.

"What are you doing out here alone, I thought you'd be with your team?" Emma asked.

"I-" She didn't know what to say. "I don't know!" She said, bursting into tears burying her face into Jack's chest. Jack, in all honesty, didn't know what to do.

After a few minutes, he wrapped his arms around her pulling her into a hug attempting to comfort the sobbing girl. After a few moments passed, Pyrrha's sobs receded into sharp intakes of breath. "Pyrrha what wrong, please whatever it is you can tell me, pleas?." He asked.

"I can't, I can't." She said.

"Pyrrha." He said gripping her shoulders tightly forcing her to look at him. Her usual bright green bloodshot and puffy from crying. "Talk to me, please. Whatever caused this I can help" He said, it wasn't hard to tell something was bothering the redhead.

"No, you can't. You won't understand." She said.

"Try me." Jack dared. "I've seen things I didn't undertsand back at my homeworld. This is no exception."

Pyrrha was surprised for a moment, shaking her head, Pyrrha tried to push him away. Only for the shapeshifter to pull her back into his chest, locking his arms around her own holding her still, despite her desperate attempt to escape. "Pyrrha." He said in a much softer tone making her pause in her struggle to break free. "Please." He said his grip on her tightening slightly.

Pyrrha let out a shaky breath, he had her even if she got away that wouldn't stop him from trying to find her again or telling her team and the other what he'd saw, she didn't want to think about what that might lead too, and what assumptions the others would make.

"...Ok."

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See ya guys later!" Ruby said to Weiss, Blake, Yang (who just returned), Zack and team CFVY as she leaves the snack bar. She headed back to the arena to go watch the next fight, a bit excited.

Despite everything that's happened, she's smiling widely, looking around at the assembled crowds... until her stupefied eyes see a familiar, glaring face on the other side of the arena: Emerald.

"Emerald's here? But I thought she was with Mercury in the hospital?" Ruby asks herself.

As if sensing she's being watched, Emerald leans forward to glare at Ruby, who suddenly gets up with a worried expression and runs towards the exit tunnel. Checking to see if no one's around, she enters a door labelled with a yellow maintenance sign and finds herself inside of the Colosseum.

As she walks in the hallways, she can hear the announcers saying something about the next match.

"ALRIGHT, IT IS NOW TIME TO BEING THE RANDOMIZATION PROCESS FOR OUR NEXT FIGHT!"

Walking further down, a figure appeared in the hallway.

It was Mercury. Walking.

"Mercury? What are you doing here? Weren't you hurt? What are you-"

"IT LOOKS LIKE OUR FIRST CONTENDER IS...PENNY POLENDINA FROM ATLAS!"

"What is going on here...What are you doing?"

"AND HER OPPONENT WILL BE...PYRRHA NIKOS FROM BEACON!"

Hearing that name made Ruby wondered about that match. She then put it together made a realization.

Pyrrha's semblance, against Penny, who is secretly a robot.

"No!" Ruby shouted  in horror as she knows what will happened.

"Ooh! Polarity vs. Metal. Yikes! That doesn't sounds good." Mercury mocked as he smiled at the same time.

Ruby glares at her opponent as she reached for her weapon, but felt nothing as she realized it was in her locker.

Mercury simply grins maliciously and sets himself up in a fighting pose.

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Outside, the arena's center is lifting back into the air, and an oblivious Penny is grinning wildly, with her fellow redhead.

Nora cheering excitedly from the stands, even getting Ren to let out a reluctant "Yaaay..."

 Pyrrha, face and body still filled with depression, looks to the ground while the stage finishes being set up.

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Meanwhile.....

Jack and Emma screamed as they dodge missiles. One minute, they had comforted Pyrrha and are headed back to the Amity Colosseum. The next, Albedo as Ultimate Humungousaur had ambushed them.

"Hehehehehe!" The Evolved Vaxasaurian cackled evilly as they two shapeshifters fell to the ground.

Both got up and glared at Albedo. Emma steps forward, but Jack held his hand, preventing ehr from advancing. She looks at him in surprise.

"Get Zack, NOW." He ordered. Emma hesitated for a moment giving in. "Just be safe." She kissed on the cheek before turning Omnivoracious then Ultimate Omnivoracious and flew towards the Amity Colosseum to get help.

"Never knew you send girls for help." Ultimate Humungousaur sneered, readying his hand missiles again.

"There's a first time for everything." Jack retorted, readying his MonTrix. "Besides," He slams down and a light blue flash consumes him as he becomes Lucent Naraguga. The Moon Swift Wyvern then slams the MonTrix symbol again, this time it causes four diagonal spikes to appear as he went Ultimate.

His body became even more colorful with colorful with purple,pink, silver, white and green colors. His eyes now have green tints that shoot out and his tail is glowing with energy. And some of his fur began to stand up to give him a fierce yet majestic appearance.

"You and I have unfinished business!" Ultimate Lucent Nargacuga screeches as he charges at Ultimate Humungousaur.

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Monster Data

Ultimate Lucent Nargacuga

Species: Evolved Flying Wyvern

Abilities: Speed and agility increases, tail is now fused with energy to deal more damage, spikes cna now be launched at a longer range

Weaknesses: Vulnerability to the Ice and Dragon Element increases, can no longer become invisible

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