Chapter 16

Eric van Genus' Audio Journal #16: Eighth & Ninth Reincarnations

In my eighth life, I was in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventures universe. My journey started around when Giorno Giovanna started his journey to join and then rebel against the Passione Mafia. Although to be honest, I was hoping for Stardust Crusaders which was the best part of the series. But alas, I was unfortunate. As for my Stand, Mimi-Cat, it had the abilities to duplicate any power of other stands that I know, even their shape. Luckily, I was a fan of the series and memorized every single Stand that ever came from the show. To the others, I was a terrifying user. Yet Giorno saw some potential in me when it came to bringing down Diavolo. I even warn the others of the group about the danger of what was going to happen to them. Once we took down Diavolo, Giorno asked me if I had any interests in being the boss of Passione, but I turned him down. Later, I tried to save Jotaro Kujo from Enrico Pucci, a friend and follower of Dio. I did what I could to save him since he is my favorite character. Sadly, Jotaro and I got killed simultaneously yet his daughter was spared. Despite my formidable powers that I accumulated, Whitesnake, Enrico's Stand, destroyed my body somehow. In truth, I was actually holding back. But what is done is done. Can't change it now.

As for my ninth life, and I'm pretty sure I mentioned it, I was reincarnated into some world that was similar to Europe during the Dark Ages. That world, Esperos, wasn't based-off of anything I do know. So I was clueless on what to do. From what I've learned from growing up on that world, religion is the dominate organization that controls over two continents. Much like the Dark Ages, anyone that oppose or even questions the church get executed. Men, women, peasants, nobles, kings, even children. I witnessed a friend of mine getting hanged because he was asking questions about the church. He was only seven. A seven-year-old getting hanged for asking questions. I also learned that the church was just as corrupted as the others from Earth's past. Even burn those that want to be scientific and help progress civilization. So I dedicated myself to bringing down the church, created inventions that stood against them without the aid of my powers in order to learn to deal things the hard way when my powers disappear. Thankfully I watched Dr. Stone enough times to know about how to make scientific devices by hand. I rallied those that were against the church, giving them armaments that would break down their cathedrals dedicated to their power and greed. Although... I did noticed that the world didn't had any form of magic which actually made things a hell of a lot easier. Once we destroyed the church, I started helping with scientific progression of the world while avoiding the mistakes made on Earth such as pollution and such. I even managed to help established a lunar colony at the age of 50. I was a teen when I started my conquests. But I died in peace when I had reached an old age. It was fun while it lasted.

End of recording.

Mountain Glenn Underground, Evolutionary Base, Continuing Where We Last Left Off...

Deep down below Mountain Glenn, in the underground village, Fenris is teaching Ruby on how to use her eyes on the Grimm. In front of her is seven cages full of Beowolves as they snarl, growl and try to reach out to her. Ruby has her eyes shut as Fenris teaches her.

"Come on now." Fenris say, "Remember, the power can be triggered emotionally. Try to remember all the heightened emotions you had through your life."

Ruby does everything she can to remember.

"Remember the love you felt from your mother. Remember your pain when you lost her. Remember all the joy, sadness, fear and laughter you have experienced throughout your life."

Ruby flashes back to the Beacon Dance, the formation of her team and the time they spent, her father and Zwei and home, and remembers her mother. Flickers of light can be seen from her eye lashes even when her eyes are shut.

"That's it!" Fenris is excited. "Almost there. Now have the desire to protect all those feelings and memories. Have the desire to protect and preserve all life!"

Maya is excited as she can barely stand still. She looks like she is about to jump for joy when Ruby is done.

"You can do it."

Ruby starts to feel a power enveloping in her eyes and cannot contain it anymore.

Fenris throws up his arms, "NOW UNLEASH!"

Ruby opens her eyes. "YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAA!"

A pair of white wings stretched out of her eyes before flashing at the Grimm. Everyone covered their eyes to prevent themselves from being blinded as the Grimm in the cages are evaporated into nothingness.

"That's it!" Fenris cheered, "You did it!"

Maya claps in joyous celebration for Ruby's activation of her silver eye power for the first time.

However, Ruby passed out onto the ground unconscious.

Fenris looks down at Ruby, "Oof. I forgot about that. I remember my first time and I was out for hours."

Ruby snores away as Maya squats down and look at how adorable Ruby looks when she is asleep. She pokes the tip of Ruby's nose while admitting how cute she looks.

Yet a male El Cucuy runs towards Fenris, "Sir! Team RWBY, Dr. Oobleck and that corgi are here!"

Fenris orders, "Prepare to leave! We're done here." Fenris walks away a few steps.

"And the girl?"

"Leave her. Her team and the teacher will pick her up." And continues to walk away.

Maya makes sure that Ruby is comfortable as she places a blanket over her and leaves a red card with a golden Asian-style border and her blue symbol on the center.

Fenris shouts, "We're leaving, Maya!"

Maya waves goodbye and leaves.

Over at the area where Ruby fell in, many Evolutionaries fire their pulse rifles at Team RWBY, Oobleck and Zwei as these six take cover. Blake is hiding behind the metal crates along with Zwei. Weiss and Yang are hiding behind a steel beam with Oobleck hiding behind a steel beam on the opposite end.

"How are we gonna get past this?!" Yang shouts among the gun fire.

"WHAT?!" Oobleck shouts.

"HOW ARE WE GONNA GET PAST THIS!?" Yang repeats herself but is much louder.

Weiss suggests, "I'LL USE MY SEMBLANCE TO THE BEST I CAN TO BLOCK THEIR FIRING!"

Blake adds in, "AND I'LL USE MINE TO AVOID THE FIRE!"

Oobleck adds his suggestion, "PERHAPS I CAN USE MY WEAPON TO BLIND THEIR FIRING!"

But when they are trying to think of a plan to execute, the firing stopped. They peeked their heads out and noticed that the troops are running.

"What's going on?" Blake asks as she comes out.

"Did something happened?" Weiss is curious on what is going on.

"I don't know, girls." Oobleck is perplexed by the change to the situation.

Yang comes out, "Then we should take advantage of this situation and find Ruby!"

Oobleck snaps his fingers, "That's the spirit! Let's go!"

Team RWBY, Oobleck and Zwei run down the tunnel to find where Ruby is as they entered the larger area of the village where the Evolutionaries made camp yet are fleeing. They see them packing up and loading everything quickly along with noticing a large train on the tracks that once lead directly towards the City of Vale. Many of them are taking their trucks, jeeps and some tanks that they got as they ride out of the tunnels.

"What's the big hurry?" Yang asks as she sees them leave.

Before they wonder what is going on, Zwei barks as he found Ruby unconscious next to a few cages. They run up to check on her.

"Ruby!" Yang slides and checks on her sister. "Ruby, can you hear me?!"

Ruby gives a few mumbles before groaning, "Five more minutes."

She sighs in relief, "Thank goodness." and hugs her tightly.

Weiss approach, "What happened to her?"

Blake notices the card next to Ruby and picks it up. She reads:

"To Ruby,

Make sure you do more practice with your silver eye power in order to overcome the fatigue of using them. I hope to see you again, Little Cutie. And your little corgi too.

Love, Maya"

"Who's Maya?" Weiss asks.

Blake puts the card in her pocket, "Possibly one of the leaders of the conspirators."

As Yang picks up her sister and gives her a piggyback, the train of the whistle can be heard as the engine starts along with the treads and wheels moving slowly as it goes down one of the tunnels.

Oobleck says to everyone, "Girls! We have to stop that train to stop... Whatever they're up to."

Everyone runs towards the train as it departs as the train's speed picks-up as they try to get onboard. Oobleck jumps into one of the carts with the rest of Team RWBY and Zwei behind. They got on the mid-section carts as the trains speed is now at 45 mph. They run across the tops of the carts as they make their way towards the engine to stop it. Yet Blake opens up the hatch of one of the cabooses to see what is in them.

"The hell?!" she sounds confused.

Everyone looked down and see that there are loads of dumbells and weights in them.

"Weights?!" Weiss is just as lost as everyone else.

"Why would they put weights in the cabooses?!" Yang asks as she tries to keep her baby sister on her back along with Crescent Rose.

OObleck has an idea, "Of course! Mathematically, the speed and weight of the train and everything attached to it is enough to ram through any solid object no matter how impassible! Like a high-caliber bullet piercing through twenty feet of concrete and anything that gets in the bullet's path after being fired from a railgun!"

"But what's the purpose?!" Weiss is even more confuse. "Are they trying to ram the train to Vale to lure Grimm!?"

Oobleck is lost, "I-I-I don't know! I don't have all the answers! I am completely baffled as everyone else here! I can't predict what these Evolutionaries are doing! They're a total enigma!"

Zwei angrily barks as some Beowolves started to drop in on the other side of the Caboose along with Creeps.

Blake, Weiss and Oobleck have their weapons out and Zwei growls.

"We'll find out after we deal with this!" Blake states.

Back on the surface, Fenris has some sort of device that looks like a tesla coil at the center of Mountain Glenn as he types on a keyboard at the base of it. After a few seconds of typing, he hits the red button.

Fenris looks up at the device, "I hope this works."

The ball of the giant tesla coil started to go up into the air by a mile as red energy is beaming from the bottom of the ball to the coil. The ball spins around as it starts to glow red with energy building up and scattering on the surface of it. After five seconds of building up power, it unleashes it as some field of red electrical energy like some sort of EMP. Goliaths that are close by got hit by the wave and got evaporated by the energy wave.

Fenris notices, "Hey, it worked! Neat."

Then he takes out something similar to a Geiger counter out from is pocket to do some readings. The device reads, 'Negative Emotion Detector', as it is meant to read any lingering negative emotions that the Grimm feed on. The screen of the device reads, 0.

"Excellent!" Fenris seems pleased with the result. "Maya, make a note."

Maya is there with a notepad and pen.

"The Anti-Negative Eliminator has completely wiped-out all Grimm in the area. The original negative emotions that once lingered here were at 2,459 em. After the activation of the Eliminator, all readings read zero."

Back on the train, Team RWBY and Oobleck continue to fight all the Beowolves and Creeps, the red energy pass through the rocks and touched everything in the tunnel. The four are confused on what just happened yet noticed that the Grimm have turned to ash.

"What the-... What the hell?" Yang is confused on what just happened. "What just happened?"

Blake heads up the carts, "We'll worry about it later! Right now, we have to stop the train!"

Ruby started to groan. "..." She slowly starts to open her eyes with her vision being a little blurry. "Ow... My head."

"Ruby!" Yang is happy that Ruby is awake. "Are you okay?!"

"My head feels like it got ran over by a..." she looks around and realizes she's on a train, "...TRAIN!? Why are we on a train!?"

Yang lets her sister down, "We'll explain later." then gives her Crescent Rose, "Right now, we gotta stop this train!"

Team RWBY, Oobleck and Zwei run up towards the train engine to stop it. Yet Weiss stepped on a hole on one of the cabooses and falls in.

"AAH!"

Ruby looks down in the hole, "Weiss, are you o- *gasp*"

Weiss shakes it off, "I'm okay! But it's all wet and..." She looks at her sleeves and noticed the red stains on her jacket.

She looks around and notices that the entire caboose is full of corpses. Including the decapitated corpse of Roman Torchwick. Weiss even has some blood on her skirt, hair, some on her left cheek and all over her boots.

"AAAAAAAHH!" Weiss screamed.

Ruby is just as disturbed as Weiss.

Oobleck heads back to see what has happened. "What happened?" he looks down, "So that's what happened to them. They must be using these corpses to cover up their tracks. No pun intended."

Weiss yells while shaking, "JUST GET ME OUT OF HERE!"

Yang, Blake and Zwei nearly made it to the front of the train. However, Neopolitan is seen getting her butt whooped by some strange robots that seem to be winning. These robots looks similar to the IG droids from Star Wars yet their heads are a little smaller and have more maneuverability. Neo gets kicked and lands between the three.

"Neo?" Yang is surprised.

"What are you doing here?" Blake asks.

Neo glares at the robots that have Roman Torchwick's hat. One wave the hat to her as if he was taunting. The other is flipping them the bird.

Yang's eyes turn red, "Oh, you are asking for it!" Yang slams her fists together as her hair flows upward right before charging in.

She punches one of the robots, but it seems that it absorbed the damage while its body is enveloped in some red shielding. Almost like an aura.

Yang's eyes turn back to lilac as she notices, "W-What?!"

The robot gives her the double bird and punch her back to the other two.

"Those robots...have auras?" Blake states after observing.

Yang gets back-up, "Yeah. Pretty strong too. I thought it was something like a forcefield."

The train picks-up speed up to 85 mph. The three girls try to stay in place as the back-draft is causing them to lose their balance.

"I think we should get off this train!" Blake suggests while maintaining her balance.

"I have to agree with that!"

The three head back yet one of the robots throws some sort of grenade at them. The grenade is similar to a pipe bomb, but without any fuses and seems technologically advance. Neo tripped as the grenade hits her. What happens next is the grenade goes off, but instead of an explosion, it opens some sort of vortex that sucked her out of existence as Roman's hat gets blown towards the vortex.

Yang looked back, "What just happened?!"

Blake grabs Yang's hand, "Come on! We have to get off this train before it hits!"

The two went back with Ruby and the others catching up with Blake and Yang noticing that Weiss is covered in blood.

"What happened!?" Blake asks in shock.

Weiss shouts, "LET'S NOT TALK ABOUT IT AND GET OFF THIS TRAIN!"

"It will be hard to get off a speeding train, but we have no choice! Prepare to jump!"

Team RWBY, Oobleck and Zwei prepare to jump off the train and wait for Oobleck to give the signal.

"THREETWOONE, JUMP!"

Everyone jumped off the train as forms an ice shield to absorb the impact as they jumped off. On the train, the robots used some sort of handheld device to paint White Fang logos onto themselves on their chests before crushing them, which causes them to disintegrate. In the engine room, one of the robots does the same before increasing speed. The train has picked-up to 120 mph mere seconds before it smashes into a wall. The train smashed and the carts started to pile onto each other as some of them are sent straight through the ceiling and into Vale's city square. Many of the cabooses breach through to the streets with multiple debris is flung all over. Dead bodies of the White Fang along with weights are also flung into the air and smash onto the streets, buildings or street lamps/traffic lights with blood splattering in many directions.

Back underground, the ice shield shatters with everyone seeming to be okay, if not for a few whacks to the head. In Ruby's perspective, her vision is blurry before coming back to see all the dust, debris and the massive wreckage. She can hear the emergency alarm blaring topside as she notices that they are right under Vale. All of them are getting back up as they started to hear the alarm. They all climb up on the wreckage as they can see daylight with the sun rising in the horizon. They made it to the surface with a large crowd gathered around, trying to figure out what just happened. Team RWBY, Zwei and Oobleck looked around with some of the citizens murmuring what happened.

"So any idea on what is going on or what just happened?" Ruby asks.

"I...I don't know." Oobleck responds with a grim look on his face, "I don't know. Whatever happened, the White Fang's original plan must've been ramming the train into Vale with hordes of Grimm during the Vytal Festival. Yet the new enemies had something else in mind."

"I'm gonna make a guess that you have no idea what they were planning." Yang makes an obtuse observation.

"An obtuse observation." Oobleck says to Yang. "This new adversary has chaotic methods even I cannot fathom."

Weiss looks disgusted, "Can we please head back to Beacon? I really need to wash all this blood off of me."

"Good idea." Yang says while sounding tired, "I need some sleep."

Yet Ruby states, "But what are their intentions? Why ram a train into Vale when they already stopped the White Fang?" But she gets an idea, "Unless..." She looks back at the hole, "They were planning to open up Mountain Glenn."

Oobleck thinks about it, "That red energy wave have destroyed all the Grimm in the area. So it is possible. Unless they have something else in mind."

Close by, Sienna is hooded and cloaked to disguise herself while standing close to the square. She covers her mouth in horror when she sees the dead bodies of the White Fang scattered all over the square. Beside her is Qrow, who is also shocked to see the mess.

"Holy shit." Qrow sees the massacre before him. "I never thought the Evolutionaries would do this. This must be a message to the White Fang." He looks at Sienna, "Don't ya think?"

"And I read it loud and clear." Sienna says as her expression went from shocked and horrified to anger and vengeful. She turns around and walks pass Qrow, "We must speak with Prof. Ozpin as quickly as we can. Not time to waste."

Evernight Castle, Few Minutes Later...

Mercury and Emerald made their way towards Salem's domain with a stolen airship and made it to the landing deck with Hazel waiting by the doors. As the craft lands, he approach. Emerald and Mercury exited out of the aircraft with Mercury carrying Emerald out. Emerald looked like she spent the whole trip crying as her tears have turned into blood, which bloodstains can be seen from her eyes to her cheeks to her chin.

"Are you Mercury and Emerald?" Hazel asks.

"Yeah." Mercury meets Hazel for the first time. "If you are wondering how we found this place, thank Cinder for that. She told us to head here if she dies. Which has happened."

Emerald remains silent.

"I see. My name is Hazel. Hazel Rainart. Please follow me." Hazel turns around and heads back inside.

Mercury and Emerald follow Hazel inside the castle. Yet once they entered, the doors closed by themselves.

AN: Hey everyone! I hope you enjoy this latest chapter and staying safe. Now for Q&A!

M1540K4: Eric's sense of morality is more of a mystery to say the least. If you're familiar with Cypher from Warhammer 40k, then you might get some ideas. Plus enjoy Cypher: Guardian of Order, it's a good audio book. As for the religion thing, I would recommend The Last Church from Warhammer 40k as well. That one is about opposing views of the supernatural such as religion between the Emperor of Mankind (disguised himself as a man called, Revelation) and the last priest on Terra of the Church of the Lighting Stone, Uriah Olathaire. I do remember this one quote: "To deny humanity a thing will only make them crave it all the more (referring to spirituality/religion). And if you succeed in this grand vision of yours? What then? Beware that your subjects do not begin to see you as a god." Look how well that turned out.

So, Eric created an underground cult with the help of the other three that have yet to appear. But instead of gods, he will create a more philosophical religion kinda like Confucianism in Ancient China or Buddhism in Ancient India. Hey, Eric is the living proof of that. The Church of Isekai will appear soon, just be patient.

Now for a bit of news. The next chapter will not come out when Post-Apocalyptic Shield Hero and From Remnant Huntresses to Pokemon Trainers. Instead it will come out when Food Wars and Survival in a Strange Galaxy. The reason being is because I got another story that I came up with, if anyone is interested. As for what it is, you're gonna have to wait until it comes out.

Until then, stay safe, stay healthy and read a little something I wrote in my note in chapter 11 of Survival in a Strange Galaxy. I got some news there.