Life of a Grimmborn Chapter 9: Meltdown
A/N: Hello everyone Deviljho's Hatred here bringing you all another chapter. Continuing from where we left off a new Grimmborn by the name of Zelia has appeared at the Schnee Dust Mining Facility under Cinder's orders to get some new fresh blood for the White Fang but Zelia herself has an extra plan, to kill every single human in the building. How will Team RWBY handle this new threat? Find out now!
Also if you are familiar with the internet Screwattack series Deathbattle it is my honor and joy to inform all RWBY fans that our Yang fought Tifa of Final Fantasy fame and boy was it one to remember. Watch it when you get the chance if you haven't already yes?
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Life of a Grimmborn Chapter 9: Meltdown
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"Another failed experiment doctor." Bartholomew sighed as he began writing notes on his clipboard. No matter what kinds of experiments they ran on him, Kor's soul, or lack thereof remained hidden to both him and the scientists. They uncupped the suction cups from the Grimmborn's body and had him stand up off of his seat. "Kor I'm sorry to say that this isn't going as expected."
"What are you talking about?"
A sigh escaped from his lips as he looked at the boy. "Kor. You have no soul. You are completely incapable of producing an Aura. Just like the monsters of Grimm cannot you are the same as them in that regard."
Kor's face grew pale as he took a step back. "So…. I'll never have a soul? I'll never be like other humans?"
"Kor just because you aren't human doesn't mean you are any less than them. Look at the faunus, they aren't human yet they fight for their equality." Bartholomew argued.
Kor's face turned downwards in a scowl as his fangs became bared. "But faunus also have a soul! Everyone has the one thing I lack! It isn't fair, why did I have to be born like this!?"
"I wish I could tell you the answer my boy, I really wish I could but I cannot. You are an anomaly never before seen by recorded history. And I swear to do everything I can to help you Kor."
The young Grimmborn had nothing else to say as he simply walked out of the operating room and left with his mother. Bartholomew sighed once more as he stared at the data in front of him. The only option that was left was a very dangerous one and could easily scar the boy if done incorrectly.
But he swore to Kor that he would help, and help he would.
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"Jack Schnee! You are to come with us as a hostage of the White Fang!" A panther faunus yelled at the older Schnee. "You will answer for your crimes of faunus trafficking!"
"What are you talking about? I have never committed faunus trafficking before in my life nor will I ever" Jack yelled back to the radical faunus.
A deer faunus laughed coldly at the Schnee. "Don't lie Jack! We saw the photos! The proof of your sins against our kind, and to think we trusted a monster like you!"
As Jack stepped forward to defend himself the angered faunus pulled out all manner of sharp objects towards the man. Objects used for cutting Dust, laser blades used to get the highest quality cuts out of the crystals were being pointed at a human being. "Not another step forward Schnee." the pather faunus said. "Or we'll slice you into ribbons."
"Enough of this Necal!" Leopold yelled towards the radicals. "Put your weapons down now!"
"Don't make me hurt you Leopold! A fellow faunus shouldn't have to serve as the shield for a Schnee!"
"Weiss is there anything we can do?" Ruby whispered as they saw Jack back away from the extremists and Leopold continuing to hold their attention.
Weiss examined the area around them. A long corridor with a few doors here and there for monitoring stations. No doubt that any human working in those rooms had either hid themselves or ran away once hell broke loose. There was no way any of the students or teacher could reach for any of them without running the risk of getting run through with the blades in the faunus's hands. It was horribly inconvenient that they didn't have their weapons on them or this situation would have been taken care of.
"Man I wish Kor was here." Yang said as she kept her eyes trained forward. "His stretchy arms would've come in handy right now." Realizing her unintentional pun Yang snorted in laughter to herself
"Now isn't the time for your insufferable puns Yang!" Weiss seethed at the brawler. "And if he was here then would have become an even bigger commotion if someone of Grimm blood was discovered in a military stronghold like Atlas."
Atlas considered themselves to be the pinnacle of military might in all of Remnant with the might to conquer nations within a matter of moments. To hear that something of Grimm origin entered the kingdom and was walking around humans would sent the populace into a panic as well as military arms being raised like war flags. Perhaps Kor knew of this and decided to stay behind or maybe he wasn't comfortable leaving Vale just yet. Either way Weiss knew that while he would be very useful in this situation it was in Beacon's best interest to avoid an international incident.
"Uh guys I think I have a plan." Jaune said lowly.
"We don't have time for any of your foolish plans Arc." Weiss whispered sharply back at the blonde knight.
"Weiss if he has something then let's hear him out." Ruby said. "It's more than any of us have at the moment."
Weiss growled a bit to herself and reluctantly nodded her head at her leader. "Alright Arc what is it?"
"Well those doors are made of metal right?" A conformational nod from the Schnee heiress made Jaune feel a bit more confident in his plan. "Alright well Pyrrha can use her Semblance to open the doors nearby the faunus as a distraction. Then Ruby and Blake can charge forward and attack them off guard and disarm them and Nora and Yang can incapacitate them if necessary."
Weiss grew wide eyed at the solid plan Jaune had laid out. This almost seemed out of character for the goofball huntsman in training to come up with such a clever plan. "Wow… that might actually work."
Jaune turned to his partner and gave a nod to her. "Are you ready Pyr?"
"Just give me the word."
"Okay Blake, Ruby get ready to charge."
The young girl gave a thumbs up to her fellow leader. "Ready Jaune."
Blake gave a small nod of her head as got into a runner's start.
"Now!"
With a wave of her black Aura covered hand Pyrrha manipulated the lock mechanisms to open the doors to the sides of the rebellious faunus. Almost immediately the faunus turned towards the opened doors and pointed their weapons ready to defend themselves. Ruby then shot forward in a blur of rose petals as she kicked the head of one of the rioters making him drop his weapon. Just as the others turned around to see the young leader land on her feet Blake leapt into action and struck the panther faunus on his temple with precise force making his eyes roll to the back of his head as he fell unconscious. The deer faunus struck forward with her blade to attack the black clad girl only for it to go through as Blake's illusion vanished. The faunus tried to turn around but couldn't as Blake grabbed her by her arms and forced her into submission with a painful armbar grapple. The last two remaining members of the group shot forward at Ruby and at Jack respectively to gain some momentum back their way. As the faunus struck forward to try to kill the elder Schnee, Leopold reached out and grabbed the faunus by the arm and yanked him forward into a tight fisted punch to the stomach making the rebel drop his weapon in pain and shock before being lifted up and slammed to a wall surprising many of the students there. As for the mook that went after Ruby he was trying desperately to strike the Rose girl but couldn't match her superior speed as she dodged every strike swung at her. The faunus threw all his weight into a vertical swing at Ruby to which she easily dodged to the right and used her momentum to jump to the wall on her side and bounce off for a swift kick to the faunus's head making his head hit the wall. The faunus quickly recovered and grabbed Ruby by the leg and slammed her to the ground as he picked up the blade that he dropped. Just as he was about to stab her with the blade a sudden weight tackled him off the young leader making him drop the blade once more. Nora smiled with delight as she flipped behind the faunus and locked his arms in a vice grip as Yang charged forward and punched the faunus directly in the face and finished him off with a swift spin kick to the kisser, leaving him knocked out and drooling on the floor. With all the faunus disarmed the teachers quickly ran forward and subdued the rioters and pinned them all down.
"Very impressive all of you." Jack congratulated as he walked up to Blake and Ruby. "How did you know that the doors were going to open at that specific moment?"
"Actually Jack Schnee the one who came up with the plan was our friend Jaune over there." Ruby said as she pointed to her blonde friend.
Soon all eyes turned to the yellow knight as he squirmed from all the attention being drawn to him as he looked down on the ground. Leopold and Jack both approached the young Arc and extended their hands to him in gratitude. "Boy your sharp plan helped us out in quite a pinch." Leopold said with a clasp on Jaune's shoulder. "You're a bright mind if I ever saw one."
"O-Oh it's not that great. I saw an opportunity and put a lot of trust into my friends, nothing major." Jaune said sheepishly.
Some of the students looked at Jaune with relief that his plan paid off. The usually plain Arc saved their bacon from being held hostage or worse. Pyrrha, Nora and Ren smiled at their leader as he downplayed his heroics giving more credit to the girls who actually disarmed the faunus.
"As much as we would love to stay here and chat I do believe it is time that we made our way out of this building." Professor Port said as he approached Leopold. "Shall we call the proper authorities on our Scroll's to alert them? "
Leopold brought his Scroll out from his pocket and tried to dial a number. There was nothing not even a ringing. Looking at the screen he saw that the Scroll had no signal. "Damn, they must have enabled the Safe Mode on the building?"
"Safe mode?"
"It stops people from calling, texting or using video recording software on their Scrolls while in the building." Leopold explained. "It's a safety measure to make sure that none of our products get leaked to the public early to prevent other competitors from replicating our items and selling them for a cut price."
"Then how about the location of our weapons." Port asked the lion faunus. "Do you know the location of them?"
He pulled up a holo-map of the area on his Scroll and pointed to the base floor where the entrance was located. "The weapons are being held in the security room where they are guarded by security officers. Your weapons are safe and sound from the faunus workers here as only security personnel can open the room they are kept in."
"And what if one of the security personnel is one of these faunus rebels?" Goodwitch questioned as she gazed at the map over Leopold's shoulder.
"I have taken that into account. I am sending a scramble code to the electronic keypad lock. This program will cause the code for the door to change every second so it is never the same code twice. Once we have made our way to the room I can then disable the code and get you all your weapons back into your capable hands."
"Good job as always Leopold you never cease to amaze me at your efficiency." Jack laughed as he patted his assistant and friend on the back.
Leopold smiled to the Schnee and motioned for the Beacon tour group to follow him. "We must exercise caution here students. These faunus are beyond reasoning and won't hesitate to attack us. I trust there are some who can fight without a weapon?"
"Yo!" Yang called from behind the group as she held up her hand.
Nora held up Ren's hand for Leopold to see. "Ren over here can fight without a weapon using Kung-Fu."
"Nora it's called Hapkido not Kung-Fu." Ren corrected.
Goodwitch also raised her hand along with the students. "I am quite proficient in CQC as well."
"Excellent you three come up front with us as we will need all the strength we can get in case push comes to shove."
The tour group followed Jack and Leopold as they lead them down the hall and into the nearest elevator to retrieve their weapons.
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In the basement floor where Dust was packaged and shipped was Zelia riling up her recruits that she had successfully turned against Jack Schnee
"My faunus brothers and sisters! I welcome you all to the White Fang!" Zelia yelled as she started tossing numerous Grimm masks to the rebels she recruited. "Know that your actions here will help future generations of poor mistreated faunus everywhere as we usher in a new future of prosperity and peace!" The faunus roared with approval as they placed the masks upon their faces, ready to fight for their right to live as equals to the humans.
"Now I know that there are some who don't wish to fight and that is okay, I will not force any of you to do anything you don't want to." Zelia walked to the door where shipments left and showed them some vehicles with White Fang emblems on them. "Those who don't wish to fight and wish to help in other ways enter these vehicles. They will take you to our hidden base within Atlas where you will be safe from human hands and their controlling will. Those who stand behind will help me find the demon known as Jack Schnee as make him pay for his crimes against the common faunus! And don't worry, we shall send word to your families to make sure they are under the White Fang's protection as well. The White Fang looks after their own and will not let humans harm their pack."
Numerous faunus looked at each other for a few moments. Slowly around 70% of the recruited faunus entered the vehicles for a sanctuary against the humans while the remaining 30% stayed with Zelia to continue the manhunt for Jack Schnee. "Excellent, a little less than what I had in mind but no matter. I thank you all for your service today my faunus brethren! Come we shall now take down the villainous Schnee and take a huge step towards faunus liberation!"
"Before we do Miss Zelia I have a question to ask." A teenaged faunus asked catching the Grimmborn's attention.
"Oh and what is that?"
"Please take no offense to this but why are you helping us? You aren't a faunus I've ever seen and you look more… Grimm in nature. So… why?"
Zelia smiled as she turned to the boy and patted his head. "Because I am from a race that has been excommunicated from the light for generations. The leader of the White Fang may have been… harsh in her means to help our kind but she assures us that at the end of this long road my kind and yours will exist in harmony among the humans, this I promise you."
The answer seemed to had satisfied the young faunus as he picked up a weapon and left with the others to look for the missing Schnee. Zelia let out a hollow chuckle as she clenched her fist with fire covering it. 'If only that was the truth kid. In reality that woman is a monster in human flesh. I really didn't want to drag you all into this but my hands are tied. My family comes before you all, I hope you can forgive me.' Zelia looked at her holo-map and found the place she was looking for. 'Time to give Atlas a fireworks show they will never forget!'
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"Good work Ms. Xiao Long!" Leopold praised as the blonde brawler knocked out another rioter. Yang smiled back at the lion faunus as she gave him a thumbs up. "Okay here we are everyone." Leopold quickly swiped his card into the card slot and unlocked the door to the security room. The room was a clean white room with a few chairs next to a large computer camera console with large monitors displaying various important areas within the facility. Most of them were blacked out with the words 'Feed Terminated' written in red letters. "Damn… it seems numerous cameras have been taken down by the faunus."
"Leopold you try to get those cameras operational again. I'll hand the students and staff their weaponry back so we can take control of this situation." Jack ordered. The faunus nodded his head as he disabled the scramble code and got to work on the console in front of him. "Here you are students." Jack pulled out the large crate of familiar weaponry in their compact forms and put it in front of the students
"Oh my sweetheart!" Ruby squealed as she hugged her compact sniper/scythe. "No mean old rebel will ever lay their hands on you."
Weiss rolled her eyes at her dolt of a partner before checking if all the Dust cartridges on Myrtenaster were all in their proper places. "Looks like none of our weapons have been tampered with."
"Alright now that we got our weapons we can finally fight back against the rioters." Yang said as she cocked Ember Celica, smiling as it made the familiar clicking noise she loved to hear.
"First and foremost we must inform the authorities of our situation. No doubt innocents not participating in this riot have reported to the police but the thought of hostages is probably keeping them at bay. If we can send a group to inform them that the 'hostages' as it were had their weapons back then they can quell this situation quickly." Jack said as he looked at the tour group. "Can you all spare one team to go and inform the police of the update to our situation?"
Before anyone could volunteer red lights started flashing all around them as numerous doors started to close shut with metal military grade shutters trapping the students and adults in the room as a mechanical voice echoed out a warning.
"Warning! Warning! The Main Reactor has taken damage! All personnel is to evacuate the facility immediately and avoid a catastrophic meltdown! This is not a drill! I repeat this is not a drill!
Following that the intercom turned on as a voice came from it.
"Oh boy! Look what we have here! Our human guests and Mr. Jack Schnee trying to escape to alert the authorities! Can't have that now can we? Well now I'm sure you noticed the 'Dead Zone' on your Scrolls was activated so that our fun couldn't be spoiled as well as that beautiful warning that just came on. So now here's what's gonna happen, I'm gonna set a bomb to this factory and blow it to smithereens with all you inside it but not the workers who decided to join the White Fang. They will escape unharmed but the humans and Jack Schnee will die along with countless other humans in the explosion! Isn't that fantastic!?"
Leopold growled as he pressed the intercom button on the terminal and shouted into the mic. "Whoever you are reveal yourself now! We demand that you surrender and be interrogated by the proper authorities!"
The voice paused for a minute before laughing mockingly. "Oh you're funny! Too funny! You know what I'm gonna humor you. Try to find me before I blow this place up but you better hurry cause I'm giving you thirty minutes to find me and if you don't? ...Well let's just say that the new Schnee Dust Mining Facility better be sturdier than the last one! Tick tock little monkeys!" WIth that the voice fell silent as Leopold kept demanding answers from the terrorist.
"Leopold it's no use! We must evacuate the premises now!" Jack ordered as he tore the faunus away from the terminal. "Alright you all I want you all to follow me so we can escape from this place!"
"But sir the doors are sealed shut there's no way we can get out!" Jaune pointed out.
Yang scoffed and readied Ember Celica. "You just leave that to me Lover Boy." Slamming her fists together Yang flared up as her fair became reminence of fire. With a loud cry Yang punched the door with all the force she could muster. The resulting impact left a gigantic dent on the door as small mechanisms fell off the door. She smiled and punched again at the same spot causing the dent to become larger. Again and again she did this and after ten solid punches in a row the metal door blasted off its locks and hinges as it crashed into the wall behind it. "And you may all shower me with your praise no-"
Yang was cut off as all the students and teachers rushed past her and exited the room, following Jack and Leopold to the main hall next leaving only her and her teammates as they stood alone in the security room. "...Oh thanks Yang! Thanks for helping us out and possibly saving our lives Yang! You're the coolest Yang!" she mockingly said to herself as she left out a deep sigh. "Bunch of ingrates…"
"Well I thought you were cool Yang." Ruby said as she patted her sister's back. Yang smiled and put Ruby into a playful noogie before getting serious. "Alright girls let's get out of here!"
Team RWBY nodded as they made chase to the group. They arrived at the main hall to find Jack trying to work the mechanics of the door. "Come on you stupid machine work!" he groaned in frustration as he fiddled around with the wires.
"Sir it's no use let's just force our way out of the place like before!" Port exclaimed as he moved the man away from the door
"Yeah I can help!" Nora cheered in agreement as she turned her hammer into its grenade launcher form. Just as she cocked the barrel right at the middle of the door Leopold got in her way.
"Young lady I wouldn't recommend that you shoot that with us so close!" Leopold pulled up his map once more and gave a quick look around it. "In case of emergencies there was an emergency exit located at the Shipping area in the lower floors. All we have to do is reach it and we can escape."
"Right I forgot about that." Jack said as he ushered the group to follow him as they made their ways to the elevators. "Come we must make haste!"
The group ran for their lives to get to the elevators only to be stopped constantly by the rioters who wanted them dead.
"We don't have time for this!" Cardin yelled as he smashed his mace into one's gut, blacking him out instantly.
"NONE!" Jaune yelled as well as he bashed his shield into the other's head blacking him out also.
After knocking out and subduing the faunus under the watchful eye of Goodwitch the group finally made their way to the elevators that had a sign that said 'Employees Only!'. Jack went in front of them and started pressing the down buttons on the elevators. "Okay all pile in each elevator can hold around twenty people."
"Sir why can we not just use the same elevator we used for the tour?" Goodwitch asked.
"Because that elevator doesn't go into the worker's only areas. It only goes to the floors above sub level to show off the approved tour areas." Jack said as he started ushering students into the elevators. "Now come we don't have much time!"
One by one the elevators were filled up with the tour group as the doors closed to go down to the sub level where Dust was shipped to the other kingdoms. Soon only Team RWBY were left in the last elevator as Weiss entered last.
"Alright girls next stop the sub floors." Ruby said as the door closed. Weiss pressed a button to go down to the sub floors but instead of hitting the the Shipping sub floor she hit Main Reactor. "Weiss what are you doing!?"
Weiss looked at her friends and frowned at them. "What does it look like? I'm going down to the reactor and I'm gonna teach this terrorist scum a lesson about attacking the Schnee's!"
"Weiss don't do this!" Blake yelled as she grabbed her friend by the shoulders. "We can't risk you killing yourself just to stop a lunatic! We all need to get out of here while we still have the chance!"
Weiss shook off Blake's hands and stood stalwart in front of the door. "I cannot allow these miscreants to go around terrorizing the masses as they see fit. We have nineteen minutes before this bomb goes off So I will defeat her in ten freeze the bomb and save the lives of not only my fellow peers but my close friends. And my family." She turned around and gave a solid look to her friends. "I know I'm in no position to be asking this but may I ask that you all help me in this fight? Together we can overwhelm this horrid beast and save many lives."
"You had me at cannot allow." Ruby said as she grabbed her partner's hand. "We're gonna take this jerk down once and for all! Right girls?"
Blake sighed as she drew Gambol Shroud and made sure she had ammo. "We can't mess around on this. Numerous lives are on the line."
"Relax kitten!" Yang said with her trademark smile. "We rush in kick ass, take names and bam we bounce like balls." All nodding their heads they looked to the door and waited until they reached their destination.
The sound of the moving elevator was the only thing the girls heard as the machine carried them down and down before a soft ding sounded. The doors opened for the team showing a long white hallway unmarred by any mess. Or at least the first half was. Moving down the hall the girls saw horrid slash marks cut alongside the wall with black marks that look like it was set on fire. It was clear to the girls that no human could have made these marks. They were too crooked and jagged to be any sort of blade that cut through it and even if that was done intentionally how does that explain the burn marks. A fire sword would probably be the most logical conclusion but they really didn't have any evidence to base this on. As they walked they finally reached the door that led to the reactor core. Drawing their weapons and steeling themselves Team RWBY rushed through the door to meet with the one who made the day go awry.
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"Leopold! Where is Weiss!?" Jack asked frantically as he looked around the group. "I can't find her anywhere!"
"Hey where's Ruby, Blake and Yang for that matter." Pyrrha asked as she gave a look around to the room.
Leopold felt his skin crawl as he looked at the only elevator that didn't open. "...They didn't… Did they…?"
"Move! I need to go recover the students!" Goodwitch said as she used her magic to pry the elevator door open.
Leopold grabbed the teacher by the shoulder and looked down the elevator. "It is quite the fall to go down there. I hope you're prepared to land on your feet."
"Don't worry, as an instructor I always have a landing strategy on the ready. As it is my job to make sure that my students are safe and do not overextend themselves." she affirmed before looking at Jack. "I will have your niece and her friends back soon."
"Godspeed madam." The elder Schnee said as Goodwitch jumped down the elevator shaft.
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Team RWBY quickly rushed into the reactor room, a large open space with the reactor lying at the end of the room with a multitude of pipes connected to the machine traveling along the roof but had enough open space to hang off of, to see a cloaked figure with blazing red hair not unlike Pyrrha's with white horns on her head smashing her fists against the reactor in a wild frenzy. The door closed behind them with a loud noise, causing the terrorist girl to stop her actions and look at the ground to see four girls standing their with their weapons drawn. The girl then growled out a bestial noise and jumped at the team, landing right in Weiss's face before taking another leap back.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the daughter of the devil herself!" The girl said in an arrogant voice. "The Master has told me all about you." Weiss glared at the girl who seemed just to smile back in response. She then motioned around her with her arms wide open. "Know where we are?"
"I know where we are you monster! What I want to know is the answer to to a simple question if your brain can process it!" The heiress yelled. "Why are the faunus starting a riot here? What's going on here!?"
"This is no ordinary riot, this is revenge!" The girl said, anger emanating from every word. "Revenge for all the faunus who work in servitude here for that tyrant Jack Schnee! My master will have revenge for the faunus whose broken bodies are forced to work for a devil"
Yang rolled her eyes in response. "Oh so you thought you'd just start a riot in return? That's insanity right there!"
"Heh you're gonna realize soon who's right and who's wrong in this struggle!" Zelia said as fire began to burn around her. "There's no place for humans like you in the new world us Grimmborn will create!"
Team RWBY's eyes widened at that statement. This girl was a Grimmborn? Like Kor? "What are you talking about? New world and Grimmborn!?"
"Oh don't play dumb Schnee! You all know what a Grimmborn is. After all it's because of your idiot leader that our kind was brought into the light again." Zelia said with a mocking laugh. "Once my Master's plan comes to fruition us Grimmborn will have our revenge on humanity!"
"Enough!" Weiss yelled as she pointed her rapier towards the girl. "Where is the bomb!?"
Zelia looked at her for a few moments before bursting out in laughter. "Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Oh man are you guys idiots! Isn't it obvious!? I AM the bomb!"
Yang cracked her knuckles threateningly as she walked up to the Grimmborn. "Better start making sense or we make you into pulp."
"Well since you MORONS can't put two and two together I'm gonna spell it out like this!" The girl ripped off her cloak to show off her outfit consisting of a red bomber jacket with black fingerless gloves and black matching pants. Her hands were glowing a magma colored orange that expelled a huge amount of heat. "I am Zelia Magnus the Ire! Grimmborn of Fire and I'm gonna burn this whole place to the ground!" A blast of heat burst from her body in a dramatic fashion as the girls stepped back from the dangerous foe.
"Get ready girls!" Ruby said as she drew Crescent Rose back. "This one's gonna be a doozy!"
Zelia charged forward at the group causing them to scatter into different directions as she punched the ground where they were. The found shook under the weight of her power causing the girls to stumble a bit but Weiss didn't let the distraction hinder her as she jumped at the criminal. Zelia quickly parried the upwards thrust with a strong kick and struck her glowing fist forward at Weiss only for it to be blocked by Gambol Shroud's blade. Blake set a quick upwards kick to Zelia's jaw as Yang followed up with a few body blows. Zelia quickly caught Yang by the hand and grinned at her as she delivered a devastating headbutt to the blondes skull and uppercutted her into the pipe system above them. Ruby shot forward with a few shots from Crescent Rose to gain some speed as she swung the blunt side of the weapon at the Grimmborn knocking her away from her teammates. Zelia landed on her feet from the attack and grinned as fire burned in her hands. "Die!" Dragging her claws to the ground, the terrorist sent two fire arcs hurling towards the girls. Weiss jumped to the side to avoid the attack as Ruby and Blake leaped to higher ground in the pipe system where Yang was. Zelia grinned as she jumped at the airborne heiress and grabbed her by her face as she slammed her against the wall. Weiss cried out in pain as she felt the heat from the Grimmborn's hands burn her face. "How does a life time trip to the burn ward sound Schnee!?"
As she was about to burn Weiss into into a crisp a shotgun shell unloaded against her back causing her to let Weiss go in surprise. Seizing the opening Weiss slashed her assaulter in a cross arc through her chest before blasting her with a icy burst from her rapier. Zelia yelled in anger as she jumped back giving Weiss the opportunity to join her friends in the high ground. Yang gave her a thumbs up and a wink as she rejoined them. "Got your back girl!"
"Thanks." Weiss looked at the ground and saw that Zelia was tearing off the ice chunks that stuck to her body. "Seems she isn't a fan of ice. Let's open fire while she's distracted."
Ruby nodded as she transformed her weapon into its gun form. "Let it rain ammo!"
Zelia grunted as she finally got the last of the ice off her body and gave a quick look around to find where the Schnee brat went. A sharp pain erupted in her arm as a bullet tore through the limb from above. Looking upwards the Grimmborn quickly jumped out of the way as a storm of lead and Dust fell from above as Team RWBY began to shoot wildly at her. She could only dodge so much as the bullets cut through her flesh and bones making black blood spurt through her wounds. Growling in rage Zelia sent a fore wave towards the girls frying all the bullets being shot her way. Weiss quickly reacted by shooting a burst of ice to the heat wave making steam erupt from the collision. The girls strained their eyesight to find their target through the deep steam but found no clear sight of the Grimm girl. As the girls were getting ready to jump down to continue the fight, a flash of fire burst through the steam causing the girls to the lose their footing slightly. Zelia glared at the team as she found where they were at as a fire cone began to wrap around her body as she shot herself upwards like a rocket to them. Team RWBY barely had enough time to dodge as Zelia charged through the pipes while covered in fire causing a multitude of them to break apart making the whole pipe work shaking uncontrollably. Bouncing off the wall the Grimmborn smashed her foot into the piping where the girls stood causing it it to shatter apart making the girls fall down to the ground. Zelia landed first and managed to twist her body around as as she delivered a devastating roundhouse kick Blake's side as she fell making her crash into a wall painfully. After that she jumped into the air and uppercutted Weiss into the roof of the room making her drop her weapon as she landed painfully on the floor. The Grimmborn continued her onslaught as she dive kicked Ruby into the reactor painfully making the machine rumble slightly as she finally grabbed Yang by her leg and slammed slammed into the ground. Zelia smiled as she caught the blondes fist from her retaliation and twisted it painfully before punching her in the face with her fire infused fist. Punch after punch was delivered to the brawler of the team while her brutalizer laughed at her pain, rejoicing in her attempts to block or dodge her blows. "Time to burn little sunflower!"
"I agree."
Zelia was caught off guard as Yang caught both both of her fists in her hands as she put them in a painful vice grip. The Grimm girl growled in pain as Yang slowly rose from her position and grinned at her. "Ready for round two?"
The blonde quickly lifted Zelia into the air with a show of strength not seen before and punched her in the face directly at the reactor. The Grimmborn slammed into the large machine making it groan once more as she landed painfully on the side of it. Slowly getting up, Zelia glared hell at the girl who punched her not paying attention as Ruby ran up to the rage filled girl as she quickly bludgeoned her either the blunt side of her scythe. The Reaper ended her assault with an upwards slash sending the terrorist airborne as she transformed her weapon into its gun form and fired a few shots at her for good measure as the rope of Gambol Shroud wrapped around her leg. Blake roared as she tugged the other end of the weapon towards her and brought the Grimmborn along for the ride. With a twist if her wrist the faunus ninja unwrapped the rope of her from the monster girl and brought back her blade and slashed at the side of her chest as she landed roughly on the ground.
"Weiss now!" Blake yelled at her friend as she shot at Zelia's legs.
Weiss nodded her head and thrust her rapier down into the ground making a huge ice trail snake it's way towards the fallen girl. The Grimmborn couldn't react in time as the ice trailed its way onto her body encasing her feet and lower body in a thick sheet of frost rendering all movement on her end moot.
"Grah! Rah! Let me out of this thing!" Zelia yelled at the girls as they surrounded her with all weapons pointed at the her.
"Not until we get some answers you filth!" Weiss snarled. "And you're gonna answer everything we ask if you even want to see a trial!"
Zelia started to laugh in their faces, knowing that they were one swing away from ending her life. "Like I said dumbass! I only came here to get revenge on the Schnee's for their horrible treatment to anything non human! Along with that I've also gotten numerous new recruits for the White Fang! It doesn't matter what happens to me, my job is done! Go ahead and kill me, you're just proving how right I am by doing it. That Schnee's are willing to spill any type of blood to get the job done!"
Weiss felt her grip tighten on her weapon as she absorbed the insults to her family. If this was the old her, the one raised and taught by her father and his twisted ways, she wouldn't hesitate to do it. But looking at her friend's considered faces for her made Weiss stay her hand.
However to everyone's surprise Ruby smacked the Grimmborn with her weapon while giving her a hard frown. "Don't you dare say that stuff about Weiss or her family! She may not be the nicest person in the world but I know for a fact that she isn't the person you paint her to be!"
"Yeah she may be an Ice Queen but she's our friend and we'd never replace her!" Yang agreed.
Weiss gave a nod of gratitude as she focused her attention on the terrorist below them. "If I kill you what good does that do anyone? You are gonna answer for your crimes and spend the rest of your life in the deepest darkest prison cell the kingdom of Atlas will grant you."
"Oh you'd think that wouldn't you!? But if I'm going down I'm killing all of you with me!" She screamed as her body and skin color turned a magma red color. With a mighty burst of flames Zelia broke free from her prison. The blast was strong enough to knock all of Team RWBY away from her and knock their weapons from their hands. She laughed maniacally as her appearance changed shaped. Her skin and clothes were all gone as dripping volcanic magma replaced it making her look like a lava beast than anything. She slowly moved her body towards the fallen heiress and towered over her, magma dripping from her body. "DIE!"
Weiss closed her eyes shut as as she prepared for the worst with the Grimmborn hovering over her. Moments passed as nothing came to seal her fate. Looking up she looked on in surprise as as she saw Zelia being bound in place by magical purple glyphs surrounding her.
"Miss Schnee move now!" a voice from the door yelled. The here's looked to see professor Goodwitch standing at the door with her wand out and glowing glowing as glowing as she trapped the monster in place. Jumping back from the Grimmborn's body Weiss dug into her pocket and pulled out a large vial of grounded ice Dust. With a confident smirk she looked at Zelia a cos she picked up her weapon.
"Hey freak." she threw the vial towards her as she aimed at it with the rapier. "You need to chill out."
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? THAT IS THE WORST PUN EVE- AUGH!"
Having heard enough if her voice Weiss shot the vial as soon as it dropped near Zelia's face with a blast of ice. The sparks from the shot exploded the powdered Dust making her body chill rapidly as huge ice crystals began forming on her body making her lose movement as it traveled all over her body, trapping her in an icy prison.
"Don't you think this is over! " Zelia yelled as she fought against her prison. "I won't let this prison hold me! I'll be back to get you! I WILL HAVE MY VENGEANCE!"
"Well… No need to rush it." Weiss said coolly as she shot one final burst of ice at the Grimmborn, utterly freezing her in her tracks.
After making sure that she was not breaking out of her impromptu prison, Team RWBY fell to the floor from exhaustion. Against the odds they did it. Stopped a factory from blowing up and save many lives in the process. Even as the authorities finally came during their collapse the girls felt nothing but pride out of doing the right thing.
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"Cinder, we've lost track of Zelia's tracking chip." a faunus said to the amber eyed woman in red. "She's either gone rouge or has been captured by the enemy."
Cinder let out a sigh of annoyance as she got up from her seat. "She wouldn't go rouge, she knows what would happen to her friends if she did. The fool must have gotten overzealous and took a big bite out of something that she couldn't chew. But I can't have her fall into enemy hands. That would raise too many questions. Send Neo to go retrieve her and tell her not to come back until she succeeds."
"Do I have to talk to her?" the faunus complained as she groaned. "She's super creepy."
"Is that defiance I hear?"
"N-No ma'am! Right away!"
Cinder watched as the faunus ran away to go get Roman's little friend. The Grimmborn were too important to her plan to risk losing them after all the trouble she went through to get them. Their usefulness wasn't wasted yet and Cinder was never one to be wasteful. She chuckled to herself as she overlooked the view from her office. All the faunus that followed her orders without question. Like obedient animals. If things kept going as planned then her plan could be set into action as scheduled with the whole world watching
During the Vytal Festival.
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Life of a Grimmborn Chapter 9: Meltdown -End-
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A/N: And that concludes this chapter my friends! And boy right before Volume 3 starts too! Thanks for reading this chapter and drop a review if ya liked it! Next time we will we be dealing with the aftermath of this situation as this arc comes to a close.
Next update will be to my other fic Escape from Fame to give many people the Arkos love they deserve.
Peace everyone!
