"Another one on your left!" Rachael said.
"Got it!" William exclaimed as he attacked the Beowulf to his left.
"Nice job!" Rachael said as she changed her knives into pistols and shot another Beowulf to pieces.
"Where are all of these Grimm coming from?" William asked.
"I don't know, but I can't take much more of this!" Rachael said.
"Then let's get out of here!" William said.
"Why don't you use your powers?" Rachael asked.
"I believe the other students called it a Semblance," William said, cutting a Beowulf in half, "And why not use yours?"
"Good idea!" Rachael exclaimed.
Rachael appeared to go really fast as she cut up the rest of the Grimm in the area.
"I forgot how it looked when you use it," William said.
"I forgot how it makes me so dizzy afterwards," Rachael moaned.
"I hope that Samuel and Danielle are doing okay," William said.
Out of the trees, even more Grimm arrived.
"Are you kidding me?!" William and Rachael asked.
Unbeknownst to everybody else, Commander Coros had reached the camp to which he was referring to.
"Hello, Commander," a technician said, greeting Coros.
"Hello, are the forces I requested ready?" Coros asked.
"Yes," the technician replied, "But are you sure you want to use the new mechanical forces?"
"Yes, since the other soldiers couldn't do the job, I figured something more…precise could," Coros said.
"I know you want those kids dead, but you do remember that the mechanical soldiers are weak to excess electricity, right?" the technician asked.
"Yes, don't think I've forgotten," Coros said, "Is the transport loaded and ready to depart?"
"Yes," the technician replied, "You may leave whenever you wish to."
"Excellent, tell the scouts that I'm on my way in," Coros said as he entered the transport ship filled with robotic soldiers.
Meanwhile, Samuel and Danielle were struggling to find the forest temple.
"Do you have any ideas on where the forest temple is?" Samuel asked.
"No," Danielle said, "And my jetpack is too drained to fly me more than three feet, and even then I could probably only stay in the air for a few seconds."
"So if aerial movement is impossible," Samuel thought, "We'll do this the old-fashioned way."
Samuel began to climb up the nearest tall tree.
"I won't save you if you fall down," Danielle said.
"Ha, ha," Samuel said.
Samuel reached the top and surveyed the area.
"Anything?" Danielle asked.
"Nothing but…hold on…" Samuel said.
"What is it?" Danielle asked.
"I see smoke, to the east!" Samuel said.
"Smoke? We have to find out if somebody's in trouble!" Danielle said just before running east.
"Danielle, wait!" Samuel said as he slid down the tree.
Samuel caught up with Danielle just before they reached the burning section of the forest.
"What happened here?" Samuel asked.
"Hey, guys!" William called.
Samuel and Danielle looked in the direction of the voice and saw William and Rachael battling a bunch of Grimm.
"Long time, no see!" Rachael said, "Would you mind giving us a hand?"
Samuel pulled out his Assault Rifle and shot up a few of the Grimm, this got their attention.
"Now what?!" Samuel asked.
"Move back!" Danielle said.
Samuel moved behind Danielle, and then Danielle's Sniper Rifle turned into a weapon made up of boxes and tubes.
"I thought you said this could burn down a forest!" Samuel yelled.
"I did," Danielle said, "But it's kind of already on fire!"
The weapon sent forth a huge wave of fire that burned all of the Grimm to nothing.
"It's a Flamethrower…" Samuel said.
"Told you it was dangerous," Danielle said.
"Thanks, guys," William said approaching the two partners.
"We thought we'd had it," Rachael said.
"Well, now that we're all back together, let's make our way to the forest temple," Samuel said, "…Which we have no idea where it's located."
Everybody else fell over and then got right back up.
"Do you mean that we're lost?" William asked.
"I guess," Samuel replied.
"Actually, they said the temple is on the northern side," Danielle said, "So we should start heading north."
"Good idea," Rachael said.
The group began the northern trek to the forest temple.
"Commander," one of Coros' scouts said from behind a tree, "Those kids are going north."
"Anything else to report?" Coros asked via a communicator.
"They've grown stronger than we thought they would," the scout said, "They just took out a huge pack of Grimm."
"Grimm are nothing," Coros said, "Don't let them out of your sight, those kids are the last remainder of that village that we know about, they must be killed."
Coros turned the communicator off and the scouts resumed their surveillance over the foursome. After another thirty minutes, the foursome came to a destroyed structure that looked almost like a circle courtyard with a bunch of pillars surrounding it and many pedestals near the edge with an over-sized chess piece on each one.
"Are we sure we're in the right place?" Samuel asked, "It doesn't look like a temple."
"Well, there are strange-looking items over there," Danielle said, "Those must be the relics."
"You do have a point," Samuel said, "Let's go check it out."
The foursome made their way to the remains of the temple and looked around.
"These look familiar," William said.
"They're chess pieces," Danielle said, "I used to play chess back at the village."
"I can see a lot of these are missing," Samuel said.
"Do you guys know what we're supposed to do with these?" Rachael asked.
"I can see that for every piece, there's a duplicate," Danielle said, "I think that the teams are determined by which piece a pair grabs, so we should all pick the same piece if we want to be a team."
"But which two?" William asked.
"I vote for the black queen pieces," Rachael said.
"Black king," William said.
"Well, I think Danielle should decide," Samuel said, "What do you think?"
"How about the white pawn?" Danielle asked.
"The white pawn?" Rachael and William asked.
"It's humble, it's different, it's like us," Danielle said.
"I see," Samuel said, "White pawn it is."
Rachael and Samuel each grabbed one of the white pawns.
"Now, we need to head back to the cliffs," Samuel said.
"I'm afraid that's not possible," a voice said.
"What?" the foursome asked.
The foursome turned to the south and saw a small army of robots and a tank at least twenty feet away.
"What's going on?" Samuel asked.
"I was hoping you would have recognized me," Commander Coros said poking his head out of the tank, "But I guess it's hard to recognize a face after seven years."
"You…you were at the village," Samuel said, remembering the face of the man who was ready to shoot his parents seven years ago, "You're that soldier that threatened my parents!"
"Correction, the soldier that killed your parents," Coros said, "And the name is Commander Coros."
"Commander my…" Samuel started.
"Now, now, young kids like you shouldn't be talking like that," Coros said, "Soldiers, prepare to open fire!"
Coros got back into the tank as the robot soldiers readied their weapons.
"We are in so much trouble," Rachael said.
Meanwhile, Professor Ozpin and Glynda Goodwitch saw the incident.
"What are they doing here?" Glynda Goodwitch said, "We thought the forest only had Grimm in it."
"But I guess we were wrong," Professor Ozpin, "Send Mr. Sentinel in, he's the nearest teacher."
"But I thought you said our instructors couldn't get involved," Glynda Goodwitch said.
"But those kids don't stand a chance against The Black Talon," Professor Ozpin said, "Send him the message as soon as possible."
"As you wish," Glynda Goodwich said as she pressed the message icon on her Scroll.