Team ATMC: the Sons of Merlot
Chapter 7: Crimson Blades end
(Note: I do not own RWBY, all rights to RWBY go to Rooster Teeth in honor of its creator, Monty Oum)
So this Merlot's island. Looks like Angel is interested in the ground right now, analyzing footprints.
Angel: "These footprints are quite a few months old..."
Aidan: "Probably Teams RWBY and JNPR's from Beacon, their the ones that stopped Merlot. Looks like they cut off at this metal platforms over here."
Angel: "But I've also found 2 sets of footprints out of all of these that are the freshest ones."
Makayla: "Those have got to be our perps!"
Angel: "But again, they stop at the metal." Chris had already scouted ahead it that direction while we were talking and I think he found something.
Chris: "Hey guys! Get a load of this!" We all join him to see what he found. "Some kind of monorail, and it's rather new looking."
Makayla: "Judging by how the ground looks under the tracks the yeah it's new." Then it's just opens and someone speaks over the speakers but they sound like their using a voice disguiser.
???: "Welcome... to Merlot's island! Now don't be shy, please come in. And please keep your hands and feet inside the ride at all times! Have a nice day!" The monorail starts moving and as we're moving we look out the windows and see fresh containers of the islands ooze and cages of mutant Grimm, specifically Creeps and Beowolves.
Tyler: "These must be what Merlot was working on."
Chris: "And now whoever this guy is their continuing his unfinished goal."
Angel: "Ugh! I think I'm gonna be sick..."
Makayla: "Looks like we also have hordes of robots waiting to be deployed!"
Aidan: "Are any of them Crimson Blade?!"
Makayla: "No, they're all the red and white robots that Merlot used the most."
Tyler: "Look! I think we're about to stop." We stop and upon exiting we enter a large room that's all empty with 2 doors on the walls left and right of the monorail entrance, and there's a long window on the front walk up high but there's something behind it blocking its view of what's inside. And then the speakers go off again.
???: "Looks like you made it! Welcome to our facility! Welcome... to your doom!" Then the window becomes clear and we see 2 men in lab coats with Merlot's symbol on the shoulders and one has brown hair, the other has black hair
Chris: "Oh great! A trap!"
Aidan: "And might I ask who you are?" The brown head goes first.
Sour: "But of coarse!" No voice disguiser this time. "I'm Sour Merlot and this is my brother Bitter Merlot, we're the Merlot Twins."
Bitter: "And you must be Team ATMC, but I was under the impression that it would just be the four of you and that teams were of four students, yet I count five. Who is the fifth you've brought with you 'Turnabout Terror!'"
Aidan: "Just a girl who is about to start her first year in Shade and wished to experience first hand what a Huntsmen mission is like."
Bitter: "But of coarse. Trust me young lady, being a Huntsmen is an exciting career. My brother and I would know because we are graduate Huntsmen ourselves from Atlas Academy."
Tyler: "Alright enough talk! What're you up to? Why did you create Time Dust? What was Crimson Blade for?"
Sour: "Perhaps we should let him do the talking!" He snaps his fingers and a bell like sound goes off.
Aidan: 'I know that sound! That's...' and speak of the devil that same red flaming orb from the village appears up in the air. "Crimson Blade!" Then it burst into flames and when it clears that same black robot appears floating down and then lands.
Angel: *gasp!*
Aidan: "What are you!" It just stays silent. "Grr! So what were you made for? To be a general? What are you? A time machine?!" Still silent. "Darn you! Say something already!" But then Makayla puts her hand on my shoulder and when I turn to her she nods yes and then I turn to Chris and Tyler on my other side where Tyler winks with a smile and Chris pumps his fist, and I confidently smile. "I won't let you! You won't get away again!" I then draw my Twin Blades. "I will avenge... all of your victims!!!" He then draws his own dual daggers and uses his right arm to strike the ground while his wrist is glowing all four colors and when he does we're all sent to this space looking place that are the same colors as the Time Dust glow and we're all floating. "Where... are we?"
Tyler: "If this is time we're talking about then this must be the time stream itself." Then Crimson Blade floats down and then his red parts glow brighter to where we can't see and when it tones down we see he's transformed into a taller version of himself with robo dragon wings and he has blades on his arms around the wrist area that look like they spin but they really just fold like a fan.
Chris: "Hey! That must be... the Winged Crimson Demon!"
Makayla: "Most likely, a transformation like that would certainly imply it."
Aidan: "I don't care what it is! Either way he's going down! And then I'll avenge them all! Every last one!" He then sends them back and leaves me here with him so I prepare myself for a fight. "Ready? Come on! Come on! Yes... I'm Right Here! Skeeeeeiiiiith!!!" I bring out the Scythe and charge towards him and we repeatedly clash each other's weapons and then we both start flying upward still clashing until one clash pushed us both backward a good distance. "Answer me Crimson Blade! Just what are the Merlot Twins up to?!" It didn't even answer, he closed his blades to align them and he charged right at but I bring down my Scythe to stop him and we hold for a moment. "Grrr! If you won't tell me, I'll ask your core directly!" I break our hold and fly upward then start charging back down and pass by him with a Scythe slash and continue to do that a few more times from different directions but eventually I strike my Scythe downward and he blocked it so we had the same hold that we earlier but this time he broke the hold and vanished in a green flash when his wrist glowed the four colors again and when I turn he was on the other side of me almost as if he teleported and he grabbed me and flew upward really high and charged back down hold me in front of him as if he's pushing me and then my back hits a block of energy and the energy explodes, when it clears he flys upward and when he stop he used his left arm this time charging up a giant fireball ready to launch, he must have fire Dust in his left wrist. "Dang it! I can't move!" He then fires the fireball. "Is this... the end?" I flashback to the Beacon days and I realized that I can't give up here, so when the fireball hits it's makes a huge explosion and leaves behind a smoke cloud which I emerge from and charge straight for him and I pass him giving one last Scythe slash which leaves him stunned in place and once I stop I de-spawn the Scythe and activate Skeith's arm cannon and charge it up. "Haaaaaa! Take this!" I fire and when it hits him it explodes upon impact and when it clears and I de-spawn Skeith I end up back in that empty room with the others and take one last confident look at Crimson Blade who is back in his normal form but somethings different... he has pieces falling off which leaves me shocked for a second. "Wait no! First you have to tell us what the Merlot Twins are doing!" But he then explodes and his pieces are everywhere, his head lands next to my feet and when it lands the glow in his eyes get dimmer until they're not glowing anymore. "Grr! Darn it!"
Sour: "Uh oh!" We can't hear him though cause he's not using the microphone. "Brother! Crimson Blade has failed! What do we do?!"
Bitter: "Calm down! If he has failed then we will deal with it ourselves. You finish the machine preparations, I'll hold them with my Semblance." He hands the tools to his brother and approaches the window with an arrogant grin, what exactly is he doing?
