RWBY Hero's Rebellion Chapter 4 - Early Graduation

Weiss Schnee

Weiss was running, no point trying to hide in Winters own base and family home. While running Weiss realised that the black box Klein had given her shuts down alarms, droids and cameras as she passes by, kind of like a free hall pass of sorts. The base is likely trying to reconstruct its self, so it might likely be understaffed, this gives Weiss a head starts as she makes her way up the tower. Unbelievable that Weiss will be running not only her own people but her own family name, what to do when she gets out? Weiss may never have a plan for that but one step at a time.

Weiss makes it to the middle tower section on a balcony, she peeks her head around the corner and looked down to see the hall, there were at least five humans and twelve droid guards. No one has noticed the droids have gone offline because of the black box Weiss carries. The guards surrounded thirty-five cadets that are held prisoner in the centre and Weiss could tell they seemed miserable by guns pointed at them. Their uniforms are messy, they had hungry faces sitting and laying on food tables and benches to sleep. Some cadets seemed like crying at any moment. but Weiss decides to give them something to be happy about.

Weiss stands at the edge of the balcony and court the attention of half the cadets until Weiss steps off, she falls and lands on top of one guard, the loud thud had the room jump with shock. One of the guards yelled, "It's Weiss, she's here escaping!" They look at the droids, confused about why they are not attacking they then point their rifles at Weiss and the cadets dive under the tables as they know what's coming.

The guard's open fire but Weiss blocks with a glyph, the sound of gunfire was blasting through the hall as the cadets cover their ears, Weiss flicks her wrist to the right as glyphs circle around the hall as the guards keep firing. The glyphs light up brighter as Weiss cracks a half smile, the barrage of rifle shots started bouncing off Weiss's glyph shield then bouncing from glyph to glyph striking the guards from all directions like lightning.

They all fall one by one with the shots still bouncing all around after they had stopped shooting, then sudden silence. Slowly the cadets peek their heads out to see if it's safe. Weiss addresses the cadets "Everyone up, we're getting out of here."

Weiss's brother Whitley stood up, "Weiss what's going on?" Weiss explained briefly. But as expected most of them didn't believe it, seiner Flynt Coal rubs his eyes, "I don't believe it, they can't just do this to us can they?" The cadets began shuffling around taking up the guard's weapons.

Neon Katt was in panic "What do we do? Winter will be arriving any minute, we heard the guards talking about it not long ago."

Weiss's eyes light up at that news, it's tempting but she knows that there is no chance to fight her now and win, Weiss then explained to the cadets that we are stealing a ship and resisting this false government.

Out of all this Whitley just wanted to ask, "Unbelievable, they gave you a private call and they left me here? Crowded and sleeping on a hard table?"

They look at him probably thinking about slapping him across the face. But before anyone had the chance Ciel Soleil jumped in front of Whitley to say, "Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, I fear we may be short on time and I don't want to find out what the time limit is." As she points at her watch, Weiss and the others agree, but what's the plan? First, the cadets gather all their belongings in their lockers and Weiss then held up the three cards Klein had given her, one blue, one green and one red.

While Weiss explained the strategy, the airfield outside were sounding alarms as Winter exited her airship. an armoured convoy was ready to pick her up and take her to the train, Winter then examined the snowy frozen grounds of the military garrison and airfield. Much of it had become a barren land full of bomb craters made by Winters surprise attack but the mansion and shipyard were mostly untouched.

Winter was greeted with salutes as the base captain approached with news "Ma'am, Weiss has escaped, and she's freed the other cadets, what should we do?" Winter was intrigued, what move will dear sister make while it is clearly Winters house.

A little later Weiss was at the front of the Shnee private bullet train, she looked down the carriage to see all the cadets cheering as they fill all their bags with luxury chocolates and alcohol, silver and drink glasses. The train had enough for a hundred party guests, but it wasn't enough as they start taking the seat and couch pillows, bed sheets and even the curtains were ripped off to make bags to carry more stuff.

Weiss couldn't help but smile at their joy, but she had to get serious. So, Weiss gets the groups attention and has them gather around "Ok listen up! The traitors are blaming us, so they cover their tracks, effectively ruining our lives but we're not letting them get away with it that easy but there is more to it, we're probably the only people of Atlas that know the truth so it is our duty as patriots to fight for our kingdom against this false government takeover, so I need to know who here will follow me as the Atlas resistance leader?"

All cadets overloaded with luxuries stand up straight and all gave saluting cheer to their leader Weiss. While Whitley could show he was jealous, because he was originally the senior out of all these cadets. All the cadets here are first-year juniors training in all aspects of ship management, there were pilots, IT technics, engineers but sadly it's a navy academy so there are very few Huntsmen trained.

Whitley told Weiss a little bit he knew about the Huntsmen, "You gave a uniform inspection of these cadets on the day of the attack, but these are the only two huntsmen who have completed one year of advanced training, there are two others and Ciel but I've not paid much attention to them." Weiss was disappointed at Whitley, seniors should take the time to acknowledge others in the crew.

Neon and Flynt are at attention in front of Weiss, Whitley and Ciel where next to them. So, few but Weiss is hopeful of them, "so you two are the only advanced huntsman we have now... Well, you were trained in Atlas so I'm expecting strict militant fighters with advanced technology and carefully rehearsed strategies."

They all look at Weiss plainly, Whitley was getting ready to be disappointed, Ciel points at her watch "Pardon me ma'am but we will be arriving soon."

Weiss holds up her scroll and the cards to the cadets and addresses step one, "I've sent information to your team leaders, follow everything by the letter. But for now I'll show you step one of our escape plan." Weiss stepped forward and pulled the emergency stop chain.

Everybody suddenly was falling backwards as all the nice things fly up in the air when the train came to a screeching stop. Weiss was the only one standing as everyone else lied on the floor. Neon yelled out. "Dude Not Cool, give a little warning next time!"

Winter boarded the regular bullet train with her armed escort, the base captain asked for orders. Winter seemed entertained by Weiss, she obviously had help from the inside and the base is understaffed so that would give Weiss a head start. Winter then gave her orders, "The base is in your control captain, do as you will as I recapture my sister, do not fail."

He understands and calls the shipyard security team, they were standing ready at the train stop. "Ready for the train to stop sir, they will not surprise us." They stand ready behind barricades with weapons up, the train could be heard coming up the tunnel as it suddenly shot passed at high speed.

The guards were confused, is it going around back where it came from? They stood relaxed and looked down the tunnel where the train exited, "So I guess we won?" one guard said but a sudden flash of light back where the train came from, shocking the security as they turn to see one of Weiss glyphs smash through them.

In a panic the guards begin firing at all directions as Weiss shoots across side to side of the train station like lightning, she then stops at one end and fires ice spikes at the droids. Weiss dives forward and thrusts her rapier with an exploding glyph sending three guards flying back into automated doors, forcing them open. Weiss began to realise that the officer's uniform is not combat ready, the coat restricted her shoulders and the trousers made her less manoeuvrable and she had to keep tight hold of her officer's cap but still, Weiss charged through.

So far so good, Weiss began fighting her way up the stairs and trying to conserve energy until she really needs it. Weiss makes it to the offices overlooking the shipyards. Winter was beginning to lose patience as the base captain was getting nervous, "Don't worry ma'am, the ship docking locks are in place they can't go anywhere, I'm currently activating Paladins now to handle the escape, they won't get any further."

Weiss climbed to the shipyard security office overlooking the aircraft carrier Winter's Reach she then plugged the blue card into a computer server and began uploading to the base. Weiss realised her sister is not too far behind, but she had a few surprises for them. The blue card that Klein had given her is a panic disk, it sets off all alarms in all sections of the base and all docked ships.

At just like that Weiss put the place in total anarchy as panic was across the base as all sorts of alarms we're sounding. Such as Grimm attack incoming, enemy attack incoming, fire, biological and gas warnings even the base self-destruct countdown was activated.

For fire safety, Winters train come to a stop and so did her tolerance as she smashed open the front of the train. Her armed guards fall back with fright and Winter jumped to rid a glyph as fast as she can down the tracks to the yards.

Weiss finished with the blue card and was ready to leave until a sudden machine gun fire ripped through the office. As Weiss dived under the desk the machine gun fire was followed by a grenade explosion. Weiss stood up and walked to the shattered window and looked down at the carrier to see a Paladin and ten droids on the flight deck. They take aim for a second attack, Weiss could hear troops fast approaching from behind her so she moves to the back of the room for a run and jump to the carrier.

Using a glyph Weiss launched herself across to the carrier and lands at the feet of the Paladin then freezes the feet in solid ice. Weiss was reaching her limits, she asked herself how did I get this out of practice?

After quickly mopping up the droids left and right the paladin broke free and charged at Weiss. It was a sudden surprise, the paladin slammed its fist through Weiss's glyph shield, it shattered like glass as Weiss gasped in pain. Weiss struggled to stand as the paladin charged to run her over, she rolled out of its way but leaving a glyph trap on the ground. The paladin's feet exploded over the trap, it slipped forward rolling as pieces were crumbling off until it reached the edge of the carrier. Weiss fell to one knee then noticed she was bleeding badly, she rubs her hand across her face to check where the blood was coming from, the pain and blood came from a big scare down one eye.

Must keep focus, the others must be at their post by now. Weiss in pain continued to run as she headed to the bridge tower on the carrier deck. The blue card then signalled it had unlocked all restrictions of the carrier, the base captain was in panic. He ordered all personnel to the carrier as Weiss was attempting to steal it.

Weiss didn't have time to admire the bridge, she saw her sister jump on deck and started charging to the bridge tower. So, little time. Weiss was behind the captain's seat, she had pulled four computer towers out of the floor and Weiss then connected the red card she had to one of the towers then wired the others together and carefully hidden the card and newly added wires out of sight.

As Weiss finished setting everything back where it was, she ran to the front of the bridge and pulled a black and yellow switch. It then began to open the floor and shuffled the seats and computers to the side. Underneath was an escape pod. But Weiss didn't use it, she activated the release but not the pod's jets. she just used it as an exit as the pod crashed down on deck and the blast door closed behind her, she jumped to one glyph on deck as it sends her to another glyph on the walkway.

Weiss looked back to see her sister on the command bridge of the carrier tower. Weiss using her scroll activated the blue card to reverse its programming, putting the base and ships in lockdown trapping Winter inside the carrier. Winter realised she was trapped and started to prize her sister for being this clever, so she pulled her scroll out and simply called Weiss, "Well done, but… Sister do you really believe locking me in here will stop me? It only delays the inevitable give yourself up."

Weiss hung up, to Winters surprise she could see her father's ship the Shnee Graduate was powering up. It was the cadets, they left the train and used the emergency tunnel exits to go around, Weiss had given them the black box for them to move unnoticed as the green card was plugged into the Graduate, the green card provided them unrestricted access on board and blocks outside users.

Winter watched Weiss board the Graduate, unexpected and well-done Weiss but what to do while in the air? Winter took her place in the captain's seat of Winter Reach and plugged her scroll in the seat then made another call, "Base captain, you're fired I'll be taking command from here on."

Weiss came aboard deck with cheering cadets, she hushed them quiet and ordered. "Enough, take us south. Winters fleet will be chasing us." Weiss said holding a cloth to her eye to stop the bleeding. Everyone was taking positions where their skills are needed, but Weiss stood at the captain's seat thinking this is her first command until Ciel come up with some information. "Ma'am there are craw below deck that refused to leave their work behind, so we locked them in separate cells.

Weiss would have to deal with that later, "For now forget them, set a course south at full speed."

The cadets obey, "Yes Ma'am"

Winter used her scroll to connect to a few ships and directed then to chase the Graduate, Atlas satellites have locked on. Winter instructs her ships, "Open fire, clip its wings and bring them to the ground I want them alive."

The Graduate shields were holding and Weiss orders not to engage, just retreat because we're outnumbered five ships to one. In a short time, the Graduate made it to the coast. it was snowing heavily, and the sea was slush full of ice.

Winter called Weiss again, "Weiss dear come back it's your only option, you don't really believe I would have locked you up forever do you? Power down your shields and my ships will stop firing, we will tell the media it was a training program that went wrong."

Weiss took no notice as Flynt reports, "Weiss, shields are at 50%, we won't get away in time."

As the shields weaken the ship began to shake, cadets are starting to think it's hopeless but Weiss has a crazy idea, "Dive" Weiss points at a small opening between three icebergs and everyone looked to her like she had lost it.

Ciel waved her hands in the air, "But ma'am this ship wasn't built to do that."

Weiss could hear some cadets mumbling, "This is crazy."

The Schnee's know this ship better than anyone, one of the first ships they have ever built and nothing else can compare to its unique design. Weiss gave the order a second time and other instructions, "lower shields as we hit the water, then reactivate them but focus them on the engines and gravity jets." Weiss commended and they desperately obeyed.

Winter observed the chase on the monitor as Weiss seemed to deliberately crash her ship into the sea. Weiss and her crew brace for impact as Winter continued to observe her ships firing upon them. As the Graduate made contact with the water the ship violently started to shake. All around the ship the cadets could hear chunks of ice smash into the outside ship. But the Atlas ships stopped firing, the signal Winters satellites had started to fade away and Winter watched her monitors with a What the Hall expression. Still processing her sister's crazy move, Winter smiled and gave applause to her constructive sister Weiss.

The Graduate was full of cheer as the new crew also applauded Weiss, Flynt still clapping his hands says, "That was a gutsy move Shnee, I dig it."

Neon and Ciel felt the same then they stopped clapping and stood at attention to saluted Weiss, "Congratulations Captain." Weiss felt a sudden warm feeling of joy, being called captain was like a dream.

But they are not out of the woods yet, even with this ship they can't hide from Atlas satellites forever, Weiss told the crew what to do next, "For now we head south then we resurface and move east to the northern coast of Mistral, Atlas has less influence their so we can set up a proper base operations and hide the ship for future use." Weiss will have to plan well ahead because Winter will be looking into all possible move's Weiss will be thinking of, but for now, it's a small start from a small victory.

Chapter 4 END

This chapter is devoted to Weiss because I felt like I couldn't break it up among chapters or it would be a waste to shorten it, but next few chapters will be focused on Ruby, Yang then Blake. one chapter each. I hope you enjoy, please leave a review, favourite and follow if you can. and if you see any mistakes please PM me.