Splinter Cell: Light In The Shadows | Splinter Cell Male Reader x RWBY Harem

Chapter 5: Dreamstate

*future Jack here, I added a new part of a dream here and changed up something on 3rd one.*

Archer's POV

All I saw was darkness, it felt like I was just floating in an empty abyss. I heard nothing, no noise, no beeping of heart monitors or the sound of doctors and nurses chatting. Nothing. I don't know how long I've been like this. This continued for a few minutes until I felt... weight on me? I was confused for a few seconds until my eyes jolted open. I was at Beacon and I was in the ballroom wearing a tuxedo? I looked at my surroundings and saw party type shit hanging from the ceiling, tables filled with snacks and punch that was probably spiked. I even saw a smoke machine, definitely Yangs type of party. There were people crowded all over the dancefloor, like a concert and the crowd going wild. I continued looking around and came across a small mirror, I decided to get a better look at myself. I was wearing an all black suit, dark gray dress shirt nearing black, a black tie, and dress shoe styled boots. *I dont know if dress shoe styled boots exist but let's just say it does.* I checked my right sleeve and saw I was still wearing my OPSAT, I never take that damn thing off do I? I examined the jacket a bit more and noticed that the inside was lined with kevlar? Paranoid much? What the hell would I do with a kevlar lined suit jacket? I continued walking around until I saw a figure up top, I couldn't tell who it was but I know a suspicious ass person when I see one. They seemed to start making their way to the Comms Tower. *I forgot the name of it so I'll just call it Comms Tower for now.* I started making my way towards the tower and I felt something, something lingering in the bottom of my gut, almost like dread or a bad feeling about the ordeal I'm about to get myself into. I kept making my way towards it until I heard Ruby call for me. I turned around and saw her running towards me but not me. I saw her pretty much crash-hug into another me. What the fuck was happening? I approached them but they didn't seem to know notice my existence.

Ruby: Archer, did you see that? Who was that person?

Archer: Yeah, I saw them, let's go find out what they were planning shall we?

Ruby: Yes we shall! Woohoo, stopping bad guys with Archer chapter uh... 2, 3? I dunno.

Both me and my double were laughing at this. This was a classic Ruby type thing.

Archer: Alright, let's roll. Although I've got a bad feeling about this Ruby.

Ruby: Nonsense! It'll be quick and easy... hopefully.

I facepalmed at Ruby knowing how she was.

Archer: Alright, I give in. Let's go, quick and easy.

Ruby did a little cheer and grabbed fake me's hand and dragged him off to the tower presumably. I just sat and watched them go. I still felt that strange sense of dread for some reason although this time it felt stronger. All of a sudden a jolt of pain happened in my head, almost as if it were a really fucked up migraine or headache. I clutched my head in pain and I was stumbling around the place like a drunkard. Still no one noticed my existence. My eyes were closed shut trying not to focus on the pain. The pain went on for a few more seconds until it stopped abruptly. I opened my eyes and removed my head out of my hands. I heard the faint sound of gunfire and slashing and tearing of flesh. I looked around and saw what looked like Beacon in ruins...? I saw a ton of rubble and some man wearing strange armor on top of it with a strange looking flag atop the rubble with aircrafts circling around the ruins firing their guns down at whatever other people around me were shooting and slashing at. It was a surreal sight, it was both horrifying yet beautiful in a strange way. An aircraft that had caught my eye was a gigantic airship that looked like it dwarfed Air Force One. *Let's just say that Air Force One exists in this universe but it's been decommissioned.* The aircraft had guns attached to it that made it somewhat resemble an AC-130. The gunship upon closer inspection appeared to have some words and a logo etched onto its side. The words etched onto it I could barely make out but with what I could see it seemed to say 'C-147B Paladin'? There was a logo too that I examined and it seemed to be the... 4th Echelon logo? What the hell was happening here? I decided to examine the man who was still standing atop the rubble. He was wearing what seemed to be cowboy boots caked in dry mud, blue denim jeans with some slight wear and tear, a brown leather bullet belt with a pistol holster that seemed to be holding a revolver in it, black work gloves, some type of chest armor with the numbers '08' written on the neck area, a brown dirtied trenchcoat with bullet holes on the tail end, and an odd looking helmet and gas mask. The gas mask was small and didn't seem to have any filters, perhaps built in? The lenses of the visor was a sinister looking red and a dark helmet with slight dents and scratch marks. The man also had some sort of bulky machinery on his left forearm and a metal brace on his right forearm. His weapon was a stranger part as for the fact that it looked like Ruby's Crimson Rose but bulkier with the barrel slimmer. He held the sniper in his right hand with the stock in his elbow essentially holding the gun up with one hand. He moved his left hand to the left side of his helmet, it looked like he was using an ear piece.