The Pacifist Who Could End the World (RWBY X Male Reader)

Chapter 19 - Race Against the Clock

I was thrust into the wall. Yang tightened her grip, her eyes full of rage. If left unchecked, she could very well kill me.

"You God damn bastard! I should have never trusted you! We took you in from the start; we ate, fought, and slept together! That whole time we were working with the enemy!" Yang screeched, gripping my neck tighter and choking me out. "This is some sick joke, right? How the hell could you kill Summer?"

Holding my hands up, I croaked my words, trying to defuse the situation. "I'm not like you, Yang, or anyone out there. I'm not human; I don't age, and when I die, I come back as long as my sin of grief is still in tack. The White Fang used me as their weapon for many years. Summer Rose was just another target on the chopping board who got mixed up with my kill list."

"Why her?! What did she do to you?"

"Nothing, I'm sorry, Yang... If I could change what happened, I would. But, unfortunately, I had no say in the matter, and Summer knew it. She tried saving me, but it was too late. I never told you because that memory only returned to me recently. If I had known any sooner, I would have told you or, better yet, avoided this mess altogether."

Yang was buying it, blinded by the fact I had ruined her sister's life and let Ruby get snatched up. Professor Oobleck, Weiss and Blake came running in concern. "Yang, what are you doing?! Put him down!" Weiss shouted.

Blake went to stop her as I held my hand out to stop her. "It's alright... It's ok; Yang is rightfully angry."

"I'm more than that! I'm fuming!" Yang screamed. "What is Bargaining going to do with Ruby?"

"Nothing," I state. "He's using her as bait to make sure I face him. He has no interest in Ruby. She's nothing important."

"She is to me!"

"Ok, ok. Yang, you have every right to hate me, want me dead. Believe me; you aren't the first to want this. But whether we want it or not, you're at war with Bargaining. Without me, you're as good as dead. I know what denial looks like don't bother. You know it too. You cannot beat him."

"Yang," Oobleck whispered.

Reluctantly Yang let go as I fell to my knees, coughing. "We're getting Ruby back, and then you're done. You walk away and never come back."

"In all reality, you took my room." I point out, pissing Yang off more as she punches the wall behind, shattering it. "I mean... I never liked that room anyway. It's all yours."

"My sister, where did he take her?"

I pointed to the pit deep in the mountain. "We don't have long; Bargaining's plan is most likely already in full motion."

"What makes you say that?" Weiss asks.

"He wouldn't have shown himself to me if he wasn't confident that he had already won."

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I held my arms out as we began free falling into the deep. To my utmost surprise, deep within the mountain lay a hidden city. I was now more than ever convinced this was where the White Fang and Bargaining were hiding. However, my focus was more on the tunnel far beyond the mountain. Pointing it out, I shouted. "I don't like the look of that. A tunnel that deep might be able to reach Vale with no issue."

Oobleck nodded, taking point. "I foresaw that problem too; whatever the White Fang are planning, they have quick and easy access to our home. So our first course of action should be saving Ruby and then stopping this plan at once."

Landing in the city, we were surrounded by White Fang members waiting. We all prepared ourselves only for Bargaining to clap, shouting outstanding on a train. "Welcome to the freak show Y/N! Ever since your betrayal, I've been planning this all for you. Everything is for you. I will prove once and for all I'm the better stage!"