The roar of Bumblebee's engine could be heard as it thundered down the many streets that tied together the city of Vale. Remnant's sun was still shining high above in the afternoon, and said sunlight made the trail of rose petals clear and easy to follow.
Yang took a sharp left at the current intersection, following the rose petals all the way to their destination.
"Yang...?" She heard Blake's voice just behind her, there was a twinge of worry in her tone, she glanced behind her, only to see Blake was pointing behind them. She took the chance of looking back just a little more to see what the team ninja was gesturing to. Her eyes widened.
Behind them, a wing of black and white motorcycles formed up, each of their riders sporting a helmet with blood red claw marks on them. Their engines roaring much like hers. The lead rider removed one of their black gloved hands off of their handle bar, reaching back and pulling out a machine pistol, taking aim at them.
"Fuck!" She exclaimed with wide eyes. She then looked back to the road and leaned forward while pushing her bike to the max, shifting into seventh gear automatically.
"Just hold on Blake! We need to lure them away from the civilians and lose them on the empty highway that's being refurbished!" She swung her bike in a harsh left turn, blazing down the road with the engine roaring and cars passing by and heading for a slightly blocked off freeway.
Blake wrapped her arms around Yang's waist and pressed herself against the blonde girl's back. "Lets just hope Ruby can reach her before the white fang does!"
"Weiss! Weiss, where are you!" Ruby yelled in panic. She had never dealt with something like this before, so she just kept calling for her partner, looking in every direction to find the alleyway that junior had mentioned. She was running down the left hand side of the road on the sidewalk, she was on the right street, now she needed to find that little nook Weiss ran into.
She stopped next to a street lamp to catch her breath and take in her surroundings.
Nothing... not a single sign of Weiss nearby. Just an endless string of buildings with only the smallest cracks in-between, that even Zwei wouldn't be able to fit into... and he could fit into packages half his actual size, that adorable puppy was magical, Ruby was sure of it.
She grit her teeth and started running once more, sprinting by the citizens that casually walked the streets
"Weiss!"
She sprinted off again.
Weiss was curled up into a ball within her nook of an alleyway, slumped up against the brick wall. She had stopped crying, but that didn't mean she wasn't still hurting.
She heard a strange noise further down the alleyway, followed by what sounded like the shattering of glass. Footsteps began to come in her direction not long after.
She tilted her head up and to the right, just enough to peek over her kneecap. She saw a small, dim, red and orange light making its way towards her as the footsteps drew closer.
She could not bring herself to get up and run at the moment, her exhaustion getting the better of her.
There where two people, two sets of feet, she was sure of it. Moments later, out of the shadows came two people she didn't want to be seeing. Well... at least one of them was unwelcome, the other she had never seen before.
To her right was, without a shadow of a doubt, Roman Torchwick. The leader of syndicate was accompanied by the strangest looking girl she had ever seen. She had brown and pink hair, matching eyes, a small white jacket on top of a corset, skinny jeans that showed off her figure, and was wearing a pearl necklace. Weiss also noted that she had an umbrella and white heeled boots.
"Well, well, well... if it isn't the ice queen." Roman snarked. But when she didn't give a frosty response he narrowed his eyes and stepped closer, the ice-cream girl following close behind. He tilted the white haired girl's chin up and got a good look at her. He saw the exhaustion and sadness in her eyes, grimacing. He turned back to the brown and pink girl and gave her a questioning look.
She gave him a knowing, sympathetic look in return and shrugged her shoulders.
Roman sighed and looked back at Weiss.
"Ya know the fang have your location right, they are coming for you right now."
Weiss said nothing in return.
"They told me to get here ASAP and make sure you don't leave."
Weiss remained silent, only nodding once.
Roman pinched the bridge of his nose and tapped his cane on the ground. Then slowly turned around and began to walk away.
"... Why?"
He stopped and turned his head to look at her.
"Why what?"
"Why are you leaving?"
Roman paused at that, taking a deep breath of his cigar and letting out a puff of smoke.
"Because I'm not a monster, I do what I do to get by. That, and you remind me of Neo when I first found her." And with that he turned back and walked back down the alleyway. The girl named Neo waved goodbye at her before following, and they disappeared in a flash of white light.
Weiss sat there, both relived and worried at the same time, Roman may not want to hurt her, but the white fang where looking for her. No matter how hard she tried to get up she couldn't move, her legs refusing to operate under the exhaustion.
"-ice!" without warning the loud voice of her team leader began echoing through the street, more than likely calling her name.
"Weiss!" She heard it again.
'Why is Ruby looking for me, they should think I am a freak, cursed, insane, something! Why would they want me back!?'
"Weiss where are you!?" Ruby's voice was laced with genuine concern.
Weiss tried to call out to her, opening her mouth and attempting to force the words out, but all she heard was a squeak coming from her mouth, followed by a painful coughing fit. She fell onto her side clutching her ribs.
"Weiss!" The voice was even closer, she must only be a few meters away from the entrance of her hiding place.
"Ruby." She croaked. Her vision was going black... she was so tired... so very tired.
"Weiss!" The voice dimmed and echoed into oblivion as her vision went black.
Ruby heard it. The voice was feint, weak, nearly impossible to hear, but Ruby was listening and she heard it.
Weiss called out to her, Weiss was here and she was hurt!
She sprinted several yards down the block and peered into the alleyway, and just a few feet away was Weiss.
She ran forward, falling to her knees and skidding to a stop. She leaned down and put both her index and middle fingers on her partner's wrist.
Weiss was cold...
Ruby closed her eyes and teared up"No... no please... you cant be dead, I heard you, please I-!"
Thum-Thump
Ruby's eyes snapped open, she felt a vibration through her partner's wrist. She waited patiently, her eyes never leaving Weiss's face, it wasn't her imagination was it?
Thum-Thump
Her eyes widened and relief flowed through her, she definitely felt her partner's heartbeat. Weiss was alive, but she was cold and unconscious, she needed to act fast!
She picked Weiss up and turned around to exit the dark area, but when she started walking a black SUV pulled up in front of the exit. She felt goosebumps erupt from her calves all the way up to the back of her neck.
The Sliding door of the windowless vehicle swing open and several white fang members pointed pistols at them. She took action, using her semblance to blast down the alleyway, leaving a trail of roses in her wake. sadly for her though, the alleyway didn't cut all the way through, and she was left with a solid, multi story brick wall in her way. She couldn't carry Weiss over, so she was going to have to fight.
She gently placed Weiss behind a dumpster, leaning her unconscious body against the brick wall. She swiped a few stray hairs out of the white haired heiress's face. She saw the girl shiver in her sleep, so Ruby decided to take her cloak off and wrap Weiss up with it to keep her warm.
'Keep her safe mom.' She smiled sadly at the thought before frowning, hearing the white fang get closer. She stepped back and pulled out crescent rose, shifting it into its sniper form and taking cover behind the dumpster. She would prefer to go into melee, but this was safer for Weiss. There was no way someone would get by without her noticing.
She whipped around, peaking out of her cover and fired a snapshot at one of the fang members, Her rifle was a .50 caliber and was always loaded, right now it was equipped with standard anti-personnel rounds, so when it hit the left arm of one of the fanatics heading their way it tore his arm right off just above the elbow, blood erupting from his open wound.
"AHHHHH! FUUUUUUUUUUUCK!" The white fang got to cover, and one of them tackled their wounded comrade to the ground behind a few garbage cans.
She pulled back into cover, pulling the leaver of her bolt action, allowing the slide to peel back and eject the used cartridge with smoke spilling out of the open end where the bullet was fired from and it clattered to the ground. She set to work on pulling out another round from one of her ammo belts. An armor piercing round to punch through the thin steel and iron of the dumpsters and garbage cans the enemy was hiding behind. She placed the round in and quickly slammed the action forward to load the next round. Normally she would be able to load full clips and her rifle would be auto-fed the bullets but she didn't bring any with.
She swung back around and snapped off another shot, this one piercing a dumpster and going all the way through, hitting another one directly in the head, its armor piercing properties carried it through the metal mask and his head popped like a grape.
"SHIT!"
"SOMEONE SHOOT THAT BITCH!"
They finally realized they should probably shoot back and began firing their weapons, but the bullets where low caliber, so they only dented and scratched the paint of her cover. The pistols where all standard 9mm by the sound of it, police grade service pistols seemed to be the weapon of choice. She pulled back the slide and another spent round popped out, smoking from the recent discharge, its brass material gleaming in the setting sunlight as it quickly traveled to the ground. She began to load another bullet... she was about to pop out of cover when sirens where heard, apparently someone heard the gunshots and called the police.
They didn't waste any time gathering their wounded and dead and running back to their van before blasting off down the street.
Ruby sighed in relief and looked at Weiss, who was still breathing, she propped crescent rose up against the dumpster and got ready to show her huntress-in-training license to the police so she could explain what happened.
'I hope Yang and Blake are ok...'
Snapping and hissing sounds where all around her as she bobbed and weaved to avoid the gunfire, the abandoned highway didn't carry the risk of civilian casualties, but there was no cover, they where lucky they haven't been hit yet. Yang pressed down harder on the gas seeing an open, straight road ahead of her.
"Yang, I'm gonna do something stupid..."
She heard Blake and wanted to argue, but running wasn't solving their problem and she was starting to run low on fuel. So she only grunted in acknowledgement and tried to keep the bike steady.
Blake pulled back and swung around on her seat so that she was facing the white fang. She pulled out gambol shroud from behind her back, shifting it to gun form and began firing. one of her shots hit the front wheel of the white fang bike to her right, and the vehicle began to spin out of control before smashing into the side of the road and sending it along with the rider over the edge. She fired again and this one hit the center mass of the rider on her left, blood pouring out of him as he slowly fell over and the bike went out of control and slammed into the one in the center, a small explosion erupting from the crash and parts flying out of the plume of fire.
They both let out a sigh of relief and Blake got back to sitting down normally, Yang let up on the gas and began to look for an exit to take, they had to find Ruby and Weiss.
A/N AND SHE IS FINISHED! YAY! fuckin finally man... that was painful, I wanted to make sure it was half decent before I released it but there was always something wrong with it when I thought it was done.
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