Blank Slate

Chapter 2 - Blood & Rust (1/3)

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Y/n found himself in an area just below the shadow of a highway, a tunnel with just enough coverage. He stood still staring at an open plate labelled with the abbreviated initials of Union's Discharge System.

'...What is it here?' Y/n thought bemused at why he suddenly... and confusedly came here.

As a matter of fact that spontaneous movement ended the moment he arrived here as if stating; he was on his own now.

He swallowed before he proceeded to lift the plate, he was greeted by a ladder downwards which he took.

'...Why on earth did I think continuing was a good idea...' He thought as he slowly went down.

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"What do you mean he's gone!" Weiss exclaimed at Ozpin.

Practically a great number of students were called back into Union at this time, almost all of the girls were in a state of shock and worry, while roughly half of the boys were indifferent or silently smirking at the notion.

"Well, that guy's better off gone anyway." Katsuki uttered.

"Can't believe I'm agreeing with the hothead... But, yeah. There really is no point." Issei shrugged as well.

"Oh, come on  you're just jealous he was capable of earning the hearts of thousands of girls, unlike you." Jeanne[1] said.

"Why do you even bother with him anyway? He is practically useless now, he may have been the so-called 'peacemaker' but now what? Nothing!" Cardin yelled.

Cardin staggered back slightly the moment a red blade soon reached his throat, Ryuko held it in place pressuring it further into the skin of his neck. "Dare saying that again?" She threatened.

A few boys from the half who disliked or hated Y/n prepared their own weapons or abilities. Immediately responded in kind by several girls and even some of the other half of the boys.

"Hey!" Ozpin raised his voice before the situation goes south. "Enough." He said.

"Why did you even call them here...?" Misaka asked, arcs of electricity still traversing herself.

"We need everyone in cooperation, this isn't just about Y/n, our new world too." Ozpin said. "If you want to continue in peace, I suggest putting that attitude down at least for now and listen."

"..." they soon, albeit reluctantly, dialled themselves down, eventually looking back at ozpin.

"Now..." Ozpin opened. "I'm sure you, might be wondering what exactly is this danger that provoked that need for you to come." Ozpin said before turning to Harlow who held onto a gravity gun.

"Ms. Prevost..." Ozpin said with a bit of annoyance.

"Hm? Oh sorry, I was just being cautious." She said hiding the weapon back in her lab coat.

(A/N: Jesus coats these days can just conceal anything, they are like wearable pocket dimensions by this point. I remembered some guy managing to carry a cocktus in his coat.)

"Anyways. I'm sure all of you already have heard of the recent refinoc incident and the glitchwave?"

All of them nodded.

"Good, well, Some details were less than accurate... Okay, a pretty big number of it." She said turning to Kurisu who operated a laptop connected to the curved wall-mounted screen of the room.

Getting the sign to switch to a panel depicting three charts with a near-similar spike of activity before immediately dropping back to normal, an image recovered from a security camera depicting a faint black hole at the central impact point of the hypercollider, images of the carrion pass incident's aftermath, and a severely filtered image of what appears to be a crack, simultaneous to the circular span of the glitchwave.