Lurking Darkness

No More

"James, no one else will die today, just listen to me."

"How can you be so sure!? Especially with her at Atlas?"

"I know that any other plan is better than abandoning thousands of people to die, you're a General, your obligation is to protect the people, not abandon them!"

"I am saving people! I'm saving Atlas!"

"Mantle IS Atlas!" Your white, snowy aura raises, fluctuating rapidly and erratically.

"Atlas IS NOT Mantle!" He tries to refute your claim.

"I don't want to fight you James. You, don't want to fight me."

"I'll do what I must."  He readies Due Process in his hand and get ready. You point Jaune's blade at him. He charges you and fires a few rounds at you, you deflect them and block an incoming attack, you riposte with a hilt strike and you run at him, slashing his Aura, causing it to flicker.

"James! That's enough!" You raise your temperature, it's enough to cause Jaune's weapon to light aflame.

"We should NOT be fighting!!" Your damn Semblance is controlling you! If I have to break your Aura for you to see the truth then so be it!
But this is your last warning!" He aims Due Process, but before he could fire, you take a move out of Winter's book and blitz him so fast so that he can't react, all it takes is a single blow. His Aura shatters and he collapses to his knees.

"James, see reason!" He falls to one knee.

"This... is reason..." He says.

"If Atlas falls, Salem gets the Staff! If she gets the Staff, we LOSE!!"

"Then we take the Staff and Penny somewhere SAFE! We EVACUATE EVERYONE AND SAVE AS MANY AS POSSIBLE!" You Aura flickers and pain begins to return to your arm.

"James. Stop being a General, be a Huntsman."  Your white, snowy aura fades and you fall forward onto your face and blackout.

You wake back up on the bullhead with everyone else, including James.

"Where are we?"

"Woah.. be careful. You've lost a LOT of blood." Yang blurts out.

"I can tell." You reply as you grunt in pain attempting to sit up.

"Y/n. I want to apologize personally. I wasn't in the right mind and you opened my eyes. Thank you." James says to you.

"Just make sure our fight wasn't in vain James. We'll get through this."

"I also want to offer you something the scientists at Atlas were working on." He removes an arm from a crate, a prosthetic.

"Is that a robot arm?" You ask him.

"Not exactly, it's a mechanized prosthetic." He tells you.

"You want me to have it?" You look at him.

"I do." As you look at the arm, you look at Blake, she's staring at the arm in the same way you are.

"You'll have to wait to put it on, until we get to Vacuo."

"We're going to Vacuo? Did you evac Mantle and Atlas?"

"The Atlas Military evacuated as many as possible, but the concentration of Grimm were too great. Not everyone could get out. I take the blame for the lives lost." You nod to him. You notice the crew is missing someone.

"Where's Qrow?"

"Right here kid.." You look at Qrow, sitting in the back, Harbinger covered in blood, Qrow a wreck.