RWBY Hero's Rebellion Chapter 8

Yang Xiao Long

Standing outside of the girl's dorm at beacon tower, Yang had an unexpected welcome. "Ho, my god…" Coco pointing at Yang's massive gold hair with great surprise and amusement.

"What?" Yang asked with her arms open expecting a welcome home huge from Coco as she starts touching Yang's hair with a humorous smile.

"It's just when you left for Vacuo you had a girl's army cut, what happened?" Coco says while lifting Yang's hair, feeling the weight of it before Yang pushed Coco away.

Yang remembered she had to cut her hair for Atlas standards in the cadets but after all that time in the tank race, it quickly grew back. Yang laughed, "Ya I know, it was a surprise and I really like my hair like this but shame I'll have to cut it when I'm sworn into Beacon next week." Even huntresses must wear a uniform at this academy, nobody can escape the Atlas military unless it's the Mistral academy.

Yang and Coco laughed for a moment and talked about their time apart, Yang then noticed the pins on Coco's uniform, "I see Coco you joined the Loyal Engineers, did you also sign up as a huntress?"

Coco sticks her thumb up as a yes, "Ya Yang, and we will be training together as huntresses for part-time here at Beacon." Coco then discussed about the great games coming up, "You know Yang, plenty of people here have completed the first year of advanced training as huntsmen but you only completed basic and yet everyone including the news is talking about you as one of the favourites for the games."

Yang nods her head, "I don't know how I got so popular in basic, the games are months away and I could easily be replaced with another first year before it starts." Coco agreed that Yang has talent but points out the real reason, the Schnee's. Yang remembers, the spoiled ice queen Weiss Schnee was the first year in the name of Atlas, Atlas was most likely going to make a spectacle of the event to make the Schnee's and Atlas more famous in her supposed victory. Yang scoffs at the idea of that princess defeating her, although her disappearance after the Shnee betrayal was disappointing.

Coco reminds Yang to look at the bright side, "At least you have the chance to fight Pyrrha Nikos of Mistral." Yang likes the challenge but still who will take the place of the interesting fighters like Sun Wukong who fled into the desert, Weiss Schnee is still missing and the hunt for Blake Belladonna is undergoing.

The rules of the Deadliest Worrier games are simple, every region such as the kingdom of Atlas and with its other conquered kingdoms, plus an Atlas oversea territory like Menagerie or an allied client state like Mistral. From all these territories, there is an official huntsmen academy to apply for the games, only with their approval you may enter. Each academy contributes a total of six students, their best six students from each year of the academy training process are sent to challenge their rivals.

Coco opened the dorm door and invited Yang in, "Come on, I'll show you where you will sleep at Beacon." Coco stepped into the girl's dorm and Yang followed. The dorm was very nice and didn't even get touched while the Shnee uprising was undergoing. Yang and Coco stopped walking to say hello to familiar friends. Velvet and Yatsuhashi, they were pushing a trolley full of cleaning supplies.

They say hello to Yang and catch up, they then apologise for what happened in the tank race, but Yang says nothing about it. But instead asked what they are doing. Yatsuhashi says to Yang, "I'm just helping Velvet with the dorm cleaning, it's not fair that she gets all the worst jobs."

Coco then points out that, "You do know that this is the girl's dorm right Yatsuhashi? If Glynda finds out your here she'll get the wrong idea and hang you by your thumbs." Yang felt a shiver down her back at how scary Glynda sounds to the other students, guess Yang should watch her back around her.

Coco then extends that warning to Yang, she leaned in with her hand next to her mouth and whispers, "Watch yourself around Glynda, she's a diehard loyalist and married to the governor of Vale too." Yang will definitely have to watch her back because she's a rebel and the governor is also the military director of Vale while the headmaster at Beacon. Now that Yang thinks about it, Qrow only works directly to the headmaster at the top of the tower and Qrow is the security chief here at Beacon.

Yatsuhashi helped packed the supplies away and said his goodbye making his escape, Yang then asked what Velvet signed as other than a huntress. Velvet replies, "Reconnaissance and Engineering. drones, ships, satellites have very complex cameras and I know how to work them plus I can fix them." Yang nods in approval, it sounds like good business.

Here there are a lot of Huntsman as part-time engineering students but they mostly study technology rather than fighting. They mainly study at the east of Beacon tower grounds, the Atlas research and technology. it's a facility next to the tower and it's a long, ugly silver building with a curved roof slanting down the front like a hill. It's a terrible headache to look at but when Yang first looked at it, she saw the birthplace of the Paladin 360. The armoured one-man vehicle that stole Yang's race.

The three girls climbed a set of stairs to their dorm room and Coco showed Yang her room. The room was nice with two beds, Yang will be sharing with Coco and Velvet will just be next door with her roommate. Yang then observed her home and noticed the rest of her belongings by the bed, Coco then closed the door and offered a trip into town. Yang declined, wanting to get her bearings a bit more and unpack her belongings.

Coco shrugged, "That's fine, I just need to get out of this uniform." Yang watched Coco walk and stepped into her rooms wardrobe, she closes the door and immediately reopened the door transformed. Yang's eyes widen with surprise looking at Coco instantly changed out of her uniform and into her regular clothes with just a swipe of a door. It was almost like magic, Coco then laughed and explained that when it is required to wear something very unfashionable you tend to change faster than normal. Coco and Velvet smile and say goodbye leaving Yang in her new room.

Yang stood still for a minute thinking of her next move since she arrived and saw the destruction left behind by the Schnee's. Yang could see one chance to clear her team's name. Yang cracks her knuckles and walked to Coco's wardrobe to peek inside. She looked through Coco's uniform and removed all the pins and badges. The engineering badges Coco wears on her uniform, then Yang applied them to her own uniform, she then tied her hair back and tried to tidy herself up as best she can to be an engineering student.

Quietly moving through the grounds and avoiding eye contact, Yang made her way to the engineering block east of Beacon tower. Yang had a hunch that this place would be a ruin when the Schnee's took over the building. It went into lockdown and every interior door was sealed shut. Glynda and the governor led the charge to retake the building, it was a bloody battle, each and every door had to be forced open beyond repair with hostages and rouge droids in every room.

With the security gone and every door removed Yang just simply walked in as if she owned the place. Passing by army engineers with all their tools, measuring door frames to restore the building. Yang had arrived just in time but must leave quickly because all the replacements are ready to be unboxed and she does not want to be behind these heavy doors, locked in without security clearance.

Yang continued through the building then passes the restricted area of no students permitted, but if Yang keeps to herself while the engineers are occupied with work, she will be fine. Yang then entered the workshop and could see she gets luckier and luckier as Yang gets to her objective, the Paladin. The workers had just left for their lunch break, giving Yang the shop to do as she pleases.

Yang approached the Paladin with care and examined the cameras around the room, it seemed that the security room was badly damaged while retaking the building. Yang stands in the shadow of the Paladin with it towering over her, she then looked through a computer next to the paladin to find evidence for her to post online anonymously so it would clear her name.

Yang looked through the computer, she smiles at the sloppy security because everything is supposed to be high grade but whoever used this last did not log out. What Yang is looking for is in the black box recorder but it's not plugged into the computer, so she looked around, to find it. The data is still in the paladin, so she circles it, trying to find a part to plug in or a switch to open.

Ten minutes later Yang was getting worried, she didn't know how much time she had left and couldn't seem to find a way to open the Paladin. Growing frustrated, Yang claimed on the paladin to find a way to open it. Upon inspection on top seemed as though a steel plate was removed reviling a handle to pull, Yang reached out and pulled the handle. Their we're sounds coming from the paladin and Yang could see the shell was ready to open so she jumped off facing the paladin with a smile. The shell opened and the front slides upright reviling its insides, then Yang's smile became a sickening frown.

Yang looked inside the paladin and saw a legless, armless body fixed inside the paladin as if computer hardware, Yang felt like throwing up. The smell of the body was revolting to Yang, she just stood there looking at the motionless body bandage up with Wires and tubes throughout the body plus a helmet covering its head. Yang couldn't handle what she was looking at and she knew this was illegal regardless of how much power Atlas has. So, Yang gathers as much evidence as she is taking photos and gathering research material from the black box.

Yang could give this evidence to Qrow, he will then hand it to the rebels and hopefully. it can be used to hurt Atlas. The paladin closed, and Yang straightened her cap and arched the evidence under her arm.

Yang made her way to the entrance making her escape but before she left the workshop her path was blocked by the sudden appearance of Glynda Goodwitch. Glynda looked over Yang's uniform and takes notice of the engineering badges she was wearing, Yang stood silent. Yang was thinking what to say just get out of this but before she could utter a word Glynda flicked her riding crop and blasted Yang across the workshop.

Yang hit the ground with a loud thud then she rolled quickly and crawled to cover. Glynda saw were Yang fell and was not worried that she was out of sight behind the workshop tables. Glynda called out to Yang, "You're not supposed to be here and that's not your uniform."

This is bad, Yang clung to the paladin's evidence knowing she will never be able to explain her position here. she then responded to Glynda, "Are you aware of what's going on here? It's clearly illegal even for Atlas standards." Glynda took no notice, this area is not her department and has no wish to know.

Glynda then shot an ice pick from her riding crop towards Yang's voice, it pierced the table missing Yang's left arm and leg. Yang jumped over the table firing a shot at Glynda, but she swiped it away like a fly. Yang's eyes turned red and her hair started to glow, she jumped up with her right fist to strike. Glynda stepped back and swished her weapon to the right to use her telekinesis to change Yang's direction to fall in the opposite way. Yang landed on her feet, dropped the evidence, and sprinted to Glynda.

Both Yang's fists are raised with a rush of attacks but Glynda could see Yang's every move. Glynda continued to use telekinesis to avoid every attack, Yang was starting to struggle against this experienced fighter. Yang started to build up energy for a single knock out but still, Glynda was faster to dodge. Glynda was still using telekinesis to throw Yang around like a rag doll. The poor excuse for a fight continued for several minutes with no change, security and other workers heard the commotion and entered the workshop.

Yang quickly noticed that Glynda avoided hard attacks to Yang but focused on avoiding yang and wasting time. A crowd grow and watched at the door, Yang was losing energy and Glynda knew it. Just as Yang felt like she was getting just close enough to have one hit. It quickly turned bad as it was a play from Glynda to get Yang closer. With a simple sweep of her weapon in a full circle that rolled Yang back in the air off her feet over Glynda's head. Yang was at last out of breath, but her stubbornness to fight made her jump back to her feet with what little energy she had.

At this point Glynda used every little energy to knock Yang back to the ground again, again and again. At this admirable or pitiful will to fight Glynda told Yang, "You would have been a terrible student here Yang."

Yang flat on her back rolled on her belly then asked while out of breath, "Oh ya… and what. Makes you say that?"

Glynda looked down on Yang, "You are a slow learner."

How dear she. Yang flattened her hands to the ground to pushed herself up but was suddenly struck in the back with a great telekinetic force. Glynda delivered a final strike that felt like a building had collapsed on Yang, she tried to use that opportunity for her limit breaks but felt that she was pinned down by Glynda's power. Yang was flat to the ground unable to move, she moved her head to the left and looked up to Glynda to see a very judgemental look.

Glynda increased pressure on Yang, she began to struggle to breath with little gasps but started to lose consciousness. Glynda looked down on Yang's defeat while the security arrested her. Glynda then gave them orders, "Call the security chief, tell him we need Yang in a suitable call to hold her and full arrests warrants for all known friends and family." Glynda was serious, everyone Yang had contact with is now a suspect.

"Is that understood?" Glynda made it clear and the security team obeyed. Glynda was not going to jump to conclusions, assumptions Yang being a spy. Or is she just looking for payback against the paladin? Unaware that Yang is both, Glynda and the security will investigate this appropriately. Until then it continues to be unsettling that another star student has great disloyalty to Atlas. Pyrrha Nikos as the final star student standing, she will no doubt be in the heavy observation after all this.

Later in the day, half the arrest have been completed while Glynda reported this to both the security chief, Qrow and her husband the governor. Then immediately they reported this incident to Atlas command, shortly after Atlas responded with an immediate order from Winter herself.

Winters instructions were top class security only, the order reads, "Student Yang Xiao Long is too dangerous for the current state of Vale. Yang and all other possible threats must be transferred to Mistral supermax prison immediately that is run by an Atlas prison company."

The orders where quietly followed, Qrow had an uneasy feeling sorting through the paperwork. It did not seem that Glynda and the governor are aware that Qrow is Yang's uncle. While all this is happening, Qrow is also aware of a top-secret Atlas operation in Mistral so he had a very bad feeling about the transfer. So, in the last moment, Qrow takes a risk and decided to oversee the transfer personally.

As yang was asleep being loaded to a transport jet Qrow thinks to himself, "Goodness kid how could you have gotten yourself in this mess on day one?"

Chapter 8 END

Finally done, it took forever to do

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