Pilot of Remnant (RWBY)

Chapter 38

The body goes limp and the black liquid starts to disappear, leaving a horribly disfigured human skeleton underneath with elongated limbs and spine. The ribcage is broken from where you ripped the heart out, but nothing organic is left. You stand up, still holding the heart of the Faunus. Vision still red. Black smoke still pouring out. A white flash enters your vision from your right and you look over to see Weiss holding her scroll up while Ruby is on her knees staring at you. Blake has turned away, but Weiss is trying to stay calm for whatever reason. You bring the heart up into your view and even though there is a heart in your hand, that isn't what takes your attention. It's the fact that your hand is completely black and white bone armor plates form a kind of gauntlet around your hand and arm. You drop the heart and step back onto the main floor as your vision slowly turns back to normal and the black smoke fades. At the same time as the smoke fades, the bone plates on your arm disintegrate like the bodies of the Grimm, and the black fades away to reveal your robotic arm and a torn up sleeve. You look over to the group again and Weiss walks over to you.

Weiss: Y-You might want to see this.

She holds her scroll up and on it is a picture of you standing over the disappearing body of the Grimm with its heart in your hand. The most noticeable part being that your entire body is pitch black with white bone plates sporadically placed in various areas around your body. Namely being your forearms, shoulders, upper back, shins, and parts of it can be seen poking out from your chest. On top of that, black smoke can be seen clearly coming out from your body while a red glow emits from your eyes.

Y/N: Well then. That...that is certainly knew.

Ruby: What...what was that. What was all of that?

Y/N: Best I can figure, is that Salem has somehow figured out how to recreate me. Or at least the more Grimm influenced side of me.

Weiss: So you're saying that you could have turned out like him, if you didn't get control over the Grimm that was in your head?

Y/N: It's certainly a possibility. I don't even know what he truly looked like before we merged. I could have turned into whatever he was, I could have turned into something like Salem where everything goes white with black veins all over the place. Or...or I would have turned into that.

You point at the image on Weiss' scroll and she puts it away.

Weiss: What about what that was? What happened to you?

Y/N: I don't have a good answer for that. All I know is that this is the third or fourth time it has happened that I can remember at least, and this is definitely the furthest it has gone. The past times it has just been red eyes and a bit of smoke. The others actually saw it happen to me when we chased after this guy when he nabbed Oscar.

Ruby: So...do you have control when it happens?

Y/N: So far. Look. I need to go. I've got a job to do and I don't know how much time I've got. Just...just be ready. I've got a feeling that shit is about to hit the fan here soon.

With that, you teleport to the northern hangars where the experimental aircraft are being kept. You make your way to the largest hangar door and enter through the access door. People are busily running around the entire hangar. Loading ammunition into the various planes that have weapons, and getting the cargo plane ready for take off. Walking over to it, you can see that the plane itself is carrying a full payload of bombs.

Y/N: I guess they are turning it into a carpet bomber. Makes sense.

Flora: Y/N?

You turn and see Flora holding a tablet while looking over a few crates.