Chapter 9: Giant Grimm Removal

"Student's may we have your attention please?" asked Ozpin. The student's all gathered around him and the Beacon's other teachers. "Thank you, now in order to make Beacon safe again. We need to deal with the large Grimm on the tower. Currently it's attracting Grimm to the area, so we urgently need to remove it. Unfortunately, we are unable to use explosives as that would risk doing further damage to the building. So, we're looking for suggestions" he said

Yang raised her hand "Couldn't we just smash the thing to pieces?" she asked. "If we could generate enough force then we could, but we are uncertain if we can apply that much force." replied Ozpin

Weiss the raised her hand "I could target it with a glyph, that way we could break it with less risk to the building" she suggested. "That may work, Miss Schnee" replied Ozpin

Coco was next to make a suggestion "What if we just shot at it, we could do a lot of damage to it without the inaccuracy of explosives" Ozpin nodded "Good idea Miss Adel, we shall try that. Everyone with a projectile weapon, please follow me"

Ozpin started walking towards the tower. He was followed by Ruby, Blake, Yang, Coco, Velvet, Scarlet, Reese, Nadir, May, and Professor Port. "It's good to see you again Miss Xiao Long, I trust you're feeling better than you were last time" said Professor Port. "Good to see you too Professor, it took me a while but I've grown to love my new arm. In some ways it's better than my old arm" she happily replied. Port chuckled at her enthusiasm "That's what I like to see, you're as tough as myself" he said jokingly.

Eventually, the group reached the top of the tower. Where Ozpin's office once was, there was now nothing but a giant Grimm that had been turned into a statue by Ruby. "Alright everyone, get in line and take aim at the Grimm" ordered Ozpin. They all drew their pistols, rifles and snipers. Coco deployed her mini-gun and Velvet used her semblance to make a copy of Coco's weapon. Yang aimed the weapons in her prosthetic at the over sized statue and drew back her other arm, ready to open fire with her gauntlet.

"When I give the command, open fire and keep firing until you either run out of ammunition or I tell you to stop" Ozpin said, everyone nodded in response. A few seconds passed and then Ozpin shouted "Fire!" and all hell broke loose.

The sound of so many weapons firing at once was deafening, but the plan seemed to work. The rounds gouged chunks out of the thing, and quickly cut most of the way through it. Everyone with the exception of Coco and Velvet quickly burned through their ammunition. The two mini-guns made quick work of the Grimm, it fell to pieces. Weiss and Professor Goodwitch used their semblances to stop the larger chunks from damaging the building and lower them carefully to the ground.

The students on the tower celebrated the destruction of the Grimm, sure that they had destroyed the things that was drawing the other Grimm to Vale and Beacon. Their celebrations were cut short as a Nevermore descended on them, forcing them all to dive for cover. They couldn't shoot it because they had expended all of their ammo on the statue, but that didn't matter.

A heavily weaponized airship, came flying in with its guns blazing. The Nevermore tried to attack it but it was quickly torn apart by the airship's firepower, which made the thing vanish before it could hit the ground. The airship circled around the tower before landing near the students on the ground. The doors of the airship opened, and five people walked out.

Nora ran out "Did you guys see that, we totally just destroyed that Nevermore!" she shouted happily, "Calm down Nora, I'm fairly certain they all saw it happen" said Ren as he followed the excitable redhead. Jaune followed them out, dropping to his knees and throwing up "I hate flying", he said before throwing up again. Then came Sun "Oh, hey guys. It's been a while" he said as he made his way over to Neptune. Lastly, a nervous looking Ilia walked out, sticking closely to Sun.

"Sun, please tell us where you're going next time. We've been worried sick about you." said Neptune. "Come on Nep, you know your super cool leader can take care of himself. How can a guy with abs like these ever not be fine?" Sun replied jokingly. The two of them fist bumped and Neptune asked "So, who's this you've brought back with you?" tilting his head in Ilia's direction "That's Ilia, she kinda stabbed me and tried to kill Blake and her family. But we're cool now." said Sun as he waved for her to come over.

"Ilia this is Neptune, Neptune this is Ilia" Sun said, prompting the two to nod at each other in acknowledgement. "What's this I hear about stabbing Sun?" asked Neptune, Ilia sighed "I didn't want to stab him, he just got in the way." she responded quietly. Shrugging Neptune said "Don't worry about is, I can't say I haven't wanted to stab him myself on a few occasions." Neptune laughed. Ilia smiled at this "Hey, at least she had an excuse Nep. But I'm your team leader, you can't stab me. Anyway, good to see you guys getting along. I'm sure Blake will be happy about it to." said Sun, then he scratched his head "Speaking of Blake, how exactly did Team RWBY get here so quickly? They only set off a couple of days ago. Unless they took an airship like we did, they should still be in Mistral right now." Neptune shrugged "No idea, they just turned up and told us about everything that went down since the festival. Weiss is right there though so you could ask her" he said.

"Hey Weiss, how did you guys get here so quickly?" Sun asked "I could ask you the same thing, but I'm guessing one of you stole an airship." Weiss replied. Sun nodded "Yeah, Nora ran off and came back in that thing. So, we flew back here. But seriously, how did you guys get here?" he asked. "Well, it's kind of a long story. Basically, we got Adam Taurus hired so people to ambush us so he could kill us. But they turned on him and killed him. It turned out that one of those people has teleportation as her semblance, so they teleported us here." explained Weiss. Sun, Ilia and Neptune stood their speechless, not quite sure how to process that information.

"That was so awesome!" Ruby shouted, breaking the silence as she ran over to them. She was quickly followed by Yang and Blake who were holding hands "Hey Sun, hey Ilia" the two girls said together. Sun raised an eyebrow "Oh, that's why you rejected by advances." he said looking at Blake. "Sorry Sun, Blakey is all mine now. You can thank Weiss, she kinda demanded that we get together." Yang replied happily. "Is this true Ice Queen?" asked Sun, she face-palmed "Don't tell me you hadn't noticed the way they looked at each other Sun" she replied.

Ilia hung her head in disappointment, she wanted what Yang had with Blake but she knew now that she never would. "Cheer up Ilia, we met a nice new Cat Faunus. You may have a chance with her, and she's a lot like Blake. We'll introduce you if you like." said Yang trying to make Ilia feel better.

"Really, you would do that for me?" asked Ilia. "Of course, Ilia. I may have Blake but that doesn't mean I don't want you to be happy. Especially, after everything you've done for us. I'm sure you and Amber will get on great" replied Yang. Blake nodded in agreement "Honestly Ilia, we both care about you" she said. "T-thank you, thank you so much." said Ilia, a small smile forming on her face.

Ozpin approached the students "Student's you have done well so far, it has occurred to me that some of you are yet to eat today. So, please go to the dining room, Professor Port is currently preparing food for you all." he said before pulling out his scroll and calling someone.