Reaping with Sorrow is by far one of my most favourite fanfics that I've read. Luckily enough SparkyDapperDab19, the amazing writer of said fanfic, was kind enough to say yes to me writing a reading fanfic about his fanfic. So, I hope you readers enjoy and I also hope Sparky enjoys. If anyone has any suggestions I would be happy to read them.
Disclaimer: Hollow does not own Reaping with Sorrow, Overwatch or RWBY. They are owned by their respective owners.
P.s. This has been somewhat edited
Team RWBY and JNPR were a bit surprised to find themselves in an empty room as soon as they had woken up. The last thing they remembered was fighting the White Fang, Roman, numerous Grimm and Cinder at Beacon. Jaune, who remembered Pyrrha locking him in a locker and sending said locker away, quickly held the red-headed warrior in his arms and kissed her full on the lips. Pyrrha relaxed into the embrace the two ignoring their friends. Yang held out her hand before Blake and Weiss place fifty dollars each into her hand. When the partners stopped, they realised what they had done and blushed. Just as they were about to speak they noticed they weren't the only ones in the room. There were ten others also in the same room, even more so when most of them were wearing outfits of different colours.
"I'VE GOT YOU NOW GABE!"
"TIME TO DIE MORRISON!"
"HOLD IT!" Reinhardt roared as he held the two enemies at arm's length.
"Can't go anywhere now Sombra!" A woman with brown hair stated to a shorter woman.
"Don't even try going anywhere Widowmaker." The cowboy stated to a woman taller than the other woman. Once their voice died down
where are we?" One asked as he looked around the room.
"How should I know?!" Gabe replied as he also looked around. An old yet healthy looking woman with dark skin and white hair noticed the two teams of Hunters and Huntresses.
"Who are you?" She asked the teens.
"They're basically child soldiers with superhero abilities and shapeshifting weapons." A voice answered. The eighteen-people turned towards the source and was greeted with a teen reading a book. The sound of weapons being cocked caused the teen to turn his head towards the eighteen people, each having a weapon of some kind aiming at said teen.
"What?" The teen asked keeping an impressive poker face when inside he was sort of nervous.
"Why. Are. We. Here?!" Genji growled as he slowly reached for his sword. The teen scratched the back of his head before he grabbed a book bag from behind him and began to search through his bag.
"I know it was in here somewhere. No that's "Final Crusade", Transformers…Red vs Blue? The fuck is that doing here. Ah here we are!" The teen finally found what he was looking for and pulled out a DVD disc case. He then handed said case to the closet person which happened to be Jaune.
"Reaping with Sorrow? The reason we're here is because of a DVD?" Jaune asked as he looked at the DVD case. The image was a man dressed in black, a shotgun and a sword in his hands, a white skull mask covering half of his face. The man had blond hair but the rest of his face couldn't be seen.
"Why should we watch this?" Lena asked as she examined the case.
"Cause this disc contains an alternate universe, probably one of the darkest I've ever visited and said universe concerns most of you." The teen explained, casually. Everyone reluctantly lowered their weapons, holstering them afterwards.
"So…would any of you like to watch said DVD or just go?" The teen asked. Everyone was silent before Yang popped a question.
"What if we want to leave?"
"Then you'll be lost for all eternity and never find your way home and only a few people know how to get you guys back home, inn this case, me." The teen stated as he moved to place the DVD into the DVD player. The group all looked at each other before they each choose a place to sit. Widowmaker and Sombra sat with Tracer, Mccree, Genji and Mercy though only a few were reluctant. The original five Overwatch members sat together and to the two other Talon operatives surprise, watched Reaper engage Ana and Reinhardt in small talk. Teams RWBY and JNPR sat together as they were still a bit nervous to sit together.
"All right this thing sill works!" The teen exclaimed before he found his own seat, pulled out a warm bowl of noodles and went to press play as to start the movie.
"Wait! What do we call you?" Sombra asked curiously. The teen scratched his chin before he stopped.
"Hollow." And with that, he pressed play.
Ch. 1. A shadow descends
"Oh shit oh shit oh shit!" Jasper, the leader of team JZZY (Jazzy) said as he sprinted through the emerald forest.
Hey it's Jasper." Ruby said as she smiled at the sight of one of the few supportive older students at Beacon.
"I wonder what he's running from?" Yang asked.
It was supposed to be a simple search and destroy mission. An outing no less since the school was close enough to the mission area. His team agreed not to do anything too strenuous since one of their teammates Zelda was hurt pretty badly in a training accident. They thought that this would be a good way to bond with each other and make their team stronger as a whole.
"Even so, it's best to have someone with you just in case." Ana stated aloud and most of the Overwatch Agents agreed. They had all been in a few situations where they thought they were safe but ended up being ambushed.
That is until everything fell apart.
Hollow paused the movie and handed Yang a pair of noise cancelling headphones and a piece of cloth.
"You'll want it, trust me." Hollow answered Yang's questioning stare before he un-paused the movie.
It started when Jasper's partner Zoe needing privacy to relieve herself as they were resting by the campfire they set up. The minutes past they began to grow worried that she may had encountered grim. There worries were dashed aside for a moment as they saw her silver hair intertwining itself in the shattered moonlight. They ran up to her relieved and asking profusely what took her so long until their relief morphed into terror.
Yang realising where things were going quickly attempted to place the cloth over Ruby's eyes but it was too late.
Zoe's intestines were dressed all over the tree in front of her as if she was part of some messed up holiday decoration. She was propped up with her eyelids sliced off so she was forced to see what her insides looked like. She was gasping and chocking on her blood as tears flowed down her face. The expression of terror apparent to the others.
Lena turned green before she vomited at the sight they all were presented with. The five Overwatch teammates frowned at the image before they glanced at Ruby who was shaking. Ana walked over to said teen and held Ruby in her arms, whispering soothing things into Ruby's ears. Yang glanced at Ana in thanks before they all returned to watching the movie.
Zelda screamed at this as her Partner Yarshan readied his great sword. Jasper immediately went to his partner and held her close. He was the medic of the team but he had no idea how to treat this. He saw her in a mix of chocking and sobbing as she reached up to his face, brushing his cheek with a bloody handprint as she went limp. Sorrow overwhelmed his entire being as he looked at the mutilated corpse that once was his partner. That sorrow mixed with rage as he pulled out his dual knives and joined the rest of his team. He told his team to sound off to make sure they were okay and he got a response from Zelda. He heard Yarshan about to say something until a deafening gunshot rang in all of their ears. Jasper and Zelda stumbled forward, trying to make the ringing in their ears stop. Jasper recovered first and looked behind him to see what the hell was that noise.
He wished he didn't.
Ana quickly covered Ruby's eyes with one hand and rubbed her back with the other in preparation of what was about to happen.
He saw Yarshan standing their dumbfounded and somewhat limp. Jasper then gasped at what really stuck out. And the fact was that the top half of his head was gone.
This time most of the people vomited at the image that was presented. Ruby whimpered in fear though she calmed down thanks to Ana's soothing voice.
Yarshan's body collapsed as what was left of his head was spilling blood across the grass. Jasper was about to scream at this until he heard another gunshot go off a luckily, he dove out of the way. He looked toward the direction where the noise came from and because of the campfire dimly illuminating the man dawning nothing but black. His overcoat flapped gently as one of the two shotguns he was holding was smoking. His mask made of nothing but bone gazed at the terrified huntsman in training.
"GABE!" Jack roared as he made a move to fire his rifle at his old friend and teammate. Reinhardt made a move to stop his friend while Mccree moved to stop his father figure before someone else intervened. The teen was glaring at the two rivals and former friends, Jack's rifle and Gabriel's shotgun in his hands.
"Sit. Down. Now!" Hollow ordered menacingly to the two men. Both did so though very reluctantly.
He growled just a bit and fired again. Jasper winced, bracing for the pain but it never came. He looked to see that his teammate Zelda used her semblance to make a barrier. They were about to sigh in relief until the shrouded man started unleashing a barrage of shells from his dual shotguns. Zelda was doing her best to keep the barrier standing.
"Jasper! Get back to Beacon! Bring back up. Get help! Anyone!" she shouted
over the booming gunshots.
"No…oh no." Blake whispered as she, like most people in the room, realised what Zelda was suggesting. Reinhardt closed his eyes and muttered a prayer, though not many noticed.
He was about to protest until he heard the barrier cracking under the fire. He knew that if he just stayed with her they would both end up like the rest of their team. All he did was nod and head straight to the dim lights that signaled as coincidently a beacon for any people that were lost in the emerald forest at night. He sprinted with a frantic expression and he nearly stopped when he heard the ear-piercing scream echo through the woods. Tears began to flow down his face as he picked up his pace. He knew his team was dead. They were all gone in the matter of seconds by that man.
"Let us have some silence for team Jazzy." Pyrrha said and everyone agreed though Hollow knew they would change their minds about the team later.
Despite his fear and sorrow overflowing within him, he made it to Beacon. He was in the back of the campus but he made it. He let an exasperated laugh as he fell to his knees. He took in a big breath to let out a cry for help. It wasn't too late and faculty and students would surly hear him. He smiled as he did this because even if his team was gone.
He would get help to avenge them. He was about to let out his cry for help until he heard that same gunshot go off behind him. It boomed throughout the school and Jasper could feel his left leg flare in agony.
"Oh, god no…please no." Yang whispered before she moved closer to her sister as to comfort her.
He let out a bloodcurdling scream as he clutched his leg. He began gasping, trying to escape the pain but it kept coming. He then heard another gunshot that took his other leg. Another scream echoed through the school and Jasper began to use his hands to crawl away from the one who did this to him. He was thankful that he ended up in the school cemetery that resided in the back of Beacon for the students that died while attending. After what seemed like an eternity of crawling. He used the tombstones as cover as he was trying to buy time for the faculty and students to get to him. He looked up to the school to see movement and noises so he was pretty sure they were coming to help. He laughed a bit at this and continued his way through the cemetery.
"Okay, he's going to make it!" Nora said as she tried to cheer up the mood in the room. She did so successfully, then it was broken.
"O.K. Just a few more feet. Then you ca- "he was cut off by a shotgun placed above his head. He slowly looked up with nothing but fear in his eyes as he saw that mask glaring at him. He then heard the monster he was staring at chuckle a bit and then a bright flash happened and then Jasper succumbed to darkness.
The shrouded man with the skull mask lowered one of his dual shotguns and looked at his work in satisfaction. He looked around his surroundings to see that there was commotion going on in the school above him. He guessed he had a few minutes before people start to come out here and see his handiwork.
"Oh god…"
"Jesus…"
'What has become of you Gabe?' Gabriel Reyes stared impassively at the screen though only Mccree could see the man's fists tighten in anger.
The man shrugged a bit and was about to head back into the forest until something caught his eye. One of the tombstones that was decorated with the student's gray matter. He holstered his shotguns in his cloak and smeared the victim's insides off the stone. He read the text and noticed the familiar double crescent insignia above it.
The teams from Beacon gasped as they recognised said insignia.
"No…no it can't be true!" Ruby exclaimed in shock.
"Jaune? What…"
"Here lies Jaune Miles Arc. Beloved son, friend, and hero."
The man's fist clenched tight and he growled at the words in front of him. His anger growing with every second he stared at that insignia. At the end of his patience, he let out a roar and pulled out his shotguns, obliterating the stone into dust. He kept firing until he was out of ammo and threw the guns aside. He manifested two more shotguns and let out another flurry at the spot where once stood the tombstone. He was about to continue until he saw in the corner of his eye the flickering of flashlights. His time was up and needed to get out of there. His body started to dissipate into a black mist and made his way back into the forest. As if he never existed in the first place.
Everyone was silent as they stared at the screen before Pyrrha screamed in rage.
"YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Gabe immediately blocked the two fists that went for his face. Hollow simply watched as the two fought. Hollow watched for a few minutes before he sighed.
"ENOUGH!" He roared and everyone stared at him.
"If you two don't stop fighting this very second I'll send you into the darkest regions of space just so you can rot!" Hollow stated as he reached for his blades. The three continued to stare each other down, the rest watching with some concern.
And done. That was actually surprising how quickly I got that done. Any way I'm just going to state somethings before I start working on the next chapter. The reason why I have all these people from Overwatch and not just the three Talon members is because they all knew Gabriel on some level before he became Reaper. I may add in a few more characters from both universes later on but I'll see. Anyway guys go check out SparkyDapperDab19 I'll put the links in for his story and profile page. But for now, guys I am Hollow609…
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