World of Mechs
Suffer The Silence
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2:00 AM.
Ruby was tossing and turning in her bunk. She and Yang were sleeping after the first mission they did. It may have been successful, but it still scared her. She couldn't stop thinking about the transmission she and the crew got.
"Watch yourself..-" She imagined Jaune near the explosion getting vaporized.
"Gya!" Ruby sprung up from her bed. She was sweating and hyperventilating.
"Damn it..." She whispered to herself as she tried to go back to sleep. The Icarus was up and running and flying over to the next mission point.
3 Days Later...
The Icarus landed in a zone that was looked similar to the area that they originally were at; foresty. However, it was a lot more stormy here. A giant storm system was all around them, drenching the Icarus. And this is where the next mission would be. Natalia called the two girls for a mission briefing. Foster joined them.
"We need to move on with the campaign. On our own...for now..." Natalia drifted off, trying to sound like they'll hear from the others, but she was losing hope. "*Ahem!* Our first priority is to cripple the defensive capabilities of the enemy. We're going to start by attacking their Communications infrastructure. Foster, brief 'em." Natalia ordered.
"Sirs, just as a note, I've configured a version of the Cougar I'm calling the Puma. It may help against Infantry-" Foster was interrupted.
"A new Mech?" Ruby asked for confirmation.
"Y-Yeah." Foster was confused.
"Finally! Something better than that stupid Cougar!" Ruby exclaimed as she smiled. Yang pulled her ear again.
"I swear, you need to mature." Yang hissed at her sister before letting her go. "Anyway, Foster...continue." Yang politely said.
"Anyway, Be on your guard. There's a large enemy force in the area. You'll need to destroy the enemy forces, and some specified targets." Foster stopped when Yang asked a question.
"What kind of targets?" Yang asked.
"Well, you just need to wipe out these bases that are set up. That's all." Foster explained. "A fourth base houses the Comm tower complex on a ridge. Simple. Blow it." Foster finished.
"Right...simple." Natalia and Foster left the two. Ruby and Yang went into the Hangar to pick their Mech.
As they walked in, they saw a mech similar to the Cougar in design, but it had a different paint job, this time it wasn't red, but black. It had Two PPC (Particle Projection Cannon) cannons, one Machine Gun, and two Short Range Crossbow Missiles. It was the variant of the Cougar, the Puma.
"We can pick this one." Ruby recommended.
"Alright. Let's get in." Yang agreed. She pushed a button that lowered the ladder that led them into the cockpit of the Mech. Ruby got herself set up in the pilot area, Yang set herself up near Weapons, and they were ready to go. Ruby opened the door that led outside and they left the Icarus. They started on a big street that led to a dock to their right a few feet from the starting point.
"Girls, seems like you'll be facing a combined arms of Tanks and standard Infantry. Again, should be simple. I still can't believe they're trying to stop you with infantry..." Foster got off the Comms and let the girls begin.
"I know, right? Are these guys a threat or not?" Ruby shouted, obviously cocky.
"Careful, Ruby. You don't know what these guys are capable of." Yang advised.
"Not to worry, Yang. Anyone of us will make short work of them in no time at all! Just watch me!" Ruby said cockily to her older sister.
"Ruby, no! Don't rush ahead! It's too dangerous!" Yang yelled out in alarm as Ruby rushed her mech ahead of her own.
"Don't worry, Yang! Foster himself said that there are just infantry and Tanks here!" Ruby walked ahead and to her left, she saw some tanks coming her way. She started to charge up her PPC cannon. It reached full charge and destroyed a tank with one shot.
"Yeeehah!" Ruby whooped excitedly at the top of her lungs in her cockpit.
Ruby then switched to the short range Crossbow Missiles and shot the other tank that came towards her Mech. It took a few shots, since these missiles aren't that powerful.
"Wow. These missiles suck." Ruby complained.
"All weapons have their uses, Rubes." Yang reminded her half sister.
"Not when they don't produce any big explosions." Ruby said.
Ruby destroyed a truck to the right, and there was already a piece of salvage for them.
"Cool!" Ruby ran over to the salvage and powered up the PPC cannon. "Perfect! The highlight of this Mech is getting an upgrade!" Ruby exclaimed.
But then more troops started to fire upon her to her left.
"Don't shout for the whole world to hear, Rubes! That's a surefire way to have the enemy train their guns onto you and start shooting holes into you!" Yang yelled as she quickly aimed mech's guns and fired.
"They can't hear us inside of this thing. Calm down." Ruby said as she moved the Mech closer to fire upon more enemies.
She got to a bridge that would signal the first objective of their mission.
"Girls, this is the first of the enemy bases. Infantry, Tanks, and Turrets. Let 'em have it." Foster said over the comms.
"Lieutenant Foster, I want you to monitor their communications. No surprises. And try to figure out who these guys are!" Natalia barked over the comms before getting off them.
"Wow, pretty bossy," Ruby commented on Natalia's overbearing personality.
"Um, she is the person in charge of this, Ruby." Yang pointed out as she switched to the PPC cannon to fire it at a tank across the bridge.
"Oh yeah...right," Ruby said as she fired her guns at the infantry on the other side of the demolished bridge. Ruby used her Jump Jets to fly over the bridge and then she started to lay waste to the base to her left. It was full of many different kinds of trucks and storage houses. Nothing really interesting here.
"Really? Is that it?" Ruby said with annoyance.
"Not all of these bases are going to be important. Remember, Natalia said that there is going to be 4 bases." Yang reminded her.
"Okay...this is the first one, right, Yang?" Ruby asked.
"Yeah." Yang confirmed.
"Then we need to find the other three and get this mission done," Ruby answered.
"Yeah, just don't rush into it." Yang said.
Ruby piloted the Puma on the road that led to the next base.
"I'm reading Power Armor coming off the hill." Foster explained as he got off the comms again.
Sure enough, to Ruby and Yang's left, there was four pieces of Power Armor coming at them.
"Finally, we're getting somewhere at least," Ruby said in response to seeing the Power Armors.
"Yeah. Charge the PPC!" Yang ordered.
"Got it!" Ruby followed her sister's words to the letter.
She got it to full charge, and thanks to the power increase, the PPC destroyed one Power Armor in one go. But the other Power Armors were already firing at her Mech, damaging it.
"What's the armor at?!" Ruby screamed.
"Around 90%." Yang announced.
"Gotta dodge and fire back from a strategic location!" Ruby surmised as she moved her Puma out of enemy fire.
"Just keep moving around. It'll mess up their misslies." Yang said calmly.
"And...BOOM goes the Power Armor!" Ruby exclaimed as she shot another with her upgraded PPC cannon. The Power Armor exploded into flying shrapnel and debris after she fired her upgraded PPC cannon.
"There's just two more!" Yang shouted.
"Yeah." Ruby switched to her Machine Guns. They were extremely deadly at short range, but lackluster farther away. So, she got a little too close for comfort and started to damage the Power Armor.
"Armor is at 80%! Be careful, Rubes!" Yang advised.
The Power Armor fought back with its own weaponry at Ruby's Puma.
"78%!" Yang annoucned.
"I get it!" Ruby destroyed the Power Armor with a few more shots from her Machine Guns.
"Alright! One more to destroy!" Yang shouted as she aimed her Puma at the last remaining Power Armor.
"Not anymore!" Ruby fired the PPC and destroyed the last Power Armor.
"Burn, baby!" Yang pumped her fist.
"You guys are having WAAY to much fun." Natalia mentioned over the Comms.
"Sorry about that, ma'am. We'll control ourselves." Ruby apologized to her on the Comms.
"Don't. Call. Me. Ma'am." Natalia got off the comms.
"Whoops...," Ruby sheepishly said.
"Rubes, just listen to her," Yang sighed.
"Right." Ruby walked over to a hill leading up to the 2nd base. This time, it was much bigger, with more buildings and defenses. However, Ruby decided to play it sneaky and use the Defensive Mechanism: Null Signature. This allowed the Mech to be camouflaged, essentially making it invisible. However, if she shot her Mech, she would give away her position and the enemy could fire at her.
"Okay. So far, so good." Ruby whispered.
"Yeah. We can just walk past these guys without hitting them..." Yang agreed as she kept her butt to the seat as Ruby moved the Mech slowly towards the exit of the second base.
And they eventually got out of the second base without alerting the guards.
"Oh thank god." Ruby walked slowly towards the next base. But then, her Null Signature ran out. The turrets at the next base could see her.
"Aw, Damn it!" Ruby shouted as the turrets started to shoot lasers.
"AARRRGGHHH! Crappy timing at the worst place anyone can be!" Yang snarled.
As they were being fired upon, Foster came in with a update.
"Girls?...You're facing another base. Standard defenders. So far, I'm reading nothing interesting on the Comm net." Foster explained over the Comms.
"So we move on?!" Yang exclaimed.
"Well, take out the defenders here, first." Foster explained.
"On it." Ruby walked up to the entrance and used her jump jets to hover over the gate that was blocking their way. After getting in, they blew up an oil tankard that made a massive explosion.
"WOO HOO!" Ruby shouted as she kept firing.
"Now we better get out of here before we cause more unwanted attention!" Yang said.
"Hold on. There's some things we still need to destroy." Ruby shot at the remaining tanks and shot down a few buildings that housed some salvage. There were two buildings that gave Armor, and one gave a ballistic weapon upgrade.
They grabbed one of the two Armor salvages, and Ruby ran over the Ballistic cashes and got extra power for her Machine Guns.
"You ready to go after the final base?" Yang asked carefully, now that their Mech's armor was now back to 100%.
"Yeah...I wanna get this over and done with." Ruby answered.
"Then let's go. You're driving." Yang smirked.
"Uh huh." Ruby started to move the Puma closer towards the entrance to the last base. However, they were waiting for them and they opened the gates.
"Girls, I'm reading heavy comm chatter from this base. Expect heavy resistance." Foster warned the girls.
"Oh man, my favorite...," Ruby said sarcastically.
And then, their first enemy BattleMech came out of the gates.
"Sir, I'm reading a BattleMech...A...light...looks like an Owens..." Foster explained.
"Oh, add the frosting on the cake, why don't you?!" Ruby complained as she got ready for a fight.
"Careful, girls. This won't be like fighting Tanks and Infantry." Natalia warned them.
"This is probably where I should probably take up the lead here, sis," Yang said to her sister.
"What?! I-"
"Ruby." Yang got serious for a minute. Then, the Owens fired upon them. Yang then went into action.
"Oh, fine. I'll let you pilot while I do the rest of the work!" Ruby hissed as she was not happy about not piloting the Mech.
Then Yang got into piloting mode as she swerved the Puma out of the way from the slugs fired from the Owens.
She charged the PPC cannon and fired it. It looked like it did little damage, but in reality, it actually dealt around 33% of it's armor damage.
"I am going to keep firing my other weapons until that guy's armor is completely trashed to nothing," Yang determined how this was going to be done, which was straightforward for her.
"I'll just switch your weapons up. Go from PPC to Machine Guns to Crossbow Missiles." Ruby announced.
"What's Armor at?" Yang shouted as she fired her Machine Guns at the Owens. The Owens started to have smoke coming from one of it's arm cannons.
"It's...at...70%. It's alright for now." Ruby said.
"I'm leading it towards where we got the salvage." Yang moved the Mech backwards.
"Good. We gotta find some salvage before we go too far." Ruby replied. Yang ran the Puma into the Salvage while destroying the other tanks then focusing back on the Owens. It looked like the Owens didn't have any Energy Weapons, since it didn't fire any kind of laser. But it did have Machine Guns and Crossbow Missiles. And it was close to being destroyed.
"Yang, did we get the salvage?" Ruby asked.
"Yeah! Check the monitor!" Yang shouted.
Indeed, Armor was back to 100%.
"Good! Now blast that Mech into smithereens, Yang!" Ruby ordered.
"Come on, go down already!" Yang fired another PPC cannon at the Owens and it started to limp. It was significantly damaged.
"ONE MORE SHOT!" Ruby screamed out.
Yang fired the PPC one more time and it fell to the ground. It emitted a white light and blew up, destroying the surrounding area, including some Tanks.
"Yeah!" Yang exclaimed.
"Now to take out the Comm relay." Ruby said.
"Right." Yang piloted the Mech towards the Base, where there were turrets on the hillside shooting red lasers.
Yang made short work of the turrets before turning her sights onto the Comm relay.
"Alright. Let's take this thing down!" Yang fired all her weapons at the Comm relay. And finally, it was downed.
"Good job, girls." Natalia said.
"Sirs, before the Array went offline, I got some intel. Seems like this planet is run by some sect of the Word of Blake..." Foster explained.
"Word of Blake? That explains the fanatics...Okay, we can't worry about them. We have a lot of Dragoons depending on us, no matter who we're fighting." Natalia got off the comms and gave them the OK to get back.
"Then time to head home, Yang." Ruby said.
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Area Unknown...(But actually, we would be going here two missions from now. Spoilers!)
9:46 PM...
There was a massive HQ that was in a stormy area. There were many buildings that resembled a base. There was a massive tower that probably was the area that the boss was working at, and many different depots that made artillery, like Tanks and Helicopters.
In a workshop, there was a girl in a white Combat Dress who was currently using a blowtorch and wearing a mask working on a BattleMech. A BattleMech of her own design.
Meanwhile...
A man was standing alone in his office. The lights were off and it was dark. It was hard to see. He pushed a button on some sort of microphone.
"I need you, any of you, really, to get Weiss Schnee for me. Bring her to my office. I need to have a chat with her."
Back at the Workshop...
A staff member approached the girl in White.
"Weiss?" He got her attention.
Weiss took off her mask and put away her blow torch. She wiped the sweat from her forehead.
"The Commander needs you." He said.
"M-Me? Why me?" Weiss asked, easily panicked.
Weiss walked out into the cold weather, with rain pouring on her head. She walked into the building and took an elevator up to the office.
When the elevator finally took her to the Commander's office, the door opened to find the Commander standing in his office facing the window. No one has ever seen his face.
"S-Sir? What do you need?" Weiss asked as she slowly made her way into the room.
"I've called you here to have a chat with you." The Commander said.
"About what?" Weiss inquired.
"I'm here to give you a promotion." The Commander said.
"R-Really?" Weiss was shocked.
"Your design on the Uller BattleMech is great. I'm very astonished that you added a feature that allowed for an Escape Pod." The Commander smiled.
"Well, It's not ready to go out into battle yet, It's merely in a testing phase-"
"That's why I promoted you. I want you to test this new Mech out. You've gone from Slave to Experimental Engineer." The Commander explained.
"Oh..." Weiss nodded her head.
"Here's the job. You are going to test it out on this Resistance Group that has been an annoyance recently. You simply need to run around in it, shoot with the Uller, and we'll see if we can start using the design." The Commander said.
"The-The Resistance?" Weiss was scared.
'Oh god...no! I don't want to do this!' She thought.
"Yes. There is a palace that acts as their main Headquarters. You will be accompanied by..." The Commander grabbed a clipboard and read her name out loud.
"Blake Belladonna."
"Blake? Well, I'm happy about that." Weiss admitted.
"BUT don't be too happy!" The Commander shouted as he smacked Weiss across the face.
Um...y-yes, sir!" Weiss quickly affirmed.
"Anyway, you will be accompanied by Blake Belladonna, as previously said, but ultimately supervised by your own sister, Winter." The Commander added.
"Winter?"
"Yes. She'll be watching over you..." The Commander paused. He then turned around and looked out his window.
"S-sir?"
"Weiss...if you or Blake even think about disobeying orders...This collar will make you sorry." The Commander referenced the slave Collar around Weiss's neck. She, along with all the other workers had them on as well.
"Uh..." Weiss started to sweat.
"Do you understand?" The Commander's voice was now lower.
"*Gulp* Y-y-y-yes...s-s-sir...," Weiss gulped hard.
"Good. Tell Blake to get ready as well. I've already notified Winter." The Commander paused yet again.
"Don't disappoint me."
Weiss left the office in a hurry.
'Maybe we can escape this hellish factory! I need to tell Blake about this! And maybe even Winter will be in on this plan! But...Father would be upset...Oh god...I know he essentially ran me into this...selling me to the Word of Blake...but...-no. I'm going to get out of here!' Weiss ran to the slave camps where she found Blake lying in her bed.
"Blake! I need to tell you something!" Weiss was wet and soggy from the rain, and her breath was able to be seen.
"W-W-Weiss? W-Wh-What is it?" Blake groggily said in her sleep.
"We got a mission! Finally!" Weiss exclaimed as she jumped up in the air.
"Really? When do we start?" Blake slowly opened her eyes.
"Tomorrow. We need to...destroy the Resistance." Weiss sadly said.
"What's with the somber mood?" Blake asked as she sat up on her bed.
"Because you know me...I don't want to kill any of those Resistance People..And neither do you or Winter." Weiss answered with tears in her eyes.
"True, but we can't disobey the Commander's orders, lest we get electrocuted," Blake said shaking her head solemnly.
"Yeah...but, you know what happens when the Mech explodes, right? The Collars come off! So all we need to do is get the Mech destroyed on purpose, get in the escape pod, and get away from here!" Weiss exclaimed.
"Okay...but how do we make the mechs explode?" Blake asked her quietly.
"Simple. I'm assuming the Resistance has some sort of BattleMech pilot or many, so they come, we get destroyed, and we get out! Or maybe even..." Weiss thought for a second.
"What?" Blake was confused.
"Maybe if we get really lucky, those mercenaries called The Wolf Dragoons can blow us up." Weiss mentioned. She had heard about the group while working, and so did everyone at the Facility.
"Those guys? Why would they help?" Blake questioned.
"Well, they are actively working us down, so maybe they'd shoot at us, or hell, if we get super lucky, we can talk them into letting us join them. Then we can take the fight to Word of Blake!" Weiss clenched her fist.
"Oh, really?" A man, her superior, Her FATHER, was behind the two.
"Weiss, come with me. You need to be taught a thing or two." Weiss's Father ordered.
"Y-Y-Yes, father.." Weiss whimpered as she slowly walked with him.
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12:00 AM...
Weiss was screaming into the night.
"Weiss..." Blake whispered. She wasn't going to fall asleep.
