RWBY: Remnants Hybrid (Yang Xiao Long x Male Reader)

Vol. 8 Part 5: Don't Fall

No One's POV:

A Manta being flown by Klein haphazardly drifts up to a large hole that Oscar blew in the base of Atlas' floating landmass. Inside is yourself, Yang, Blake, Ruby, Weiss, Oscar and Penny, who's having a hard time keeping it together while being carried in your arms.

Ruby uses her Semblance to carry everyone through the hole and up the shaft to the landing in front of the Atlas Vault. As you approach it, the steps leading up to it move into place, reacting to your presence.

Ruby: As soon as Penny opens the door, we go through, grab the Staff, and stop her termination.

Weiss stands guard with Myrtenaster as the rest of you kneel by the Vault door. Yang has a steadying hand on Penny's shoulder.

Yang: Just hang in there.

(Y/N): Your gonna be ok.

Penny's Maiden's eye-flames flare weakly as she clutches her head, but she nods. You got a little closer so she could open the door. As she reaches for the door, her eye-flames flare up to their usual strength. On making contact, the door's engravings glow ice-blue. The Vault door comes down piece-by-piece, and Ruby is in motion before it opens all the way. She picks up everyone in a burst of rose petals, hurrying into the grassy area in the Vault. She deposits you guys on a stone platform and rushes forward to grab the Staff. As soon as she touched it, time slowed to a crawl and eventually stops all together. Cyan smoke billows from the jewel topping the staff as Team RWBY looks on in awe. A muscular, blue-skinned figure takes physical form before all of you and flexes gratefully.

Spirit: Ah! It seems someone has come to engage my creative wiles! All I'll say is it had better be worth it after my last project. A floating city? (scoffs) How pedestrian.

Ruby steps forward, the Staff still in her hands.

Ruby: Hi, um, Mr. Ambrosius? Sir, listen, it's about our friend. She's... She's dying.

Ambrosius: I'm going to go ahead and assume that you know it's against the rules for me to bring people back from dead so...

Ruby: That's not what we want. She's not your typical girl.

Ambrosius looks up, and he rushes over to the Vault door. With a snap of his fingers, he conjures what looks like a magnifying glass, and inspects Penny.

Ambrosius: So she isn't! I'd love to meet whoever did this. Ah, I see.

He flies back into the Vault to rejoin your group.

Ambrosius: There's something eating away at her. I'm guessing you think you have some clever plan to save her. Just know, I will give you exactly what you ask for and I don't want any complaining when it's not what you wanted.

(Y/N): Jeez, you don't have to be a dick about it.

Ambrosius gives you a look that suggests the start of a debate, only to be beaten to the punch by Weiss who pulled out her scroll, projecting a hologram of Penny's blueprints for Ambrosius to see. The spirit is immediately engrossed in them.

(Y/N): We brought her schematics. We want you to make a new version of her using her exact same robot parts. Shouldn't be too hard.

Ambrosius frowns, peering over the hologram and at you.

Ambrosius: You've got some spunk, boy.

(Y/N): An exact copy of her would include the virus. An exact copy of her without the virus would cease to exist the second you make something else, and we want her around longer than that if you get my meaning.

Ambrosius: (chuckling) You've done your homework.

Ruby: We want you to create a new version of her, using her existing robotic parts taking the virus with them.